Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1952 — Page 20

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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light and the People Wili Fina Their Own Way

A Compromise Platform— or HE AUTHORS of the foreign policy plank in the Republican platform apparently could not decide whether 0 write a speech or draft a statement of principles. So they id both, and wrapped them in one package. The foreign policy plank indicts the Truman administradon on all the counts Gen. MacArthur cited in his keynote J speech. But it is less explicit in pointing the way out of the "Korean fiasco. It condemns the Democrats for offering no hope of victory, then by its own silence on that score leaves the Republicans in the same predicament. Wé don’t know what the platform-writers mean when ' they say: “In Western Europe, we shall use our friendly influence, without meddling or imperialistic attitudes, for ending the + political and economic divisions which alone prevent that

vital area from being strong in its own right.” ‘. = - % = » ”

WHAT OUR European critics usually mean by “Ameri- - can meddling and imperialism” is the fixing and enforcement of conditions for effective use of our economic and military aid to them. In our judgment, the Truman administration has been doing too little of that. We would hope a Republican administration would insist on closer control of the expenditure of our billions in aid to get better, rather than worse, results. : : ~ An honorable and just peace is proclaimed in the platform as the supreme goal of Republican policy: Tg A complete housecleaning is promised, both in the State . Department and in our top-heavy agencies abroad. Encouragement and aid in the development of collective security forces in western Europe is pledged, but “in the balanced consideration of our problem” the Far East will not be sacrificed to “gain time for the west.” And all of our foreign commitments will be measured so that they will not endanger -the economic health or sound finances of the United States.

” » » . » » IN COMMITTING the party to a more vigorous fight against world communism, the platform draftsmen predict that Republican policies would “revive the contagious, liberating influences which are inherent in freedom.” And these, they assert, Would “inevitably set up strains and - stresses within the captive world which will make the rulers impotent to continue in their monstrous ways and mark the beginning of their end.” The. Republicans properly assail the lagging defense program and promise to develop with utmost speed a force in being sufficient to deter sudden attack or decisively defeat it. The quickest possible development of adequate air power is pledged. The civil rights plank declares that “the Republican Party will not mislead, exploit or attempt to confu minority groups for political purposes.” : Whereupon, the subcommittee which drafted this effusion did that very thing.-The highly controversial issue of compulsory federal employment legislation is juggled around in such fashion that anyone can read anything he wants to into the plank.

- = " ® " ” IN BRIEF, the Republican draft platform is like all sarty platforms within memory. It is long on damning the other party, short on definite commitments for itself—and silent on its own party sins. ; The object, apart from attacking the opponent, is to offend conflicting groups within the party as little as possible and to offend voters—especially minorities—not at all. It is a compromise, as always. Anyway, the voters don’t take any party platform very seriously. And we don’t know why they should. After all, the real party pledge is the character, the ability and the courage of the presidential candidate, He is the real platform.’

The Convention Cleans Up R EPUBLICANS, AT their Chicago convention, have clinched the cleanup they began last Monday. ~The rules change voted Monday enabled the convention, by free, democratic decision, to settle last night and early today the dispute over delegations from Georgia and Texas. Before the delegates voted, they had the benefit. of full reports from their national committee and the convention's credentials committee, plus an extended if sometimes extraneous debate. As a result, the convention seated new delegations from those states: It was a clear-cut decision, reached in open and traditional American fashion. And it was a clean and decisive triumph for decency in politics.

» » ” = » n IT WAS a decision even more important to the fate of the Republican Party in November than the selection of a candidate or the adoption of a platform. Without this decision, the candidate's guns would have been spiked and the platform devalued for the fall campaign. Party responsibility is a part of the American system. No party which rejects its responsibility can earn the confidence of American voters. No party which perpetuates itself on trickery long can succeed. By its action on the Georgia and Texas delegations, the Republican convention established its party responsibility and untricked the trickery.

Politics on the Screen REPUBLICANS, now in convention in Chicago, are meet-

ing in-a smaller hall than at any time in many years. Seating space for the public is at @ minimum.

Yet more Americans, by many millions, have front row

seats than ever before. For the first time, Americans from

coast to coast—thrSugh the genius of television—are

watching one of their major political parties choose its candidate for President. :

What they see, at this convention and again in two. .

weeks when the Democrats meet, will have a pointed influence on how they vote in November.

Never before have the behavior of the delegates, the

fairness of the proceedings, the conduct of candidates and ~ leaders been subject to such fireside scrutiny. pli” & > :

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CHICAGO, July 10—The hunting season is in full swing today in the carpetéd wilds of hotel corridors for that most eltisive of all political big game——the wavering delegate. ‘With the start of balloting only hours away, the Taft and Eisenhower forces were goin after these wild, hunted di things with everything but a tommy-guns. Waiting only for ' the smoke to get thick enough, the hunters were using hospitality, ° persuasion, - promizes and pressure—in about that order. Cigars, booze and other forms of recreation are on the house—all that is asked is that the delegate take an occasional breather so his captors can make their pitch, 2

Mr. Tulley

During those interludes, the hunters usually begin with the old standby-—You wanna be with

PRESSURE . . , By Robert M."Lewin

Taft's Brother Taking Orders

CHICAGO, July 10—It's just about like it was when they were kids. Bob, the older and bigger brother, gives the orders gently but briskly to the younger one, Charley. Charles Phelps Taft, 54. the younger, is at the Republican national convention helping his brother, Sen. Robert Alphonso Taft, 62, who hopes to be nominated for the presidency. ‘I'm doing anything they tell me to do,” Charley said. He is the tall, good - looking man, with a fringe of gray on his black hair, who button-holes Republican governors on the convention floor at the international a m p hitheatre and in con ven tion headquarters in the Conrad Hilton Hotel, He huddles with delegates. : He works on the Taft supporters to persuade them to hold the line. i He talks with backers of Gen. Eisenhower, urging them to change their minds. . He gets into head-to-head conferences with some of the 56 members of the Ohio delegation,

Charles Taft

_ too, though he isn’t a delegate. :

Charley knocked out the opposition of Ohio Republican leaders last May and won the GOP nomination for governor in a three-way fight.

‘Second Ballot’

AS TO THE battle between brother Bob and Eisenhower for the presidential nomination, Charley said: “The winner will be decided on the second ballot. M's a question of whether Taft or Eisenhower ends up with a majority on the second ballot, It’s a very close fight.” Charley added that Sen. Taft has a “hard core of 548 votes, as shown in the vote Monday on the Brown resolution on rules changes, and has plenty of support from other delegates, especially in the large states of Pennsylvania, New: York, Michigan and California.”

Charley said that Bob voted for him in the -

governor primary. “I'll vote for him. I plug for him right along,” he said. : Bob and Charley, both lawyers, were born into politics—President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft was their father.

What Others Say—

THERE is a strange similarity between the (French) government's charges against me and those against the German Communists in the Reichstag fire trial.— French Communist leader Jacques Duclos.

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UNLESS labor costs rise in the South or fall in New England the (textile) industry is bound to continue to lose.—Harvard Economist Seymour E. Harris. .

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OUR society does not tolerate a man who beats a woman.—Delaware Judge Caleb R. Layton who ordered a man flogged for beating a woman.

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WE (British) are a much more mature and sophisticated people (than the Americans).— British Labor Party Leader Herbert Morrison. <> oo o NO man can say whether the world. will survive the next few years peacefully or not.— Indian Premier Jawarhalal Nehru.

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WE should retaliate (against the North Koreans) as circumstances dictate.—United Nations Supreme Communder Gen. Mark Clark.

o» o- oo THE profession is jammed with kids who think stripping is nothing more than getting ready for a shower, set to music.—Veteran stripteaser Lonnie Young. Ride THIS is a political year and politics - does funny things to people who are seeking office.—

President Harry S, Truman.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

the winner, dontcha? Here the Taft forces

trot out statistics to show their candidate polled

more primary votes than Gen. Eisenhower. “That shows who's the peepul's choice, doesn’t it?” they chant. = The Ike: forces have 20 odd governors working with them and these are kept busy hammering away at the idea that Ike is needed on ‘the ticket to sweep the state candidate into office. : Tes Or, on both sides, the appeal may be more

“subtlé. Something like this: “You know how your

governor's going, don’t you? Don’t you want to go along with him?” Unspoken is the threat that if the delegate doesn’t, Iie can jolly well forget his share”of patronage in the future,

As Gov. Thomas E. Dewey put it to the 96 New York delegates: “I'm going to be governor - for another two and a half years and I've got a long mémory.” : » $B

OFTEN, A business associate is called in to reason with a balky delegate. In one case, all was lost until some brain thought of trotting in a big auto manufacturer to woo a delegate who owns an auto agency. After five minutes of straightforward talk from‘ the manufacturer, the. delegate was in the bag. : It is also surprising how often during a national convention, a bank finds itself short of dough and is thinking of foreclosing a note held

Far From the Madding Crowd

BOO, BOO, BOO . . . By Frederick C. Othman Dirksen and Pennsylvania Bean Soup Start Uproar at Convention

CONVENTION HALL, Chicago, July 10— You know about Sen. Everett 8S. Dirksen, of the silver tongue, and the golden tonsils, the best curly-haired orator in these parts. He was doing fine, too, until he mentioned Pennsylvania bean Soup. He'd eaten the stuff up and down the state, said he, and also made speeches there. He was a friend of Pennsylvania Republicans and he begged, yes; he pleaded with them to search their souls and vote along with the credentials committee on which set of Georgia delegates to seat. That did it. Most of those Pennsylvanians stood on their chairs and booed him. One lady made indelicate gestures with her thumb and her nose. Another screamed for him to sit down. The photographers rushed onte the floor. The police rushed after ’em. The temporary chairman, Walter Hallanan, banged his gavel and demanded a little order. And poor orator Dirksen somehow took the wrong cue. Instead of keeping quiet a moment longer or.until the emotional Republicans caught their breath, he turned to the New Yorkers and, in tones as dulcet as they were pleading, he mentioned his good friend, Thomas E, Dewey.

Pours It On

“BOO, BOO, BOO,” reverberated from the flag-draped rafters. Some of the New Yorkers cheered. And our speechmaker poured it on— “To my friends in New York, I say we followed you before and you took us down the road to defeat , . The New Yorkers cheered. They booed. They snarled. They laughed. Everybody else was howling, too. The galleries pelted the main floor with chooped-up programs. An unidentified New York delegate got so excited he passed out cold. Up jumped a photographer to take his picture in the prone. Another New Yorker poked the cameraman. Came then the police to haul out the picture man like a sack of old campaign

DACHAU, Germany, July 10 —Lest we forget, Dachau is still here. Not just the old historic German town near Munich, dating back to the 6th Century. But also Hitler's legacy-—a name synonymous with horror. The most infamous name in * human history—site of Hitler's first (started in 1933) and most revolting concentration camp-—today serves two purposes: ONE -- The barracks in which tens of thousands of Nazi victims lived before and during the war are used today to house refugees from another totalitarian power — Russia— while they. search for chances to resettle in another country. TWO — The crematorium stands as a memorial to those whose. ashes and bones are buried in mass graves inside the Dachau' camp compound and at nearby Leitenberg with the admonition to visitors: “Remember That.” 7 A » » ONE OF THE tragedies of the post-war world is that thousands of ‘refugees from -. Stalin’s dictatorship have been unable to find a better life in

"When we were boys this seemed like a big fishin’ hole! Did. the free world of. the: West

it get smaller or did we és our vision during all than this hand-to-mouth, ‘un- | . years among the skyscrapers?” - ak _ certain existence on the site of . { Se , 7 i oN Ee a a A A bn er ino: .

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buttons. Here I ran out of eyes. Yammers broke out all over ,the hall and I couldn't keep up with ‘em all, Mr, Hallanan banged his gavel some more and pleaded for order. The police tried to rush the delegates out of the aisles. The local firemen helped the bluecoats push. Somebody. in the far rear was poking somebody else. I heard a howl directly behind me in the aisle.

This was another cameraman getting whacked by a distraught fireman. The artist of the lens took his case of flash bulbs, brought it down smartly on the fire laddy’s topknot, and s0 managed to get on with his work.

Haw, Haw, Haw

MR. HALLANAN by now was sweating. His gaveling lost its steady beat and he said something about how can you select a Presi-dent-in an atmosphere like this—

“To you, my friends, who booed, and I am accustomed to it,” continued orator Dirksen, “has it ever occurred to you that the national committee is the convention's general staff? Why, you, yourselves, selected that committee. . .. Haw, haw, haw, came the horselaugh from those Republicans who disagreed with him. “And if we don’t trust each other, how in Heaven's name can we sell the Republican Party in November?” demanded the man with the That brought him some cheers, b Eventually, the ladies and gents got around to voting on Georgia. They begged to disagree with everything that orator Dirksen had said. They voted to seat the delegation from Georgia favored by the Eisenhowers, rather than by the Tafts, for whom Mr, Dirksen had spoken.

He looked glum. Took a long swig of water and popped a throat lozenge in his mouth. Small comfort it was, Myself; I took a slab of chewing gum and awarded the Republicans’ greatest orator an “E” for effort.

urse, the bank decides it can scrape along a, and one more vote has been switched. Chief romancer of delegates for the : Taft camp is Paul Walter, a demon researcher, Mr, Walter has within arm’s reach a dossier -on every wavering delegate. He knows the delegates family status, complet with names of wife and children, his church and lodge affiliations and whether he's Princeton, Yale or Public Schodl 32. o> SB THE Eisenhower vice president in charge of woo, Herbert Brownell, is less folksy, uses the realistic, hard-boiled approach. He hammers away that it's been 20 years since the GOP last elécted a President, and now they've got a can. didate named Eisenhower who can win if they'll nominate him. And when he does win, Says Mr, Brownell - the faithful will be taken care of through party channels—a magic phrase to the ears of all professional politicians,

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Hoosier Forum

“I 'do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

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He Likes Taft

MR. EDITOR: The Scripps-Howard papers coming out to pack Eisenhower caused no mew votes, Everyone of your regular readers knew you would back the militarists. You always have. Comparing Robert Taft and Eisenhower is like wasting the people’s time and money. Taft is a loyal, highly experienced and educated man in public life, backed by real Americanism and the kifow-how to put things over in a truthful way, and a backbone to fight for the things that

- are right. :

How about Eisenhower? Was he not a part of the military machine that squandered many billions of our money on two proved Democratic

© wars? He protests against everything now, but

did the Scripps-Howard papers, or anyone else, ever hear him protest against anything until he wanted fo be President? Even when he was actively working as president of Columbia Uni-

versity he had -his-nose-stuck in every military

question that‘came up. The only reason your papers are for Eisene hower is because you like this blood-money war philosophy and you hope that if the people are fools enough to nominate and elect him he would put over Universal Military Training. Under no consideration would the Scripps Howard papers support Taft, but if this same Republican Convention would degrade itself and nominate Doc Sherwood instead of Eisenhower you would support Doc because you would be sure to have a good military prospect for your training under compulsion. I'd like to know where The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard papers were and where they would be and under what conditions they would be operating had not it been for the brains and know-how of Robert Taft who has continually out-smarted and overcome most of the New Deal regimentation. Taft has no newspaper in Indianapolis, but he has a heck of a lot of friends and he won't even miss The Times or the Pulliam votes either, . —James J. Cullings, 107 8S. Capitol Ave.

That's His Bob MR. EDITOR: Such an article as appeared recently in this paper will certainly split the Republican Party. Robert Taft, who has served the country faithfully, wisely and hanestly for years, is one of the most honorable and respected men of his times. Who, I ask, has a more brilliant mind than he? But as one writer stated in your paper, they do not want brilliant minds in Washington, ; Robert Taft has knowledge in running the country; has foresight, ‘wisdom, experience; is a great statesman. As far as the steal of delegates is concerned, I doubt whether Sen. Taft knew of these tactics. What about the tactics the Eisenhower crowd are using and will use? Are they all beyond reproach? Are politics ever strictly clean, even as far down as the precinct units? eB

THE WRITER of that article and many more such people do not realize voters of today are intelligent and many think for themselves and do not let themselves be swayed from day to day. This is shown by the fact how little influence the newspapers exerted upon the people at the time of the Willkie and Dewey elections, and are trying to do the same thing today. I still think that very great American statesman, Sen. Robert Taft, will win.

M. H,, City.

‘Quit Smearing lke’ 0 MR. EDITOR: I would like to reply to all the folks Who

have written to Hoosier Forum smearing Gen. Eisenhower,

Surely they have forgotten what a wonderful job he did for us jn World War. II. Are their memories so short?, i It seems to me that when you smear a man

who is such a great American that you also add,

a .smudge or two to your own candidate. It certainly doesn't help him any, How about it, folks? Let's quit calling Gen. Eisenhower an “obsolete, vague candidate” and all the other things that have been said, and work toward a better administration for all concerned.

—Kay Romey, R.R., City.

REMINDER OF HORROR . . . By R. H. Shackford Refugees Now Use Dachau Torture Camp

history's most barbaric atroeities against humanity. But here they -are—men, women and children in the shanties Hitler . built for persecution—trying to eke out an existence, at the mercy of charity, Here and in other camps are 6000 children up to the age of 6 years who have never known any other kind of a home since they were

born. Another 10,000 between 7 and 14 years have spent half their lives in camps. ” ” 2 HERE AT Dachau, within a stone's throw of where those from behind the Iron Curtain today are playing football, growing potatoes or hanging their laundry, an American GI takes the names of those who want to visit the Nazi crematoriums,

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LET'S GO SWIMMING

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long for the swimming hole . .

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Noy the hand . .. and to seme poal we'll 4 1... let's dunk ourselves until we feel , . . refreshed and all at ease , , , then we will sit upon the shore . .. and do just as we please

+ + let’s talk of things that matter most . . .

while looking at the sky . .. and drink in all the wonder. that . . . this sojourn can supply + + then we will take another dip . . , isn’t the water grand . , . oh, I know you agree with . me . .. this is the promised land . .". now that we feel revived and gay . . . we'll set our course, for home . . , until we feel the urge to swim « + + and then once more we'll roam, A

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Inside the crematorium—set aside as a memorial to the 250,000 men who were imprisoned here and the 70,000 who died here-—are all the trappings of Nazi torture; the dise infecting chambers, the whipping blocks, the disrobing chambers, the gas chambers, the death chambers where the corpses were stacked, and finally the crematorium {tself

with gallows in front of the furnaces,

SEVEN YEARS ago last Apr. 29, when the U.S. Seve enth Army liberated Dachau, 33,000 men were freed but 9000. corpses were piled up inside the camp awaiting cremation, In the early days after the war, when the full’ horror of places like Daclau was exe posed, many came here to see the evidence with their own

eyes, Today the number of vise |

itors has dwindled down to mostly sightseeing GIs and their families stationed in Gere many - When the crematorium was set up as a memorial; a sign was placed over the door. in three lai ges. It {s stilk

“Nie Wieder.”

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