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Why Are We Hated?

THE OUSTER of all Americans from Iran has been demanded from the floor of the Iranian parliament by Deputy Shams Ghanat-Abadi. Ghanat-Abadi is not a Communist. . - "He is known as the right-hand man of Iran's leading religious figure, who in turn is a close supporter of Premier Mossadegh. Anti-American feeling has been building up in Iran since the beginning of the oil dispute between Iran and Britain in which the United States figured as an ineffectual mediator. Contracts for the American military missions now in Iran expire in October and American officials there are worried, it is reported, that these contracts will not be extended if the current wave of anti-American feeling retains its strength. Might it not be better for us to cancel these contracts of our own volition and get out of the country before being kicked out—and then not go back until we are invited? The U. S. has given Iran loans and Point Four money, and has attempted to be’ helpful to that country in many other ways. But we appear to have succeeded only in making ourselves misunderstood. Our motives are suspect. It is becoming unsafe for Americans to appear on the streets of Tehran. : 4 : It is time we were asking ourselves why so many people hate us. While Iran is an extreme case, anti-American feeling is gaining ground in most parts of the world. It is finding increased expression in Britain and Western Europe, as well as in the so-called backward countries. This poses a serious problem which demands a careful examination of our operations abroad. Soviet propaganda can claim credit for some of th misunderstanding, but surely not for all of it. The Russians aren't that good. Some of the fault must be in ourselves. We should find out what it is and how to correct it. A foreign policy which makes enemies where it should be making friends obviously has been ignored too long, and the anti-American demonstrations in Iran are a clear warning of serious trouble ahead if the present trend isn’t arrested and reversed.

That Man O'Dwyer

AMBASSADOR WILLIAM O'DWYER has angrily denied he has any intention of becoming a Mexican citizen

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January. It had been reported that Mr. O'Dwyer had told friends that he was considering “lots of prospects,” including law practice in either Mexico City or New York, as well as several business ventures in Mexico. To practice law in Mexico, he would be required to become a Mexican citizen. ~ Whatever Mr. O'Dwyer may or may not have said, he does appear to have been discussing various business prospects in Mexico. That is something he should be doing on his own time—and something he should not be doing while representing the United States government in ah official capacity in a foreign country. Mr. O'Dwyer resigned as mayor of New York City for the more congenial atmosphere of Mexico City before the facts became known about his scandal-ridden city administration. His assignment to Mexico, should have been canceled when these irregularities were exposed, for it is bad enough to wash dirty political linen at home without parading it abroad. But that wasn't done and now President Truman has another opportunity to correct his original mistake. A man who considers abandoning his American citizenship isn’t a fit person to represent American interests in a foreign country. Nor should any person be allowed to remain in a diplomatic post when he is engaged in promoting private business ventures. It may be that Mr. O'Dwyer

can acquit himself on both counts, but the case he has made

for himself thus far is not convincing.

Killers at Large S JUDGE SAUL 8. 8TREIT said in New York at the arraignment of Bayard Peakes, it is better to confine 100 potentially dangerous psychotics than to have one innocent person die at the hands of a lunatic. Peakes was insane when the Army discharged him and has been ever since, during all of which time the Veterans Administration has been paying him a disability pension. Yet neither the Army or the VA ever lifted a finger to have him confined. = On July 14 he murdered a young secretary on the Columbia University campus he had never even seen before. If the VA is correct in its claim that it could not legally have confined him, Congress should give it such power and see that it is exercised. Likewise the Armed Forces should be forced to Stop blithely discharging insane veterans, unless it turns them over to VA institutions. Time and again, maniacs have killed people and committed other crimes after being turned loose by lazy or maudlin governmental authorities. As the judge says, this practice has got to be stopped.

Sweetness and Light

BEN FAIRLESS, top man of the United States veel Corp., and Phil Murray, top man of the CIO Steelworkers, are planning a coast-to-coast tour of the steel industry. The purpose, they say, is to acquaint each with the problems of the other. After the settlement of the steel strike last week all was sweetness and light between them. The bitter, damning allegations which they had hurled at each other since the beginning of the steel struggle last fall were reversed. Each man was high in the praise of his ex-adversary. In view of this new .and sudden friendship, the people of the country, will hope that the two leaders of the steel industry, on their cross-country trip, will become so understandingly acquainted with each other's problems that the nation never again will be subjected to the kind of a steel strike just ended.

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WASHINGTON, July 30—The great surprise in the Republican National Convention continues to be the selection of young Sen. Richard M. Nixon of California as vice presidential candidate. : Sen. Nixon was a California delegate and cast his vote for Gov. Warren as the state's favorite-son candidate for the presidency. But throughout the pre-convention maneuvering, Sen. Nixon was Eisenhower contact man with the Californians and was influential in trying to get pledges for Eisenhower votes after the delegation should be released by Gov. Warren. Sen. Nixon's interest in the Eisenhower movement stemmed from -a poll of California Republicans he conducted earlier in the year. The replies came back overwhelmingly in favor of Gen. Eisenhower. That is what supposedly

converted Sen, Nixon to Gen. Eisenhower—and vice versa. ’

The publicly announced reasons for Sen.

Nixon's selection as vice presidential candidate were first, his possible appeal to youth, and second, his calculated appeal to the voters at large as a cleaned-up foe of communism. : 3 La AS A BRIGHT and starry-eyed young progressive Republican, however, a careful examination of Sen. Nixon's voting record in Congress reveals his qualifications as a knight in Gen. Eisenhower's new crusade against the

Old Guard,

On foreign affairs, since he got into the Senate two years ago, Sen. Nixon has voted pretty consistently in support of the Eisenhower point of view. In 1951 he voted against cuts of economic aid to Europe, He also voted against sats in military aid. He was for the bill on This year. he voted five times against cuts In the Mutual Security program and was for the bill on final passage. He voted to add $22 million to Voice of America funds. He voted to limit U. 8. troops in Europe to four divisions. But he voted for universal military training and against limitations on the draft. He voted against cuts in U. 8. defense and Air Force appropriations. « Previously, as a Congressman In the lower House, he had voted against aid to Korea and voted for cutting arms aid to Europe. He was absent and unrecorded on the original Point Four bill to give aid to underdeveloped countries, He voted for all the “crippling” amendments to the reciprocal trade dgreements program, but he voted for the bill on final passage. eS &

IT IS ON DOMESTIC issues that Sen. Nixon’s voting record shows his affinity for the Old Guard Republican causes. s On farm legislation he has voted consistently for cuts in the soil conservation program. He has voted to cut Rural Electrification loan and administration funds. He was agajnst raising school lunch programs. He sponsored an amendment to cut Department of Agriculture informa~ tion programs. On labor legislation, he voted for the TaftHartley Law, voted for use of this law in the steel strike and voted for abolition of the Wage Stabilization Board. He voted for the Knowland Amendment allowing unemployment compensation funds to be used against strikers. On Social Security he voted to make public the names on relief rolls. In the House he voted against expansion of Social Security. Ha was for increasing grants to the states for child health this year. He was against the slum clearance act of 1949 and against financial aid for housing cooperatives the next yeas He was against increasing defense public housing programs this year. He has voted consistently to curb and limit rent control authority.

What Others Say—

DO YOU know what kind of a foreign policy I am for? I am for an American policy. ... I am not trying to have a Democratic foreign policy or a Republican foreign policy.

—Sen, Tom Connally (D. Tex.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee. LA IF THE atom bomb is necessary to save the United Nations Army and stop Communist ag-

gression, its use cannot be refused.

—Duke of Windsor. LE OUT OF EACH successful struggle and achievement comes growth and a feeling of adequacy for the child. Our homes ‘need to be places where children learn how to meet what is difficult or adverse by spiritual help and with emotional courage. ~Bishop Hazen G. Werner, Ohio Methodist Church. ¢ > @ THE TOTAL “invasion” force on Formosa consists of 44 persons. =U. 8. Delegate to United Nations John Foster Dulles, replying to Russian charges of U. S. invasion of Formosa. 2

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POLLIWOGS CAN'T READ. . . By Frederick C. Othman

Maybe Pilots of Flying Saucers Don’t Know What ‘Scat’ Means

WASHINGTON, July 30—President Truman in Missouri, it says here, has received his first sack of official mail from the capital. I think I know what was in it: The bedroom slippers he forgot, a fresh package of double-edged razor blades, a postcard from Margaret showing some snow on an Alp, and a new apple-and-pecan upside-down cake recipe for his wife, kg There could have been nothing else much in the presidential mail bag, because you know how it is when the boss is away. And, anyhow, all his helpers were craning their necks, scanning the skies for flying teacups. It was hot and it also was cloudy and they did not see a thing. Nobody glimpsed this aerial crockery, except the radar operators, who described the items on their screens as looking like lively, purple polliwogs. Let us hope that this in truth was what they were. ;

«Over Harry's House

WHAT PAINED the defense boys with their multimillion-dollar layout of electronics, big guns, jet fighters and other items much too secret to mention, was that the high-flying tadpoles skittered over Mr. Truman's house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. They reconnoitered the Capitol, cruised above the Pentagon, and sailed impudently over a wide

assortment of installations marked verboten for

aviators. Anybody else flying such a route at once would have had his head shot off. The purple ones got away with it, because they disappeared every time a normal flying machine came close. It was at this juncture that Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett and Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer put out a document entitled, “Plan for the fe. urity Control of Air Traffic During a Military Emergency.” They

were quick to point out that the short title for .

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I SUPPOSE Mr. Truman received a copy of that. Even I got one. The way I figure it, by plotting their routes by triangulation, those gaucers clustered directly above my house in McLean, Va., while I slept, and I don’t like it,

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Messrs. Lovett and Sawyer kindly will take $iaps,—--——- ; La ki Between popping their heads out the windows of our town’s marble palaces, the big and little brasses busied themselves with postmortems over the recent embroglios in Chicago. On my regular rounds in search of news that wasn't there, I found myself being questioned instead of the other way around. At every stop the gentlemen wanted to know how I survived Chicago (good) and what I thought of the two cohventions (fine).

We Can't Lose °

I HAD to tell ’em that in spite of all their bumbling, fist fights, smoky rooms, boos, phony demonstrations and 50-cent hot dogs, both the Republicans and the Democrats came up with unusually able candidates. Probably neither convention could have done better. Even now I can't decide whether to vote for Ike or Adlai. Either way I think we get a good President and all this talk of abolishing political conventions in my opinion is so much dandelion spray. Clumsy they may be and an awful bore they most certainly are, but this time they got excel-

lent results. That at least is what I told my federal interviewers. Then we all looked skyward.

We saw haze and, in the dim distance, a flying cigar that turned out to be a TWA Constellation ending the long haul from Los Angeles. Otherwise, Mr. President, there is no news and you might as well stop rummaging around in that mail sack.

'I WANT A GIRL’

I want a girl who's good of heart . ., and not just fair of face . . . a girl who sticks through thick and thin . . . no matter what my place . . . someone who'll smile when skies are dark . . . to blow the clouds away . . . and when my dreams are shattered . . . hopes for a brighter day . . . perhaps I ask for much too much . . . of this old world of ours . . . and that the one for whom I wish ., . Is far beyond the stars . . . but I shall go on searching . . . until I find the one . . . who'll live for me and me alone . . . until my life is done. --By Ben Burroughs,

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5 Ww : - : : An Old Trick Of Magic CHICAGO, July 30—The Democratic convention provided a demonstration of an old trick of magic—the sawing of the lady in by 4 applied to politics. ; 18 After the convention's first night when the liberal-labor wing forced through the loyalty pledge it seemed that the Democratic Party was being horrendously dismémbered. A couple ‘of days later came the 14-hour Thursday session in which the Southerners were reseated and it was the turn of the liberal-labor delegations to be chopped down in power. In short, the fair Democratic lady was sawed first to the right and then to the left. But when it was all over instead of its bloody pieces being strewn all over the ampitheater platform, the Democratic Party Smsiged all in one plece: * THE SAWING THE lady in half trick is accomplished, of course, with mirrors. That fact suggests the question of how much of the confusion and wrangling at the Democratic convention may also have been a mere optical illusion. Was the convention as leaderless as it was reported to be or was it managed by som master political magician? ; The explanation is fairly simple, Since 1838 the Democratic Party has been torn by a virtual civil war within its own ranks with neither the Northern nor Southern wing able to achieve clear-cut control of the party. A The technique the middle of the roaders have developed calls first for deadlocking the two extremist wings and then playing off one against the other. > &- ‘ THUS IN CHICAGO the battle over ousting and reseating the Southern delegations was

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tremes. Each wing was allowed to show its strength, the liberal-labor elements through the adoption of the loyalty pledge, the South erners through repeal of the pledge. . Threatened with expulsion, the Southerners turned to the pro-Stevenson forces for the votes to be reseated. This frightened the liberallabor elements who saw themselves being frozen out by an alliance of the South and the proStevenson delegations. The Stevenson leaders preferred to draw their nomination votes from the Northern delegations. Had Stevenson won with Southern votes it would certainly have seemed lke a “payoff” for seating the Virginia and South Carolina delegations. : > 0% ; - IN RETROSPECT, it is clear that the Demo= cratic convention was held together by political zigzagging, a move in favor of one side being quickly followed by a counter-move in the opposite political direction. ii The pattern by which Stevenson was nominated is so much like the pattern which has governed the whole Truman administration that it suggests the President must have had a greater hand in running the Democratic cons vention than is generally realized. As for Gov. Stevenson, by following the Truman strategy of playing both ends in favor of the middle he was able to win the nomination without a deal with either wing. Yet it would be a mistake to think he gained the nomination without making any committments, To the contrary, he is deeply committed .ine deed. His nomination was made possible by preserving the stalemated balance within the Democratic Party. If he is elected, he will be committed to perpetuating rather than break+ ing this stalemate—with all its assets and liabilities—which has been the role of Harry Truman these last seven years,

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Is Pioneer Spirit Gone? MR. EDITOR: : We are mistaking a rising spirit of national ism for communism that is being developed in many small, backward countries in South and Central America, the Baltic states, Africa and many countries in the Near and Far East. It is being led by young, educated patriots who prefer to conserve and develop their own countries natural resources and build up the standard of living rather than have the profits of their natural wealth siphoned off by foreign interests, This is the same rising spirit that existed in

America during our colonial and formative

years. In Asia, the dynamics of this great convulgive movement is expressed by the refusal of the people to tolerate longer the old exploitations. They are determined to drive the foreign profiteers out of their country. This is quite obvious in Iran. In the past the people of this country have been opposed to predatory activities, no matter whetner they are carried on by coercion or threat of force. But today they remain in different to the economic imperialism that is obvious in the small, backward and helpless countries. -Clarence Love, Waveland.

JUSTICE . . . By Fred W. Perkins

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Shock Allies

WASHINGTON, July 30-— Our European Allies misunderstand what happened at the Chicago conventions and what is ahead. Because Republican candidate Eisenhower and Democratic candidate Stevenson are both so-called internationalists, Western Europeans jump to the conclusion there will be no change in American policy after the November election. Actually there will be several changes not to the liking of Europeans. And the reaction abroad will bé all the worse because of false hopes in which Europeans are indulging. ” » ”

AT LEAST three modifications of Washington policy will shock our Allies to the point of straining the North Atlantic defense system — unless the European mind is prepared in advance. Those probable changes include:

ONE—Less foreign economic and military aid from America and tighter administration, requiring better use of such funds and more self-help by the European nations. This will apply to most of them except Britain, which is generally credited with superior performance.

TWO-—-A decrease, rather than the requested increase, in the number of American ground troops stationed in Europe. Figure emphasis will be on American air and naval forces abroad, with European Allies expected to put more of

their own divisions into the defense line. THREE—A larger slice of total American defense effort to go to the Far East certainly, and the Middle East probably, thus reducing the disproportionate share which hitherto has gone to Europe. n o = THESE SHIFTS already are foreshadowed by the changing mood of Congress. That in turn reflects a new attitude of the American public to which members of Congress, desiring re-election, are very sensitive. Europeans miss the significance of this trend. For one reason, they are too far away from American public opinion to understand it—just as we Americans so often misjudge European public opinion. More important, even Europeans who are aware of the public opinion trend here usually underestimate its’ overpowering effect on official policy. In this case Europeans naturally assume that Gen. Eisenhower's victory over the isolationists and “Asia first. ers” in the Republican convention, and the Democratic platform indorsement of Truman policies, mean no change. They do not know that the struggle against isolationism was won long before the conventions-— as Sen. Taft's shift to middle ground proved. » » » THE REAL fight has been between blank-check aid for Europe and negleet of Asia on one side and a policy of better

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After 31 Months

WASHINGTON, July 30-— The Department of Justice still is trying to collect a $10,000 fine levied Dec. 9, 1949, against a then member of Congress. The Congressman was J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.), who had pleaded “no defense” in a U. 8. District Court here to charges of payroll padding and acceptance of salary “kickbacks” from employees in his congressional office. He also was sentenced to six to 18 months, of which he served nine months before his parole on Sept. 10, 1950. However, the $10,000 that Uncle Sam wants from Mr. Thomas isn’t the only unpaid fine. For instance, in the first 11 months of the fiscal year that ended June 30, federal court assessed fines totaling $5,217,328, but only $3,390,747 of that has been collected. The deficit of nearly $2 million is due, a Justice Department spokesman says, to lack of discernible assets among convicted persons who already had served jall sentences. Many of the offenses were liquor-laws or internal revenue violations, in which fines are mandatory but not always collectible,

vate » LE J MR. THOMAS has offered to settle his fine by turning

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town of .Allendale, N. J. The Justice Department has refused, because it says the lot is valued at less than the fine.

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public attention more than & year ago through Mr. Thomas’ connection with the purchase of three small weekly newss papers in his home district, The deal was reported to frie volve from $5000 to $10,000, But Mr. Thomas declared that he “didn’t have a nickel” to put into it, and that the money was put up by “a group of friends, mostly relatives.” Under the law, Mr. Thomas is said by government lawyers to be subject to rearrest and further imprisonment so long as his fine remains unpaid or until he takes the pauper’s oath, which would have to™be preceded by 30 days in custody. Action toward this end is a responsibility of the Justice Department, which says it thinks the best course is to wait and hope that Mr. Thomas will be able to pay.

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