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Knee Deep in Truman

DLAI STEVENSON was a reluctant candidate. Hé Said, over and over, he didn't want the Democratic nomination for President. One of the reasons widely noised about by his backers was that he didn't want the Truman tag on him. . 3 But Tuesday Mr. Stevenson spent the afternoon at the White House being coached by the Truman brain trust, led by the President himself. Among others, he was “filled in” on foreign affairs by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, whose “Let-the-dust-settle” policy turned China over to the Communists. And whose restraints on Gen. MacArthur led to the present stalemate in Korea. On defense problems, Mr. Stevenson had, as a leading tutor, John R. Steelman, assistant to the President, whose hand was heavy on the steel strike botch., And W. Averell Harriman, a true Trumanite of the “spend-and-elect” school. Also present was Leon Keyserling, the White House economic magician, When Mr. Stevenson arrived in Washington for his Trumah “briefing,” he said: ‘Things look pretty good for November.” : ; He did not repeat the statement when he departed.

Dam Builders and Politics

OYALTY is a virtue, just like thrift, industry and restraint in wife-beating. But misguided loyalty can be just as pernicious as many of the baser instincts. Take the case of Sen. Kenneth D. McKellar and the Army Corps of Engineers. The Senator, cantankerous and absent-minded as a man of 83 has every right to be, was in the midst of a hard primary campaign for seventh term in the Senate. He was opposed by an able young Congressman, Albert Gore. By a curious and politically happy coincidence the Tennessee Shute Harbor Project, built by the Corps of Engineers, was ready for dedication just in time for Sen. McKellar to use it as a sounding board for an unmistak_ably political speech in-the last days of his campaign. A RermsZa ble oF the (athe of Bingineers, WHiFA Bak many reasons to be grateful-to Sen. McKellar, also made a speech at the ceremonies. In it Brig. Gen. C. H. Chorpening, assistant chief of the Corps, praised Sen. McKellar's “wisdom and statesmanship’” and confessed that he was “always impressed” by the advice he had received from Sen. MeKellar during appropriation hearings at-the Capitol, Gen. Chorpening and the Engineers later denied that (a) it was a political rally, or (b) that the General's speech was a political speech. That, of course, is either a monumental belch of cynicism or an unrivaled display of political naivete. And the Corps of Engineers is anything but politically naive. It operates the slickest and most successful lobby in Washington. It knows things about political footwork that would bring tears of envy to the eyes of any power company. lobbyist. The Engineers’ Tennessee performance left a particularly gamey bouquet. It ignored a historic and well-founded precedent against members of the Army taking a hand in politics. In doing so, the Corps of Engineers did a disservice to the people of Tennessee and to itself. Sooner or later enough people are going to become fed up with these political dam builders and compel them to go back to the business of being full time engineers.

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Crowns of the Desert

HESE are troublesome times for heads wearing crowns. Egypt's Farouk was given his walking papers a few days ago. In Iran, Farouk's former brother-in-law, Shah Reza Pahlevi has been reduced to a shadow in the background of the dictatorship of Premier Mossadegh, who in olden times would have been surnamed “The Weeper." Now King Talal has been ousted from the throne of Jordan as mentally unfit to rule. Talal was at a Swiss clinic receiving treatment for a mental condition at the time of the assassination of his father, King Abdullah, July 20, 1951. The throne is to be held in trust until Talal's son, King Hussein I. becomes 18 next spring. But Jordan may not last that long as an independent entity. Jordan was sliced out of Palestine in 1946 to create a throne for Abdullah, who was useful to Britain as a contact man in the Arab world. Jordan is likely to be annexed either by Syria or Iraq. In the latter case, the new kingdom probably would be ruled by 17-year-old King Faisal II of Iraq, Hussein's cousin, who is now visiting in this country. The most secure throne in the Middle Kast at the moment is that of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. But Ibn Saud at 72 is in failing health and his 60-0dd sons may not see eye to eye on the succession to the throne of this oilrich kingdom. : Ibn Saud's reign dates only from 1926, when he consolidated Hejaz and Nejd under the name of Saudi Arabia, after he had ousted Abdullah's father as King of the Hejaz. There has been comparative peace in the desert since this historic clash between the houses of Saud and Hashi-

mite But-the vast. wealth which has accrued to the.royal....

family of Arabia since that time may excite new rivalries.

Amateur Brews

GH PRICE of beer has revived home-brewing on the Pacific Coast. Reports say some of the amateur brewmasters clalm they can make beer for about a penny a bottle. ; : "Once upon a time—in Prohibition Days—there was little brew except home-brew. And its thirsty concocters insisted on serving it to all visitors, no matter how much

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BLACKMAIL . + . By Ludwell Denny

Iran, U.S. And Britain Deadlocked Over Oil

WASHINGTON —Fresh from his success in blackmalling the Iranian parliament into grant: ing him almost unlimited powers, sDictator Mohammed Mossadegh is now blackmailing Britaln and the United States to subsidize his bankrupt anti-foreign regime, v Do what 1 say or I'll turn Iran over to the Communists -this, in effect, is his threat. It may work in London and Washington, as it worked in Teheran. But first the U. 8, government, no less than the British, ‘wants more guarantees than are yet apparent. “@» oe o“ MOSSADEGH. has double-crosged Washington .and London repeatedly In the past year, This has not left them in an agreeable mood. Nevertheless, they are deeply concerned about the danger of Communist control of that highly strdtegic country-—more concerned than at any time in the past. Mossadegh knows this. And he is playing it for all he is worth. His immediate demand is that Britain give him upward of $150 million in royalties which it is holding against his expropriation nf the Anglo-Iranian oil properties, and that it lift its world ban on his sale of the ofl seized without compensation, At the same time he is demanding a §50 million loan from the United States to finance his {llegal marketing of the British oil. NEITHER LONDON nor Washington challenges Iran's right to expropriate foreign properties, But both deny the right to nationalize oil fields and refineries without . compensation and without due legal process. That is what the deadlock is about,

.Several favorable compromises have heen offered to Mossadegh. These would recognize Iranian ownership of the resources, and allow

a mixed or international operating company to produce and market the ofl with some of the profits going to pay off the British claims.

FREE RIDE . . . By Oland D. Russell Japan Learns ‘The Ropes’ Fast

TOKYO—Recent defense talks by Pacific Foreign Ministers at Honolulu left Japan feelIng pretty good even though she wasn't invited and had no say in conclusions that were reached. What Japan liked most about the meeting was the mutual agreement--mostly espoused by the United States--that revival of a strong Japan was unavoidable though a “calculated risk.” Never mind the calculated risk, says Japan, that's our business and we will take care of that but it is the unavoidability we want subscribed to and underwritten, especially by the United States.

Just such sentiments as this, Japan feels, may be guarantee enough that America will save her the expense of rearming. There is nothing Japan would like better than to get a free ride in this direction, just as France has done in Europe, It is notable that right after the Honolulu

conference Finance ‘Minister Hayato Ikeda was

telling audiences on electioneering trips in the provinces that it would be financially impossible

«Ear Japan to rearm, At Hiroshima, he gaid it . up an.

army-of 51 divisions, an air force of 5000 planes and a navy approximating Japan's prewar navy, Prime Objective NOT ONE, not even the dreamiest Japanese, had envisioned such strength but that is what this Cabineteer seized upon. He sald it would take ahout $3 billion annually to keep up such a force, all of which he submitted was equal to the total national income. Therefore, rather than rearmament, improvement of the people's livelihood should be the government's prime objective. At the same time, with general elections approaching, Ikeda and others in the government have been proposing a drastic tax reduction and a generally inflationary course as bait to voters who presently suffer from high taxes. Premier Shigeru Yoshida last week cautiously conceded that the national police reserve was the “cornerstone” of a new Japanese national army. It was the first time the Premier made such an admission, but he was careful to add that rearmament would have no meaning unless it was backed by the people as a whole, It is clear that the fall elections will afford a fairly good test of popular feeling toward the issue of rearmament which has become an absorbing topic of conversation and press comment, Yoshida's Liberal Party wants a mild expression of public sentiment In favor of rearming. At the same time it wants the public to exhibit such reluctance to give up any butter for guns that will be necessary, as in the case of France, to call on America to fodt the hill. To that end, the Honolulu talks materially aided.

IT'S THEN

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wonder ‘share . . , for twilight's mask of mistiness . . . Is meant to veil true love . . . a time that has been set aside . . . for dreams to soar above . . . and that is why when daytime meets . .the blue of evening light . . . it's then, my dearest, above all , , . I long to hold you tight.

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When he rejected all other such proposals, the World Bank finally offered to operate the properties pending a settlement. But he refused that also. Mossadegh's theory was that he could run the wells and refinery with German or Soviet technicians, and that world tankers would race into Abadan to buy the oil. Instead, he has been unable after a year to operate adequately or to market any of the product. At best he has only a marginal production and market in prospect. ’

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Meanwhile neighboring countries have increased their production rapidly. Mid-East total output is larger now, without any Iranian ofl, than it was in the lush days of Anglo-Iran-jan production. Even the more serious shortage in refinery capacity is being overcome. So Mossadegh's bargaining power on oil is less than ever. <> o> oo BUT HIS threat of turning the country over to Stalin's Tudeh (Communist) party is something else again.

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WATER, WATER . . . By Frederick C.-Othman

It's High Time You Knew of This

Permionic Membrane Business

WASHINGTON —If Dr. J. Russell Smith, the distinguished geographer, knows what he's talking about (and I have no doubt that he does), the permionic membrane is the most stupendous thing to hit this old world since the ‘steam engine. : All you do is pump sea water through one of these membranes. It catches the salt and out comes drinking water on the other side. No moving parts, no chemicals, just a gentle current of electricity pulsing through the membrane, while it turns salt water into fresh. The prospects are dazzling. They even dazzled Dr. Smith, professor emeritus of economic geography at Columbia University and head of numerous scientific organizations for the last*half-century. He now foresees the deserts of the world in full bloom.

Like Magic SEEMS that some of his scientific friends at Cambridge, Mass., organized a firm called Ionics, Ine,, which discovered a continuous production method of making this super-filter from coal tar and petroleum products. Out comes a kind of blanket which separates the salt from’ the H-2-0. What this has to do with geography isn't apparent at first glance, but Dr. Smith considered it so important that he delivered a

What Others Say—

GIVE ME any song, bad or good, it doesn't matter, and I'll make it a hit. I'm one of the most popular men in town (Hollywood).—Song pusher Tubby Garron. So sb I THINK the people who are objecting to my religious work are getting dangerously near to hurling the first stone.—Movie actress Jane Russell. oe oo 0 ATTENDANCE at religious services (in the Army) is greater than at any time in our whole peace-time history, — Army Secretary Frank Pace. ho» THERE cannot be further discussion of our giving up territory now held.—Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito.

LONDON — Clement Attlee, the aging. shy. schoolmasterish Socialist leader, is ready for a showdown with Aneurin Bevan, the young, flamboyant, demagogic Socialist—if Bevan wants it, The struggle for Socialist power is now out in the open. The climax may come at the annual party conference at Morecambe next month. “ Mr. Attlee has switched his tactics and has okayed a full-

lowers on the Bevanites, who

are being accused of party treason. For 15 months Mr. Attlee

patiently remained silent and defensive in the struggle with Mr, Bevan. But now Mr. Attlee has given up pretending that the feud is not important. His obvious goal is to force Mr. Bevan to toe the line or face expulsion. There is eyery sign that the last thing Mr. ‘Bgvan wants is expulsion from the party he aspires some day to lead. .

- » ” - THAT'S WHY it's not surprising that the Bevanitesconfronted by Mr. Attlee's gettough policy—seem to be backdng away a little from a showdown. They are even. scram-

formal lecture on the subject to the 17th meeting of the International Geographical Union, now meeting here in the doggonedest weiter of maps you ever saw. It develops that geographers aren't interested only in drawing maps of things the way they are; they are concerned with the fundamentals that are changing the shape of the globe. The permionic membrane, if it works on a really large scale, is one of these. And I now give you the enthusiastic Dr. Smith of Swarthmore, Pa.: “It is in the field of agricultural possibilities that reclaimed sea water may have its most Cyclopean influence on man’s affairs,” he said. “Reclaimed sea water may be feeding scores of millions a century hence and hundreds of millions two centuries hence. “The first agricultural use of permionic membrane is likely to be for demineralizing of well waters that carry enough common salt and other minerals to make the waters useless for Irrigation.” That's a small beginning, he continued, but the problem of reclaiming sea water wholesale involves power in stupendous amounts for that electricity pumping through the membrane. Dr. Smith has ideas about that, too. “The cosmic source of power, the sun, is inexhaustible,” he told his fellow geographers. “It id fortunate that the heat best fitted for developing energy happens to be in deserts, the places where the need for it is so great.” Then, said he, there is no reason why cold water can't be pumped from the hottom of the ocean to react with the warm water on top and thereby turn turbines to produce all the electricity anybody'd ever need.

Rivals Perpetual Motion EVEN NOW, he added, the French government is spreading a film of oil on a lagoon on the West African coast to raise its surface temperature far above normal. He said the plant is expected to be producing electricity from the sea's reaction with itself by next year. “These two, the sea-water plant and the hot desert power plant, are rivals for the alchemists’ dream of perpetual motion,” he said. “The raw material is perennial, perpetual and indestructible.” Add that to the permionic membrane and what will happen to this world is hard to imagine. Dr. Smith can hardly wait, Neithér can I.

bling to shout the previous Shinwell, Attlee line—it's only a healthy

difference of opinion.

who is one of Attlee's. closest allies, nounced Mr. Eden in the House

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‘ America and Britain are willing to bribe him

to prevent that, provided: . ONE—The bribe is in a form which will not encourage other Mid-East countries to expropri.

. ate American and British oil holdings without

compensation. TWO—He does not. double-cross them again

—and co-operate with the Reds as he did two weeks ago, and on earlier occasions. THREE —He ig not simply a front for the mad Mullah Kashani—and thus unable to keep a bargain with us even if he wants to.

BIG CHANCE . . . By Wade Jones

TV Can Revive Good Debates

WE ALWAYS said television would grow up and amount to something some day. Now it's got its big chance. There's talk of a series of hour-long debates between. Adlai Stevenson, speaking in the affirmative on whether the Democratic Party is a good thing, and Gen. Eisenhower, taking

the negative. i This would be the biggest thing of its kind since Lincoln -and Douglas squared off in a similar engagement in 1858. ; Scheduled at any hour except maybe 4 a. m,, a televised Stevenson-Eisenhower debate on the big campaign issues would have a larger audience than the entire population of the United States in 1858, which was just under 30,000,000. Stevenson is reported interested in the idea, and small wonder. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were held right. around Springfield, Ill.,, the section where Stevenson was raised and where he now holds forth as governor.

Valuable Help to Voters

IT WOULD, BRING to the voters in dramatig form the issues to be decided and the Demo cratic and Republican’ ideas: for solving them, At the moment the differences of the two nomie nees on certain big issues is not too clear. On foreign policy, for instance they're pretty much together. Both are Internationalists with a capital “I.” On many domestic issues they are not far apart, both being middle-of-the-roaders, government economy advocates, and anti-big government. It's the big, shifting mass of independent voters that would be most influenced by a clear; dramatic presentation such as the TV debates would allow. And it would be certainly a valuable gift to the democratic tradition if that clear, dramatic presentation takes place this year, and every four years from now on. The value of TV in letting the public get an inside look at politics has been demonstrated at congressional hearings and at the recent party conventions in Chicago. Both were great stimu. lants to public interest in government. A TV debate between Stevenson and Eisene hower could be an even greater one.

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Platforms Alike MR. EDITOR:

Now the two great political parties under our two-party system have met in solemn conclave, selected their candidates and wrestled with the momentous issues of our day and have drawn up their platforms. : Platforms are—at least theoretically—the sacred principles on which each party and its candidates are pledged to exert themselves to see materialize. It so happens that any school child can read and digest either party's platform and then come up with the thought that either candidate could run equally well on either platform, and that quite irrespective of who is elected Nov. 4, there will be no change, no reform, no differs ence whatever. Yet the people have been restive for the past year for a change. In spite of the people’s wishes, however, we can only expect continuance of the present reactionary socialistic program which has ruined other nations time after time before. My suggestion as a remedy for this situation is for everyone tn strive to elect Repub= lican candidates for both houses of Congress in the hope of obtaining a Republican majority, And then strive equally hard to elect the Demos cratic candidate to the White House. In this manner we can be assured, at least, of no fur ther expansion of the reactionary socialistie program and perhaps some curtailment of the spend and spend and spend program.

—A. J. Schneider, 1741 N. Meridian, City.

Congratulations MR. EDITOR:

We wish to thank and commend your paper for the excellent story about Central Hospital which appeared on Page 1 of your Aug. 3 issue, The sympathetic but realistic treatment give en this subject by Miss Mikels deserves the highest praise. We hope you will continue to give subjects in the field of mental health the same treatment which you have accorded to them in the past. : It is indeed pleasant to feel that your pubs lication is an ally in the fight against the super= stition and prejudice’ which are involved with all mental illness.

—S. Paul Clay Jr., City. |

STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALIST POWER . . . By R. H. Shackford Attlee-Bevan Fight for Control of Party

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The Tory press is having a field day. It comes at a handy time for the Tories. Their stock is low with the people for failing to solve Britain's problems. There are increasing Tory grumblings that Prime Minister Winston Churchill ought to step down in favor of a younger man, such as

Foreign Minister Anthony

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It has always been obvious that sooner or later Mr. Attlee would have to force a showdown with Mr. Bevan or lose the party's leadership by default. What is unusual is the almost overnight change in Mr. Attlee's tactics on even the annual conference. ” 8 »8

EVER SINCE Mr. Bevan resigned from the Attlee government 15 months ago in disagreement over increased rearmament and curtailment of ‘social services, Mr. Attlee and his supporters . belittled . the

- seriousness of the split. Until

last week end they never méntioned the,split publicly. As late as July 31, former Defense Minister Emanuel

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of Commons for “exaggerating” the Socialist differences. Former Commonwealth Minister Patrick Gordon Walker opened up. He accused Mr. Bevan of organizing ‘‘a party within a party.” That's treason in the British political system.

» o . FORMER MINISTER of —Works— Richard Stokes followed with a similar but

stronger accusation. ; ‘ The Attlee men let down th bars completely over the week end. “It's no use pretending that the division in the Labor Party at this moment can any longer be hidden or passed over as mere differences of opinion,” Socialist Alden Crawley confessed. Socialist Lord Francis Pakenham said the time had come when the Bevanites had better start practicing inside

the party what they preached

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BUT THE REAL tip-off of Mr. Attlee’s new line came in the Socialist Party's own newse paper. The Daily Herald for months has ignored the: split between Mr. Attlee and Mr, Bevan. On Monday, however, the Soecialist-taithful read this big black headline in the official party paper: “Bevanites are a danger to labor.” Now that Mr. Atlee has turned the heat on Mr. Bevan, the Bevanites seem to be sayeing: “Who, me?” They obviously see the dane ger of a showdown with Mr. Attlée. They also are plagued with the ghost of Ramsay MacDonald who split the party once and sent it into the wilderness for a long time,

The Morecambe conference will show whether Mr. Bevan's strength has grown enough to risk a showdown. The Bevanites seem to doubt it. : If it hasn't, .the Bevanites

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