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HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

Saturday, Aug. 23, 1952

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE President

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‘I Am the Key . ..’

HEN President Truman appeared for his weekly press conference, he was dapper and smiling, as usual. He was tart and chesty, as often. He declined comment on some touchy subjects, as he frequently does. But he said some things which will—or ought to— make their mark on the 1952 election campaign. He said he knew more about the government than any other man in the United States. He also said he knew nothing about the mess in Washington which Gov. Stevenson, the Democratic candidate for President, says he will clean up. He said he doesn’t often read the Saturday Evening Post, but he added flatly that it was always wrong. ’ He said he knows exactly what the Republicans are going to say in the campaign yet to come—and they will be all wrong, too. He said he, himself, is the key to the Democratic campaign and the Democratic candidates will have to run on his record. » ” » ” ” w THE SATURDAY EVENING POST last week published an article detailing the great “grain-bin hoax” of 1948. The article related how the Truman administration in the face of bumper grain crops and falling prices, deliberately withheld storage facilities from .the desperate farmers. It told how-the administration stopped buying on the market and thus depressed grain prices still more— until after the election. And how Mr. Truman cleverly and successfully put the blame on the Republicans. This was only one chapter in the Washington mess which Mr. Truman claims to know nothing about. It was a single chapter in the long story of income tax scandals, deep freezes and mink coats, the influence boys and 5-percenters, shipping deals, waste in military spending, sour loans and graft in the Reconstruction Finance Corp., postoffice jobs for sale, the big Egyptian

cotton deal, the multi-million-dollar grain shortage in the

Commodity Credit Corp., and the T. Lamar Caudle episode.

MR. TRUMAN, as he says, may know more about this than any man in the United States. And nobody has done less about it. This is the story the Republicans should spread before the voters—and if they don’t they will miss the boat. When Mr. Truman said he is the key to the campaign, he was saying to Adlai Stevenson, in effect: “You can’t run without me.” Mr. Stevenson has to run on the record of the party— ‘the record made under Mr. Truman's leadership. That is all-it can run on, Mr. Truman said. It may be unforunate for Mr. Stevenson, but what Mr. Truman said is true. For, in this country, we elect a party to power—not just one man. :

In demanding a “we-two” campaign, Mr. Truman has highlighted the real issue,

Stalin’s Successor

F STALIN'S heir apparent is to be designated at the forthcoming Congress of the Russian Communist Party in October, as some observers anticipate, it is a reasonable assumption that the nod will be given to a much younger man. And that may not be good. Stalin has reached the point in life where his place in history must be of some concern to him. He brought his country safely through World War II and to its present position as one of the two great powers in the world. Any man of 72 and in failing health would seem disposed to rest on that record rather than to undertake new and dubious adventures. That probably is the case with Stalin.

BUT A YOUNGER MAN, just as tough as Stalin was in his heyday—and any man who forces his way to the top in Russia has to be tough—will have his reputation to make. Confronted as he will be at every turn by the likenesses of his two great predecessors, Lenin and Stalin, the challenge to join them in a trinity of immortals may be too much for the succeeding dictator to resist. Thus there may be little basis for the hope that a change in Russian leadership might lessen world tension. Our own best bet is to be so well prepared for any eventuality that the next Russian czar will think twice before he steps off the deep end.

Pyramiding Stupidity

T IS NOT surprising that the American embassy in Stockholm should insist that the incidents involving Margaret Truman's bodyguard never happened when it is noted that the American ambassador to Sweden is W. Walton Butterworth. Mr. Butterworth was one of the American diplomats in China who didn’t know what was happening until the roof caved in on him. The presumption must be that he won his promotion to his present position on his see-noth-ing-know-nothing record. The provocative attitude of three officious Secret Servicemen, who apparently forgot they were guests of a friendly nation, should not become an international incident. But State Department stupidity has almost succeeded in making it that. Where a prompt apology was called for, obvious misinformation led a White House secretary to deny the stories in their entirety and to quote the Swedish foreign office as his authority. : But the Swedish foreign office was quick to deny any responsibility for that denial, remarking if the State Department said that “it is apparently their opinion.” The Swedish spokesman added that as far as his government was concerned there was a strong feeling that “nothing much had happened.” And the incidents would have been dismissed as “nothing much” if the ordinary amenities had been observed. Just because the State Department has kept her father in 80 much hot water is no reason why a nice girl like Margaret should have the same affliction imposed on her.

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WATCH MALENKOV . . . By R. H. Shackford

WASHINGTON-—Keep your eyes on Russia's “fat boy”’—Georgi Maximilianovich Malenkov— when the 19th Soviet Communist Party Congress meets in Moscow Oct. 5. Never heard of him? Few people have. But 30 years ago, 42-year-old Josef Vissarionovich Stalin was unknown--had only just been elected party secretary. And look at Joe Stalin today. The 50-year-old Malenkov seems to be Russia’s No. 2 man, both in state and party affairs. This upcoming party Congress may clinch the position for him. For some time, this squat, once-obscure Kremlin secretary, who tips the scales In the upper 200s and has a huge flabby double chin, has been labeled Stalin's most likely successor, if there's to be a single heir, Stalin will be 73 next December. The Soviets, who insist they have invented everything else under the sun, do not claim discovery of eternal life, even for Stalin,

First Called Since 1939

STALIN'S summons of the long-delayed party Congress—first since 1939 and only-the second since 1933—was bound to stir up speculation on a possible crown prince. “And the decision to rejigger party machinery ~—to abolish the mysterious Politburo as such and apparently replace it and the Organization Bureau with a new party “Praesidium’” has in- ~ tensified the speculation. It will be impossible to evaluate the true significance of these moves, if any, until the exact nature of the new Praesidium is made known--and until it’s announced what position Malenkov gets. Malenkov’s chances of coming out on top are pretty good. Alreday, he's been assigned a key spot at the Congress—main speaker on the report of the central committee of the all-union Communist party of Bolsheviks. Stalin had that honor at the 1939 Congress as the party's Secretary General. It was through that position and the powerful party machinery it controls that Stalin had worked his way ruthlessly to power after Lenin's death. ‘Malenkov now is secretary of the party under Stalin’s secretary generalship. That position alone is enough to make Malenkov the second strongest man in the Kremlin. But he also is the only man except Stalin to hold key positions in every party mechanism as well as a high post in the party-controlled government hierarchy.

Holds Key Positions

THE PARTY'S central committee of about 70 members meets infrequently, The real work is done by: The Becretariat—smallest, but most potent, high-level committee, headed by Stalin. Malenkov is No. 2 in this six-man body. No change is contemplated in this group. The Organization Bureau (Orgbureau)— deals with party organization. Malenkov is second to Stalin here, too. It apparently is going to be merged into the new Praesidium with the Political Bureau (Politburo). The Politburo—best known Russian organization. Its job is party, and thus state, policy. Stalin and Malenkov are at the top of all three of these. On the government side, in contrast to the party side, is the State Council of Ministers, made up of the same men who form the party machinery, Stalin is chairman of this council, and Malenkov is his top deputy. How did Malenkov get to the top? No one really knows. And in Russia, no one ever asks. He was only a boy during World War I. His official biography skips his first 18 years and starts with his life in Turkestan after the revolution as a minor Commissar in the Red Army. By the early 20s, he was in Moscow and, at the end of the 20s, had become Stalin's private secretary. During the early 30s he was just a Kremlin functionary, albeit an important one, while Stalin was consolidating his power and purging the party of two-thirds of its members. By the time of the 18th Party Congress in

What Others Say—

DON'T think I didn’t sweat up there. Mistakes are vastly magnified at that speed —Test pilot Bill Bridgeman who set a speed record of 1288 miles an hour. o oS I WAS a Republican (once). I didn’t know any better—Mrs. Perle Mesta, U. S. Minister to Luxembourg. cl

IN ANY contest it is real fighters who provide the difference between victory and defeat

—Republican presidential nominee Dwight D. Flsenhower.

d 4 » I HAVE far more friends among the Americans than I have among the British Tories— British Labor Party Leader Aneurin Bevan.

'HOLD MY HAND!

Come take my hand when life seems cold . . . and all your skies are gray . .. come take my hand and I will drive . . . the dark clouds all away . .. place your dear hand in mine, my love «+. and I will calm your fears ... and soon my darling you will find . . . that smiles will chase your tears:. . . hold tight to me and tell me all « +. the heartaches on your mind... and I will shower you with kisses ... of a special kind . come take my hand through happy days . . . and let me share with you . . . the fullness that your joys will bring . . . when dreams are comIng true . .. come take my hand throughout the years . . . for I'll always be there . . . to offer You my deepest love... and tell you that I care. —Ben Burroughs.

1939, Malenkov was elected to the elite Central Committee and at the same time appointed by Stalin to the Secretariat and the Orgburo. By 1941, he was delivering to party officials denunciations of “windbags . . . swivelchair officials fgnoramuses . . . and timeservers” who must be jettisoned. They were, The same year, Malenkov completed a grand slam of positions by entering the Politburo. Today, Malenkov always stands to Stalin's left atop Lenin's mausoleum for public functions. To be sure, Molotov is always on the right. But Molotov holds no high party offices and is a member'only of the Politburo in party machinery.

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May Spell More Trouble

REORGANIZATION . . . By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON—Stalin's call of the first Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in 13 years probably means more trouble for the free world.

The announced agend®is a joke. But there i= nothing amusing about the fact’ that the dictator now finds it necessary to line up his political shock troops for inspection and orders. The last time he did this, a world war followed. According to Stalin's announcement, the main purpose of the Oct. 5 Congress is two-fold: There is to be a general reorganization of the party structure, with a new “Praesidium” replacing the present two ruling committees—the Organization Bureau and the Political Bureau (Politburo). Sécond, the: Congress is to launch

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ETHICS ONLY BAR . . . By Chester Potter Law Lets U. S. Employees Switch Sides in Middle of Negotiations

WASHINGTON— A government employee can quit his job today and go to work tomorrow for the private concern he was dealing with as a federal official. There's no law against it. In doing so, the government man takes with him knowledge that makes him a valuable employee—one who knows the gimmicks and has the know-how of governmental operation. The House subcommittee investigating the Justice Department is trying to close one of the doors which open the way to such practices. Chairman Frank L. Chelf, (D. Ky.) thinks Justice Department attorneys should be barred from representing clients whose cases came before them while they worked for the government. But it isn't only in the Justice Department that employees can gain information helpful to them and a new employer in civilian life, For instance, an Agricultural Department employee, buying commodities in a support program, may go to work for the persons he has been dealing with. There's nothing in the Interstate Commerce Commission regulations which prohibits similar activities] though the ICC does have a code of ethics governing attorneys who practice before it. The attorneys, themselves, drew up this code—but it doesn’t apply to other employees.

Attorneys Limited

ON THE STATUTE books at present is one over-all law on attorneys who worked for the government. They may not represent a client

"who has a claim against the government—if

they had handled it while employed by Uncle Sam—within two vears after leaving federal service. This is mostly applicable to former emoyees of the Treasury Department and the nternal Revenue Bureau. These attorneys may get a waiver of the two-year rule if they certify that they did not personally handle a case, though it may have been under their general supervision, But, in

the Justice Department, no such

on his desk today, quit his job and go to work

POLITICAL FENCERS . . . By Peter Edson

lke and Adlai Have Yet to Draw

WASHINGTON — The dog days of August may be too early to expect anything better. But the presidential cam- to paign thus far has been largely a long-distance fencing match of glittering generalities

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Political swords have sparkled listlessly in the summer sunlight. Neither swordsman has drawn blood or been able to yell even one polite “Touche.” For spectators on the sidelines, there hasn't been a single play to cheer about. 5 LJ ~ GOV. STEVENSON came out of his White House call on President Truman and his cabinet with only the announcement that their plans would be annofinced later. This left the impression in Washington that what they talked about was the weather and the soup — which are more or less indistinguishable — and the new decor of the White House. In Springfield, Gov. Stevenson has crawled out on no limb further than necessary to release a couple of trial balloons. This was done by having’ one of his aids reveal to the press that as of now, the governor would use his influence to curb Senate filibusters and to try to find some way to

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enforce fair employment practices throughout the nation. The apparent attempt was see what public reaction But because statements were so vague, the reaction was nil. from both parties. uu

GEN. EISENHOWER in Denver has pursued a slightly different course, though with

conferences and pronouncements have been in such terms that somebody else has had to come along later and say what he meant. Gen. Eisenhower made one non-political speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in He is scheduled to make another non-political talk before the American Legion in New York. 2.9 = If Gov. Stevenson makes the «ame kind of talk before the Legion, a whole month of the camnaien will have been wasted, with no voter being able to tell what either of these characters stands for. At the Gallun, N. M.. Indian nowwow, the General told 10.000 red men that they “must. exercise their newly granted right df universal suffrage to the full as a demonstration of good citizenship.” else came along later and in-

terpreted this Indian language as meaning that they ought to get out and vote. The day before, .at Denver, the general came forward with the pronouncement: “I would support and press for adoption a of legislation designed to lighten the burden of the high cost of living on our senior citizens." There might be some interpretation that this meant the general had in mind selective price controls or a cost-of-liv-ing subsidy for the old folks. But Jim Hagerty, the general's new press secretary, was good enough to come out and explain for the boys that what he meant was increased oldage assistance payments under the Social Security laws.

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GEN. EISENHOWER's widely heralded huddles with John Foster Dulles on foreign policy have also been a trifle on the uncertain side. Dulles came out of one two-hour conference saying the general agreed with him “that the ‘trend of our present foreign policies is to put our nation in the greatest peril it has been in during the entire course of our national history.” The general reaction to this’ in Washington was that Dulles

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for the opposition the following day. It's as easy as that, so long as the case doesn’t involve a claim against the government. The King committee is trying to strengthen the prohibition against former employees of the Internal Revenue Bureau, while the Chelf committee has a similar objective for the Justice Department. A demonstration of how former Justice Department officials can and do go to work for clients with whom they did official business has been promised by Chairman Chelf at a public hearing next week.

Rule Found ‘Unreasonable’

RALPH KOEBEL, in the solicitor’'s office of the Agriculture Department, said the department at one time had a more strict regulation, but that the former rule was found ‘‘unreasonable.” At present, he said, the regulation bars former officers or employees from ‘representing any persons before the department” if such employees, by reason of their government jobs, had “acquired personal knowledge of such a nature that it would be improper, unethical or contrary to public interest so to act.” But that regulation does not prohibit advising a new employer on how to go about things. “The same holds true in other businesses,” Mr. Koebel said. “We have no control over an employee after he leaves the government, any more than one employer has when an employee goes to work for someone else and takes his knowledge with him—such as in the newspaper business.” = There are exceptions to the lack of law and regulation. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation puts a clause in every loan’ paper that the borrower binds himself not to employ within two years any RFC employee who had anything to do with granting the loan. Congress also wrote into the Defense Production Act of 1951 a prohibition against emplaees of the Small Defense Plants Administration going to work within two years for companies which received financial or other assistance through such employees from that agency.

SIDE GLANCES

First Blood

and Gen. Eisenhower should know. They both helped make those policies and carry them out. ” » ” THIS PENCHANT for vague talk seems to have affected some of the general's other callers. Thus a group of farm state Senators and Congressmen came out saying: “We know that Gen. Eisenhower, with his family roots in our great farm country, is going to present pesitive, forwardlooking farm policies during the campaign.”

Hog markets and grain pits never quivered at this. And no farmer knew what to expect in the way of soll conservation payments. There is, of course, a certain safety in this kid of fuzzy language. Thus Allan Kline, the Farm Bureau Federation head, came out of his conference with Gen. Eisenhower, saying that the general “apparently favors a flexible farm ° price support policy.” By this statement, Mr. Kline succeeded iA putting his foot in the general's .mouth in a great big way. There will be repercussions on that one for a long time to come. But when will the candidates themselves get goin’?

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the new 1951-1955 5-year plan for a 60 per cent increase in industrial output, he says. Actually the rules of the Communist Party, like the Soviet constitution, are not binding on the dictatorship. The fact that the old party rules require a Congress meeting at least.once in three years did not prevent Stalin from going 13 years without one, Like the constitutional provisions for civil and relirious freedoms, the party rules are meaningless. That one top committee, instead of two interlocking ones, shall rule henceforth is not significant, even in the sense of closer centralization. The same old Politburo renamed “Praesidium” will smell no sweeter. As for the “new” five-year plan, it is already a year and half old. As usual, it is stated in terms of uncheckable percentages without a base, instead of in actual production figures. Not that the plan for greatly increased production is unimportant. On the contrary, it is the key to the giant armament projects which the dictator is pushing with all his might. All signs indicate he is doing very well with that program. Unlike ours, it is not a rearmament program-—Russia never stopped arming, not even for one day after the armistice. Soviet production suffers no setbacks from steel strikes or others. There is no short work week. Millions of political prisoners add to the output of ordinary workers, who also are slave laborers. And there is no question of “guns or butter’—the people go without butter and all but the lowest living requirements, while Stalin gets his guns, Why? Stalin already’ is so overwhelmingly superior to the Allies in his stockpile of weapons, as in numbers of divisions, Why is it necessary for him to turn the screws on the Russians for ever more and more guns which is clearly one purpose of tkRis Congress? : ‘ Why, indeed, unless he plans an aggressor’'s war? And why his present mounting hateAmerica campaign unless this country is his ultimate target?

Hoosier Forum

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

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Hand Overplayed? MR. EDITOR: To date the appeal for Ike has been largely limited to propaganda and tortuous reasoning, Why not start by appraising the fact and its causes; that we are now confronted with the greatest crisis in our history, and that crisis is primarily a military one caused by the military

and strategic ascendency of Russia. That situation need not have happened. It was the direct result of our blundering strategy in the European phase of World War II. No greater strategical blunder is found in our history. Long ago I resolved that no one who was a material party to that series of blunders was entitled to confidence and support. Nothing could have been mcre tragic than to have acceded to the Russian demand for a second front through France. This, rather than the Churchill plan to strike through the Balkans. To have struck through the Balkans our troops would have been occupying and liberating the Balkan countries, Poland, Eastern Germany, etc. Had this- been done we would have been in a position to have saved those countries from Russian subjugation during the post-war consolidation of our victory. Choosing to strike through France, we permitted Russia to occupy and enslave those countries without the moderating influences of a joint occupation. Thus, by our own stupidity we created the greatest of all threats to our security and find ourselves in our present military dilemma. ody

WELL, GEN. EISENHOWER was our top military commander in that field. Did he, by indorsing that plan, or by negative action, contribute to the plan, by failure to fight such strategy to the bitter end? There will be some who say it was a political matter with which he had no concern. That is not true. Political or not, it involved grave military considerations and consequences. The result is now a great military threat to this country and a military appraisal at the time of decision might have eliminated that threat. I have been not a little amused at the way the Eisenhower backers spilled bitter tears over the fact the General was tied up by great duty in Europe and unable to return to look after his campaign. They stated when his duty in Europe was completed he would return to enter the campaign. They timed this to be a few weeks before the convention. I do not know what they meant by “duty completed.” The fact is the job is hardly started. It is still in the blueprint stage and a precarious stage at that. In fact, it looks as if the job he was to complete 1s about to “fizzle” out. To make a long story short, have not the Eisenhower people overplayed their hand in building up their superman?

—L. A. B, City.

Down With Capitalism MR. EDITOR:

I shall vote the Democratic ticket this year, for I like their socialistic ideas. Capitalism should be abolished. It is slavery and is not intended according to the Bible. I want decent working conditions and not slavery. All Capitalists should be sent back to Russia. I dare you to print this. You won't for you are a Capitalist. ’ ~ =R. Miller, City. Editor's Note: What? And spoil Russia, too?

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