Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1952 — Page 22

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The Indianapolis Times

W. HOWARD WALTER LEGKRONE HENRY W. MANZ ROY President Editor Business Manager

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Telephone PL aza 3551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Sounds Like: Campaign Oratory to Us

OR the past 12 years there has always been a large number of Hoosiers in the armed services and hence out of the state on election day. They could always vote, if they wanted to vote, although naturally it was a little more bother than it would have been just to drop in at the polling place at home. Right now the number thus kept away from home is smaller than it has been: during nearly all of the past 12 years, and only about one-tenth as many as in the peak years of the war, So the sudden outery that they are now being deprived of their right to vote, and the demand that the legislature

be called into emergency special session to do something’

about it before Nov. 4 has a dubious and hollow ring. = » = » J # INDIANA LEGISLATURES have met regularly every two years all this time. Nearly all of them were Republican legislatures. They have talked about this GI voting problem, and rejected proposals by a Democratic governor, and made some changes of their own in the system. As it stands now it is the work of a Republican Assembly. = If it is an “emergency” it's their own emergency. Just as it was when they met in 1951 ... or 1949, or 1047... or 1941, for that matter. ~The call of a Republican candidate for governor for a special session of the legislature right now to restore the rights of Indiana's men in uniform could be called demagogery . . . if you wanted to be real accurate. Tut, tut, Mr. Craig. You can think of‘a better campaign issue than that, can't you?

It's All of a Pattern

HY a lawyer who had worked for the State Department was barred from practicing before the International Claims Commission was related the other day by James Daniel, Scripps-Howard Washington writer. One Samuel Herman was a legal adviser in the State Department from 1947 to 1950. He was assigned to help handle claims by Americans against foreign governments. As part of his job, Mr. Herman had a list of claimants seo confidential he was reluctant to show it to Congress. - But after he quit his federal job, Mr. Herman used this “confidential” list—and other inside information accumulated while the taxpayers were providing his livelihood—to hustle up a brisk private law practice in the field of international claims. : ~ What Mr. Herman did was use his government job to promote his personal fortunes. So the Claims Commission has banned him for being “unethical.” : It took about a column of type to describe Mr. Herman’s operations. But that was only one story. Sam Herman is no isolated case. What he did has been a pattern in the Truman administration. : Justice Department lawyers, after boning up on government antitrust lawsuits, swinging over to the other side of the counsel table and collecting fat fees for their inside knowledge and contacts. : Internal Revenue Bureau officials resigning their jobs and then building up plush law practices by siding against the government in tax cases with which they had become familiar while in public office. All through the government, in bureau after bureau, high officials using their jobs or their special knowledge gained at taxpayer expense to help themselves or their friends. Nothing unusual about Mr. Herman at all. that he did get caught and was barred. #8 = . cn '®» SINCE FEBRUARY, a House committee has been investigating monkey business in the Justice Department. And yesterday, Congressman Frank L. Chelf, the committee chairman, said testimony has ‘“‘just scratched the surface.” That's why, as Dwight Eisenhower said in Miami, it will take a “scoop shovel” to clean out Washington.

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Backseat Driving

WORLD OPINION still supports the United Nations action in Korea but would welcome “with enthusiasm” an armistice on the basis of approximately the present battle line, according to United Nations Secretary Trygv Lie. : Dragging on of the truce talks has given rise to %impatience, resentment and doubt,” he said. The Secretary General apparently wishes to imply that the United Nations is fed up with the war and wants it terminated. But until Mr. Lie suggests how this can be done, he is being less than helpfuls The United Nations’ very eagerness for a Korean settlement probably has encouraged-the Reds to demand a high price for a settlement. If the organization had shown half as much enthusiasm for fighting the war to a successful conclusion, the Reds might have come to terms long ago. But the United Nations has been in a moral retreat since the day of Red China's intervention. Mr. Lie supported the appeasement policy adopted then, as well as the limited war policy which. has prevailed since Gen. Mac-

Arthur's recall. If the Reds have taken advantage of this

obvious timidity to talk tough across the truce table, no one is more to blame than Mr. Trygve Lie.

mot Habeas Martini | © NEW ORLEANS, one member of a court jury com- ~~ plained that the jurors were served cocktails before their

meal, beer and wine during it, and mixed drinks afterward.

The judge replied that “none of the litigants is any the ‘worse for it.” - Maybe not, but the juror was right. Everyone knows : mixed drinks shouldn't be served after dinner,

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RED BOARD AND BILL . . . By Frederick C. Othman

U. S. Insists Stalin Dun for $2.86

Isn't Holding Up

~ WASHINGTON—State Department officials Insist they are not, either, trying to collect $2.86 from a reluctant guest of that celebrated Eastern European hotelkeeper, Joe Stalin,

The unfortunate traveler, who was hauled by a couple of tough cops to the Intourist Hotel in Dresden, Red Germany, and there held for a _ night against his will, is J, Ashton Greene, the Baton Rouge, La. grain exporter. When he - was let loose the next day the Communists handed him a bill for $2.86 for Red bed, Red board and Red haircut. He wouldn't pay. Now he charges our government refuses to renew his passport until he settles with Joe. The State Department's men said this was ridiculous. They said they didn’t care how much Mr. Greene owed the Russkies. ‘They added that our government has good and sufficient reasons for withholding his passport. Confidential reasons.

Chimnitz to Dresden

MR. GREENE said his troubles with Joe began in 1949 when he was jouncing in a bus from Leipzig to Prague, where he had a Czech visa to attend the International Trade Fair. At Bad Brahmbach the police nabbed him for questioning. He never understood why, unless it was because he was in the center of the uranium country. For one night they plagued him with questions at the village of Chimnitz. Then they took him to Dresden, where they put him up in a room without bath at the official Soviet hotel, which once had been the palace of a German prince. Kind of dank, said Mr. Greene. His host provided him with a guard, who never left his side while he slept, got that haircut (a good one),.and ate three skimpy meals,

STALIN BIDES HIS TIME . . . By Ludwell Denny Mossadegh’s Stupidity May Lose Iran to Reds

His Passport

The following day they took him to Berlin where they released him in custody of American authorities. They also handed him that bill for $2.86. This was ‘a reasonable enough charge for hotel accommodations. But Mr. Greene said people under arrest shouldn't be expected to pay for their keep in durance vile. He didn’t.

So he got home without further charges of being a dead beat and things rocked along until last fall when he wanted to go to Caracas, Venezuela, for a trade conference. The State Department wouldn't give him a passport.

That Red Bill

MR. GRENE protested, with bitter mention of his Red hotel bill, but he never got to Caracas. Now he’s in town trying to get his travel papers again so he can do some business in Western Europe. The Stae Department still says nothing doing. “All because of that $2.86,” said Mr. Greene, an angry man with a Southern accent. “I won’t pay it, if I never get a.passport.” This information I relayed to the diplomats. They were not amused. “We wouldn't care if Mr. Greene owed the Russians $2086,” said one of them. “That's his business and theirs. There are other, confidential reasons for not issuing this passport.” :

So Mr. Greene demanded a formal hearing on his troubles with his Red hosts, his passport, and the other mysterious information in his dossier. This he will get in due course. - The results also will be confidential, unless Mr. Greene chooses to tell me the outcome. In his current mood, which isn’t exactly happy, I have no doubt he will.

SIDE GLANCES

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THEY LOVED IT . . . By Andrew Tully

lke Wows Dixie

With Whacks

Right Out of the Cracker Barrel

NEW YORK-—One thing was for sure today, at the end of Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s tour of the Democratic southland: Southerners like Ike. ? Whether they will vote for him is another thing. But it was clear that during his 3400mile plane tour of six cities, lke had proved himself one of the most popular personalities in Dixie since Robert E. Lee. ‘ You couldn’t write off Ike's Southern recep-

“tion as the antics of ‘curiosity-seekers. Curios-

ity-seekers don't cheer the way those Southern crowds cheered. Curiosity-seekers merely look at a celebrity—they don’t take him into their

arms.

Ike's Headquarters Confident

* AROUND Eis¢nhower headquarters today, they were saying'ihat Ike has a swell chance

. of cracking Dixie's solidity in November. It's

hard for an independent observer to go that far, but no one can help being impressed by the way Ike was embraced down South, The warmth of this embrace—after the first welcoming hug—was due almost entirely to Ike's approach, Throughout his Southern tour, Ike played the role of the average citizen allying himself with his neighbors against the “Washington crooks.” He was on the people's side—and they loved it. 4 “I don’t think I'm a very good politician, because I get too sore,” Ike told the South. His

| audiences were warmed by this admission.

Call it corny if you like, but in the South, this country store approach wowed ‘em. In a section which is almost tiresome in its insistence on plain talk, Tke discarded his lofty phrases and laid it on the line.

Usually,-of course, Ike hit hard on the. corruption issue. They loved him when he said, “I call it ‘the mess in Washington’ because that's what the opposition call it.” They loved him

‘when he proclaimed, “there is a difference be-

tween the two political parties in this country —one is saddled with a mess, and the other wants to clean it up.” )

Made Peace an Issue

BUT HE spoke also with cracker-barrel sincerity about another {ssue close to peoples’ hearts—peace. He spoke as an “old soldier” saddened by the carnage of conflict, whose mission in life was to put an end to war. He dismissed the Democrats as unable to secure a genuine. peace because they were too busy pilfering from the national cookie jar, He- insisted that peace could be achieved only by -a party which: possessed “old-fashioned” moral value. So how, he kept asking the South, can we expect a “bunch of crooks” to represent us honestly and respectably among the nations

. of the world? ‘

_His best phrase was borrowed from another old soldier, Gen. George C. Marshall—“there is only one way you can win World War III and that is to prevent it.” To the South, it sounded just as good coming from the man who called himself “old Ike Eisenhower.” Ike reminded the ‘South how ‘wonderful America is. Breathing the confidence with which he used to inspire GIs and generals alike, Gen, Eisenhower roared to the sweating throngs that “America CAN do it. America CAN take the lead. There is nothing we can’t do if we approach it right.” The South cheered-itself hoarse.

STATE DEPARTMENT . . . By James Daniel International Claims Commission Sets New Record for Slowness

WASHINGTON—The State Department's International Claims Commission is’ moving like molasses in January to distribute the $17 million it obtained from Yugoslavia to pay back Americans who lost their property in the Communist shakeup. : The three $15,000-a-year Commissioners took office two years ago—after State Department spokesmen had assured Congress that it would take only two years to do their job. So far, they've apropved one claim — for $7500—and tentatively turned down 261 others amounting to nearly $12 million. But this is only a dent in their work. A recent count showed 1511 claims— totaling $151 million—on file. The commission originally was set up to op-

‘erate of 3 per cent of the total $17 million—

meaning that each claim finally approved would be reduced 3 per cent to cover the cost of distribution. But this fiscal year’s operations will use up the last of the $510,000—which is 3 per cent of $17 million. And last spring, the commission asked Congress to raise the expense allowance to 6 per cent. Congress ignored it. Next year, the commission will repeat the request. .

Spending Too Much Money

THEN IT will be a choice of nicking the potential beneficiaries of the fund some more, or loading part of the commission’s costs on the U. 8. taxpayers. One of the three commissioners, Roy G. Baker, thinks the commission is moving too slow

and spending too much money. He told a Senate

Appropriations Committee that his colleagues, Chairman Josiah Marvel Jr. and commissioner Raymond S. McKeogh, former Democratic Congressman from Illinois, “. , . feel that they are obligated to go into these claims and adjudicate them on the same basis as tions are made in the courts. I think it is utterly impossible and unrealistic . . . you have to temper legalism with a little practicality.” In House appropriations hearings, Congressman Prince H. Preston Jr. (D. Ga.) asked Chairman Marvel whether the three commissioners ever help the staff “screen” the claims applications. Mr. Marvel: “No, the commissioners do not do that.” Mr. Preston: “What have the commissioners been doing while all of this has been going on for a year and a half?” Mr. Marvel replied they had “made agreements” with the Yugoslavs, “reached understandings” with British and Swiss commissions also settling Yugoslav claims, and “faced” budget problems. ° Through a peculiarity of the Claims Com-

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mission law, the three commissioners don’t have to devote full time to their jobs. Chairman Marvel has a law ‘office in Wilmington, Del., and a nominal partnership in Paul V, McNutt's law firm in Washington. He says Con apparently did not regard the Claims Comission as permanent, and so it didn’t stipulate the usual ban on outside employment. Or perhaps, he said, Congress felt that such a restriction would make it hard to get topnotch men as commissioners.

TSI ——— Hoosier Forum “I do-not agree with a word that you

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I have just returned from a trip reaching from Fargo, N. D., to Key West, Fla. I listened to people talk and I've come to the conclusion that it is not a question of who B Io} be elected president but how badly Ike gets cked. >

Unless Gen. Tke quickly makes peace with

Sen. Taft and adopts Taft's foreign policy, and places the Senator at the head of our State Department, the Deweyites will receive the licking of their lives. rn Indeed, it looks as though smart Adlai Steve enson may adopt Sen. Taft's foreign policy in principle and blandly walk away from little Harry and Ike and let them hold the bag. Shrewd Adlai knows, as did Sen. Taft, that the Juople want Taft's foreign policy and will go or it. Chas. C. Zohrer; Elkhart.

"SPELL OF LOVE’

A waterfall, a summer night . . . a million stars on high . . , two limpid eyes that realize + + « 8 kiss and then a sigh . . . a scented breeze, a willow tree . . . that wept with happiness... a wind-blown curl, a go girl. . . a dream in silken dress . .. a silver moon plays peek-a-boo . . . with lovers they spoon ... a cricket calls, a rosebud f . 6 g two hearts in tune . .. a whispered word, another kiss . . . a most wonderful feeling . . . a velvet meadow was the floor . . . and heaven was the ceiling. - ~Ben Burroughs.

CAMPAIGN ISSUES . . . By Oland D. Russell Japanese Get Set for First Free Election

* WASHINGTON—The State Department denial that the United States and Britain are considering military measures to prevent Red control of Iran should not be taken by Stalin as an invitation. Russian invasion of Iran probgbly would result in world war. : It is assumed here Stalin knows this. That is the accepted explanation of his restraint so far. There is no evidence that he plans such a direct attack soon. If he should attack unexpectedly, he probably would sweep across Azerbaijan and the northern provinces quickly. The Iranian garrisons are no more than ill-equipped token forces. The peasants fear Russia. They have no love for their absentee Iranian landlords and little loyalty to’ the Tehran government. Stalin’s agents are numerous and well-placed; his Tudeh Communist Party is large .and active, eh ~ ~ - BUT THE United Nations fs a barrier. The United Nations, though it was an infant in 1948, was "able to force withdrawal of Soviet troops from Iran and the consequent

fall of the Azerbaijan satel- .

lite regime. In event of a Soviet invasion now, the U. 8. and Britain would invoke the United Nations. That might not start a world war at once or in Iran. The Allles—upon whom the United ons must depend for ensercement measures — perhaps

*. would pick their own time and

place for retaliation. But a world war would be almost impossible to avoid. Iran could not be isolated like Korea, because Russia would be directly involved and the entire strategic Middle East at stake. These possibilities, however, are not the immediate concern of Washington and Léndon. What worries them now i8 ine

direct aggression—=Soviet conquest by “civil war” and without Russian troops. That Stalin method succeeded in China, al most succeeded in Greece, and has not yet failed in Korea, Indo-China and Malaya. It might work well in Iran. Most of the conditions are favorable. A major exception is the extreme antiforeign attitude of the Iranian people, and their distrust of the Tudeh party as a Stalin stooge. But the fact that the Chinese and North Korean peoples distrusted Russia merely delayed the Red conquest which it could not prevent. ” : 3 - IN GENERAL, Iranian conditions are more favorable to the indirect Stalin technique than they were in China and elsewhere. Living standards are lower, social conditions are worse, the government and its armed forces weaker, Added to this is the stupidity of a Mossadegh dictatorship which thinks it can play Russia against the Allies and conspire with the illegal Communist Party, as it has in the past, without getting caught. So long as the Nationalist dictatorship is digging its own grave, Stalin may well bide his time. That is what he appears to 'be doing. The hope here—and it is dim at best—is that Mossadegh even yet and before too late may save his’ country by a Western settlement based on the Truman - Churchill proposal, American-British military intervention to prevent an inside Communist coup probably would do more harm than good —even if adequate forces were available. It would drive

the antiforeign Iranians into _

the Communist camp, increase the suspicions of other Middle East nations and give Stalin an excuse for invading Iran as a “liberator.”

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TOKYO—With less than a month to go, Japanese political parties this week began feverish preparations for the greatest free-for-all rough-and-tums= ble election in 63 years of popular vote, : The election Oct. 1 should afford the first free test of the people's will since Japan’s orig-

inal general election in 1890,

In the old days, feudal clans or militarists—mostly the latter—dominated Japan's voting. After World War II, the American occupation had an influence on elections. But this time, the people at last can express themselves freely on the many issues that have arisen since Japan signed the Peace aty a year ago in San cisco and, on the surface, lined up with the Western d against Soviet imperialism. ® = ” THE ONLY drawbacks are (1) time is too short really to bring out the issues for the fullest debate and (2) at the moment, personalities overshadow issues. » Nevertheless, the people will make known their feelings by choosing 466 representatives in the Lower House of the Diet from some 1400 candidates to be entered by a half-dozen political parties, including the Communists. So the elections are bound to be a weathervane of sorts. For instance: How do the people feel about politicians who were banned from public

‘life for helping lead Japan into

its disastrous war?" Since the occupation, they've been depurged by the hundreds. Now por nearly a fourth u ‘trying for comebacks. them will be pitted new post-war ‘“‘demoleaders fighting to retheir newfound influence. : sy

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Some depurgees are boasting about it,-others trying to keep it quiet. But mostly to have been classified as a war criminal is' a mark of distinction, At least two of the three leadIng contenders for the next Premiership are former “war criminals,” belatedly whites washed by the occupation powers. These are Ichiro Hatoyama, who led a powerful group in a party split away

.from Premier Yoshida's Lib-

eral Party, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, leader of the Progressive Party, the biggest rival to the incumbent Liberals, peasant in figure ntly in the mes but there's Sampaien me-toolsm on this that itm hardly get a clear-cut test. All eading groups favor rearming Japan, though they've been "evasive on how y'd get around the Constitution's famous Article Nine, thrust on them by the Americans, which forbids Japan ever again: to have an army or navy. » - n

ONLY the Communists and left-wing Socialists oppose rearming, swhile the right-wing Socialists want to put it off until living standards are raised. But by now, practically all realize that if they're ever to get rid of the American garrison forces, they must revise or bypass the Constitue tion and build up their own defenses., Trade with Red China and, Russia so far has been soft pedaled as a campaign issue,. but it's bound to flare up. Big

' business and industrial groups

naturally want conservative government and they plan to spend “millions in a short and they'll want the San Tu e wan t to go Alou to develop Japan’s foreign trade. They're not choosy about where the

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