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Big Men Come Out
'On Foreign Affairs
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON —f/P>— It's when
we get into the foreign field that
the Mr. Big Parade really begins
* In Waiiitngton.
If President Truman asKs Con
gress to approve a foreign program
he’s worked out, you can sit in (To
peka and call the shots.
His first team — the State De
partment, Army, ambassadors and
so on — beats it up to Congress to
plug for the program.
There's nothing strange about
that. Congress would want to hear
their say-so, whether or not they
wanted to go.
It would be st
range, though, if
one of the team
crossed up his
boss, Mr. Truman
and tore of '
* one
the programs to
pieces.
You don't
that happen
ten. And
>, a * ood reason ,or
that. Most of the team probably
helped him put the program toget
her In the first place.
So the members of the team mar
ch up to the Capitol day after day,
nod their heads “yes," and speak
their pieces, get their pictures ta
ken, and go back to work.
It’s the foreign program which
always seems to bring out the big
gest boys in Washington.
Take the arms-for-Europe pro
gram. Mr. Truman dropped that
into Congress’ basket Jully 25 and
asked for $1,450,000,000 to pay for
it. This was pretty hot.
That arms program had been one
of the most talked about things
in Washington for months. Every
one knew Mr. Truman was getting
ready to hand it to Congress. It
was Just a matter of when.
. And it became clear before the
message reached Congress at nil
that there'd be some opposition to
it. The arguments ran like this:
Mr. Truman was asking too much
money for it: or he shouldn't have
too much authority in using the
♦ money; or there shouldn't be such
a program at all.
So Mr. Truman was going to
have a bit of fight on his hands
to get It through.
There'd have to be hearings be
fore the congressional committees
which, after hearing a lot of wit
nesses, would draw up bills fpr the
House and Senate to vote on.
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But It goes right to the heart
of our foreign relations. So the’
Senate's Foreign "Relations Com
mittee thought It ought to hand
le the hearings.
The two proud committees fin
ally solved this one by turning
themselves Into a combined com
mittee for the hearings on this one
program Alone.
They began to get ready for the
hearings. But the House Foreign
Affairs committee beat the Sen*
ate's combined committee by st
arting hearings of its own first.
Once more the big parade moved
up to the hill to put In a plug for
Mr. Truman’s program and one by
one the following testified before
the House committee or sent a
statement to It:
First, Secretary of State Acheson;
then Secretary of Defense Johnson;
then Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Army
chief of staff; W. Averell Harri
man, roving ambassador for the
Marshall Plan In Europe; Lewis
Douglas, ambassador to Greece.
General George C. Marshall, fo
rmer secretary of state, was asked
to testify by the committee and he
did, In favor of the plan.
And then Acheson and Johnson
began repeating their rounds by
testifying beforeAh closed session
of the Senate’s combined dbmmlt
tee.
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Be GriffinRadioHamsMay Important Defense
Oriffin’s amateur radio opera
tors may play an important part
in the nation’s defense in case of
war.
Now before the Bureau of the
Budget in Washington is a bill to
permit expansion of the Army-Air
Force military amateur radio sys
tem from 1,000 military reserve me
mbers to all the 78,000 civilian am
ateur radio operators and naval re
servists in the nation.
Mars, as the system is called,
was started by the Air Force and
Army last December under an au
thorlsation to use military equip
ment wherever practicable in the
training of Mars members in mili
tary communications.
Membership, which is voluntary,
now Is limited to active and re
serve members of the Army, Air
Force, and National Guard who
hold amateur radio operators' lic
enses issued by the Federal govern
ment Communicatlons Commission
or by an overseas commandant.
Since December about 700 Army
reservists and 300 Air Force re
servists have enrolled in the pro
gram.
Licenses Issued
But the FCC has issued licenses
to about 78,000 civilians who talk
to their “ham” friends all over the
world from the home made type to
expensive and elaborate contrap
tions.
The bill would permit civilians
holding FCC licenses to tune in
their “ham” sets on the military
frequencies and take part in the
training.
It would permit the armed ser
vices also to distribute to civilians,
as well as reservists, a war surplus
stockpile of radio equipment, worth
about $20,000,000 when new.
The armed services want the
Mars organisation extended for
two reasons:
1. To provide a pool of radio men
well-versed in military procedures
who could be called to Immediate
and useful service in manning the
tremendous military communica
tions system that would be neces
sitated in event of war. Training
in radio and its related field, In
cluding radar and guided missile
operation, is becoming more and
more complicated with the devel
opment of more and more electron
ics equipment. ,
2. Ham operators ineligible for
military duty would remain at their
stations and form an integrated
radio defense network to be used
in eve nt of bombing attacks and
other disasters,
Requirements Strict
Military and FCC licenses both
require that an operator be able
to take at least 13 code words a
minute, and have similar techni
; cal requirements.
The Army and Air Force have
set up central stations in the Pen
i • a(?on through which they con
tact stations at the six Army head
quarters throughout the country
; and Mars members every week day.
! Information on the Mars program
and training are sent out over these
two networks.
Mars members can tune in on
both the military frequency for
Mars work and on the regular ama
teur frequency for their round-the
world chats.
The "hams’’ in radio have pro
vided communications in emer
I gencies and many times when com
! merciaI communications were over
I loaded or disrupted.
Before World War II, the Army
amateur radio system operated
I much 88 the Mars P lans t( > °P er -
j ate but on a smaller scale. That
! system was disbanded at the out
break of the war but provided train-’
ed men for the armed services.
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The
By JAMES D. WHITE
AP Foreign News Analyst
(For DeWItt Mackenmle)
Simple rage — on the local and
semi-official level — Is the first
reaction of the Chinese commun
ists to the escape of the British
sloop Amethyst.
This reaction is going to be wor
th watching because dt may dis
close the true temper of the Chin
ese reds over an Issue that Involves
their pride and their future po
llcy.
Their first re
action points, but
strikes no ham
mer blow. It sh
ows signs of hav
ing been compil
ed hastily and
none too expertly.
It was a broad
cast by the Peip
ing radio, heard
in San Francisco by the Associated
Press.
There were two separate Items.
The first was a "news story” from
Nanking by the communist New
China news agency, giving the red
version (and it's a lulu) of the Am
ethyst's dramatic escape. The sec
ond is the agency’s own comment.
The account attributes every
thing to a Gen. Yuan Chung-Hslen,
who is not lndentlfied in what ap
pears to be haste of writing. Later,
in the commentary, the agency
names Yuan as the "commander
I of the people’s liberation at
army
I the Chinkiang front,”
I It was from near Chinkiang that
i the Amethyst escaped. Gen. Yuan
i s apparently the responsible offt
j cer who has to explain how she
got away.
According to the agency, he lets
himself go. The Amethyst, he says,
forced a passing steamer, the Kia
j ngllng, to serve as a shield as she
started her "infamous" escape. The
Amethyst then sank her, as well
as a number of Junks trying
to rescue survivors in the water.
1 Several hundred were drowned, says
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Yuan, who also charges that Brlt
ish naval negotiations for the Anv
thyst's release were merely t,o stall
for time while she prepared to *.«
cape.
“Categorically denied,” U the ter
se comment from the London Ad
mlralty to this whole account.
Yuan is quoted as concluding: I
firmly believe that the people' •
liberation army and people of the
whole country will never forget and
pardon . . . ."
He demands punishment, apology
and compensation from the British.
The agency's commentary Is al
ong the same line, calling for pun
ishment for the capital act of th«"
cruiser <stc> Amethyst." It goes
on to conclude that "The who!*'
course of the Incident profoundly
teaches the Chinese people the vic -
iousness, hypocrisy and shameless
ness of imperialists, no matter w;io
they are.
"The policy of American imperial
ism In China has reaped what it
has sown and British imperialism
will likewise reap what it has sown,"
the agency says,
Such language, In both Items, ui
-threatening but only vaguely so.
It might merit serious concern if
written in less obvious haste and
anger, and in the coherent English
which the Peiping radio usually
displays.
This particular broadcast gets
quite incoherent at times. What R
says is hung entirely on Gen. Yuan
and the news agency. It sounds like
ihe fumbling of a second string pro
paganda crew while the first team
is off for the weekend.
It commits the red high command
to nothing. It leaves no doubt, of
course, as to what its writers think
the high'command, ought to do.
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