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- The Washingfon Notebook
‘ BY PETER EDSON
} NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. — (NEA) — Senator Robert A.
Taft of Ohio, in a Maryland Republican political
rally speech the other day, again made the Yalta
agreement of 1945 a target for attack. At Yalta, said
Taft, Russia was glven a position in Manchuria for
merly occupied by Japan.
This line echoes 8 speech made by Senator Joe
McCarthy at a Young Republican rally in Boston at
the end of June,
So, it what happened at Yalta in 1945 is to be
the pitch for an important Republican campaign
issue in 1952, it behooves every studious voter and
political wiseacre to get out his history books and
start boning up on the subject.
A good oceasion to do this may shortly be pro
vided by release of a new report on Yalta, prepared
by W. Averell Harriman, Mr, Harriman is President
Trunran’s foreign policy adviser and was President
Roosevel’s ambassador to Moscow.
Ambassador Harriman had originally been sched
uled to testify on Yalta before the Senate investiga
tion into the firing of General MacArthur. To short
en the hearings, it was decided not to call him as a
witness. Instead, it was arranged that Senator Brien
Mchilabon of Connecticut would ask Mr. Harriman
for a statement on Yalta.
ONE OF FEW YALTA MEN
STILL IN GOVERNMENT
The Harriman statement was completed before he
went to Iran as President Truman’s mediatok in the
Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. Following Senator Mc-
Mahon’s return from Europe, the Harriman report
was turned over to him. No decision has yet been
mrade on how it will be released. But when it does
come out, the six-year-old agreement may again be
dusted off as a fresh political issue.
Who were the others at Yalta? Fleet . Admiral
William D, Leahy, President Roosevelt's chief mili=
tary adviser, gives the list of prineipals in his book,
] Was There.” Where are they now?
President Roosevelt, Secretary of State E. R.
Stettinius, and Harry Hopkins are dead. James F,
Byrres is now governor of South Carolina. Alger
Hiss is in jail.
Still in the State Department: are H, Freeman
Matthews, now deputy undersecretary in charge of
political affairs, and Charles H. Bolen, counselor,
Both are career foreign service officers and gen
erally admitted to be among the best men in gov
» ermment, But their roles at Yalta were minor, as
was that of Hiss. Bohlen was Roosevelt's transla
tor. Matthews and Hiss were secretary-advisers to
Stettinius. :
Adnriral Leahy is retired and os is Fleet Admiral
Ernest J. King, wartime chief of naval operations.
General George C. Marshall is Secretary of De
fense.
MANY OTHERS ARE RETIRED
Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell, Vice Ad
miral Emory S. Land, Vice Admiral C. M. Cooke,
jr., Major General J. R. Deane and Major General
F. L. Anderson are all retired.
Lieutenant General R. H. Bull is now head of the
National War College. Admiral Lynde D. McCor
mick is now acting chief of naval operations. Lieu--
tenant General John E. Hull is Army vice chief of
staff. Major General Lawrence S. Kuter is com
mander of Military Air Transport.
So, of the top 20 men at Yalta, the eight still in
government are responsikle and reliable men hold
ing position of great trust. The only person Wwho has
sugeested that they all be fired because they were
part of “the Yalta crowd” is Senator McCarthy.
Against the seven retired Armry, Navy and Air
Fource general and flag officers there has never been
the slightest suspicion of disloyalty. In fact, the
best military brains that the United States pos
sessed, then or now, seem to have been assembled
at Yalta,
' As the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they wanted Rus=-
sia brought into the war against Japan. They be-
Yeved that the only way Japan could be defeated
was by invasion of the main islands. They thought
this would be a bloody and costly operation and
they wanted all the Russian help they could get.
. Fleet Admiral Leahy alone, of all this group, is‘on
vecord as having been opposed to bringing Russia
. fimto the Far East war. He was outvoted. And so the
~ “'deal at Yalta was made.
A commander in the field should be given no re
strictions whatsoever. — Lt. General Albert Wede
meyer.
Any man who opposes this undertaking (the pro
posed St. Lawrence seaway) should prepare to
make peace with his Maker, for if (the U. S. and
Canada) are denied steel . . . we must become de
cadent peoples.—Major General Lewis Pick, U. S.
Army chief of engineers.
: Generals in the United States are talking too
much, It s up to the politicians to talk, not the gen
erals. Take Eisenhower, He doesn’t say anything,
and be is regarded wiih high vespect by the Euro
peans.—Dr. Barnett R. Brickner, rabbi, Cleveland,
Ohido. .
The Disaster Relief Fund Needs
Your Generous Help
The press, radio and motion picture screens have
given the citizens of Athens a graphic picture of
the human and material waste left in the wake of
the Middle West flood., The area offices have
helped to fill out the story. The Disaster Relief
Headquarters for this four-state operation tells us
that almost 22,000 families will be looking to the
Red Cross for assistance,
The Red Cross does not pretend to have first hand
knowledge of the destruction outside its chapter
areas, but they do know what happened there. Sel
dom has a flood been so destructive. Hundreds of
homes were swept away, In other sections they are
so undermined and otherwise weakened they must
be razed. Through many parts of those communi
ties the “Condemned” signs form a pattern along
many streets.
Those were the homes of hard-working, good
neighbors. They lived as good neighbors should
live, neither deserving nor expecting the disaster
which has befallen them. They are not hysterical,
nor are they frantic. They are patient and hopeful,
with a great faith that they will receive the help to
which they are entitled.
We are sure that the Red Cross will not fail them
in meeting their disaster-caused needs, whatever
the costs. We want you to know of the greater need
which exists as you tell your neighbors in the com~
munity of the Disaster Relief fund. We feel sure
that could people of this section of the country
actually see what has occurred they would respond
to this appeal generously and immediately. We be
lieve the people of Athens will do so.
Stalin Has Troubles But
We Must Not Relax
After having had his own way, like the neigh
borhood bully, for a long, long {fime, there is a
measure of comfort in some of life’s little problems
that have been plaguing Joe Stalin lately.
The Russian overtures for peace in Korea were
one indication that Joe is not quite as comfortable
as everyone thought.
After that, Marshal Tito, who disinherited him
self from the Soviet family and has had a Russian
gun at his back, more or less, ever since, spoke up
to his erstwhile Uncle Joe in vigorous words about
mass murder and genocide. Tito is still a Commun
ist, but not a Stalin Comnrunist, and he appealed
to the Poles to follow Yugoslavia’s escape from the
Soviet grip.
At the same time, Stalin’s Deputy Premier Molo
tov was in Poland, blasting Tito and trying to scare
any Tito-minded Poles back into line by nabbing
nine high-ranking Polish offieers for treason.
Then some little people got into the act. Some
Polish navy sailors locked up their Red officers and
sailed their mine sweeper into Sweden to get away
from it all. And in Iran, where Soviet agents have
been whooping things up for the oil crisis, an Iran
ian frontier post turned its guns on a Soviet naval
vessel and chase it away.
All these things may be no more than bother
some flies to Stalin. We can enjoy them, but we
cannot relax while we do. We might even see what
we can do about sending more of this breed of flies
in Joe's direction, for even the mighty Stalin can
keep pretty busy brushing things like that out of
his moustache.
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The High Cost Of Defense
If anyone has any doubts about why America’s
defense budget is going to take such a large chunk
out of the national income now and in the imme
diate future, take a look at this bill for an airplane:
s2l,ooo,ooo—each—=for a new inter-centinental
bomber, a jet-age flying machine so complex that
the bomb-sighting device alone will cost $250,000,
The jet age, which is also the atomic age, has
pushed the high cost of high flying into the strato
sphere, right along with the planes. It is a whopping
big bill, but we had better make up our minds to
pay it—and keep paying—until we have bought
ourselves genuine security.
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Bug In This Rug
That leopard-skin rug a GI in Korea sent home
as a souvenir to his folks in Colorado seems to have
stirred up as much fuss as it would have if the
leopards had been alive.
Once the soldier’s parents opened up the package
and let the rug out of the bag, so to speak, the fur
started to fly. Their son's letter said he’d paid s6l
for the rug, which was worth $25,000 and was once
in the castle of a princess. :
The parents wanted to sell it, and the govern
ment said careful, they would have to pay customs
duty. The Korean government said it was a SIOO,-
000 national treasure, and please give it back. The
parents thought they ought to get something in re
turn. 2
Now the customs people have stepped in and im
pourded the rug as Korean governemnt property.
Now the Gl's parents will have to write him that
souvenirs are fine, but not to send any more rugs
that get pulled out from under their feet.
The King of Cambodia put a good-will gift on a
freighter in Singapore the other day to be shipped to
President Truman. We imagine the Republicans
will want to be on hand to watch the reaction when
the President gets the gift along about Labor Day.
It's a live elephant.
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Weekly Bible Lesson
The Abundant Life
By WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D.
JESUS said, contrasting himself
and His mission with those who
come to steal, kill, and destroy:
“I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it
more abundantly.”
Few people realize how greatly
the economy and psychology of
Judaism, and the Christianity
of Jesus, who said He had come,
not to destroy, but to fulfill, were
the economy and psychology of
abundance.
“Be fruitful and multiply,” was
represented as God’s injunction to
the chosen people.
“A land flowing with milk and
honey” was the desirable environ
men of the good society, and the
descriptions of pastoral richness
nd blessedness were such as to
delight the heart of any eager
farmer — pastures clothed with
flocks, valleys covered with corn,
paths dropping fatness, hills re
joicing on every side, singing and
shouting for joy (Psalm 65).
How does it come about, then,
that Christianity, and religion in
general, has been to such an ex
tent represented as on the side of
suppression, repression, denial,
and self-imposed restrictions, even
at times to the glorification of
proverty?
| The fact is familar of the an
}chorite saints, of the more worthy
renouncing the world and its
worldly ways, and the less worthy,
oir utterly unworthy, sitting by
the roadside or at the gates of
'temples, seeking the alms of the
| more normally-living and pros
perous.
The reason for such a perver
sion, if perversion it be, is not
hard to explain. In the ancient
world, as in our modern world,
the corrupting influence of wealth,
and of the spiritually undisciplined
quest of it, with all its incident
temptations, were widely and
deeply in evidence.
It was in the time of Israel’s
greatest prosperity that the deep
est oppression and injustices arose.
The Prophet Hosea complained
(Hosea 10:1) that it was in the
very time of the “luxuriant” (See
the American Standard Revised
Verson) vine that Isreal had in
creased the altars of idolatry; and
it was a such a time that Amos
saw the rightous being sold for
silver, and the poor for a pair of
shoes.
But the glorification of poverty
can be carried to-just as gross an
extreme.
| Restrictions, self-denials, and
disciplines, often stern and unyield
ing, are inevitable and necessary
only as they lay the foundation
for the positive virtues, actions,
and ideals that enrich man’s life
as he discovers the nature of true
prosperity and abundance, and the
meaning of what, ideally we have
called the “commonweal.”
The parable that Jesus told of
the successful farmer (Luke 12:
16-21) is good and important read
ing for every successful man,
farmer or otherwise, of today and
of every day. His success was not
foolish, but he was foolish in his
success.
His mistake, as Jesus said, was
that he lived only for himself and
was not rich toward God. A vital
question that we might well ask
of ourselves is, “How rich are we
toward God?”
The answer to that would tell
both how strong and how weak we
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Reporiers To
Get 1. Q. Tests
By RELMAN MORIN
- (For Hal Boyle)
NEW YORK—The mayor of a
town in upstate New York came
through with an interesting idea
the other day. s :
It was about giving intelligence
tests to newspaper reporters. He
said that if a man failed in the
test, a newspaper should be prohi
bited, by law, from hiring him as
a reporter. The mayor said there
ought to be such a law, and he
asked the city council to write and
enact it.
A couple of things about the
mayor’s idea struck me right
away.
You will notlce that he specified
reporters. He didn’t say whether
the law should be applied to any
body else on the paper. Appa
rently he doesn’t care what kind
of an 1. Q. they have over on the
news desk, or down in the busi
ness office. He doesn’t insist that
the circulation manager should be
able to define the second law of
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thermodynamics—much less give |
the date when it was passed. |
So what’s going to happen? :
A fellow comes into the eity
room looking for a job. He knows
his Binet batting average is pret
ty low. There is only one thing
for him to do, admit it, and say, |
“I'm too dumb to be a reporter, !
but do you need a good city edi
tor?” f
Disturbance I
The other disturbing thing about
the mayor’s idea is that he doesn’t ‘
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specify what kind of intelligence
test should be used on reporters.
There are several, you know,
For instance, 1 hope don't
tse the ink-bh& 'tbst'urfz’sd%t‘
backward children, and, to this
day, I have a lot of trouble with
In this test, they show you an
album of eccentrid shapes and pat
terns. As you look at them, you
are supposed to tell the examiner
what they make you think of. (No
coaching from the audience,
please.)
Actually, the blot looks exactly
like a blot, and nothing else what
ever. However, in a puppy-like
effort to please, you say: “This
looks like three tropical fish
swimming toward a window on the
41st floor of the Empire State
building where there is a meeting
of the !‘riendly Sons of St. Patrick
in session.”
The examiner instantly writes
down in his note book: “Introvert
—hated his maternal grand moth
er—probably has flat feet—intelli
gence, pre-Cambrian or at best,
Neanderthal.”
Then there is the word-test, and
if they require all journalists to
take that one. I am afraid the
carnage will be ferocious. ;
One of my friends, a very good
reporter, too, came back from the
front one ariernoon curing the
last war. He was very excited,
He said, “gee, we had a close
call today. 1 thought sure we
were going te be captured. The
Germans had us completely sur
rounded in a semi-circle.”
Won't Last
He won’t last long, if the mayor
has his way.
But while all of us are over in
one corner fitting blocks together
to qualify as reporters, it might be
a good idea if all the politicians
in the world were taking a dif
ferent kind of test. It would em
brace— ; @
1. A speaking acquaintance with
the eighth, ninth and tenth eom-
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2. The faculty of distinguishing
between black and white,
113, The rability, to speak at least
basic English.
4, A definition of the words
“promise” and “campaign prom
ise."
You understand that, personally,
I'm not worried about my future
even if that intelligence-test law
does flunk me out of the newspa
per business. 4
I have g standing offer of a joh
as mayor.
Autopsy Reveals
Dr. M. H. Soule
Suffered Cancer |
ANN ARBOR, MICH., Aug 7--
(AP)—A University of Michigan
Scientist who killed himself with
snake venom because he couldn't
face prosecution for a petty em
beazlement suffered “continual
pain” from eancer for years before
his death.
An autopsy on the body of Dr.
Malcolm H. Soule, 54, disclosed
Sunday that he had cancer of th
nose and sinus for 12 years and
had undergone several overations
in a vain ajtempt to cure it.
Soule, a world-known authori:
on tropical disease and head o~
Michigan's Bacteriology for 15
years, was fired Friday after a- -
mitting he forged 487.05 in e«-
pense vouchers.
The University’s board of Reo
gents said he would be turned over
to law officers for prosecution.
Three hours later the scientist
was dead. He had used a hypode -
mic needle to give himself eight
injections of snake venom and
morphine. In a suicide note to his
widow, Alma, he explained he
couldn’t bear the disgrace of bo
ing fired.