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Free Press vs. Dictatorship
- BY ROSCOE DRUMMOND
in The Christian Science Monitor
The past week has brought two events which take
on clearer meaning when viewed together:
1. In Lake Charles, La.,, Judge Bernard Cooke
delivered a 181-page decision acquitting five Louis
iana newspaper men who were indicted on a charge
of “defaming” public officials.
2. In Washington, President Truman asserted to
the American Society of Newspaper Editors that he
has eonstitutional powers to seize the newspapers
and radio networks any time he deemed it in the
national interest.
' Judge Cooke's verdict ought to be conmrpulsory
’ reading in the White House.
“Any eitizen or newspaper has the right to criti=
cize the public acts of officials,” he ruled.
“Without that right, we would have a dictatorial
form of government, and the discussion of import=-
ant public issues would be only such as might be
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| This decision goes to the heart of the democratic
freedoms—ifreedom of speech, of the press, and of
assembly—without which freedoms there can be no
individual liberty, without which freedoms dem
| ecracy would suffocate.
| It took Judge Cooke 212 hours to read his verdict
t in court, and I sincerely believe Mr. Truman could
not spend 2% hours better than by reading it hinr
self.
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Now, # is only fair to note that on the morning
after the President told the editors he had author=
ity to take over their newspapers Joseph Short,
White House press secretary, put out a statement
saying that Mr. Truman did not mean to have his
remark taken seriously.
That is a welcome but not a very reassuring dis
ela.mer.
That the President’s remark was intended to be
jocular is plausible—but that does not make it any
the less ominous. A jesting remark sometimes will
reveal a mran’s thinking more than a carefully cone
trived statement. This nonserious “jest” discloses
the pattern of Mr. Truman’s thinking in the seizure
of the steel industry and any other government
seizures he later might deem appropriate.
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Mr. Truman ought to invite Judge Cooke of New
Orleand to pay him a visit and talk things over.
In Louisiana, the publisher and editor and some
of the staff of the Lake Charles American Press
carried on a vigorous, sustained crusade against the
failure of city officials to enforce the laws against
gambling.
The gamblers and the city officials, for some
, reason, didn’t like the attacks. A grand jury which
fpparently had been called to investigate the gam
bling conveniently got its assignnrent mixed up and,
instead of indicting the gamblers, indicted the
newspaper editors for “defaming” the gamblers and
for criticizing the public officials.
Judge Cooke, who heard the prosecution, in
eficct, threw it out of court. He called an abrupt
halt to this travesty on freedom. He said that if
public officials are to be immune from criticism,
then we are omn the way to dictatorship.
No, T do not think at all that President Truman
iniends te assert that the press should be denied
the right to criticize government officials—whether
in Lake Charles or in Washington. I do not think
that he would wittingly act to erase the Bill of
Rights, rob the people of a free press, and let those
civil liberties essential to democracy go down the
drain.
But these are the clear implications of the Pres=
ident’s statemeni. The fact that he would toss off a
remark about the government’s taking over the
newspapers, without seriously thinking it through,
can hardly be less than shocking. This is where
his remark carries him:
dince the President, without approval by Con
gress, can declare a national emergency, he can by
himself create the condition which would bring
what he considers his emergency powers into play.
Since the President claims that in a national
emergency his “reserve” or undefined constitu
tional powers give him the right to seize any indus
try, it therefore comes easily to him to tell the
editors that he could seiz® their newspapers any=
time he decided it would be in the national interest.
If the government legally can seize the news
papers, then the newspaper editors would be work=
ing for the government and, in the words of Judge
Cooke, no longer would be free to criticize the
public acts of government officials.
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' This is where government seizure of press and
radio would lead.
Mr. Short said the President didn’t mean it.
It isn’t enough for the President not to mean it.
It ought never to occur to a President of the
United States that he could suspend the Bill of
Rights.
With the trained manpower that UMT could pro=
vide, it is not unlikely that we could eventually
reduce the size of our active armed forces mate
rially.—General Omar RBradley.
We wonder how many people are looking forward
to getting broadened and flattened at the same
time. Vacation!
I am absolutely convinced that we are living in
_an hour just before the judgment of God strikes.—
:fly Graham, evangelist.
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Positive Approach Needed so
Pull Korea Talks Qut of Ruf
Nine months ago United Nations negotiators sat
down with Communist spokesmen to begin truce
talks in the Korean war. Probably no such talks
have ever taken so long, or proved so unproduc=-
tive,
Our negotiators lately appear to have been oper
ating under the theory that unproductive talks are
better than no talks at all. Whether this is really so
is a question we and our companions in the UN
ought now to examine seriously.
Realistically we have to accept the fact that we
are in a potentially dangerous position. We cannot
calmly assume that stalemated peace negotiations
are to our advantage, any mrore than stalemated
military operations are necessarily good for us.
It would be pretty foolhardy at this stage to pre
dict glibly that a settlement is in early prospect, or
in prospect at all. If no real agreement is to be
achieved, then what have we gained by this pain
ful process of talking with the Reds?
We have reduced the fighting to a minimum and j
thus cut casualties sharply. Yet that very gain car
ries within it the seeds of danger.
For during this convenient lull the Communists
have built up a strong defensive air force, vastly
improved their anti-aircraft emplacements, aug
mented their regular artillery and constructed de=-
senses in depth. In other words, they have gone far
toward recovering or surpassing the military po-l
tential they had before the UN’s successful smashes |
in the spring of 1951.
Naturally we have not been idle in the field,
either. But it was the UN force that held the edge
when the truce talks began, and there is no longer
any assurance we still would have it. Very likely
the fine fighting trim we were in at that time is a '
thing of the past. [
The Reds needed to negotiate when the talks |
began. Today they continue them because the ma
neuver keeps us in the hole. We can see no great
advantage in talking, yet the alternative of resum
ing full war seems worse, especially under the al
tered circumstances of combat. |
Possibly the current course of continuing appar
ently fruitless talks is still the wisest, But if that is
so, we ought to pursue it positively after exhaus
tive top-level review of the whole Korean problem.
As it now stands, we simply are drifting along in
negative style, improvising from day to day, We
need a fresh approach that suggests more than that
we are just in a rut and trying to nrake the best
of it.
Too much is at stake in Korea to allow policy to
be played by ear by the men in the field, however
competent they may be. If the Xorean war was
worth fighting, it is worth the attention of our top
men today, so that we may determine anew where
we should try to go.
It's Your Money
The trouble with most discussions of taxes and
the national debt is that they take place in the
financial stratosphere. Almost no one can think
logically in terms of tens of billions and hundreds
of billions.
But when the meaning of taxes and the debt is
related to the average man and the average family,
the ominous picture clears. The Bulletin of South
ern States Industrial Council recently did that
when it said, “The public d=bt is $260,000,000,000,
this lays a $6,800 burden on every family in Amer
ica. The interest alone on this debt aggregates
more than $6,000,000,000 annually — or SIBO for
every family. Last year the average family paid
$1,589 in direct taxes and another SSOO in ‘hidden’
taxes. A total of more than $2,000. This year the
‘take’ will be greater.”
“When the $85,000,000,000 budget proposed for
for next year—which is now estimated will create
a deficit of $14,000,000,000—is compared with cur=
rent Federal spending—we find that it will add an
average financial liability—either in taxes or in
creased debt—of $226 for every family in America.”
There it is. We can’t think in billions, but we can
think in hundreds and in thousands, It's your
money. It's coming out of your pockets—and.it will
come out of your children’s pockets. Debt and
taxes are destroying us fromy within. It isn’t a ques
tion of whether we “want” to cut government
spending. We “must” cut it—if we are to survive
as a free people.—Fredericksburg (Texas) Stand
ard.
Soviets Don't Throw Plums
Secretary of State Dean Acheson calls the pres
ent Russian peace offensive the ‘golden apple
tactic.” He takes the name from the Greek myth in
which all the gods except one were invited to a
wedding.
Angered by the snub, the Goddess of Discord
threw a golden apple over the fence, hoping that
the other gods would start a fight over it and break
up the party.
“Several apples have been tossed over the Iron
Curtain this spring,” Acheson told the American
Society of Newspaper Editors meeting in Washing
ton, “Happily,” he said, “they have not produced
the discord.”
‘We now have on our carriers an attack plane
capable of carrying “the big bomb.”—Vice Admiral
John H, Cassidy, Deputy Chief of Naval Opera
tions, ; At
I am endeavoring with every means or device to
utterly destroy it (the Massachusetts Medical So
ciety) in its present form, which is exactly what
should happen.-—Dr. Robert E. Lincodn, who is fac
ing expulsion from the Massachusetts Medical So
ciety for his work in “curing” cancer and other in
curable diseases.
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“A Short Chronology of American History: 1492-1950,” by
Irving 8. and Nell M. Kull; Rutgers University Press, New Bruns
wick, New Jersey; 388 pages, $6.50.
By LEON DRISKELL
For the citizen who is hazy
about historical events in general
and the history of the United
States in particular, & new book
has been released by Rutgers Uni
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invaluable aid. The book is en
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American History: 1492-1850” and
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happening. Not only are included
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the month and the day.
The book has been in the mak
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. It is stated on the attractive
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One of the most attractive sea
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. Dr. Kull has for twenty-five
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editor of the four-volume “New
Jersey, A History,” which was
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hobbies include music and land
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