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The New New Deal
PmcMmiI Truman will find it difficult to ful
fill all the "mandates that voters think they
gave him in the late election; a hard time, too
performing to the degree implied on all the as
surances he Hrrtsolf gave to the voters. The va
ried hopes from peace to profits, ; from high
wages to low living costs, from civil rights to
national security, from houses-for-all to social
gains a big order for one four-year term, big
ger even that Roosevelt was able to satisfy.
Already we are hearing that the president's
program will not be as drastic as proclaimed by
the pundits. Instead of immediate and general
firings of high officials the word (equally un
official) is that Marshall and Forrestal both may
stay on for a time, and if Marshall probably
Lbvett as well.
Civil rights legislation, too, may be watered
down to make it something the southen senators
can swallow without filibustering, maybe anti
lynch and anti-poll tax laws; but not an FEPC.
It is pointed out that the southern conserva
tives will take over many of the important com
mittee chairmanships Senator George finance.
Rep. Doughton wys and means. Sen. McKellar
appropriations. These will be in position to gar
rot a lot of bills they dislike. George has already
expressed his opposition to an excess profits tax.
Then there is the variability that is chracter
istic of the president. Now that he has won his
election he may yield to the urging of his cron
ies and dilute his askings.
All this may be balm to grieving conserva
tives, but it fails to take into account the politi
cal proclivities of members of the congress. Af
ter all. the reoresenta lives must run for re-elec
tion in two years, also a third of the senators.
They are the closest: students of political trends;
and have been sitting up nights since November
X doing home work in anticipation of the next
session. They want their "voting record" to be
ne that will draw voter approval.
Moreover, some able and aggressive persons
nave been elected to the senate and house who
will want to drive through many of the things
that were anathema to the 80th congress. They
have not only a feeling of social urgency but
political ambition as welL And numerous repub
licans, left of center, will put their feet on the
accelerator to speed up the legislative mills.
A better working relationship between the
White house and capitol hill is to be expected
with Barkley as vice president. He may serve
Truman as Garner did FDR in their first term.
So we may safely anticipate a considerable
volume of legislation to establish the new new
deal. It will hardly be spiced with the hostility
to business which marked the first new deal, for
Truman is no enemy of business, in spite of his
berating Wall street; but it will have teeth in it
and will all be geared to social and economic
reform through government control.
Seeger has served Eugene for about four years
as city manager. Observing his work there the
league decided it could use him to work with
all the Oregon cities. Seeger s job will be to as
sist city officials in handling their problems and
to represent the league at the legislative session.
"The league has had to buck its way in some
respects to get established and recognized. It has
a relationship with the University of Oregon
which maintains a bureau of municipal research.
Herman Kehrli has long been director of the
bureau and executive secretary of the league of
Oregon cities. The league is supported by con
tributions from various municipalities.
Opposition to the league developed when it
began its campaign to get a share of state road
funds. It finally won its battle and is now recog
nized both as spokesman for the cities and as a
clearing-house for municipal service.
Seeger can find plenty of work to do as cities
consultant. The problems of municipalities are
many; some of them are acute. One is common
to most all cities: finance. That hard question
got no clear answer at the league meeting in
Eugene last week. There are other problems:
zoning, parking, sewage disposal, airports. See
ger can work among cities much as a county
agent works among farmers, listening to their
woes and worries, giving counsel, advising offi
cials as to practical ways of licking their prob
lems. As city manager in fast-growing Eugene, See
ger has gained a lot of experience in four years.
He has done a good job there and the council let
him go with great reluctance. There is need for
a man of his judgment and experience to assist
Herman Kehrli in work with cities. And when a
man can be got with the fine personality of See
ger, it's a real find.
Cities9 Consultant
The league of Oregon cities is expanding its
staff and has hired Duane Seeger away from
Eugene to become consultant for the league.
The Old Guns Co
Dismantling of the great 16-inch guns in the
harbor of Fort Hancock, N. J., just about com
pletes military recognition that static warfare is
a thing of the past.
For many years, the huge guns at Fort Han
cock and nearby Fort Tilden were regarded as
major defense units for New York. Their 20
mile range was adjudged sufficient to throw a
panic In any attacking force. But they were
stationary a Is the ill-fated Maginot line. They
couldn't prevent planes from landing at their
rear. They couldn't prevent carriers from get
ting within easy flight distance. They couldn't
mow down a parachute army on their flanks.
They would have been of considerable aid to
the Germans at Normandy, however. And they
still could withstand a lot of battering from a
shore-bound enemy in surface craft at sea. So
it Is not to be supposed that the military is in
tending immediately to scrap all such installa
tions on the American coasts.
i Perhaps all the removal proves, for the time
being anyway, is that New York and its environs
are now regarded as sufficiently protected via
air and mobile armament. We hope that status
is reached by our other vital and vulnerable
points soon.
Soviet Funds Go to Encourage Chaos
By Joaevh and Stewart Also
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25
Every reasonably well-informed
person knows that, the Soviet
union gives financial support to
the world com
munist move
ment Yet very
little has been
known of just
how this is
done. It is this
which makes
so 1 n t cresting
the specific de
tails of Soviet
financial r sup
port for. the
French com
which came to
Mrwart
munist party
light during the recent French
coal strike.
Some of the facts were re
vealed a few days ago in the
French assem
sembly by the
left wing So
cialist Jules
Moch, the
French minister
of the interior.
Others have
become avail
able since. The
facts cone ern
the role played
by a peculiar
financial insti-
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Jotwpli AlftO
tution which, is known as "the
Commercial 'Bank of Northern
Europe.
Ostensibly, this is Just a bank
like any other bank. In fact,
ft Is the main channel for money
given to the French communist
party by the government of the
Soviet Union.
It is organized as a French
company, and it occupies respec
table quarters in the Rue de
1' Arcade, In Paris. -However, of
Its 100,000 shares of capital,
99,700 are owned by two Soviet
banks, which means of course
that the bank is owned by the
Soviet government. Its manager
Is a former Russian citizen,
Charles Hilsum, now naturaliz
ed, and it has a select board of
directors, consisting of a Rus
sian, one Ostrovsky, and two
French communists.
The bank is capitalized at only
50,000,000 francs, but it has as
sets in France of 1,000,000,000,
francs. Largely through : this
bank, the Soviet government has
made an investment in the
French coal strike of upwards
of $100,000 a day;
Some of this investment was
made public. The Soviet miners
of the Donbas, Kuznets, ' Ural
and Moscow coal basins, for ex
ample, made a large "voluntary,
popular" contribution in oth
er words they were taxed a
proportion of their wages." Tho
rubles thus collected from the
hard-pressed Russian miners
were then exchanged into francs
by the Soviet government
(which ordinarily guards its for
eign exchange like an anxious
mother) and turned over to the
French communists. The Soviet
satellite states obediently fol
lowed suit, and the total thus
contributed came to a little over
$900,000 in the franc equivalent.
This sum is by no means a
measure of Moscow's generosity,
however. Far larger sums . were
delivered secretly to the com
munist leaders. In certain cases
the details were handled direct
ly between Soviet diplomats and
the French communists. More
often the French communists
drew on the Commercial Bank
of Northern Europe.
These secret transfers were
concealed by the communists by
a simole device. The communists
repeatedly announced very large
donations to the coal miners
from the comrades in other
French unions and labor groups.
In fact, the French workers
were not so free handed. Much
the greater part of these "dona
tions" consisted of drawings by
the communist leaders on the
Soviet-owned bank.
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The fact is, of course, that
the coal strike was in many
ways justified by the desperate
economic squeeze on the French
miners. But this should not be
allowed to obscure the fact that Tr.u0
bank, the Soviet government in
tervened drastically in the in
ternal affairs of France. Tho
coal strike is now over. But in
terms of heavy pressure brought
to bear against the French gov
ernment and the partial wreck
ing of French recovery, the So
viet investment in the strike no
doubt paid off handsomely.
Moreover, similar investments
will undoubtedly continue to be
made in the future. There is
every reason to believe that
Soviet financial support for the
French communists will con
tinue, and that the campaign of
"rotating" strikes, ordered by
the Kremlin for the purpose of
bringing French recovery t6 a
halt, will go on.
The pattern of Soviet inter
vention in the internal affairs
of other countries suggested by
the facts reported above is not
confined, of course, to France.
It is interesting, for example,
that the Commercial Bank of
Northern Europe has had on de
posit in the United States up
ward of two and a half million
dollars. It may be safely as
sumed that the movement of
this money is very carefully
watched. But in a free economy
such supervision is difficult. And
a study of communist finances
made some years ago indicated
that out-size profits allowed
certain businessmen in their fi
nancial dealings with the Soviet
government eventually enriched
the communist party's treasury.
Clearly, this kind of thing is
one of the Soviet Union's most
useful weapons in the cold war.
The only possible American re
soonse is to continue the great
effort to build a non-Soviet
world in which miners will not
starve, and the communist par
ties of the continent, now o
menacing, will become hardly
more than a nuisance, as is the
communist party in the United
States. This effort will not suc
ceed overnight. But already in
France and western Europe
there are signs that it is be
ginning to succeed.
WHAT WILL IT BOIL DOWN TO?
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Editorial
Comment
From Oar Contemporaries
GENTLEMAN DEFINES GULF
There was an obscure but sig
nificant clash between political
philosophies at the United Na
tions social committee, meeting
at Paris to draft a Declaration
of Human Rights.
Delegates from Colombia and
Costa Rica proposed that the
declaration Include the amend
ment: "Every person has the
right to make opposition to the
government of his country di
rectly or through his represen
tatives, chosen by free and per
iodic elections which shall be.
by secret ballot."
The amendment was opposed
by the Russian delegate, Alexei
Pavlov, who pointed out that
the Fascists and Nazis appeared
first in Italy and Germany as
opposition parties.
Inescapably, he was arguing
that opposition parties cannot be
allowed.
It is true enough, of course,
that Fascism and Nazism began
as opposition movements in
Italy and Germany. But It is
Just as true that Fascist sym
pathizers are not repressed in
older and sounder Western de
mocracies, and have not made
a dent. For that matter, it is
also true that Bolshevism began
in Russta as an opposition move
ment. The Soviet delegate,
therefore, can not logically ar
gue, either from Western history
or from his own viewpoint, that
political opposition is of itself
wrong.
The fact that he seeks to do
so, choosing convenient analo
gies, testifies again to the real
formlessness of Soviet political
outlook. Soviet leaders do not
really believe in political prin
ciple at all; what they believe
in is the infallibility of them
selves. Totalitarianism is not
wrong in principle; it is wrong
under a Hitler, right under a
Stalin. Repression is not wrong
in principle; it was abominable
under Mussolini, right and pro
per under tho Russian secret
police.
What is emerging is a sort of
Slavic neo-Puritanism, substi
tuting a militarized oligarchy
Hollywood
On Parade
By Howard C. Heyn
HOLLYWOOD -JPy- Two
hours with Liza be th Scott pack
a terrific wallop. '
Her is th most intense star
In glamorvill. She charms you
and knocks you out at th sam
.time.
If she describes her home
aquarium, you feel as if you had
been socked in the eye with a
handful of wet fish. Under the
spell of her imagination, tiny
tropical marine pets become my
sterious, colorful creatures in a
strangely fascinating world.
Lizabeth, the day I saw her,
had arisen at 6 a. m., worked on
the set until 6 p. m. (with ward
robe fittings between scenes),
rushed home to change into
dungarees and a cotton blouse
for th stern clergy. Man in
th mass is incurably predispos
ed to evil and error. Given th
chance and he will embrace
heresy; therefore he must not
be given the chance. As to
rights and wrongs, once a gov
eminent is convinced that its
own intentions constitute th
highest - right, it concedes no
wrong in whatever means be
come necessary to accomplish
them. Since every manifestation
of the Russian government clear
ly shows that this Is its view
toward its own people, it is
foregone conclusion that they
regard all other peoples as pro
per candidates for th same
treatment.
For more than a century and
a half, the Atlantic Community
has been proving exactly th
opposite thesis that man be
comes mora and more trust
worthy, that free communication
is far less an agency of heresy
than for its recognition and re
jection. The Atlantic Commun
ity now, finds itself up against
men who see nothing grotesque
in arguing that the world should
underwrite a totalitarian, im
mune oligarchy in a document
dedicated to "human rights
That is th measure of the gulf
between the East and the West.
(San Francisco Chronicle.)
and dashed back for a dinner
interview.
A shrimp cocktail, a $4 steak,
baked potato with two orders of
chives, mixed green salad and
several cups of coffee only ad
ded fuel to the flame.
Even th rugged Victor Ma
ture Is Impressed. "She isn't as
big as Boulder dam, but she's
just as solid."
Ambition, a dynamic ambi
tion, propels her. However, fev
erish the pace, sh thoroughly
enjoys being a movie celebrity.
Th blond hair, th husky
voice, the gesturing, the hand
on your arm for emphasis, the
flaring nostrils all are reminis
cent. TaDulah Bankhead, whose
understudy ah one was, un
doubtedly had lots to do with
setting Scott's course. .
Despite her effusiveness on
first meetings or perhaps be
cause of it Lizabeth makes
friends slowly. She has few inti
mate companions. Becoming her
close friend, says Burt Lancas
ter, is "a long stretch at hard
labor.-
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Thaiiksgiving
Day Popular as
Qari Birthday
LONG BEACH, Calif, Nov. 25
WV If certain family group in
this city should 'make too big an
occasion out of future Thanks
giving days, you'll know they're
the Smith - Sullivan - Schlotz
hauer clan.
Born this Thanksgiving morn
ing was i six pound, 11 ounce
Bruce, son, of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles L Schlotzhjuaer.
On his j mother's side he has
two aunts j Ruth and Vera Smith,
14 and - 12 respectively, of this
city, and great aunt, Mrs. Letha
Sullivan, 38, of nearby Clear
water. All were born on various
Thanksgiving days.
Like his relatives, Bruc will
mark his first turkey day with
a strict milk diet.
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Literary
Guidepost
By John I Springer
The City and the Tsar: Peter
the Great and the Move to the
West 1848-1782, by Harold Lamb
(MacMillan; $4.50).
The story of Russia begun la
Lamb's The March of Musco
vy is continued here for more
than another century as the Ro
manovs enter the vast scene,
stride madly across it, and leave
It to Catherine th Great
In 1648 Alexis, son of the Mi
chael Romanov who was called
to be the Great Prince of Mos
cow and Tsar of All Rus, took
the wife Maria selected by his
advisers, lost her after she
bore him six buxom daughters
and two near - Idiot sons, and
was married again to a com
moner, Natalia, mother of Peter
th Great
Feodor succeeded his father
Alexis, and his redoubtable sis
ter, Sophia, with "hairs on her
face and tumors on her legs,
succeeded, him, and then came
Peter, a young giant, stupid,
says Lamb, a sort of roughneck,
interested in weapons, learning
early to drink, lounging along
th waterfront and fascinated by
boats.
But by the accident of birth,
th incalculable resources of
two worlds, Asiatic and Europ
ean, dropped in his lap. His sub
jects, either at the Romanov be
hest or in flight from Romanov
anger, drove into Siberia to
drain it of its wealth In furs;
and wer taxed to support a
fleet and the armies that dealt
a resounding blow to Sweden's
Charles XII at Poltava and suf
fered a terrible defeat on th
distant Pruth.
Lamb doesn't pretend that his
picture of Peter is definitive. 1
But at least we can now forget
ToltahVs Idealized portrait of
the humble Romanov carpenter-
ing In Holland. Peter didn't
know his own mind, didn't per- 4
haps have a mind. He threw his '
tremendous weight around I
blindly, well . lntentioned It '
iwmi but uninformed; he broke '
into Europe, or anyway let Eur;
opeans break Into Russia. The
misery which be permitted his l
people to suffer, th lust that '
surrounded him with illegiti- ''
mate offspring, th rages he in
dulged, the i ferocious punish i
ments be Inflicted on his ene
mies, the illimitable and, unbe-
llevable confusions of his chao I
tic century, whether they pro j
vide us with a lesson, provide ;
us with an exciting book. I
Lincoln The IL W. Ashfords I
were hosts at a Thanksgiving din- f
ner with th guest list Including i
Louise Anderson, George Strach- '
an, Ed Wildfong, Jason and Gene-
vieve Ashford, all of Oregon '
Stat college, Grac Ashford of '
Willamett university, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank DV and Linda and
Frank Ashf ord
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