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An American "International"?
What next in Asia? What should American
policy for the Far East include? Time magazine
in its current issue answers these high-timely
questions with a list of "the most plausible sug
gestions heard last week." Significantly, the re
porter doesn't reveal the sources of this propos-.
td policy, and so we presume it is Time's own.
Here it is: '
1. Send really strong military mission i and
possibly UJ3. troops to Asian danger spots.
Purpose: to help local governments lick com
munist rebellion, to train, supply and lead local .
" armies. -r , , v-
2. Form an Asian high command for these
forces, headed by General Douglas MacArthur,
and including Asians from each country lnvolv- .
ed. : " - .:. - v : -:
1. Prepare a peace with Japan, enabling that
country to resume trade with Southeast Asia,
and to maintain an army.
4. Recruit from the vast reservoir of 'Amer
ican brains and guts a force of men willing to
serve their country abroad, under rigorous con- .
filtiona, put them through tough, practical train- - .
ing, and send them as political and economia :
advisers not only to governments but to in- i
dividual communities In Asia. Put at their dis
posal an EGA-hk fund for practical, short-to-medium
range, aid and construction."
Time then warns that "a lot of careful people,
including Dean Acheson. would object to such
measures because, among other reasons, they
might 'provoke' communist China."
This page can be counted among. the "care- ,
Cul" ones who would Object to such measures
because, not only would they most certainly pro
voke communist "China, they would provoke all
Asiatics, communist and non-communist alike.
Time's Asia policy is a perfect example of
what India's Prime Minister . Tiehru meant
When he protested recently that the Western
powers "continue to make decisions affecting
vast -areas of Asia without understanding the
real needs and mind of the people." .
Time's Asia policy is a plan that uncomfort
- ably resembles the kind of aggression by infil
tration mat we iree nations oi me woria are
fighting against. U calls, in effect, for an Amer
ican "international" complete withTJ5. military
advisers" in every national army and U. S.
political - economic "advisers' in every native
government and village. These Yankee commis
sars would see to it using American money for
persuasian that things in Asia went our way.
The communists call that "dollar imperialism,'
in this case an accurate epithet. - . ; ,
; In addition, Time would have MacArthur head
a military high command for all Asia. The
American general, we suppose, would plan and
direct strategy for our aide just as Russia's Mo
lotov is reported to be directing strategy for the
communists in Asia. joacAnnur presumaDiy
would be given power to deploy American troops
and war material wherever deemed needed, just'
as Moscow's chiefs are said to be able to deploy
Russian and satellite forces to further the Krem
lin's foreign policy. ,
- Perhaps these methods would "work." That is,
- the proposed plan might possibly hinder the
, spread of communism in Asia, and therefore be
considered expedient. (
But it could not bring victory for the cause
of freedom and self - determination in Asia
which is the American cause and the only moral
reason we are today at war in Korea. Asia does
not want to be run by America any more than
it wanted to be colonized by Britain or France
or made into satellites by Russia.
Friendly Hearing J "
The highway commission gave attentive hear
ing to 'the delegation urging the widening of
Highway 99E between New Era and - Salem.
Acheson, Not Johnson, to Be Campaign Target
Of Senate GOP Leaders in Approaching Election
By Stewart Alsep
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22
Some days ago, the republican
congressional leaders reached an
important decision. At a closed
door meeting attended by such
satraps as policy chief Senator
Robert Tart and T
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v u a t , uwi
leader Kenneth
Wherry, It was
decided to base
republican stra
t e g y in the
forthcoming
e o n g ressional
campaign
squarely on an
all - out attack
n Secretary of
5? tat a n at a -n
Acheson.: i .. thJ
At the same meeting, report
edly in response to the pas
sionate pleading of Senator Owen
Brewster, it was decided to "lay
off Brewster's friend. Secretary
of Defense Louis .Johnson. This
appears to be a rather odd de
cision, and it calls lor an ex
planation. Its oddnets derives from the
fact that, it the public record
means anything at all, in the
moaths before Korea Acheson
L was consistently dead right and
Johnson was consistently dead
wrong. It was Acheson, after alL
who repeatedly and rather des
perately warned the country of
the danger of our situation, and
it was Johnson who emaUy con
sistently boasted cf non-existent
American stxeiigth. -
- .-.-.-
It was Acheson who called for
"unity and sacrifice," to "mobil
ize our total resources" in order
to create "situations of strength,"
which would permit a peaceful
settlement with the Soviet Union.
; It was Acheson who warned that
without such an effort, we can
, lose this struggle without a shot
being fired." It was Acheson who
Ajld the senate, early in June,
.that "the only honest answer"
he could. g?Y. was that the cost
Chairman Ben Chandler responded by exyrtss
, ing the concern of the commission over conges
tion on this highway as well as for the other
deficiencies of the state highway system. He
gave assurance that the problem would be stud
ied and indicated that the real question was
where to get money for the work.
The commission-however will surely have , to
act shortly because of the growing urgency of
this improvement. The increasing burden on this
inter - regional highway will force action. The
' work may be done easily by stages, as The
Statesman has previously pointed out. A few
"patches" of four-lane highway could be laid,
initially and then the gaps closed as funds are
available.
The appeal has been made. The commission
will look over its revenues and its previous com
mitments. It seems reasonable to anticipate that
before many months pass a start will be made
on. widening 99E or providing other relief for
this route.
Another suspect in the Klaus Fuchs spy ring
has been arrested.' He makes eight who are
charged with : violating the laws in carrying
secrets to a foreign power. For all the talk about
Reds in the state department here we find they
were boring into the most closely guarded en
terprise the government conducted during the
war: the Manhattan project for developing the
atom bomb. In spite of screening and vigilance
by FBI and the army itself the secrets got out.
Thank goodness Secretary of Defense Johnson
didn't scuttle the whole U.S. navy when he was
about getting rid of that "anachronism." Thus
far in the Korean war, what's left of the UJS.
navy has carried 40,000 men, 500,000 tons of
military cargo and 2,000,000 barrels of petrole
um through the long sea lanes from stateside to
the war theater. This feat has been possible be
cause the Pacific has been our puddle, withjao
enemy subs or planes menacing our ships . .
yet. - . '
Congressman Harris Ellsworth, 'apparently
stung to action by complaints of his constituents
on lack of freight cars, has introduced' a bill to
have the government build cars and hold them
in a pool for assignment to any railroad when
it; needs mora cars. This"looks like "creeping
socialism" to which Ellsworth is strongly oppos-,
ed, but it illustrates the tendency of the times:
when a pinch comes, load the job on Uncle Sam,
Wool growers are in clover. Production this
year will provide only about 30 per cent of the
country's needs in wool, the remainder will
come from imports. There are signs though that
the tide is turning. High wool prices are an in
centive to many to raise sheep. The old law of
demand and supply will have its effect in time.
Token strikes on two short lines and three
railroad terminal companies are real even if
they are set for short duration. The railroad
brotherhood called them to underscore its de
mand for a shorter work week at no cut in pay.
The country can survive this spasm, but wants
to be spared a general and non-stop strike on
its railroads.
Don't be deceived by an August rain. The
winter isn't on us yet There will be more days
of sunshine this fall; and maybe more days
heavy with fire hazard for forests. But the rain
has given a welcome relief from the for us
lengthy hot spelL
If congress has its way, the postman will al
ways ring twice.
of re-arming our allies would
have to be increased.
It was Johnson, appearing be
fore the same senate committee,
who remarked coyly that he had
been "living a little more close
ly" with the military situation
than Acheson, and promised the
senators that his best guess was
that the cost could be reduced in
future about as bad a guess as
any public figure in recent his
tory has made. It was Johnson
who falsely promised the coun
try that we were "obtaining
. greater combat capabilities at
: less expense." . -
Now all Acheson's warnings
have been tragically vindicated.
Now all the falseness and empti
ness of Johnson's - boasts have
; been tragically revealed. Yet it
is Acheson, not Johnson, who is
to be the republican target. Why?
For one thing, of course, like
any secretary of state, Acheson
has made mistakes. It is true
that by the , time Acheson be
came secretary of state, nothing
. short of the intervention of
American troops could have
saved the Nationalist regime In
China. Yet it is certainly also
true that by authorizing the re
lease of the white paper on
China. Acheson accelerated the
Nationalist collapse, which cost
the west invaluable time in Asia.
This war his worst mistake,
but Acheson has made others
although the famous National
Security Council paper writing
Korea off as indefensible crii
nated in the defense department
rather than the state department.
But the fact is that the republi
can strategy has very little to
do with - Acheson's policies. It
springs from other sources.
One of these, ef course, is
what has been interpreted as
Acheson's defense of Alger Hiss
and however, laudable Ache
son's motives may have been, this
certainly left him wide open to
attack. Another source is Ache
son's personality. It is not only
that Acheson's obviously super-
tor intelligence enrages the prim
itives of the stripe of Senator
Wherry. It is also true that
Acheson's rather frigid manner
has Irritated many people in the
; congress and the country. What
Is more important, Acheson, un
like Johnson with his American'
Legion background, has no pro-
. tecttve. political base.
- ....
Moreover, Acheson does not
: enjoy one major' Johnson asset
a total absence of principle.
Acheson has given strict orders
to all his subordinates not to
. criticize Johnson in any way. At
the same time, it is no secret
that Johnson has deliberately
embarked on a campaign of dis
tortion designed to undermine
Acheson's position. While he has
' been commiserating with all and
sundry about Acheson's "timid
ity," Johnson has also shrewdly
reversed his position. He now
talks to congressmen about a t9
. billion defense budget next year,
and more than hints that a gen
eral war is probably inevitable.
- Thus Johnson hopes to cover up
the tragic failure of his "econ
omy" program.
Johnson also has close connec
tions in the sort of business cir
cles which deeply influence (to
put it mildly) men like Brewster
and Wherry. Moreover, men of
Wherry's stripe are themselves
wholly vulnerable. Wherry, for
-example, as recently document
. ed in this space, has consistently
Joined Vito Uarcantonio in vot
ing the straight commurist line
on foreign and strategic issues,,
which perhaps explains why he
places blame for the bloodshed in
Korea "on the shoulders of Dean
Acheson" rather than on the
shoulders of Josef Stalin. Thus
for a combination of me lives,
most of which are exceedix-!y
sordid, we must now expect the
deliberate destruction of national
unity on Am erica an foreign pol
icy, in a time of appalling dan
er. 1
(Cooyriitht. 195ft,
Frbhibitiori
In Sweden
Frohibitivo I
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By Henry HcLemore :
STOCKHOZiM, Sweden, All g,
22 In the United States the an
nouncement of a positive ' cure
for hangovers
I would result in
'the discoverer
.being installed
'in the Han of
Fame Before
sundown and.
before two
weeks were up,
depositing two
or three billion
dollars in his
f
cheeking ac
i count. -
4 . The same dis
covery In Sweden would get less
attention by newspapers than the
outcome of a race between two
kayaks, and the discoverer would -have
to go around begging his
smargasbord from door to door.
You see, there is no such thing
as a hangover In Sweden. An
vils never beat in Swedish heads.
Butterflies never perform their
amaring antics in Swedish stom
achs. The expression "morning
after" here means only Thursday
morning if the day before were
Wednesday or Friday morning if
the day before were Thursday.
There are no hangovers be
cause Sweden has prohibition
without ; calling . it prohibition.
Don't be misled by the word .
"prohibition" because of our ex-
perience with it . There are no
bootleggers here. Sweden's laws ;
have teeth like barracudas, and
no one wants to be bitten by
them. -V
A man is allowed the American
equivalent of one and one-half
jiggers -of spirits between noon
and three o'clock, and it must be
accompanied by at least i two
kroner worth of food. From three
p.m. until midnight he can have,
if accompanied by food, three ,
Jiggers of the strong stuff. In ,
other words, he can have four 1
and one-half jiggers during a
twelve-hour period. .
Women Sweden still consid
ering them the weaker sex can
have just a shade more than one- .
half of that amount. s -.
To see to it that there is no
cheating, all - the places which
serve liquor abound with govern
ment spies posing as guests. In
talking to the owner of what is
far and away the best restaurant
in Stockholm I learned that the
restaurant owners have to pay
half of the salaries of the govern
ment agents, plus half of what
they eat while spying. This same
man told me why there was no
drinking at the bar. The spies
couldnt keep track of what was "
served across a bar, whereas they
are capable of keeping an accur
ate count of what is served on a
tray to the diner.
Let a waiter serve an eye-dropper
too much, and off he goes to 1
Jail. Let an owner have a couple
of waiters go to Jail and he is
minus a license to operate. !
Sweden is. j merciless with
drunken drivers. No one ques
tions that stand.. But one is
forced to question what Sweden
considers a drunken driver, with
a month in Jail and the revoking
of the driver's license for a year
as the penalties.
In Sweden a man would be a
fool to drive a car after having
so much as one cocktail or one .
highball even hours after he
has had the one drink. The
slightest odor of whiskey on a
man's breath Is tantamount to a
jail sentence. i
Two stories Swedish friends
told me will substantiate.
A man gave a party at his
house. He had been saving his
ration of schnapps for months.
He had a few more than the law
allows in public, but was in bed
shortly after midnight and slep
until ten, had breakfast, read the
papers, showered, dressed,9 and
went down to his car to pick up
a friend for a round of golf. - Get
ting in the car, he accidentally
touched the light switch. ! The
lights went on for a second (In
broad daylight, mind you) be
fore he switched them off. A po
liceman happened to see the flash
of the lights. , . i
He went to Jail for a month.
No sober person, the court ruled -on
the cop's testimony, would
turn his lights on during the day.
" Story No. 2: One of the well
known men in Stockholm had
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Your Health
In former years, typhoid fev
er was a scourge which annually
claimed thousands of lives. The
disease was common and often
reached epidemic proportions, es
pecially in warm seasons and cli
mates, due to the eatng of food
or the drinking of water contam- ,
mated with the typhoid germs. .
This killer has now been brought
under ontrol, largely by the ef
fort of public health authorities
and their Insistence on better
sanitation.
Nevertheless, cases of typhoid
still occur today whenever pre
cautions are relaxed. The con
dition is one of the most severe
with which doctors have to deal.
It is an illness which lasts for
weeks, and even those patients
who recover are weak for many ,
months afterwards.
Recently, however, we seemed -to
have gained a potent weapon
against it in the new antibiotic .
known as Chloromycetin. Nothing
else has ever proved effective
against typhoid fever, but reports
on the use of this new drug show
that the temperature subsides
within a week. Typhoid germs ,
are banished from the blood
stream and intestine at the same
time. .This is a startling contrast
ulcers. The doctors said no al
cohol, not even the Swedish ra
tion. He and his wife and a
party of friends left a dinner
party, laughing and joking. He
was stopped two blocks from the
restaurant , The cop said some
one in the restaurant had called
the police station and said a party
of people were leaving in a car
with such and such a . license
number, and that they were
drunk laughing too much for
sober people.
- The man and his party had to
prove to the police that they
hadn't had a drink among them
and that the driver had been on
the wagon for a year. -
That's carrying things too far
to my mind. Give people the
right to hurt other people inno
cent or not and they will. It
provides a sense of power and
power, the desire for it, is maln-
ly what alls the world today. .
This ends today's sermon from
Stockholm. 2 i
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Syndicate. Inc.)
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TO PULL AN "AESOP
Written by
Dr. Hi
N. Bsmdeaaea
to the ordinary six-week course
of the disease and forms a splen
did example of the value of our
new antibiotics in the treatment
of a most serious illness. It is es
pecially gratifying that there
seem to be no untoward effects
from the use of Chloromycetin.
-
It has also proved to be effec
tive in a much milder, but allied
type of infection paratyphoid
fever. The germs belonging to
the typhoid-paratyphoid group .
are all classified as salmonella,
germs which, in still other forms,
art r-nonsih1 for manv cases of '
so-called food poisoning. Though
violent, these illnesses are brief,'
and are usually accompanied by
severe attacks of vomiting and
diarrhea. Here, too, Chloromyce
tin seems to be a sovereign rem
edy. "
' QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
J. W.: Is there any way of get
ting rid of freckles?
Answer: There is not much that
can be done to get rid of freck
les. Various bleaches have been
used, but the pain and irritation
that they . cause are far more
troublesome than .-the freckles
themselves.
(Copyright 1950, King Features)
Bottcr-English
. 1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "She doesen't seem to
understand what I am saying.'
2. What is the correct pronun-
cuuon of "maiefactori'
S. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Propoxate, proprie
tary, proportionate, propinquity.
4. What does the word "scruit-
lny" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with Ine that means casual!
"ANSWERS
L Say, "It seems that she does
n't understand what I am say
ing." 2. Pronounce mal-e-fak-ter,
both al as in at, first e as in
, so unstressed, principal accent
on first syllable. 3. Propagate. 4.
' Close examination. "She endured
his scrutiny lor several -nitwit .'
5. Incidental. .
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tors got in a special provision
to protect tobacco prices.
There's an anti-hoarding pro
vision which would penalize one
who hoards scarce consumer
goods or materials, the punish
ment prescribed being up to a
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Literary . .
Guidcpost .
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' By W. G. Borers
TWO ADOLESCENTS: THX t
STORIES OX, 1 AGOSTINO
AND LUCA, by Alberto Mor
- avia (Tarrar, Straus; $2.75).
The two short novels publish
ed together in this book concern
two boys and their - troubles,
troubles so very different in fact
that love performs opposite serv
ices for them.
Agostlno, 13. is devoted to his
mother, a widow whose recip
rocal devotion is distracted by "
the appearance of a suitor. Two's
a company,-three's a crowd, Ag
ostlno learn bitterly. Since his
mother is able so easily to divert
her attentions from ftim, he ac
cepts all the more readily the
society of some tough youngsters
who live on the beach where
' they are vacationing, and . he
learns in the frankest terms,
with illustrations, about the sort
of love which has been substi
tuted by the suitor for his, the
boy's, own innocent affection.
Luca, who is two years older,
suffering from a , precocious
world-weariness, sets out delib
erately on a path of deprivation
and disillusionment. He will dis-
. sodate himself, he determines,
from everything that had inter
ested him before; instead of par
ticipating, he will become neut
ral; he will let his lessons go, cut
himself off from friends, games
and possessions, and sink into an
anonymity and impersonality and
a sort of disembodied status
which, as he discovers only later,
amounts in effect to death. A
buxom serving maid comes along
to change his mind for him.
Agostino loses something
which life will never replace, yet
he is too young to find in phys
ical love any substitute. Lucas
almost loses life itself and is
drawn back to it by the same
force which Is lacking in Agos
tino's immediate experience. If
there's a moral, it is that love
can be a redemptionary power,
and that it cannot be. The un
derlying psychological .portrait
of the older boy is not wholly
clear to me, but each story is
told with effective directness and
simplicity, and each is disting
uished by some of those mom
ents of vivid, gripping reality
which we expect from Moravia.
The fine translations are by
Beryl de Zoete and Angus Dav
idson '
year in jail and a $10,000 fine.
Final action on this legislation
should be had within a few days.
My guess is that the first use of
the grant of power would be res-
' toration of credit control and al-.
location of materials. The com
merce department may undertake ;
. to allot aluminum, steel' and oth
er commodities in restricted sup
ply. Price and wage controls are
as far off as more war; with
rationing in the rear.
Business will go forward as
usual unless there is another mil-
, itary earthquake to shock us
into real mobilization.
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