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On, TJ. SHOO
EISENHOWER, TAFT AND THE U.N.
Our Immediate reaction to Senator Taft's Cincinnati
speech, delivered in absentia from a hospital, was that
. Taft was possibly speaking after a prearrangement with
the president to give our feet dragging allies a warning
of what might happen if they continue their uncoopera
tive attitude. It might have been a shrewd strategem,
except that Eisenhower doesn't play the game that way.
Any lingering doubts of collusion were quickly dis
pelled by Eisenhower Thursday. The president accepted
the Taft expression as a challenge to his leadership and
replied bluntly that he disagreed with the Ohioan, who
has never gotten too far away from his former isolation
Ism. ', -
. Eisenhower pointed out
with our allies in the Far
where, that if we part company and adopt a lone wolf
policy In the Orient we must do It everywhere and Jive
In a Very dangerous world in isolation from those we
would like to have as friends, . .
The president made it clear that the policy of the ad'
ministration will be to continue to try to work with our
allies and to use the machinery of the U.N. in the Korean
negotiations. This, we are
now and for some time to
But we dare not ignore the self-evident fact, and we
are sure Eisenhower doesn't, thnt cooperation must be a
two-way proposition, that the U.S. can't do it all, carrying
the bulk of the load and absorbing a growing stream of
abuse from those we are trying to help.
If British and French politicians continue to pander to
their Russian sympathizing leftists and the neutralists,
- whose attitudes will lead to the same -consequences as
those of the communists, then the slender thread that
now binds these countries and the U.S. together is going
to snap and we'll have a divided western world whether
any of us want one or not
II this happens boviet Kussia will have won a new
victory comparable with the conquest of China without
the loss of a single Russian soldier. Red domination of
Europe to the English channel and possibly beyond will
soon become a fact, and Africa will soon follow Asia and
Europe into the vast Soviet ruled realm which will then
comprise the whole eastern hemisphere.
The United States will then be isolated indeed, but our
Isolationists won't be happy with the realization of their
dreams, for this will soon become a nightmare. Russia
will move on Latin America and probably prevail there,
too, driving us back into North America north of the
Rio Grande while Russia occupies points close enough to
our shores to bring all our cities under bombing range
while she "negotiates" with us for one further ''conces
sion" after another, with our destruction the price of
failure to comply.
Actually the United States faces a terrible danger in
the prospective loss of her allies, of which we are sure
the administration is fully cognizant. Taft may have
spoken too soon and the effect may be to widen the
breach, which we are sure was not his purpose. But he
did put his finger on a growing crisis which if not sur
mounted threatens the U.S. with the worst disaster in its
history.' ... . ' :
However, what Taft suggests should be the last, not
' the next resort, done only if it really develops that we
can't work with our allies. If this happens we must be
prepared to go it alone, but make no mistake, it'll be a
grim course with a war for our survival the almost cer
- tain consequence. '.
BUT RUSSIA'S ARMY STAYS ON
Moscow has announced the abolition of Russian mili
tary control in East Germany but there is no sign of the
withdrawal of their 300,000 troops, nor is there likely
to be. There never has been in any other of the satellite
countries dominated by Russia.
A civilian commissar will be placed in charge of East
Germany policy following the dissolution of the Soviet
control commission and Vladimir Semyenov, political ad
visor on German affairs, will take on as "high commis
sioner." General Vassily I. Chulkqv, hero of Stalingrad, who has
been both commander of Soviet troops and chief of the
central commission in East'
commanding the troops. ;
Semyenov will represent
and Moscow stated, see to
ities carry out 1945 Potsdam agreement with the three
allied Dowers and maintain
In this action the Russians are belatedly imitating the
Americans, British and French who established civilian
control in West Germany in 1949 when Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer Bonn government
has high commissioners in West Germany but when the
Eisenhower army pact and peace contrnct is ratified,
they will be converted to ambassadors to a sovereign
atate.
In the past Semyenov has
tical adviser to Hen, vnssuy i. muiicov, wno now win
be responsible only for military strategy, at least acord
Ing to the Russian announcement.
Rumors have been current for more than a year thnt
Russia might pull its troops out of Germnny and sign a
peace treaty with the communist-dominated East Ger
man regime.
' The Russian move in East Germnny might be a prelude
to such a far-reaching policy maneuver. But top Ameri
can diplomats believe Russia would not attempt this until
a powerful East German army was trained and equipped.
Moscow is believed only halfway through this task, al
though the pace has stepped up in recent months.
The Kremlin will probably keep the allies guessing as
usual on the next move but it can be counted on to
annex East Germany when the time is ripe which will
be when the allies dissolve alliance in the growing dis
cord. G. P.
WHO'S LAUGHING AT WHO?
What a chuckle our climate conscious friends in south
ern California must be enjoying at the the expense of the
poor old Willamette valley as May nears its close. We've
been deluged with an unwanted continuance of "Oregon
mist," while they got a good dose of snow.
that we can't part company
East and work with them else
confident, is sound policy, lor
come.
Germany, will be limited to
Russian interests in Germany
it that East German author
liaison with other powers,
was set-up. The west still
served in Germany as poli
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ike Headed Off Separate
'Big Three' Without U. S.
r
EY DREW
Washington The Inside story
of how President Eisenhower
happened to call the big three
Bermuda conference indicates
that if he hadn't called it both
the French and British were
ready to sit down in a confer
ence of their own with Malen
kov. . "
Seeds for the conference
were originally planted in Par
is during the recent NATO con
ference, though the seeds were
planted In reverse and not by
the United Slates. They cam
about as a result of the cool,
but polite, brush-off given the
British by Secretary of State
Dulles, Secretary of Pefense
Wilson and Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey when the
British sought to discuss trade
and economic problems. i
The French also became
alarmed over the aloofness of
Eisenhower's three top cabinet
members on the subject of for
eign aid. Despite all the talk,
about continuing European de
fense, they knew that Europe
couldn't get better defense for
less dollars. French pro-American
leaders were also concern
ed over the way French social
ists were teaming up with
French communists.
As a result, the French cabi
net held a meeting on the week
end of May 9 and decided
France should take the lead in
calling a big four conference
with Malenkov, Churchill, Els
enhower and Mayer participat
ing.
Premier Mayer Immediately
advised Churchill of this deci
sion, also sent word to Eisen
hower. This, incidentally, was
prior to Churchill's speech pro
posing a big four conference.
Meanwhile, Eisenhower had
been In touch with both Churc
hill and Premier Mayer. He
had phoned Churchill prior to
his speech before the American
Society of Newspaper Editors,
had also advised Mayer of the
general nature of his speech.
All in all, Eisenhower had two
phone conversations with
Churchill and exchanged half
a dozen letters, in which he
consistently opposed a big four
conference.
IRKED OVER McCARTIIY
Finally, on May 20, Eisen
hower became indignant over
the trans-Atlantic furore lashed
up by the McCarthy . Attlce
statements and decided some
thing must be done to save An
glo . French - American friend
ship so rapidly going down the
drain.
That day he discussed the
problem at a national security
council, then went out for a
round of golf. After golf he
had dinner with Bob Cutler,
tne Boston banker now on
Ike's staff; C. D. Jackson, ex
Fortune publisher who is White
House adviser on psychological
warfare; and "Beetle" Smith,
undersecretary of state who
served as Ike's chief of staff
during the war.
At dinner, plans were dis
cussed for a big three confer
ence to prepare for or perhaps
veto a subsequent big four con
ference Malenkov to be the
fourth conferee.
After dinner, Ike put in a
call to Churchill. By that time
tt wrs about 2 a.m. In London,
but knowing Churchill seldom
goes to bed before 3 t.m., Eis
enhower figured he would still
be up. He wa. And he okayed!
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the idea of meeting In Ber
muda.
Eisenhower afco communi
cated with the French, Includ
ing Ambassador Henri Bonnet,
whose wife sometimes plays
bridge with the president-Bonnet
also gave approval to the
conference, but suggested first,
that since French leaden were
scheduled to visit Turkey about
June 17, it would be better to
hold the conference later in the
month; second, since the French
cabinet might fall next day,
Bonnet urged that announce
ment of the conference be made
early next morning,
The announcement was made
as 'requested, but not early'
enough to prevent the down
fall of Premier Mayer. ,
Note: Elsenhower Is opposed
to a fixed agenda at Bermuda,
wants the agenda to include the
world. The French and British
feel that the subjects to be dis
cussed include: Korea, Indo
China, Austria and Germany,
and, most delicate of all, a UN
seat lor Red cnina.
IRATE CHARLEY WILSON
Secretary of Defense Wilson
has been clamoring for the
scalps of the air force officers
who put an "official" air force
statement into the hands of
democratic Congressman Sam
Yorty of California, thereby
contradicting Wilson's own ver
sion of the recent budget cuts.
Inside story is that the state
ment was not intended to be
"official" but was put together
in response to a telephone re
quest from Yorty to the air
force legislative office on Capi
tol Hiu. This is the office which
handles all queries from con
gressmen
The officer who complied the
answer to Congressman Yorty
was Mai. Robert Ginsburgh,
However, it contained only un
classified, nonsecret informs
tlon which the air force is re
quired to furnish any congress
man upon request Further, the
same facts had been supplied
to secretary Wilson,
The statement was dropped
at Yorty's office by Col. Robert
Kelly while the congressman
was out Yorty Immediately
seized upon it as the "official"
position ot the air force. Only
air force officer who may be
in trouble over the incident is
Maj. Ed Hyland, who told re
porters that the statement was
the air force's "official" posi
tion. Actually, the statement
had not been cleared with top
air force officers, though they
undoubtedly will uphold the
facts when called upon to tes-
ury.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Most surprised man in Wash,
Ington was presidential press
secretary Jim Hagerty when he
telephoned Mrs. Oscar Chap
man, democrat head of the Ko
rean clothing drive, and apolo
gized because the White House
had elbowed her out ot a pic
ture witn Mrs. Elsenhower.
"But" replied Mrs. Chapman.
"the White House bat every
right to My whose picture
should be taken with Mrs. Eis
enhower and I am very em
barrassed over all this public
ity. Besides the White House
already has given us wonder
ful co-operation, with every
member ot the White House
staff asked to contribute cloth
ing. Please don't worry about
it" . . . However. Hagerty did
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Salem 14 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
May 29, 1939 ,
King George and Queen Eli
zabeth have reached Vancouv
er, true crossroads of the em
pire. Chamber of Commerce has
honored Willis Clark, 12 years
head of Western' Auto Supply
in Salem, and Leo "Frisco" Ed
wards, umpire for Pacific Coait
Baseball league. " .
.
Dr. H. G. Miller has been
selected by the board of con
trol to be superintendent of
Oregon Fairvlew home. He
succeds the late Dr. Roy D.
Byrd.
A well 60 feet deep and 16
inches in diameter flowing
2,000,000 gallons of water
daily will supplement 6alem's
water supply at Stayton and
satisfy needs for years to come.
The well is located in the cen
ter of an old North Santiam
channel, re-discovered a few
months ago on a map dating
back to the 1850s.
Cherry fruit flies are now
emerging and the first spray
should be applied at once says
Robert E. Rleder, county agent
Two Civil War veterans will
occupy places of honor In Sa
lem's annual Memorial day
parade Tuesday afternoon. Past
Department Commander
Kingsbury, 95, who served for
four years during the Civil
War, will have Thomas Jack
son of Lebanon, also a veter
an, as his parade companion.
Three generations of one
family attended old Manning
school, until lately standing on
Pacific highway about 10 miles
north of Salem, When the
school was new in 1873, Eu
gene Manning was a pupil. His
son, Ward Manning,' was later
in attendance and Ward s son,
Ellis Manning, was pupil
when the old school was dis
mantled last winter.
Just One Wife After
Another for Actor
Paris (u.B French film actor
Francois Perier climbs out ot
bed in the morning, dresses,
goes to the studio, undresses,
climbs into bed with his screen
"wife" Marcelle Mercadier.
Then he dresses, goes to
Paris theater, undresses and
climbs into bed with his real
wife, Marie Daems, starring
with him in the play "The
Four-Poster."
Then he dresses, drives home,
undresses and climbs Into bed.
How does he feel these days?
'Tired," Perier said.
INSULT ADDED TO INJURY
Memphis, Tenn. W.B James
Lacook, a railway mall clerk,
said a man flagged down the
Illinois Central's City of New
Orleans Wednesday and asked
that the train pull his automo
bile out of a witch.
Lacook said one of the
things tlie train'! conductor
told the unidentified motorists
wat "Not"
worry. He took the rap for the
White House boner of boycot
ting Mrs. Chapman, though he
personally wasn't to blame. In
the end the two ladles posed
together for the photographers
and enjoyed It They're both
Denver girls . . . and the Ko
reans got more clothing as a
result of the publicity.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
African Went to London
Leaving 59
Ijr HAL
London (A Dear Frances,
I know you are mad because I
didn't bring you to the corona
tion, but there Is a guy om
Africa who's ia a tougher spot
than I am.
Ha has 60 wives and left 89
at home and brought oae here.
They say she's an Interesting
conversationalist But I keep
thinking of all the explaining
he'll have to do when he gets
back home. I bear he doesn't
talk to his wives he mineo-
graphs them.
If I had 60 wives, my pet, you
are the one I'd bring along and
you could addres the postcards
to all the jealous ones left be
hind. Wouldn't that be . a
woman's idea of a holiday?
' Now aoout that coronation.
London now looks like an
old maid with a girl's heart,
who pins a pink Tudor rose to
her apron and hopes that' the
flower at least wui be noucea.
I have never seen-th British
people in a holiday mood be
fore, and I must say they are
rather bashful about their joy.
as one pub owner put it cau
tiously:
"The people do seem, to be
getting coronation-minded a
bit, I would say, don't you
think?" . .
But despite their attitude
that pleasure is only another of
life's hurdles rather than some
thing to wade In and get your
feet wet, you get the idea this
is a signal moment to them
and that it Is a prldeful thing
to be a Briton and own a
Queen, and give her a crown.
It is a fairy tale, of course,
but It is also something more.
The coronation Is an empire
marrying a woman, and it Is a
woman taking the vows of wed
lock to more than 600 million
people.
Keeping the crown is about
the only luxury many English
men can afford, and sometimes
they talk of the cost ot It like
a husband rebuking a spend
thrift wife.
"You know it costs each of
us the price of two cigarettes
a day to kep the royal family,"
one man said to me. "That
doesn't sound like much, does
it? But when you don't have
much to start with two cigar
ettes a day means a lot
The sun has shone four out of
five days here, and now every
body is wondering what next
summer will be like. You know
how the weather here it. When
ever they have a beautiful day
they press tt between two fogs
and put in In a memory book.
' You were right about that
tux. I should have brought it
along. Burl Ives, the folk singer
for dressed-up folks, Invited me
to . a party and promised,
"royalty will be present" But
on account of I brought along
a black bowtie for my type
writer but none for me, I
couldn't go. You are not allow
ed to look on royalty in a clos
ed place after dark unless you
are in full dress, or nearly to..
Everybody In Britain it hav
ing a coronation party. The
charlady who cleans my flat
her name is Mrs. ""anner, but
I call her "Mama El 'land" be
no matter
O no mattor
Jo
no ntattor tho placo.M
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Funeral Service Sines
rhone 3.913 ch-rd
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Wives at Home
IOYLI
cause she has had ten kids
tj all excited about bar party.
It is going to be a real char
ladies' frolic, and i wisn
could go to it
1 clean nice offices before
I come hare," she said. There
are eight of us working in the
bulletin and Saturday the gov
ernor taid we could knock off
at seven o'clock. He's having
sandwiches in and says we're to
have our pick of drinks. I may
ask for whisky. I haven't maoe
up my mind. But seven in the
morning is a bit early to start
a party, don t you think?" ,
I asked her who the gover
nor was, and she said that is
what they call their employer,
"because be is a governor, after
all, isn't he, as far as we are
concerned?" I told her that in
America the term was "boss,'
and she replied: ,
"Boss? Boss! It is a nice
sounding word, isn't it? Some
thing of a lilt to it Boss. Boss.
I rather like if
Sometimes I think it is more
than the ASsstia Ocean that
separates us from the British.
Well, I must close now as I
have to go and tee if my cor
onation seat fits. They rehearse
the spectators for this show, as
well as the Queen. More later,
From your loving husband,
Harold.
Unintelligible Intelligence
v By RAYMOND MOLEY
The general Import of the appropriations, looked like a
word "economy'' is easy to
comprehend, and everyone fav-
ors it Its applications to our
personal affairs are easy to de
fine. - When we begin to think
about it In connection with the
federal government however,
our eyes are blinded by dust
thrown out by the bureaucrats.
They would have you believe
that every dollar cut from the
Truman - levels of spending
brings the Red army nearer ot
our shores and exposes us and
our children to the rapacity of
an alien conqueror. They tell
you that 75 or 80 or 85 per cent
ot the money requested, is for
"past, present and future
wars." That is supposed to stop
you in your tracks, because it
means that most or tne requests
are untouchable a mystery
wrapped in a Pentagon and
that the remaining trifle of 15
or 20 or 25 per cent is too small
to bother about
The answer is that nothing
should be untouchable and that
in the small, non-defense re
mainder are. a few billions
worth saving.
A further point is that a lot
of stuff is camouflaged, as de
fense or warfare that isn't de
fense or warfare at all. Merely
to call something "psychologi
cal warfare" doesn't make it
warfare, and to call a thing
"intelligence" doesn't make it
Intelligent . ' .
A good example of the latter
It a curious office in the state
department headed by W. Park
Armstrong. Jr., who is called in
state department Jargon "spe
cial assistant for intelligence."
The Justification for his expen
sive office or bureau or what
not after a searching inquiry
by the state subcommittee on
the) day.
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Friday. May It, list
OPEN FORUM
Appreciates Editorial
On the Constitution
To the Editor:
I wish to express my per.
sonal appreciation for the tine
editorial appearing in the
Journal of May 21 under the
heading "Is the Constitution
Outmoded? by citing a niu.
ber of instances in our histor
ical background you showed
that a freedom-loving people
can efficiently meet the coal,
lenge and need of pretest day
conditions while still living
under the influence of a con
stitution that was written in.
the days of this great conn.
try's infancy.
It is my personal opinion
that America is great todav
largely becaure of the agelest
principles of right and equity
contained in that document
May we as Americans stand
behind it and defend it as we
have our country and resist
steadfastly any effort to alter
or destroy it. Thank you for '
your expression of faith in
America's great document
L, Z. LYMAN,
Salem.
SWITCH FISHERMAN
FINED
San Francisco UA Hans
Lunde was fined $25 for fish.,
tag in a city lake with two
"I was Just practicing," he
explained. "First with my left
hand and then with my right
to see which worked best"
pea ox vioieu in wsucn a group
of boys bad been searching tot
a ball.
The Armstrong -intelligence
office had $2,671,180 for the
year now nearly over. It was
authorized to hire 476 people.
Under the Truman budget 620
people were asked for, but un
der the pressure of President
Eisenhower's demand for econ
omy, this request was cut to
419 people.
This In Itself ia an illustration
of how illusory some of the
claims of cuts really are. Glow
ing figures are given out about
cutting below the Truman bud
get But nicely analyzed, we
find that the new administra
tion has really cut the Truman
budget requests, but not ap
preciably the Truman 1952-53
expenditures.
' Senators McCarran, Dlrksen,
Ferguson and Ellender gave
Mr. Armstrong a hard time ex
plaining why his office was
necessary at all. The explana
tion left at least this observer
completely skeptical.
In trying to explain what his
outfit does, Mr. Armstrong
sought refuge in a cloud of bu
reaucratic ' semantics. It deals
with a strange thing called
"psychological intelligence,"
which ia not the tame at "cur
rent intelligence." Driven fur
ther into the wilderness ot
double-talk, be said that "our
mission is to keep on .top of
political developments . . .
throughout the world" and that .
he does intelligence "not per
formed by the Individual, de
partments." '
It was not clear why the
Armstrong work could not be
done by the central intelligence
agency.
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