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people Hunt was able to ••In­ business of the session Is eon»
fluence.”
pleted 1 still expect to be ible
No Moro "Loitors"
38 East Main Street
Ashland, Oregon
It seems likely now that this
session of Congress will adjourn
for the remainder of the yeur
along about the fifteenth of
October. 1 plan to get home
Just as soon as I cun after the
Entered a* second-class mail matter In the post office at Ash
land, Oregon, February 18, 1935, under the act of Congress of
March 3, 1879
to visit ull seven counties of the
Fourth Congressional di t rlct
before the end of the year
Meanwhile, tills is the lust Let
ter from Washington" for sever-
ul weeks ami possibly for this
yeur.
MR and MRS J LOGAN WHITE
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WHY’ CVA IS A NATIONAL ISSUE
The fight against the proposed Columbia Valley
Administration isn't primarily over the question of
whether the government or regulated private enter­
prise will supply the Pacific Northwest’s electric
power. That is important, but it is a sceondary
matter. The big issue is whether we are ready to ac­
cept super-governments which would control almost
the entire economics of the regions in which they
would operate.
Does that sound like an exaggeration? If so, read
the CVA bill and decide for yourself. The Seattle
Times recently summed it up well in one long sentence
this “5 percenter" mess. I should
when it said that the broad powers that would be Letter From
point
out that the center of the
given CVA “with respect to forest and forest lands,
disturbance, a former army
minerals, fish, land and land utilization and the power
officer by the name of James
Hunt, apparently did nothing
to engage in economic, scientific and technologic in-j Washington
either
dishonest or illegal. All
vestigation and studies and to establish, maintain and
I
know
about it is what I read
By Hon. Harris Ellsworth.
operate research facilities and to undertake experi
in the newspapers — and the
Congressman. 4th District
Washington, D C papers are
ments and practical demonstrations, open the way for
full of it—but it is pretty clear
state socialization and bureaucratic control of vast
to me that Hunt has been doing
activities in the region, including logging, lumbering, Everything is very quiet on nothing more or less than ord­
grazing, mining, agriculture, fishing and other activ­ the House side of the Capitol inary attorneys and lobbyists
ities which the directors of the corporation may find now. Practically all of the here do, and have been doing
Representatives have left Wash­ for many years. They represent
affect inter-state commerce and the general welfare.” ington.
The House recess ends clients who want to do business
Read that again— digest it all, and in all its rami­ officially September 21, but with the government on the
fications. It explains why CVA is a national, not since that is the middle of the most favorable basis possible.
week nothing except routine Hunt knows his way around
simply a regional, issue. If CVA is approved by Con­ business
will be transacted until Washington and in government
gress, it will be the pattern for things to come in all Monday the 24th.
circles and charged his clients
parts of the nation. Then, we can stop talking about In a few days I will leave for a fee for using that knowledge
Europe with members of the for them. He seemed to be able
state and local rights, local initative, local self-rel­ Committee
on Interstate and to deliver fairly well because of
iance, local control of local resources, for they will no Foreign Commerce. Public hea­ the cupidity and low calibre of
longer exist. CVA is an important step in the drive lth legislation is assigned to that certain men holding high posi­
tions of public trust. Hunt has
to socialize this nation along the lines of the British committee. Hearings have al­ been
smeared somewhat. I don’t
ready been hed by the com­
model.
think
much of his “profession”
mittee on the Truman social­
ized medicine bills. We dis­
covered, however, that first­
Not many Americans will read the “White Paper” hand information regarding the
on China which the State Department published a operation of socialized medicine
England would be vital to a
few weeks ago. It runs to more than 1,000 pages and in
really careful consideration of
much of it would make impossibly dull reading for such legislation.
the layman. But the story it tells, and the inferences It is my intention to do con­
siderable of what might be call­
and conclusions that it leads to, vitally affect this ed
private investigating when I
country and all the rest of the non-Communist world. am in England with the com­
First of all, the story is one of unmitigated failure. mittee. I know the group will
given plenty of official infor­
We spent billions in China, and every dollar v. as sup­ be
mation and that a competent
posed, directly or indirectly, to help check the Red report will be written on the
tide. We sent distinguished emissary after distingu­ facts and figures obtained by
ccmmittee. What I want
ished emissary— General Stilwell, George Marhall, the
most to know however, can best
Patrick Hurley, General Wedemeyer— to try to bring be obtained by talking with
order out of an impossible chaos. None succeeded, people . . doctors, working
officials, and everyone
and if the State Department is to be believed, none people,
who will spare the time for con­
could have. Secretary Acheson has written, “Nothing versation. I also want to dig
that this country did or could have done within the rather deeply into the question
reasonable limits of its capabilities could have changed of finance. This subject is so
extremely important that I feel
that result; nothing that was left undone by this a great need for every scrap of
country has contributed to it.”
reliable information I can get.
Not everyone will totally accept this point of view. The committee will come
by air and will arrive
The most interestig part of the White Paper is the home
back in Washington the morn­
report made to President Truman by General Wede­ ing of the 24th.
meyer after his 1947 mission. This report had never
before been published, and it was kept a closely
guarded secret. The General was a prophet of a high
order. He said that events in China was “as port­
entous as those leading to World War H,” and that
if we pursued a wait-and-see policy “the Chinese Com­
munists would emerge as the dominant group.” This
is precisely what happened. His proposal was that we
embark on a sweeping five-year China aid program,
including both military and economic aid for the
nationalists. However, he said further that this must
•be accompanied by drastic reforms on the part of the
corrupt, inefficient Chiang-Kai-shek government.
Apparently, the U. S. government believed this would
offend Chiang. In any event, the Wedemeyer recom­
mendations were both ignored and surpressed.
Of the China debacle, Time magazine writes: “No
one could deny the U. S. diplomats in China had faced
fiercely stubborn problems, equally stuborn men . . .
Yet in a world racked by the evil and destruction of
first fascists, then Communist aggression, the Ameri­
can job was to work with the world it found and know
what world it wanted. In China, it tried and it failed.
A t no point in the long chronicle of its failure had it
displayed a modest fraction of the stamina and dec­
isiveness which had checked Communism in Europe.”
•
la,St sentence is significant— we have done
infinitely better in Europe than in the Far East And
a fear is held by many thoughtful men today that
Communism may eventually flow over all of Korea
the Dutch Pacific possessions, even Japan and thé
Philippines.
and it may be just as well to
turn the heat on such people.
However, let’s not forget that
the real guilt lies with those
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The Senate committee investi­
gation into the activities of the
so-called “5 percenters” has this
capitol city agog these days. It
is a sordid revelation of the sort
of thing that can and does go
on when apointments to high
places in this the greatest gov­
ernment in the world are made
solely upon the basis of friend­
ship and politics.
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