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Jacques Duclos iakes Communist Comeback in French Political Circles
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The most
dangerous enemy in Western Eu
rooe of free men and women
f--"-f7-i'-r:Z7Z ever y w h e r e
easily is iden
tified now as a
bald little
Frenchman
named Jac
ques Duclos.
Duclos is 59
years old. In
telligent Euro
peans have
been acquaint
ed with him for a long time.
r
Lyle C. WKson
Americans knew of him, but
have forgotten.
Duclos was No. 2 man in the
French Communist Party when
he briefly caught the attention
of Americans in late May of
1945 an article entitled: "On the
Dissolution of the Communist
Party in the United States."
His piece was a blistering at
tack on Earl Browder, a Kansas
boy who for some years had
been Communist Party boss in
the United States. During the
latter war years, Browder and
the Communist elders in this
country formally dissolved the
party, as such, and ' proclaimed
its successor as the Communist
Political-Association of the Unit
ed States. Browder thereupon
began to propagandize co-existence
that Communism and cap
italism at home, and the Soviet
Union and the United States in
the world, could live happily to
gether. Party Boots Browder
What Duclos did to Browder
was to denounce him as an ally
of J. P. Morgan and Co., a trai
tor to Lenin, to Stalin and to
Karl Marx. The Communist sec
retariat in the United States
thereupon admitted grave error,
kicked Browder out and install
ed William Z. Foster as party
boss, a job he still holds. The
political association was dissolv
ed and the party was revived.
Thereafter, Browder was uni
formaly described in Communist
publications as a renegade
enemy of the working class who
had been expelled for playing
footsy with what was described
as "United States imperialism."
Foster wrote: "Browder's
whole conduct has lent aid to
these war-mongers."
Duclos wanted the United
States Communists to resume
the class war, infiltrate all lev
els of American life and shoot
for the world revolution with
special emphasis on the Ameri
can chapter, thereof.
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Langlie. Jordan Given Inside Track
For Cabinet Post Sf PMlay Retires
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Speculation in
the nation's capital is that Gov.
Arthur B. Langlie of Washing
ton or ex-Gov. Len Jordan of
Idaho may wind up in the cabinet
next year, if Secretary of Inter
ior Douglas McKay goes through
with his intent to retire and a
Republican administration re
mains in power after the forth
coming elections.
There is also strong indica
tion that the Far West will be
hard put to claim the office of
Interior Secretary after McKay
leaves, and that the most formid
able candidate for the position
will be the present undersecre
tary oi Interior, Clarence Davis
of Nebraska G
There is no question, in the
view of observers here, that if
McKay does leave it will trigger
a political scramble for his high
post in the government.
Secretary McKay, who resign
ed as governor of Oregon late
in J 952 to come to Washington,
D.C., and enter President Eisen
hower's cabinet, has made clear
in recent months that one four
year stretch is all he wants of life
on the Potomac. His hope is to re
tire to Oregon a year from now.
If Eisenhower runs and is re
elected, or another Republican
succeed? him as president, Mc
Kay's departure would open up
the most important position in
the cabinet, as far as the West
is concerned.
Laaglie looms as probably the
most potent of candidates for
purely circumstantial reasons.
His term as governor expires at
the end of this year and he does
not intend seeking reelection. Un
less he runs against Sen. War
ren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) and
wins, presumably he will be
free to accept a nod from Wash
ington, D.C.
But what counts most in Lang
lie's favor among speculators is
that he had first crack at the
position when Eisenhower was
forming his cabinet. Langlie,
just elected governor at the time,
felt compelled to turn down the
president's oifer. In his guberna
torial campaign, he, pledged to
the voters that he would no turn
around and go off to Washington,
D.C, if Eisenhower beckoned
and he kept the pledge.
Idaho's Len Jordan is now
chairman of the U.S. section of
the International Joint Commis
sion, the agency that handles dis
putes between Canada and the
U.S. over rivers that cross the
border between them.
Friends of Jordan claim that
last summer he was offered the
post of Assistant, Secretary of
Damage Suit Filed
In Circuit Court
Mrs. Alvera E. McDonald fil
ed suit in circuit court Wednes
day seeking $5,156.50 damages
from Sears Roebuck and com
pany for injuries resulting from
a fall.
She charges the company was
"careless, reckless and negli
gent ... in permitting a cigar
ette butt to remain on the floor"
of the company's property,' 40
South Central ave., where she
slipped and fell Oct. 25.
Mrs. McDonald claims she re
ceived a sprain of her right knee
and asks $5,000 compensatory
damages, plus $156.50 loss of
earnings and medical expense.
Robert Dickey is her attorney.
Interior for land management
but turned it down. Actually, it
is said, the White House at the
time thought Jordan should be
saved for a higher post. Jordan
personally didn't want the assist
ant secretaryship because he re
gards himself as a water and
power authority, rather than a
land management man.
Embraced Administration
Both Langlie and Jordan have
strongly embraced the Eisen
hower administration's "partner
ship" power policy of encourag
ing private development of new
power sites. They co-operated
while in office to fight the pro
ponents of the high Hells Can
yon dam and lend support in
that battle, to Idaho Power Co.
Undersecretary Davis, who
was promoted from solicitor to
his present job when ex-undersecretary
Ralph A. Tudor resign
ed over a year ago, is now re
garded very highly in White
House and Republican circles
Quotes Fro
m the News
By UNITED PRESS
Algona, la. State Sen. Duane Dewel on why he is not going
to run for governor of Iowa this year:
"I'm too damp for the drys and too dry for the wets and satis
factory to neither." .
"bold
Washington Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R.-Me.) on her
new" five-year $1,000,000,000 medical research program:
"I think it is about time this country brought research on hu
man lives up to the level of research on animals and plants."
Boston James C. Allen, one of the Brinks guards tied up dur
ing the spectacular Jan. 17, 1950, hold-up, on the FBI solution of
the mystery:
"I came home, sat down and listened to a news broadcast about
it. I've sure hoped they'd solve this thing. I didn't know that they
would. In fact, I was so busy today that if the news had come at
work I just wouldn't have paid any attention to it."
New York Paul Blaufox, Arthur Godfrey's chief talent hunt
er, on his "parting company" with his red-haired, temperamental
boss: '
"I'm tired of being a talent scout. I've lived in gin mills for five
years. I just wanted to do something better." '
Washington Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson in an
appraisal of U.S. cold war policy: . ,
, Europe ". . . We have spent vast efforts to strengthen our al
lies ... of late, these bonds have been loosened."
Middle East "There are indications of a timid, hesitant ap
proach in this troublesome area." .
Far East "The time bomb of Quemoy and Matsu is ticking
away. The hour it is set to go off is not known."
Galveston, Tex. Babe Zaharias, in John Sealy hospital for a
second battle with cancer and a bout with pneumonia: .
"I keep asking the doctors when I can go home but they don't
tell me much." '
generally. He is considered by
many to be the "brains" of the
department and the man who
really runs Interior.
It is thought by some that
Davis may become secretary
with Jordan as his undersecre
tary a combination that would
give both the midwest and the
far west the top positions in run
ning Interior's vast domain.
All of this speculation the fa
vorite pasttime of many politic
ians and newspapermen is
based on the possibility that the
Republicans will remain in con
trol of the executive branch of
the government for four more
years after the 1956 election.
Nixon Manager
Sues Magazine
Los Angeles U.R) Vice-
President Richard M. Nixon's
1952, has national campaign
manager accused a national mag
azine in a $1,250,000 libel suit
with calling him Nixon's secret
link to the underworld.
The former campaign mana
ger, Attorney Murray M. Cho
tiner, filed the suit in Superior
Court yesterday against Behind
The Scene magazine, naming
most of the magazine's officers
and about two dozen John Does
as defendants.
Chotiner charged that he was
referred to as Nixon's under
world link in an article publish
ed in the March issue of the
magazine. He said it was "but
one of a series of attacks that
are being launched by those who
seek to discredit the vice-presi
dent for political purposes."
Chotiner said he had talked
with Nixon by telephone and
that the vice-president told him,
"you should go ahead and sue
those responsible" if such action
was warranted. Chotiner retain
ed Attorney Jerry Giesler.
Ward Elected Head
01 Sheriff's Posse
Leonard Ward, Butte Falls,
was elected captain of the Jack
son County Mounted Sheriff's
posse at a meeting recently.
Harold Hulse was re-elected
secretary and treasurer, and F.
J. Christian, Talent, was elected
lieutenant.
Homer Chamberlain, paid
members in charge of the posse
grounds, was reelected to that
office.
Board members include How
ard Gault, sheriff; Ward, Hulse,
Christian, Tony Boitano, Walter
Fox, and Jim Henry, retiring
captain.
Plans were discussed to again
have an annual rodeo, tentative
ly scheduled for the last week
in July. Ray Pence, Medford Ac
counting service, reported on
audit of the group's books.
H. B. Murphy was appointed
chairman of a committee which
will work toward building a rid
ing track around edges of the
properties, for pleasure riding.
Officers of the Ladies Mount
ed troop, auxiliary to the posse,
who attended were Mrs. Howard
Haskell, captain; Miss Montana
Emerson, and Mrs. Norman
Koehler, first and second lieu
tenants, respectively.
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That's the kind of chap Du
clos is and was, and that is an
indication of his standing in the
Communist Party one socko
article written from Paris and,
presto, the party in the United
States stands on its head.
' Duclos is now the active lead
er of French Communists who
have just returned 151 members
to the new French Parliament.
That is one more than they had
10 years ago before Communist
strength began to sag in France.
Duclos and his Communists have
come back in a big way. They
polled 26 per cent of the French
general election vote.
Duclos again is a man of great
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power. His party is the third
largest in the new Parliament,
and not a bad third, either.
In his new position of power,
Duclos will continue to seek the
overthrow of Western civiliza
tion as he sought it in May of
1945. Specifically, he will seek
to weaken France by any means,
to nudge or stampede that coun
try away from the North. Atlan
tic Treaty Organization defense
alliance.
Duclos will maneuver in
France to prevent the unification
of Germany and to push Western
Germany from her Western
moorings.
He will do what he can and Duclos is a man. of whom the
it probably will be a lot to United States may hear so much,
make peace on reasonable terms from now on as never to forget
less, instead of more, possible, him again.
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