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S People Tell Italy Their Hope By Drew Pearson W WASHINGTON One ASHINGTON One of or the great things about the American p people ople is that they believe in working at democracy And when the g gentlemen In Washington Washing Washing- ton fail fait to exert leadership as they're inclined to do these theBe days more and more plain ordinary patriotic people pick up the democracy de de- de- de ball ban and run rim with it For Instance the state department department department de de- de- de long ago was supposed to be telling the Italian people that we are their friends and that when they go to the polls pons to vote April 18 they shouldn't be afraid to vote against Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian terrorism However partly because of decreased funds the state department has been dragging dragging dragging drag drag- ging its t foot feet ot Therefore a group of Americans Americans Amer Amer- leans suggested to Robert Sherwood Sherwood Sherwood Sher Sher- wood noted American playwright playwright play play- wright that he write a 8 short hort message to Uto the people of ot Italy from the people of America Americ Sherwood has written such a message printed below and now money Is being raised by others to drop several million copies p printed in the Italian language over Milan Venice Naples and Rome Other Americans who have friends or relatives in Italy can clip th the message and mail it di direct direct direct di- di to Italy Manifesto for Peace Her peace Here Is the manifesto for peace prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared by Americans who wh are ahead of their government in trying to make democracy live To the People of Italy From the People of America We the American people are proud to reaffirm the strong bonds that have always existed and always must exist between the people of Italy and our our- selves These bonds survived through more than 20 years of Fascist dictatorship and through the devastating war that fascism imposed upon the civilized world These bonds are again threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened by another form of ot totalitarIan totalitarian dictatorship The new world In which we Americans live and In which the cause of freedom has flourished was discovered by a great ItalIan Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian Christopher Columbus Both continents of this n new w world have been largely settled and developed developed developed de de- de- de by me men and women of Italian birth We Ve look to Rome as the cradle cradIc of our civilization and for many of us the eternal citadel citadel citadel cita cita- del of our religious faith We have fought freedom on our own shores We have fought for freedom In Europe in Africa in Asia Today the whole world has seen too much of the savagery and destruction of war and wants to see no more of ot it We believe that war can be avoided if the free peoples of the he world will keep strong their democratic institutions by re resisting resisting re- re slating all the sinister forces of intimidation which seek to destroy destroy destroy de de- de- de stroy them from within We Americans want the ItalIan Italian Ital Ital- ian fan people to know that we are with them wholeheartedly in ini their struggle to maintain their freedom and their dignity in a world that is again darkened with the threat of oppression and slavery The Housing War Senator War Senator Charles Tobey of New Hampshire Hamp- Hamp shire clomped angrily out of ot a as s joint congressional h housing o 0 u s i ii 1 g meeting the other day wholesale walkout after fter his fellow fellow fel fel- ci- ci low Republican Senator Joe McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy Mc Mc- Carthy of Wisconsin got w wound und up in a filibuster r against public housing Tobey had the majority for a abill abill abill bill which would provide homes in 10 years McCarthy fated fahed with defeat tried to stall Senator John Sparkman of Alabama Alabam had suggested that the committee take up the recommendations recommendations recommendations of Senator Ralph Flanders Vermont Republican These were almost identical to McCarthys McCarthy's own recommendations recommend a- a I except for two gl glaring exceptions exceptions ex ex- F Flanders 1 and e r s proposed building units under a year four-year public housing p program program pro pro- o- o gram also farm housing b 09 on a large scale McCarthy protested that these issues were too controversial and should be presented In separate bills Seeing the scales cales tipped against him he urged the vote be delayed until Representative Frank Sundstrom of New Jersey Jersey Jersey Jer Jer- sey Representative Wright Patman Patman Pat Pat- at atman man of Texas and Senator Harry Cain of Washington were pres pres- ent This tou touched hed off the fireworks This is Just an an obvious attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt Tobey fumed to put off oft voting today I want to know demanded Alabama's Representative lve Albert Albert Al Al- bert her Rams ains if you are a one- one man filibuster I UI Intend to talk until Patman and Sundstrom show up McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy Mc Mc- Carthy shot b back kIt k It wont won't do you any good to wait for Patman snapped Rains Rams Hes on our side But McCarthy stuck stubbornly stubborn stubborn- ly to his position refusing to yield until Tob Tobey y would agree to postpone the vote The C committee e met met next morning tempers cooled and formally adopted Flanders' Flanders rec rec- rec- rec McCarthy accepted accepted ac ac- ac ce ted the farm housing proposal proposal proposal pro pro- att after r it was agreed to give congested cities clUes first priority But he held out against public housing to the last even after everyone else ela h had hd d' d joined with Tobay Tobey |