Show Round Merry-Go-Round t Redistribution o 0 oLand of r l' lland Land Needed t to td 0 SQ Stop f r H Hn n Hy fly Drew Je Pearson r on V WASHINGTON First WASHINGTON First thing the N 0 h Korean orean Communists did when they they into South Korea was r the land Dr Syn man Rhee pres president den South Korea had long been talking ab land reforms but never did anything anythIng- abi ab I it The Communists taking a leaf f I i TE E George Gcorge Washington's ashington s book beat him t to r The same thing has happened In C Cc held French Indo China and I China Free land to pinched peasants 1 had a greater effect than all the quint quin medicine and technical advice we h flown in to help the In Indo o tr- tr I Philippine Failure Dan Failure Dan Bell for undersecretary of the treasury has just just- fi K turned from Crom the Philippines with a silar si lar report Dan i is no radical He is 15 pr pr dent of the American Security and Tr Trill Tri I company one of the biggest banks hanks m in mV V Wad Wai T ington and went to the Philippines as ash Ji t of a commission to see what we could j to prevent the Islands from going C iJ munis t. t i He reports that the land reforms 1 J promised by President Quirino have n ne ne taken place Quirino is a friend of the theland t land owners including including- Col Andres S a former aide to General Mac Mac A MacAthur Maca ir I thur So the big big- estates have not b 1 w broken up and communism is like wildfire among the peasants ma m mail att 1 of whom operate under slave labor co conk 1 Lions Ill II Up Same Thin Tiling Thing In Italy Italy Italy-In In southern I Ithe the situation is somewhat similar The the chief weapon of the Communists is tj iJ vast landed estates held by a few several million peasants are landless Fi Fi some time Premier de has cons con ered land reform but has been advised advised American E EGA C A officials that this wo o create a bad impression in congress Se Sen Sentor Sentor 11 tor Taft De Gasperi was warned WO wo feel feci toward Italy as he did toward tJ British Labor party and its proposals Thus E EGA C A money for Ita 3 might be jeopardized i Yet if there reform in sou ern Italy it is fairly certain to suffer if tj U same fate as northern Italy now do l by the Communists t Ghost t 1 Writers Theres There's There's Theres an old sa say among among- top executives around the nati nation capital that Its always dangerous It l write your own speeches J Actually it was writing one of his ova o ol i speeches that helped to undo Louey Joh John Johnson son as secretary of national defense J Last December 7 Johnson spoke the Congress of American Industry in N Nd 1 York In his speech he said We si shy make sure that no 1 o'clock in m the moo mooing mod ing attack will leave us prostrate at atA 5 A few nights later Johnson was sch i tiled to appear at the National Press chi clu cf- cf before the University of Virginia Alum His aides offered him a pl p pit pared speech Johnson declined he spoke off the cuff and said ft I If Stalin attacks at 4 1 o'clock we w Wj knock hell out of him at 5 I Actually Johnson was trying to reca recd the prepared speech he had used a f rf nights night before But that's what happ happen f to one cabinet officer who tried to his o own speech Ii Copyright 1950 Bell Syndicate Inc |