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Show , . . . -- . . . -- ; - - ., - - , , 0 , , , .. , . , , , VIVIAN MEM ' , ' 'i INTERPRETING THE NEWS . I. 111)EWITT , .,.. 1 - IFIr... di...,3 ,-- t It :1 , AN ,ti0.,.,, rtAi Communist Threat Forces Delicate Balancing of Expense and Defense ' MACKENZIE , ' , I I 1 consequeEnglan ncedpolitically I ,Y0,!, A I 1,..;,!4 I 111--- ri. 1 I ! J I i' I I JAMES MAIM) What Will Mr. Truman Do In Defending His Party? Its going to be interesting to what President Truman does, if anything. to offset the battering his adimnistration has received from the Republicans.' This is an Truman. It's an election year, when the people will have to vote for all 435 members of the House and 36 of the 96 sen- - lee tors. for the way it has handled polcy toward China. No tall Republicans go along with McCarthy. Some. like for. mer Secretary of War Stirnson. have denounced his perform-Mr- . ance, and former Senator John Foster Dulles wrote to Acheson that "public dissemination of rumors and imspicions encour,ages our enemies." Although right now the Democrats have a majority in! both houses, Mr. Truman's programat least the part of it which affects us at home hasn't been doing well. HOPES LOOK DIM His plan for middle-incom- e housing got knocked- on the head. His hopes that Congress will continue federal rent control when the law ends next June look pretty dim. His civil rights program is getting no place fast. Hia Eire to wipe out the Labor Law looks hopeless. So much for his program. Meanwhile, his administration has been blugeoned by some of the Republicans, led by Senator McCarthy. Wisconsin Republican. McCarthy charged the State Department was padded with Communist's or and he named some names-TRIPLTaft-Hartl- --- '11 ey ' j dyed-in-the-w- . .. .11.-- , Distributed By International News Service Here's the score for the morose monologues of May. Stassen rapped Truman, Tobin rapped Stassen and Truman rapped everybody. Which brings up the next question. Is speech free just because it's loose? It means the 1952 campaign has opened and facts will be good and loud. That always happens when the wrong scoundreis are in office. Tobin said the poor old GOP has been fighting back since 1932. Maurice, there are young Republicans who never heard of any other point of the political compass. Just thought up a name for the Pullman caboose that will be Harry's home for those fifty. eight speeches. How about Blare House? ., to t: -- 412 V , :1 , . - t illPfr .. :l,: . A. , ,..i. .7rat 4,d op, - I 0 ', t IIVP ' , 'I 17 - ' E (:',;0 , ,e,'...no 4z.,(---.-4"He has to be tooted a little to eat his oatmeal. Mother." ft. Somewhere between these two ideals the pendulum will come to rest INTOLERABLE POSMON The next big political test of course will be another general election and the political prophets feel that this cannot long be delayedperhaps not longer than autumn, at best. The present position of Prime Itinistet1 Atlee's government is intolerable, for it is hanging on by the skin of its teeth. The Socialist majority in the House of Commons is so tiny that--.al- l members hare to be i kept on hand throughout sessions in order to avoid defeat at the hands of opposition. Even a few Socialist absences due to illness or similar contingencies might result in catastrophe to the regime. The result is that the strain is terrific. Even the ministers dare not absent themselves from Commons. and the work of their departments suffers. And all hands are getting ragged from the strain of the long hours on watch. So we may expect a general election before long. eventrucklutuatilt for yard.letttbll --- found some solace when a traffic Hie'''. showed arnPathrtWa.'"""stead of impatience and (Ilea-- . ously directed me back to a point from which I could make a running start for the nearest bridge. I didn't lose more than aa hour and a half by abandoning the highway and taking an improvised shortcut. A trip through the Ozarks ought to be included in everyone's itinerary. Beginning at Sprhigfteld, Missourrs southwest, the high way cuts through some of the nation's mqst picturesque scenery. Not as rugged as the Rockies, or as sharply etched against the horizon as the Alleghenies, the Ozarks have a grandeur all their own and around nearly every curve there is a surprise. Sometimes it is an ancient cabin, back in the hills, or again it may be a modern resort hotel. 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So I turned off the highway and, after a few blocks, got onto a broad traffic artery headed in a general easterly direction. Rolling along and showering myself with congratulations that I was a good navigator, I soon noted that. an amazing number of truck drivers had picked this road too. Pretty soon I was hemmed in by trucks, unable to catch the landmarks I had hoped to find, and suffocated by oil fumes. Neither could I see all of the road signs an, somewhere near the river, I found myself swept along with the traffic flow and a few minutes later cameto a dead stop in the loading area of a large warehouse, surrounded by honking, beeping, roar. tng trucks. The drivers were doing nothing to lessen the noise and seemed to be directing their comments toward a convertible with California license tags. ' - Chrysler or Plymouth. Now that our pro- - In politics there is bound to be a certain amount of metooism until someone comes out against home and boldly mother. and for longer hours Richmond for less dough. to ' i'''?' )- - 1 11 Inman -,,,,,, , pi 0 ,4dPrdp. 1,0. r41111""' '' - Li: I., sif 7 'By ,EDWARD T., AUSTIN - St. Louis has come quite a a fur way since Its centus a but tradinkpost, steppago, no western explorer ing off into the wild country ever was - mere'- - bewildered or - felt more alone than I did this evening trying to get out of a traffic jam and across one of the bridges that span the Mississip- K A w cll 4- - .... , PASSING PARADE 1 I 111---- -- IOW t1,1.01:71v) -- - -7 for waiting all this time for your new old enough to be her father, he is.Border Review. telling .7 II mirt, ' A Iv N --1 , 3- Oloom EVEN SO A hick town is one where, if you see a girl dining with a man Times-Dispatc- '------ I I fete; A r':112 T Wise and Otherwise BOUND-TO-B- - 1 I Lr.- - 41 3 ... - NEWSTWectiiiidof,'Melf- 66 By ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER in o ATTACK Those accused by him. or some of them. have denied his charges and called him some name s, including unpretty "liar." But McCarthy has conducted a kind of triple He attacked people. be attacked the State Department and he attacked the wisdom and leadership of the Secretary of State. Dean Acheson. He called Acheson a ''bompous diplomat with a phony British accent" And some of the top Republicans in the SenateTaft of Ohio. Bridges of New Hampshire, Wherry of Nebraska have joined in lambasting the &ate Department. particularly it C)JeEn11 program of nationalization Pnd other doctrines far enough so that it is getting a strong reaction of displeasure from a powerful section of the voters, That accounts for the recent setbacks in the elections. Therefore the Socialists must anwser the difficult question of "Where do we go from her? In short they have to decide whether they are going to pursue the old policy of tradition and be opportunists. or whether they shall pursue the Socialist objective. The answer to this tough problem brings our pendulum into play again. The Left Wing Socialists of course aim at total state ownership and controL The Right Wingers think in terms of a mixed economy. in which private enterprise would play its part as at present Baering Down on News Root ol ge ! The government het carried its -1 AI: - r...1 . I -:. I i tf" DESEREr '- .47 ANNE ----- FiidNeher , A s I ff - , - - - 1P611.1------- . socially. dead center. PERIOD OF INDECISION And what pf the reigning Socialist government? Here span I think we can well apply the figure of the pendulum. The Socialist Party ("Labour Party' is the official designation) itself has reached a period of ' .911r, I I ! extreme 'Toryism of old. Rather it represents a readjustment in the social and economic level. ing-oprocess which is remak. ing England both politically and socially. POLITICAL PENDULUM A British,friend of mine aptly described the position in the remark that "the pendulum continues to swing." That's a good metaphor. The political pendulum took a violent swing to the "left" in 1945 when the Socialists ousted the Conservatives. headed by Prirne Minister Winston Churchill. It wasn't that the country had "gone Socialist." but that it was weary from the austerities of war and felt the urge for a change. Then in the general election of last February the pendulum took such a violent swing back to the "right" that the Socialist government was all but thrown out of power. In the current town and city council elections the pendulum has continued its rightward course a bit further. Pursuing our figure of speech. it is a characteristic of the pendulum that it oscillates and that each oscillation carries it a shorter distance until it finally comes to a stopin dead cen-- 1 --- I -- 7:'It t,,,'7'1, C;' and, I of the decisions of the Allied!, metrically opposed, to the bruforeign ministers. made in their talism and terrors of a police determination to consolidate an statewhich is working out sue- defense cessfully and decently. and in worr which the Four Freedoms mean! Certain of the decisions will just what they say. I repeat how necessary it is specially rile Russia. I would place these in order of import-- for us to appreciate the difficulance: ties still before us, and how vital 1. The inclusion of Western it is for us from now on to face Germany into the comity of the things as they are and not to Atlantic nations group, irrespec- weaken in our decisions which tive of what happens in the Rua- - I have been taken so bravely in the last few weeks. sian zone of Eastern Germany. 2. The merging of French and All this background should Western Germany heavy indus- - be kept in mind in discussing try. the difficulties still ahead in 3. The clearly stated fact that the Atlantic Pact de- completing Allied troops of Western Ger-- ; fense network, for these demany will not be there as occu- fenses are not merely 'military. pation forces, but as a front line but inextricably mixed with ecoof defense in case of Stiviet mili- nomics. tary aggression. In other words, Take, for example. the superthe Allies have decided that the ficially simple question of guns Elbe is our western frontier. with which to defend our lines against any future attack. DIPLOMATIC AMBUSH The generals of the various But we have to remember countries have asked for a that on the Allies side we are number. The question is, canlarge the still far from bringing these de-- 1 treasuries of their countries afcisions down into an actual prac- t:1rd to pay for them. tice. If they build and pay for We have, indeed, a long way adequate artillery, will that we feel can to go yet before word "adequate" mean crippling safeand because we have this- expense which will bring on long way to go, we must be pre- economic shortage elsewhere amto suffer diplomatic pared and so provide fertile soil for bush and local political and eco- the seeds of communism? evnomic harassment by Russia SAFETY IS COMPLEX ery yard of the way. We hope and we believe that The big scale rearmament we are halting the spread of agreed on by the Atlantic Pact communism in Europe and that generals and defense ministers we will halt it permanently at calls for a total ground force of Its present borders, but let us 30 divisions, backed by United keep in mind that we haven't States and British air power. done it yet, and that Moscow By comparison with Rtissia's will struggle every inch of the. more-tha1000 divisions standWay. ing by in Europe, this is not an This struggle will be a deadly excessive defense force: but in struggle, because the Kremlin t view of the various other ecobosses are also realists. and thy nomic factors it calls for huge know very well that if we sue- - expenditures and. even more imceed in first, permanently halt- - portant, keeping men under trig the spread of communism arms instead of having them on In Europe, and second, rehabili- the tountry's production line. That is only one example of tating western Europe, it may well be the be- the involved complications facRed ginning of the end of the ing the Atlantic Pact powers Ideology throughout the and yet every single problem ner will have to be solved if we are to regard ourselves as safe. DIFFICIELTEES AHEAD The way we individually can The logic behind this major help in this very difficult task premise is simple. The Conunu- - is to acquire all possible unnist leaders from the very --- h.-, derstanding of the problems ginning have stressed that the concerned so that will be better only successful way of life is able to give our leaders the supunder communism and there- - i port that they will need when fore, when communism is halt- - and if a show-dow- n with Rused, their stressing is completly sia ever comes in any future disproved. diplomatic crisis. -- THAT - ,,,f,4 It .can be taken for granted, No Iron Curtain ever devised "right" Now that doesnl mean the cillatinns will grow weaker unthat Russia behind the scenes; can prevent the knowledge seep- today is sitting up and taking mg back bite Russia itself that country is discarding Socialism til it arrives at what many folks in toto and is returning to the regard as the ideal there IS a way of life dianoticevery serious notice position of ! LI KE- It is a fair guess that the pendulum has reached the' limit of : its swing. 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