Show GRASSROOTS Dismissal of Mac Showed Disregard of Politics By Wright A. Patterson IF may be WHAT his deficiencies in other the American people have credited Truman with a complete knowledge of partisan of how to make or lose votes for his party and its whoever such candidates may and of the need of votes If his party is to be Such being the It Is hard to conceive of the of Harry S. the partisan taking the action Harry S. the did In the case of To arbitrarily dismiss from the nation's service a man In whom the people had full a man of demonstrated at the Instigation of such as Dean secretary of and some who do not have the confidence of any considerable number of American a condition of which the must be Is a simply Incredible and one that will be paid for In a loss of now and for to It will come nearer wrecking the Democratic party than anything that has happened since the days of President The President tells us we are facing a grave a crisis in our relations with Communist We may be called upon any day to meet the Red army hordes in both Europe and the far In the face of such conditions Harry S. the dismisses from the nation's service on of the great military leaders of the man whose ability and knowledge of far eastern conditions we will so terribly To the American people it would be unthinkable to dismiss Ma-Arthur for any but to do so at the instigation of Dean Ache-son will politically condemn Harry S. Truman and his It may mean the party's defeat at the hands of the voters for years to It was Acheson's bad If they were nothing worse than bad that are responsible for the conditions we face In the far and have been responsible for our more than casualties in It Is not alone we In America who must suffer from that stubborn will that Insists that whatever he says or whatever he doe must be Ibe people of of Korea and others throughout the Pacific must also suffer a severe For II Is like winning the final The cry of has been heard frequently from the White or from those backing the President's and his demands for more for more for more but has been followed within a few hours by the assurance that wu are nearer peace with Russia than at any time since the beginning of the cold So often has that wolf cry been with Its assuring follow-up that it has lost all of its both with congress and the people of the Whether the wolf cry comes from the President or from Speaker Ray- congress accepts it as but another political-must and goes serenely on its accustomed way without undue and the people have become so apathetic over the war possibility that they no longer take seriously those frightening wolf or the assurance of advancing The wolf cry has outlived Its usefulness as a means of advancing the President's and his demands for It has been used too The senate crime did an excellent job until it came to reporting its findings to the That as carried in the Saturday Evening Post of April carried one small line at the bottom of its first It by Estes all rights Senator Kefauver evidently expects his report to be issued as a and did not want to detract from his by too wide a reading from which would receive no In these days of billions that cut of a few hundred million from a presidential appropriation request may not seem but it was saving and represented net merely Let us have more ot the There are thousands of people in carried on government payrolls with the backing of the Democratic national with nothing to occupy their and more of the same are being added each |