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* Monday, October 20, 1947
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Iii The Middle-As Usual
(The Denver Post)
IN THEIR FIGHT over the Taft-Hartley labor law
both management and labor are raising great funds for
the next Congressional elections—and seem to be com
pletely disregarding anything but their own personal
animosities.
The National Association of Manufacturers has begun
a 3-million-dollar campaign to back Congressmen who
supported the new labor law. Leading labor organiza
tions are doing the same—and apparently are hitting at
a 6-million-dollar mark—to aid in defeating those same
Congressmen.
Both pressure groups will attempt to railroad Con
gressmen—either in or out as to their preference. Nei
ther of them, however, seems to take into account the
wishes of the American voters, who just might like or
not like a candidate because of his general record,
rather than his stand on one particular bill.
The happiest people in the whole situation should be
the Congressmen and potential candidates, for they are
assured of a lot of free support and free beer at their
rallies.
The man who takes the beating, as usual, is John Q.
Public, who may not donate to either faction’s rabble
rousing, but still has it all inflicted on him.
Something Old Has Been Added
(By Palmer Hoyt)
FORMATION of a nine-nation Communist interna
tional in Europe should clear the atmosphere as far as
Soviet aims are concerned and should be adequate proof
that those aims have not changed, despite Soviet propa
ganda during the “holy war,” which began for world
Communism when Russia was attacked in 1941.
In part of a resolution passed in Poland last month,
Communist leaders of nine countries declared that the
Soviet Union and “democratic countries” fought the
last war to destroy Fascism and achieve lasting peace,
but that the United States and England fought to elim
inate Germany and Japan from the world piarket and
to consolidate their own dominance.
This is exactly the same propaganda line that Com
munists all over the world used in 1939 and 1940. But—
when Russia was attacked—the entire picture changed,
and America and England became “democracies,” fight
ing for world peace.
The new declaration is nothing more than recognition
of an existing situation. The Communists declare that
only nine nations are involved, but that is at most a spe
ciods declaration. If, as we believe, all Communist part
ies everywhere are working for the same ends, it would
be foolish for the Kremlin to admit it, for admission
would only weaken the Communist cause in other coun
tries.
The Comintern was founded in 1919 by the Russians
to further worldwide revolution. With much fanfare it
was declared dissolved in 1943, but to date there has
been no concrete evidence that it ever was dissolved
other than on paper, for Communist parties throughout
the world have maintained their unswerving allegiance
to the Moscow line.
The “new” organization has declared that it will fight
for the downfall of the Marshall plan and “United
States imperialism.” But couched in proper terms the
Communists have declared that they will continue to
fight for chaos, world revolution and the emergence of
Soviet Russia as the single most powerful nation on
earth—with all other nations subservient to Russia un
der Communist government.
The formation or recognition of this international or*
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ganization constitutes a definite unilateral move out
side the United Nations, and it is dedicated to principles
that would destroy that international body. Even more
obvious is the recognition by the Soviets, and Commun
ists everywhere, that there are two worlds, and it is
their desire to maintain two worlds until theiy can be
united under a Red flag.
Various members of Congress have indicated that
President Truman’s call for both stop-gap and long
range aid to Europe will be hotly debated. Many of them
remain unconvinced that it is wise to send food to Eu
rope at the expense of high prices and shortages in the
United States. The President, however, has made it
clear that such a program is absolutely necessary. If
Congress lingers in debate over aid to Europe, it will
be serving the ends of world Communism, and dealing
what might be a death blow to present American for
eign policy.
Things Could Be Worse
(By Jack Foster)
In 1919 they said war had been abolished.
In 1929 they said poverty had been abolished.
In 1941 they said Russia wouldn’t last three ninths.
In 1945 they said Stalin was, at heart, a believer in
democracy and would play a good fellow’s part in an
orderly peace settlement.
In 1947 they say war with Russia is just around the
corner.
WHO ARE “THEY”? Well, we can make a shrewd
guess. That word “they” stands for an accumulation of
rumors, guesses, theories and hunches which crystalize
into a fondly expected or desperately feared certainty
of things to come.
It probably is because of this high emotional content
that “they” are almost always wrong.
From which circumstance, if from no other, we be
lieve we can take some hope in the current world situa
i tion.
Looking back now, we can see that our naive optim
ism in the period between wars had much to do with the
great conflict lately ended. We signed some papers, sank
some of our own battleships, chose to believe that Hitler
was just a crackpot, and called anyone who challenged
our pretty little legend a militarist or warmonger.
This time things have, at least, changed. Maybe we
aren’t doing much' better, but we aren’t making the
same mistakes we made last time—or, anyway, not all
of them.
If we get into war again, it <won’t be by the • same
route. If we have another depression, its causes will be
different. Our present situation, it’s true, has many de
plorable aspects. Steak and taxes are high, autos scarce,
work is a nuisance, sin is undiminished, and capital and
labor still refer to each other too often in brisk words of
one or two syllables.
But, compared to any other spot in the world, the
U. S. A. is a land of milk and honey. Possibly we should
take another look and cheer up.
WASHINGTON
LETTER By Jan* Ead‘ *
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WASHINGTON—When our am
bassador to Pakistan, Paul Ailing,
and his attractive wile arrive in
Karachi around the first of the
year they will find the new U. S.
embassy in readiness for them.
Our government is now in the
1 process of selecting the building,
: but it is certain to have large, airy
rooms and will be like other
houses in the modern city, partly
European, partly Moorish m arch- ^
1 itecture and boasting a garden.
ivl s. Ailing, who is now m New
; ' ork where the Ambassador-des
i ignate is working with the U.S.
c't legation to the UN, says she has
been consulted as to decor and
furnishings and is confident the J
the embassy will be “one of which
this country can be proud.”
The drawing room will be done
| in a pale grey, with touches of soft
blues and raspberry red in drapes
and upholstery. Chippendale fur
niture will be used in the dining
room, with raspberry red drapes
and upholstery.
The new ambassador, slender,
of medium height and grey-haired
has had more than 20 years’ expe
rience as a career diplomat, chief
ly with the Division of Mideast
ern Affairs of the state depart
ment. His first assignment was as
vice consul to Beirut, Syria, in
1924.
He has served the government
in various capacities at Aleppo
and Damascus in Syria and Mon
treux, Switzerland. He became
deputy director of the Office of
Near Eastern and African Affairs
in January, 1944, and became dip
lomatic agent with the rank of
minister and consul general at
‘Tangier, Morocco, in the spring of
1945.
Mrs. Ailing, tall and appealing
brunet, was Romaine Braden Loar
of Chicago. She was graduated
from Northwestern University
and married to the Connesticut
born diplomat in 1923.
The Allings have two daughters
Constance, a graduate of Welles
ley College last June, and Anne,
13, now in school in Evanston, 111.
Constance will accompany her
parents to Pakistan.
Karachi enjoys the best climate *
in Pakistan. Fronting on the Ara
bian Sea, it ranks third among the
ports of India and Pakistan, sur
passed only by Calcutta and Bom
bay. It is the closest port to Eu
rope and is the natural gateway
for the products of the Indus val
ley as well as the border trade of
the far northwest provinces.
One Man’s Opinion
(By Waller Kiernan)
There is news from Washington
that Uncle Sam now is taking in
more than he spends. — The old
gentleman is the envy of every
wage earner. ... At the Cleveland
food show a life-size cow was
carved out of butter—A new form
of gilding the lily. . . . But Mr.
Truman promises an explanation
of high prices in his next political
speech—Time, place and explana
tion still unsettled. — Still we’re
better off than Romania which
has stopped printing money be
cause the paper was worth more
than the money.—Princess Eliza
beth has agreed to “obey” her fu
ture husband.—That, with the
long skirt, completes the return of
the old-fashioned girl. . . . Every
body has the answers to high
prices and if they haven't got the
answers they've at least got the
prices.