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Evening star., 1946-08-04
made the statement in the last Red
Army Day exercises.

made the statement in the last Red
Army Day exercises.
Mr.. Manuilsky announced that his
delegation would support the four
power foreign ministers decision to
internationalize Trieste, but he
criticized it roundly, asserting that
the Adriatic port should go to Yugo-
slavia.
He said the city should be ad-
ministered Jointly with a single cur
rency and with Yugoslavia repre-
senting it in international affairs
A Yugoslavian Trieste, the white
haired Ukrainian diplomat said
should help to heal the wounds o1
war in the Balkans. He cited the
friendship of Slav peoples as ear
important element in world peace.
If the conference decided to In.
ternationalize the Trieste area, I
! would be necessary to establish !
customs union between Trieste
and Yugoslavia, he said, and ar.
range to solve other difficulties O.
transport and facilities.
No Claims by South Africa.
Maj. Gen. Frank Theron Of Souti
Africa, an aide to Premier Gen
Jan Christian Smuts at the Yer
sailles peace conference II year
ago, was the concluding speaker a
the session.
He said that South Africa ha,
no territorial claims, no demand
for reparations and would not "asl
for single ship from the Italia,
Navy"
American and British Jewish or.
ganizations asked the Peace Con.
ference to write treaty guarantee.
for Jews in the Balkans and Italy
i In a memorandum to the con
ference secretariat, following up /,
similar petition to the Foreign Min
isters' Council, the American Jewisl
conference, the Board of Deputie,
of British Jews, and the World Jew.
ish Congress asked that formel
enemy nations be obliged to abolish
discriminatory legislation and ex.
tend fundamental freedoms to all
Evening star., 1946-08-04

II the sun were made Of coal
mixed with enough oxygen to make
1t burn, itwould last only 1000 years,
if 1t burned fast enough to give out
as much heat as it does.
Evening star., 1946-08-04

total Of 18 months active duty, he
will be released from service, OIL
cials explained.
Evening star., 1946-08-04

RoIsish Loy-Awey Pian: A
deposit holds your coat Til
November lst. You may poy
the bolonce onytime between
now and November lst.
Evening star., 1946-11-06

leading public spirited citizens when
Mr.. Campbell leaves. At a consider
able personal sacrifice he devoted
much of his time and energy in
behalf of better zoning, improved
schools and other benefits for his
community.
Aside from the foregoing events
the nearby elections went pretty
much as seasoned political Observers
had predicted. The "charterites" in
Montgomery won the right to vote
on a charter form Of government In
1948, which was another rebuff for
the lee machine" and the tax
payers of Virginia voted to rescind
a provision of the State constitution
prohibiting taxation of Federal
property. The latter action fore
shadows an effort by Virginia to
obtain Federal reimbursement for
taxes lost by Federal expansion Of
tax-free holdings.
Evening star., 1946-11-06
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,cn

The attention Of the world was
focused more In the last 10 days on
the midterm elections In the United
States than on the activities of the
U. N. Assembly, the Security Council
and the Council of Foreign Ministers.
While in previous years there has
been only limited interest In the
American elections because the public
abroad considered them as having little
bearing on the other countries, the re-
suits this year are expected to have an
important bearing on the domestic po-
itical trends all over Europe.
The fact that Russia has centered her
attention in our domestic political AZ
fairs has awakened an unprecedented
interest in our elections In the nations
within and outside the iron curtain.
The conflict between the American
politicians who are the u. s. 6. RS
advocates openly and those who oppose
the. inmixture Of foreign ideologies In
this country has been handled even
more spectacularly abroad than at home.
The Soviet government, either directly
or through its many agents and sympa-
thizers, Is playing an important role
today in Europe. Asia and Latin Amer
lea, where there Is . definite attempt
to "termite" the governments which
still stand for an "old-fashioned"
democracy.
The European and Latin American
countries have watched with anxiety
the increasing power of the Third
Observation-Disclosures has been ofhcially
disbanded, but is actually stronger than
ever before IN camouflaged form-in
well and solidly built democracies. Even
in England, where personal and polit-
ical freedom has been established
for centuries, there are Indications that
the Communist agents are gaining
strength. Hardships, hunger and con-
fusion are the best assistants Of the
Evening star., 1946-11-06

Soviet agents whose task 1t Is to disrupt
the existing order because, according to
the top Soviet leaders, including Stain,
communism and capitalism" can not
live side by side. In Russia and in the
satellite countries capitalism and de-
mocracy have become synonymous.
Next Sunday the French people are
going to the polls. The Communists
still represent minority in that coun-
try, but they are by far the best
organized party and have more money
than all the other French political
parties put together. And money counts
for q good deal in French politics.
Since the end of the war, the in
dividualistic Frenchman, who likes ito
try everything once" has been i'm
pressed by the skillful propaganda Of
Russia's agent. AS in the United States.
the Soviet ideologies have made tre-
politicians, but among the rank and
file Of the people. <.>
-
Our strike wave, which has been no
more severe than after World. War /
has been described by propagandists
abroad as an indication that the people
Of this country have had enough Of the
democratic system. The public utter
ances of Americans in political life
such as Henry Wallace. Claude Pepper
and other lesser luminaries were ex-
plotted as representing the true senti-
ments of the American people and had
a telling effect on the European and
Latin American democracies. 1t was
being said that if the Americans could
no longer stand the old order which
was of their own choosing and not i'm
posed on them by trickery, it was OBJ
vious that every other country should
follow the Russian pattern.
It is in this light that the outside
nations have been following the cam
States
Evening star., 1946-11-06

On Sunday night, over WOR. Max
Lerner, supporter of Henry Wallace,
said: THE Republicans have quite
generally introduced the issue OF COM
munism, which simply does not exist
as an issue in America"
On Sunday night, speaking at = rally
in Brooklyn, Henry Wallace said: III
the Republicans triumph, the day after
tomorrow the whole world will take it
as a sign that America has gone reac-
tionary. All over the world countries
where there are needy millions will turn
toward Russia for guidance.
Unless the American capitalist sys-
tenn Is 30 modified that 1t can produce
abundance for all, America will 90 Com
munist. Communism will be cer-
tainty II the Republicans come to full
power"
So 1t seems that, contrary to Mr..
Lerner, communism is an issue IN Amer
ica-an issue in American foreign and
domestic policy. None other than Mr..
Wallace has given notice that Re-
publican victory would cause all the
world to turn to Russia-And that the
be communism in America.
II this be So we may expect Russian
world domination, and . communi8ed
America. For as things look now-with
election returns not yet quite complete
the Republicans have won, curiously
enough by the vote of the majority
Mr.. Wallace's common men"
The American people, As . whole, are
turning more conservative than they
have been in long time. They are
turning more conservative because un-
der the present administration the
country is practically without govern
ment. They are profoundly dissatisfied
with present conditions Of economic
chaos, and believe that labor policies
have become self-defeating, paralying
to production, contributory to imitation.
impoverishing to workers, and fatal to
social order.
Mr. Wallace is correct in fearing that
the tide will swing too far, leading to
inevitable reactions in turn
But 1t is highly significant that Mr..
Wallace Is. in effect, threatening the
Nation with communism, II q Republican
victory follows the policies or has the
results which he predicts as certain" !"
In effect, he says that II world-com-
munism follows, 1t will serve America
right. It will be Inevitable" It will,
in fact, be justified.
This is extremely dangerous talk.
Communism will never come to Amer
lea, as 1t has never come anywhere, by
legal constitutional procedures, by free
elections, by the will of the majority.
II 1t comes here, 1t will come, as it has
everywhere else, by . direct or indirect
coup d'etat. Either by the capture Of
the Government from within, by persons
voted into power under quite other man
datee-yoted in. for instance. as lib.
Evening star., 1946-11-06
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

erals" when they are actually fronts for
.totalitarian socialists; or by direct ac-
ton, not necessarily against the Govern
ment, but against the economic life of
the Nation-by general strikes paralyz-
ing the economy, and necessitating such
drastic state action as will divide the
nation into warning camps. The preface
to communism is civil war. In that
case, the rest of the world will not look
to Russia, but Russia will certainly look
to the rest of the world, helpless, with
out q defender And Soviet Russia will
also look to us. Civil wars are Russia's
greatest hope, for In thenS she can al
ways intervene-to save progress from
reaction"
Mr.. Wallaces Is q queer speech to
hear, or read, In America.
There Is his argument that American
democracy depends upon an abundant
life for all. The only way to prevent
communism is to make the capitalist
system produce in abundance"
Why does not Mr.. Wallace say. "the
only way to prevent capitalism Tin Rus
sia) Is to make the Communist system
produce in abundance? How very. very
odd that 1t was eapitalistic America that
had to send lease-lend sid to Russia
instead Of the other way around. How
odd that nine-tenths Of the relief dis
tributed around the world Is contributed
by America. Why not by abundant
Russia?
But most dangerous of all Is the Sc
ductive concept that freedom and de-
mocracy can only be enjoyed by nations
in full production with universal abun-
dance.
No system in history has ever pro-
dlced universal equal abundance, -ac-
cording to everyone's standard Of abun-
dance. If this becomes the only criterion
OF good society which, failing, justifies
the overthrow of the social order, then
no social order will ever be able to stand
except by naked force.
Mr.. Wallace said, there doesn't have
to be . fight between Russia and the
United States any more than between
man and wife" The United States is
not married to the Soviet Union, but
the people Of the United States are mar
ried to the American Constitution. And
the ceremonies sanctifying marriage do
not proclaim its inviolabiltty except
where there is not abundance, but, on the
contrary, the partners take each other
for richer, for poorer. in sickness, in
health Mr. Wallace is asking for an
easier divorce law for free democracy
than exists for marriage even in the
State Of Nevada. Nowhere in this country
Is divorce granted on the ground that
the husband has not been able to provide
handsomely.
Meanwhile, the votes in the Peace
Conference have shown in what direction
the peoples Of the world actually are
looking And not, think, because Of the
Democratic Party.
Released by the Bell Syndieate, 1ne.)
Evening star., 1946-11-06
What Ones?

President Truman's statement on
American bases in the Pacific is
timed to coincide with efforts just
begun by the General Assembly to
organize the Trusteeship Council Of
the United Nations. In effect, re-
affirming what the President said
last January. the statement serves
notice on the world that the United
States proposes to be sole trustee OF
all former Japanese-held islands
deemed essential to our national
security.
AS far as it goes. this official view
seems to be in keeping with a CONF
promise policy reported to have been
worked out by the State, War and
Navy Departments at the time the
United Nations was being organized
at San Francisco-a compromise
which was then said to have had the
backing of Britain and Russia. 1t
apparently would base international
supervision on a distinction between
strategic base areas" having only
military significance and trustee
ship areas" having native popula-
ton and natural resources. Under
it, as explained at San Francisco,
the United States would be assured
of enjoying complete control, for all
practical purposes, Of any island
vital to its defense.
In reaffirming a sole trusteeship
claim on all such islands, however,
Mr.. Truman has once again re-
Trained from naming the places he
has in mind. But sooner or later
they will have to be named. Up to
now only the Navy-apparently with
the Arny's support-has been def
mite in this respect, having rec
commended some time ago that we
retain a great network Of bases,
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Neorby Election Upsets

OF the two outstanding upsets
IN nearby Maryland and Virginia
election results-the overturn OF the
z Brooke Lee Democratic regime in
Montgomery County and the defeat
Of Arlington County Board Chair
man Edmund D. Campbell-the
latter development is by far the more
surprising. Montgomery County
Republicans, making the most OF
the Had Enough?" slogan at a
time of widespread indicated COP
trends, were confident of victory in
their vigorously waged campaign
for local Offices. Behind the scenes
the Democrats had radiated no such
optimism.
But the victory of politically
unknown Daniel A. Dugan, running
as an independent candidate with
Republican support for the Airing
ton County Board, over the Demo-
cratic incumbent, Chairman Camp
bell, is not easy to explain, in view
of the county majority given all
other Democratic candidates. Ordi-
narily a victory for the Democratic
candidates for the Senate and the
House would mean success also for
such a prominent local member OF
the party as Mr.. Campbell. 1t is
only fair to Mr.. Campbell to
attribute his loss to the general tide
of sentiment against the Democratic
Party as a whole. That Senators
Byrd and Robertson and Represen-
tative Smith were able to withstand
this tide in Arlington undoubtedly
was due in part to the fact that
they have opposed many New Deal
measures and policies. Republicans
who voted for the Democratic
congressional slate in recognition OF
its conservative record felt no
similar obligation toward Mr.. Camp
bell. Another factor operating
against the board chairman was
the increasing feeling in the county,
especially among Federal employees
living there, that local administra-
ton of schools, roads, police and
other public services should be
taken out OF politics" AS an
independent" candidate, Mr.. Dugan
appealed to this group of voters.
The fact remains, however. that
the Arlington board will lose the
services of one of the county's
Evening star., 1946-11-06

The outstanding certainty, as the votes
were being cast in our States, was the
conceded strength Of specific Repub-
Iioans In six States Of the Union. These
are Cows. and former Cows. John w.
Bricker, Raymond E. Baldwin and Ed
ward Martin, running for the United
States Senate in Ohio, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania; Cows. Thomas e. Dewey
and Edward j. Thye. running for re-
election In New York and Minnesota,
and Gov. Earl Warren, at the head Of
both tickets In California. The reputa-
ton and strength Of these men rest
on q solid foundation Of some years OF
serious, honest and efncient govern
ment Of their States. They have simply
been good Governors. There are sew
eral other States where the same sit
uation prevails, but these men are most
prominent.
All Of them except Thye were elected,
and some were reelected during the
great Roosevelt ascendancy. Thye sue
ceeded Gov. Harold E. Stassen, who had
also been preferred In the face Of Roose-
velt ascendancy in his State.
In this simple fact lies the greatest
lesson that we can all derive from this
election. It is also the fact that should
most deeply impress triumphant Re-
publicans as they face their response
bilities in the two years ahead.
The Roosevelt regime was brought
about by an appeal to another and
quite different issue. It was an issue
OF social justice and humanitarianism.
It was based on the assertion that Re-
publican government, however tech
nically eficient, had no heart for the
underdog, the underprivileged, the ex-
plotted. When. Roosevelt ran. for re-
election in 1896 he frankly confessed
mistakes, but these, he said, were the
mistakes Of the warm hearted" He
never believed his administration was
as technically efficient as 1t might have
been, but he kept peoples eyes on what
he called his "objectives."
In those States where honesty and
efficiency have been approved over ana
over by the voters the Democratic oppo-
sition has depended on the old Roose-
welt appeal to the "downtrodden." In
New York this year that Is about all
they had to offer. It was an appeal to
the past of AL Smith and Gov. Roose-
yelt. It failed disnally.
It will take another turn OF the
wheel another period Of domestic
stress--to make the old humanitarian
appeal work again.
II the feelings Of voters this year
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Let Us Buy
Rv David Laurence 9
rom the London sunday cnronieis.

From the London sunday Cnronici6.
Workers are putting in fewer hours
than they did, and producing less. Al
though their earnings per hour are
greater than ever before, their gross
earnings are less than a year ago. There
is plenty of money about, but little to be
bought for the money, because the goods
are being produced for export and not
for the home market. 4. :. They begin to
ask themselves whether 1t is worth while
to produce when they are prevented
from buying what they make. Casting
around for something to do with their
money, they resort to unproductive en-
terprises. They pass 1t from hand to
hand in gambling and other wasteful
ways. They buy secondhand goods at
soaring prices. The remedy for all this.
surely, is to put the goods In the shops
and give the people chance to buy
them. It Is true that we must export in
order to thrive, but We cannot 60 on
living on our own juices while the, export
markets are built up.
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Good Government the Issue
By Rsy,n osd Moley

could be analyzed, 1t would probably
be revealed that people generally have
no quarrel with New Deal obiectives.
They believe that Roosevelt and Tru-
man have wanted more for more peo-
pie, that low prices, high wages, equal
ity Of opportunity, honest security mar
kets, fair collective bargaining and So
cial legislation are worth working for.
But the incredible bureaucracy. the
fumbling hand in private affairs, the
reversals in administrative policy and
the confusion have turned them away
from the Democrats. They believe q
change would help and they like the
neat job that has been done nearer
home, in their State capitals.
'xA 4 4
Good government has been sneered
at by so-called progressives in the past.
Years ago, q contemptupus epdthet was
coined: "goo-goo." It was supposed to
apply to stiff, tight-lipped but efficient
people who saw only lower taxes and
tidy, honest public administration and
who were coldly unaware Of deep eco
nomic and social injustices.
For the progressives and New Dealers
much must be said. They did turn the
balance and correct many fniustices.
But these corrections are now fixed in
the law-permanently and beyond ar
gument.
Now the common sense of people turns
to competent running of the prosaic
but vital affairs Of government sound
finances, efficient care of the unfortu-
nate, honestly built public works, help
full services to farmers and small busi-
nesses. All these have characterized
many State governments while Wash
ington has been tangled in its overex-
tended effort to do too much, too soon.
Perhaps this issue Of good government
is what might best carry Republicans
to victory in 1948. It would certainly be
a hopeful promise.
released by the Associated Prsssl
Evening star., 1946-11-06

including Two Jima and Okinawa.
Meanwhile, though, both the Presi-
dent and the State Department,
confining themselves to broad gen.
eralized statements, have left the
impression that American policy is
by no means decided as regards
points like Okinawa.
Nevertheless, now that the United
Nations is getting down to specific
action on the projected Trusteeship
Council, the time obviously is near
ing when we shall have to spell out
precisely what we mean when we
speak of islands deemed essential to
our security,
Evening star., 1946-11-06

V0CeleSS washington mace a re-
markable demonstration of Its in
terest in voting yesterday. Some OF
the predictions as to the turnout
exceeded the actual number who
went to the polls. The Star Is not
familiar with the basis for the pre-
dictions. But the results are IN
themselves noteworthy-a gain over
the 1898 plebiscite registration of IS
per cent, compared with population
gain OF about so per cent.
This great gain in the number OF
people willing to 60 out and vote on
relatively abstract issues is all the
more remarkable considering the
handicaps, imposed by inexperience
and lack of facilities, on the process
of voting. The polls were not opened
early enough, thus preventing thou
sands from voting on their way to
work. The crowds still waiting In
some OF the voting places at 8 o'clock
indicated that some of the polls were
closed too early. There were not
enough polling places. Some OF the
volunteer election officials misun-
derstood their instructions. The
machinery for reporting and tabu-
lating the results was improvised
from hour to hour, to meet conditions
as they arose.
But in spite of such handicaps
more than 10000 Washingtonians-
a greater number than the total
registration in some Of the States
turned out and voted for principle,
without any particular assurance
that anybody would pay much at
tention to the fact that they voted.
That fact will be hard to ignore.
It was broadcast over the country
yesterday and last night. The tele-
graph wires are carrying the results
everywhere today. And those re-
suits hammer home to millions OF
people the fact, which Is still in
credible to many of them, that here
in the Capital of the Nation which
does more preaching about democ-
racy than all the rest Of the world
put together, men and women are
still denied the right to vote.
The primary purpose OF the plebi-
scite, therefore, has been achieved
and the results reflect great credit
on the Board of Trade, the partici-
pating organizations and the volun-
teers who made it possible. An
overwhelming majority of Washing
tonians want the right to vote. They
must work to obtain that right. But
the foundations have been laid Tor
a new effort in the coming Congress.
The nature of the opposition, the
preferences of local citizens on the
method they prefer to follow IN
gaining the vote &nd other facts
revealed in yesterdays fine showing
are subjects for later discussion
based on more careful analysis OF
,>aSi,peS
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Boy Reudinq Indion Stories

The reader Jeels tscig map 1ndertoot.
And asrotpy silence sntsTiSg his heart.
His n,occdsins NTH caatto1s tredding put
Small trace upon the sooodland moss,
and part
The prairie grass. He sees the dog,oood
light
The 5o,iaged heauens, hears the ,oild
cranes flight.
He q the pioneer UYto holds the flint
OF rugged honesty against his breast:
His the canoe that cuts the slipery CLINT
OF SusQuehannan pdters, his the guest
TO ,pdlk the tcideness Of the prGirie floor,
70 knock NTH boIdness on the frontier
q door.
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