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Despite the fact that number OF
major strikes have been settled re-
Gently, there is general Keeling
, here that all strike settlements will
be of a temporary nature until the
government establishes a real labor
policy which will govern laDor-man-
agement relations in the future.
The nearest thing to such a pol
icy is the labor disputes bill recently
introduced into the house by Rep.
Francis Case, Republican of North
Dakota. This bill, which is vehe-
mently opposed by labor union lead
ers and will therefore meet with d
great deal of opposition, asks for n
lot more control over labor than does
the Norton fact-finding bill favored
| by President Truman.
Among the most important provi-
sions of the Case measure are: to
outlaw boycott and sympathy strikes,
thus preventing workers in one plant
from striking to help another union
group get demands; to restore the
power of the courts to issue injunc-
tions in labor disputes; to make. vio-
lence or threats in labor disputes
punishable by the courts; to exclude
supervisory employees from the pro-
lection of the Wagner act; to provide
for a cooling off period before a
strike threat can be carried out; to
set up a mediation board patterned
after the War Labor Board to make
it unlawful for pickets to prevent
those who want to work from enter
ing their place of employment.
Labor leaders, who naturally fight
all measures which put them under
new controls. will undoubtedly carry
on major campaign to prevent pas
sage of the bill, but many congress
men feel it is Just the type measure
for which the public has been ask
ing. 1t is doubtful. however. if it
will ever be passed in its present
form. The chances are that it will
be considerably amended and many
of the teeth taken out of it before
it actually comes up for vote.
Although the number of men still
! out on strike is we'll over a million,
and there are many new strike
The Lincoln times., 1946-02-14

The nations ultimate foreign pol
icy will have definite and material
effect upon the agricultural program
and its chances of success.
The Lincoln times., 1946-02-14

Heres a book, madam" said the
salesman, ''that will interpret all
your dreams"
"Now, smarty," replied the land
lady, I'm have you know l do all
nv dreaming in English"
The Lincoln times., 1946-02-14

"I just thought of something
said a Tokyo man in the street to
adding hastily: you know
it's legal now"
The Lincoln times., 1946-02-14

She: Sometimes my father takes
things apart to see why they don't
CO."
He: $50 what?
She: $50 you'd better CO."
The Lincoln times., 1946-02-14

oven for one and one-fourth hours
or until potato is tender. The oven
temperature should be $50 degrees
F. Be sure to use a good sized bak-
ing dish.
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How many ways do you serve po-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
In Behalf Of Freedom

Our latest note on the Romanian
elections, which are to be held
tomorrow, is essentially repetition
OF what we have said many times
before. We have said it not merely
to the regime in control Of Romania
but to the regimes In control of all
the other small countries within
the Soviet orbit. 1t is simply that
we want people to be free to set up
democratic governments of their
own choice.
To press for this is not unwar-
ranted Intervention on our part In
the internal affairs of lands distant
from us; we have a clear right to do
1t; indeed, II we did not do 1t we
would be neglecting the responsible
ties we have assumed under the
great-power agreements Of Moscow,
Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam. OF
course, as has been shown in such
countries as Yugoslayia and Bull
garia, our representations to Ro-
mania probably viii have little
direct effect. The Bucharest regime
by such measures as denial of
equal time on the radio-has made
it impossible for the opposition
parties to conduct anything but a
limping campaign. Accordingly, no
matter how free" may be the
actual voting tomorrow, the cards
have already been stacked in favor
Of the predominantly Communist
Sins"
Nevertheless, our note has the
virtue of keeping the record straight
for history. In addition it makes
clear to the Bucharest regime that
America, irrespective of the Roman
ian election results, will continue
to uphold the individual against
the one-party state and to support
the democratic principles of lib
erty, freedom and justice" upon
which "the future peace and vel
fare of the world depend view
basically the same as that which
animates the statement just issued
by the, Catholic bishops of the
United States on the rights of man
and evils of totalitarianism.
It Is a view that will be shared by
every true American, regardless of
creed or party affiliation. The mere
reaff1rmation of it at this time
may have no perceptible success in
promoting democracy in places like
Romania, but by holding fast to
it and by proclaiming it on every
proper occasion wherever we can,
we may be able to do much-grad-
ually, bit by bit-in behalf Of free
dom and q better world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
The Wehrmocht Is Abolished

From the GLASGOW Herald.
This is the first time In history that
q great nation. whose territory has not
been annexed and whose sovereignty,
though at present in allegiance, has not
been abolished. has been formally for
hidden by her victorious opponents to
possess any armed forces at all. So ex-
treme step Is justified not only by the
record disclosed over the past nine
months at Nuremberg, but by the abuse
by the German government, long before
1t passed into Nazi control, OF the per-
mission granted at Versailles to main.
tain token force Of 100 900 men. That
force was organized as cadre capable
OF rapid expansion, for which the gem
eral staff. which continued in being,
had all plans prepared by the time Hit
ler's assumption Of power made it pos
sible to execute it. Not the oldest, but
the most deeply rooted military trade
ton, in Europe is thus condemned to
death. The mere declaration, however,
Is not enough. Vigilance and strict su.
pervision must execute it for genera
ton or more, until the German people
have turned Of their own will and ina
SEPARATION to found their lives on other
and nobler parts Of their heritage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
Postwar Aviation

1t is only natural that a predomi-
nant proportion OF the civilian spec
tators at the first National Aircraft
Show since before World War II
should be young men who not so
long ago were ranging the skies in
combat planes on missions of death
and destruction. Although the war
is over, the flying bug still has most
OF them In Its power. And In decid-
ing to 60 shead with the aircraft
exposition at Cleveland this year,
despite production difficulties and
in disregard Of the automobile in
dustry's decision against holding a
1946 automobile show. the airplane
manufacturers no doubt desired to
make the most of the excl
enthusiasm.
The aviation fans found an array
Of sixteen varieties of private planes
on view, most of them of the small,
chubby type. For those with an urge
for something less conventional,
there were half a dozen helicopters.
In marked contrast to the peacetime
models were a number OF Army and
Navy combat planes, including a
B-2o.
Despite the advance publicity and
the elaborate arrangements to make
the show attractive, however, the
early turnout of spectators was dis
appointingly small. No report on
early sales was available. But the
probability is that there will be no
popular demand comparable to that
in the automotive field until the
moderate" prices which manufac-
turers are compelled to charge for
planes under present conditions can
be brought down to level within
reach Of the average former service
flyer. Moreover, the lack of adequate
airport facilities for private use is a
discouraging factor in many COM
munities.
= AS production methods improve,
plane costs are sure to come down al
most to automobile levels, and as the
number OF private planes increases
the demand for improved airport
facilities will bring an improvement
in that field-just as increased use
Of the automobile brought improved
roads and service stations. It should
not be very long before every large
city will have its aerial trafiic Of
ficers, on the lookout for hedge
hoppers, joy-riders and other men,
aces to aviation safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
Scott Case Delay

The delay In coming 10 q mai
settlement of the case of<Charles w.
Scott, colored, who died in the Dis
trict Jail infirmary while under ar
rest in connection with the traffic
death Of q policeman, is producing
conditions that are manifestly I'M
desirable.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald,
who certified, without holding an
inquest, that Scott died from the
effects of an antitetanus serum, ap-
parently is collaborating with the
mans attorney in private investi-
cation of the circumstances. Mean
while, the Washington Council OF
the National Negro Congress is
limiting at sensational new evil
dence" which would be produced at
an inquest, this evidently being
based on a report that the findings
Of a colored physician who per-
formed an autopsy on SCOTS body
do not support those Of DR.. Mac
Donald.
This sort of thing should not be
permitted to continue The District
Commissioners and the superin-
tendent OF police have indicated
that they are satisfied with DR..
MacDonald's findings and are not
disposed to conduct any indie
pendent investigation. This official
indifference, while not surprising, is
beside the point.
1t is not the Commissioners, nor
the chief Of police, nor SCOTS at
torney, nor the Negro Congress who
need to be satisfied in this matter.
1t Is the people of Washington who
are the real parties in interest and
who have right to know all of the
facts pertaining to SCOTS rather
strange death.
DR.. Macdonald should reconsider
his decision and consent to an in
quest in which the prison doctor
who treated Scott would be required
to<testify under oath as to what was
done or left undone, and in which
any evidence developed by others
could be considered. This procedure
ought to be standard practice in
any case in which person dies
while In police custody. II DR.. Mac
Donald is not willing to do this,
the Scott case should be put before
q grand jury by the United States
attorney. AS matters stand, there
are too many unexplained circum-
stances which contribute to the
suspicion that something Is being
covered up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
Feur Is the Death

And ,ohy shoald man fear death? 10 10
AFRAID
To Uenture through the starless dark,
alone,
Foreper terrified b. the Unknoson
Whereon the sentient spirit shall b.
laid?
or does he fear not darkness, but the
light,
Too luminous for mortal gaze to hold,
The suns rays r1agnifed q millionfold,
SCATTERING his dreams against the night?
Whatever It u he fears. It Is not iceIl:;
Fear Is the only death that man shall
kfotp;
All else is nauoht. into the Beautiful
As Dante iDent = as Milton !. !.
each tDiH 90,
Nor eper guess the moment Of his deGth
Came long befors the final. rasptng
breath. u
MAE wrNKLER GOODMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
On the Record
By Dorothy Thombson

lace, except that the tables are turned.
Whereas Mr.. Wallace protested
against British balance Of power ma
nipulations," and British imperialism"
it is now left-wing British Laborites.
led by Tom Driberg, who, In language
considerably more vulgar than Mr.. Wal
lace's, excoriates British partnership
with the barbaric thugs of Detroit" and
the narrow imperialists Of Washington
and Wall Street"
In the case Of both revolts-little
putsches as they really are-the spectre
of war in conjured up, with America
as the aggressor (Mr. Driberg did not,
at least, pick his own country for the
role Of the next war criminal, as did
Mr.. Wallace The elements that are
going to bring on this disaster are plot
tiers Of a conspiracy Matched in wall
Street 1t is threatened that the people
will not follow, and the result will be-
in England, as predicted for America
by Mr. Wallace-Communism.
1t sounds as If the PAC here and the
left-wing Laborites in London EN-
ployed the same ghost writers.
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to a division and the acid test Of vote,
I predict the insurgents will decrease
and Mr.. Bevin and Mr.. Attlee viii
meet the challenge successfully. But
the event is significant of the suscepti-
bility of free democracies to disaster
through reckless abuse of their freedoms.
The peace negotiations involve q totali-
tartan government which is immune
from stabs in the back Should Wal
lace or Driberg arise in the Supreme
Soviet to challenge the policies of Stain
and Molotov, he would be shot.
Democracy will not survive if through
men of no restraint it furnishes the
means of suicide, in behalf Of powers
whose rapacities are unrestrained by
popular criticism.
The war scare is being raised deliber-
ately to cripple the diplomacy of the
West. The Soviets are not trying to
prevent war, but to prevent peace and
create q climate favorable to their politi-
cal consolidation and extension. They
are being aided in this by Russia
firsters in Britain and America.
Not only can the results be disastrous
in terms of foreign policy but In do
nestle affairs as well. Such tactics in
variably create vehement counter-reac-
tions.
They contributed UNNECESSARILY to the
wreck of the German Republic and
opened the way for Hitler.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
Public Debt Policy
By Raym ond Molev.

/ There Is only one thing as bad as
loose talk about tax reduction before
election. That is loose talk about tax
reduction by the yictors Immediately
after election. 1t Is not clear that the
predictions Of various Republicans about
q 20 per cent cut in individual income
rates all mean the same thing. In some
cases the statements are qualified; In
some cases they are not. The most de-
pendable statements are those which
express hope for q reduction II and
after substantial savings are made and
something Is paid on the debt.
It requires no genius to see that ma
terial savings are possible and that, II
Molotov means business about disarma-
ment, very large savings are likely. An
ex-Molotov budget would be q windfall
for American taxpayers. The real issue
is the balance between tax reduction
and debt retirement. Until long term
deht-retirement policy is made, there
should be no talk at all about tax re-
duction. And no one seems TO know
what part Of the debt should be sche-
duled for yearly retirennent 0
It would be economic insanity and ul-
innate political death for Republicans
to ignore the tested. principle that the
time to pay of q debt is during period
of high income, especially in period of
imitation. If debt cannot be substan-
tally reduced In such period 1t never
can be reduced. There Is some sense In
using the debt as an economic balance
wheel, cutting when times are good and
paying less rapidly or not at all when
times are bad. But now we are expert
encing genuinely inflated income.
when great reductions should be In or
der.
There are economists who suggest .
debt cut Of $4,000, 900 COO year. This
is an average cut. They say that the
cut should be 81, 900 900 900 in poor years,
$4,000, 900 900 In middling years and
$4,000, o00. 900 in good years. With the
debt now over $250, COX, 000, 900, that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
A Good Proposal

Inc OnlCeQ NaClOuS Will DC CaklllS
q wholesome step If it drafts a code
of international criminal law in line
with the principles set forth at
Nuremberg. Former Attorney Gen.
eral Biddle's recommendation to
that end-fully Endorsed by Presi-
dent Truman-is so sensible on its
face that no country can logically
oppose it, least of all the four great
powers that passed judgment on the
Nazi warlords.
In effect, in his letter to the Presi-
dent, Mr.. Biddle, who has now ended
his role as American member Of the
International Military Tribunal, has
asked that the Nuremberg precedent
be established permanently as key
part of proclaimed world law. In
Mr.. Biddle's words, "the judgment
has formulated, judicially for the
hrst time, the proposition that ag-
gressive war is criminal and will be
SO treated" But if it is to have
more than an ephemeral bearing on
the future, 1t needs to be incor-
porated, with precise definition as
to its scope, into far-reaching code
OF conduct holding every country
liable for crimes against the peace
and crimes against humanity.
AS both Mr.. Biddle and the Presi-
dent declare, such action will require
O vast amount of study by the
worlds best legal minds. Yet Nuern-
berg has laid the essential ground
work, and 1t has done so under a
special charter setting forth basic
principles agreed to not merely by
the four judging powers France,
Britain, Russia and the United
States) but by nineteen other coun-
tries as well. The United Nations
ought therefore to find 1t not too
difficult to build upon those prin-
ciples as foundation for great
new structure of international
criminal law. The General Assem-
lily is specifically charged with the
responsibility of initiating measures
along this line, and we have already
taken the lead in having consider
alton OF such measures placed upon
the agenda Of the current meeting
in New York. Mr.. Biddle's recon-
mendation thus Is timely and to the
point, and presumably will receive
full attention before the Assembly
adjourns.
OF course, aggressive war cannot
be done away with simply by having
the entire membership of the United
Nations reaffirm the principles of
Nuremberg and enbody them in a
new code. But such action will do
this much: II will make clear before
history that the judgment passed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,vn

The American diplomatic missions In
Eastern Europe and in the Balkans are
having an increasingly dificult time
protecting their nationals, especially
II they happen to be descendants Of
immigrants.
This Is particularly true In Poland,
where Irene DmochoWska, an Amer
ican-born citizen of Polish extraction,
was recently sentenced to five years in
prison. Miss Dpochowska, who was
attached to the American Embassy in
Warsaw. was charged with providing
the underground with arms and am
munition to perpetrate political MUIR
ders.
According to reliable American
sources. 1t appears that this Americana
born citizen has been made a victim
as an answer by the Polish government
to Secretary Of State Byrnes' charge of
q few months ago that the Polish state
secret police was INDUCING in political
murders.
The involvement of Miss Dmochowska
In the net of Polish political intrigues
was intended to show that the American
Embassy was indirectly involved in the
murders which our Secretary of State
HAS QtIlOuIlCSu.
The most recent reports from Warsaw
indicate that Polish leaders. such as
Prime Minister Morawaski- Osubka, are
tools in the hands Of lesser officials who
have been placed in key posts by the
Politbureau In Moscow.
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One Of these men Is said to be a
certain Adolf Berman, the preWar
Warsaw correspondent of the Jewish
Telegraph Agency. His present job Is
secretary general in the ONCE Of the
Prime Minister. But he is the only
individual In that organization who has
q direct telephone line to the Kremlin.
The story is told by high American
ofilcials that about three months ago
Morawaski- Osubkas private secretary
was arrested by the political police.
When the Prime Minister arrived at
his Office and was told that they have
taken him away" he knew who "they"
were. He got into his car and rushed to
the headquarters Of the secret police,
ready to give the chief a piece Of his
mind. When he opened up, the head
Of the Polish NKvD told him to seek
explanations from Berman. Nothing
more was said and the private secretary
was never heard from any more.
American and British representatives
In Warsaw have failed in their efforts
to persuade the Polish government to
live up to the Yalta agreement regard
ing free and unfettered elections Fol-
lowing expert advice" the Polish gov
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18

It Is hard to believe that the exact
repetition Of a pattern is ever pure
coincidence.
When. in September, James Byrnes
was negotiating in Paris, with the atti-
tude of the Soviets constituting the
chief impeachment to peace-making. left
wingers in his party. including fellow
cabinet member, suddenly launched an
attack behind his back which under
mined his position. 1t started Rus
sian propaganda campaign, designed to
widen the breach caused by that enter
ing wedge conveniently driven by Henry
A. Wallace and Senator Claude Pepper
at home.
The play failed, temporarily at least.
President Truman removed MIR. Wallace
and, less than two months later, the
American people put In a Republican
Congress committed to unity behind the
foreign policy Of Mr.. Byrnes.
That policy issto use American diplo-
matte power against Russian expansion
ism in Europe and Asia, while seeking
all disarmament consonant with the
spirit Of full reciprocity. In this, Mr..
Byrnes has had the support of the
British Labor Government and its for
eign minister, Ernest Bevin. and of a
large majority Of the governments of
the world.
Since the congressional elections, Mr..
Byrnes is no longer exposed to a stab
In the back from persons in his own
Government. Meanwhile, negotiations
interrupted in Paris have been resumed
in New York. Again, as in Paris, they
center around control of the Danubian
basin and the Adriatic outlet, and
whether this great complex, once con-
shutting Europe's largest and most
populous continental empire and pres
emily containing nearly three times the
population of France, shall become an
economic monopoly to be added to the
closed and regimented economy Of the
Soviet Union.
The atmosphere seemed somewhat
improved of late.
But now, suddenly-again, as In the
Byrnes' case, without warning-in exact
repetition of the previous. pattern, Mr..
Bevin Is stabbed In the back by left
wingers within his own party in London.
Again, the foreign minister is far away
las far from London as Mr.. Byrnes was
from Washington thus unable to have
warded on the move. His absence and
the tautness of the negotiations in New
York are the signal for an attack in
which his foreign policy is denounced in
almost the identical terms OF Mr., Wal