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Evening star., 1947-03-31

but nevertheless
d e t init e i y
spanked by Mr.
Truman, whom
he had greatly
embarrassed. If
as now under :
stood, Mr.. Sulli-
, van, because OF
Mr.. Hannegan's
health, is per-
manently to sue
ceed him as ma
tional chairman
not many will
consider 1t a
break either for
the adninistra-
fioy1 or the pari
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Answers to
Questions

A reader can get the answer to any
question Of fact by writing The Evening
NE, Washington 2. b. C. Please In.
close cents for return postage.
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McLemore-
Discusses Spring
In Washington
BY Henry McLemore

This is the loveliest time of year
in Washington.
Spring has come to this, our Ma
tion's Capital
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Frank X. Kent
TheGreat GameofPOlitics
Truman Would Weaken His Position
BY Using Veto as Political Weapon

There are too reports about them
not TO have solid foundation that
reports emanate from the headquarters Sullivan acting
chairman of the Democratic Committee entirely
discredt them.
Mr. Sullivan 1t will be recalled the gentleman
Evening star., 1947-03-31
Harold L. Ickes
Man to Man
Taber Might Slash Fish and Shellfsh'
From Agriculture Survey to Save Money

Representative Taber chairman Appropra-
tons Committee has been asng the appropriations
ment agencies with all the zeal small attacking
melon 1t hoped that he will overlook appropriation
where he could the needless dupca
tion and, addition, defeat conniving
lobbyists inside and outside of hee-~- - ~
Government. prooaoly IN Wall Street he had
Evening star., 1947-03-31
National or local Bargaining?

The Unions demand that bargaining be done on nation
wide basis for the entire Bell System But the vast
majority Of the service we furnish is local in nature
The rates which customers pay for this service
regulated by the local regulatory body This Company in
the past has always barganed and made contracts locally
with representatives of the local Unions The Company
and the representatives of the Unions familiar with
the local conditions and they in the best position to
negotiate contract to meet conditions in this community
This is the best way be done for locally regulated
public service company.
Here's What the Unions Demands Mean
An increase to employees ranging from $12 to $3l
per week.
$10341 900 annual increase in the cost of furnishing
telephone service.
1870 increase in the Companys total wage payments
for 1916 to employees represented by the Unions.
Three times the total earnings of the Company
in 1916.
1t amounts to $5.Os per month for every telephone
subscriber.
telephone strike is serious thing It's bad for the
public, bad for employees, bad for this Company.
We willing to our present liberal contracts
We willing to arbtrate the basic wages for the en-
poyees Of this Company We are willing discuss any
reasonable solution which will be fair to the employees
to the telephone and the investors in the business
There !. no excuse for a telephone strike.
Evening star., 1947-03-31

IN tranSparently cheap political
trick. was first savagely spanked by
Senator Vandenberg, and then, a
few days ago, somewhat more gently
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4ELEPHoNE employees are we'll paid
Wages paid to employees in Washington represented
by the Unions have gone up $50 in the last six years!
Wage rates are now at the highest level in the history
of the business.
They are we'll in line with wages paid by other
businesses in the community for work requiring similar
skill and training. This has been our policy. It is in
keeping with obligations to the entire community
To make it is carried out we are continually COM
pairing telephone wages with other wages in the
community.
Our present contracts with the Unions already pro-
vide for regular increases at specified intervals unta
maximum wage rate is reached for each job So the
large majority Of telephone employees would con-
tinue to receive regular increases under the existing
contracts.
Furthermore telephone people enjoy steady employ
ment good working conditions and extra pay for evening"
night Sunday work They also have eight holidays and
up to three weeks vacations with pay each year, sickness
benefits and PENSIONS with the entire cost paid by the
Company:
Considering all these facts we believe that our
present contracts with the Unions very LIBERAL And
have repeatedly offered to renew these contracts.
Company Has Offered to Arbitrate
Within the past few days we have offered to arbitrate
the basic wage demands made by the Unions representing
the employees of this Company We believe wages
are fair, and willing to have this test made.
mi nj a -
Evening star., 1947-03-31
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

Q. Did Cardinal Wolsey really say
the famous words of farewell that
Shakespeare includes in his play
Henry VIII?-F. E.
A. He did not. Wolsey's farewell
is Shakespeare's invention.
Evening star., 1947-03-31

Q. How many dominions are
there within the British Empire?-
L. H.
A. There are four: Canada, the
Commonwealth of Australia, New
Zealand, and the Union of South
Africa.
Evening star., 1947-03-31

lOUUyiSlS lIlSluC dllu OutSlue VI LIE
Government.
In the closing days of the last
session of Congress, these termitic
Evening star., 1947-08-15

Britain is total. No British rights
are reserved. Both Indian states
may withdraw from the Common
wealth or one may stay and the
other withdraw.
The last tribute to British sin
cerity was the decision of the India
Congress to make Viscount Louis
Mountbatten Governor General for
the interim period during which the
new constitution and laws shall be
drawn up. The reason given is
significant. Nobody fears that
Mountbatten will usurp powers,
which many Congress members OBJ
ject to giving any one of their own
party.
Picks Own Leader"
But Moslem Pakistan-not be-
cause it objects to Mountbatten. but
because it wishes no symbol, even,
of all-India unity-has chosen its
own leader, Jinnah, as interim Gov
ernor General. In this capacity,
plus his control of the Moslem
League. Jinnah becomes head of
the greatest and richest Moslem
state-150,00 900 people-with COM
mensurate influence on the Arabian
world. On August II he was pro-
claimed "Caid = el Azam," great
leader''-or fuehrer.
Not all of India is absorbed in the
India Union or PakiStan. Though
the British recommended that the
princely states align with one or the
other of the great entities, Kashmir,
Hyderabad, and Bhopal have de-
clared independence. Belatedly
Travancore joined India. thus put
ling her in possession of three-quar-
tiers of all available thorium-a ra-
dioactlve element used in develop
ing atomic energy.
A study of the two provisional
cabinets reveals great concentra-
tions of power. Nine persons hold
Is posts in the India cabinet; five
hold Is in the Pakistan cabinet.
Will democratic" governments
develop? That depends on defini-
tlons. The concept of democracy
generally accepted since the Ameri-
can Revolution was of strict di-
vision of powers, protection of equal
rights for political minorities, gov
eminent "of laws, not men," and
specific freedoms reserved to the
individual citizen.
This concept is waning even in
the West, and was never native to
Asia. Alexander Hamilton would
have called the new" democracies
"Catiline States" Based, not or
the suffrage of uncoerced individual
citizens forming in commonalty "the
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It
ters to be held in London November
IS. This conference will be a con-
tinuation of the Moscow parleys last
spring, which had to be postponed"
because of the lack of understand
ing between the Soviet government
and the other Allies.
When Secretary of State Marshall
agreed at that time to hold anoths~
meeting this fall he hoped that this
long cooling off period might make
the Kremlin more tractable and CO.
operative. Unfortunately, the fact
that our armed forces-and particu-
larly the Air Forces-have dimin-
ished even further since spring has
failed to make Russia's masters
more amenable to reason.
Believe U. S. Is Weak.
Like Hitler before Pearl Harbor,
the Kremlin relies heavily on the
reports of its agents in the United
States and has come to the conclu-
sion that this country is too weak
to do more than talk and attempt
to buy the support of other nations.
Every time the Russian agents in
form Moscow that there has been
another substantial jump in Amerl-
cas- cost of living the reports are
received joyfully, because they lead
the Russians to believe that social
unrest here may not be far off.
The Comintern does not hide its
thoughts, which flll the editorials
in the government press and the
radio broadcasts. In sum, these
thoughts are that America will never
risk a showdown with the USSR
because it would mean new hard
ships for the American people, who
Evening star., 1947-08-15
Man to Man
Britain and L. S. Should Find Solution
To Palestine Issue Without DELAY

The moral responsibility of the
United States is as clear as is that
of the British, even though we
have had no hand in the repressions
and terrorism in Palestine. We
underworld the Balfour Declaration
We, too, have condemned the White
Paper. Long ago, President Tru-
man demanded the immediate ad-
mission into Palestine of 100000
Jews. Publicly, he has reiterated
this policy, which, if carried out,
would be both humane and states
manlike. He has been content
with pious words.
To What Purpose, Britain?
The time came when Great Brit
ain could no longer afford the lux
ury of maintaining the German
royal house that oppressively rules
Greece. Great Britain talks of re-
ducing the number of its troops
in Germany. Great Britain is be-
coming worried about the rapid dis
appearance of it's American dollars.
And yet, Great Britain seems to
be able to afford 100000 troops in
little Palestine. One might well ask
for how long and to what purpose
The only claim that Great Britain
has to any authority in Palestine
is under a mandate from the
League of Nations. As a matter of
fact, there Is now no League of
Nations. So, it might be asked
whether Great Britain is in Pales-
tine legally, or as usurper.
Without arguing this point, it Is
suggested that the United Nations
ought to issue to both Great Britain
and the armed Palestinians a
cease and desist" order. Not only
for humanitarian reasons should an
end be put to this internecine war
fare, but because it is a spark that
may ignite larger conf1agration
that it might not be possible to
extinguish. In any event, it does
not comport with the prestige and
dignity of the United Nations tc
permit these two recalcitrant hot
heads to be numbering each Other
under the guise of legal execu.
tions,' or "reprisals" or otherwise
It is just as proper that the
United Nations should order a ces-
sation of this conflict in Palestine
as it was that it should tell the
Dutch and the Indonesians to stoI
their bitter and unwarranted war
And, having rung the curtain down
on the terrorism in Palestine. the
United Nations, and particularly
those two powerful members, the
United States and Great Britain
tshould find a quick and satisfactory
way out of the Palestine issue with
out further delay. There must be
some solution that men of good will
can find. Failure to solve this
question is tantamount to admitting
that executions and reprisals shall
follow each other interminably in
bloody sequence.
Copyright, 1947)
Evening star., 1947-08-15
This Changing World -
Russia Out to Extend Zone in Germany
To the Rhine, Reports From Berlin Say

cannot live without the "luxuries to
which its capitalist leaders have
accustomed Them
The same idea was expressed in
1886 by Admiral Kichisaburo No
mura, who later became the last
japanese Ambassador to Washing
ton. He told a small gathering in
Washington that there Is no
danger of war between Japan and
America" When asked the basis
for this pleasant and optimistic
prophecy, he replied: Because of
the Beauty Rest mattress" He went
on to say that the American people
are soft and used to luxuries. Con-
sequently, he said, they would never
indorse war which could be waged
only by the strong.
Tougher Molotov Seen
This same conception of America
in 1947 is believed to be the principal
reason why the USSR is so unco-
operative and why she follows her
present provocative line. The re-
ports from Berlin say we must ex-
pect an even tougher attitude on the
part of Foreign Minister Molotov
if-he goes to London.
Available information based on a
careful analysis of the Russian &C
tivities in the Reich lead American
observers to believe that the Soviet
Foreign Minister'S attitude in Mos
cow last Spring was far more CO.
operative than it will be in London
in November.
Political and military measures
are under preparation in the Russian
zone of Germany to confront us
with accomplished facts before the
time fixed for the next parley. The
Russians may try to maneuver us
into abandoning Berlin to them.
They may also attempt to force the
withdrawal of all Allied forces in the
western zones of Germany to the
western bank of the Rhine.
The largest and most productive
part of Austria is also expected to
be added to the expanded Russian
zone, which would Immediately be-
come free and democratic"
German Republic, with its capital at
Weimar. The Russians are reported
to have informed the present Aus
trian government of their plans.
which amount actually to another
The American Government is
forewarned of the shape of things
to come. But because of our pres
ent military weakness there is little
that can be done to Offset Russian
plans
Evening star., 1947-08-15
On the Record
New Banner Flies Over Union of India
Democracy Development Questioned

people" but on organized. propa-
gandized, and automatically con-
trolled masses" they centralize in
stead of diffusing power, rule by ma
jorities obtained in police-controlled
plebiscites, accord no rights to mi
norities, and reserve none to the in
dividual citizen. BY classical deflni-
ton and analogy they are tyrannies
by mass-seducing demagogues.
Oppression by Kin.
1t is not written in history nor
destiny that men may not be worse
oppressed by kin and kind than by
strangers. In NPakistan enlightened
Moslem elements attracted to Their
Hindu brethren are steam-rollere6
by Moslem chauvinists. In the
struggles for national self-govern-
ment the very idea of self-govern-
ment undergoes strange metamor-
phoses. Nations may be free" anc
their people enslaved.
In Britain itself, birthplace Of po-
litical liberty and personal freedom
a struggle threatens the basis OF
British society.
A government with a huge but
normally transitory majority-ob-
tanned by largely accidental coali-
ton of opinion against a previous
wartime regime-has voted itself
extraordinary powers, refusing the
right of the minority even to in
quire into their specific purposes. If
the government so desires, it can
under these powers-liquidate whole
economic classes without due proc
ess of law, establish workers serf-
dom, and alter basic institutions.
Though British public opinion still
functions and the natural modera-
ton of the British mind may coun-
sci restraint, nevertheless the words
Of Lord Acton about the inevitable
engendered by absolute
power come forcibly to mind.
Lord Acton and liberty will be re-
as the wheel turns. But
in how long, no mind can foresee
or foretell. }
released by the Bell Syndicate, 1ne)
Evening star., 1947-08-15

mote q Jewish homeland in Pales-
tine.
Yet. what do we find in Palestine
today? Behind broken pledges ter
rorism stalks. Kidnapings and muir
ders follow executions. One hun
dred thousand British soldiers dot
the land. One soldier for every six
Jews, regardless of sex or age! But,
overwhelming as this army is, ter
rorism continues. Terror begets
terror until even the British, who are
probably self disciplined to higher
degree than people of any other
nationality. engage in reprisals.
Default i'm Craftsmanship.
Neither the great majority of the
Jews Ill Palestine nor few, if any, of
the Jews of the United States and
England accepted with any feeling
short of despair and horror the re-
cent hanging 10y the terrorist Jews
of Palestine of two British soldiers
who had been kidnapped and held as
hostages" Yet one who regards
effectively the whole question OF
Palestine cannot but wonder
whether it was either necessary or
wise for the British to proceed re-
lentlessly with the execution of the
Jewish terrorists whose sentence to
death inspired the kidnapping of the
British soldiers and whose death on
the scaffold led to the retaliatory
hanging of the hostages"
The most desperate aspect of the
whole question of Palestine is the
total default in British and Amer
ican craftsmanship. I include our
own country in this condemnation
although, primarily, it has been
Great Britain that has builded
tragic error upon tragic error, into a
veritable Chinese Wall of criminal
error. To judge the Great Britain OF
today by what is happening in
Palestine one would envisage Cham
berlain back in power. And yet. the
government of Great Britain con-
sists of men who outspokenly have
condemned the White Paper, men
who are leaders in the party which
went on record in favor of rescind-
ing the White Paper and returning
to the Balfour declaration.
Evening star., 1947-08-15

u d IL L IL '' 'AeAeAnVre.
Americana ran in attending the
races in Rio. They told me that
Rios climate was perfect, and it is.
They told me that the food is as
good as anywhere in the world.
Buenos Aires excepted, and they
were right. They told me it was
the gayest, happiest city of them
all, and they were right.
But they didn't tell me that a
horse player can 60 broke just as
quickly in Brazil as anywhere else.
Given no warning, figured that
with the horse lore I had picked
up from such men as Bill Corum,
Paul Lowry. Oscar Otis, and Frank
Ortell, would be able to knock the
horses dead down here.
Instead, am now selling flowers,
pencils and shoe laces on a street
corner.
Same in Any Language.
Brazilian horses that you bet on
run just as horses you bet on do in
the States-meaning, they don't
come in. I am satisfied that horse
player is sucker in any language,
any country. I have been taken
here, in Budapest, in London, in
Paris, in Rome and in Prague.
I went to the Hipodromo da
Gavea with a pocketful of cruzeiros.
I was ready to make killing. Five
minutes after 1 had entered the
gates ! was in the hands of a tout
who professed to know everything.
At Hialeah, Santa Anita. Belmont
or Arlington Park I would avoid
a tout as I would poison. But not
in Rio. The tout suggested that I
make good play in the first on
Nacarado. He had to point it out
on the program, since we didn't
speak the same language. I looked
at the program and it said: Ma
lcarado-Preto e bonet encarnado-
I6-m. zaino-collarin e Noria IL
Argentina-Oswaldo Aranha-Levy
Ferreira."
That looked mighty good to me,
so I made what amounted to a
plunge for me. My horse ran a
great race, if you happen to be a
sportsman of the first water and
don't care about winning. He fin
ished a driving seventh, with the
jockey hitting him with everything
but Copacabana Beach.
This went on for seven races. But
T shouldn't be mad. I didn't know
what the tickets I had meant, so
even if one of my Brazilian beau
ties had managed to win I wouldn t
have known it.
Should Bet on Hats.
The Grande Premio Brazil is
chiefly a fashion show, like the
opening day at Ascot. And it is a
fashion show dedicated to hats.
The Rio gals show off their dresses
and jewels at the opening of the
opera season, and their hats at the
Grande Premio. You never saw
such hats. I saw at least $4,000
hats that would have made Hedda
Hopper's bonnets look like blue felt
berets. Feathers. Flowers. Silk
Chiffon. Little hats. Big hats.
Bigger hats. Giant hats How I
wished I had bet on the hats in
. stead of the horses.
Let no one tell you that Atlanta,
Dallas. Los Angeles, Montreal, or
any other north side place has the
most beautiful girls in the world.
Rio has. Never have I seen such a
mess of pulchitude. I am mighty
glad that Jean was there to hold
my hand and keep me from making
a fool of myself. I might have just
upped and proposed to one of those
luscious creatures.
Yes, ma'am, Rio is all it is sup
posed to be.
! fnistributad nv McNauoht Sxndirato Jpc
Evening star., 1947-08-15

deal successful
ly with greater
ones? The two
countries prin-
cipally RESPONSE
BILE for Palestine
are, first and in
far greater de-
gree, Great Brit
ain and, to a
lesser extent, the
United States.
Both love peace.
Both are under
solemn mutual
pledges, as well
as promises to
Evening star., 1947-08-15

AlrWayS. he VIII
sue them for
$3.50, that being
the amount 7
lost at the races
a few days ago
W h e n Brazil's
biggest race
Grande Prenio
Brazil, was run
at the Hipo-
dromo de GaVea.
I flew down
here with Pan
Am, and not
once did they
mention tn e
q anu err an
Evening star., 1947-08-15

cule ana satire
aimed at the
House Commit
tee on Un-Amer-
lean Activities,
there was no
committee of
Congress per-
haps denounced
more by the
left wing" ele-
ments, particu-
1arly the Demo-
Gratis. : Now, as
the news comes
out t ha t tn e
S t a t e Depart
nant. "fnr Sc
Evening star., 1947-08-15

thOrltleS IN Ber-
lin, where activ-
tiles of Soviet
Army agents
and their Ger
man and Rus
sian stooges are
being watched
more G. los e ! y
than ever.
State Depart
mellC officials IN
Washington are
preparing ma
terial for the
conference Of
the Big Four
Foreign Minis
Evening star., 1947-08-15

HcW nag 1llco
the banner of
the Union of
India, a tricolor
of saffron, white
and dark green
with q centered
iark-blue circle,
the Aryan wheel
of life, symbol of
the ancient En-
peror Asoka. =
r h o u g h the
two states are
called "domin-
ions" the trans
ference of power.
from Grea I.
Evening star., 1947-08-15
By Constantine BroiCn

Russia intends to push her en-
croachment against Germany as far
as the Rhine. This is the gist of
reports received from American au-
Evening star., 1947-08-15
Bv Harold L. Ickes

The tragedy of Palestine becomes
deeper with the days. IT the ma
tions of the world cannot solve this
problem, how can they hope to
Evening star., 1947-08-15
Bv Dorothy Thompson

Today, August Is, two new states
of vast extent, numbers and re-
sources come into being: The Do
minions of India and Pakistan. A
Evening star., 1947-08-15
Popularity Of Probes
By Congress Depends
On Who Is GriIIed
By David laurence

Congressional investigations are
popular or unpopular depending on
who is being grilled.
Looking back at the shafts of ridi-
Evening star., 1947-08-15
.cLemore-
Cont Pick Winner
Even in Rio Races
Bv Henry McLemore

RIO DE JANEIRO.-Tomorrow
morning my barrister, q Brazilian
named Billingsley Shor, will enter
suit against Pan American World
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Complete with 4 imported out-strune bad
mnton rockets, bodminton net, posts,
stokes, guy ropes, shuttleeocks, book OF
instructions, in handy corryine box.
Evening star., 1947-06-11
es Finished IN Duco Lacquer TO Keep Their Rich Beauty

Lonsbugh helps decorote hoeheps find the ni
you need for hordo spoces-ot the perfect for
your budget You'll find pieces groousN stretch
along wos-you construction You'll like the
finish You'll choose solid oak solid wal
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