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Evening star., 1947-10-03

he was in reach of the baboon who
leaned down and put a friendly arm
around Henry's shoulder. Henry,
thinking that it was either our
friend Mac, who was travelling with
us, or me, paid no attention to the
embrace till it finally dawned on
him that both of us were standing
in front of him. He slowly looked
down at his right shoulder and here
was an enormous black paw. In
all the years I've known Henry I've
never known that he could jump so
far or so high. I was awfully proud
of him.
Guess I'd better be- sporting and
tell a monkey story on myself. It
happened just a week ago today in
Quito. We had gone out to walk in
the gardens back of the hotel and
we saw a cute gray monkey on a
chain sitting by tree. A sign in
formed his admirers that his name
was Norman. Henry patted him
and he was very friendly so Henry
decided to go back to the hotel to
see If he could get something to feed
him.
Puts on the Bite.
The monkey went up the tree and
I stood waiting, thinking about food
prices at home, or how much I'd
really have to tip the maid, or some
thing, when all Of a sudden Norman
leaped down on my shoulder, bit me
on the hand, grabbed my pocketbook
Evening star., 1947-10-03


decides that he cannot continue as
head of the Government. spoke fac
tually. He pointed out that the
Communists were in strong posi-
ton, since their warnings to the
French people not to trust Ameri-
can promises might be borne out.
In France, as in Italy and other
Western European countries, the
powerfully organized Communist
minority can do much more than
the loosely knit majorities. The re-
construction of the French cabinet
last spring, eliminating all Com
munist members, was an attempt
to put the French government de-
partments on sounder basis.
Instructions to Thorez.
The Communists accepted their
dismissal without much fuss, be-
cause they were convinced that the
new government would not be able
to meet the problems which con-
fronted it. The Kremlin itself is
reliably reported to have sent In
structions to Thorez to start no
major disturbances. Moscow be-
lieved that the non-Communlst
would be discredited
before winter and that the Com
munists would be able to make a
real appeal to the country and bring
France into the Russian sphere.
These expectations of the Rus
slams seem to have proved we'll
founded, The situation in France
Evening star., 1947-10-03
On the Record
Little Sense Seen in Soviet Propaganda
'Slanderine' Leaders of United States

and carried IN our news Columns,
especially the summary of the Boris
Gorbatov article, ikening President
Truman to Hitler, ridiculing his
clothes, his bow tie, his former oc-
cupation as haberdasher, his
"colorless Baptist face" and declar-
ing him "a tool of the Wall Street
Republicans"
No American believes that when
such articles are written-followine
attacks on Secretary Marshall as a
aShylock from Wall Street.-The
Soviets are attaching special sig
niicance to strengthening friendly
relations"
There is something funny about
proletarian revolutionaries emerging
as sartorial experts. Hundreds OF
thousands of Americans wear bow
ties and, therefore, are personally
offended. A Baptist face" is praise,
not blame, to the thousands OF
American Baptists who are thereby
also insulted. AL Americans en-
gagged in the mems clothing busi-
ness-and there are many thousands
of them, too-are going to take Of
fense at the ridicule of their occupa-
ton as fit only for mororls.
Respect for Presidency.
Lots of Americans care little for
Mr.. Truman and many, maybe a
majority, will vote against him. But
Americans do respect the presidency
do not engage in this sort OF insult
even IN heated campaigns-and II
outsiders ridicule our President 1t
makes us hot under the collar.
The Soviets and their fellow
howlers also have managed to lump
together for attack such a disparate
group of American persons that
everybody has some one to defend:
John Foster Dulles and Mrs. Roose-
velt; William Randolph Hearst and
Walter Winchell-whom Mr.. Vishin-
sky's press conference somehow
elevated to par with the Secretary
Of State.
Whatever Americans think of
Secretary Marshall, no American
thinks he is "Shylock from Wall
Street." Americans are pretty sick
anyhow Of being called "Shylocks, %
particularly by countries to whom
they have given-for free-billions Of
dollars worth of goods.
If there's any sense in the Soviet
campaign, its object must be to make
us disgustedly isolationist-and leave
the world to the Soviets. But I don't
think we should answer. Let our
actions-rather-speak for us, while
we recall an old American gag about
the kind of contest one never should
engage in with a certain kind Of
better equipped animal.
released by the Bell syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1947-10-03
This Changing World
Desperate Needs of France Exploited
Bv Communists, Bidault Tells Truman

lis now desperate, because of crop
failures and Communist-instigated
local strikes. Moreover, the French
people gained the impression that
the Marshall plan was cut
and -dried proposal to come to Eu-
ropes help with a couple Of dozen
billion dollars, and that all the
French had to do was present
bill for how much they needed.
The fact that the American Sec
retary Of State had not obtained
Congress approval and had not con-
suited any one but the old-time sup
porters of bipartisan foreign poll
cies, was an unknown factor for the
French. They had not been warned
that Congress might snag the whole
program.
Now the question of assisting
Europe with billions of dollars
worth of essential supplies is up,
in the air and it is unlikely that any
discussion of the problem will occur
in Congress before the end of the
year or late November If Mr.. Tru-
man decides to call a special session.
Situation Exploited.
This situation is exploited by the
Communist Party in France and Is
being played lip not only in the
French labor unions but also among
the peasants and middle classes,
which are subject to a barrage of
propaganda.
The French foreign minister. who
took time off from the General AS
sembly in New York to visit Presi-
dent Truman, did not ask for fulfill
ment of the so-called Marshall plan.
He merely pointed out the French
larder and fuel bins had become
empty and that unless little help
is supplied Immediately by the
United States, the non-C Communist
political parties might just as well
fold up.
Mr.. Bidault is not particular about
where America gets the money to
pay for assistance. He is willing to
sign any kind of promise OF repay
ment, If American supplies only be-
gin moving from American to
French ports.
Russia, in the opinion Of Amer
ican observers in France, can take
over France by default unless $780,
100000 worth of American food
and fuel is sent to cover deficiencies
in the next few months.
Evening star., 1947-10-03
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. G.. ALL
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and started off with 1t. I ran at
him to scare him and he dropped
the pocketbook all right. but he
quickly bit me on the ankle before
leaping up the tree.
When Henry came back showed
him my two bleeding bites and he.
said, IT guess Norman didn't like
you," and proceeded to feed the
little fool popcorn. I was so mad I
stalked into the hotel and told the
manager that his monkey had Bit
ten me. "He dus nawt like womens,"
he told me and reached for the anti
septic they keep handy to put on the
"womens" Norman bites. This made
me even more furious. wanted
sympathy, so I spoke to a strange
man in the lobby and told him that
monkey had bitten me. He spoke
no English and was evidently under
the impression that I was trying to
make his acquaintance because he
fed.
sort of hoped I'd get monkey
fever, or whatever you get from
monkey bites, and be gravely Ill just
to serve every one right, but all I
have to show for my experience are
some little teeth marks. I hate old
Norman.
Now, at the end of our trip, I
would like to tell you folks one
thing. Both Henry and I speak
Spanish without any accent what
soever. We don't speak Spanish.
| distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1947-10-03

replied that the Dorothy Thompson.
Soviet government "canont take the
responsibility for this or that ar
ticle," and that from day to day
the American press inserts lying
and slanderous articles regarding
the U. S. S. R. and lnf1ames
hostility between peoples"
Mr.. Molotov's statement that the
Soviet government cannot take re-
sponsibility for its press is simply
not true. The Soviet government
repeatedly purges writers who fail
to express the correct" viewpoint.
The second charge amounts ITO
saying: "If American papers SLAM
der us, we shall SANDER YOU
which is childish.
U. S. Opinion Alienated.
But Mr.. Molotov repeated that
the Soviet press attaches special
significance to the strengthening OF
friendly relations between peoples" ."
If it does, it is taking a strange
way of going about it. .
For nothing written by anti-Sovlet
writer's in America has so alienated
American opinion from the hope
of better relations with the Soviets
as has the recent press campaign
against the United States, launched
by the Soviet government and taken
up by every Soviet satellite.
Americans are, by nature, skep-
tical. They do not believe all they
read in the papers. Like all people
everywhere, they hate war and
sincerely hope for peace. Being
suspicious of propaganda, they
have tended to doubt the arguments
of some American writers regarding
hostile Soviet intentions toward
the United States.
But they cannot doubt the hostile
intentions of the current claque
against the United States by Soviet
writer's reported during the last week
Evening star., 1947-10-03
.cLemore
Meets Some Friends,
So Wife Is 1t
BY lean McLem

ANCON, Canal Zone, Panama
When Henry and came back to the
hotel this afternoon after oh-ing
and ah-ing at the Panama Canal
we ran right into friend of Henry's,
John Leonard, whom he hadn't
seen since they were in Manila.
You would have thought they were
couple of Spaniards the way they
embraced each other. Within
matter Of seconds, Comdr. Jess
Carver, an old friend from news
paper days before the war,
Joined the group and as the three
Of them, arm in arm, headed for
the cocktail lounge I knew, with
out being told, that I was it again.
So, kind of by way of getting
even, want to tell you about some
thing that happened to Henry in
Trinidad that makes me snicker
every time I think of it.
We were being driven around
the town and suddenly Henry de-
cided that life wouldn't be worth
living unless he could see a BUSH
master. "Deadliest of all snakes" :"
he kept saying. "Deadliest of all
snakes" Personally I can't see
what difference that makes. If any
snake bites you and kills you it
wouldn't make much difference to
you whether he was the deadliest of
all snakes or maybe just the fourth
or fifth deadliest.
Stop at Private Zoo.
Anyway, the driver stopped at a
small, privately-owned ZOO and the
woman owner took us into small
courtyard. The thing you noticed
first was a big, old, black baboon,
or ape or something. He was
chained to pole and he'd swing out
and show his teeth. The woman
assured us that he was very friendly,
but we all kept our distance. a.
We looked at the bushmasters and
strolled toward the entrance. Henry
stopped and turned back to the rest
OF us, keeping up a steady lecture
on the bushmaster. Unknowingly
Evening star., 1947-10-03

President Truman was having a
gay time in Rio de Janeiro, that it
was up to the President to decide
whether or not a special session
of the Congress should be called.
AS a matter of fact, it not only is
the duty of the President to call a
special session in a time of crisis,
it is his privilege. However, in this
instance when the situation called
for firm and imaginative leader
ship, the President f1inched. Why
should he worry about the dwin-
ding food and coal in Europe? He
and his Missouri gang will not lack
for either nourishment or heat dur
ing the winter, and there Is a ma
tional election just a little more
than a year away.
Failure in Leadership.
Here was a shameful failure In
leadership, one result of which may
have disastrous political results for
Mr.. Truman. He is making place
for himself in history that will
cause future generations of Amer
leans hurriedly to shuttle through
the few and unflattering pages
that will be devoted to a sum-
mary of his administration. He
is like q man who hobbies himself,
and then takes his place on the
starting line of a race. Foolishly,
just before the adjournment of the
Congress, he in effect pledged him
self not to call a special session.
Such an abdication of power should
have been followed by his resigna-
ton, even if he would have been
succeeded by that other Dromio in
the play in the person Of Speaker
Joseph w. Martin.
Subsequently, he undertook to
prove that he is not a leader, but
q diminutive figure in the rear rank.
While proceeding to washington
from Rio de Janeiro with tagging
feet. he said that he was not con-
vinced that there should be special
session of the Congress, although
he must have known that Secre-
tary OF State Marshall, Undersec-
retary Of State Lovett and others,
had practically committed the ad-
to the urgent necessity
of a special session.
What does the vacillating Presi-
Evening star., 1947-10-03
Man to Man
Writer Says Truman is Passing Buck
With Failure to Call Special Congress

dent Truman propose to do to supply
Western Europe with food and coal?
AS I have said, he has produced
a buck. But not the kind of buck
that even a starving man can eat,
or freezing one can burn in his
furnace. tits the kind Of buck that
indicates lack of leadership, a
want of courage, willingness that
others may suffer and that commu-
nism may engulf a large part OF
Western Europe. But If such a
catastrophe does overtake Western
Europe, Mr.. Truman will find that
in sacrificing our friends and allies
to want and the inevitable commu-
nism that will follow, he will be
sacrificing his own future.
Consider France as an example.
Last winter was the coldest there
in more than fifty years. Food was
short. So was coal, which cost the
French householder from $40 to $22
ton. Hope revived with the spring,
but it was given short shrift by an
implacable nature. Excessive heat
propagated a drought that burned
up the crops, leaving bread-eating
nation with practically no wheat
of its own.
Down to Last Dollar.
The French government is down
to practically its last dollar, and
without dollars it cannot buy in
American markets. Nor can either
France or England or Italy afford
to buy in Argentina. The grasping
and heartless dictator Of that coun-
try, Peron, demands IS in cash
today for a bushel Of Argentine
wheat, for which he generously pays
the Argentine farmer $1.35. And
yet our Government embraces this
friend" as an equal, as though he
were a humane Christian gentle
man.
We used at least to pretend that
of all the peoples we particularly
esteemed the French. This regard,
expressed in Truman currency, is at
an all-time low.
We ought not to put ourselves
in class with the Argentine dicta-
tor who apparently is willing to
sacrifice hungry human beings to
selfish greed. Here was q chance
for the President to make the
American people proud Of him. In
stead they hang their heads, when
the only solution that he can offer
in this crisis is to default on his
own leadership and tell the Republi-
can leaders to call together four
Congressional committees to decide
upon help for Europe. Necessarily
it will be weeks before the COM
mittees can meet, and 1t will be
additional weeks before any action
can be taken.
It would have been more manly
for President Truman to have said
in words what he has proclaimed
by his cowardly action: 1--WE have
the wheat and the coal; let the
devil take the hindmost." And there
is every chance that this Is precisely
what the devil, In the form Of COM
munism, will do.
Copyright 1e470
Evening star., 1947-10-03

with brow fur
rowed by deep
thought, decided
that the best
craftsmanship"
Of which he was
capable in this
time of crisis for
Western Europe
was to pass the
buck.
Senator Van-
denberg, the Re-
publican leader
in foreign af-
fairs, had quite
properly S u g
cested w hile
Evening star., 1947-10-03

is eXtended I'M
nediately, tur-
moil will ensue
in France, with
more than a So
so chance that
the Communists,
headed by Maui
rice Thorez, will
take over.
The Fren C h
foreign minister,
W h o is m e n
toned in reports
from Paris as
the prob a b ! e
next premier if
PAIL Ramadier
Evening star., 1947-10-03

by Mr. MOlOCOF
in sthe exchange
of letters with
t b e American
Ambassador to
Moscow, Walter
Bedell Smith,
occasioned by
Mr.. S m i t h S
official protest
against a per-
sonal attack on
President Tru-
m an in t h e
Soviet Literary
Gazette. F"
Mr. MOlOtoV
Evening star., 1947-10-03
By Harold L. Ickes

It was something less than
mountain that conceived and
brought forth mouse in the White
House when President Truman,
Evening star., 1947-10-03
Bv Constantine Br0agn

Foreign Minister Georges Bidault
informed President Truman yester-
day that unless a stop-gap loan of
$40, 100000 worth of food and fuel
Evening star., 1947-10-03
Bv Dorothy Thompson

Soviet leaders repeatedly have at
tackled the American capitalist"
press for "slandering'' the Soviet
Union. The charge was repeated
Evening star., 1947-12-19
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