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the President gives the impression
at least that the callers are all most
welcome, and what is q really new
departure he takes an informed in
terest in. their problems.
The visitors uniformly leave the
famous oval study freighted with
adjurations to fight 1t out on the
progressive line exactly as Mr.. Tru-
man himself did in his campaign.
That's our line, the President says
repeatedly, that's the spirit that's
stirring in the countrys we've got
it, let's keep it.
No Knuckling Under.
He also mentions to them all how
proud he is Of winning without New
York and the Dixiecrats. Therell
be no knuckling under there, he
insists.
Naturally the visiting politicos
are especially fattered by the Tru-
man attention to their own affairs.
Prior to the campaign, few felt Ell
ther that they really knew him or
that he understood, much less cared,
about their problems. Actually the
President. had been remote from
them; he had never done any na-
tional politicking and had Travelled
very little through the country, and
then by plane. His experience in
forming political judgments was also
deficient, due to the many years
when he was a meek lieutenant only
of such forceful experts as Tom
Pendergast and Franklin Roosevelt.
But those long and wearing cam
paign trips not only informed the
voters. they informed the President.
He learned about his country and
he also got an intensive seminar in
Democratic politics, its personnel
and operations, in a way that he
never knew before.
That seminar broadened his ac-
quaintance and matured his judg-
ments In q manner extremely graft
flying to the party at large. Its
fruits include q new warmth in the
Presidents relations with the poll
ticians, which Is of course helped
along by the relaxing effects of
total victory. Had a similarly pleas
ant personal relationship existed
prior to last summer, 1t is improb-
Evening star., 1948-12-17

would be enough to spoil any man S
Christmas.
When you figure what Christmas
shopping takes out of you, what
with those walks down to the base
ments and back, and the crowds In
the 10-cent stores, it is only right
that a man should show a decent
profit, II only to keep his Christ
mas spirit up.
Wants Tags for Reference.
Something else while I'm around
this subject. Why do people who
send you presents insist on remov.
ing the price tags? That's the one
thing that should be left on. With
the tags left on a man could figure
in no time at all whether he got
the better of the bargain on the
exchange Of gifts, or was played
for a sucker.
Carefully filed away, the tags
would be invaluable for reference
the following Christmas. A fellow
could make up list like this:
From Al, sleeveholders, $1.14; from
Gerry, matching tie and handker.
chief set, $1.25; from Joe, pair o1
socks, $.65; from Aunt Bess, bicycle
clips, SIS. and from Cousin Morris
a picture of Cousin Morris, $.45.
This would eliminate all guess.
work when it came time to send ou
presents again, and guesswork makes
me mighty nervous this time o1
year. I don't want to be taken
by this gang Of relatives and deal
friends at Christmas time. anc
neither do want not to give
nearly as good as I get.
II your presents are not already
mailed by the time you read this
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10 give Cne green Consssntne broWn.
light for far more thorough in
vestigation Of the matter than the
superficial inquiry conducted by the
House committee.
Despite its sensational revela.
tons, which enabled the New York
grand jury to indict Alger Hiss, q
former high-ranking oficial Of the
State Department, the committee
has been operating on . shoestring
Neither the FBI nor the other Gov
eminent agencies which kept tab on
Communist agents in this country
before, during and since World War
II has been allowed to reveal what
they have in their files.
Security Seen Undermined.
It is believed that q commission
with full powers to call for the
voluminous and highly interesting
files of the FBI and our counter
intelligence agencies would be able
to reveal q picture which would
show how our security has been
undermined, either by paid Com
munist agents or by ideologists who
had become the stooges Of the
Kremlin's conspiracy.
Many things which seemed mys-
terious to some American officials
at the Yalta Conference begin to
make sense now in the light of the
House committees hearings.
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cal intellect which arrives at the
right answers by asking the peril
nent questions in the first place,
nor the moral courage to tell itself
the truth instead of believing its
own propaganda. We tumble by
trial and error, apparently uncon-
scious that an erroneous trial in
foreign policy Is irrevocable.
Wishing to be popular" and tread
on no toes, we back flalf-measures
with half policies which are doomed
10 fail, and then desert those we
have backed, ending with ignomin-
ious loss Of all popularity.
We simply will not believe that
ideas, will and moral and intellec-
tual courage are more essential to
power than atomic bombs, or that,
with ideas and will, ways to de-
mobilize atomic bombs can be de-
vised. Primarily for lack of think
ing, the Western World is being
pushed back daily upon narrowing
ground.
(Releassd By the Bell Syndicate. Inc-)
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al els, y War Wives
Delayed on Ocean Flight
By Dorid Laurence
By the Associated Press

MONCTON, New Brunswick, Dec.
17.-Forty American service
men, % accompanied by German
wives were abroad a Pan American
Airways Constellation diverted here
yesterday on a flight from Frank
furt to New York.
The plane was one Of IL inter-
national airliners which have
landed here during the last 4s hours
because. of weather conditions at
regular bases at New York and
Gander, Newfoundland.
Among the arrivals was an All
France plane bound for Paris. In
cluded among the passengers was
Marcel Cerdan, middleweight boxing
champion, en- route from New York
to his home in Casablanca, French
Morocco. for the Christmas holi'
days.
Evening star., 1948-12-17
On the Record
US. Policy Crumbling Throughout World
Due to Lack of Courage in Thinking

Soviet leaders are trained, is vastly
inferior to American pragmatism as
q means Of approaching the truth
for instance, in science. But it is
q formidable intellectual weapon in
stating political theses, arriving at
likely alternatives, and assessing the
dangers and opportunities in each.
Nations, 1t was maintained by us,
must be free. But just how the
world was to be made safe for such
freedoms-or the national freedoms
made safe for the world-and what
price in new ideas and new forms Of
organization would have to be paid
for such security. was left to the
United Nations. This organizations
propagandists always have pre-
sented 1t as q factor in its own right,
somehow above the nations as
powers and competing egos. possess
sing a moral and actual power
superior to theirs which, of course,
Is illusion-and one the Soviets
never shared.
The tentative, improvising mind
of the West has been confronted
from the Soviet Union by q concept
and policy for world organization
and control which is not at all i'm
provised-a clear goal with a COM
plete master plan worked out for
nearly a generation. to which each
situation is referred and for which
every opportunity Is foreseen and
exploited.
The West has relied on money,
technical superiority. higher stand
ards Of civilization. But these
are not, In themselves, power. Power
is answering will to accomplish an
objective through the planned and
integrated use of all available
means. Distributed and disinte-
grated forces, however superior by
addition. never will succeed against
centralized, integrated forces.
Toward Single Goal.
Everywhere on the globe the So
viets and the Communists have CEN
tralization, integration and fanatic
unity toward q single goal.
But the leadership Of the West
has not even summoned the poiiti-
Evening star., 1948-12-17
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. = Ali
IL

I might be able to give you some
good tips on how to cut a few cor
ners> at Christmas time.
The cardinal rule of getting a
little the better >of 1t is never to
spare on the wrapping Of your gifts
It is often advisable to spend more
on the box and wrapping than on
the gift. This is particularly true
when you are sending gift you got
at bargain price because it had
flaw in it.
Buy Book, Read 1t First.
II you have friends who can read
always send them books for Christ
mas. The point is, you can buy the
book a good month ahead and read
it yourself before mailing 1t. This
eliminates that horrid feeling of
having to pay the rental library
three cents a day. OF course, proper
care must be exercised in reading
the book you are going to give
away. Here at our house we al
ways slip on pair Of cotton gloves
in order to keep the book in its pris-
tine state.
Always plaster the outside Of your
gifts with do Not Open Till Christ
mas" seals. When you are out to
make comfortable little profit on
the exchange Of gifts you must be
sure that your dear friends do not
open your packages until it is too
late for them to do anything about
the ones they have sent you. There
are certain people you can't trust
around Christmas time. and you
might as well make up your mind to
that. The only Christmas I lost on
that was three years ago-I am
sure was because that brother-in-
Evening star., 1948-12-17
This Changing World
Truman Reported Worried on Spy Leaks
Despite Red Herring Statements
8 Statements

Some Of the men who accom-
panied Mr.. Roosevelt to YAlta say
that they felt that Prime Minister
Stain and his advisers-including
Foreign Minister Molotov-seemed
to have been too well prepared with
their answers to some of the "sur-
prises" President Roosevelt at
tempted to spring on them during
the diplomatic bargaining which
took place in that Crimean winter
resort.
Members Of Mr.. Roosevelt's star
were frequently amazed to see how
ready the Russians were with an
swers on matters which should have
required considerable time and
thought. At that time they all
thought that the security screen
around the American delegation was
impenetrable. For even greater
security against code-breaking, an
American vessel was anchored In
the harbor and used its own radio
to transmit and receive messages
between Washington and President
Roosevelt.
Still Some In Positions.
The White House and top-rank-
ing men in the State and Defense
Departments are wondering how
many fifth columnists are still in
some positions from which they can
continue their destructive work. In
the years which precede any war
a good espionage service Is worth
many divisions in the field after
war starts. The resistance of the
French army to the Nazis in the
last war was hindered as much by
the highly efncient Frepch Commu-
mist fifth column as 1t was by the
lack of adequate equipment and
modern planes. Hitler had used
the French Communists extensively.
Since we do not know whether
and when the cold war may become
q shooting war, many Of President
Truman's advisers are urging him to
order q thorough house. cleaning,
not necessarily Of biologists in the
Government, but of active and po-
tential spies. The FBI Is said to
have suficient material for such q
purpose without creating the idea
that 1t Is on q witch-hunt.
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surrender" of its enemies, but with
no picture Of how to use the de-
feated nations for the purpose OF
civilization.
That the exit Of the beaten ma
tions as great powers entirely would
change the pattern Of power rela-
tionships on q global scale; that
the allies of q war coalition have
seldom, II ever. remained united
once q common threat was removed; !;
that within our own lifetime dn q
single generation) allies in one war
had become enemies in another
these logical and historical consid-
erations seem to have engaged the
attention and foresight Of but
one Western statesman-Winston
Churchill.
Attitude In Washington.
The attitude of high leadership in
Washington, when questioned con-
cerning the future Of Europe or
Asia as regions, economies and mill
tary factors, always was, first we
must get on with the war" But
there is no resting space between
war" and postwar" in which to
think ct leisure.
Marxian dialectic, in which all
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Warns to Visitors
Truman Laying Down the Party Line
In Talks With Political Leaders

able that the confusing effort to
deny him denomination would have
attained the proportions it did.
denomination Possible.
If 1t continues, the President as
a possibility for denomination to .
second earned term cannot be ig-
nored. There will be other factors
naturally, but for the first time
Harry Truman is his party's leader,
de facto as well as de jure.
The new Truman as q party pol
itician will be unveiled ut the JET
ferson Jackson Day dinner February
"a. If his current conversations
furnish q true guide, fire-eat-
ing testament Of Jacksonian faith
will be forthcoming on that occa-
sion.
There again the President will
taste q triumph sweet beyond over.
estimation. That dinner last year
marked one Of his lowest ebbs. .
callous display Of defeatism and dis
loyalty to its titular leader which
nudged the borders Of insult to the
presidency.
The President still has plenty Of
political problems. Some Of the
few faithful of the campaign are
not yet cared for, notably Louis
Johnson, chairman Of the Finance
Committee, who would like to be
Secretary Of National Defense. the
post from which the President is
reluctant to remove the experienced
Mr.. Forrestal; Oscar Chapman, Un-
dersecretary Of the Interior. who
smoothed the path to the West;
William Boyle, and others are due
for recognition. And while the
Dixiecrats are being lambasted, It Is
only discreet and fair to separate the
South from the general indictment.
But the added element in the pic
ture is the new Truman political
skill.
Evening star., 1948-12-17
Wharf Permit SOUGHT

BALTIMORE, Dec. II R.-The
Army's district engineer announced
an application by Eric A. Savage Of
Londontown Landing for permission
to build a timber wharf $50 feet
into South River from its south
shore at a point 0.3 miles upstream
from the mouth of Glebe Creek at
Londontown Landing, near Edge.
water in Anne Arundel County.
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law Of mine took o pref Christmas
peek at the pocket comb I had sent
him and came right back at me with
nail file.
Yes sir, we have to be foxy 90
all get-out around Christmas, OF
some one win do you in as sure 40
fate.
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate, nns.)
Evening star., 1948-12-17

any AAAVCoCAAAC11O.
I hope to do
m u C h b e t t e r
than I did last
year when I fig
ur d h at I
cleared only $.64
in the exchange
Of presents. That
is cuttin 6 1t
much, much too
fine. In d e e d,
when you show
as little profit as
t h a t you are
running the risk
Of only breaking
e v en-, W hich
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message now III
preparation.
The President
is receiving po-
litical d eli ga
tions every day.
including sue
cessful can d J.
dates, national
committe e m e n
and State lead
ers. So heavy Is
his schedule that
his staff has be-
gun to fret lest
1t impose too
great q strain on
hiS health pIIt
Evening star., 1948-12-17

~SAAsSwsSe S1sSs
Soviet imperial
ism propelled
by Communist
revolu tionary
forces has been
checked Is pre-
mature.
The reason, II
seems to me, is
that the United
States never has
h ad anything
deserving tn e
name Of pol
Icy" It fought
the war for the
"unc nditional
Evening star., 1948-12-17

IiC1 AA6b 3ACo1~
| dent Truman Is
said to have be-
c o m e consider
ably worrie e d
yer security
leaks which have
occurred in the
s t a tie Depart
ment and other
vi t al Govern
ment agencies.
Officials close
to the w hit e
House say that
the Chief Execu-
tive may decide
Evening star., 1948-12-17
Bv Constantine Bro,Dn

Despite his reiterated statement
that the work of the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
in the spy cases was only a "red
Evening star., 1948-12-17
Bv Doris FIeeson

In his role as leader of his party
President Truman is displaying the
same down-the- line temper that
permeates his state Of the Union
Evening star., 1948-12-17
By Dorothy THOMPSON

The crumbling Of American policy
throughout the world Is q fact. 1t
Is . glaring reality in China and q
continuing threat in Europe, where
Evening star., 1948-12-17
'McLemore
Tries to Be Foxy
About YuIe Gift
By Henry McLemore

All my Christmas gifts are mailed,
and now there is nothing to do
but sit nervously on the edge of
chair and await the results of
Evening star., 1948-12-17

*There are rich rewards for advertisers, too,
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Evening star., 1948-12-17

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Evening star., 1948-12-17

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Evening star., 1948-12-17

the headlines and newsreels and campaign hoopla
to learn what really happened.
You'll read how Harry Truman, the man who
wouldn't give up, managed to turn apparent de-
feat into the upset to end all upsets.
Mr.. Ross, himself veteran correspondent, rode
the campaign trains with President Truman.
He sat with the board Of strategy. He helped
Evening star., 1948-12-17

write the speeches.
Today he answers the questions nearly everyone
else has been trying to answer ever since Esctioa
Day. Questions such a. these:
Did Truman really believe hs s0as going 20
suin?
Why did Dewey soin susry poll but The Iass
onep
What did Truman kno,o that Gallup and
Roper didn't?
What ,oas the President like tn the hour Of
his great and satisfying triumph
This is "the story of the century" as he never
been told before. HOW TRUMAN DID TT. by the
man who helped him do it. Read Golfers todsy.
Evening star., 1948-12-17

NOVEMBER 2, lo48 came and went down in
~ history. With it, hundreds of so.called experts
also went down.
But one Of the very few who didn't - because he
guessed right - was the Presidents secretary,
Charles G. Ross. Here for the first time is his
straight.fromthe.feedbox story.
With Ross, in today's Collier's, you'll 60 behind
The Chicago star., 1948-05-22

from Wallace was made public.
the U. S. Army had made reply
of a kind to the previous re-
sponse from Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov by announcing
three new atomic weapons.
These and similar advantages
continued to be the main u. S.
diplomatic reliance.
+
THE generals and Wall Street
ers in charge of formulating
foreign policy still believed that
they alone controlled "the secret"
of atomic fission. They held
other aces in the cold war-a
17-billion-dollar Marshall Plan
for Europe, the worlds biggest
navy. And they expected Con-
gress to deal them other high
cards-universal military train
ing and selective service.
Informed Washington sources
reported full State Department
confidence that American world
dominion could not only be
maintained, but pushed right up
to the Soviet borders.
The cold war continued. Only
the American people themselves
had the power TO halt it.
There were increasing signs
that they intended to put a stop
to it. Henry Wallace's new pro-
posal had gained him hundreds
of thousands of new votes from
Americans who wanted peace.
The Chicago star., 1948-05-22

the 27 ''Uncensored" SCRIPTS told
the Star that Les Atlass, CHS
WBBM vice president, had re-
jected his script four hours be-
fore broadcast time. Atlass, along
with Don Kelley, WBBM direc-
tor of public relations, charged
that Park had "editorialized." :"
Park denied "editorializing" in
his letter of resignation to At
lass. He pointed out:
THE series has become famous
through relatively small num-
Der of programs. 1t has estab-
lished itself as the leader in Am
erican public service radio be-
cause If dared TO do what no
other series had done: If told the
truth.
because it told the truth, and
because that truth was scrupul-
ously documented, no one has
dared to attack the series, al
though admittedly certain of the
facts presented have been dam
aging to particular interests. In
our society, dependent as it is
upon the consciences of those
who control it, it is inevitable
that the truth will ferret out