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Evening star., 1951-02-01
Lowell MeHett::

Any undertaking of the
United States under the North
Atlantic Treaty will depend for
its success on the morale of
the Western European peoples.
That will depend largely on
the extent to which the West
ern Europeans believe we are
a united people ourselves and
are solidly behind them in their
resistance to Communist ag-
gression.
This being so, some unfor-
tunate statements were made
at that big Republican rally in
Washington Monday night.
statements calculated to con-
vince our allies that we are
anything but a united people.
Indeed, taken literally. some
of the statements could lead
our friends abroad to fear they
were depending for support on
a country itself in the throes
of a revolution. That's what
National Chairman Gabrielson
called our current political cat
fight. And he said:
"a fighting, determined Re-
publican party, building its
strength in 1851, will complete
that revolution next year with
the election of a Republican
Congress and Republican
President"
OF course all of us know the
chairman didn't mean a shoot
ing revolution. Matter of fact,
he didn't mean a revolution
at all, but a counterrevolution,
designed to bring back the dear,
dead days of Republican rule.
Assuming that our foreign
friends can understand that,
then we have to assume they
also understand the whole spirit
Of the party rally and the spirit
in which the party leaders pro-
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The services for their part
are going to have to do some
yielding, too.
Uncle Carl Vinson, House
Armed Services chairman, has
been poring over some figures
handed him by Selective Service
Director Hershey and the more
he pores, the madder he gets.
They show that the total num-
ber Of draft registrants October
81 last was 7,957,157 out of
which only 816,124-a trifle
more than 10 per cent of the
total-may be indicted into
the armed forces.
The defense standards that
now classify another 10 per
cent as physically, mentally or
morally unfit for service don't
make sense at all to the Geor-
gian. He has set himself the
goal of putting at least half this
number to work somewhere for
their country. He also finds over
ly generous the theory which ex-
empts 533,202 men with de-
pendents who are not fathers.
The program so far, as he
sees it, has put deferment first
and the draft second, an empha-
sis which must be reversed.
It is not new for Mr.. Vinson
to fear and detest any signs of
favoritism toward the upper
economic brackets or any stra-
tum of society like industry or
the farmers in the United States
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tably will increase their conf
dence in that department if it
continues to hew to the straight
line of moral principle.
For it was a moral principle
Of great significance which was
at stake in the resolution in the
General Assembly condemning
Red China as an aggressor. To
some observers this may seem
to be merely a calling of names.
But 1t isn't the characterization
which counts but the fact that
world tribunal did pronounce
its judgment so plainly after the
fullest and frankest debate, such
as is customary in democratic
parliaments.
There is ground for salts
faction, too. that all those Eu-
ropean countries which were
hesitating a few weeks ago have
now seen the wisdom of sup
porting moral principle as the
paramount duty of an assembly
which represents free nations.
BY branding Red China as an
aggressor, the same assembly
can apply not merely its potential
armed strength but also it's
moral force, which can pene-
trate the public opinion of all
nations and force a spirit of
unity behind international pol
icy.
It will be recalled that. in
the 1920s, the idea of outlaw
ing war and condemning ag-
gression was the basic truth
which the Kellogg BRAND trea-
ties proclaimed. But, unhappily,
there was then no accompany
ing definition of what the sigma
tories were to do to protect the
victims of aggression.
Today the implications of the
U. N. resolution stand out
clearly. A faction or regime or
government which is branded
Evening star., 1951-02-01
Dorothy thompson
u. s. faces tremendous Odds
Insistence That u. N. Nations Pick Sides
Will Align Eurosion Countries With Soviet

tive act, which might open her
to an invasion against which she
could be defended from without,
by island powers, only at the
cost of the destruction of her
own land.
Petulance in sidetracking
1ndia's request for 2 million tons
of American wheat until or un-
less India sides with the United
States in declaring China ag-
gressor, is a political enormity.
1t will be interpreted to mean:
Conform or starve. I wish we
would stop writing the Kremlin's
propaganda!
India is not an island, to
which one can retreat, if de-
feated abroad, and defend one
self by sea and air power. If
the United States were in India's
geographical position and Presi-
dent Truman or Senator Con-
nally in Mr.. Nehru's shoes, they
would take exactly his position!
For no statesman will risk his
nations life for the sake of call
ing a spade a spade.
This is no counsel of isolation
ism. 1t is a counsel to reject
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pose to operate during the COM
ing critical months. This
seemed to be best expressed by
the new Senator from Pennsyl-
vania, the former Governor,
Duff. "Give 'em hell" said he
to loud applause, land We'll
have the whole works in So"
Well, there again you have
only a little political exuber-
ance from an experienced hell
giver, although it must be re-
membered that Mr.. Duff got
where he is by giving same to
the Republican counterrevolu-
tionists, the Grundys and the
Pughs, in his own State.
Nevertheless, he expressed the
general belief of the gather
ing that hell-raising should be
the party program for the next
two years. That, rather than
serious, patient, painstaking de-
votion to the country's best in
terests. Confusion is to be
made the basis of political vic
tory here at home, regardless
of consequences in the world
at large.
OF confusion there will be
plenty, the rally indicated.
Senator Taft stood by his
revised formula for handling the
European situation, namely the
furnishing of a limited number
of American divisions to Eisen-
hower's Army. But Majority
Leader Wherry took violent ex-
ception to the proposal. He had
one of his own as substitute
for any such "toe-in-t -the-door
approach"
1T would be national suicide"
he declared. "in event of war to
commit the United States to a
land war with Russia, until the
war-making power Of Russia
has been pulverized by air power,
Evening star., 1951-02-01
Henry WcLenore:
Follows Steps of Great Men
ByCo||ecting His OwnLetters

sister Beppie up here to sum-
mer camp I'm coming home. I
hate women"
When I went away to school
my letters are particularly re-
vealing of the fine man that the
boy was to become.
Dear Papa: I need SIS very
badly and would appreciate same
by return mail"
Dear Mama: It is showing.
I am feeling all right. Why
hasn't papa sent the five? If he
doesn't hurry up I'll be needing
ten"
Letters written by me when I
was about the age of % or %
clearly show that I had a head
for business and would not be
bullied in business transactions.
=" Dear Georgia Power and
Light Company: Go ahead and
cut off the lights. I'll use
candles"
An early love for the theater
is revealed in a letter to my
oldest brother, written two days
after I had been in New York
for the first time.
Dear Bub: Went to Minsky's
last night and am going back
tonight. Such music! Such set
tings!"
I am not worrying about the
book selling. It's what the
moviesll pay for 1t that's worry
ing me.
Evening star., 1951-02-01
Confidence in u. N. Gr0WinQ
American People at First Failed to Realize
Time Needed to Bring Messages to Nation:

the aggressor must desist from
that course or suffer the con-
sequences. Nor is physical pun
ishment by force of arms the
only thing that can follow.
Moral condemnation means that
Red China has disqualified
herself as a government capable
of discharging international
obligations. This disqualification
for membership in the family
of nations can mean withhold
ing Of diplomatic recognition,
too, and it could mean economic
blockade and further embargoes.
1t implies pressure of all kinds.
but there is no reason to be too
hasty about selecting the
methods, especially when the
first job is to defeat Red China's
troops on the military front and
compel their withdrawal from
Korea, where the aggression
occurred.
To many casual observers the
u. N. resolution and the fight
ing in Korea may seem purpose
less. but the truth is that, as
events unfold, it will be found
that the firm action of the U. NJ,
led as it was by a resolute
American delegation. will have
contributed great deal to-
ward prevention of large-scale
war. And speaking of patience
and understanding, the indi-
vidual performance of Ambas-
sador Warren Austin has been
outstanding. His experience in
the United States Senate, where
for years he represented the
State of Vermont, has taught
him restraint as well as calm
ness under fire of debates and
under the provocation Of OBJ
structive filibusters. He has
proved just the man to repre-
sent America in the U. N.
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draft system. His efforts will
continue to get a genuine equali-
ty of sacrifice into the new bill
with as few special deferments
as possible.
The program for women has
not yet been fully developed.
The proposed legislation lifts
the statutory requirement that
the women's services shall con-
stitute only 2 per cent of the
regular establishment. It is be-
lieved that a stepped-up pro-
gram of recruiting will fulfill any
immediate needs for the women's
services.
A demand is growing, how
ever, that the women's program
should march along with the
other. There is no doubt. on the
basis of World War II expe-
rience, that women can do many
of the jobs 1t is being taken for
granted that men will do. For
example. DR.. Vannevar Bush is
prepared to testify that women
can handle the country entire
radar network as effectively as
men, given proper training.
Assistant Secretary of De-
fense Rosenberg incidentally has
weathered her initiation on the
Hill very well. Her congressional
interrogators have paid her the
perfect tribute - they have
treated her as if she were man
and needed her right back
when she lost patience with
them.
Evening star., 1951-02-01

President Truman has said he
believed in calling an aggressor
an aggressor"-qualifying the
statement by "this is no time for
rash and unwise action" and
"the American resolution con-
tains a method for bringing
about a cease-f1re and opening
the way for peaceful negotia-
ton"
The statement expresses our
suspended position between fry
ing pan and fire. If the United
States clings to the policy it in
itiated in Korea-that it is our
business to suppress aggressions,
no matter where and under what
circumstances they may occur
then the branding of the govern
ment of China as an aggressor
Is logical. But it is not, then,
logical to hope to open the way
for peaceful negotiation.
For, by the lesson of Korea,
the branding of a state as ag-
gressor implies further steps,
first in the nature of a cease
fire order, and then, if this is
ignored, by an act of armed
force. And craftsmanship dare
not overlook the probably con-
sequences Of verbal self-indul-
gence.
The disaster of Korea could
prove a blessing to the United
States, if our leaders would
learn its lesson once and for
all.
Its lesson is: Get over delu-
sions Of grandeur, and do not.
for abstract idealistic notions,
continue to disregard elemen-
tary geopolitical facts.
These are that the United
States and the Americas are is
lands. and that their collective
population is only some 13 per
cent of that of the globe; that
the United States and all the
Americas cannot possibly win a
land war fought by infantry
transported over thousands of
miles of ocean against an al
lance of 100000, 900 people CEN
trally located in the Eurasian
land mass, all with contiguous
borders, fighting on their own
terrain, and one particularly un-
suited to mechaniZed vehicular
warfare; and that no nation
situated, like India, in a penin-
sular position with contiguous
borders on that land mass, will
conceivably commit q provoca-
Evening star., 1951-02-01
Doris FIeeson:
DorIs FIeeson:
Draft to Reach 18-Yeor-OIds
House and Senate Armed Services Committees
Convinced Nations Security Demands Action

Hearings on the administra-
tion's tough manpower pre-
scription are drawing to a close.
The dose is heavy-a draft Of
18-year-olds and 27 months
service. But on both sides Of
the Capitol, influential mem
bers of the Armed Services
committees have become con-
vinced the Nations security de-
mands it.
The committees have still to
vote on specific proposals and
debate then must be waged
from the floor. At least, how
ever, men in positions of re-
sponsibility will begin, not by
compromising but by fighting
to achieve the objectives which
Secretary of Defense Marshall
and his manpower expert, Mrs.
Anna M. Rosenberg, have ex-
pounded.
Predictions are hazardous
when issues involve the emo
tionS. One battle-seasoned
legislator is confident that the
program stands in good case;
at the least he anticipates set
ting for no worse than a draft
which will take the boys mid
way in their 18th year. Since a
provision that all draftees must
have four months, possibly
more, training before being sent
overseas appears certain to be
approved, this means the boys
will not go abroad before they
are 10 or older.
Evening star., 1951-02-01
Henry McLen7ore:

A publishing event of next
fall Il hope) will be collection
of my personal letters.
am busy now at the task of
editing them and arranging
them in chronological order,
and if I don't 60 to sleep before
the task is completed you'll be
able to read them ere the leaves
come tumbling down.
The decision to publish my
personal letters came after read
ing some of the collections of
letters of other great men which
have done, and are doing, quite
all right at the bookstores.
With volumes of letters selling
for as much as 81 and SIS a
throw, I figured I'd be foolish not
to spend a few dollars writing
aunts. uncles. brothers, STEP
cousins, creditors, and former
business associates to let me
have any OF my letters IN their
possession.
The response to my request
was overwhelming. All seemed
mighty glad to get rid of them.
Those of my letters which
have read so far certainly bring
out the many-sidedness of my
character, interests, and knowl-
edge, and shed an Illuminating
light on why I am the man I am
today.
Take this one, written to
Sears-R -Roebuck when I was
barely three and scarcely knew
the difference between a ball
point pen and one with a reg
ular nib.
Gentlemen: Am returning
the overalls you sent me. ex-
pressly ordered size 3 and these
are size AZ. What do you think
I am, basketball player"
At eight I was already show
ing a lively interest in girls, as
witness this letter to my mother:
Dear Mama: If you send nv
Evening star., 1951-02-01
Red Chinu's Reaction Waited
PuPPet Mao Nay Act, on Orders From KrenIin,
To Sharpen Attacks on |ndo- China, Hong Kong
Constantine Brown:

After many weeks of hard
labor the American delegation
at the United Nations has won
its battle and Red China has
been branded an aggressor.
Every CT and Tommy fighting
in Korea could have told the
striped-pants gentlemen at Lake
Success long ago that China was
an aggressor.
The immediate effect on Mao
Tze-tung, the Chinese puppet
dictator, may be. according to
one wit at the United Nations:
"Sticks and stones may break
my bones, but names will never
hurt me-"
For the present the U. N.
General Assembly has no in
tention of using either sticks
or stones. It will indulge in
protracted discussions about
eventual economic sanctions.
Anticipating this possibility,
Peiping has placed rush orders
for the purchase through Hong
Kong of large quantities of vital
strategic materials.
The American delegation will
ask at an "opportune" time the
application of economic sane
tions, in accordance with Ar
ticle Al of the Charter. All this
will take many weeks of argu-
mentation. Meanwhile, the war
in Korea will go on and the
United Nations high command
will continue to fight with its
hands tied.
The adoption of military meas
ures has not been ruled out.
But outside the continuation Of
the present campaign, nobody at
Evening star., 1951-02-01
Lowell MeIIett:
Statements Arouse Fears
Morale of Our European Friends Probably

supported by an invincible navy.
To engage Russia on the ground
before her steel and munitions
plants, oil refineries and COM
munications have been destroyed
would be sheer madness"
In other words he would give
no ground support to the forces
Europe Is endeavoring to organ
ize until after Russia Is al
ready licked. Mr.. Wherry should
try that idea out on any ex-
perienced American military
man before he asks Gen. Eisen-
hover to offer it to Europe.
Evening star., 1951-02-01

that the offended" Mao TIE
tung will acton orders from
Moscow-to sharpen his attacks.
not in Korea, where he can do
no more than he now is doing,
but in Indo- o-China and Hong
Kong.
Despite difficult internal con-
ditions, the Paris government
has been one of the few to go
along completely with the Amer
lean point of view since last
November. The French have
much at stake, Of course, in
Indo-China, where they desper-
ately need Americas support.
But regardless of the motives
which prompted the French
government, there is no doubt
that it stood by us. Moreover,
it was at the suggestion of the
French that the Benelux coun-
tries decided to send token
forces to Korea. The arrival of
a Belgian unit this week in
Korea adds to the flavor Of
unity among the members of the
United Nations.
Neither France nor the Bene-
lux countries have any troops to
spare, and the presence of these
token forces in Korea is a well
come demonstration. The Brit
ish themselves, after having
tried in vain to support an ap-
peasement policy, are expected
now to give fuller and better
cooperation.
Hong Kong and 1ndo-C China
are likely to become the targets
of the Communist expansion
in the Far East this spring.
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the U. N. has even mentioned
the use Of the United Nations
air force against the supply CEN
ters in Manchuria.
On the positive side of the
ledger, however, is the fact that
after long hesitation and sug-
geStions for caution, the Western
nations have decided to stick
together in the final showdown.
Britain, which since last De-
cember has moved behind the
scenes to prevent anything being
done that might offend the
Peiping puppets, decided in the
end that it was useless to con-
tinue the policy of appeasement.
The resolutions passed unani-
mously in the American Con-
gress, demanding that China be
branded as an aggressor, gave
the London government a timely
warning that it is risky to tangle
with American public opinion.
And at the eleventh hour the
British government joined the
other nations which have become
the target of Russia's imperial
ism.
AS things stand today the
decision of the United Nations
Assembly has only academic
value. The actual effect of the
delayed-action bomb will be
seen in the reaction of Moscow
and Peiping.
Some diplomats believe that
the Kremlin may consider last
Tuesdays resolution as a mere
gesture to placate the American
public and that nothing more
will be done.
It is more likely, however,
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David LoWrence:

Vindication for the principle
of collective security has been
slow in coming through at the
United Nations meetings but
the Importance Of the fact that
it has finally come cannot be
underestimated.
The American people naturally
have been impatient about the
months Of talk and procrastina-
ton. It's the same kind of irri-
tation which usually crops up
when Congress dawdles along.
But there is need for even more
patience and sympathetic un-
derstanding where the United
Nations is concerned. For here
is a body that isn't really a
world parliament or a super
state, and yet at times it has
the seeming obligation to act
as such under the compulsion
Of worldwide public opinion.
When it is considered that
the debates in the U. N. are
not printed widely and that
slow methods of communicating
messages and their import to
the peoples Of each country are
still in use in some instances,
the fact that an overwhelming
majority can be obtained at all
for a condemnation of aggres-
sion is remarkable.
The vote in the q. N. on the
aggression resolution is in a
proper sense victory for the
diplomacy of the United States
and particularly for the am
bassadors and ministers abroad
who have been laboring so zeal
ously in the past few weeks to
explain to the different foreign
Offices of the world the true
meaning Of the American view
point in world affairs today.
The State Department can
proudly chalk up a point gained,
and the American people inevi-
Evening star., 1951-02-01

impossibilist political and mill
tary policies, in favor of the
fullest exploitation of the i'm
mense political and military as
sets that we could have. Our
military assets are scientific
production, and air and sea
power. In these we can be
supreme. But we will be no
more supreme in infantry with
3 million soldiers than with 500,-
600. And we cannot become
freedoms arsenal, land force,
and sea and air arm, no mat
ter how much the President and
the Pentagon exhort!
The political asset we should
develop is the right of nations
to extricate themselves from
either a Russian or American
alliance.
Our insistance that the whole
world range itself on either the
Soviet or American side will re-
suit either in war, against tre-
mendous odds; or in all Eurasian
countries aligning themselves
with the Soviet Union, prefer
ring communism to suicide.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-08
CAA Urges Pilots To Use Their Radios

WASHINGTON, D. C.,-Getting pilots to use their radios when they need help continues to be a problem, reports to the Civil Aero nautics Administration reveal.
 An instance where rescue par ties spent a week searching in vain for a plane because the pilot failed to use his radio has been reported to the CAA from Alaska.
 Forced 45 miles off-course by the weather, and out of gas 60 miles from his destination, the pilot came down in an isolated, inaccessible spot with no one knowing his whereabouts simply because he did not make use of his tWo-Way radio. Inasmuch as no radio transmission had been heard from the plane during the flight, searching parties concen- trated their hunt for the lost pilot in the mountains on the theory that the plane had met with sudden accident in which use of the radio was impossible or was down in terrain where radio sig nals were blocked.
 Actually the pilot had not tried to use his transmitter. During his last five or ten minutes in the air, he flew around looking for a
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-08
Ridgway Demands Strict Neutrality At Kaesong

TOKYO, (P)-Gen. Matthew B. RidgWay told the Reds Tuesday Korean ceaSe-fire talks will not be resumed until they assure him they will keep their Kaesong neu- trality agreement.
 The Allied supreme commander bluntly acknowledged the Red apology for last Saturdays viola ton of the neutral zone. Then he told them that wasn't enough.
 Tn a strongly-worded message to the two Red commanders in Korea, Ridgway said he needed new assurances that communists
The Nome nugget., 1951-08-08
will keep their word.

will keep their word.
 Only then, he said, will he send his five negotiations back to Kae- song to resume armistice negotia- tions.
 Ridgway, who has twice broken off talks because armed Red troops violated the neutral area, said he didn't think the appear ance of a company of heavily armed communists last Saturday was an accident" as the Reds stated.
 He told Korean Gen. Kim Il Sung and Chinese Gen. Peng Teh- Huai that he considered the in cident neither minor nor trivial.