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Evening star., 1951-04-17

tinuing the great lending agency.
Mr.. Symington is understood
to be quite ready to champion
RFC loans to small business and
the producing geniuses who bob
up all over America. And he is
significantly close to Senator
Lyndon johnson whose Pre-
paredness Subcommittee has
scared the international cartels
which have been forcing this
country to pay fantastically In
f1ated prices for raw materials.
Currently head of the Ma
tional Security Resources Board
and former Secretary Of the Air
Force, he has a burning urge to
see this country genuinely pre-
pared for the worst that may
occur. Conservatives will find
him well posted on the demands
which survival makes of the
economic system.
An immediate RFC problem is
its present bucket full of loans,
samplings of which the Full
bright Committee has held up to
considerable public odium. These
run into billions; their status
will be the object of searching
inquiry. Mr.. Symington would
hope to avoid the harsh word,
liquidation, feeling it would
frighten the many honest .bor-
rowers and demoralized en-
ployes Of the agency. But he
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and, regardless of the spirit in
which they were offered. he was
as willing as anybody to see this
courtesy extended to the gen.
eral. What he proposed was
in no way calculated to inter.
fere with the generals big
moment. And, as a veteran
legislator, the chairman could
consider himself quite COM
petent to judge Of what is ap-
propriate and what inappropri-
ate in the matter Of calling wit
nesses. His committee has
called lots of generals in the
past and will call lots Of them
In the future.
What Chairman Russell may
have thought he didn't say i'm
mediately. Disposed to be
charitable, he could have
thought that the general had
confused the United States Sen
ate with the Japanese Diet. to
which he has habitually handed
down the law. Disposed to be
charitable in another direction,
he may have got an inkling of
the patience the President has
exercised in his dealings with
the general. But his colleagues
in the Senate haven't the
slightest doubt that in due
course the Russell committee
will expose the general to a
searching examination. no mat
ter how inappropriate" that
may seem to the general.
To be of real service to the
Evening star., 1951-04-17

united. independent Korea
without involving Red China was
a political policy which could be
implemented only with the CO.
operation of the Red Chinese.
This policy totally failed. It
slid right out from under both
President Truman and Gen.
Macarthur. And when the Red
Chinese entered the war the
problem became military. The
problem of containing armed
communism - Mr.. Truman's
policy-in Europe and Asia is
a military problem. And, in the
long run, it will be events and
not protocol which determine
whether Gen. Macarthur or the
Administration is right.
President Truman impulsively
went into Korea against the
military opinion Of most Ameri-
can top brass. And at that
moment. he risked war with Red
China and the U. S. s. r. A
political policy to win a war
and not win it; to declare an
enemy an aggressor and then
try to protect him; to restrain
armed communism and then re-
strain its opponents, cannot be
translated into any military
terms that make sense.
When, during war, political
assumptions miscarry, the mill
tary are often held responsible.
Hitler fred the generals who re-
fused or failed to implement his
political policies. But he did not
win the war.
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Evening star., 1951-04-17
Dovid Lawrence

President Truman has split
America. He has stirred up such
disSenSion and division among
the American people that the
disunity which prevails today
transcends in Importance even
the issues which led to his dis
u1issal Of General Macarthur.
From all over the country the
evidence is piling up that Mr..
Truman has stirred up bitter
ness such as has not been noted
since the days before the Civil
War. The emotional reaction to
the dismissal Of Gen. Macarthur
has not been lessened by the
strangely partisan behavior that
has developed in Congress itself.
Thus. the Democrats at first
resented the idea Of a joint
meeting to hear Gen. MacAr-
thur. Only on further reflection
did they decide to go along with
plans to welcome the General.
Then came the sniping and
the innuendoes. MFR. Truman,
who told the Democrats gath
cred at the Jefferson-Jackson
Day Dinner last Saturday night
to put the national inter-
est above personal interest,
promptly disregarded his own
political impulses and started
of another wave Of bitterness
by his innuendo against Gen.
Macarthur.
Within the last "a hours an
other incident has brought more
irritation. It has been announced
that, when Gen. Macarthur re-
turns to Washington after an
absence of II years spent fight
ing for his country, the only
man who is to be sent to the air
port by the White House to greet
him is Gen. Vaughan.
No more studied way of be-
littling the visit of Gen. Mac
Arthur could have been dreamed
UP at the White House. If this
Is sample of the political judg-
ment Of the President or of his
advisers. it indicates that the
poor strategy which led to the
Evening star., 1951-04-17
DoWd LoMence
Truman Has Divided America
Bitterness Not Noted Since Days Before Civil W
Aroused by Dismissal of Gen. Macarthur

peremptory firing of Macarthur
has not been followed by any
better understanding Of the pub
lie temper.
There were half a dozen ways
by which the President could
have relieved Gen. Macarthur
Of his command. There were
many ways by which the split
in this country could have been
avoided. But what is much
worse is that the Democratic
Party in Congress has lined UP
solidly against Gen. Macarthur
and in defense Of President
Truman's arbitrary action. Con-
versely. the Republicans. seeing
the whole thing taking on a
political flavor. have themselves
lined UP in self-defense and in
defense of Gen. Macarthur.
Thus has the most important
issue before the country-how
to prevent q big-scale war-been
turned over to political ham
ding. This cannot bring a BIZ
partisan APPROACH to world pol
icy. It cannot bring a united
spirit behind any program Of
the administration. It is about
the worst tragedy that could
have befallen America.
President Truman must ac-
cept full responsibility for the
blunder. He did not tell the
party leaders in advance what
he intended to do or how he in
tended to do it. He asked opin-
ions from few Of the leaders.
to be sure. and indicated that
he had to do something. But it
was one-man government that
finally functioned. One man In
the White House, in a sudden
decision late last Tuesday. de-
cided to dismiss a general who
had served his country well and
to announce that decision to the
press. One-man government
treated with contempt not only
the valiant service of a great
general but also the principle of
affording a hearing to an i'm
portant official engaged In an
important assignment 5000
Evening star., 1951-04-17
Dorothy Thompson:
Protocol Won't Contain Foes
Margin Between Political and Military Policy
Becomes as Unreal as 18th Parallel in War

We are deeply depressed,
deeply apprenhensive, over the
dismissal of Gen. Macarthur
from all his commands. Inter-
nally 1t is bound to split the
country at a moment when
unity is essential. And we great
ly fear that the whole Far East
ern situation will be pushed
overheard.
It takes little imagination to
envision the effect on U. N.
troops in Korea. Gen. MacAr-
thur is no CT pet. But on the
particular issue which has
caused his dismissal, we imagine
the fighting men are on his side.
We do not envy his successor,
1t. Gen. Matthew Ridgway, who
will have to explain the logic of
a political policy which declares
it is proper for American, Brit
ish, French, Australian, Turkish
and other troops to fight Red
Chinese and their allies in Ko-
rea, but not proper for Ma
tionalist China to do so. Or
why it is proper and permissible
to fight Red China and its allies
not only in Korea, but in Burma,
Malaga and Indo-C China but not
elsewhere. Or to explain how it
is possible to contain armed
communism, and not contain it.
We wonder, too. how much
authority Gen. Ridgway or any
other American Supreme Com
mander will have in Japan, fol-
lowing the dismissal of Gen.
Macarthur from that post; how
the japanese Communists will
exploit it; and how the Russians
will use the opening caused by
Gen. MacArthur's replacement,
which will bring them into the
picture with a vote on his sue
ceSsor.
During war the margin be-
tween political and military pol
icy becomes as unreal as the
38th Parallel. Political, not
military, policy decreed our in
tervention in Korea. This inter-
vention Immediately opened
wide range of political and mill
tary possibilities: That action
backed by a u. N. majority
might cause the North Koreans
to halt; that the South Koreans,
aided only by American naval
and air power, might defeat the
North Koreans; that the war
fcould be confined to a contest
Evening star., 1951-04-17
Henry McLenore:
Macarthur Undermined;
Troops Were Hundcuffed

worth the name who did not go
into battle to win. Name me a
commander before Gen. Mac
Arthur who was told in effect by
his superiors that a stalemate
would be satisfactory. a draw a
happy conclusion.
Gen. Macarthur, who saw
what was coming in the Far
East, started asking for men
and materials years ago. To
know what he got one only has
to recall the pathetic plight of
our troops at the start of the
Korean war. A handful of gall.
liant men fighting with weapons
of the pea-shooter sort.
History will have the last
word to say on the stand the
Americans made at Pusan. and
on the commander who kept
them there.
History will have the last
word. too. on the general who
has served this country without
let-up for upward of so years.
and who has carried a burden
for the past 10 years which
would have broken a man of
less devotion to his country.
Try to recall a leader of
World War II who hasn't had
a parade in his honor, a book
of his heroicS published, or who
hasn't strutted about showing
his medals. You can name only
one, Gen. Macarthur. He could
have had all these things, I
guess. but he felt time was too
fieeting, too much was to be
done, to take the time for a
ticker tape shower.
While our staunchest ally.
England. was doing traffic with
the Chinese Reds in Hong
Kong, and shipping tons of
rubber to Russia, he was being
undermined.
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Evening star., 1951-04-17
Henry McLenore:

It must have come as a relief
to Gen. Macarthur to have been
relieved of his command.
The only things he ever was
given plenty of in Korea were
white crosses with which to
mark the final resting places Of
the men he had been ordered
to make play a game which
they couldn't possibly win.
No one knew this better than
the general, and am sure no
one loathed the situation more.
The general was no casual
blood letter, as any one. who
cares to search his record will
discover.
I remember the luncheon I
had with him at his home In
Toyko in 1948. The closest he
came to q boast. this supposedly
vain, arrogant, egotistical man,
concerned how comparatively
few lives he had had to sacrifice
in the long march from Aus
tralia to the deck of the battle
ship Missouri and the japanese
surrender.
He was prouder of the men
he had saved than of any other
of his multitudinous accomp-
lishments.
He must have spent many a
sleepless night in Tokyo, think
ing of how this country and the
other nations of the United Ma
tions had him and his troops
handcuffed. No wonder he lost
patience with his superiors
who refused to allow him to
fight the Chinese Reds on their
own grounds, and forced him to
allow the murderers of Ameri-
can soldiers to pull behind a line
and re-gird for another blow at
his dead-game but weary troops.
Name me a military leader
Evening star., 1951-04-17

between q. N. and North Korean
troops: that Red China could be
restrained from Intervention by
ton and neutralizing Chang
Kai-shek forces.
All these political assumptions
suspendtng the Formosa ques-
broke down. Action did not
deter; air and naval power were
not enough and ground troops
were rushed in: bottling up
Nationalist Chinese forces in
Formosa-holding Chang, as it
were, as a hostage against Chi
nese Intervention in Korea
didn't work. And when the Chi
nese Reds went into Korea, OBJ
viously the political assumption
on which the naturalization of
Korea was based ceased to have
validity.
49, 0AAV4O Woo CvCI d pUSSlUl11Gy
OF negotiating a peace with Red
China-and we doubt tit was
certainly before and not after
the U. N. declared Red China to
be an aggressor. That was a
political, not a military. act.
So, though military policy is
invalid except to implement poll
tical policy. it is reduced to
impotence if asked to implement
a policy which cannot be trans
lated into military terms. Since
declaring Red China an ag-
gressor, the Administrations
political policy plus restrictions
could not effectively be trans
lated into military terms.
To throw out Communist ag-
gressors and secure a free,
Evening star., 1951-03-04

/
used in 1851 for transporting let
ters and parcels. Viggo Bang is
the artist who created the design,
Bent Jacobsen the engraver of
the die. Denominations and colors
are: Is ore, violet; Is ore, red.
Great Britain will bring out a
series of double-size postal labels
to publicize the British Festival to
be held this spring and summer.
Values probably will be 1ad, Id,
1lad. I'd and 21ad.
Special slogan cancellation dies
are announced as follows: "Get
Your Chest X-Ray Today" Phoe-
nix. Ariz.; Westminster College
Centennial. 1851-1951," Fulton,
Mo-; Centennial of Hawaii's First
Postage Stamps" Honolulu, T. H.:
"Pataskala. Ohio, Centennial" /"
Pataskala. Ohio; Estate Laurel
Festival" Wellsboro, Pa. and
shenandoah Apple Blossom Fes-
tival, May 3-4," Winchester, Va.
Send stamped, self-addressed en-
velopes to postmasters for mark
ings wanted.
DR.. Emil Ferdinand, well known
in Washington and New York
philatelic circles since 1895, but
stationed abroad in recent years,
has returned home.
The United Nations has been
promoted by IA different countries
through their issuance of a total
of l42 different stamps. Thus,
the argument that the U. N. needs
stamps of its own to publicize its
activities already has been an
SWered.
A meeting of the Woodbridge
Stamp Club will be held at 2206
Rhode Island avenue NE. tomor-
row evening at 8. Visitors espe-
cially invited.
Charles Darwin. the great Brit
ish scientist. was a kind Of q
stamp collector. Proof of his in
terest in philatelic material may
be found on Page 13 OF Charles
Darwin's Autobiography" recent
ly published by Henry Schuman,
Inc, New York, where Darwin
himself says: by the time I went
to this day school tMr. Cases my
taste for natural history, and
more especially for collecting, was
well developed. I tried to make
out the names of plants, and COL
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Stamp News
By james Waldo Fowcett

The whole money order system
of the Post Office Department will
be reformed between now and
July l. Postal notes no longer will
be available after March 81, and
collectors who wish to obtain
postal note stamps cent to 90
cents-should act without delay.
The old style blue-green money
order forms are to be discontinued
June 80. They will be replaced
with punched cards, believed to be
more durable and to represent a
considerable saving of time and
bother both in the postal system
and on the public's side OF the post
Office counters. The cutting of red
tape and elimination of useless
paper work" advocated by The
Star editorially as far back as Au-
gust IL, 1948, are the objectives
sought by the new routines. An
official announcement is expected
shortly.
Denmark will celebrate the CEN
tennial of its first postage stamp
by releasing on April l two COM
memoratives showing a sketch Of
"the globular mail" a carriage
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Associated Press Staff Writer
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYWOOD.
The return of the mustache to
popularity was predicted today by
Makeup King Max Factor, jr.
"The mustache is bound to in
crease in public esteem" observed
Factor, because it can't get any
lower. The popularity of mus
taches is at its lowest point since
1941. Take a look at some OF the
film stars who have shaved theirs
Iof-Tyrone Power. Robert Taylor.
Enrol Flynn.
Movie stars lead the fashions.
but they also follow. And when
the public says it doesn't like mus
taches, they are shaved Off"
But Factor, who is an expert on
male as well as female beauty.
feels reaction setting in. He at
tributes this to the Nations mo-
bilization.
It's Martial Touch.
Remember the mustache crop
of 1943 and l944?", he cited.
Men got away from their mothers
and wives and sweethearts and
fulfilled long held desires to grow
mustaches. But nearly all of the
men were forced by the women
to shave them off on the return
from the wars.
Soldiers in today's Army will
have even more motive for grow
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Return Of the Mustuche,
Martial Touch, Forecast
BY Bob Thomos

ing them. Most Of them are boys
in their teens or early 20's. Like
all boys. they want to look older
and growing a mustache is the
surest way to add couple of years
to their appearance.
MuStacheS need as much care
and thought as garden hedge,
Factor declared. For those with
ambitions of growing one "a mus
tache. not a hedge). he offered
these words of advice:
Don't try to grow a Ronald
Colman mustache on an 1 Oliver
Hardy face. In fact, don't grow
anything on an Oliver Hardy face
It would only do what it does for
Hardy-get laughs.
The Ronald Colman mustache
clipped but not too military, offers
the best model for the average
face.
Gable Type Is Good.
If you prefer a straighter line
for a neat effect, observe Clark
Cables. It's easier to trim with
a safety razor.
Like any crop grower, you
should use the proper tools. For
the neatest appearance. you should
learn to use a straight razor and
BARRIERS scissors. Don't try to trim
with an electric razor; you might
as well use lawn mower.
If you have a small, blondish
growth. darken 1t with an eyebrow
brush that has been rubbed with
an eyebrow pencil. Don't use eye
brow makeup; drinking hot cup
Of coffee would be disastrous to it.
Don't use wax or twirl your
mustache into spike-ends. Even
Adolphe Menjou has given that
up.
Keep the lower edge of your
mustache neatly trimmed. Or else
1t will be labeled "soupstrainer." !"
Above all. if you like your mus
tache. keep 1t, despite whatever
comments are thrown at you.
After the hootings are over, people
can get used to it. And you'll
find that many women much pre-
fer 1t.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

lected all sorts of things-sheils
seals, franks, coins and minerals
The passion for collecting which
leads a man to be a systematic
naturalist, virtuoso or a miser
was very strong in me, and was
clearly innate. as none of my sis
ters or brother ever had this
taste" The word franks" as
used by Darwin, is defined in the
Oxford Dictionary as: THE su-
prescribed signature OF a person
e. g. a member Of Parliament
entitled to send letters post free
Such franks often were, in effect
labels. Thus in Symonds' life o1
the poet Shelley, it is alleged thai
he (Shelley) would stop to fl.
his fathers franks upon con-
venient trees and shoot at them
Darwin was born on February IL
l809-the same day as Lincoln
and the franks which the famous
scientist collected as child were
Of the variety that Shelley shot
at as well as those which were
inscribed directly on envelopes OF
wrappers. All that Sir Rowland
Hill did, when he advocated the
first adhesive postage stamp, was
to adapt this device to a larger
more inclusive purpose. The
Penny Black of 1840 was a frank
When 1t was placed IN circulation
Darwin was 81.
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago
has opened new stamp depart
ment and advertised the fact in
a full page of copy" in the Chi
cago Tribune.
L. A. Wolf. writing in Stamps
Magazine for January s, explains
George Bernard Shaw was
no friend OF stamp collecting.
AS early as 1913 he is reported
to have said that a postage stamr
could never be a work of art, ano
that those who collected them
were worse than fools. Other
blasts against the hobby continued
through the years."
New members of the Washing
ton Philatelic Society include
John D. Pope. III, st. Louis; Eric
P. Anderson and George c. Stur.
geon.
Ethiopia has issued six stamps
publicizing the Abbaye Bridge, the
design including a portrait medal.
lion Of Emperor Halle Selassie
Values run from SC to soc.
The final prospectus of the
Canadian International Philatelie
Exhibition, CAPEx, to be held al
Toronto. September 81 to 20, has
been issued. Copies may be OBJ
tanned by addressing DR.. c. M
Jephcott. secretary. 10 Bloor street
West. Toronto S. Ontario, Canada
Travencore and Cochin state.
were amalgamated in 1949 under
the name of THE United State.
OF Travancore and Cochin" bu
the name appears as State ot
Travancore-Cochin" on two new
stamps recently issued-2p, red
featuring conch shell; 4p, blue
a local scene.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

Marshall Field & Co., Chicago,
has opened new stamp depart
ment and advertised the fact in
a full page of copy" in the Chi
cago Tribune.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions
Stage.
ARENA THE Inspector
General" with Lester Rol-
Inns. starting March 20.
NEW GAYETY-"I Know My
Love-" with Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne, start
ing tomorrow.
Screen.
AMBASSADOR Branded"
with Alan Ladd, starting
Thursday.
CAPITOL "Undercover
Girl" with Alexis Smith,
starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA Kim" with
| Enrol Flynn, starting
Thursday.
DUPONT-"Adam and Eve
lyn," with Stewart Granger.
KE1TH'S - Steel Helmet"
with Gene Evans, starting
Wednesday.
LITTLE-"Hoboes' Paradise"
with Raimu, starting Fri
day.
METROPOLITAN -" "Hitler's
Strange Love Life" starting
Thursday.
| NATIONAL Born Yester-
day." with Judy Holiday.
| PALACE It'd Climb the
Highest Mountain" with
Susan Hayward, starting
Saturday.
PIX-"Ecstacy." with Hedy
| Lamar. starting Friday.
PLAYHOUSE Women
Without Names" with VAL
entina Cortesa.
PLAZA-"Oh, Amelia" with
Danielle Darrieux.
TRANS-LUX-"Chance of a
Lifetime" with Basil Rad
ford.
WARNER - Branded" with
Alan Ladd, starting Thurs
day.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-02-15

the next two months, and demand
will continue strong.
WOOL-Most trading has been
stopped temporarily because of con-
fusion over freezing of prices for
wool goods. Since wool prices have
been rising sharply for several
months and changes in goods prices
usually lag behind the raw wool
market, wool probably is somewhat
out of line with these ceilings on
goods.
WHEAT - With prices at new
highs for the season and within 10
to Is cents of the potential ceiling
level, future price changes have be-
come more uncertain. Unfavorable
weather for the new crop, occasional
substantial export sales, speculative
buying in belief that the general
price freeze would cause wheat pro-
ducers to hold until prices reached
parity levels, and withdrawal of
government offerings for export were
factors in the recent rise. The dry
area may get relief, but further
decline in new crop prospects, or a
material increase in exports, from
''free" stocks, rather than from gov
eminent holdings, would stimulate a
further price advance.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-02-15
Markets at a Glance

Prices-Freeze ceiling will slow down rather
than halt the upward trend of farm prices,
now close to all-time peak.
Cattle-Stabilization of prices near January
top levels seems probable.
Hogs--Prices probably have pushed close to
the limit permitted by freeze ceilings on pork
and lard.
Lambs-Prices probably will crowd against
dressed lamb ceilings.
WooI-Freezing of wool goods prices has
caused temporary upset in trading.
Wheat-Price changes will depend substan-
tally on crop Developments and exports.
Feed Grain-Increasing demand will force
prices gradually higher.
Seeds-Mostly steady to higher prices
probable spring planting starts.
Observation-Disclosures not under ceilings
probably will push upward.
Hay-Price changes will hinge largely on
severity of late winter.
Dairy Notwithstanding utilization in
fluid form will help dairymen's returns.
Eggs-Further moderate price drop is prob
able in next month or two.
Poultry-Steady to slightly higher prices
are probable until spring.
Potatoes-Growers plan to cut intermediate
and late crop acreage by IA percent.