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Evening star., 1951-08-12

pnal";; the second is a corp plus
10rp brown denomination showing
a portrait by Franz Halls: and the
third is a 40rp plus 10rp blue label
featuring one Of j. van Ruysdael's
landscapes. All of these works
are in the Royal Gallery. 1t is
safe to assume that similar issues
will follow.
Venezuela is producing an air.
mail set depicting the Simon Bo-
livar monument in New York.
Jamaica will have special
stamps for the Boy Scout Jambo-
rec of the Caribbean area next
year.
The Canal Zone has issued six
new airpost stamps showing the
portion of the globe in which it
lies and a symbolic wing. Values
and colors are: &c, magenta. &c,
brown; 10c, orange; 2lc, blue; SIC,
red, and 80c, sepia.
Members of the precancel divis-
ion of the philatelic hobby are
moving toward Pittsburgh for the
annual convention of the Precan-
eel Stamp Society at the William
Penn Hotel there Thursday to
Sunday, August % to 26, inclu-
Sive.
The Australian Stamp Journal
has suspended publication because
of greatly increased costs of print
ing.
Leon Helguera, designer of the
I1l2 and 50-cent United. Nations
stamps tells in Stamps Magazine
for August II how Bertil A. Rem
borg, chief Of the U. N. postal
establishment, warned him that
mo classical visual symbols should
be used" in the compositions. The
Dove of Peace was barred with
special emphasis" But Mr.. Hell
guerra says he replied: ''Mr. Rem
borg, it takes hundreds of years
and even thousands for a symbol
to become universally known and
understood. Why. if could think
up a pictorial symbol to take the
place of the Dove Of Peace, I'd
become an immortal! I can un-
derstand how a new world organi-
cation should want to create new
symbols that would be acceptable
to all the peoples of the planet,
but if you begin by ruling out the
accumulated treasure of the ages,
you make it extremely difficult for
the artist"
The Mercury Stamp Journal re-
Gently said: Some people are
still of the opinion that we should
not govern collecting by political
principles. This may be correct
in times of peace and friendly
relations with all nations. But
in times such as we are now going
through, when our good money,
given to the Communist dictator
ships, helps them with which they
wan to destroy our free world and
when American youngsters are
dying on the battlefieldS of Korea
to save our way of life, such a
policy will have to be recon-
sidered. The collector who buys
new stamps of the Communist
countries which are offered to him
by his dealer should not be con-
demned too much. But the
policies of those wholesalers who
have contracts with Russia and
other Communist countries by
which they lend their organiza-
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Washington Bridge League
players are advised that future
contests will be held in the air.
conditioned Congressional Room
on the main floor of the Willard
Hotel.
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in the Peoples Drug Store contest
held August 2.
The Federal Bridge League tro-
ply was awarded on July 80 to
a local pair, Louis Fruitman-
Mark Lake. Seventh out of 1872
pairs were Mrs. Rebecca Crane
Mary Ruhl.
In the three side contests for
master pairs, Bill Million finished
14th with E. H. Lloyd of Rich
mond, only Washingtonian in the
master point division of the
Colder pair event last Friday
night.
1t. Col. John Geddes and Paul
Neff earned tenth of the master
point awards in the Leventritt pair
match Saturday afternoon, won
by Mrs. Stella Landauer-Mrs. j.
E. Folline of Richmond. The
Miles master match on Sunday
afternoon fell to Ben Fain, San
Antonio. and j. L. Rosenblum,
New Orleans. Mr.. and Mrs. John
c. Kunkel Of Harrisburg, Pa, and
Washington, finished 18th, win
ming for former Congressman
Kunkel sufficient red points to en-
title him to life mastership. He
was the fourth local star to
achieve this distinction within the
week, the others being Mrs. George
Kathan, j. D. Boyd and David
Murray.
In Washington Bridge Leagues
winners" game last Wednesday,
only 80 pairs participated. Mrs.
Jenny Bryant-Al Roth were Ms
winners by a 81 point margin
over Mrs. Florence Millspaugh-
A. E. Lane. E-W, Walter O.
Loughlin-Dr. E. M. Short were
tops. followed by Fulton Brylaw-
ski-Lynn Carrier. In the non
winners section, Mrs. Alma Byrne-
David Garman and A. D. Brown
Ilie-Frank Holtzman took first
honorS.
Washington Bridge League
players are advised that future
contests will be held in the air.
conditioned Congressional Room
on the main floor of the Willard
Hotel.
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Stamp News
By jones Waldo Fowcett

a.. The only new stamp scheduled
by the Post Office Department
now is the Scent commemorative
for the 18th anniversary of the
American Chemistry Society, due
for release in New York on Sep
tember 4.
Lietchtenstein has brought out
three stamps to illustrate how
postal adhesives may serve the
highest cultural purposes. The
first of the new series is a 10rp
plus 10rp green value reproducing
Albert Cuyp's painting. "The Ca
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tions to the merchandising of
these postal products, in return
for special conditions and favors,
including imperforate stamps and
other varieties. are detrimental
to the interests of this country
as well as of philately. If their
business as usual with the
Soviets were stopped, it would also
have other beneficial results. Rus
sia and its eight satellites in
Europe have had a large produc-
tion of stamps. especially of COM
and semipostals, dur
ing recent years. In the last five
years these countries have issued
about $500 different stamps.
This is considerably more than all
of the other 26 stamp issuing coun-
tries in Europe have produced
during the same period, although
some of them are not bashful
either in the production of new
stamps. OF the Communist issues,
95 per cent were unnecessary from
the strictly postal point Of view;
they were mostly propaganda pic
lures issued to extract money from
the pockets Of the collectors In
the free countries"
Peter G. Keller, general mana
ger, announces that the American
Stamp Dealers Association. Inc,
will stage it's third National Post
age Stamp Show in New York City
to Sunday. November Is to
18 inclusive.
Austria has issued a 1-schilling
black, green and yellow stamp for
the Seventh Boy Scout World
Jamboree now assembled in Bad
Ischl and st. Wolfgang. The de-
sign features the f1eur- -de-lis en-
blem of the Scouts movement.
Ernst Schrom is the artist, Maria
Olinowitz the engraver. Only /
million copies will be printed.
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Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Submit Our Amendment to States;
Convincing Evidence in Abundance
sIotures Long Overdue
By Jesse G. Suter

Hearings BY Stote Legislatures Long Overdue
The Evening Star editorial of February 194 heading
~The Hearing Deserve said: the Senat
Judiciary Committee hold
senaton amendment understandable testimony
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Henry ANcLen1ore:
Declares Need Shown Now
For Careful Use Of Ballot

sage that fired him, was told that
he couldn't fit in with the poll
cies Of the United Nations.
What honest man could?
The United Nations is talk,
more talk, and then a little
more talk. There isn't a mem
Der who could break down a
gun of any caliber and put it
together and then use 1t.
I am all for comfort, but not
when men I am supposed to
have supervision over are dying,
or getting an arm shot of, or
losing a foot.
The United Nations told Gen.
Macarthur to fight. He did.
AnG what has the United Ma
tions done?
So little that you have to
laugh when you read of United
Nations troops making this at
tack. or falling back. when all
the time you know that the
troops are Americans, that the
bullets are American, that the
gas for the planes and tanks
and trucks is American.
Let us all hope and pray that
the good Lord will let us live
until 1852.
Inc
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Gun Jumped on Macarthur
Heavy Hand of Diplomats Is Recognized Be
BrodIey,s Speech on Asio MiIitury Policy
Constantine Brown:

Before Gen. Macarthur had
an opportunity to speak to the
American people in his address
to Congress tomorrow the ad-
ministration jumped the gun.
In a speech in Chicago the
soldiers soldier" Gen Bradley.
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, attempted to steal the
former supreme commanders
thunder by stating-without
mentioning Gen. MacArthur's
name-that Asia military
policies advocated by some
would jeopardize world peace"
Gen. Bradley is recognized by
all as a first-class field COM
mander. He is we'll disciplined
soldier who obeys without mur-
muir the orders of his superiors.
During the bitter argument
which brought about the dis
misSal of Admiral Louis Dem
field, Chief of Naval Operations
in 1949, he toed the line indi-
Gated by his civilian superior.
Defense Secretary Johnson. He
denounced the plans for a
strong naval air arm and for an
increase in the Marine Corps
and described the advocates of
strengthening those branches
as fancy Dams"
Gen. Bradley's speech was
cleared by the White House and
the State Department. Those
familiar with the views and the
style Of the latter can see the
heavy hand of our diplomats
in Gen. Bradley's expose OF our
objectives in Korea. The FIVE
star general summed them I'D
sas follows:
sd Protect and maintain
our form of government and
our way of life against any
challenge"
These are magnificent words.
But from the practical point of
view we did not have to 60 to
Korea. nearly 8 thousand miles
away, to do SO. We went to
Korea, ideologically, to repel
aggression. Practically, how
ever, we went there to prevent
the Communists from gaining
a vitality important strategic
objective which would have been
a dagger pointed at the heart of
Japan, where we had four oc-
cupation divisions.
President Truman ordered the
sending Of forces to Korea be-
fore the United Nations con-
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Henry McLenoore:

It has been a week since the
piano player played his sorriest
tune. and almost everything that
can be said has been said, but
I'm still stunned.
Gen. Macarthur fired. Done
and finished. Stove in by q
man who wears ventilated shoes,
a harness horse drivers cap, and
the power of the Constitution,
a document drawn up by men
I who, ! daresay, never thought
1t would be used in such a
fashion.
:. The architects Of the Con-
stitution were brave men. Men
willing to go to any lengths to
uphold the dignity of Ameri-
cans and free men everywhere.
Mr.. Truman used it to humiliate
a brave American. Does Mr..
Truman have any one in his
cabinet, or in his personal en-
tourage. to compare with Gen.
Macarthur? If he does, won't
he bring them forth. A Nation
would be grateful.
Let us 60 a step ahead of that,
even.
Does MIR. Truman place him
self in the same class with Gen.
Macarthur? Does he think he
Is the equal in stature Of the
general he humbled behind the
official seal of the United States?
II he does, he'll have a hard
time proving 1t.
I suppose he knows as much
law as does Gen. Macarthur.
and I would give him the edge
in knowledge of political ma
chimes. but outside of that my
bet rides with the general.
One of the things that turned
my stomach-and 1t isn't easily
turned, by the way-was a para
graph of the presidential COM
munique to Gen. Macarthur. I
quote 1t:
"You are authorized to have
issued such orders as are neces-
sary to complete desired travel
10 such place as you select"
A second lieutenant gets that
sort of orders when he is moving
from Riley to Knox. So help me.
a private in the infantry gets
almost as nice note.
A gracious thing to do to a
man who has given so much to
his country.
I say fatty that a paragraph
like, that to Gen. Macarthur
proves the signer a petty, little,
ill-tempered man. Not a gentle
man as the world knows gen.
tleman. To go on. I think a man
who would do that is a great risk
to a great nation, and from here
on out we should be a little more
careful of our ballot.
Gen. Macarthur, in the mes
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Wherry. to set up a 24-man
Pearl Harbor Committee" to
canvass the whole field.
Senators Ferguson,a and Wherry
are not members of Armed
Services; they are members of
the Appropriations committee
from which four members of the
proposed Ferguson group would
be drawn.
Senator Russell smoothly has
pointed out that four Armed
Services members are also ON
Appropriations: himself and
three Republicans, Bridges, Sal
tonStall and Knowland. He ar
CUES that this surely constitutes
sufficient liaison with Appro-
priations.
He has also drawn in the
Foreign Relations Committee
which won't help Senators Fer
guson, Wherry or Taft but
which lends the benefit of prece-
dent. Such a joint committee
considered the comparable is
sue of troops for Europe in
peacetime and heard Gen.
Eisenhower.
The tug-of-war is not vet
over, but Democrats are conf
dent they can beat the Fergu-
son resolution. In the mean
time it would appear that some
Macarthur friend who under
stands the Capitol Hill rivalries,
the political and presidential
cross-currents, should furnish
the General with an up-to-date
road map of the COP.
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Doyid Lomenee
Bradley Utters the Party Line
Head of Joint Chiefs Of Stoff, Outlines the View.
Administration Wants Generals to Propagate
David Lawrence

II anything were needed to
prove how uneven and unfair
the Truman administration has
been in trying to apply to Gen.
Macarthur its so-called rules or
orders about public speeches, a
reading of the speech just made
by<Gen. Bradley, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sup
plies that need.
For Gen. Bradley. though dis
claiming that he Is making a
foreign policy speech, goes on
to make a speech which is iden-
tical In subject matter with the
statements of Gen. Macarthur.
Gen. Bradley, however, utters
the party line"-the views the
administration wants the gen.
erals to propagate. Presumably
they are the honest convictions
of Gen. Bradley and are not af-
fected by any fear that. if he
expressed himself otherwise, he,
too. might be fired.
So what America sees now is a
system whereby only what the
Government puts out can be
spoken. There is no such thing
evidently as a pro and con de-
bate by the military men about
our military situation in the
world. They can only say what
they are told to say. Hence
much of what they do say will
be discounted as political in the
sense of following party line"
and not really a military judg-
ment on subjects on which there
are obviously differences of
opinion. The people will never
get the truth that way.
Gen. Bradley himself, moreover,
was contradictory. After noting
that the Communists in Korea
were building up for another drive,
he said in his speech:
There is no assurance that
even when this attack is dis
PEELED that the war will be over"
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by the State Department writ
ers was that our objective in
Korea was Ito assure peace not
only for ourselves but for all
other nations. For this reason
we support the United Nations.
The latter sentence is true, in
sonar as We are concerned. But
there is little noticeable sup
port for us in that organiza-
ton. Britain's late prime mini
ster, Neville Chamberlain, spoke
IN a similar vein after his
"triumphal" return from Mu-
mich. People believed then that
appeasement was conducive to
peace. regardless of what hap
pened to the little fellows at
whose expense the appeasenent
was made.
Gen. Bradley also. stated that
the use the Reds have made of
their air bases in Manchuria to
date has not warranted United
Nations bombing of them" This
Is somewhat Of a nisconstruc-
ton OF Cen. MacArthur,s rec.
concentrations.
The former supreme Allied
commander urged the bombing
not OF Red air bases but Of
their military installations and
lines Of communication in Nam
churia. whence they supply their
fighting forces with reinforce.
ments and equipment. And that
Is an entirely different thing
from the use Of their air bases.
which are of only relative i'm
portance.
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Thonos [. Stokes:
Welcome home!
It's been a long time.

You come back with the roar
OF the multitude in your ears.
That is a tribute to a great
general. The many voices that
are joining now as one in that
tribute divide, away from the
parade, into as many separate
voices arguing in a vast babel
about the great issue that you
have raised. For we are still,
as when you went away, argu-
mentative folks, as we have
been since our beginning-and
we love it.
We try to do it with good
humor. But ill-will has been
creeping in since you and the
President came to a parting of
the ways. There's no reason.
however, why we shouldn't pre-
serve our good humor. You and
the President have responsible
ity there now.
IL Is not the purpose here,
though, to go into the differ
ences about policy and military
strategy in Asia. They are not
as simple as some would make
out. You and the President and
e;,oerts and Congress will have
to do that, and it will take
tie.
The purpose here is merely to
tell you OF something that may
not be clear to you since you
have been away so long.
In the roar of the multitude
you may not detect the still
small voice-the real voice of
our people-nor the purposes of
some among us who would use
you contrary to the best in
terests OF our people-and your
self.
To explain We'll go back to
the time you were among us
Tor any long period-when YOU
were Chief of Staff from 1880
to 1885.
Our people then were trou-
bled and in trouble. They were
striving to pull themselves out
of our Nations worst depres-
sion. You saw that and you
saw. for you were here in WASH
1ngton, how under. the direction
of Franklin ID. Roosevelt our
people took new heart and new
hope and Congress co-operated
TO take the necessary legislative
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IS the Views

Having. therefore, confirmed
what Gen. Macarthur has been
saying-namely, that a stale
mate" is in prospect unless Ameri-
can troops can defend themselves
against air attack by bombing the
enemy bases-Gen. Bradley goes
on to say:
''If at all possible, Korea should
be settled on the present bat
tleground."
But who will assure any settle
ment in any place? The enemy
which is building up its drive as
immunity is given to its own air
bases in Manchuria, or the u. N.
forces who are compelled to stand
still and take day-by-day punish
ment without moving forward to
win a victory? What soldier ever
advocated such doctrine before
to explain $4,000 casualties?
Gen. Bradley doesn't seem to
take account of anything the
enemy may do to our troops in
Korea. as most soldiers would, but
simply contents himself with the
statement: Fundamentally we
Americans are apt to become i'm
patient with a situation that has
no foreseeable conclusion. We all
would like to know when the war
in Korea will be over"
That's a masterpiece of under
statement. 1t reflects the whole
f1oundering viewpoint of the ad-
ministration today. For Gen.
Bradley has no answer except ''to
continue negotiation in this world
wide conflict as long as possible"
Gen. Bradley takes his political
cue directly from Mr.. Truman in
making the following observation:
"Enlarging the battle to full
scale war is never an economical
or morally acceptable solution to
a limited conflict"
But who limits the conflict?
The aggressors who are sup
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derously in five successive elec-
tions.
Seductively the selfish, but
powerful, minority talks about
our people being 'coddled by
government. and looking to gov
ernment for everything, and los
ing their initiative. You, your
self, should know how truly abb
surd that is since you saw what
our people, working 70 hours a
week, turned out during the war,
that vast and endless stream of
things you needed and which
won the victory in the end. They
are doing it again now, as you
know.
Our enemies called us soft"
and said we'd never fight. You
saw the answer to that-in the
big war in the Pacific and In the
war now in Korea. Your troops
were not professional soldiers.
just American boys pitching in
when called upon, American
boys from American homes.
You are back home now where
they come from.
Respectfully,
Joe DoakeS.
Evening star., 1951-04-18

Cured. OF course, he knew that
that organization would not op-
pose such a step once our gov
ernment decided on it, particu-
larly since it was obvious that
we would beaG the brunt of the
campaign.
The police action" as Presi-
dent Truman described it at that
time, had little to do with the
protection of our form of gov
ernment and life" If Korea had
not been vitality important from
the strategic point of view we
may have acted as we did in
the case of other Russian raw
aged nations -deplore it but do
nothing about it.
CD Gen. Bradley stated-and
once more the heavy hand of
the State Department becomes
apparent-that in Korea I'VE
seek peace by every means at
our command, but there will be
only one price we won't pay
appeasement."
We have sought peace in
Korea for several months. The
State Department was disposed
to accept the humiliating terms
provided by the United Nations
truce team and by the Arab
Asian bloc. These approaches
were not dignified by even an
answer from the Peiping govern
ment. Gen. Macarthur, who now
Is accused Of jumping the gun
on the State Department when
he asked the Red leaders to hoist
the flag of truce or accept dire
consequences. was honored with
a negative answer by his ene-
mics.
Since that time the British
have been active in attempts to
settle the Korean problem. The
terms are well-known now: The
Chinese Communists are to be
a party to writing a japanese
peace treaty; Formosa is to
be hanGed over to the Peiping
puppets. If that is not appease-
rnent, what is it?
It is true that the State De-
partment has turned down this
British proposal as unaccept-
able. 1t is difficult to conceive
how else Secretary of State
Acheson could have acted, con-
sidering the high tension which
exists throughout this country
over our Asiatic policies.
CD The third bromide incor-
porated In Gen. Bradley's speech
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Doris FIeeson.

a ouel between Republics
preceded the duel between Re
publicans and. Democrats over
who should manage Gen.
MacArthur's congressional ap-
pearance and SO help to harvest
the bumper crop of headlines.
AS soon as the generals oust-
er became an accepted fact,
Senators Bridges and Knowland
informed Chairman Russell of
Senate Armed Services that
they wanted that committee of
which both are members to
hear him. Senator Russell, a
quick student with a political
problem, Immediately assented
and called his committee to-
gether.
He announced that the two
Republicans had a proposal
which he supported and added
smoothly that he felt the in
quiry ought properly be enlarged
to include the whole foreign
policy-military strength field.
A gratified Mr.. Bridges so moved
and it was then agreed that
Gems. Marshall, Bradley and
company also should testify.
All this was seemingly in order.
Senator Bridges is. next to the
Ill Senator Vandenberg, the
senior Republican; both he and
Senator Knowland are China
hands, partisans Of Chang Kai-
shek and Gen. Macarthur.
Senator Russell reminded his
committee that probably the
best-informed man on military
matters in Congress was The
Admiral-Chairman vinson of