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Evening star., 1951-02-23
Writer DepIores Trend Toward More
Election Probes and Immunity Curb

held that free speech doesn't
depend on the severity of any
body's denunciation and that.
if anything truly slanderous or
libelous is written, there are
State laws which can protect
the aggrieved individual.
It was the late Oliver Wen
dell Holmes. associate justice of
the Supreme Court and a true
liberal, who said that freedom
of speech is freedom for the
thought we hate" Few Glib
erals" today show that degree
of tolerance in defining free
dom of speech.
Now, there is no doubt that
the attacks on Mr.. Tydings were
bitter. But he let himself in
for much Of it by his own vitri-
olic condemnation of those who
had sought a fair and impartial
inquiry by the Senate into the
alleged communistic influences
in the Government. The Tyd-.
ings report had in 1t many
statements which were unfair
and might even be called sour
rilous in relation to those who
had asked for a fair investiga-
tion. The report itself was so
unsatisfactory that the job now
has to be done over again by a
new committee.
Hardly an election contest
occurs in which one side doesn't
argue the other side is unfair.
The laws of libel and slander
protect a candidate against ex-
tremes. Sometimes during the
campaigns a threat to sue for
libel is made and usually these
suits are never heard from
again or filed.
But the spectacle Of a United
States Senate Committee in
quiring now into election litera-
ture and trying to set itself up
as a Judge as to what is "fair"
or unfair" in a political cam
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Henry WcLen1ore:
He Gets Himself Outfitted
In True Bovurion Style

a good two sizes larger than
the hat, but he shook his head
and refused to let me have a
bigger one. There is law ap-
parently against a clerk selling
man a hat that doesn't perch
on his head and threaten to
skid off with each intake of
breath. In Munich. ! mean.
7 asked the clerk If a pot of
glue came along with the un-
dernourished chapeau, but he
pretended he didn't understand.
Guess I'll have to wait until I
get back to New York to get the
hat glued on good and tight.
The hat the clerk selected for
me wasn't the color ! usually
60 in for. Or any fairly sane
man goes in for. for that mat
ter. It is a color of green best
described as sensational and
startling. No feather on the
neck Of q pheasant or mallard
could ever hope to match it in
bri1liance. I once saw a fish
at Marineland in Florida that
was almost as green as the hat.
but it had to be taken from the
tank to keep from binding his
underwater mates.
There is a chance, of course,
that I'll become accustomed to
the color Of the hat and think
no more of 1t than the dull. gray
and brown ones most American
men wear.
But If I live to be 1873 I'll
never get used to the ornament
that Is on the hat. I wanted
a feather to stick in the cord
around the hat, but Munich
Evening star., 1951-02-23
u. NJ ATTEMPTS to Settle issue Are FruitIess
Council Gets New IT, S.-Brtish Proposal

Pakistan, which India has at
tempted to undermine ever since
partition in 1947, and on the
Western powers. which Mr..
Nehru is trying to play of
against the Communists.
Mr.. Nehru's price for settle
ment Of the Kashmir .contro-
versy is complete surrender of
Pakistan and the Western pow
ers to his demands for full Indian
control of this strategic princely
state, just as he plugged for
complete surrender of the West
ern powers to Red China in the
recent United Nations delibera-
tions on naming the Peiping re-
gime the aggressor in Korea.
Mr.. Nehru has given ample
evidence Of his unwillingness to
settle the Kashmir issue on a
basis Of justice and equity for
all parties. Particularly is he
deaf to the appeals to give the
people of Kashmir-who are
overwhelmingly Moslem - the
kind Of government they want,
which is annexation to Pakistan.
The United States and Britain
now have presented to the U. N.
Security Council q new proposal,
which envisages the appoint
ment of a new mediator, with
the suggestion that considera-
ton be given to the formation
of an international army to
police Kashmir, or to the for
nation of a locally recruited
police force. One or the other of
these would take the place Of In
dian and Pakistan troops which
now hold separate parts of the
country under a cease fire which
the U. N. obtained effective
January /, 1948.
Added to the long used prin-
ciple of mediation now would
be arbitration Of specific points
on which the mediator could
not get India and Pakistan to
agree. This would be carried
out, under the America British
resolution. by arbitrators Sc
lected by the international
Court of Justice. Acceptance
by both sides of the arbitrators'
decision would be compulsory.
Prospects of acceptance of
this compromise. which appears
to provide a sound and just
basis for settlement of the
Kashmir fight, are not too good,
although the Council has yet to
discuss the matter and may act
regardless of India's opposition.
Pakistan essentially supports
the basis of the joint resolution
namely mediation, arbitration
and demilitarization. It's only
criticism appears to be that the
Council should issue a fiat direc-
tive for withdrawal of troops
and should put in more direct
terms than the resolution does
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Thomas L. Stokes:
Bio Business Defense Role Hit
Consumer and Labor Groups Are Protesting
Groups Are Protesting

buyers, Of which there are
many.
These result in exclusive
agreements that squeeze out
competitors and affect you and
me in prices and quality. The
exempted categories also in
clude exclusive and preferential
arrangements between industrial
corporations and financial in
stitutions. Those handicap COM
petitors in getting credit and
that explains why the Govern
ment had to go into the money
lending business to maintain
free enterprise.
It would be suggested here
that perhaps the Clayton Act
ought to be further amended.
But such q suggestion might be
brash since an amendment that
Congress put through this year
to section 7 in an effort to re-
duce mergers tending toward
monopoly took over 80 years
from the time it was first rec
commended by a President.
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Tydings Regarded as q PoorLose

paign is something startling. It
represents a trend which began
with the recent interference
with the right of petition under
the constitution.
It certainly is puzzling just
why, under a so-called liberal
concept. there are such frequent
attempts to muzzle free speech
or to question it. Thus. it is
the liberal" of today who
wants to abolish congressional
immunity and make 1t possible
to intimidate a member of Con-
gress and prevent him from ex-
posing fraud and crime. The
gamblers and racketeers would
certainly have made short shrift
of the Kefauver committee If
Congressman were subject to
libel suits for what they say in
speeches or reports on the floor
of Congress.
Sdulpd1SA AVGl dVuAV AAdc 4l0
immunity from suits. If any
thing libelous was said about
Senator Tydings in the last
campaign, he has a right to file
suit against his opponent or
anybody connected with his op-
ponent's campaign. But to de-
nounce somebody in public
Office whose views are unpalata-
BILE Is not yet crime or an
offense for which the laws in
f1ict punishment.
If the Senate committee
means merely to give publicity
to the nasty methods used in
campaigns, that's a worthy OBJ
jective. But. to be honest about
it, the committee must not
hesitate to go into Ohio and
take look also at the cam
paign literature circulated
against Senator Taft. Some Of
the stuff would hardly be COW
cred by such a gentle word as
"scurrilous."
Reproduction Rishts Reserved.l
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Henry McLenore:

MUNICH. Some people
think they have seen every
thing. but they haven't.
They weren't in q dressing
room of Munich's leading de-
partment store yesterday when
I tried on a complete Bavarian
outfit.
1t was cold outside, with snow
on the ground, but I got fitted
for the outfit the boys around
here wear in the summer.
Wait until I spring this en-
semble on Fifth avenue next
June or July. I am bound to
get an offer-either from tele-
vision or the zoo. Ed Wynn, In
the zaniest costume he ever. wore
on the stage, never looked as
silly as I did.
was built for blue serge
pants, the longer the better, not
leather shorts. II the mirror
wasn't lying those leather STEP
ins gave me the appearance of
a barrel dressed up in half a
dozen old footballs that had
been tackled together at home.
and not by loving hands.
The embroidered suspenders
that held up the pants didn't
look so bad. In fact, they might
have been downright fetching
on me If it hadn't been for the
hat.
The one the clerk selected
for me was about the size of the
lower half of q medium sized
double boiler, and not too far
from that shape. either. kept
telling him that my head was
Evening star., 1951-02-23

men don't go in for anything
as tame as feathers.
The clerk brought out an
ornament whose father must
have been a boom and its
mother one Of those pom-poms
circus ponies sport on top OF
their heads. It was Is inches
high if it was an inch and was
as sturdy as a sapling.
He fastened it to the little
hat and I staggered to the
mirror to take a look. I wish
1 hadn't. What I saw will
haunt my dreams for years to
come.
When I was dressed Bavarian-
style from head to foot the clerk
hurried to round up other clerks
! to take a look at me. The
arrival of a rare eight-eared
vassa -booma at an American
ZOO never attracted more in
spection. attention, and ex-
clamations.
My German is limited to
exactly no words, so I don't
know what the clerks were say
ing as they stood in circle
about me. But I have a sneak
ing suspicion that it wasn't
complimentary. I paid my bill
as quickly as possible and got
back into regular coat, vest and
pants again.
The next time I put on the
Munich rig, someone is going
to pay, and pay good for look.
Distributed By McNsught syndicate. Inc. J
Evening star., 1951-02-23
David Lawrence:

Maybe the Senate should in
vestigate every election among
Its members and let the loser
come in and complain about the
statements made by the victor.
Maybe the so-called liberals"
want a national board of CEN
sorship which shall pass upon
what the candidates say and
what their overzealous managers
and supporters write or print
during campaign.
Maybe the liberal" of today
isn't much different under the
skin from the totalitarian who
wants to regulate everything by
q law and who doesn't really at
heart believe in free speech or
a free press unless the views
expressed happen to agree with
his own.
But, unfortunately. the hula
UdlOO W41lS1I lIcto NCCi1 oVoA eCu Ny
former Senator TydingS of
Maryland. Democrat. because he
was defeated by John M. Butler,
Republican, isn't going to re-
solve any Of these questions. 1t
is merely going to prove that
Mr.. Tydings is a bad loser
which in politics is rather un-
pardo1able.
It is also going to open up for
debate in congressional COM
mittee the whole question of
free speech and a free press.
Unfortunately the Senators who
gave the go-ahead to this in
quiry canno6have read the ma
jor cases decided by the Su-
preme Court of the United
States and the lengths to which
freedom of expression may go
without violating constitutional
rights.
In one instance, the editor of
q weekly newspaper in Mime
sofa printed the most vitriolic
stuff imaginable, but the court
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Forces

units with which some OF them
are interlinked, including banks,
investment trusts, insurance
companies, railroads, public
utilities and distributing enter
prises.
Several pages are devoted to
explanations of inter-locking re-
lationships, with names of the
multifold corporations involved.
Space forbids the listings, but
we can run over the categories
to show how they fit into your
everyday life. Here goes-food.
Gamers, dairies, grain-mill prod
ucts. bakeries, sugar, beverages.
steel. oil. metals, machinery,
aircraft. motor vehicles, textiles,
rubber. apparel, glass.
The Trade Commission said
that some of these tieups actu-
ally are in violation of the
Clayton Anti Trust Act. but
many are not because TIE law
doesn't cover them. II does not,
for instance, coverlj inter-rela-
tionships between sellers and
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Thomas l.. Stokes:

We are hearing a rising pro-
test around here these days
from progressive political
groups, consumer organizations
and, most vociferously Of late,
from labor about the powerful
grip that big business has on
the defense program.
From the same groups we
also are hearing complaints
about the tendency in Congress
to favor big business in formu-
lating tax programs to pay for
the defense program, with un-
fair discrimination against
small income folks. and the
failure to take proper precau-
tions about rent controls, hous-
ing and the like for the rank
and file workers in the defense
program.
In both respects the diagnosis
is correct. 1t also happened in
the last war. 1t provokes frcm
the longtime observer, cynically,
that old familiar wheeZe:
Don't you know there's a
war on?"
To get some of the reasons,
though at first blush there may
seem little connection, you can
20 to a factual analysis by the
Federal Trade Commission. the
result of an exhaustive investi-
CATION, that shows the intricate
web of interlocking directorates
among the Nations great basic
industries that produce for war
as well as peace. In short,
the very simple cause-and-eftect
of the impact of giant economic
forces on politics and govern
n1ent that gets too little en-
phasis around here.
It is almost as simple as
"them that has gits-and
keeps"
This "kissing-kin" relationship
among great units Of our econ
omy makes it a coZy family
affair, with the result that big
business can exert its influence
through it's representatives In
the defense program in a sort
of common front to protect its
preserves-and even come out
in the end bigger and stronger
as in the last war. Similarly
it can bring it's concentrated
power to bear upon Congress in
what some call the super
lobby" which operates fire.
quently on a "one-for- -all-and-
all-for-o -one" basis.
There is nothing venal in all
of this. We've just accepted 1t
as a habit. 1t always happens.
The natural effect of ma
tional emergency such as now
exists is to freeze the economy
through regulations and con-
trolls. Those who are in COM
mand see that their privileges
likewise are frozen, that is. pro-
tected against any tampering.
These privileges include a
lack of competition in many
areas. That means to you and
me. as citizens, higher costs
for all the things we use every
day and. as taxpayers, higher
costs for the things the Gov
ernment buys with our tax
money for our common defense.
We are less protected than
normally since a law has been
enacted exempting certain inter-
industry agreements, normally
illegal, from antitrust statutes.
In its cautious way the Fed
eral Trade Commission con-
cluded from it's investigation
that inter-locking relationships
it found involved reasonable
probabilities that competition
would be reduced thereby" It's
inquiry embraced the 1000 big
gest manufacturing companies
an6 am ctl1rino
Evening star., 1951-02-23
Constantine Brown:

The perennial problem OF
Kashmir is before the United
Nations again, reminding the
Western powers that this sore
spot in Central Asia continues
to be point of extreme danger
in. their armor against Soviet
expansion.
For more than three years the
United Nations has been at
tempting to solve this issue be-
tween India and Pakistan by
mediation. and it was discussed
at the recent meeting Of British
commonwealth prime ministers
at London.
All efforts to arrive at a solu-
ton have foundered on the rocks
of Indian intransigence and re-
fusal to go half way in making
a workable agreement for settle
ment of the dispute. India.
while agreeing in principle to a
plebiscite, has frustrated any
real progress toward the hold
ing of such a vote by its refusal
to withdraw it's troops from the
disputed territory on a basis Of
equality with Pakistan.
Kashmir is just one string to
Prime Minister Nehru's political
bow. It is a ready-made means
of continuing pressure on both
Evening star., 1951-07-19
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