The daily record., 1952-01-21
Walter
WiIlchen
In
New
York
WALIER
WNcHEn
MAN READING THE PAPERS

The American Command is in a
bitter quarrel with Tokyo over
next years military budget for ia
pan. Ironically, exactly ten
years after Bataan and Corregidor.
the U. S. is insisting that Japan
spend at least 81 per cent of the
national revenue for its armed
forces, and the Japs are protesting
that this is too much. The
peace Lowing" Japs for some time
have taken legal refuge in the con-
stitution we ordered them to draft
which forbids war. i. OF course,
everybody knows the. score: We
need Japan SO badly as an ally that
we've got 10 gamble on which way
she'll point the guns-in the end.
!. History nat only repeats. It
often feyerses itself.
Five very distinguished econom-
lists told the United Nations that
business booms from now on will
be the rule, not the exception. .
At least 20 eminent economists
saw the same thing just before
October 1929. The United Nations
economists, though, have two hard
decades of history to back up their
theory. They do not say that
the reason everybody is going to
have work is that business will be
good. They say business will be
good because every government
will have to establish full employ
ment, as a firm objective of pol
ICY" In short, the Roosevelt
experiment is now respectable eco
nomicS: Business doesn't make
jobS-jobS make business.
Attorney General GOldstein urges
the N. Y. Legislature to make dope
pushing crime punishable by life
Imprisonment after the third con-
victiOn. 1t seems to this re-
porter that the nature of the
crime depends upon the pushed
and not the pusher. The very first
time a "pusher" is caught teaching
a child how to use narcotics, he
ought to be pushed into the cleo
trio chair. If murderers of a
mans body deserve the death PEN
atty, what is a just punishment for
one who murders the soul of a
child by making it drug addict?
General de Lattre is dead in
Paris. The Iron Man of Indo-
China put a spine of steel into the
French Far East army the day he
arrived. His 23-year-old son step
ped up to greet him, and de Lattre
asked him where he was stationed.
The boy, a fine officer, said his
battalion was in the firing line.
The General ordered him to his
post and reprimanded the officer
who gave him leave. But when the
boy was killed few weeks later,
de Lattre flew with the body back
to France. The General never
lost the will to win, but after that
he lost he will to live.
ViShinsky'S atom inspection plan
is due for the Washington waste
DdohCts wv OAAy uCCduSC ~ hds
the No. ga joker in it, national
domestic rights, but because 81 Red
treaties have been broken since
1916. What Vishinsky is saying
is: II agree with everything that
you say, but 1 will fight to the
death for my right to disbelieve in
you."
Supreme Court Justice William
o. Douglas has refused any place
on the Democratic ticket of 1852
though he would have been on the
winning 1914 ticket except for the
Hannagan-Pauley coup for Tru-
man. Grace Tully tells the
story of the two letters by FD.R.
on his preferences. the first read
ing Douglas or Truman, and the
second reading Truman or Doug
las. Justice Douglas decision
is perfectly understandable. Who
wouldn't prefer the Supreme Court
ermine to the White House mink?
The President has asked Con-
gress TO abolish the armchair
a.