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Page 2 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1950
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We Help Others, Why Not Ourselves? . . .
A new angle on the “What happened
to our defense stockpiles?” question came
to light in a recent testimony before a
committee of Congress. At the vertex of
that angle is the State Department. A
receiver of accusations from many and
varied sources dealing with as many dif
ferent problems, the State Department has
served to be the sounding board for blames
that could be put on no other group.
It all goes back to the old political
game of passing the buck. After the out
break in Korea, people became aware of
the sad shape of our national defenses and
reserves. Prior to that time, the same
persons who are now complaining our lack
of foresight were complaining of high
taxes needed to pay for the last war.
Since then, the blame for our lack of
preparation has been passed back and
forth from one department or board of
our national government to another. Lack
of money has come up as a highly prob
able cause for our national dilemma.
Even more recent than that is an ac
cusation before a congressional committee
that the State Department has failed to
bring pressure on friendly Marshall Plan
countries which “have been laggard in
their production of our needed materials.”
The charge was made by the chairman of
the Defense Department’s Munitions
Board which had been in the proverbial
“hot box” of public opinion.
The State Department’s position, the
chairman said, is “that they are going out
to do something for these people, and if
they say we want something in return for
it, that destroys the atmosphere.” He de
clined to directly accuse the Department
of hindering the stockpiling effort, but
said they had not modified their views to
comply with our (the munitions board)
views to the need for assistance on stock
piling.
It seems that we, as a nation born
with the habit of helping others and re
questing and expecting nothing in return,
should change our ways, possibly to the
extent of destroying the “atmosphere.”
America may be bountiful, but can it sup
port the whole world ? If the present rate
of expenditure continues, we shall soon
know.
Korean Bombs-With a Two Fold Purpose . ..
North Koreans have become acquainted
with the hell of pulverizing bombing from
United States planes such as their Jap
anese neighbors and the Germans went
through in the last two years of World
War II. They have good reason to begin
wondering what their Communist leaders
and their Russian mentors have got them
into.
One hopeful thought about the devas
tation being wrought by the American air
attacks is that it may make Communist
chieftains contemplating similar MoscoW-
sparked aggressions think long and hard
before bringing such destruction down
upon other countries.
Communist rulers are notoriously cal
lous to the hardships of their peoples.
Theoretically the protelariat are the gov
erning power; actually the masses are
mere robots to produce goods and mate
rials for state use, and expendable trigger-
fingers and cannon fodder to be sacrificed
in whatever numbers may be necessary to
consummate their aggressions. However,
the aerial demolition of North' Korean
cities and installations and the decimation
of North Korean manpower, which already
is well advanced and doubtless will be
completed if the current struggle con-
★ ★
Though not often made by persons who
stay employed in the newspaper business,
mistakes appearing in the nation’s news
papers are embarrasing to editors, but
humorous to readers.
For instance, imagine the expression
of the editor of an Indiana weekly when
he read “A little bungle of love came to
frighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Jones,” on his society page.
Usually, retractive statements are run,
but often they too do not turn out so well.
As in the case of an Iowa paper: “We re
ported in yesterday’s paper that Mr. Bran
don is a defective on the police force. This
tinues for six months, is enough to make
the prospective aggressors tremble for
their own future as well as that of their
country, should they go through with their
contemplated attacks.
To mention just one instance, Russia’s
deputy-premier, Molotov, has been in Pei
ping for some time, supposedly trying to
rib Mao Tse-tung to invade Formosa or
Korea. The civil war has left China ter
ribly weak and impoverished; she needs
desperately to settle down in peace and
try to get back on her feet. And Mao,
watching the news of the aerial blasting
of North Korea, must realize that if he
should commite an aggression that would
bring him to grips with the United States,
his country would be torn up worse than
ever and would be the loser, whether his
new aggression succeeded or not.
The Red would-be aggressors may not
heed the solemn warning of Korea. Ag
gressors almost always find, in the end,
that they were fatally mistaken in their
plans. But if the fearful bombing of
North Korea helps the United Nations to
win, and also deters other Communist in
vasions, the double victory will be well
worth the awful cost in human lives and
property.
—The Houston Post
★
is not so. Mr. Brandon is a detective on
the police farce.”
* * *
The grand-dad of all newspaper “flub-
ups” comes from an account in an Illinois
weekly on the flight of a zeppelin from a
nearby airport. This paper announced im
portantly: “Among the last to enter the
great airship was a society-woman Mrs.
A. E. Wiley.
“Slowly she turned toward the wind.
Gracefully she lifted her massive nose and
crawled along the grass until, with a
mighty effort, she sped into the air and
swooped up high.”
The Battalion
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Teague Reporting . . .
Approval of Senate
Seen for Controls
(Ed. note—Reprinted below is
the latest newsletter sent to The
Battalion by Olin E. Teague,
representative in Congress for
the Sixth Disitriclt of Texas,
which includes Brazos and seven
other counties.)
Washingtin, D. C.—(Special)—
Since the invasion of South Korea
the Nation’s Capital has become
the news center of the world
where plans are being made and
implemented to stop Communist
aggression.
Immediately after the President
announced to the world the action
he had authorized to be taken by
the armed services in Korea, the
Congress has attempted to move
speedily in granting the legisla
tion requested.
The Senate had previously been
discussing for several weeks the
Appropriation Bill for 1951 and
during that time the House of
Representatives voted to remove
the 2,005,000 ceiling on our armed
forces and has already approved a
program of priorities and alloca
tions with standby rationing and
price controls.
build up our armed strength in
both men and equipment.
The mutual defense assistance
program whereby we furnish
equipment and supplies to friend
ly nations willing to be our allies
in our common defense against
communism is another legislative
measure before the Congress.
Besides the tightening of con
trols on consumer credit and on
federal credit for housing pro
jects, it will be necessary to in
crease taxes to prevent inflation
and to help defray the increased
cost of our expanded military pro
gram.
Too Much Expense
Experience has taught us that
any additional government expen
ditures result in inflationary ac
tion unless by means of increased
taxes or forced savings we cah re
move the threat of a serious dis
ruption of our economy.
We have entered into a period
which may result in a general
world war or one which will result
in several years of increasing mili
tary preparedness to meet the
threats of communist aggressors.
Interpreting the News . . .
Nehru Should Accept Visit
To Peiping, See Red Action
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
It might be a very good thing
for the world at large if Prime
Minister Nehru of India accepts
the Chinese Communist invitation
to visit Peiping.
Nehru has been straddling the
fence between East and West, He
is attempting to maintain a show
of complete detachment. He denies
neutrality, but says he wishes In
dia to retain her freedom of de
cision on individual issues rath-
'er than to cast her lot unequivo
cally with one side or the other.
He says, in effect, “a plague on
both your houses.”
In the meantime, he is working
toward Indian leadership of Asia,
which he conceives as still in re
volt against foreign hegemony and
bound up in a new nationalism.
He maintains his willingness to
use whatever system will work
for the benefit of the people.
Chinese Different
He agrees that Communism is
being misused by some countries
Five Housemasters
Named for Dorms
Housemasters for the coming
year in five non-corps dorm
itories have been announced by
Taylor Wilkins, veterans advisor.
They are as follow: Leighton B.
Lee, senior accounting major from
Kirbyville (Law); David M. El
ston, senior vet medicine major
from McKinney (Mitchell); Jesse
N. Hill, junior architecture stu
dent from Port Arthur (Leggett);
James O. Martin, fifth-year vet
medicine student from Cotulla
(Bizzell); and John P. Davis, fifth-
year vet medicine major from Port
Arthur (Puryear).
Our military leaders tell us that
Russia is not ready for an all-out
war in the next few months, but
would like to strengthen her al
ready strong position by com-
munizing all of Asia and making
further inroads in Europe.
Had we not made the stand we.
are making in Korea, and if we
fail to continue to increase our own
armed forces, Russia will be in a
most advantageous position to car
ry out a general war within a few
years.
but—and here is the big point
where he diverges from the general
concept—he doesn’t think that
Chinese Communism is Moscow
Communism.
There are others Avho still cling
to this outlook, despite the identity
of the Moscow and Peiping party
lines. Nehru thinks the Chinese
are too individualistic, have too
many of their own problems.
In other words, he doesn’t be
lieve Mao Tse Tung and the Chin
ese Communist leaders who reiter
ate their unity with Moscow.
The New York Times only this
past Sunday said Nehru intimated
in an interview, although not with
a specific statement, that he felt
the western powers should try to
make common cause with the Na
tionalist forces in Asia whether
they are communistically inclined
or not.
Overlooking Facts
This idea that Communism in
Asia and especially China is dif
ferent or can be made different
from Russian Communism is to
overlook the source of the power
which spreads it in the area, and
to hope for Titoism without re
membering that Titoism is still
totalitarianism and that Asia is not
Yugoslavia.
Nehru, of course, is caught up
by some practical as well as theo
retical aspects of the situation. It
would be strange if, having spent
so many years in British pails,
he were not influenced by anti-
westernism despite his admittedly
great intelligence and education.
It would also be strange if he
were not affected by the fundamen
tals of politics and geography with
which he is faced. China is his near
neighbor, larger and quite probab
ly stronger, militarily, than India.
To get along with China is bound
to be an increasingly important
factor in Indian foreign policy.
Broad Outlook
But to get back to the Peiping
invitation.
Nehru, even if he now seems to
be off base regarding the Com
munists, is a man of generally
broad outlook. He does not refuse
to learn. He might learn much
from seeing the Peiping Commun
ists with their ears to the ground
for Moscow’s word, or actually ask
ing for instructions. Many western
ers have been and might still b»
misled by the ’’potempkin” shows
put on by the Communists. But
Nehru would be more capable than
most westerners of real perception
in Peiping. And there is no doubt
of his importance. If he perceived,
it would mean much to the world
struggle.
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