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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1950
Congress Needs Public Opinion Test Now
President Truman has called for the elec
tion of congressmen “who will put the whole
country’s welfare above partisan advan
tage.” The implication of this non-partisan
speech is that some changes are in order, and
it is up to the people to exercise their pre
rogative of voting with this primary require
ment in mind.
Before any “housecleaning” can take
place, however, a “lame duck” session will
take action on some very important bills. On
Nov. 27, the dying 81st Congress will consid
er statehood bills for Alaska and Hawaii, a
war profits levy, a possible demand for re
writing Communist control legislation, and
problems left over from the recessed Monday
session.
The ten Democratic Senators who upheld
World Citizenship Crusade Postponed . . .
President Truman’s veto of the Communist
control measure have promised to seek re
peal of drastic modification of the bill. Pres
ident Truman called the bill “dangerous to
American liberties, and a help to the Com
munists.” Filibusters may sidetrack legis
lation on the statehood bills, and the bill to
ban interstate shipment of slot machines ex
cept to states which pass a law to admit
them.
Recent events indicate the public is ahead
of Congress in regard to the critical nature
of domestic and international affairs. This
will undoubtedly be reflected in the results
of the coming election. It is perhaps unfor
tunate that action on all major issues can
not be postponed until all members of Con
gress have undergone the trial of public
opinion.
New Biography Of Truman
Revives Old Policy Errors
Interpreting the News . . .
Another one-man campaign to rid the
world of wars has come to an inglorious end.
Garry Davis, the man without a country,
asked Sunday that his United States citizen
ship be restored.
Two years ago, Davis renounced his
citizenship to become the first “citizen of the
world.” The former U. S. Army bomber
pilot attempted to start a crusade to erase
all national boundaries and start an inter
national alliance of all people of the world.
The idea behind Davis’ campaign was that
there could be no wars if there were no na
tional armed- forces, national pride, or na
tional governments. At the time it appeared
that this “international citizen” plan might
catch on in a Europe that was torn and dis
illusioned by two world wars in less than
thirty years. Davis began to preach his
gospel in Paris, France, incubator for radical
political philosophies.
As the Russian threat to world peace be
gan to grow, people began to forget idealis
tic political ideologies and to get down to the
more immediate question of how to combat
the spread of Communism and how best to
protect their countries from Russian aggres
sion. The North Atlantic Pact was signed
and definite warning given to Russia that
the free people of the world would engage in
another world war rather than submit to the
usurpation of their sovereign rights. Plans
were proposed for a European defense army.
The United Nations began a war for the de
fense of the South Korean Republic. Garry
Davis, citizen of the world, was forgotten.
In a letter to Attorney General Howard
McGrath, Davis said, “I am requesting im
mediate reinstatement of my former status
because along with the inalienable human
right which will accrue to me as an Ameri
can citizen, I wish to assume with a minimum
of delay my full share of responsibility in
safeguarding these rights. This I feel will
give my belief in world citizenship the solid
foundation necessary to its eventual realiza
tion.”
Davis’ actions should prove that although
he was possibly an impractical visionary he
was sincere in his attempt to unify the
peaceful people of the world.
Perhaps Davis and his followers now re
alize that until the world is safe from the
menace of the “isms” which would deprive
men of their personal freedoms, national gov
ernments are the only hope for protection
of our freedom.
General Marshall - Soldier and Statesman . . .
The return of Gen. George C. Marshall
may do more than any other single act or
eyent to put the brakes on the unfavorable
trend of international relations with Rus
sia. His recent appointment as Secretary of
Defense places him in a key position with
enough military and civilian rank to set up
a powerful program to stop Russian aggres
sion.
Is is General Marshall’s opinion that any
major Soviet attempt at expansion will oc
cur in Western Europe. Asia is important
in a geopolitical sense only because of her
vast numbers of people and the extensive
land masses that yield them a meager liv
ing. Western Europe, however, contains the
•
Last July, a new water main was laid
south of the College Station Post Office.
The street and sidewalk had to be torn up
in the process.
The street was repaired soon after the
line was laid. Unfortunately, the sidewalk
trained workers, factories, and natural re
sources that would be critical in any Rus
sian attempt at world conquest.
Now that we have served notice through
General Marshall that we are ready to face
the main issue, it is probable that “satellite
diversionary actions” will lose their effec
tiveness. The challenge in Korea has been
met with a high degree of success, but the
dfense of Western Europe has not been neg
lected.
Russia, according to prevailing estimates,
may be ready to march by 1952. If General
Marshall’s policies are carried out, we will be
adequately prepared.
was not.
Our crystal ball, (and the calendar on the
wall), tell us that the Brazos Bottom Mon
soon season is nearly upon us. Some sand,
gravel, and cement now will save many shoe
shines and cleaning bills later.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
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‘Unofficial
Make it
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
The “unofficial” diplomats have
put the official diplomats on the
spot again, providing the Rus
sians with a new vehicle for their
peace offensive.
For five years well-meaning in
dividuals and organizations have
asked the Russians if they were
agreeable to certain nice things
which everyone thinks would help
toward peace. The Russians always
say they surely are.
Then the official diplomats are
faced with the necessity of off
setting the resulant propoganda
without appearing themselves to
be opposed to peace.
Dean Acheson told the Rus
sians and the world six months ago
what was needed for peace—^treat
ies with Austria, Germany and
Japan; an end to the Soviet use of
force and threats of force in in
ternational affairs; an end to Sov
iet obstruction in the U. N.; Sov
iet agreement on the U. N. plan
for atomic control; an end to Sov
iet efforts to undermine other gov
ernments, mistreatment of for
eign diplomats and distortion of
western motives in propaganda and
diplomacy. Joseph Stalin, Jakob
Malik and Andrei Vishinsky never
said to that.
Deadlock
Their answer was to create a
new and worse deadlock over Aus
tria; to unleash military force in
international affairs in Korea and
then to attempt to obstruct U. N.
action on the case; to redouble the
drafting of labor for the uranium
mines; to seek to undermine the
governments of Yugoslavia, Iran,
South Korea, Indq-China and Tibet
in particular, and all the rest of
the world in general.
But when a Baltimore group,
apparently sincere but still pretty
close to the line of the “Stockholm”
peace appeals, submits its list,
Malik, presumably after confer
ring with Moscow, is quick to say
yes.
Who’s First?
Russia, Malik says, would be
glad to agree not to be the first
to use the atomic bomb; favors
general disarmament and outlawry
of atomic weapons under a U. N.
control system; would like a top-
level U. S.-Soviet conference; and
favors free exchange of ideas and
information between the countries.
But he doesn’t say how. He does
n’t say Russia will quit jamming
the Voice of America to permit
free information. He doesn’t say
that regardless of what agreement
Russia might make, she could let a
satellite drop the first bombs just
as she has used a satellite to make
her first post-1945 war. He doesn’t
say that Russia will accept in
terms for atomic agreement to
which members has agreed are fair.
He doesn’t say that Russia’s word
given at any top-level conference
Air Raid Signal
Brings Criticism
Washington, Oct. 3—GP)—A re
cent Air Force order changing air
raid warning signals was criticized
as causing confusion for civil de
fense leaders.
The specific complaint pointed
up more generalized calls, voiced
at a meeting of state officials here,
for more guidance and consultation
from the government on measures
to protest the people in emergency.
The critic was Donald S. Leon
ard, director of civil defense for
Michigan, who told newsmen the
signal change was made “without
consultation with t hose responsible
for civil defense on the state or
local level.”
Leonard reported the confusion
was created by an Air Force de
cision to eliminate the “air raid
blue” signal, used during World
War II.
He said the Air Force planned
to continue using “air raid yel
low,,’ indicating “something is
stirring,” and in case of attack,
follow with “air raid red,” which
means an attack is imminent.
would be any better than hereto
fore, or that Russian intent, the
whole root of the matter, has
changed.
Glean Slate
Russia has carried her policy so
far now that no one could depend
upon the, results of any negotia-
tiions. It will take acts for her to
clean the slate.
In the meantime, over the years
she has used the Wilkies, the Stas-
sens, the Quakers, the inquiring
newspapermen and now the Balti
more group to keep on muddying
the waters.
But she gave her real answers to
Acheson.
Washington, Oct. 3 — (A 1 )—Jon
athan Daniels’ biography of Pres
ident Truman has set political
skeletons dancing in a parade
which might affect the November
congressional elections.
Republicans picked up from the
writings of the presidential con
fidante and former White House
aide the statement that Mr. Tru
man appeared “lost in uncertainty
Seymour Stone
Addresses Art
Group in MSC
The Gallery Committee of
the Art Club heard Seymour
Stone, internationally famous
portrait painter, tell of peo
ple he has painted and some
of his major painting problems, at
a meeting in the Ball Room of the
Memorial Student Center, last
night.
Stone, who has painted generals,
educators, and royalty the world
over, gave a lively talk ■ inter
spersed with humorous remarks to
60 members of the committee.
After his talk, the white haired
artist answered questions and gave
advice to the Art Club’s members.
He showed hostility to modern art
when he compared (t to t he works:
of old masters that have lasted
for years and “will last forever!”
Modern art was doomed from the
start, he added.
Stone is 74 years old and in his
words, “has worked since the age
of six.” It is more fun to paint
people than anything else in the
world, he says. He has painted
Dr. T. O. Walton, former president
of A&M, Admiral Chester W. Nim-
itz, Will Rogers, and to name a
few of his more familiar subjects.
and ineptitude” in handling one
vital foreign policy decision 1946.
Southern Democrats whom the
administration has been trying to
woo back into the fold bristled
anew at word the President once
said James F. Byrnes had “failed
miserably as secretary af state.”
The New York Herald Tribune
quoted Byrnes as replying: “If he
felt that way, why should he have
wanted a miserable failure
around?”
Thuman supporters found solace
in repeated presidential statements
as recorded by Daniels that Mr.
Truman had opposed for years any
policy of appeasement of Russia.
Daniels, who is publisher of
the Raleigh, N. C., News and
Observer and is Democratic Na
tional committeeman for his
state, titled hisi book “The Man
of Independence.”
A White House aide, said Mr.
Truman read part—but not all
ot it in advance of the publica
tion.
There seemed little doubt that
Mr. Truman had looked over—
and thus unofficially approved—
the quotes in which he slapped at
Byrnes, his former secretary of
state who now is in line to become
the next Democratic governor of
South Carolina.
The President may have missed,
however, some of. Daniels’ own
observations and such incidents
as that in which Mr. Truman was
quoted as saying that Winston
Former ManE Prof
Rejoins Department
Harold L. Hornbeak, instructor
in the Management Engineering
department in 1948-49, has return
ed to the staff of the Man E
department to teach courses in fac
tory management and production
control.
He has spent the last year in
the engineering department of Mc
Donnell Aircraft,, St, Louis.
Churchill tried to get him not to
withdraw American troops from
Prague, Czechoslovakia, but he in
sisted that it must be done to
keep agreements with the Rus
sians.
“But if I had known then what
I know now, I would have ordered
the troops to go to the western
boundaries of Russia,” Daniels
quoted the President as saying.
The Republican opposition theme
has been that Mr. Truman didn’t
know what he was doing many
times in handling foreign relations,
They have accused him of “ap
peasing” Russia and have called
him “Haphazard Harry” in his
dealings with other nations.
The attack on Byrnes embod
ied in the presidential quoted em
phasized the personal split be
tween the two men which has
developed to the point where it
represents the deeper cleavage
in the democratic party itself.
Daniels wrote that the Presi
dent had read the “riot act” to
Byrnes aboard the presidential
yacht “Williamsburg” after the
1945 Moscow conference because
he believed Byrnes had weakened
the American policy toward Rus
sia with too many concessions.
“I told him that our policy was
not appeasement and not a one
way street,” Daniels quoted the
President.
Daniels went on to record these
words from the President’s mouth:
“He (Byrnes) failed miserably
as secretary of state and ran out
on me when the going was very
rough and when I needed him
worst. His ‘bad heart’ has now left
him when he was found out that
he made a bad guess.”
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