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/ Page 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, December 11,1951 World Today MAMA’S DREAM; PAPA'S NIGHTMARE Caudle Was Fired; Questions Still Asked By JAMES MARLOW Washington, Dec. 11—<A > )—The- ron Lamar Caudle is a big man With wavy brown hair and a south ern accent that is strictly from the honey chile school. And he likes to use it. It’s amazing how this 47-year-old law yer, who was snatched from rela tive obscurity in North Carolina and given a top government job, seems to like to talk. ...Yesterday was no exception, al though before the day was over he wound up being embarrassed and even at a loss for words. Still, it wasn’t the first time he had been embarrassed recently. When President Truman fired him Nov. 16 as Assistant Attor- , ney General in charge of the Justice Department’s tax prose cutions, Caudle said his heart was broken. In spite of this disability he seemed extremely vigorous when yesterday he began to testify be- for the. House subcommittee which is investigating the tax scandals. The committee called him. Many anotner trained lawyer, who knows that volunteering in formation when under questioning just leads to fresh questions, might have been content to answer the committee’s questions with yes or no or a minimum of explanation. Not Caudle. With a face just as bright and sunny as a Salvation Army Santa Claus ringing his Christmas bell On a street corner, he would grab a question out of the air and run away with it. Sometime he ran in the wrong- direction. Once he talked for a few minutes, suddenly stopped, a little puzzled, told the commit tee he realized he hadn’t been answering the question, and ask ed for it again. And the more he talked the more questions he seemed to put in the head of the committee since he was opening new avenues for ques tioning. One example will explain it. The committee, reminding him that he had previously spoken of frequent trips to race tracks, asked him if he ever won a good sized bet. Caudle could have said: “Yes. Once 1 won $1,701 on a daily double. Period.” But he explained &e time, place, kind of day; who was sit ting in front of him; who was behind him; and how he sprinted down just at the last minute to place his $10 bet. How did he come to pick that particular daily double ? The com mittee didn’t have to ask. Caudle volunteered: He had heard rumors it was a good bet. Socko. The committee wanted to know how he heard the rumors. Caudle sud denly grew vague. It was later in the day that his sunny expression disappeared, his face grew ashen, and he was truly embarrassed. The committee had been told in previous sessions by a Chicago lawyer, Abraham Teitelbaum, that two men, Bert K. Naster and Frank Nathan, had tried to shake him down for $500,000. The two men told him, Teitel baum said, that they were in with a clique of important Wash ington officials, including Caudle. They were rummaging around, Teitelbaum related, for soft touches like Teitelbaum — who was in tax trouble. He said the two threatened, him with serious tax trouble, if he didn’t come across. Yesterday-—just before Caudle took the witness chair—another lawyer, 1. T. Cohen of Atlanta, told the committee Teitelbaum had told him this same story months ago. Then Cohen said he told Caudle about this story which involved him. That was Aug. 20. But the story didn’t come to light till Teitelbaum testified last week. The committee asked Caudle—since Cohen swore he had told Caudle about it months ago—what he had done about it. Had he investigated? Had he called in the FBI? Any thing ? Caudle said he hadn’t done any thing. He was less talkative now. He was white. The chairman of the subcommittee, Rep. King, Cali fornia Democrat, did the talking at the end. He said Caudle—who admitted to “indiscretion” but not dishonesty —was a failure as a public official and had done his country harm that wouldn’t be mended for a long time. Colonel Says Armament Excuse Used by British This is the second part of a speech made by Colonel Ghaleb in which he explains his coun try’s position in th emiddle east ern controversary. 1 do not doubt that the Amer ican people still uphold the same concept of fundamental freedoms inunciated in the declaration of Independence. . . The inherent rights of any state to complete and of Commons on 23rd of April 1942 — disclosed amongst other British disasters that more than one third of their battleships was either sunk or out of action; and described the times lying ahead of Britain as “testing, tryim, 1 , adverse When the war came, those were the most modernly equipped units of the Egyptian Army. The re sults achieved by our Anti-Air craft artillery against hostile Ger man and Italian aircraft, were the subject of eloquent commendations and painful” . . . things have, since, from the BrftishTand, Air, and Sea changed . . . thanks to the United Commanders. States of America. The rest of the Egyptian army Our military contributions to the regiments were far less fortunate ... , . , , . victory of the Allies in the second in the matter of equipment. Me- unchallenged sovereignty over his World Wai , now denied by Brit- chanized units were equipped with rnrvitnmr /'em ho -no cnhmof Ini' hov_ . ^ ... * ** - Egypt in Creditor Position in World Tax' In vestiga tors Summon McGrath By B. L. LIVINGSTONE Washington, Dec. 11 — WPI — House tax investigators summoned Attorney General J. Howard Mc Grath today to tell what he knows of the Justice Department’s part in the growing tax scandals. McGrath’s appearance before the House Ways and Means Investi gating Committee (10:30 a.m. EST) was expected to be relatively short. The committee hopes to wind up its present hearings by Thursday and go into new fields. Only last night Chairman King (D-Calif.) denounced a former top aide of McGrath, the ousted Assist ant Attorney General T. Lamar Caudle, as a public official guilty of indiscretions amounting “to a breach of ‘your public trust’’ while head of the department’s tax fraud division. Caudle, who had been a valuable witness, admitted to indiscretions but denied any dishonesty. He sat silent as King told him: “The damage you have done to your gov ernment will take a long time to repair.” Senator Nixon (R-Calif) said meanwhile that both McGrath and Secretary of the Treasury Snyder “should be fired” because of the tax scandals. Caudle was fired by President Truman for his “outside activities." In advance of McGrath’s appear ance, committee sources hinted at possible existence of a “master mind” in the bizarre case of an alleged $500,000 tax shakedown at tempt against Abraham Teitel baum, wealthy Chicago lawyer. Nearing the end of its inquiry into. Teitelbaum’s sensational story —told under oath—the committee still had to hear from three persons assigned obscure roles in Teitel baum’s shakedown recitation. The three are Bert K. Naster, a Florida electrical supply manufac turer; whom the committee heard briefly—and secretly—last Satur day, Charles Oliphant, who resign ed last week as chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau; and Hen- 17 (the Dutchman) Grunewald, man-about-Washington and will- o-the-wisp private investigator who has figured before in congressional investigations. Naster was expected to follow McGrath to the witness table, while Oliphant is due tomorrow. Grune- wald’s appearance was Uncertain— he is in a Washington hospital suffering “severe emotional strain” and gastro-intestinal disturbances. Teitelbaum accused Naster and Frank Nathan, a Florida promoter, of (1) promising him bad tax troubles unless he paid them $500,- 000—and (2) claiming influence with a “clique” of Washington offi cials looking for “soft touches.” WhaUs Cooking ACCOUNTING SOCIETY: Tues day, 7:30 p. m., Room 2-C MSC. Guest speaker will be Dr. Jacobs of the Basic Division. EASTLAND-STEPHENS COUNTY CLUB: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Room 307 Acad. ENTOMOLOGY SOCIETY: Tuesday, 8:00 p. m., Room 104 Science Bldg. Election of officers, coffee and doughnuts will be served. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION WIVES CLUB: Tuesday, 7:45 p. m., M. E. Shops Bldg. MATHEMATICS CLUB: Tues day, 7:30 p. m., Social Room MSC. Movie. RANGE & FORESTRY CLUB: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Ag. Eng. Bldg. Movies and important business meeting; election of officers 1 . ROBERTSON COUNTY CLUB: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Goodwin Hall. Kiwanis The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" (Continued from Page 1) Songs”, “A Legend,” “Oh, Divine Redeemer,” and “Silent Night,” were some of the selections .pre sented. Negro spirituals sung included “Son of Mary,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and “You Got to Reap What You Sow.” The encore given was “The Lord’s Prayer.” Otis Miller, associate professor of journalism at A&M, was install ed as president of the Kiwanis Club for the coming year. Other officers installed were H. E. Bur gess, first vice president; J. B. Baty, second vice president; J. J. •Sperry, secretary; and T. D. Let- better, treasurer. L. G. Jones, It. E. Leighton, Clyde Rainwater, and D. M. Vestal Jr., new directors of the club, were presented. Philip Goode, master of cere monies, delivered a series of poems he had writen for the Kiwanians’ wives, insurance salesmen, and col lege profs. An annual high school basketball tournament, Kiwanis Park, Nation al Kid’s Day, Crippled Children’s Clinic, and an athletic banquet were among the events listed by Magee as part of the club’s youth pro gram. (Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of articles concerning the present crisis existing between. Egypt and Great Britain by Mr. Lasheen, a graduate student from Cairo, Egypt.) By ALY LASHEEN Egyptian Graduate Student Years ago by the British pro mised to leave Egypt when econo mic stability had been restored. Egypt today is a creditor country. Her credit balances in London ex ceed 230,000,000 francs, or approx imately $600,000,000. There is no instability, economic or otherwise. For obvious reasons, the Brit ish have dropped their obsolete plea that they are in Egypt to protect the interests of foreign creditors, There is a more plausi ble reason now—the protection of the Suez Canal. Permanent Garrison The early experiences and les sons of World War II proved that a permanent and inadequate Brit ish garrison on the Suez Canal failed in its announced purpose of safeguarding Britain’s communica tions and imperial lifeline. Gi- bralter, Malta, Alexandria and Port Said were all held by British troops, but in the first two years of the war Allied shipping through the Mediterranean was so costly that this route was practically abandoned. Shipping was diverted around the Cape of Good Hope, and the Suez Canal for the most part lay idle. In this era of guided missiles, long-range aviation and the atom bomb, the present or future pro territory can be no subject for bar gaining or give and take. Being, however, here tonight, on a mission of friendship and better understanding, let me, in all sin cerity, try to dissipate the haze that has shrowded the trend of thought in some circles inthis coun try regarding bur abrogation of the 1936 Treaty and the effect on the Defense of the Suez Canal. The dissipation of this haze in the complicated international situa tion seems to be vital for the mu tual understanding and cooperation between our two countries. The 1936 Treaty while, implying the right of Egypt to a free hand in the expansion and re-equipping of the Egyptian Army, permitted Britain to station only 10,000 troops and 400 Air Force Personnel in the Suez Canal Area. The treaty itself was to run for 20 years. The evacution of the British troops, in the interim period, was made conditional on the ability of the newly reorganized and re equipped Egyptian Army, to defend ain, were not restricted to the Suez obsolete light tanks short of spare Canal. parts. Stores were sold to us on When the Italian armoured Div- the basis of “either this or noth- isions first crossed the Egyptian j n g at all.” All infantry and other mobile troops who were without units were purposely made short op tanks but stood their ground until modern and necessary ancilliary the arrival of the British armoured units. Their orders, laid down by combined Egyptian and British staffs, were to engage, harrass and delay the advance of the enemy. They had been lining the frontier months before. This does not—of course—appear in British war records or mem ories. Other Egptian Forces were operating in the Western Desert, pi'otecting both blanks of the Brit ish forces. More Egyptian Troops were entrusted with no less than 90% of the anti-aircraft defenses of the whole of Egypt; 100% of the coastal artillery defenses in the Mediterranean and Red Seas, tection of the Suez Canal similarly cannot be guaranteed by a per manent garrison of several thou sand British soldiers nor, indeed, does Egypt regard this as the real reason for their presence. She contends that they are there . x „„ primarily to insure Great Britain’s tllc Suez Can ^ 1 ! ;seli ' 'F 110 ' u ;) v under ‘the direct operational hold on the Nile Valley. equipment and stores. In spite of continuous demands, we were not allowed to build our* own assembly plants, small arms workshops .or ammunition factor ies. That was of course in line witMp a vicious and selfish Imperial StrSH tegy. 1 need not tell you that if these factories had been built, an appreciable amount of munitions could have been produced on the spot for the supply of allied troops in the region; hundreds of Amer ican, British and Allied troops, to gether with thousands of tons of shipping could have been saved in the last yar. We were aware of all this, but including the Suez Canal; 100% of we threw all we had into the the defense of all line of commun- struggle. Our support of the demo- ications in the vast deserts and cratic cause started right from the , Egypt proper. very beginning and—under no The Egyptian Air Force was put clause or word in. the 1936 Treaty Interest In Suez And for that matter, the British interest in the Suez Canal as out lined in the now obsolete 1936 Treaty is a violation of the spirit of the International Agreement ef fected in 1888 at Constantinople. The Suez Canal Agreement of 1888 was based on two fundamen tal principles: 1) That the Canal is an inter national artery equally open to all nations in time of peace and in time of war. 2) That the responsibility for the defense of this vital maritime route falls principally on Egypt. These two principles have been shaken to their very foundation by the 1936 Treaty, signed by occup ied Egypt under duress. In con tradiction of these two principles, Britain sought to make herself the guardian of the Canal. She wrote into the Treaty of 1936 pro army was to be equipped by Brit ain and trained by a British Mili tary Mission. The Treaty did not envisage in any of its articles-either in letter or in spirits—any form of assist ance to the British except the use of our facilities, potrs, aerodromes and lines of communications. But, when the war came, Egypt, intrinsically and'essentially demo- trol of the British Air Officer com manding the Middle East area. Egyptian squadrons did not only participate in the defense of Egypt -the support lasted throughout the darkest days of the British® Empire. But the British have forgotten || —and many other countries may* but took an active part in the de- not be fully aware of the fact—> that had the Egyptians raised as® much as a finger against the Brit- fense of coastal shipping in the Mediterranean and anti submarine patrolling of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez. Egyptian Air Force pilots who , , . could be spared—and dressed in cratic, had thrown her lot complete- civilian dothes-were flying Brit- ly with the. Democratic cause.^ A j sb beaV y bombers and delivering ture. iorce totalling /0,()()() Egyptian diem to front line allied troops in When the British were running ish in Egypt, when the German Africa Korp came to within sixty miles of Alexandria the map of the whole world would have, today, shown a completely different pic- j Troops, in all, were engaged on operational defensive tasks throughout the country. Eight thousand of these troops took up the defense of the Suez Canal. The British are now denying this fact so loudly that their desperate cry has unfortunately reached this side of the Atlantic. They can go on denying it but let quote from the horse’s,mouth; the mouth of an honest horse . . . in this case no Europe, Africa and Asia. But the British had their good reason to forget all this, taking great pains to imbue the world public opinion, particularly the American, with one utterly false idea ... a complete misrepresenta tion of the’ obvious facts, taking advantage 'mf ■an' 'apparent war scare. Their one and only object is the continued occupation of the Suez Canal area. The theme must therefore be—what about the as fast as they could, we did not only cover their retreat but had prepared most of our railway and nile bridges for demolition in the face of the advancing Germans, and Actually flooded large areas of our best cultivable lands there by creating huge Anti-Tank ob stacles. How utterly different is the scene today in the lands of the River Nile! On the heels of the war we en- ^ tered into talks with British to visions designed to treat the Canal other than the British officer put • Egyptian vacuum? What about the remove their troops. After lengthy Engineer (Continued from Page 1) oil field boom ranks sixth among the states in crude oil production says W. R. Green in his “Latest Developments in Wyoming Oil Fields,” Teddy Hirsch’s report of the an nual Tau Beta Pi Convention re minds this Alpha Zeta member that association with persons con nected with national profession honor societies leaves many happy memories. “Squeeze Army,” “Club News,” and “Color Television For Thea ters” round out what I believe to be Bob’s best edited issue of *the year. merely as an essential means of communication between the differ ent parts of the British empire. Irony of Fate It is somewhat an irony of fate that the British, who fought so bitterly the original dcLcsseps plan for the Canal, opposed its conception and construction, and subsequently put obstacles in the way of its completion, saddling Egypt meanwhile with unconscion able financial burdens, should now emerge as the self-appointed pro tector and guardian of the Canal. Under construction now is the Fa? - ouk Bypass, a 17-mile canal which will eliminate a bottleneck for passing convoys. For the last two years the Egyptians under a sizzling sun have been pushing back the sands of the Sinai Desert to carve out this bypass. And We must not forget that the entire Suez Canal is part and parcel of the domain of Egypt. The concession under which it is operated reverts into Egypt in November, 1969. m command of the Suez Canal zone writing officially in Novem ber 1942 to the Egyptian Officer in command of the 8,000 troops en trusted with the actual defense of the entire length of the Suez Canal. He praised the Egyptian troops. He meant the advance of the British following the famous Ala- mien battle that is, considered the turning point of the last war. Suez Canal falling an easy prey to the U. S. S. K.? We, in Egypt, had long been aware of the designs; at least one thing was quite evident ... the Policy they followed towards the equipping and training of the Egyptian Army following the sig nature of the 1936 Treaty. To strike an English balance between Another honest British Admiral, the continued creation of the so in this case the Commander in called vacuum of Egyptian Power, Chief of the British fleet in the and the need for the support— Red Sea and Suez Canal area, during the last war—of an Egypt- wrotc at the same period, to the ian Armed Force on the spot, that same Egyption Officer command- force had to be defensive but be ing the Egyptian Troops defending void of any real striking power, the Suez Canal, saying the same In equipping that force, the very thing as the officer. first consideration had to be giv- But that, ladies and gcntlcment, cn to its full participation—at the and many more expressions of gra- cost of Egypt—in the Defense of titude from Mr. Churchill, British the British Fleet operating from, Cabinet Ministers and Commanders in Chief of the British Army, Navy and Air Forces in the Middle East —which I do not propose to bore or taking refuge in, the Egyptian Ports on the Mediterranean and Red Seas. British strategy, therefore, gave you with—all that was during per- first priority to Egyptian Anti- iods such as when Mr. Churchill— Aircraft and coast defenses artil- in a secret speech to the House lery regiments. and protracted negotiations, Egypt brought her case before the Se-^ curity Council of the United Na tions in 1947. The result was a lame resolution suggesting still further negotiations. DE. WILLIAM GOTTLIEB Registered Chiropodist Foot Specialist 4824 S. Main, Houston Will Be in Bryan the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Next visit will he — WEDNESDAY December 12, 1951 at the LaSalle Hotel Office Hours 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Symphony The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texes, is published by students five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. 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