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convention jparKed
By Barkley's Keynote
Assault on Congress
ly Don S. Warren
Star Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, July IS. — A
slambang attack on the perform
ance Of the Eightieth Congress,
where housing, health and educa
tion measures were made a “flock
of gone geese,” has established
Kentucky's Senator Alben Barkley
as the chief spark In this conven
tion.
Keynoter of the convention, he
pulled out all of his noted oratorical
stops as he made a fighting attack
on the Republican legislative per
formance.
Like all keynoters, he upheld the
program of his own party and found
sad fault with opposition. But he
went on to praise the spirit of the
Roosevelt New Deal and the man
ner in which It has been carried on
in more recent years under the Tru
man regime.
Throws Record at GOP.
And from his vantage point as
Senate Democratic leader through
the long years of the New Deal and
since then in the past two years of
Republican congressional control, he
perhaps was more specific than
most keynoters. While he used a
lot of broad terms and quoted from
the Bible and other classic texts, he
made the most of throwing the
Eightieth Congress record into the
teeth of the Republicans.
He won a lot of cheers for some
of his attacks. Some honest-sound-:
mg boos for the Republicans for
things for which he denounced them,
also were heard.
Senator Barkley accused House
Republican leaders of an attempted
“sabotage” of the European Recov
ery Program, In their moves to
slash by 26 per cent the appropria-i
tions for motivating the Marshall:
Plan.
“Tli# Republican platform un
doubtedly attempts to repudiate the
efforts of this wrecking crew in one
of the branches of Congress,” he
told the cheering Democratic dele
gates. “But If they are successful,:
will the new administration repudi
ate their efforts in the coming ses
sions of Congress and during the
four-year period covered by the law1
which Congress overwhelmingly
adopted?”
Credit to Vandenberj.
Senator Barkley went out of his
way, as a keynoter, to give credit!
to Republican Chairmen Vanden
berg and Eaton of the Senate and
House Foreign Relations Commit- j
tees, and to other members of Con-:
gress, for their solid support of the
bi-partisan foreign policy program.
He "rejoiced in these contributions.”;
But he made a special attack on |
the "obstinate obstruction” on the;
part of responsible men, in Congress, j
Indicating House leaders. One of j
these was Chairman Taber of the j
House Appropriations Comittee.
Mr. Barkley protested the efforts j
of “the Republican leaders of the
House, and their allies, to whittle
away the recovery program until
it should become a mere shadow of
its original self, and descend to the
level of a mere relief measure."
Major Attack In Housing.
The lack of full-fledged housing
measure was his first major attack,
as he listed several items in the
"gone goose” category. ►
While the past Congres was strug
gling with its eleventh-hour prob
lems of then unfinished business,
Senator Barkley said, word came
from Philadelphia where Republican
platform makers were then In ses
sion, demanding that "some sort of
housing bill" be passed.
Mr. Barkley said this w'as to be
“anything with the word house' in
it."
Congress passed a housing bill but
left, out all public housing provi
sions, such as those approved by
the Senate in the Taft-Wagner
Ellender bill.
"Where is the housing legisla
tion?" Senator Barkley bitterly
asked. "It is not on the statutes. It}
furnishes no roof over the veterans.j
workers and farmers. It is just an
other gone goose.”
He found among other "gone
geese,” in addition to housing, health
and education aides, the failure of
the past Congress to extend the
social security program, to adopt a
higher minimum wage, to take
major steps against the rising in
flation.
He also struck out hard at the
Republican-controlled decision lim
iting the time and the scope of the,
extension. of the reciprocal trade
agreements. He deplored this as
Grundyism, in an attack on the
former Senator from Pennsylvania,
a icader in Republican Pennsylvania
political controls.
Senator Barkley tied Mr. Grundv
Into the 1930 Smoot-Hawlev Tariff
Act. reciting his former leadership
with the Pennsylvania Manufac
turers' Association, and suggested
that the Mr. Grundy had had a
hand in the selection of Representa
tive Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania to
be the new chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee, '"nits
seems to be the first installment of
the payoff,” said Mr. Barkley.
Taking another cut at “Grundy
ism." he quoted Mr. Scott as having
said, in 1943. "It is time for the!
Republicans to take over. We are
the best stock. We are the people
who represent the real grit, brains
and backbone of America ”
He turned this into a statement
that the new Republican chairman
insists that it must be a “govern
ment of the best people, by the best
people and for the best people.
Senator Barkley saw in this a re
surgence of the Hamiltonian doc
trine. "Onlv the rich, the well-edu
cated and the well-born” were qual
ified to participate in government,
and he came up with this Jingle:
"All hail the power of Grundy a
name.
Let candidates prostrate fall.
Bring forth the Republican dia
dem.
And crown him boss of all.”
Legion Post Will Honor
Soap Box Derby Winner
Jack Broyles. 1948 Washington
fioap Box Derby champion, will be
guest of honor Thursday at a meet
ing of the Stanley Church Depue
Post of the American Legion.
The Depue post sponsored the
15-year-old Paul Junior High School
student in the coaster race held
June 26. Jack, who lives at 1233
Madison street N.W. will be pre
sented a traveling bag at the meet
ing, which Is scheduued for 8:30
p.m. at the Legion clubhuose, 2437
Fifteenth street N.W.
The Washington champion and
his mother, Mrs. Joan E. Davis, will
leave here August 12 for the na
tional finals August 15 at Akron.
Ohio. They will fly to the Ohio
city a* guests of The Star.
A
Kentuckian Assails Record
Of Republican Congress
(Continued From Page A-8.)
there will be no new trade agree
ment entered into.
Sees Tragic Betrayal.
This is a tragic betrayal of our
obligations, not only to the Ameri
can people, but to the world. In
our legislation providing aid for
the recovery of Europe, we required
every Nation receiving this assist
ance to enter into similar agree
ments with other Nations, to level
off, in part, the barriers to trade
that have stifled commerce, thrown
labor out of employment, and con
tributed to the frictions which have
brought war and devastation to the
world.
In the enactment of the Smoot
Hawley law of 1930. I recall the
influence of the Pennsylvania Manu
facturers’ Association. I recall the
dominating influence of Mr. Joseph
Ft. Grundy, then head of this asso
ciation. He came to Washington
and did his work. He did it well.
He succeeded in procuring the enact
ment of the highest tariff barrier
ever raised against international
trade in the history of this or any
other Nation.
After accomplishing the creation
af this legislative strait-jacket, he
apparently disappeared like some
sunken river from the surface of
the earth until the assembling of
the recent Republican convention
when he reappeared with all his
power, influence and skillful manip
ulation in behalf of candidates,
platforms and policies. He so dom
inated that convention that it has
oeen designated by some of the press
as the “Grundy convention."
We are told by the press and the
-adio and it is common knowledge,
that the pilgrimage of the Senator
’rom Pennsylvania to the headquar
ters of the Governor of New York
vas inspired by this old hand at
tariff manipulation.
Points to New i nairman.
We know from the press and the
•adio and the general knowledge
vhich is common to us all, that he
‘xercised great influence in, if he
lid not actually dominate the selec
ion of the new chairman of the
Republican National Committee,
rhis seems to have been the first
nstallment of the pay-off. What
'uture installments will turn out to
>e, only the future can reveal.
The American people may have
seen surprised at the selection of
he new Republican chairman for
he approaching campaign. But it
s revealing to recall that this
Pennsylvania Congressman, back
ponder in the year 1943, expressed
lis political philosophy and the rea
sons for his belief that the Re
publican Party deserved to be re
turned to power in these United
States. "It is time," said Mr. Hugh
Scott, “for the Republicans to take
over. We ar« the best stock. We
are the people who represent the
real grit, brains, and backbone of
America.”
Refers to G. O. P. Platform.
It would be a futile process to
waste time seeking to analyze the
newest Republican national plat
form. It was appropriately described
by the Senator from Massachusetts,
who was chairman of the Republican
Resolutions Committee, when he
said, “it is a tent big enough for any
body to get under.”
However, whatever the platform
nay or may not promise, whatever
;he candidate may or may not stand
'or, we have, in all this confusion
the vague atmosphere of pt*Wnises
ind threats, one clear true clarion
’all. They are going to eliminate
*11 the bureaucrats in Washington.
Congress creates a bureau in some
department, like the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue in the Treasury, or
the Bureau of Reclamation in the
Interior Department, or of Soil Con
servation in the Department of
Agriculture, or the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce in the
Department of Commerce, or the
Bureau of Yards and Docks in the
Navy, or the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in the Department of
Justice. Some able and sincere
American is appointed as the head
of one of these bureaus, and he is
immediately denounced as a bureau
crat, and the Republican politicians
swear by all the gods of justice and
economy they will eliminate him
from the payroll as a barnacle upon
our ship of state.
What is a bureaucrat? A bureau
crat is a Democrat who holds some
office that a Republican wants, and
the only sort of housecleaning you
will get in Washington, in the event
of a Republican victory in November,
will be the changing of the political
complexion of those who hold the
offices
The fourth article of the current
Republican nlatform quotes Abra
ham Lincoln. The Republican poli
ticians and leaders have not been
closer to Lincoln in two generations
than to quote him. But they did
quote him in their platform, where
he said:
"The dogmas or tne quiei past arc
inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with dif
ficulty and we must rise with the
occasion. As our case is new, so we
must think anew and act anew.”
Description of Conditions.
Thjs is a precise description of the
conditions which faced thi.i country
16 years ago, when the Democratic
Party accepted the responsibility of
charting a new. course for our do
mestic and international economy.
We found that the dogmas of
the quiet past were inadequate to
the stormy situation which then
confronted" us. The occasion was
piled high with difficulties, and we
sought to rise with the occasion. As
our case was new, we thought anew
and acted anew.
Let us apply this principle to
our present international situation.
There can be no question that the
unaccustomed remedies which the
Democratic Party aplied to this new
situation in American contributed
largely to the ability of our Gov
ernment and our people to mobilize
the moral, spiritual and economic
forces of this gr^at people to bring
about the success of the Allied na
tions in driving back Hitlerism and
its particular form of totalitarian
tyranny. *
We had not wished to be drawn
into the great conflict wnich he
precipitated. For more than two
years we 'Wight to avoid involve
ment in World War I. But not
withstanding these efTorts to re
main aloof from the conflict, the
question constantly arose, before we
became involved, as to the extent
of our preparation and our readiness
for the conflict, if it should b«
forced upon us. This involved se
lective service, the repeal of em
bargoes and the arming of ships
It involved lend-lease in aid of
those who were fighting for liberty
across the seas.
I do not wish now to dig ur
the dead bones of past history, but
if the American people will refrest
I themselves by referring to the record
| of Republican votes in both houses
of the Congress on all these meas
ures, they will find a revealing
consistency in opposition to every
measure calculated to prepare our
country for the blow ahd to soften
! its impact if it should be inflicted.
It has been three years since the
end of hostilities. In these cir
cumstances, we have been com
pelled to assume the leadership and
the greater responsibility for the
preservation of peace, the occupa
tion of conquered territory, and the
inauguration of "he processes bv
which a peaceful world might be
restored to mankind.
Unfortunately, these three years
have not brought peace. We have
neither peace nor war. The world
situation has reached a posture
where intensity of feeling and spon
taneity of conduct might easily pre
cipitate armed conflict.
Our Government, through the
President and the Secretary of
State and all other responsible
agencies, including a majority of
the Congress, have sought to adjust
the differences and adopt a foreign
policy that would preserve our own
integrity, guarantee our own se
curity, and ultimately bring peace
to a distraught world.
In this effort, eminent and able
and patriotic Republicans have
shared the responsibility and have
aided us in keeping our foreign
policy out of the mire of partisan i
politics and upon a solid basis of1
justice and equity in world security.
Points to Marshall Plan.
I It was through our initiative that
;the greatest international effort at
economic, moral, and political sta
bilization in the whole history of,
mankind was undertaken. It was!
(first called the Marshall Plan, then;
the European Recovery Plan, and
now the Economic Co-operation Ad
ministration, enacted by the Con-!
gress of the United States at the
urgent request of the President and
Secretary of State and the American
people. And it is a strange coinci-'
uence LI1HL HL IIIC ICtClil ncpuuJivau
! convention no mention was made of
1 the Marshall Plan, as such, by
any one who pretended to speak for
the party then in solemn conclave.
In this effort, however, eminent
and able Republicans like Senator
[ Vandenberg, chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on Foreign Relations:
Congressman Eaton, chairma'n of a
similar committe in the House of
Representatives, and many other
members of both houses of Congress,
and millions of others, regardless of
politics, throughout the Nation have
set in motion the power and the
agency through which the devas
tated nations of the world may bring
about their own recovery, and move
forward then under their own steam
in an endeavor to nring about hap
piness, prosperity and stability in
every field of human effort within
their respective boundaries.
I rejoice, and we all rejoice, in
the great contribution made to this
universal purpose by these men who
subordinated their partisanship to
the welfare of their country and of
the world. j
Warn* of New Danger.
The American people must decide
whether they wish to take the
chance and assume the responsibility
of denying our influence and power
and resources, made available not
only t©4kln the war, but also to win
the peace, in holding back and driv
ing b*ek the forces of a new totali
tarianism, which may be more ruth
less and sinister than that which
we defeated on the battlefields of
the world in 1945.
The Republican platform un
doubtedly attempts to repudiate the1
efforts of this wrecking crew in
one of the branches of Congress,
but if they are successful, will the
new administration repudiate their
, efforts in the coming sessions of the
Congress and during the four-year
period covered by the law which
Congress overwhelmingly adopted?
We rejoice to believe that in this
great venture we are actuated by j
1 no selfish motive, except that which i
consumes the breast of every lib
erty-loving human being to live in
peace, to advance in moral stature,
intellectual breadth, economic free
dom and political equality through
out the nations of the world.
Surely the great Democratic Party,
assembled here in the midst of a
great crisis that confronts mankind,
assembled here at the end of a
decade and a half of unparalleled
achievement in the moral, economic
and social life of our country, in
the midst of a world upheaval un
precedented in the annals of his
tory, assembled here in the shadow
of the historical hall where Jeffer
son wrote these things, surely, in
these conditions, neither the great
Democratic Party nor the American
people can forswear their obligation
to march forward on the highway,
of human advancement, both here
and throughout the world.
Five Air Force Generals
Get New Assignments
Five Army Air Force generals re
ceived new' assignments yesterday, j
Maj. Gen. Leo A. Walton, com
manding general of the 14th Air
Force, Orlando, Fla., will be trans
ferred here August 1 for duty with1
the Air Force personnel council. j
Brig. Gen. Ralph F. Stearley,
director of the legislative and liaison
division of public relations, was
named to replace Gen. Walton as
commander of the 14th Air Force. j
Maj. Gen. Orvil R. Cook, now on
duty with the Army, will become
deputy director for procurement and
industrial mobilization planning of
the air materiel command on July
16 with headquarters at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton,
Ohio.
Maj. Gen. Richard E. Nugent has
been named director of personnel
planning at Air Force headquarters.
' He had previously been deputy chief.
Brig. Gen. Russell E. Randall has
been assigned to the office of direc
tor of intelligence.
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Eisenhower Defends
Columbia Polish Gift,
Accepts Resignation
By th« Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 13.—Gen.
Eisehhower, president of Columbia
University, accepting the resigna
tion of a protesting faculty member
yesterday, defended the university's;
acceptance of funds from the Polish.
government.
Gen. Eisenhower said establish
ment of a chair with Polish funds
“is in accord with the long-time
policy of the university—stated
many times—to further the study of
the peoples and the cultures of vari
ous areas.”
Gen. Eisenhower accepted the:
resignation of Dr. Arthur Prudden
Coleman, who quit Sunday in pro
test against establishment of a chair
in philology, language and litera-j
ture with funds from the Polish
government. Dr. Coleman charged
the Polish government was attempt-1
ing “academic infiltration” at Co-;
lumbia. He said the Polish govern- j
ment is controlled by “Moscow and’
the Cominform."
Sees Need for Understanding.
In a letter to Dr. Coleman accept -j
ing his resignation, Gen. Eisenhower
said:
“You may be certain that if I
ever find that the incumbent of
this chair or of any similar chair
steps aside from his academic as
signment to infiltrate our university
with philosophies inimical to our
American system of government,
the chair will be at once discon
tinued."
“A great deal of the trouble in
the world today,” Gen. Eisenhower
wrote, “is traceable to a lack of
understanding of the cultures of
various countries.” Gen. Eisenhower
declared, “I intend to do all in my
power to remedy this situation.”
The university president told Dr.
Coleman, who had been an assist
ant professor of Polish language
and literature at Columbia since
1928, that he regretted his action Jn
removing himself from “a part in
this significant program” of promot
ing world understanding.
Praises Appointee. ,
Gen. Eisenhower praised the man
appointed to the teaching post, Dr.
Manfred Kridl, 66, who retired last
month as a member of the faculty;
of Smith College, Northampton,
Massachusetts.
The Columbia president called Dr.
Kridl “a distinguished scholar in
the literature of Poland," and said
he was appointed "solely by Colum
bia without advice or suggestion
from non-university sources.”
Gen. Eisenhower said Dr. Kridl
"will carry on his work here under
conditions of true scholarship that
are outlined by the university.”
At Northampton, Dr. Kridl said
yesterday he is "an objective think
er” and is “neither a Socialist,
Marxist nor any other 1st.” He
criticized Dr. Coleman, saying he
had made an “attack” on Columbia.
Dr. Kridl said he does not want to
be concerned with the “politics of
the situation.”
Three Top Aides Named
For Job Security Bureau
Three top appointments in the new
Bureau of Employment Security in
the Pederal Security Agency have
been announced by PSA Adminis
trator Oscar R. Ewing.
Those selected to, assist Robert C.
Goodwin, director of the bureau, are:
Edward L. Keenan, who will be
deputy direct |r; R. Gordon Wage
net, assistant director in charge of
the unemployment insurance pro
gram. and Arthur W. Motley, assist
ant, director in charge of the em
ployment service program. 1
Policeman Pretends Not to See
Shotgun, Arrests 3 Ex-Convicts
By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 13.—A suburban
motorcycle policeman was covered
by the muzzle of a loaded shotgun
for several minutes yesterday and
pretended not to notice.
His feat of nerve resulted in the
capture of threi ex-convicts.
Policeman James Kronquist of
Berwyn saw an automobile with
three men stop outside a closed
gasoline station. He rode up, stepped
to the car's right-hand front win
dow to question the men and noticed
the muzzle of a shotgun pointing
at him.
Mr. Kronquist knew he had no
chance to draw his own gun, so he
decided to pretend he hadn't noticed
the weapon threatening him.
“Strangers here?" he asked.
The men said yes, they were from
Kansas. The shotgun didn’t waver.
“Having trouble finding rooms?" j
Mr. Kronquist pursued.
The trio again agreed.
Mr. Kronquist Kepi la using, stall
ing for time. Within a few minutes
he saw Policeman Jerry Leblock of
nearby suburban Stickney ap
proaching in a police car. He sig
naled unobtrusively with his hand
and Mr. Leblock drove up.
“Well, so long, fellows. Take care |
of yourselves,” Mr. Kronquist said
to the men.
"They’re loaded,” he whispered to
Mr. Leblock.
The two policemen then walked
to the rear of the car, drew their
guns and, ran around to the left
front window. The men surrendered
without a struggle.
Berwyn Police Chief Joe Pilot
identified the men as Leroy Duncan,
21, Port Worth, Tex.; Claude Wal
drep, 21, Seminole, Tex., and Jesse
W. Green, alias Mark McGuffy, 21,
of Lowell, Ariz. In their automo
bile police found two rifles, a shot
gun, a revolver and two boxes of
cartridges.
U. 5. Envoy Says Ability
Of Tito to Defy Stalin
Is 'Anybody's Guess'
It’s “anybody’s guess" how long
Premier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia
can “stand up" to the Soviet
controlled Cominform, according to
Cavendish Cannon, American Am
bassador to Yugoslavia.
Mr. Cannon made this comment
after conferring at the White House
yesterday with President Truman,
preparatory to returning to his post,
in Belgrade late this week.
Meanwhile, the State Department
made public the text of a Voice
of America overseas broadcast de
scribing the Cominform’s recent at
tack on Marshal Tito as a case of
the pot calling the kettle black,
“blown up to staggering size.”
Still a Communist Regime.
Mr. Cannon said Russia and Yugo
slavia might “try to let the situation
work itself out—it's to their interest
to do so."
“We've got to watch developments
for a while," he said, adding:
“After all there is a Communist
regime in Yugoslavia in any case.”
The Voice of America broadcast
said there are “comic overtones’’ in
“the spectacle of the Communist
leaders of Russia *and its satellites
girding themselves to do battle in
the name of democracy, free criti
cism and free elections.”
Sate In “Their Own Image.”
“The Russians are attacking the
very features in Yugoslav life
which are most closely modeled
after the Soviet way. They created
a state so much in their own image j
that they found they could neither
penetrate it nor control it, so they S
denounced it,” the broadcast said.
The broadcast was beamed in a
score of languages last week to most
major countries abroad, aside from
Yugoslavia itself. The Voice of
America policy generally is not to
broadcast news back to the country
of its origin.
3 Abandoned Children
Returned to Mother
Three children who were aband
oned Sunday night in Union Sta
tion have been returned to their
mother. '
The mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Adams. 23, colored, told officers at
the Police Women’s Bureau yester
day that she left the children,
Theodora, 5, Rosalind, 1 and Ronald,
2, on a bench in the station because
she had no home for them.
Police returned the children to'
the mother after relatives offered ]
them a temporary home until perm
anent living quarters could be found.
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Of Bernstein Postponed
The execution of two colored men
for the murder of Maurice L.
Bernstein, druggist, was postponed
yesterday in District Court until
August 20.
Justice David A. Pine, at the re
quest of counsel for the pair,
Reginald J. Wheeler and Jesse
James Patton, delayed the execu
tion, slated for July 23. to permit
a request for executive clemency to
be pushed.
Attorney James J. Laughlin, rep
resenting Wheeler, said the pardon
attorney of the Justice Department
up to this time has not been in a'
position to act on the request for
executive clemency. The lawyer ob
served President Truman is “rather
busy” at this time. Mr. Laughlin
said he has raised a question as to
Wheeler s mental capacity. Patton
is represented by Attorneys Wesley
S. Williams and Curtis D. Mitchell,
colored, who joined in the request
for delay.
Wheeler and Patton were tried
in the fall of 1946 in District Court.
The fatal shooting occurred in June
of that year in Mr. Bernstein’s
drugstore at Florida avenue and
Eighteenth street N.W.
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