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David Lawrence:
Anti-McCarthy Phobia Grows
Extreme, Incredible, Fantastic Statements Such as Those
Os Dr. Davies Provoke Cleavages Inside America
The anti-McCarthy phobia
seems to be growing in inten
sity. II the controversy over
how to get rid of those com
munistic sympathizers in
America who work for the
cause of the Soviet gov
ernment by infiltrating our
institutions isn’t put into
perspective, the Communists
who originally coined the
word “McCarthyism” will cer
tainly succeed in provoking
larger and larger cleavages
inside America. They will
bring about that very division
of the people which doesn’t
as yet. exist on a wide scale
but certainly will if the ex
aggerations do not cease.
Extreme statements are
coming into the controversy
now which are in themselves
both incredible and fantastic.
Thus, for example. Dr. A.
Powell Davies, Unitarian cler
gyman of prominence here,
fell victim to such extremism
with a speech over the week
end in Boston in which, ac
cording to his manuscript
released to the press, he said:
“I do not hesitate to say
that, at present, no major
proposal in foreign policy
which was disliked by Senator
McCarthy would be advanced
by the Government. It is no
longer a question of whether
the Senator from Wisconsin
will some day rule the United
States; to a great extent he is
ruling it already. The Secre
tary of State might well be
called his administrative as
sistant."
In the first place, Senator
McCarthy isn’t a member of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and has nothing
to do with the making of
foreign policy. In the second
place, the President and the
Secretary of State, both on
the appointment of Charles
E. Bohlen to be Ambassador
to Moscow and on the matter
of the shipping-agreements
controversy recently, did pur
sue a policy entirely different
from that of the Wisconsin
Senator.
The idea that Senator Mc-
Carthy can block the advance
ment of any "major proposal
in foreign policy” by the
Secretary of State or the Pres
ident is ridiculous on its face.
Tet It is the repetition of just
Lowe// Mellett:
FPC Is Not Futile, Says Court
Commission Reversed on Its Ruling That It Has No Authority
To Protect Public in the Matter of Natural-Gas Rates
The most bizarre situation
in any section of the Ameri
can Government has just been
highlighted by a decision of
the United States Court of
Appeals. The Federal Power
Commission has been told that
It is not as futile as it appar
ently wishes to be. It has been
told that under the law, as
already Interpreted by the Su
preme Court, it has the duty
and the authority to regulate
the price of natujsl gas sold
Into Interstate commerce. A
majority of the commissioners
have sought to duck this duty.
Since, by undisputed decisions
of the courts, the States are
barred from regulating this
basic price, gas consumers all
over the country have been vir
tually at the mercy of the
natural-gas producers.
What the power commission
will do now isn’t known. The
billion-dollar Phillips Petro
leum Co., which had inter
vened in the case, says it will
appeal to the Supreme Court.
Three years ago, after a
rough - and - tumble legislative
battle, Congress passed the
Kerr bill, intended to give the
gas companies immunity from
Federal regulation. President
Truman vetoed the bill and no
attempt was made to pass it
over his veto. But a year
later, in a case brought by the
State of Wisconsin and the
cities of Milwaukee, Detroit
and Kansas City against the
Paul Reynaud Asked
To Try for Cabinet
By the Auoclated Prcn
PARIS, May 26.—Paul Rey
naud, 74-year-old former Pre
mier, Is the third man picked
to try to resolve Prance’s cur
rent governmental crisis.
A call went out last night
to Mr. Reynaud after Andre
Diethelm, the leader of a group
of deputies formerly under the
leadership of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, had reported that he
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such statements which adds
to the many exaggerations al
ready current about “witch
hunts" on the Communist
issue.
The Wisconsin Senator is a
rough-and-tumble fighter and
so are the Communist con
spirators who. by their inter
mediaries and front organiza
tions. fool a lot of innocent
people in the church, in the
theater, in the press and in the
Government.
Left-wing publications are
filled almost every day with
attacks on McCarthy and dis
paragements of congressional
inquiries. They make it appear
that the entire governmental
operation is concerned with
that single issue.
The danger in the present
state of hysteria, which is
being fed so regularly by left
wingers, is that the attack on
Senator McCarthy as an indi
vidual will obscure the real
fight against Communist con
spiracies inside the United
States. It is already causing
some of those who are severely
criticizing Senator McCarthy
to rationalize their own tactics
and to forget that two wrongs
do not make one right.
Thus last Saturday Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr., adviser to Ad
lai Stevenson in his last cam
paign and a vice chairman of
the Americans for Democratic
Action, told the press that
President Eisenhower should,
in effect, begin to persecute
Senator McCarthy by insti
gating action of some kind on
the Wisconsin Senator’s in
come-tax returns somewhat, he
said, as the late President
Roosevelt did in the case of
the late Senator Huey Long
and his lieutenants in Louisi
ana.
This is the first time any
one has conceded publicly that
Mr. Roosevelt personally went
out of his way to use the In
ternal Revenue Bureau as a
punitive agency in lighting a
political opponent. It was
widely rumored throughout his
administration but never ad
mitted. If this be the truth, it
doesn’t honor the memory
of President Roosevelt. The
Americans for Democratic Ac
tion, moreover, recently peti
tioned Gen. Eisenhower to do
Phillips company, the power
commission ruled that it was
without jurisdiction over the
rates protested by those com
munities. (The commission’s
own staff disagreed with the
commission in this, as did one
member, Thomas Buchanan.
Mr. Buchanan’s term has since
expired and President Eisen
hower has refused to rename
him.) Wisconsin and the cities
appealed from the commis
sion’s ruling and their appeal
Is now upheld.
The natural-gas industry
has become formidable in re
cent years. Its pipelines now
reach all the way from Ari
zona to New England, serving >
most of the States between.
It is not without political
power. This power could be
tested again by reintroduc
tion of the Kerr bill, whose
author, the Oklahoma Sena
tor, is an influential Democrat.
He is also a big gas man in his
own right, with some of his
interests allied to those of the
Phillips company. Presum
ably, no veto from Eisenhower
would be anticipated.
Meantime, the power com
mission’s personnel is chang
ing. Mon Wallgren, Truman’s
unfortunate selection, who
joined in the decision of futil
ity, is gone. Jerome Kuyken
dall of Seattle, a Republican, is
now chairman. Mr. Buchanan
has been rejected to make way
for another Republican. Nel-
could not succeed. Socialist Guy
Mollet previously had given up.
Mr. Reynaud, an independent,
will see President Vincent Auriol
today to be officially notified of
his appointment.
Mr. Diethelm’s failure had
been ..predicted even before he
was nominated. He went through
the motions of holding a meet
ing with his colleagues of the
Rally of the French People
(RPF), however, before formally
declining the invitation. Gen.
De Gaulle has renounced the
RPF as a political force, but the
deputies continue to use the
party label.
Mr. Reynaud’s eventual selec-
something similar about Sena
tor McCarthy on income taxes.
The alleged Irregularities, of
course, took place during the
time the Truman administra
tion was in power. The latter
did investigate Senator McCar
thy’s income-tax returns, and.
if any legal basis whatever had
been found for penalizing the
Senator, the Trumanites would
have done so.
Investigations by Congress
are often extreme. Thus, Sen
ator Hugo Black of Alabama
in 1935 presided over a Senate
inquiry which ordered that
private messages exchanged
between the late William Ran
dolph Hearst and his editors
and associates be seized from
the files of a telegraph com
pany. The United States Cir
cuit Court of Appeals disre
garded pleas about “freedom
of the press” and the allega
tions that the First apd Fifth
Amendments had been violated
because messages "which had
no connection with the subject
matter of the investigation”
had been examined and copied
by the agents of the Senate
lobbying committee. The
court merely said that “the
universal rule, so far as we
know it, is that the legislative
discretion in discharge of its
constitutional functions,
whether rightfully or wrong
fully exercised, is not a subject
for judicial interference.”
If there were any “liberals”
who decried congressional ex
tremism at that time, they
certainly didn’t hold it against
Hugo Black when he was
nominated two years later by
President Roosevelt to be a
Supreme Court justice—and it
may be said that his record on
the bench since has been one
of scrupulous regard for the
rights of the individual
against unlawful search and
seizure. Since Senator Mc-
Carthy, because of his religion,
probably could not be nomi
nated for President on the Re
publican ticket—in view of A1
Smith’s defeat on the Demo
cratic ticket on that issue—
maybe the bench is the place
for him, too, some day. There
is precedent for it. He was
once a circuit judge in Wis
consin.
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son Smith has been a Republi
can, but New England Repub
licans refuse to consider him as
one of their own, making the
party majority on the commis
sion somewhat shaky. Coming
up for reappointment is Har
rington Wimberly, an Okla
homa politioal associate of
Senator Kerr. He’s a Demo
crat, but probably acceptable
to the gas Interests in the
light of his expressed views.
In any case, the key man on
the commission will be the new
chairman, Mr. Kuykendall, for
mer chairman of the Washing
ton State Utility Commission.
He has already been con
fronted with an issue as im
portant as that concerning gas
regulation. It is one affecting
a region much closer to his
home—the Hell’s Canyon'dam
controversy. The power com
mission is due to pass in a few
weeks on the application of the
Idaho Power Co. for a license
to dam the Snake River at a
point that would forever bar
the Interior Department’s long
planned Hell’s Canyon project,
designed to greatly increase the
power potential of the whole
Northwest. Contrary to his
predecessor in office, Interior
Secretary McKay has declined
to take any position in the
matter, saying it is entirely up
to the power commission,
which leaves Mr. Kuykendall
without the moral support he
doubtless would like to have.
tion had been rumored within
an hour after Premier Rene
Mayer and his cabinet resigned
last Thursday following a defeat
in the National Assembly on a
vote of confidence.
Mr. Reynaud Is expected to
waste little time in getting down
to business. It is his plan to
call the Assembly Into session
Thursday to hear his address
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The United States fires the first atomic shell from a cannon
in Nevada. Now that we know we can throw ’em as well as
drop ’em—will somebody please tell us how we can dodge ’em.
m m m *
Korean peace talks recess for another week. The Reds can
breeze through a conference session twice as fast as we can—
thanks to their s double talk.
* * • •
Twenty Japanese women rough up Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
in Tokyo. It's claimed man is getting more civilized—but it’s
a cinch women aren’t. »
• * * •
It’s lucky the Air Force learned to fly on instruments—now
that it’s going to have to get along without wings.
* * * •
Democrats step up their fight against Defense Boss 'Wilson.
Democrats are outraged at a man who tries to save money be
fore he learns how to squander it.
* * * *
The Pentagon decides that Communist brain-washing of
United States prisoners is a failure. Just one look at an
American girl—and a GI gets all the old ideas.
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Moscow’s Pravda blasts the coming Big Three conference.
The Russians are indignant at the idea of the allies holding an
exclusive fight.
Tax Probe to Study Second Case
Reported to Involve Snyder
ly th. Associated Prats
Representative Kean, Repub
lican, of New Jersey said today
he is convinced former Secretary
of the Treasury John W. Snyder
exerted “undue influence” in a
favorable tax ruling for a liquor
company executive.
Mr. Snyder said that as a Gov
ernment official he had always
given “whole-hearted devotion to
the public interest.”
Mr. Kean commented as a
House Ways and Means subcom
mitteeman, which he heads, ar
ranged testimonly today on a
second tax case in which Mr.
Snyder allegedly took a per
sonal hand.
Mr. Kean said the subcommit
tee will look into several bigger
cases than the one it heard about
yesterday. He added the inves
tigating group has no intention
of asking Mr. Snyder to testify
but will be glad to hear the long
time Truman cabinet member if
he wants to be heard.
Snyder Defends Record.
Mr. Snyder is now vice presi
dent in charge of finance for
Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. In
a statement issued at Toledo,
Ohio, he said:
“I have conscientiously served
the Government, except for
short intervals in private life,
a great many years in a
number of responsibilities. In
each assignment I have always
given whole-hearted devotion to
the public interest. I confi
dently feel that my services have
left a good record.”
Revenue Bureau workers testi
fied yesterday that a series of
technical specialists approved an
unfavorable tax ruling for John
L. Leban, former vice president
of Schenley Industries and a
contributor to Democratic and
Republican election campaigns.
The ruling was reversed in Mr.
Leban’s favor, however, in the
office of former Revenue Bureau
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about October 30, 1950.
Phone Call From Snyder.
Subcommittee Counsel John E.
Tobin read from Mr. Oliphant’s
telephone log that Mr. Snyder
had called Mr. Oliphant four
days earlier about the Leban
case.
“There is a case I would like
to have expedited,” Mr. Snyder
was quoted as saying. “This
must be gotten out immediately.”
The call produced a hasty se
ries of conferences and telephone
consultations among bureau and
Treasury officials, the log indi
cated. The bureau operates un
der the Treasury Department.
After this round of calls, Mr.
Snyder was quoted as calling Mr.
Oliphant again the same day:
“Louis Johnson is interested in
this thing. If there’s anything
we can do, let’s try to help them
out.”
“Okay,” Mr. Oliphant replied,
acording to the log.
Mr. Johnson had been eased
out by President Truman a few
weeks earlier as Secretary of
Defense. Mr. Tobin said Mr.
Johnson's law firm represented
Mr. Leban, but had turned this
case over to another firm headed
by Randolph Paul, one-time
Treasury official.
Campaign Gifts Revealed.
Mr. Leban told a House Ju
diciary subcommittee last sum
mer that in 1950 he personally
contributed $5,700 to variods
Democratic election campaigns
and raised another $17,000 in
contributions to the Democratic
National Committee. He said
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Another Shrewd Kremlin Move
Russia Aims at Further Widening of Gulf Between Allies
By Pointing to 1942 Treaty Alliance With Britain
The Kremlin answer to the
American and British endeav
ors to end the cold war, given
in a front-page editorial in
Pravda, the official organ of
the Communist Party, is
shrewd and capable of further
widening the gulf between
America and Western Europe.
The Kremlin stresses
through Pravda the absolute
need for a German unity. It
wants a “reunited, peace-lov
ing, democratic Germany.”
All our military and politi
cal leaders have admitted that
no actual security of Europe
could be achieved without the
inclusion of Germany in the
concert of powers. We ap
proached the problem from
the point of view of defense.
The Muscovites approach it
from the point of view of a
united Germany without any
military-political ties with
either the East or the West.
We have endeavored to
bring Germany into the NATO
and build up its military
strength. On this point West
ern Germany is divided. Chan-:
cellor Adenauer and the polit
ical parties which are sup
porting him have accepted the
Western offer. But its imple
mentation appears impossible
because of the refusal' of the
French National Assembly to
ratify the peace contract and
the EDO agreements signed a
year ago.
The Socialist Party leader,
Dr. Ollenauer, and a number
of other representatives of
political parties in Germany
do not favor the American
approach because it does not
achieve the aspiration for
unity of all Germany. The
Kremlin has come out for the
second time since March of
last year for the unification of
East and West Germany in
keeping, it says, with the Yalta
and Potsdam agreements.
All Germans, regardless of
political affiliations, are solidly
united in the desire to see the
present East-West boundaries
he also raised about $9,000 for
the Republican campaign com
mittee that year because his
firm’s president was a friend of
New York’s Governor Dewey.
Altogether, in the three years
1948-1950, Mr. Leban said he
contributed or raised $52,950 for
Democrats and $17,500 for Re
publicans.
In the tax case, Mr. Leban
asked for a ruling that a com
plex $320,000 stock deal would
not be considered taxable in
come. The arrangement called
for him to buy 20,000 shares of
Schenley stock at $26.50 a
share, the market price at the
time of agreement. The stock
was to be bought at intervals
over 20 years.
Katherine Nalley of the bu
reau’s rulings division, and
Sylvan Tobolowsky, assistant
head of the interpretative di
vision in the chief counsel’s of
fice, testified they were con
vinced Leban would have to pay
income taxes on his profits if
the value of the stock went
above $26.50 during the 20
years. This was the ruling later
reversed by Mr. Oliphant, who
held that the transaction was
closed at a fair market price
and any increase in stock value
would not be taxable income.
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disappear. Whichever power
or combination of powers can
satisfy this natural national
aspiration is sure to have the
complete approval of the Ger
man people. And Germany is
today more than in the past
the cornerstone of Europe’s po
litical and economic equilib
rium.
So far, our side has muffed
the ball. Washington, aware
of the vital importance
of the Reich, proposed as a
first step toward unity the cre
ation of a strong Western Ger
man republic. We hoped that
somehow or other this would
eventually attract Eastern Ger
mans toward their fellow
countrymen in the West. Our
efforts, supported by the Brit
ish, were frustrated by the
French who persist in a policy
of keeping Germany weak,po
litically, economically and mil
itarily as the best safeguard
for the security of France.
The Kremlin is not handi
capped in its international re
lations by alliances and need
not look to the right or to the
left in its conduct of foreign
affairs. Moscow is thus in a
position to fulfill its promises
to the German people. The
Bonn government knows that
if the U. S. S. R. wants to
bring about the unity of Ger
many it can do so without
much trouble. This Is not the
case with us.
For nearly a year the United
States has sought to create a
Western German army and
make the Bonn republic a
partner of the West. The
Western German Parliament
has finally ratified the peace
treaty and the creation of a
German army within the Euro
pean forces of the NATO.
It has also appropriated some
$2.5 billions for that purpose.
Yet, the Western German
army still is only a blueprint
and is likely to remain so for
an indefinite time because of
France’s and the Benelux
countries’ veto.
Red-Led Union Represents
Canadian Uranium Miners
By th* Associated Press
TORONTO. Ontario, May 26.
—The Toronto Star said yester
day a Communist-dominated
union has won bargaining rights
for employes of Canadian gov
ernment uranium mines in
Northern Saskatchewan.
Terming the mines “a corner
stone in North America’s defense
in a future atomic war,” the pa
per said the Saskatchewan pro
vincial government had certi
fied the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
as bargaining agent.
The union was expelled from
the Canadian Congress of Labor
and from the CIO for pro-Com-'
munist policies.
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Mindful of the forthcoming
American - British - French
meeting at Bermuda, the
Kremlin has reminded the
British of the existence of
the Soviet-British alliance of
1942. Article 7 of that treaty,
which remains in force until
1962, provides that neither
contracting party shall con
clude any alliance or partici
pate in any coalition directed
against the other.
It is true that the Western
European coalition (the NATO)
does not spell out that it was
created to resist possible Red
aggression. But it is obvious
that it was not created to de
fend Western Europe against
Albania or Bulgaria and that
it is’ aimed at the U. S. S. R.
Thus Britain by entering this
defense coalition without de
nouncing the existing treaty
with the U.S.S.R., has been
guilty of a breach of treaty.
The Kremlin is now politely
calling Britain’s attention to
this fact. It is good diplomacy.
For nearly a year, and par
ticularly since Stalin’s death,
the Kremlin has been dangling
before the trade-hungry eyes
of our Western allies the car
rot of unlimited business with
the 800 million people behind
the Iron Curtain. This sug
gestive promise has made a
far deeper impression on the
people of Western Europe than
all the billions we have given
them in the past and they may
expect to get from us in the
future.
The gentle reminder of the
Kremlin that the treaty of
1942 is still fully in force could
act as a wet blanket on Prime
Minister Churchill’s desire to
hasten the lagging defense
preparations of the NATO.
Our Western European allies
are far more anxious to see
trade with their former cus
tomers developed on a legiti
mate basis, instead of the
present bootleg deals, than to
spend their money on what
some of their leaders call "use
less and wasteful military ef
forts.”
AA Fire Damages Plane
At Dahlgren, 2 Unhurt
By th. Associated Prats
An air force training plana
was struck and damaged by an
tiaircraft fire yesterday when It
accidentally flew over the naval
proving ground at Dahlgren. Va.
The two occupants of the plane
were not hurt.
The Navy said the plane waa
en route from Kingston. N. C.,
to Andrews Air Force Base, when
it flew into a restricted firing
area over the Dahlgren test area
at an altitude of 2,000 feet.
Naval anti-aircraft gunners
were firing 5-inch shells in rou
tine tests at the time, the Navy
said.
The plane was damaged but
the pilot landed safely at the
Dahlgren airfield.
The plane was flown by Eu
gene Gillespie, a civilian under
air force contract. Air Force
Cadet Robert F. Medwick waa a
passenger.