Constantine Brown — Turning Victories Into Defeats Yalta Offers Us Abundant Proof That International Conferences Shouldn't Be Held in Midst of War Publication of the Yalta papers may serve, if nothing else, to support the view long held by many political men in Washington that internation al conferences should not be held in the midst of a war. When Secretary of State Hull appeared before execu tive sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1943 and 1944 and was asked about our policies after the shooting was over he in variably replied: “Gentlemen, our only concern at present is to win the war. We shall cross the diplomatic bridges when we get to them after victory.” It is safe to say the world and particularly this country would not be in the present predicament if President Roosevelt and his advisers had followed the Hull horse-sense principle. Teheran. Yalta and Potsdam would never have oc curred. We won a resounding mili tary victory in World War II and suffered an even more re sounding diplomatic defeat. The Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam meetings were not used to discuss military strat egy as they were advertised. Military strategy was dis cussed only in the light of political deals between the then three allies. At Teheran the long and fruitful associa tion with Britain was shaken because President Roosevelt and some of his advisers, such as Harry Hopkins, decided that it was best for the United States and the world to side with Stalin. Britain appeared to our leaders then as a brave but worn-out and crumbling em pire while the USSR w'as viewed as a power of the fu ture. And in order to enlist Stalin's good will for a “bet ter world,” which he alone could help establish with his despotic power over an enor mous land mass containing 180 million peoples, he was Thomas L. Stokes — Tax Cut Issue Is Not Dead Yet Democrats Will Keep It Alive by Pointing to 'Blooper' Os Humphrey That Gave Break to Big Business Ypu have not heard the list of thb Democratic effort to get a break in tax reduction for the little fellow. Nor. indeed, has President Eisenhower, or Secretary of Treasury Humphrey, or Re publican leaders in Congress, despite their success in defeat ing in the Senate the family tax cut compromise and, at the same time, keeping in the law the dividend credit and more liberal depreciation al lowances for business. Currently, as you know, the tax issue is before a joint House-Senate conference com mittee. The House bill w'ould extend for another year be yond April 1 existing excise and corporation rates and in cludes the S2O tax cut for every member of the family. Tire Senate bill merely extends the corporation and excise tax rates. If by some miracle —and it would be that—the conference committee should accept the S2O tax cut bonus and both House and Senate should then • approve it—then you’d hear about it constantly from Dem ocrats from now until the 1956 election. Such a miracle frankly is expected by nobody. But there is another means open to Democrats to drama tize the tax issue. The oppor tunity will come in legislation now being considered by the House Wayp and Means Com mittee to correct what Demo crats call “the Humphrey blooper” that was included in revision of the tax law by the last Congress, the Republican 83d. Accepting recommenda- 'Lysistrata' Freed, but She Isn't Done With Summerfield By Mary McGrory The unleashing of "Lysistrata” has not ended the story of dis cord between Aristophanes and Postmaster-General Summer field. A disputed copy of the ancient Greek comedy—a rare British edition illustrated by Australian artist Norman Lindsay—had been snatched from the mails last August by Post Office men who called it "lewd, lascivious and clearly non-mailable.” By yesterday, however, they had changed their minds and “volun tarily released" the book. This means the California bookseller who had ordered the impounded volume will get his “Lysistrata.” His lawyer, Edward de Grazia, who had the book open for inspection by the press at his office yesterday, will send it on to him soon. But while the American Civil Liberties Union, Mr. de Grazia and his client, California book seller Harry Levinson, regard the liberation of the “Lysistrata” as “an important victory for free speech,” they are not completely happy. The conditions the Post Office Department attached to the de-banning bother them. Postoffice Department Solici tor Abe McGregor Goff person ally handed “Lysistrata” to Mr. de Grazia yesterday morning with, Mr. de Grazia says, no strings attached. However, in a motion to dismiss the action filed in District Court, the Post Office Department indicated that the book was relinquished only upon Mr. Levinson’s assurance that it was not for general dis tribution. appeased and given every thing he wanted. We gave Stalin everything he wanted at Teheran and confirmed and added to these give-aways at Yalta. As a mat ter of fact, all our military efforts and victories were nul lified at the political confer ences of the Big Three which none of the lesser allies who were fighting gallantly on our side were permitted to attend. They had only hearsay infor mation on what was discussed and decided. 'The most successful diplo matic gathering of the “big” powers was the Vienna con ference at the end of the Na poleonic wars. The wars were over, Napoleon was defeated and the military power pf France had been crushed. It was only after all military ob jectives had been attained that the representatives of the then “Big Four” gathered in the Austrian capital and decided on carving up Europe in a manner which prevented the outbreak of another war of many nations for 100 years. The Vienna Conference also marked the most prosperous postwar era in the history of Europe. Nothing of the sort hap pened after the last world war. Had it not been for what is commonly believed to be the inexhaustible resources of this country, Europe and the rest of the world would have gone completely to pieces. The So viet Union, after having been saved from military disaster and helped to victory by its Western allies, proceeded to enlarge the gains made at’the expense of the free nations and expanded both in Europe and Asia. Tens of billions of American tax funds and much of our substance had to be poured into military expendi tures in an attempt to arrest this movement. It is by no means certain that we have yet succeeded. tions last year by the Treasury Department, Congress wrote into the 1953 law a provision permitting businessmen to take deductions for two years’ ex penses in one year. It would result in a windfall variously estimated to cause a loss of revenue up to a billion dollars and beyond. Mr. Humphrey has asked for repeal of this provision, as well as correc tion of 39 other errors dis covered recently in the 1954 law. When this “blooper” bill comes before the Senate it is the plan of Democrats, it is learned, to try to attach the same amendments they pro posed in vain to the excise corporation tax extension measure. Namely, the S2O-$lO tax cut for the family of mod erate means and repeal of the dividend credit and of the more liberal depreciation allowances which Republicans included in the 1953 revenue law. The dividend and depreciation re pealers were offered as a means of bringing in sufficient reve . nue to offset revenue lost through the S2O-$lO cut. Thus Democrats will force Republicans to go on record publicly once again on refus ing tax relief to persons of moderate means. This will carry its own contrast with what Republicans did in last year’s law for the affluent and for business by focusing at tention on the dividend credit which Democrats criticize as a boon for "coupon clippers” and the more liberal deprecia tion allowances which mean substantial tax savings for big business and industry. I Mr. Levinson and the Civil I Liberties Union do not agree j that Aristophanes’ comedy about men and women and war should be withheld from the public, j Mr. de Grazia plans to oppose ’ the Post Office Department's | motion to dismiss the case. He would like to challenge the ; constitutionality of the so-called ' Comstock Act, which empowers ; the Postmaster General to lift ! from the mails books he con , i siders “obscene.” He calls Mr Summerfleld's action arbitrary. District Court Judge Matthew s Maguire ruled recently that , there is no constitutional ques- , i tion involved, but Mr. de Grazia 1 will appeal the ruling. Said Mr. de Grazia. “We be : lieve that the Post Office action 1 may be properly viewed as an admission that there is serious : doubt that this law is consti . tutional.” ' - Two Andrews Sisters Sue Third in Squabble By the Associated Press SANTA MONICA, Calif., Mar. 19.—A lengthy legal squabble among the singing Andrews sis ters has led to two of them i filing a suit against the third. La Verne and Maxine Andrews i filed suit in Superior Court , yesterday against Patti Andrews . asking the court to order dis tribution of $60,000 worth of i property left the three sisters •, by their mother, Mrs. Ollie An drews. 1 Stalin took advantage of the emotional frame of mind of our wartime leaders at the wartime conferences and suc ceeded at least partially in creating a split between the British and Americans. The postwar conferences were held during the period known as the cold war. And we lost our shirts. The Ber lin Conference in 1954 is a typical example. We went there to discuss with the Rus sian dictators peace treaties for Germany and Austria They had other ideas. They wanted Indo-China for their Chinese Communist allies. After 10 days of talking we yielded and agreed to go to Geneva to debate that issue. Nothing was done about Ger many and Austria. Northern' Viet Nam was surrendered by the French to the Communists. The unchallengeable fact is that our military victories have been turned into diplo matic defeats mainly because we went to the conference table while fighting was go ing on to discuss purely politi cal matters with a temporary associate whose over-all aims were in ideological opposition to those of the American people. The results of these confer ences were so distasteful that our then leaders decided to cover up by hiding from us the actual concessions they made to the Reds. They have been partly revealed after 10 years in which the American people shed "blood, sweat and tears” without actually know ing the real origin of their hardships. The division of Korea at the 38th Parallel was arranged by our representatives at Yalta. It resulted in the Communist aggression of 1950 which cost us 165.000 casualties and some sls billion. And we have not yet seen the end of that con flict. Democrats believe they have raised an issue that will be come better and better as it is noised about by repetition. They dismiss the theory ad vanced by some Republicans that the fight for tax reduction for persons of small income will not mean much politically. Democrats are relying upon Secretary Humphrey as a wit ness on their behalf because of circumstances that are part of the official record. When he appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to oppose the S2O cut for every member of the family that had been passed by the House, he was asked if he would approve tax reduction if the Senate should provide revenue to off set the loss of revenue to the Treasury. He replied that un der such conditions, tax re duction would be all right. Taking him at his word. Dem ocrats offered on the floor their amendment to make up the revenue loss from the S2O-$lO compromise by repealing the dividend credit and deprecia tion provisions put into the law last year. But, w r hen the Secretary was before the House Ways and Means Committee a few days later to urge repeal of the “blooper,” he hotly denounced the Senate Democratic pro posal as “silly,” “irresponsible” and “political.” He plainly had not thought the Democrats would pick out the dividend and depreciation features for compensating revenue produc ers. He said flatly that they were responsible for business recovery and for creating jobs. High School Slasher Put on Probation A 16-year-old boy was placed on probation by Juvenile Court yesterday, after he admitted | slashing the face of a fellow high school student with a knife last month. The boy told Judge Edith H. Cockrill his victim had beat him and then dared him to meet him after school. He said that, on his way to meet the other student, some friends handed him the knife. He added that he did not actu , ally mean to hurt the student. In another case Judge Cock j rill committed a 17-year-old boy to the National Training School, after he was found involved in the petty larceny of a sweater from the Hecht Co. on February 7. A court social worker testified the boy was placed on court pro bation last fall for the unau thorized use of an auto and had faced court action several times before that. Judge Cockrill told the youth "it is time for you to learn re sponsibilities and a trade which, if you co-operate, you can do at the National Training School." Critic of Reds Off to Prague BERLIN. Mar. 19 (JP).— Bishop Otto Dibelius head of the Ger man Evangelical Church and frequent critic of East Ger many's communist rulers, left today for a week's visit in Prague, capital of Communist 1 Czechoslovakia. LOUIE —By Harry Hanan Fletcher Knebel— ■— „ \ Potomac Fever When you see a worried man reading the newspaper these days, you’re not sure whether the stock market fell five points or his phone number was read at the Jelke trial. * * * * The biggest s'ecret of the Yalta papers is how the Democrats ] forgot to give them away to Russia too. * * * * Postmaster General Summerfield returns a 2,400-year-old 1 Greek comedy he seized for being too sexy. Said the bird to : the bee: “How happy are we! I’m as risk-proof as thee.” * * * * I Premier Faure of France fights a taxpayers’ revolt. In France, it’s the government, not the taxpayer, that is broke after taxes. In the United States, it’s both. * * * * Senator Fulbright defends his investigation of the stock market. Democrats aren’t against prosperity. They just want it on their own time. » * * * The Census Bureau says only 4 per cent of married couples live with their in-laws. The other 96 per cent prefer to pick on somebody their own age. * * * * Americans for Democratic Action hold their annual con vention in Washington. An ADAer is a progressive immoderate. That's a fellow who races backward into the future, so he won’t | be scared to death by where he’s going. Stop Disintegration Os Home Life in U. S., Catholics Implore By Caspar Nannes Star Staff Correspondent ST. PAUL. Minn., Mar. 19. The Catholic Family Life Con vention closed its three-day meeting yesterday by calling on the American people to stop “the growihg disintegration of home life in our country" and to re store the home as a place of j “peace and security.” “Every thinking person depre cates the growing disintegration of home life in our country," the statement said. “The ever-in- < : creasing speed of modern life, > the nervous quest for breath- j taking amusement, the ruthless toll of mass production have destroyed among our people the ideal of the home as the place of peace, restful recreation and friendly and sympathetic rela tionships between members of the family.” Asserting that these tenden- j cies are having “disturbing ef fects on life in general,” the res olution declared they are “doing much harm in the religious j sphere. Along with the church and the school, the home has an important place in the religi ous life of people. ... It is im- j portant, therefore, that we re store to a thrill-stricken people this haven of peace and security." Stresses Economic Security Dr. Edward A. Huth of Dayton, Ohio, president of the National Catholic Conference on Family Life, told a young peoples’ meet ing yesterday that “courtship today is related to the age of economic security of man and women rather than to sexual maturity. It is now recognized that before a man should marry he ought to be able to support a wife.” The speaker also cautioned his teen-age listeners against marrying in opposition to tljeir ! parents’ wishes. Six members of a teen-age panel agreed that family solidar j ity can be obtained by praying, playing and working together, j They also said that going to church as a unit, having dinner j together each night and talking things over in a family council I brought the members closer. One panel member, Tom Daly, St. Paul, contended that view ing television together can be transformed from a divisive to a unifying influence. Better Family Life The Rev. Gerald J. Schncpp i of St. Mary’s University, San An tonio, Tex., told one session that preparation for family life | “should add up to emotional I maturity. It will also involve I self-control, proper attitude ' toward sex and toward the other sex, a somewhat rational ap proach to an understanding of true love, a sense of responsibil ity, a spirit of sacrifice, and such qualities as sympathy, patience and gratitude.” < Hundreds of married couples renewed their vows and gave pledges to follow the precepts for a Christian marriage at a huge family Holy Hour service last night in the Cathedral of j St. Paul. Churches Criticized As ‘Private Clubs' CHICAGO, Mar. 19 UP).— City churches “far too often have I created the appearance of being i a sort of private club,” church men were told today. Dr. Marshal L. Scott, dean of the Presbyterian Institute of In dustrial Relations, Chicago, made the statement. He addressed hundreds of lay men attending the annual meet- j i ing of the National Council of Presbyterian Men. J Dr. Scott, in a prepared speech, told of sweeping changes in this country—the flow of people from farm areas to cities, , the exodus from cities to . * Mere Face-Saving Believed Necessary To End Rail Strike By the Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn., Mar. 19. An air of cautious optimism among negotiators meeting here today brought speculation that only a mutual face-saving device is needed to end the 14-State Louisville & Nashville Railroad strike. Nobody close to the situation expected a final settlement to day, but there was strong hope the two sides could at least agree on what the issues are, some- ' thing they haven’t done in court.! The strike, which began Mon- I i day, affects about 25,000 work : men and has already brought partial industrial paralysis along nearly 5,000 miles of L&W tracks and those of its subsidiaries, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis and Clinchfleld roads. Tennessee's Gov. Frank Clem ent, whose invitations brought I union and company officials face i to face yesterday for the first time since the strike began, said only that talks would be “hope j fully continued” today. No amplification of this was available from union or company officials or from Francis A. O’Neill, chairman of the Nation al Mediation Board, who at tended the meeting. Men close to both sides, however, pointed I to several hopeful signs. 1. The first session yesterday lasted three hours without in terruption or breakup and ended 1 with all hahds willing to talk some more. 2. L&N president, John E. Til ford, made a hurried auto trip from Louisville to Nashville early yesterday to attend the meeting. 3. Both sides brought in full teams of negotiators, including top officials, with power to come to a settlement. The union of ficials included George Leighty of Washington, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives' As sociation and spokesman for the 10 non-operating unions. 4. Gov. Clement decided after I yesterday’s meeting to can cel a week nd speaeking schedule in Texas to follow through with > the negotiations in his office. Gov. Clement’s work in ar ranging the meeting came to a climax as the White House ruled j there was no legal basis for reconvening an emergency in • vestigative panel as requested by the Governors of Kentucky and Illinois. - Canadian Visitors Drop OTTAWA.—Two per cent few er foreign vehicles entered Can ada on traveler’s vehicle permits in 1954 than in the previous year. Total entries, not count ing repeat trips by summer resi dents and commuters, amounted } to 2,450.844, compared with 2,- 506,114 the year before. suburbs, the sharp rise in the number of wage earners lumped together in the classification of "labor,” and the shifting of workers from one industrial | center to another. These changes, he said, call for a change in the pattern of churchmen. He added: “Rarely, if ever, have any of j our churches turned any new neighbors away, but far too [often they have created the ap- I pea ranee of being a sort of j private club, which has been reluctant to go into the neighbor hood and extend a genuine wel come to the new neighbors.” Dr. Scott said many neighbor hoods which once were occupied ,by Roman Catholics now are being populated by white and ; Negro Protestants from the South. These "inner-city” neighbor hoods. he said, offer Protestants one of their "greatest opportune , ties.” ■» U. S. Chamber Elects Mississippi Man As New President By Francis P. Douglas A. Boyd Campbell of Jackson, Miss., newly elected president of : the United States Chamber of Commerce, described himself as “just as corny as any product you ever saw from Mississippi, and as indigenous as catfish and hushpuppies.” In the same modest vein, the gray-haired and personable Mr. Campbell discussed from the i point of a view of a small busi nessman the free enterprise sys tem, Federal aid for education and the Dixon-Yates contract. Mr. Campbell is a director of j i the Mississippi Power & Light Co . one of the Middle South Utilities group headed by Edgar H. Dixon. Mr. Campbell said his position on the contract is ! the same as that of Lewis L. Strauss chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, which ne gotiated the contract on the! Government's side. For Private Power. The contract has become a symbol in the fight between pub j lie and private power. Mr. j Campbell said. Mr. Campbell is for private power. Mr. Campbell is to take office on May 4 at the close of the ! Chamber's annual meeting. He succeeds Clem D. Johnston of Roanoke, Va. Mr. Johnston was elected chairman of the board. J. H. Carmichael, president of Capital Airlines, was elected j vice president of the Chamber's Southeastern Division. ' Dixon a “Family Man” In connection with the Dixon- Yates contract Mr. Campbell said weight should be given to the character of the men behind it. He described Mr. Dixon as a “mild mannered, soft-spoken man with grandchildren, who manages other people's money.” Mr. Campbell looked with dis trust on Federal aid to educa tion as meaning utimately Fed eral control. Although Missis sippi is “at the bottom of the ladder” in education, he said, a special session of the Legislature is struggling with a program to guarantee equay facilities and equal pay for both races. Tass Says U. S. Regards Yalta Story as 'Politics' By th« Associated Press MOSCOW. Mar. 19.—Tass re ported today American political circles regard the State Depart ment's publication of its Yalta papers as “an act in the fight of Republicans against the Democrats.” This was the first word the Russian people had of the papers released in Washington Wednes : day night. Trtie Soviet news agency said i the publication also was con ! sidered “an attempt to take away his laurels from the de ceased President Roosevelt.” J Tass referred to the papers throughout as “documents.” The j Tass story, distributed to all Soviet newspapers, ’ did not say , what was in the papers. British Crown Jewels ; To Get Bigger Home By the Associated Press LONDON, Mar. 19.—50 many * people went to peek at Britain’s; fabulous collection of crown jewels in the tower of London j that a bigger building is being j planned to display them. Work on a new building to cost! an estimated 95,000 pounds ($266,000 > will beegin next year, it W'as disclosed today. 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