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PAGE THE MARION STAR, MARION, OHIO SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1954 Beria Is Noid Spelled 6BiiryYa9 Warnings Meaningless By David Lawrence Gravity of Indochina Crisis Glossed Over The American people are not being given all the facts concerning the grave situation that has arisen in Indochina. Officials here are not only minimizing what is happening there but they are issuing warnings to the Communists about a possible retaliatory action which has no sanction from the United Nations or from the 16 nations which fought against the Reds in Korea. The Associated Press carried on the night of December 29 these three statments which were frontpaged on many of the newspapers from coast to coast: "Secretary of State Dulles warned today American air and naval power might strike at the China mainland if Chinese troops openly intervene in Indochina or resume the war in Korea. "Dulles remarks reinforced a similar warning he issued in a speech at the American Legion convention in St. Louis last Sept.

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No mail subscription accepted in localities served by carrier delivery. Communications intended for publication must bear the writer's name and address. Not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1954 Nearly All Things Are Possible While year-end reviews are in style there's one that needs to be made by 161 million Americans, privately. They need to review what they believe is possible.

The fact is most of them already have done this privately. No one knows what they have concluded. A great many interested parties are guessing. To whatever extent the beliefs coincide in significantly large numbers, the shape of the immediate future will be influenced. If there has been general agreement that the United States can have peacetime prosperity without the stimulation of a war boom and casualty lists, the United States will be prosperous.

If people share the belief that Washington has taken a new lease on life as a source of leadership, there will be no more need to worry about popular loss of confidence in the federal government, as there was during the twilight months of the Truman administration. If they subscribe to the conviction their country now is on the threshold of a golden era of living, with higher spiritual and material standards than ever were attainable before, a golden era will dawn. Men are not at the mercy of the world's mistakes. They can rise above them. They can surmount their hatreds, fears and prejudices.

They can do within reasonable limits anything they can imagine being done. They can split atoms, fly better than birds, conquer disease, live at peace with one another, push back the age-old threat of mass starvation, learn to love one another and send colored images through the air. But first they must believe such things are possible. No one can know for certain what the people may have decided is possible in 1954. Everybody with things and ideas to sell will spend their time for the next 12 months trying to find out.

Moscow, too, where it doubtless is being assumed that Secretary Dulles can issue all the threats and warnings he pleases, but the British government is still not committed to agrement or cooperation in any military sense. IT MIGHT BE inferred perhaps that the United States planned to "go it alone" in the Asian crisis, but this hardly seems plausible. Also Dulles not long ago said the United States would not attempt to dictate or coerce its allies. It is evident, on the other hand, that the British government is doing the dictating to America on Asian policy. So far as the public knows, either from official statments in Washington or from the revelations in the debates in the House of Commons, Britain hasn't the slightest intention of carrying the war to the Chinese mainland or of checkmating by any new military operations there what is happening in Indochina.

Coincidentally, Dulles is reported by the Associated Press to have said at his news conference on Tuesday of this week that American power to strike devastating blows at any aggressor in the Far East is strengthened despite the projected withdrawal of the two U.S. divisions from Korea, and he added that, instead of trying to meet any new agression "merely by land power of our own in Asia, there would be more reliance on '(American) sea and air power, which would give us a greater choice." THE PLAIN meaning intended to be conveyed by the foregoing comment is that the American forces are free to use sea and air power at will in Asia, when the actual fact is that the allied governments, which have exercised since the autumn of 1950 their veto over any "hot pursuit" by our air forces against enemy planes to bases beyond the Yalu River in Manchuria, have never withdrawn that veto. Any warnings issued now, therefore, are predicted on the assumption that in a forthcoming crisis the Europeans will drop their cries about "enlarging the war" or The Once Over By II. I. Phillips Speech in an Hour of Crisis (After the fashion of "Change the Name of "Grover Whalen out as the head man in all welcomes to Gotham! By thunder, no! Grover Whalen removed as the most famous best-dressed, best-looking official glad-hander in America! Over my dead body, sir! Grover Whalen no longer going down the bay to welcome doers of great deeds, leading the parad.

up Broadway, lending color to the welcome at City Hall and seeing that every oyster fork is in place at the banquet! Gentlemen, this is mutiny! Change the mayor of New York, alter the face of lower Broadway, switch the location of the Waldorf-Astoria, do away with brass bands, drum majors and motorcycle escorts, but cut down Grover Whalen and his gardenia? Neverl Gentlemen, this is sacrilege. This is treason! You may wipe out Coney Island, efface Central Park, bid the Bronx Zoo begone, order Toots Shor to head a drive for the WCTU, swap Grant's Tomb for the headstone of P.T. Barnum, close the shuttle, remove Alfred Drake from "Kismet" in favor of Jimmy Savo, require Boris Karloff to play Santa Claus in Macy's window, and transfer the Chrysler Tower to Hialeah Park in exchange for a flock of pink flamingoes, but fire the man who is as much a part of New York as General Sherman's horse, Sophie Tucker, the flea circus, "Variety," Bedloe's Island and Herbert Bayard Swope! Not if there is a drop of red blood left in the arteries of the citizenry! Grover Whalen was the famous institution pointed out to millions when they first set foot on the shores of Manhattan. Charlie Schwab's castle on Riverside Drive, the old Polo Grounds, Castle Garden where Jenny Lind sang, the Hippodrome, George M. Cohan, Al Smith and "Abie's Irish Rose' weren't even close.

Bob Moses was considered away up town. The circus was playing the old Madison Square Garden down near Twenty-fifth Street, Raymond Hitchcock was playing at the Ziegfeld and they were serving huge slices of roast beef with the free lunch at the Knickerbocker. Gentlemen, Grover Whalen was here before "The Ladder," "Peaches" Browning, "Time's Punctured Romance," sulpha drugs, king-size cigarettes and Walter Winchell. He was the' first to greet Gertrude Ederle, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Bobby Jones and Slim Lindbergh down the bay. He threw a parade for Admiral Dewey and a party for Daniel Boone! To remove him from the scene is a foul crime.

I say to you that you can change the course of the Hudson River, make Broadway a side street, tear the schnoz-zle from the classic face of Jimmy Durante, name Jack Dempsey curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and take Mike Quill away from microphones! But touch a hair of Grover Whalen's head! Veto his gardenia! Turn thumbs down on his sartorial splendor! Never! This is unconstitutional! This is injustice! This can even be a Kremlin plot! Citizens, arise! Revolt! I m. I I Mi tt, Aft Gouzenko Baffles Canada, U.S. By Edward K.Nellor "In recalling this warning today, Dulles said any renewal of hostilities in Korea or a Chinese Communist attack in Indochina would bring an American reaction 'not necessarily confined to the particular area the Communists choose to make the theater of their new aggression'." THE FOREGOING statements would be meaningful were it not for the fact that after the 16 nations had issued on August 7 their declaration of July 27 saying they would resume hostilities if the Korean truce were broken and warning the Reds that they would have to carry the war to China itself if the Communists broke the armistice, a clamor rose in Britain and on August 8 the United Press sent this dispatch from London: "A foreign office spokesman said tonight that, in Britain's opinion, the United Nations threat to carry the war to the enemy if the Korean truce is violated doesn't imply any advance commitments to any precise course of action." The Foreign Office statement was quoted at the same time as saying: "When the text of the declaration was under discussion, Her Majesty's government was careful to make it clear that, in their view, decisions which might have grave consequences should be taken only at the time and in full knowledge of the circumstances." This, of course, was read in WASHINGTON It may take a battery of psychiatrists to unravel the strange case of Igor Gouzenko, but so far as the Canadian government is concerned the former Soviet code clerk who deserted the Russians is an international bundle of trouble. This was spelled out in great detail in the monthly bulletin of the Department of External Affairs in Canada, which reprinted verbatim the remarks of Canadian "bringing on World War III" and will agree to military operations against the mainland of China. There is no backing for that assumption so far as can be learned Secretary of State Lester Pearson in an address before the parlia ment in Ottawa.

from any official or unofficial pro Much that Pearson had to say on the troublesome Gouzenko case which has bounced across the nouncements here or abroad. N.Y. Herald Tribune border between the two countries in newspaper headlines for weeks and is still vibrating was never Cotton Corners By TRUMAN TWILL fully reported in the U. S. ing to talk off the record on the pecularities of the Gouzenko phenomena, NANA has attempted to find out why this minor Soviet civil servant is now insistent on a major role in the worldwide conflict with communism.

That Gouzenko is a puzzle to our Canadian neighbors is admitted by Canadian officials themselves. In fact, his behavior prompted the Canadian secretary of state to say on one occasion that "Mr. Gouzenko has been given the rights of Canadian citizenship; he is, therefore, at liberty at any time to discuss any question that he may wish with anyone either in Canada or the United States and. either confidentially or otherwise." BUT PEARSON and his government obviously meant no such thing, as later actions and statements proved. Gouzenko, in response to a request from a Senate committee, was granted the privilege of talking, but with the proviso that it be done in the presence of Canadian 'security officials, that what he had to say be censored and that in so doing he ran the risk of losing his secret identity and his police protection.

In fact, the Canadian secretary of state, in referring to a previous occasion when Gouzenko was allowed to talk to American officials, stated, "I have looked at the evidence again recently, and the questions at this inquiry were not limited to the specific subjects for which the interview had been requested. Of course, we are making no complaint about this." Later in the same speech Pearson was caustic in his reference to a U. S. newspaper, which Canadian officials blame for stirring THE STORY HAS to begin with Gouzenko, an employe of the Sov iet embassy in Canada who was on the staff of a Col. Zabotin, the Russian military attache in Ottawa.

On the night of Sept. 5, 1945, a shaking, pleading Gouzen gress, who is anxious to elaborate on his story. Gouzenko, from a badly-scared, Russian-speaking captive of communism, had grown into an intense voluble author and speaker, who is fighting the chains that bind him to Canadian security. He flouts the Canadian press and many Canadian officials by writing notes to U. S.

newspapermen and magazine editors. He stings them worse by referring to Sen. Joseph McCarthy Wis.) in kindly terms, a razor-raw subject in Canada. Gouzenko has a book due for publication early this spring. Also, he has hired a Canadian press adviser a Toronto newspaperman, according to Washington reports which may help, but not explain fully, his sudden burgeoning at this time.

HE IS A MAN bristling with opinions, impatient with his guards, and inclined to be emotional when discussing Canadian government officials. Whatever it is that seems to be chewing at his vitals, this much is certain: Gouzenko wants to talk. He still wishes to hide his face, however; keep his children in ignorance of his true identity and continue with his camouflaged life. Barred from speaking out to members of the -American Congress or their staff aides, Gouzenko posted a letter to the editor of U. S.

News and World Report in Washington, inviting reporters to his hide-out. He grants interviews to dozens of newspapermen, picking and choosing the subject to be discussed and carefully edit-ing what he has to say before releasing it for publication. CANADIAN OFFICIALS maintain he has nothing new to say on espionage that has not already been transmitted to U. S. officials.

Gouzenko is a switch hitter on the subject once, stating he knew a good deal he had not told and, on another occasion, backtracking on the subject. Frustration? Egomania? Boredom? Or a God-fearing determination to renew his fight against communism? Take your pick. That is what security officials in Washington, who knew Gouzenko in 1945 and follow his gyrations today, are ko fled from the Soviet embassy, clutching in his overcoat pocket a al sour self, with a little gleam of sunshine thrown in for comic relief. She says she is sick of Christmas and I guess most of us are. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

I used to get sick of Independence Day when it was celebrated with explosives instead of the crunch of auto accidents. If you're interested, I. predict 1954 will have 365 days and some will be better than others. Am I wrong about this, or are some of our politicians predicting a depression in the hope of talking one up so they can fish in troubled waters. Has politics become that scummy? Cotton Corners UNCLE GEORGE bundle of coded Russian espionage messages that were destined to explode around the world when deciphered.

For one year, hiding in fear and under an assassin-tight secur ity blanket of Royal Canadian War Threat Against Thailand The possibility that the United States might get sucked into another hopeless war in southeastern Asia seems to have been knocked in the head by Secretary of State Dulles. The State Department evidently shares a view common among diplomats and especially among old hands in Asiatic power politics never assume that anything is the way it appears to be in Asia. There is no inclination to belittle the seriousness of a Communist move in Indochina which threatens the security of Thailand, a vital source of tin, rubber and rice to feed the teeming population of Japan. But among the old Asiatic hands there is no inclination either to belittle the fact this move was being made before the end of World War II, that it is based on Asia's rising tide of nationalism and that it can't succeed unless Thailand is betrayed from within or the threatening Communists get help from China. Thailand, itself, is free and has shown its good will as a member of the United Nations and a fighting participant of the Korean war.

A direct attack on it by Chinese Communists would constitute an emergency. But military actions in Indochina by Communists who might lay the groundwork for an attack on Thailand do not constitute an emergency. And if an emergency comes, the United States will not again let hordes of Asiatics pin down its outnumbered fighting men in a land war which can neither be won nor lost. Mounted Police, Gouzenko relat ed his story to Canadian author ities. Then he was whisked into hiding on a farm, given a new name, a new background and provided with 24-hour-a-day security guards for himself and family.

For six years the frightened Gouzenko remained in hiding, con tent with his official sanctuary, causing no trouble to a grateful Canadian government. He could Marion County History Brevities By EDNA S. DUTTON In 1830 the population of Green Camp Township was 260; in 1840 the population had grown to 361 and 10 years later the number had increased to 383. The -number of residents in following years were as follows 1860, 748; 1870, 999; 1880, 1890, 1.14T; and in 1900, 1,131. have remained the anonymous Mr.

Nobody for the remainder of his life. BUT GOUZENKO chose to ex up the current Gouzenko fracas. "Members of the House will, I think, recall that in October a newspaper" which modestly calls itself the greatest newspaper, The Chicago Tribune about that there might, of course, be some difference of opinion reported an interview with Mr. Gouzenko in which he expressed an interest in talking to a committee of the U. S.

Congress." FROM ALL evidence at hand, however, it is Gouzenko, not a newspaper or a committee of Con plode across the front pages of two nations. He did so of his own volition, to the complete distaste of the government that shelters him. Daily Bible Thought "The world is mine and the fulness thereof." Ps. 50:12. But we are his children and heirs.

There is abundance for all. From his own statements, from official Canadian reports and from Dear Nephew: Like everybody else, I wince when the little mongrels snap and snarl. I want to kick them in their little teeth or their little posteriors, whichever is handier. I felt better about them yesterday after I read what Sir Winston Churchill had to say on this subject when he was telling Parliament how an international conference should be' conducted. One of these ideas stressed the importance of patience.

The old man is too wise at his age to believe great results can be accomplished with slap-dash methods. "Success will in all cases be best measured by easement rather than by headlines," he observed. "I expect I shall be somewhat scolded for saying these things but in old age popularity does not seem to be as imortant as in the days of youth, while on the other hand a little abuse on occasions may pove a necessary and invigorating stimulus." It makes a difference to know that when the mongrels snap and snarl at Mr. England from now on he will be watching them in amused tolerance. His place in history is secure.

He can afford to be unpopular. As we close the books on another year, we could use some more ChurchUls men who have lost the desire to be popular if it clashes with what they believe to be right. My idea of the way men are governed best is to have a few leaders among them who are courageous enough to stand on their principles come hell or high water. The rest of us can then choose to stand with the men whom we admire the most. When it works that way, we have the privilege of decision.

But mostly it works in reverse. The "leaders" who should be standing on principles come" hell or high water are scurrying to safety. They intend to stay there until they see how things turn out. They want the people to stand up and be counted so their "leaders" will know what to believe. Maybe we're lucky to have one Churchill in a generation and shouldn't complain if he isn't quintuplets.

Your kindly old Aunt Effie has been complaining about me. She says I am underfoot and will be glad when I quit celebrating the holidays. She has something there, though I won't admit it. I'll be glad too. I haven't lifted a finger for any constructive purpose since two weeks before Christmas.

I a spread good cheer until I'm in it up to my knees. Your Aunt Effie says she is sick of it and can hardly wait until I have been restored to my usu Today's successor to the man who had the first telephone and the first big red horseless carriage is the fellow with a color TV set. We wish somebody would break into the "Omnibus" program and make off with a load of whimsy. The supply is too great. The youth who killed his own parents, and his accomplice are in the hands of psychiatrists.

It probably will be found that the little dears were driven to it by the fact their parents once spoke to them sharply, twice refused them larger rattles as babies and frequently refused to obey the kids orders. (Associated Newspapers) News of Other Years TEN YEARS AGO It was Sunday, Jan. 2, 1944. Charles Christian Smeltzer, 63, widely-known Marion County farmer and stock raiser, died at his home north of DeCliff. A daughter was born to Mr.

and Mrs. Reed Fetter of near Marion. British airmen in RAF's dropped of bombs on the Nazi capital city of Berlin. Mrs. Mary R.

Cobo died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Piper of 1144 W. Center St. where she had lived.

Congressman and Mrs. Frederick C. Smith returned to Marion after visiting their son, First Lt. Philip Smith at Santa Barbara, where he was on the staff of Hoff Hospital. Miss Luella Wachter, former Marion resident, died in a Columbus hospital.

TWENTY YEARS AGO It was Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1934. Dora Hardy, Helen Holdridge, Rayl Conyers and Robert returned to Miami at Oxford. Arthur Wayne Wilhelm who spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Wilhelm of W. Columbia and other relatives and friends had returned to Brooklyn, N. where he was a teacher of commercial art in the Alexander Hamilton High School of Commerce. Miss Betty Hughes of Prospect was visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

A. R. Berry of 657 Fountain St. Difficulties and complications got an early start in the new Democratic administration which took charge of the city's affairs Monday as City Council voted down Mayor Bol-in's first economy proposal to combine the position of safety and service director and Lawrence M. Sager, Bolin's choice for service and safety director, resigned.

R. E. O'Connell was elected president of the St. Mary Alumni association at a meeting in St. Mary Parochial School.

Mrs. Victor E. Dombaugh was elected president of the Women's Club when it met with Mrs. C. C.

Pettit of Baker St. Miss Grace Colvin of Elmwood Dr. was hostess when the Altrusa Club held its monthly business meeting. U. S.

security agency officials will- CROSSTOWN By Roland Coe Slashes Along the Way By MARK DANA 1 7 become non-coms, were weeded out. The Navy meanwhile has begun to screen applicants for enlistment more severely, wanting nobody who is not potential petty officer material. These reduction and tightening-up steps will provide political capital for the coming Congress session for those who want the draft program greatly cut, and some tall battles can be expected in Washington from now oa between proponents of maximum national "Wonderment Among the Ruins Eventually, the dirt and grime which settle down over our cities day in and day out will get ahead of the white wings and housekeepers. From then on, the cities' fate will be in the hands of archeologists. These excavators sometime may perform as scientific projects what the sanitation department was unable to perform as a housekeeping chore.

One of their important excavations in 1953 uncovered the floor of the room in which Socrates stood during his trial in Athens nearly 2,500 years ago. By 4000 A.D. or thereabouts, archeologists may be uncovering the rostrum of the United Nations Assembly hall in a place variously known as New York City and New Amsterdam and wondering what went on there. What will they make of it? What will they make of Yankee Stadium, Soldiers Field in Chicago, the Los Angeles Coliseum? What will they think of those statues in the Capitol in Washington, the strange substances which presumably are going to be preserved forever in home freezers, the Christmas presentation bottles in which strong liquor was passed from hand to hand in 1953, the lighters which still won't work as well as matches, the stainless steel decor of filling stations? In the interest of minimizing confusion maybe we'd better get rid of all this stuff before it gets covered up. Frankly we don't believe the archeologists of the future will be able to figure it out.

They'll be jumping to the conclusion that we must have been as wacky as we actually are. Off to a head start with the plan to bring two divisions of U. S. troops home from Korea, the talk of manpower reduction in all the armed forces is gaining headway. It aT goes back to the President's announcement a few weeks, ago that personnel as well as other defense costs would be cut.

Since the present administration took over last January, defense personnel have been reduced by 51,000, until now there are only 3,455,954 men and women in uniform, thus: Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, 923,575. The Air Force is sending 10,662 persons, uniformed and civilian, home from Europe and North Africa, largely to save money, partly to give the jobs of some of these to natives. A bit more spectacular than this move, expected to save $15 million in wages alone per year, is the Army's plan to discharge 20,000 persons of low defense and those seeking economy and easing the draft. Probably there will be much hysteria by both sides, yet there can be no final action by anybody on defense strength reduction on a permanent basis until there is am- pie. assurace that the Korean 1 11 A.

I snooting war win not prea oui; until all the Allied concerns throughout the Orient and South Pajific are wrapped up securely; until there is full certainty that Soviet Russia will behave. Pending such a serene period, juggling economy versus security is bound to have an interim tone. I.Q. Last fall, 15,000 "professional" privates" who did not have suffi "Since my father taught me the value of money I've cient intelligence' or ambition to stopped swallowing it..