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Japan Invades Alaska
THE JAPANESE HAVE BEEN EXTENDED a
warm reception everywhere they chose to travel
in Alaska.
Their ships are loading lumber in Wrangell and
Sitka. Their University students were offered every
courtesy in Name, Fairbanks, Barrow, Anchorage, and
other cities. All of Alaska’s facilities were at their
disposal when they ventured to climb Mt. McKiney.
Nevertheless, while this friendliness and hospi
tality is extended in the 49th State, a different kind of
reception, ‘too dangerous’ for the President of the
United States, wrecked a peace mission designed to
strengthen our ties with the Far East.
President Eisenhower, dn his address in Anchor
age last week, labeled Alaska as the bridge to Asia and
all its people.
The Alaskan people have set an example of hos
pitality to the young Japanese students visiting here
that will give them an opportunity to return home
with first-person stories of what it means to be an
American.
This may ibe one of the “bridges” which will help
restore the confidence of the people of Japan for the
free American way of life.
Alaska’s Winged Heroes
r' IS VERY FITTING that Governor William Egan
should proclaim Midnight Sun Festival time a week
to commemorate the accomplishments of aviation in
Alaska.
In no part of Alaska has the airplane played so
great a role as in Northwestern Alaska, cut off com
pletely from the rest of North America by lack of
connecting roads, and dependent upon air travel
excusively, and without even passenger ships.
The bush pilot who pioneered aviation in the
Nome area, and had the courage to fly when fields
were few and far between and communications were
nil, deserve the plaudits of us who have benefited,
during this week-long recognition of their bravery and
foresight.
U. S. President
Suffers ‘Personal,
National Disaster9
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press Weirs Aaalysi
WASHINGTON, UR — Until
this spring, President Eisenhow
er’s last months in office looked
like a series of triumphs in a
world eager to thank him for
helping make it calm. This was
the grand illusion.
The world was not calm. The
President ran into personal and
national disaster. He will leave
office perhaps the most humili
ated President who ever lived,
and one of the most baffled.
For reasons not yet clear but
which need explaining, Eisen
hower and his Administration
bumbled into repeated humilia
tions because of failure to under
stand the mood and reactions of
friend and foe.
When Japanese Premier Kishi
called off Eisenhower’s trip to
Tokyo, under the violence and
passionate protests of his people,
it was only the latest of the dis
asters.
A few months ago this was the
prospect:
A summit conference with Pre
mier Khrushchev and then a tri
umphal tour of Russia, followed
immediately by wild acclaim in
the Philippines, Formosa, Korea
and Japan.
This is what happened:
In Korea and Turkey — two
pivotal nations in American mili
tary alliances in the East and West
— the presidents of those coun
tries were overthrown because
the^ had degenerated into dic
tators.
There is no evidence the Eisen
hower Administration in any way
had been prepared for these over
turns or had in any way sought
through pressure on the dictators
to avoid what happened.
When the American U-2 spy
plane was brought down over
Russia the Administration, in
which Eisenhower at the time
seemed to take no leading or even
very active part, began a series
of almost incredible stumblings.
First it stalled, then it alibied,
then it confessed to the spying.
This was all done so clumsily it
left the United States embar
rassed before the world.
The Eisenhower Administration
had had four years of aerial spy
ing on Russia to prepare for such
an accident as the capture of one
of the planes.
When the time came it was to
tally unprepared.
Worse, the bad handling drove
Khrushchev into violent reaction.
The Russians wrecked the sum
mit conference, humiliated Eisen
hower before the world, contin
ued to belittle him later, and
called off his trip to Russia.
At this point Eisnhower, or his
advisers, could have called off his
Asian trip because already thous
ands of left-wing Japanese —
ranging from Communists to rad
ical and neutralist students and
laborites — were in violent oppo
sition to the new American-Jap
anese defense agreement.
Nevertheless the decision to
visit Japan remained unchanged.
Once Eisenhower set out upon
his journey, it was too late, or so
it seemed, for him to call it off.
Now he has had to back down
without even the free choice of
doing so. The bloody rioting of
Wednesday forced the Kishi gov
ernment to tell Eisenhower to
stay away.
Once again the United States
had lost face around the world.
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GRUENING AND ILLINOIS’ SENATOR DOUGLAS
TEAM UP ORATORICALLY TO DEPLORE WASTE
By RICHARD WESLEY
WASHINGTON, 1*1 — Senators
Paul Douglas (D-Ill) and Ernest
Gruening, who sometimes appear
to form a party of two in the Sen
ate, have developed a near-per
fect relationship.
A pet project of either Dmocrat,
particularly in the field of con
servation, consistently has drawn
the ardent support of the other.
The roly-poly Gruening is al
most always on hand in the Sen
ate to listen approvingly, and as
sist when possible, when Douglas
launches one of his frequent ora
torical assaults.
Douglas, contending that the de
partment could save at least three
billion dollars a year by taking
competitive bids instead of nego
tiating, in many cases, with indi
vidual manufacturers, flourished
a series of departmental purchases
he said were greatly overpriced.
Douglas held aloft a small set
of wrenches, for which he said
the Army paid $29 and could be
bought from a private dealer for
$3.89.
The ensuing colloquoy:
Gruening: “. . . This is scan
dal of major proportions. ... It
means that the taxpayers are
being mulcted. . . .”
Douglas flourished a box of 500
small lamp sockets and inquired
of Gruening: “What does the Sen
ator from Alaska suppose these
items cost? They cost $210.”
Gruening: “A gross?”
Douglas: “No. Apiece. Here is
the invoice. These 500 small sock
ets cost $10,550, so the military
says.”
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Gruening: ■. . It is almost un
believable.”
Douglas: “Let us take Item No.
4, an electric relay line, of the so
called Bull Model. . . . What does
the Senator suppose it cost?”
Gruening: ‘Tt is hard to ima
gine. My imagination is limited.”
Douglas: ‘I ask the Senator to
read the invoice.”
Gruening: “It seems hardly pos
sible. The acquisition cost was
$250. Was it made by Tiffany’s,
by any chance, and studded with
jewels?” ,
Gruening after a few more “al
most unbelievables," excused
himself with a parting commen
dation for Douglas “on this bril
liant part of his continuing expo
sition of most shocking military
waste.”
‘Rockefeller is Man
Without A Party’ Says
Candidate Symington
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Stuart Symington (D-Mo) said
Thursday Gov. Nelson E. Rocke
feller has become “a man without
a party” because of criticism of
his fellow Republicans.
In an address prepared for a
luncheon of the Women’s National
Democratic Club, Symington — a
candidate for the Democratic
Presidential nomination — said:
“Those of us who have been try
ing to show the people the true
course of events under the cur
rent Republican leadership, were
joined last week by a new and
powerful voice.
“Like a well-placed scalpel,
Gov. Rockefeller’s statement
opened up this Administration
and laid bare its policies of weak
ness, of drift, of economic stag
nation, of neglect for the aged
and the poor, of indifference
toward human dignity and civil
rights.”
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