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BROOKLYN EAGLE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1951 12 Notional Whirligig) RAY TUCKER'S' Hoffornan Says Th Navigator of The Cruiser Brooklyn European Critics of U. S. Agreement With Spain Not Backed by People I LETTER A semi-cooperative cor-, poration embracing Iranian, British and American interests may eventuate as the vf 1 Knowing personally, as 1 did, the offi-c of the cruiser Brooklyn, which served as Admiral Schley's flagship in the battle off the harbor of Santiago Cuba. I was 1 nomic solution for the threatening petroleum difficulties in the strategic and i restless Middle East. Although this prospect may not he entirely satisfactory to the British, who regard it as further evidence of the break- i up of their erstwhile empire, it jyl ll i is known that it was discussed, by W.

Averell Harrlman, Presi-dent Truman's emissary, and Richard Stokes. London's representative, during their recent negotiations with Premier Mo i hammed Mossadegh at Tehran. It is now clear that Mossadegh will not deal ith the British ex-clusively on any terms, although they have offered a 50-50 nn nt, nrnf i Ift inn ro. military arrangements, they should make greater efforts to increase their own strength. Americans will say "amen" to that.

In spite of Franro's unfortunate earlier ties with Hitler and Mussolini, it should not be forgotten that he has been friendly to the United States, Britain and France. There were numerous instances of great helpfulness to us in World War II. some minor and some vital, such as his attitude at the time of our North African landings, when he might have been most trouhlesome. The French people ill remember, if some of their government officials forget, that thousands of French troops and volunteers were permitted to pass through Spain to join the Free French forces in Africa. Also a host of refugees from Hitlers terror mostly Jews from various European countries found asylum in Spain.

All these things should not be forgotten even though we do dislike and distrust the Franco dictatorship. Especially it should not be forgotten that the wartime American Ambassador to Spain, the distinguished Carlton J. H. Hayes, as well as President Roosevelt himself warmly and publicly thanked Franco for his helpful co-operation. In times of crisis we cannot afford to spurn valuable assistance from any source.

The only thing we have in common with Tito, the Yugoslavian Red dictator, is that he hates Stalin as bitterly as we do, with equally cogent if different reasons. He and his army may be very vital to us if a crisis develops. The same is equally true of Franco, another dictator. American bases in Spain might be a deciding factor, if and when Stalin's armies move. At least, that is what our military experts say and we feel it would be stupid not to take their advice in such matters.

Ever since th announcement was made that the United States Government was entering into an arrangement with Franco Spain whereby we would secure the use of air bases there in return for needed military assistance, there has been a running fire of criticism from certain sources here and abroad. It is generally realized that the critics in this country represent a small proportion of our people. Its solid core is composed of the Communists here and their fellow-travelers and sympathizers who supported the Reds in the Spanish Civil War and still consider that was the most important event in the last two decades. There are, of course, some others who have never learned that Communist dictatorship is just as evil and represents as great a peril as Fascist or Nazi dictatorships ever did. But most Americans now know the facts of life on this issue.

When important figures in the British and French governments denounced the new American policy it seemed the basis for more concern. However, the general attitude here was of irritation that officials of countries being aided by the United States, both militarily and financially, at tremendous cost to the American people, should be critical of a step taken in their interest as well as our own. Now we are learning that these official critics do not at all represent the general viewpoints in their respective countries. It is Vicing recalled that some leading personalities in the present French, British and Italian governments fought beside the Communists in Spain's Civil War a circumstance that doubtless colors their official views. Some French and Swiss newspapers have been quite outspoken about the denunciations of the American move, one going so far as to say that if these critics wanted to keep Spain out of any fining and distribution of Iran'i if VERY MUCH OUT OF PLACE oil.

Mossadegh must oppose th British for the same reason that President Truman shows special consideration to farm and labor elements here. Otherwise he would be turned out of office. It is a question of internal poll tics. On the other hand. Iran can.

not operate the petroleum in dustry, which furnishes most of the state's revenue, for lack of facilities, personnel and tank' ers. She has no access to tne Anglo-Iranian Company's lists of customers. Without this income Iran would be impoverished, Mossadegh would be ousted by vot or revolution, and the field would lie open to the Russian Communists. Under the proposed plan, Iran would nominally manage the industry through a holding company's board of directors, Actual operations would be conducted jointly by Americans and British, with AmerU cans seeming to have a majority interest. In reality, our con trol would be only nominal for appearance's sake.

NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS LETTERS i THE A Ej more than a little interested in the demand that one of the nevnr cruisers shall bear the name that won such honor in our Navy in three wars. So many incidents in the history of the Spanish War vessels came within my personal experience that I shall mention two in this column. Shortly after the battle I received a memento which was long among my keepsakes. It was a letter on the blue stationery of the cruiser Brooklyn, attached to which was a fragment of smoke-stained red and white hunting. On the paper was this note: "Attached is a piece nf the battleflag of the V.

S. cruiser Brooklyn, flown from the masthead of this vessel during the sea battle off Santiago de Cuba, July 3, isns, when the cruiser was the flagship of the officer in command. Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, C. S. X.

(Signed) Albon C. Hodgson, Lieutenant, I'. S. navigator of the Rrooklyn during the engagement." Here is the second recollection: On Memorial Day of 18ti9 the commandant at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was the splendid officer who stood on the bridge of the battleship Texas during the Santiago fight and saw the flagship swing to port athwart his how in the famous controversial "loo Lieutenant Hodgson was still the navigator. Like most of the Schley men in the Navy, Hodgson was in disfavor with the Sampson clique in Washington.

The Brooklyn left the Yard in the morning to participate in the commemorative exercises at the tomb of General Grant. On her return. Lieutenant Hodgson reported to Admiral Philip that his keel hail scraped something turning the Battery. Admiral Philip, studying the map and the course of the Brooklyn, shook his head and said, "Why, Mr. Hodgson, you couldn't have hit anything.

You were well clear of the reef. However, we'll have Lieutenant Bowles make an investigation." Bow les, one of the ablest naval constructors in the service, was a tall New Englander, whose confidence 1 had. A week later he called me into his office. Taking from his desk a cracked steel plate, he handed it to me with the question. "Do you know what that is?" "A keel plate, isn't it?" I said.

He nodded. "And the wooden splinters you see in the crack show that what the Brooklyn struck was not anything charted as shoal or reef, but evi. dently a sunken old barge or something like it. nf which Hodgson could not have known anything. "Tell him Admiral Philip's report will clear him." And so the commander of the ship which would have been in greatest danger had Schley and his navigator made a miscalculation at Santiago cleared the latter in Brooklyn.

By ERNEST LINDLEY It May Be Wise to Ignore Nehru, Pay Attention to Free Asia Nations Dispatches from New Delhi hint that if Nehru had been consulted and wooed a little more energetically he might have sent an Indian delegation to San Francisco to sign the treaty with Japan. The objections to the treaty made by India are flimsy. This does not signify that Nehru Two Unwise Appointments by Mayor was piqued, however. It indicates rather that he is still determined to pursue what he calls an "independent'' policy. His "independent" policy in Asia is conciliatory toward Red China but not necessarily toward the Soviet Union.

Nehru savs and must be credited with ine scneme raises some problems. Rut in the I long run. it is believed in high, to' circles, it would satisfy all ey eept the troublemakers. As often happens, the "con troversy over Iranian oil may turn out to be the ill wind thai blows Rood. Indeed, this eorti sideration will give both -the British and the Americans ai effective weapon in future nego tiations with Mossadegh and other petroleum-grabbers in thft Middle East.

Fear of the loss of daily production of barrels, which fuel the British Mediterranean fleet and several resist the temptation to use the lush post to strengthen his political machine. The lure of patronage seems to have overwhelmed what once was regarded as the Mayor's desire to run the city economically, efficiently and without regard to cheap politics. Further evidence that this "independence'' was so much campaign oratory was the Mayor's arbitrary selection of Robert P. Mahoney as a magistrate in Manhattan, despite the opinion of the New York County Bar Association that Mr. Mahoney lacked "judicial temperament." The New York County Lawyers Association majority came to the same conclusion, although its committee also issued a minority report favoring Mr.

Mahoney. The Mayor ignored these qualified reports and appointed Mr. Mahoney anyway. It is just possible that our "independent" Mayor was influenced in this decision by the fact that his assistant and chief patronage dispenser, Frank Sampson, is reported to be the sponsor of the new City Magistrate. The extent of Vincent Impcllittcri's much vaunted when he sought to persuade the voters to elect him Mayor last year, can be seen in two appointments he made yesterday.

He filled the vacancy on the Board of Water Supply, a plum left dangling when James Moran resigned under pressure. We have no criticism of the Mayor's choice in this case, Edward C. Maguire, former director of the city's Labor Relations Division and an able man. Also, the Mayor says he was advised to fill the post by Irving Huie, chairman of the board. The Mayor claims a lawyer is needed on the board.

What puzzles us is the fact that the Mayor said, when Moran resigned, that he would not fill the vacancy he-cause the Water Supply Board just didn't need three commissioners. This made sense at the time. Certainly if Moran held down the seat on the hoard for any time at all, it is pretty evident that the position itself is unnecessary. Eut the Mayor apparently could not -Marshall Plan countries, has stimulated exploration for new wells and more intense pro- duction from known sources. The so-called Williston.

field; which covers the Dakotas, F.astj ern Montana and certain areas in Canada, may eventually match Iran's output. American firms in South America are stepping up activi- ties, as are those in our own Southwest. Higher prices based on shortages furnish the in centive. The government will probably intensify research on production of petroleum from shale. believing that Mao is not a Soviet puppet.

Had he wished to cater to the Soviet Union he would have sent a delegation to San Francisco to help Gromyko anil the Polish and Czech satellites to cause trouble. Instead, when the Soviet Union announced that it 'would attend. Nehru decided to stay away. He mentioned holding a separate "Asian" conference on peace with Japan later. But he made it plain that he did not want to prevent other nations from signing the draft treaty at San Francisco.

Nehru is the most prominent man in free Asia the only Asian leader except the Communist Mao whose influence extends beyond his own country. But many A-dan leaders have long been irritated by Nehru's pretensions tn speak for Asia, or ev en for South and Southeast Asia. Instead of courting Nehru, or scolding him, it might be wiser diplomacy on our part to let him alone while we pay more attention to the free Asian nations which do not regard him as their spokesman. Nehru does not speak for the Philippines. The Philippines, despite their desire for reparations, are expected to sign the peace treaty with Japan.

Nehru duos not for the three states into which Indn-China has been divided. They are expected to sign the treaty. These three stales, it is true, are not generally regarded as completely free agents. They are under French influence. And the Philippines have special ties with us, although they are free in fact to make their own choice.

Nehru does not speak for Ceylon, which is always fearful of its Indian neighbor. But eylon is a very small country. Nehru does not speak for Thailand. But Thailand, since it did not declare war on Japan, is not represented at San Francisco. India does not speak for Iran or Turkey or the Arab states of Asia.

Some of them will be on our side at San Francisco, others may cause some trouble. But all of them are Near Eastern or Middle Kastern nations, far removed from the Tacific. Two very important South and Fast Asian nations are represented at San Krancisco, however: Pakistan and Indonesia. Pakistan is not so populous as India hut it is the most populous of all the Moslem nations. Its interest in the Pacific settlement is as vital as India's and geographically it is as much entitled as India to be heard on the subject.

Premier Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan, like Nehru, got part of his education in Great Britain. (Khan is an Oxford graduate, whereas Nehru is a Cambridge product.) l'akistan's approval of the treaty would take a good deal ot the edge off Communist contentions that the draft treaty with Japan is a white man's tieaty which does not reflect the views and intere-ts of Asia. We should not give up hope Nehru. Basically his sympathies are with the' West. But we have nothing to gain from treating him as a spokesman for especially when he is not so regarded by so many oiher free Asian leaders.

Celler Joins 'Get Tough' Drive in Oatis Case As loss of natural rubber forced us into the svnthetio process in World War II, srt the Iranian exolosion mav fntr us to rely on our own almost Likens Truman, Acheson To Physician of Story To the. Editor of the EnyJe: From the wisdom of the University of Florence there is a story that once upon a time there was a doctor who was called to the bedside of a sick man, and instead of questioning him and giving him a thorough examination in order to diagnose h's disease, he propounded certain philosophical hypotheses on the metaphysical origin of disease, which fiom his point of view made it superfluous to take the patient's pulse or temperature. The relatives of the sick man listened to the doctor, astonished at hi3 great knowledge. Meanwhile, the patient peacefully expired. Now Dean Acheson and Harry Truman are "specialists in questions of foreign policy." Instead of using the medicine of General MacArthur, they have been using political pills, and have fallen for the recurrent mistake of heeding nations that are well known to regard any talks as mere scraps of paper.

Today we hear all talks about the metaphysical origin of war and what consiitutes police actions, and meanwhile, the pulse or temperature of the American people is very abnormal. We listen to the fine speeches the wonderful talks the amusing smoke screens to hide the truth are ever present while the sons of Uncle Sam also expire but not peacefully, COS I MO De GREGORIO. Writer From Israel Praise New Homeland To the Editor of tlie Eaylc: As an American visitor in Israel, I would like to convey to my fellow Americans, Jew and non-Jew alike, my impression and observation of this small but very beautiful land, and to suggest to whoever wants to come, or I would rather say should be willing to 'come and see this land and hear what people in general have to say about it, I have a feeling that they will then agree with me that it is "the place" worthwhile coming to enjoy all this new country offers. Touring the country one can only marvel to notice the great achievement which was done in such a short time and under such great difficulties, such as the lack of capital-material" and the constant threat of war by the neighboring Arabs. Nevertheless, it has gone on with its work and succeeded to accomplish so much.

I. A1DEXSTEIX. Scores Higher Phone Rotes for Small User To the Editor of the Eagle: The telephone company with its never-ending expensive ads is trying to soften us up for still another increase" in rates. That may be all right for businesses and residential subscribers who make full use and benefit from their telephones. But inasmuch as the telephone is now considered a necessity rather than a luxury item, it's unfair to those in the former category who only use a fraction of their allotted outgoing calls and re-ceive few, if any, incoming calls, unlimited resources, and inventiveness.

Thus, although the situation. has all the elements of great and universal tragedy, the so- railed "backward peoples'" tin- cierstandahle demand for politi; cal and economic independency may make them more back. The second official to inject himself into this situation is Senator Herbert R. O'Conor In addition to introducing a resolution to bar Tass newsmen, he also included a provision that "other correspondents from Communist countries be to the same restrictions as to numbers, limitation of travel, etc. as are placed on United States newsmen behind the Iron Curtain." We don't see where this nation has any thing to lose by getting tough with the murderers, thieves and liars under Stalin's leadership who are trying to grab control nf the world.

The charges of espionage against Mr. Oatis are obviously trumped up. If we expect to get him out of jail we must have no compunctions about hitting the Czechs where it hurts. Among other things we should cut off all trade with this puppet state. It is good to see the growing awareness in Congress of the need for drastic action if the United States expects to force Czechoslovakia to release William N.

Oatis, the Associated Press correspondent, from jail. Obviously this incident is just a part of a general program carefully worked out by Soviet Ru.v-ia and her satellite state's, so the Red-, can be expected to pay no attention to any slap-un-the-w nst niuvcs iKim country. Two prominent legislators have made the identical proposal, that Congress retaliate by expelling from its press galleries any correspondents representing the Russian news agency Tass. Representative Emanuel Celler, Brooklyn Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has announced that he will introduce such a resolution next week. He would also have it apply to all other Iron Curtain newsmen.

v- l. -si i.u ivnj and more desperate. And upon such conditions Russia feeds. Vice President Barkley's re. cent explanation of why he is "not too old to run again" renre GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty sents his reply to the numerous, challengers for second-plaea nomination on the Democrats-IBM ticket.

Jt was both an amusing and daring exhibition, I rwta BR lriasmucn as so many rivals JL face him every day as members of the body over which he pre-' AJ sides. I The Kentuckian's response Is 1 and all his crew for this signal recognition of ability and seamanship. Brooklyn is especially proud that he is a resident of this community, one of the great seaports of the world. Dr. Brady Says: In at least half of all rases of childlessness the husband is the sterile partner.

Therefore in every such case it only reasonable i hat the question of the husband's capacity to become a fathpr bp established (by microscopic test by physician I before the wife's capacity to hecome a mother is investigated. There is a good deal of scientific evidence and practical everyday observation in support of the idea that nutritional condition has a good deal to do with capacity to beget offspring. Physical degeneration is the inevitable consequence of nutritional deficiency through the years for one the use of refined white flour, instead of whole wheat flour with its vitamin as the staff of life. White flour keeps indefinitely, but real whole wheat flour must be used within a few days alter the wheat is ground. Don't let any bunk merchant deceiv you about this.

Ql'KHTIOXS AND A.VSWKRS Morbid KiiKRPMlinn What is hypo-pa rathyroidism? What are its symptoms. M. M. H. Answer This being a health column, there is no room for morbid suggestions.

J-'nnr Year Running Had running ear for four ears. Treatment by doctors did not help. Began Using your ear drops three months ago. Keel Mire it is completely healed. Thank you.

M. S. B. AnswerOn written request, accompanied ith stamped, self-addressed envelope, any reader may have instructions for use of the drops. Bristles reminiscent or, aunotign nnt so picturesque as, Al Smith's of charges that Franklirj D.

Roosevelt's physical ailment would handicap him as President. Grinned the man in the brown derby: "What do we want in the White House an acrobat?" As a Barkley asset, he han- The Way pens to be more popular with most or the party leaders, in eluding those in the Xorth and Captain Mortensen Honored llicrh honor has come to a 10-year-old Brooklyn sea nipt am for having the nmst efficiently operated Military Sea Transportation Service in the. Atlantic, ('apt. Knurl T. Mortensen of 97th St.

is the oflicer involved and his ship is the (Icneral C. II. Muir. This Naval passenger vessel is under charter to the International Refugee Organization and has been busily engaged in bringing Europe's displaced to the United Stales. During World War II Captain Mortensen served on Army ships transporting troops ov erseas.

It was the coveted "meatball." oilicr-w ise known as the Navy Kliicirncv Pennant, which was presented to Captain by Rear Admiral John M. Will, commander of the MSTSA. This is the Navy's traditional way of feting outstanding vessels for their performances. congratulatt Captain Mortensen toutn, than Mr. Truman him sen.

it Harrv runs aaain Vi might have to include Alben in 'i the 1952 partv. By KIHJAR A. (Jl'KHT A kiss at the door for the Journey away; A happy "hello" at the close of the day. And love in the home can be trusted to stay. Life's small irritations with patience endured; Willi emirate to suffer what cannot be cured, In tin- way both love and home are insured.

One purpose to serve and just one goal, to jam; That, a lmme at which hatred can batter in vain; Faith in God under heartache and lovt will remain. BROOKLYN FAGtF iTrtti, M.rk (Founded by iM y.n Ariwi In 1H41) I THB BROOKLYN DAILY KAOU! FRANK D. SCHROTH. JXWor. Pul)lUhC W.

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