Korea a Sore Spot in
Far Eastern Politics
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNl' Service, 1616 Eje Street, N. W?
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON. - "Reveal the
secret clauses In the Yalta agree
ment and the
American people
will demand a
free and inde
pendent Korea."
That ia what you
hear from the
earnest group of
Koreans and
Americans who
will be waving a
tearful but hope
ful farewell to
their beloved
leader and friend
?the venerable
Dr. Syngman Berthage
Rhee?as he de
parts for "the land of the morning
calm" for the second time since his
exile 40 years ago. Dr. Rhee's fol
lowers consider him the legitimate
head of the provisional Korean gov
ernment set up by those leaders for
tunate enough to escape when Japan
dealt Korea its final, crushing blow
in 1805.
Presidents of the United States
since Theodore Roosevelt's time,
state department and other govern
ment officials have been consistent
ly sympathetic and stubbornly un
cooperative with the effort of this
unflagging patriot to obtain recogni
tion of his country. They did not
frown on his return to Korea when
it was "liberated" by the defeat of
Japan. They put no obstacles in
the way of his choice as head of
the group which set up a provisional
government of Korea. They permit
ted that group to send an observer
to the U. N. but when Dr. Rhee
returned from Korea in December
of last year his efforts to make his
voice heard before the international
body were blocked by the state de
partment ukase, "No official stand
ing."
Today Korea is a nation bisected
by the S8th parallel. The North,
under Russian control, Is separated
by the Asiatic model of the Iron
Curtain and no real Korea govern
ment exists in the Southern half.
Syngman Rhee
Want* to Tell Secret*
?till administered by the U. S. mili
tary government. This is due. Dr.
Rhee says, to the same lack of of
ficial sanction from the state depart
ment which the aging doctor has
sought since Pearl Harbor.
"All we ask is that we be allowed
to hold elections to set up in the
American zone of Korea a national
government just as the Russians
have set up what they call a demo
cratic government' In their zone.
We only ask that the United States
do for us what they have already
done for Japan.
"The other liberated countries
have been given this privilege. We
neVer fought against the Allies. For
more than 40 years are have carried
underground work against our Jap
aocn oppressors."
Native* Advanced in
Democratic Processes
I asked it he thought the people
were ready for a democratic gov
ernment.
, He pauaed a moment and said:
"You may be surprised, as I was,
to learn how familiar the Koreans
?re arith the democratic system."
The Japanese, it seems, when
they made their various levies upon
the Koreans found they had to deal
arith a system that had already
bean set up. based on the democrat
ic choice of a leader for a group of
perhaps 20 homes which, in turn,
chose their representatives for larg
er groups. Dr. Rhee said he found
his people were much more familiar
with these processes than be thought
they could be even though he had
followed their activities so closely
through all these years. Then Dr.
Rhee went on to explain that with
cooperation of the military gov
ernment, at least five attempts had
beena made to set up a national gov
ernment; that each time the Com
munists had blocked it by refusing
to join and because of the directives
under which the military govern
ment was forced to operate?no gov
ernment was permitted in which the
Communists did not participate.
"They (the Communists) claim
they have 20,000 members in the
southern area?what right have 20,
000, If there are that many (which
I doubt), to interfere with the rights
of 18 million Koreans in the south
ern zone?" asks Dr. Rhee.
In the secret agreement at Yalta,
Dr. Rhee asserts: "President
Roosevelt agreed that Manchuria and
Northern Korea be placed in the
zone of the Soviets. This was con
trary to the spirit of the Atlantic
Charter and the other agreements
up to that time. When the American
people realize this, I am sure senti
ment will develop that will make it
possible for Korea to become a na
tion again. I am ? going back to
Korea with that hope."
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Senate Bathed in
Mutual Admiration
There is a distinctive brand of po
litical humor often buried in that
remarkable and largely unread (and
frequently turgid) document, the
Congressional Record.
The Republican recommendation
that senators meet in formal ses
sion only three times a week, Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday, de
voting the other two days to com
mittee work recently touched off a
typical exchange between Republi
cans and Democrats on the senate
floor. Both parties conjured lightly
with the names of founding fathers.
Majority Leader WaUace White of
Maine began by opining that an ex
ception to the Monday-Wednesday- I
Friday rule should perhaps be made
for Lincoln's birthday (which falls
on Wednesday this year) so that
Republican senators could, as he
put it, "have opportunity to go to
their homes and elsewhere to make
their customary, and I think, prop
er, speeches on Lincoln's birthday."
He added that provision, too, might
be made for Washington's birthday.
Senator White then recalled that
the Democrats usually have either
a Jackson Day or Jefferson Day
dinner, for which they might want
to be excused from the senate.
Minority Leader Barkley was
agreeable. Said he: "So far as Lin
coln Day absenteeism is concerned,
ve have no objection to any deviation
Trom this program (the MWF
*ule) that would permit our friends
? get back to Lincoln."
The Record records as follows:
Mr. Barkley: I think the closer
the party gets back to Lincoln
the nearer It will come to
Jefferson. 1 think there will
be no difficulty about arrang
ing for Washington's birthday
and for Lincoln's birthday. So
far as Jackson is coocerned,
the Democrats have always
celebrated Jackson Day on the
8th of January, today, which is
the day of the Battle of New
Orleans.
Mr. White: I think the senator
from Kentucky is celebrating
it now.
Mr. Barkley: But in April I think
it is planned to have a num
ber of Jefferson Day celebra
tions throughout the country
and I am sure that Jefferson
and Lincoln and Washington
and Jackson will all be main
tabled upon an equal tooting.
Mr. Tobey: Td like to say tor the
benefit of my friend the sena
tor from Kentucky that I hope
his statement which I shall
designate as Exhibit A, is evi
dence that the great party to
which he belongs, of Which he
nai been majority leader in
the senate for so many years
?nd so successfully will be i
bomd to return to the prin
ciples and teachings and ten
ets of Thomas Jefferson.
Mr. Barkley: I will say to the
senator that we have never de
parted from them, because
Jefferson was the outstanding
liberal of his day, and we have
always adhered to the liberal
policies which were advocated
by the original liberal, Thom
as Jefferson, which were not
altogether dissimilar to the
liberality of the founder of the
Republican party. Abraham
Lincoln.
BARBS . . . by Baukhagt
The White House seems to have
no servant problem. That may be
the reason so man; families wish
to> live in the mansion
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1 Demand for Mexico's minerals
bm fallen off so they are malting a
drive far tourists. If they can't tall
thW mtowd. they caa ,tt?e? for
MANAGEMENT smd l<lir s?lfi.r fa
?/ MfaM wfafaea* lfa? ufar.
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"Atomic Information" la a vital
publication for wida-awak* Amer
icans who would like to live out their
life span. On* letter they got waa -
brief and to the point: "I am inter
acted In atomic power. Kindly aand
me noma."
HAPPIEST COUPLE IN IOWA ... Mr. mod Mrs. Frank Sellman,
Newton, Iowa, who were selected as the "Happiest Married Couple in
Iowa," in connection with the Iowa Centennial. They are shown while
in Honolulu on their Clipper "honeymoon," where the friendly repre
sentatives of Iowa made friends with the hospitable races of Hawaii.
The eontest won by the Sellmans aroused interest in every section of
Iowa, with thousands of couples entered by their neighbors and friends.
YOUNG TALMADGE SWORN IN AS GOVERNOR . . . After being
named as Georgia's governor for the next four years by the legisla
ture, Herman Talmadge, right, son of the late Gov.-Eleet Engene
Talmadge, received the oath of office as Georgia's chief executive
from Georgia Superior Court Justice A. W. Worrill. Gov. Ellis Araall
refused to recognise Talmadge as Georgia's new chief executive and
accused Talmadge of being a "pretender." Courts may be used to
decide the issue.
BRITISH TROOPS DELIVER POOD . . . Soldiers in fatlyae uniforms
handle eareaases el meat at London's famed Smithfield market after
the fevenuneat seat troops to take ever deliveries of meat to lnsaro
essential supplies of food for the pabllc. The transport strike tied op
an deliveries af food. Followiac the employment of troops matters
became worse, for a rash af sympathy strikes broke eat an ever
England.
DI MAG FEELING FINE AFTEK SURGERY . . . Joe Di
New York Yankee Infielder. b shown in New York hospital, looking
at Us east-beand loot following the removal of a ealclnm growth.
A bona isadltlsa feond la Joe's heel was also cleared ap. Hb doctor
ispsets that Joe sheald be able to play as wen aa be ever did. DI Mag
gie says that ho thinks he caa break the record set dnrh? the last
baseball seesaw sad will be la bettor shape after operetta*.
I EISENHOWER SMILE ... Re- 1
cent illness and vacation brought *
no change in the famous Eisen- 1
i hower smile. Gen. Dwight D. c
' Eisenhower again reiterated his
statement that his job is the '
army and that he has no ambi- [
tions for political assignments.
i
MRS. MAYOR . . . Mrs. Carrie
Hoyt, 80, wife of newspaper man
and mother of district attorney,
was elevated from vice mayor to
mayor of Berkeley, Calif., follow
ing surprise triple resignation of
Fitch Robertson as mayor, city
manager and council bead.
SEEINGEYE CAT ... Mrs. Caro
lyn Swanson. Los Angeles, shown
with her white Persian eat, which
recently was awarded a humane 1
medal (or faithful devotion to his
blind mistress. "Baby" leads his <
blind owner wherever she goes. I
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OUTSTANDING PLATES . . . ,
Charley Trippi, star fullback
of Georgia university, who has
been awarded the Robert W. Max- .
well Memorial trophy as the out- '
standing football player of 1946. j
ANNAPOLIS HEAD . . . Bear
Mm. James L. Hollowly Jr., wbe
ku been appointed (ape ria ten dent
?f tbe C. 8. Naval academy, An
na polli, Md., tee reedlm Vice
Mm. Aabrey W. FlUb. Admiral
BeBmray bad aa catalcadlai ree
led taWcrtd War U, seetaf aettca
SUSSIAN MANEUVERING
WASHINGTON. ? Despite our im
iroved relations with Russia, some
hing very peculiar is going on re
garding the key island of Spitzber
gen up near the Arctic circle. The
Russians have been exerting all
of pressure on Norway to
nilitarize this strategic island, thus
lermitting them to use it as a mili
ary base.
There is only one objective for a
>ase on Spitsbergen ? offensive
iction against the United States.
From it rocket bombs probably
rculd hit New York.
The United States happened to
earn of the Russian - Norwegian
naneuvers because we are a party
o a 1920 treaty with Norway, Eng
and and Russia, by which Spitzber
[en is not to be used as a military
lase. In order to militarize the is
and, therefore, it is necessary to
:hange the treaty.
_ The disturbing thing about the
Spitsbergen maneuver, however, is
he date on which the Russians be
fan to move for militarization.
Vhen the state department began
>robing the matter, they found that
he Russians had first approached
he Norwegian government in 1944
-while the war was still on. And
hey continued high-pressuring Nor
vay during 1946, the last year of
he war, and up until the present.
What causes U. S. concern is that
he Russians appeared to be maneu
vering for Atlantic bases aimed
igainst the United States even at a
ime when we were pouring lend
ease into Russia. In this connec
ion, U. S. diplomats can't help re
nembering the secret minutes of
he Molotov - Ribbentrop conver
sions in late 1940?shortly before
iitler attacked Russia?when Rus
sia offered to come into the war
igainst the Allies if it got the Dar
lanelles, half the BalUkns, the three
'astern provinces of Turkey, Iran
ind Iraq.
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TRUMAN SHAKES HANDS
One ordeal of every Presi
dent is baking hands at official
receptions. Recently President
Truman stood in line wBile 1,400
members of the diplomatic
corps, plus their wives, filed by
to greet him.
Truman considers receptions
for congress or the army and
b*d enough, bnt he espe
cially dreads diplomatic recep
tions where he cannot always
catch foreign names.
After shaking hands so fast
he barely was able to glimpse
faces, the President looked np
to see retiring White House as
sistant Eddie Locke, with his
wife.
"Why, Eddie!" Tiuman said
laughingly. "Thank God here's
someone whose name I can pro
nounce."
"Sh-h-b," said Mrs. Truman.
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UNFAILING GOOD HUMOR
Every White House caller these
lays comes out of the inner sanc
irni remarking on how well and
ligh - spirited President Truman
ooks. Expecting him to appear
lowed and discouraged by the
veight of his office, they remark:
"He doesn't seem to have a care
n the world."
Even during the middle of the
:oal strike, when Truman cabinet
Tiembers were worried sick over
the economic consequences to the
:ountry, White House callers came
Jut to report that the President
seemed to be in fine fettle.
?One unofficial explanation is that
since November, the President feels'
that the Republicans have removed
part of the responsibility of leader
ship from his shoulders. No matter
what he does, it can't be right in
*ye8J,1there'0re. he might as
veil be philosophical about it.
Another explanation is that, since
November, Truman feels he is no
under any obligaton to carry
Jn the Roosevelt New Deal pro
gram. The November balloting
showed that the majority of the peo
' CJhange' argue
white House advisers, so Truman
iaa a mandate to desert the Roose
velt program for his own.
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HMMIE BYRNES' 'WHISKERS'
RetWag Secretary ef gtate
Jlmmie Byrnes has had so
many tough diplomatic battles
that even in his spare time he
can't forget he's not tussling
with Russians.
The other morning, Byrnes
took his wire-haired terrier
"Whiiiker," out for a stroU g,,"
Jag which the dog started hark
Si- KSS:"
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KERRY -GO-ROUND
, President Truman has turned
town ambassador to Brazil Bill
?wley's bid to be assistant sec re
ary of state for air. ???
lenate secretary, Leslie Biffle. will
liaison man between the
idministratkm and GOP congres
doual leaders. Biffle will h.o-ti,,
Mtronage for the White House. Ha
vill make all the deals with the R?_
whites ns on GOP appointments to
mwMfco ?S?rtment J?D*moernUc
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