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‘Tolson_. * ay e wo : - : CFG a : © “Glavgn t- + Roseny . : ca’ = Tracy. : -Harbo. a a . | Gauntlet for Truman ~ | Imo ‘ | obr President Could Answer McCarthy . ele. Roo . . ° . i ease By Backing Inquiry into China Lobby“! " ot ” . andy z By Doris Fleeson ; faces among the Democrats. They \ \ Lr. ra é The Truman Administration,are the party in power and the ‘ = | a ee have naturally looked to ~s rey , a_backfire to Senator McCarthy S them for what is euphemistically a: charges in the form of an Investi- oc t aa ton of the called in Washington legal advice. £ ina lobby. The American people, however, i . Owen = Lattl- have a direct and personal inter- oN A hore has all ‘ i wae heed Tnvite est in how China has employed ? ' ; them to Gol the millions spent in her behalf o : In his defense No one authentic source has eve: os ial CRC a 1 pare erage against the Senator's charges, the .- Johns Hopkins . . Far Eastern: -; expert made very clear his opinion that Senator Mec- Carthy'’s Edgar Bergen is the China lobby, What Washington understands that to mean is the large collection of Lo old China hands and politically Ne influential lawyers who join with _ jationalist China’s diplomats to ™ ep Chiang Kai-shek’s cause alive. Two committees are instantly available for the job. The House t has a lobby committee headed by H ‘Representative Frank Buchanan, : ! Democrat, of Pennsy!vania, The = Senate empowered the Tydings . subcommittee of the Foreign wy Relations Committec to examine *. Communist infiltration into the State Department. The subcom- mittee would not have to stretch its authority very far if it de- cided to go into the question of the ovigin of the charges against the department. es Symington Action Recalled. Derls Fieceson. charges at ion ol eharees oe Force's pr arees anne These charges boomeranged be- cause Secretary of the Air Force Symington coura seously insisted ue full airing of the charges en was able to insist also that their sources be similarly ' ventjlated. { There can be no doubt that the | harvest. of an investigation of the told that story though it is one of the favorite topics of the whisper, ing galleries. Basically, misuse of United ‘States materials and money is the Case against Chiang’s govern- ment; it is the reason assigned by the Administration for the failure in. China. . Connally’s Quip, Chairman Connally of the: Foreign Relations Committee put that case in his own inimitable language on the Senate fico during debate on China polic “The trouble with old Chiang, he said, “is that he doesn’t Gen eralissimo enough.” The State Department not only admits the. truth of that; it has some very sound information about Chiang’s weaknesses. Because it would serve the Communist cause, such informa- tion has been soft-pedaied. It may still be that the Administra-, tlon ‘will not care to defend ite self by an offensive against Chiang and his associates. | President Truman's preblem {ts wo-fold. Senator McCarthy chatges‘ are hurting him and h party with an election coming u this, fall. More important, they hamper him in his ability to make decisions about Far Eastern policy by forcing him to cater te the pro-Chiang sentiment. There will be no China lobby inquiry unless and until the President gives the word. Too much is involved. But the possi- bility will be put to him promptly ; ‘ ; | Ching fohby_ would include sedcupnn his return here. “~~~ * iI ——— =~ a le litre eee poe dy a er CCPL eT aie i Ona ae i sR ea al 7a 7 fav hecine gee chats 34 * peices act gee ies wie dy ee ow Times-Herald - Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror