the MARCH 10, 1952 25 CENTS The Voice of America: Study in Planned Futility GEORGE CREEL My Father's America ALIX DU POY Indonesia's Little Kremlin EDWARD HUNTER After Capitalism, What? GEORGE WINDE,R Unionism by Clompulsion AN EDITORIAL Editors: Jo,hn ('hamberlain • Henry Hazlitt • Suzan,ne La Follette PU\BLISHED FORTN,IGHTlY FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR fheFREEMAN A WO'RD with which is combined the m(J9azine,·"i.~AIN TALK ABOUT Editors, JO,HN CHAMBERlAIN HENRY HAZLITT OU'R Managing Editor, SUZANNE LA FOLLETTE Business Manager, KURT LASSEN CONTRIBUT'ORS MARCH 10, 1952 ALIX DU POY has written a number of book reviews for the Freeman, but her CONTENTS VOL. 2-NO. 12 story of her pioneer father is her first article for us. As "Ellen Taylor" she has published two novels, "Towers Editorials Along the Grass" and "One Crystal and a Mother." The Fortnight............................... 355 GEORGE CREEL had edited the Kansas Compullsory Union Member,ship............... 357 City Independent land the Denver Post Leading Whom Whither? ................... .. 357 and Rocky Mountain News before Presii­ Bl,es81ed Be the Mie,aly-Mouthed................ 359 dent Wilson appointed him in 1917 chairman of the Committee of Public Field For Soviet Imperialism. ................ 360 Information for World War 1. During the thirties Mr. Creel served as chair­ My F,aither's Americ,a: I man of the San Francisco Regional A Pioneer of ithe Pvairie ALIX DU POY 361 Labor Board. He was a contributing This Is What They Said. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 364 editor of Collier's until 1946, and has Study in Planned Futility GEORGE CREEL 365 written more than a dozen books, in­ Indonesia's Little Kremlin EDWARD HUNTER 369 cluding "Russia's Race for Asia" After Capitalism, What? GEORGE WINDER 371 (1949). From Our Readers. .............................. .. 374 EDWARD HUNTER is author of the re­ cent book, "Brain-Washing in Red China." He made his observations on Books "Indonesia's Little Kremlin" at first hand in Jakarta this \vinter. A Reviewer's Notebook.... JOHN CHAMBERLAIN 377 GEORGE WINDER is a British econo­ De1an Ache,son's Record mist and writer for the London City WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. 378 Press. His most recent article in the Rome and America EDWARD DAHLBERG 380 l?reeman was "British Bureaucrats Kill More on the Chaplin Myth HARRY FELDMAN 381 Some Cows" (January 28, 1952). Reliable Outline FELIX WITTMER 382 WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. j,s aUithor An "A" for Effort EDITH H. WALTON 382 of the recent book "God and Man at Yale," which, by exposing collectivist teaching at Old Eli, stirred up a storm Manners, Arts and Morals WILLIAM S. SCHLAMM 375 of abuse from the left. Among the most caustic criticisms was an attack on the book and its author in the Atlantic Monthly by McGeorge Bundy, whose In Lieu of Comment. ... .. RALPH DE TOLEDANO 373 book on Dean Acheson Mr. Buckley re­ Legend for Our Times...•.. BEN RAY REDMAN 376 views in this issue. A 1950 Yale gradu­ ate, Mr. Buckley was chairman of the Yale Daily News, and s,erved during The Freeman is published fortnightly. Publication GRice, Orange, Conn. Editorial and General Offices, 240 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Copyrighted in the war as a lieutenant in the infantry. the United States, 1952, by the Freeman Magazine, Inc. John Chamberlain, President; Henry Hazlitt, Vice President; Suzanne La Follette, Secretary; Alex L. He has written for Human Events, and Hillman, Treasurer. contributed "Senator McCarthy's Mod­ Entered as second class matter at the Post ORice at Orange, Conn. 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Lee Co., Orange, C'onnecticut t e NEW YORK, MOND'AY, MARCH 10,1952 THIE FORTNIGHT man's flagrant bypassing in Korea of Congress's sole Constitutional prerogative to declare war. More than a year after the foundation of the North Nor did they stop to inquire into the other causes Atlantic Treaty Organization, the recent Lisbon that led up to this resolution. One of them is the Conference decided that General Eisenhower's increasing Congressional distrust of Administra­ blueprints needed to be strengthened. Accordingly tion assurances. Congress remembers, as Arthur it agreed upon the formation of a European De­ Krock has pointed out, "the positive assurance of fense Force of. fifty divisions, including a German Mr. Acheson to Senator Hickenlooper, when all contribution-but not this year. The decision was possible obligations of the North Atlantic Treaty announced with fanfares. Secretary Acheson de­ were being investigated by the Senate committee, clared that it meant "a new day for all of us." In that these did not include any expectation the the general rejoicing over the plan to counter United States would 'send any substantial num­ Russia's several hundred divisions with fifty bers of troops' to western Europe 'as a more or either on hand or on order by the end of 1952, less permanent contribution to the development some important questions were played down. First, of these countries' capacity to resist [aggres­ will the parliaments of the NATO countries and sion].' " western Germany ratify the agreement? Second, wHI the U.S. Congress vote the further billions There is probably no way of stopping our legis­ which Europe is already demanding to finance lators from completing the folly of decreeing Uni­ the project? Third, and most important of all, does versal Military Training as the permanent peace­ Mr. Acheson's promise to submit our military time policy of this country. UMT, to describe it budget to the NATO powers for annual review in terms of blunt functional truth, involves a mean that those powers are to be permitted to de­ compulsory seizure of every healthy young man's cide military policy for this country? In other body by the State for a period of time. It is in­ words, are we surrendering American sovereignty voluntary servitude, and therefore repugnant to to our allies? our whole basic constitutional philosophy. If a State can seize a young man for military training For once the House of Representatives asserted in peacetime, it is equally entitled to seize older itself courageously in foreign affairs when it men to build roads for possible future military adopted, over the opposition of its Democratic transport. The Soviets justify their slave camps leadership, its Foreign Affairs Committee and the on precisely the same grounds that UMT pro­ Administration, a resolution directing Secretary ponents use to justify their proposed law: the of State Dean Acheson to come forward with full defense of the commonwealth. Deny this deadly information as to whether President Truman had parallel who can. made any secret military commitments to Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain in their con­ During times of war, certain measures of com­ sultations in January. The vote of 189 to 143 was pulsion may be necessary-or, at any rate, there emphatic. Analysis of the party tine-up shows that isn't much use arguing against them. But to sad­ it would not have been substantially changed if dle the United States with permanent peacetime the fifty-nine missing Democrats and forty miss­ compulsion i,s ia denial of our wholle pa1st. I!t m1ake!s ing Republicans had participated. a mockery, for example, of those forebears of Wendell Willkie who quit Germany to escape The advocates of Presidential omnipotence argued, Prussianism. It means that we are going the way as usual, that the House had gone beyond its pre­ of Europe after Napoleon, the way of Britain rogatives even in asking for information. These after 1914. It will even have its disastrous effect advocates were, of course, silent about Mr. Tru- on the U. S. Treasury: just wait until the UMT MARCH 10, 1952 355 graduates form their own pressure group to get unknovvn to this particular hospital's records. double indemnity for their "services" to Uncle What is the import of the sudden eruption of the Sam. No legislator will be able to withstand that slipped disc? Does it mean that socialized medi­ pressure group once it adds up to a sizeable pro­ cine is reaching people whose back ailments once portion of the male population. Is this seeing went undiagnosed? To some extent- this is true. things under the bed, or borrowing trouble from But the doctors of London have also discovered the future ? Well, will anyone take a bet-in Swiss that disc trouble has become a synonym for every­ gold francs, or Canadian dollars-that we will thing from old-fashioned lumbago to a merely be proved wrong? aching back. Socialized medicine has brought more medicine (though of a growingly inferior David S. Ingalls, Senator Taft's campaign man­ quality) to more people. But it has also multiplied ager, has been sternly rebuked by Senator Lodge neurasthenia to the point where the cure becomes and the New Yark Herald· Tribune for saying in almost indistinguishable from the disease.