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"
Favourite Son
From Indiana
EPRESENTATIVES Charles A. Halleck of Indiana,
RRepublican floor lender in the House of Represen
tatives, will be supported by an Indiana delegation of 20 members or the US. Republican Presidential nomination at the National Convention, which convenes at Philadelphia on June 21,
This favourite son" candidacy is considered to reflect state pride in Halleck's role in national politics, and will also be intended to keep the Indiana delegation in position for manoeuvring when the Convention arrives at the stage where "second choices" for Presidency become necessary.
the
Many observera anticipate that the Convention would be more likely to consider Halleck for the Vice- Presidency than for Presidential nomination. He has a wide acquaintance among the "regular" Republican organisations in many states, and will presumably be n powerful gure in efforts to arrange a compromise ir the event that the Convention is deadlocked by Stassen, Taft and Dewey forces.
STRONG POSITION
FAVING recently casily won an Indiana primary con-
HA for reelle on to the House of Representatives.
Halleck in in a strong personal position in state usually rated as "doubtful" in national election jears. Indiana politicians frequently attract special attention by virtue of the state's uncertain intentions at forthcoming elec- tions.
PHASE IN
WAR
CIVIL
BY NEIL STEWART
year.
the
has
Iċ-
Halleck did not wage a national pre-Convention campaign for Republican nomination and made no statement of candidacy. Ilis "availability" is laken
for Kranted in view of his prominent position. in Congress, his long con- nection with party organisations The
was formerly chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee) and his speaking trips to various states in the last half
Halleck had an active part in the
revision Republican NE autumn day in 1935,
of inbour- The first six months of 1947 saw could serve as a base for this pur- The middle class is appeased by management laws, having conducted 20,000 hard bitten tradual change in the balance of pose. It in doubtful, on the other the encouragement of small-scale
a Congressional Investigation in the veterans of the Chinese began to lose more territory
The Kuomintang power.
armles hand, if all sections of the Kuoinin- trade and industry, and by the matter prior to approval of the Taft- and tang would agree 10 complete nationalisation of big business, Many Hortley law. He has defended the Communist armies arrived in towns than they captured, and their American control, And
offensive turned in a tactical defen- doubtful if the American tax-payer have worked
equally foreigners, particularly. those who enactment steadily. the desolate grass-lands of sive.
for UNRRA, have In international affairs, Halleck In June,
would be willing to contribute the praised the frugal lives of the Com-supported the European Recovery Shensi, in barren North-West
1047. the Communist vast sums this would entail. Another munist administrators, and armies under General Liu Po-chen, suggested plan is the overthrow of manner in which the state apparatus tion to features which would assuro the Programme, but with special atten- China. They were the sur- launched an offensive across the Chiang in favour of a "Third Force" weighs less heavily upon the people its business-lice administration, vivors of 80,000 troops who had fellow liver and penetrated for the front among the less feudal elements than in the Kuomintang areas. The Indiana Congressman is
first time deep into Kuomintang of the Kuomintang. been driven out of Kinngsi, a
Small parties of Communist troopsputed as an effective speaker and a
shrewd
and practical politician, have crossed the Yangtse, operate in thousand miles away and, fight-
the neighbourhood of Nonking and
there has been Rule eritlalsm of his ing many battles on the way,
reconnoltre Into South China, It
management of the majority party would seem that, despite the changes on the floor of the House. had marched 5,000 miles by a
in milliary leadership and the many
SUPPORTED WILLKIE circular route to arrive at last territory. Their avowed
| F military conferences held this year
Amnde the nominaling speech for beyond the reach of Generalis- was to liberate all China north of they claim to occupy one quarter of initiative is in
What of the Communists? Today by Chiang Kai-shek, the strategic A the 1940 Conventions, Halleck the hands of the Wendell Willkin. He supported simo Chiang Kai-shek's armies. the majority of his 248 divisions in of 168 million
the Yangtze River. Chiang had kept the area of China, with a population tang is still capable of considerable paign, but later was cool to Willkie's Communists, although the Kuomin-Wilkie actively during the cam- people. Impartial In this far away
province the North and in Manchuria, and observers admit no doubt that the
tactical effort, as was shown by the one world" agitation. Halleck is un- had left the vital provinces of Cen- Communist armies have won they prospered, developed their tral and South Chies
con operations around Chefoo and the derstood to be on friendly terms bare. Many aiderable victories. Mao Tse-tung's mopping-up campaign the Talpell with all the
Icading Republican social, economic and military of his reserves were out of reach forces are no "popular militie," but mountain area.
candidates this year. Because tho either in the West or the South. A tough and experienced troops, well
Vice-President ideas in tune to China's 5,000 wholesale regrouping of forces was organised and co-ordinated under ex- troops, not so much as a result of phical balance to the state of the usually is chosen Chiang suffers from a shortage of from a state which offers a "geogra years of civilisation. When necessary, and, by the time it was perienced leaders.
finished the Communist troops had
his losses, but because he has The military organisation Japan invaded Chins they form- reached the Yangtse.
Presidential nominee, Halleck would neglected the military principle of probably get special attention at the roughly as follows: There are large concentration of force. By trying to Convention. ed a united front with Chiang, This offensive was by no means bodies of regular troops moved from
if the Republican be strong on troopn fought with him against the of the ang have
place to place, according to higher Anally finds hin armies numerically Dewey of New York or Governor every battlefront, he nomince should be Governor Thomas 1 con"
strategic needs; local regular troops weak at the important points. From Earl Warren of California, tradition of military Japanese, extending their
in aiderable
Dro used for the defence of a district Manchuria to the Yangise he holds efficiency. They have been trained
Representative Halleck was a local and or province, and
vlilage anch fluence all the time. Corn for years, firstly by German
most of the big towns and important In Jasper County, Indiana, on August militia supports the regular forces, lines later by American military missions, collects information, arranges
of communication.
educated at the petent foreign observers knew and it is only in the last eighteen and supplies. Great emphasis
The 2, 1000, He was guides nitensive In Central China South Bend High School and the
is faces over months that they have been engaged placed on operating inside
him with that when the war was
the alterna- University of Notro Dame. After enemy in really heavy fighting The territory.
tive of abandoning Manchuria college he practised law. In South China would be too small _At_2.30, 5.20,..
to Chinese wor lords have long been
to reinforce and bringing the troops
Bend, and was prosecuting attorney accustomed to
to send their interior------
the central front, or of being Two Million Reds
out- for St Joseph County in 1939-39. He hold both Chiang Kai-shek and troops into battle first, and to keep
numbered in that area. Perhaps has been a member of the House of
1935. the Kuomintang troops at present Representatives since 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. the Communist leader, Mao Tse-
finishing their training in Formosa served in World War I and is mem- tung, Chiang, while he fought
will alter the balance, but, for the ber of the American Legion. He is the Japanese with one hand.
moraent, the situation is dominated married and has two children, by the expected Communists offen- (Another article in this series prepared a show-down with the
cive into South China.
tomorrow) Communists with the other.
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A Calculating Man Is This Belgian
By ALFRED CHEVAL
born
He
1
the best for any political eventuality. THE Communists now clalin, to A million and a half men have been possess a regular force of two conscripted to replace the heavy million mess, and have a large num- ale casualties and desertions, and ber of recruits training in Manchuria, Formosa teems with troops Armament on the communist side is undergoing their final training. Inferior to the Kuomintang, and con- a purely military force the Kuomin sists mainly of old Japanese weapons fang armies have by no means shot and captured American equipment. their bolt.
The militia Uneasy Truce
and local regular They are equipped with captured troops carry out guerilla and harross- FROM V. J. day to the middle Japanese weapons and have received int tactics against the enemy, and
of 1946, there was an uneasy Estimates put the total
much excellent American
"mobile" material. occasional
operations American gainst defined objectives. Mao truce in China. When at last expenditure
emphasises the need to use the vast all types in Kuomin Chiang launched his offensive, four billion
lang China at
between three and plains and mountains of China for dollars. A thousand manoeuvre, "The
main objec- were many who
pro- American Army and Navy officers tive," he said in a recent speech," phesied the final elimination of are attached to the forces as advisor the annihilation of the enemy's the Communists. The Kuomin- and, as in Greece, have considerable fighting forces, not the retention or
influence on the course of opera capture of cities and places." For SCAN VERHAEGHE, 22-year-old as soon as he is asked to, he starts tang had at its disposal some tions.
this reason many of the big cities, Belgium, lives for Agures the quietly to write the angiver, how- two million first-line troops,
such as Kirin, Peiping and others numerical variety.
ever complicated the calculation is, still remala in Kuomintang hands, Oscar, a quiet young man, starts and gives the results without using lesser quality. The U.S. Air THE most serious weakness of their defences the agrarian polley of soon as he sees figures. It is a job
although within a mile or two of
smiling and becomes interested as any intermediate operation. Corpa obligingly flew thousands Kuomintang China, lies in the the Liberated Areas is being put into
Oscar Verhaeghe is the elde
eldest.child to keep him from calculating all day of postman, at Genval, near to strategic areas in Manchuria political-economie field. The farther practice.
long.
Brussels, who has two daughters The present success of the com- and North China. The Soviet the Communist forces advance into
Under the patient instruction of a showing no exceptional ability, Government dutifully handed forces develop in the leadership
Central China the more centrifugal munist-led armies cannot be put retired engineer, Fernand Charles, He did not attend regular school
of down to purely military victories. Oscar hos been over to the Kuomintang the the
demonstrating his but was sent to n special school, Kuomintang. The budgetary The Communists have balanced their fetraordinary ability to high scientific where a pyscho-pathologist discover- "THE BLACK PARACHUTE" towns it had captured from the defielt is estimated at U.S. $1,000 programme to meet the economic authorities in Belgium.
ed his extraordinary Interest In. Japanese. It was generally millions and the foreign trade de- desires of the Chinese peasants. The Before directors of the Belgian figures and outstanding ability for agreed that Chiang's forces had it at U.S. $300 millions. Many of main tiem of the programme
is Observatory, he made highly com- arithmetic. the American relief measures have agrarian reform, and the arrival of plex calculations and succeeded In ja flying start.
M. Charles, who volunteered served only to encourage the black the Communist power in area is beating the Observatory's modern his tutor, carefully studied The first phase of the offensive
followed by the distribution of the calculating machine.
ability. Keeping But the war in China is by no land among the peasants and
contact with the went
It inkes 20 seconds for. Verhaeghe scientific authorities and other col- well. By January, 1947, means ended. Even if Manchuria Chiang had captured 165 towns and is
past debts. The to find the cube root. of 904,443,747, culators, Including Maurier Dagbert: abandoned, there are still
vaston 200,000 square
once the backbone of the and 50 reconds to find the cube of of France and Willem Klein of Hol- kilometres of ter areas in the South and West in Kuomintang, now finds himself on 777,777,777,777,777. ritory. Ainerican advisors
In 20 seconds land, he noted, which to take refuge. It is, perhaps, a level of equality with the other he can find the exact date of Easter Verhaughe's calculating ability.
started developing however, that no large bodies of for this reason, that Mr William pessants. This is enemy troops had been
1818 or any other Easter Day. destroyed, Bullitt advocated, as is believed did ment which the Kuomintang, with powerful argu-
"I want to give him a means and that territorial gains were General Wedemeyer's unpublished its promise of constitutional demo-explain how he does it.
But no one can get Verhaeghe to enrning his living, said M. Charles,. beavily paid for; just about half report, the
and all he can and will do is calcu reorganisation of the cracy at a later date and no actual Chiong's first-line
When a complicated calculation is inte." troops were put Kuomintang under American super- change in property relutions, out of action.
can prepared for him, Verhaegho 'vision, The
doc# South and the West and little to counter.
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