Editorial

...EDITORIAL Indo-China Crisis It is the conclusion of Raymond Aron (see page 10) that France's campaign in Indo-China has gone as far as it can go, and that America must now take over, with men as well as means...

...Thousands will remember Algernon Lee chiefly as a teacher...

...furthermore, we have been cutting down our armed forces and have withdrawn two divisions from Korea...

...We hope every effort will be made to run down this new lead on a particularly vicious unsolved crime...

...Aron's view is shared by influential leaders of the French National Assembly, according to a recent report by Joseph Alsop (N...

...Several months ago, according to Norman Thomas, chairman of the Tresca Memorial Committee, deported racketeer "Lucky" Luciano was interviewed in Italy by Michael Stern, an American reporter...

...Propaganda which attempts to cover up these facts will inevitably backfire...

...participation in the unpopular war...

...Such contradictions cannot inspire a sense of certainty on the part of our allies, least of all of France...

...If we intend to abandon anti-Communist Asia, or to toy with our commitments there, or to limit our participation to financial subsidies, we have no business pressing France to further bloodshed...

...Just as the Drummond article follows the Radford visit, so the Dulles "conversation" closely followed the withdrawal of the Seventh Fleet's ban on Nationalist action against the mainland...

...The United States cannot expect difficult sacrifices and a consistent "tough" policy from its allies if its own course is unclear...

...Thomas announced that, as a result of this discovery, "certain constructive suggestions" would be submitted to Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan...

...At the same time, we are urging France to bolster her defenses in Europe and intensify the campaign in Indo-China...

...Many Frenchmen, quite understandably, feel that Washington is crying, "Do as we say, not as we do...

...Since the Eisenhower Administration took office, the United States has made a compromise settlement of the Korean War...

...Acheson and Jessup from 1949 on: Mao has eliminated all resistance, Chiang doesn't have enough troops, Japan needs the China trade, we must "encourage division" between Peking and Moscow, recognition does not mean approval, etc...

...Y. Herald Tribune, January 4...

...One would think that this bespoke the closest possible alliance between the United States and the Chinese Nationalists...

...Yet, things are not so simple...

...It amounts to a summary of all the pro-Mao arguments which bedeviled Messrs...

...The standards for which he and his comrades fought in the first three decades of this century are now largely part of the American heritage...

...armed forces to the struggle, we must recognize that struggle as part of one all-Asia front and act accordingly...

...New Lead on Tresca Eleven years after the murder of Carlo Tresca??who was shot down on January 11, 1943 less than a block from The New Leader's office) ??a new lead has emerged to the identity of the courageous anti-totalitarian editor's slayers...

...The facts are that we have sacked the Korean struggle, we are cutting back our defenses, and we are trimming our commitments on the Asian continent...

...Still others will remember him as one of the few American radicals whose opposition to Communism began on November 7, 1917 and never wavered...

...We on The New Leader will remember him as a wise and kindly guide whose soul built stately mansions for all who knew him...

...Born of old New England stock, educated in the West, Algernon Lee devoted his activity, through the Socialist party and trade unions, to principles which went back to the Declaration of Independence...

...Algernon Lee The distinguished and useful life of Algernon Lee, a pioneer American Socialist, has come to an end...

...Drummond's article relates the views of "highly placed, strongly anti-Communist . . . Republican appointees" in the State Department...

...As an example of the latter, consider the visit of Admiral Radford to Formosa, with its famous photograph of the Radfords and the Chiangs locked arm in arm...

...A few days later, Roscoe Drummond, a reporter with an unmatchable pipeline to the Administration, wrote an article in the N. Y. Herald Tribune (the original Ike-backer) to the effect that we must prepare ourselves for the establishment of cordial relations with the Chinese Communists...

...One might easily and recklessly brush off this turn of events as another evidence of "French weakness" or "congenital appeasement...

...The Drummond article recalls Secretary Dulles's famous "informal conversation" with selected reporters last spring, in which he unofficially offered Peking the "neutralization" of Formosa...

...The recent Vietminh offensive has stiffened the stand of those in France who would deal with the Communists, and, as a result, those who reject appeasement are asking greater and greater U.S...

...Few men were as typically American...

...Not at all...

...Luciano told Stern that he had offered to give New York's Governor Dewey the names of Tresca's murderers seven years ago in return for his freedom, but that Dewey "would not go for this...

...His learning was immense, his recall total, his manner captivating...

...If, on the other hand, we regard Indo-China as so crucial to the future of East Asia that we will commit U.S...