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Saturday, August 28, 1954 Annual Invasion HUMPHREY BOGART EXPLAINS CAPTAIN Words, Wit Wisdom By WILLIAM MORRIS Here are 10 common words that are often confused and misused by students and secretaries. See what you can do with them. Below the list of words you will find 10 sample sentences, each with a space for one word left blank, see if you can fit the correct word into each blank. Then check your results against the answers below. Ten correct is excellent; eight to nine is good, seven or below is poor.

If you miss any words at all, be sure to look them up in your dictionary and then try to use them in conversation and writing. Here are the words: (A) protagonist; (B) vocation; (C) emigrants; (D) credible; (E) deposition; (F) avocation; (G) immigrants; (H) disposition; (I) antagonist; (J) creditable. And now the sentences: 1. The spy's story was so fantastic that it seemed scarcely. 2.

Hamlet is the of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. 3. Young people need career guidance in their choice of their lifetime There are a lot of Queegs around, whom the pressurized times have wrought. You'll find them in studios, in department stores, in factories, and in all other businesses. Show me a man who is "put in charge" and I'll show you a potential Queeg.

I know I'm walking through a live minefield when I say this, but there are a lot of "female Queegs" too. They're in charge of the house and only a mutiny by the money earner can stop the torture. It doesn't have to be things like shirt-tails, yellow-stains and strawberries. But the female Queeg nags him about maids, charge accounts, a better car, and tf bigger house. AS TIME goes by, the man suspects he's married to a collection agency.

Instead of love talk, it's now the price of steaks and the rundown condition of last year's car, or a honey of a fur coat that's a steal at a current sale. The wedding bells now sound like cash register chimes. And the poor guy can't go running to look for an aircraft carrier for help, either. As I said before, there are Queegs everywhere, in one form or another. I decided to play Queeg as a nervous, sick man, yet I wanted to maintain a bond of sympathy with the audience.

I deliberately gave Queeg the mannerisms and appearance of an officer of sternness and decision, and then gradually disclosed him as a man hiding hysteria. I decided to play him my way after receiving hundreds of letters from those aforementioned casting directors telling me how to play the part their way and how to make the movie. It's a funny thing. Everybody in the world has two businesses his own and the motion-picture business. Don't get me wrong.

I'm not complaining (Bogart is mellowing). All I'm saying is that no other business in the world has so many back-seat drivers and over-the-shoulder kibitzers. NO MATTER where I go I'm buried under a barrage of advice on just what Hollywood should do to turn out perfect movies. These ready advisers know about as much about the technical end of picture-making as I do about the love life of termites. But that doesn't stop them from telling you what kind of a picture to turn out and how to make millions with it.

That's fine, and I appreciate it, except each one wants something different. Their ideas on so-called stinkers are miles apart. Trying to figure what the typical ticket-buyer thinks is a perfect movie is a swell way to get a migraine headache. Motion pictures have even more critics than a losing football coach, or a controversial (Editor's note: Drew Pearson is on vacation.) WASHINGTON A funny thing happened on my way down to the studio the other day. A guy sidled up to me and whispered that Drew Pearson would like me to do a guest column.

"Why doesn't he write his own columns?" I snarled (a typical Bogart snarl). "He does, but during his vacation he'd like you to do a guest column." "Do I ask newspapermen to act for me during my vacations?" "No, but that's different." "Why?" "Well, for one thing, Pearson can't act." SO, AS I was saving, a funny thing happened on my way to my syndicated typewriter. I put in some syndicated paper and then started batting those syndicated keys, but the only thing they would spell out was "Capt. Queeg. Capt.

Queeg Capt. Queeg." So why fight it? I'll write about the character I probably won't be able to escape from for years Capt. Queeg. I wanted to play Queeg from the moment I read Herman Wouk's book "The Caine Mutiny" in 1951. Stanley Kramer had bought the novel and was planning it as his biggest production for Columbia pictures.

I called Stanley and asked to play Queeg, something I seldom do. Fortunately for me, he threw me the ball; in fact, he threw both steel balls at me, and promised me the part. The minute the casting announcement was in print, I started getting a flood of fan letters advising me on just how Queeg should be played. Apparently everybody knows at least one Queeg. About 10 million persons must have read the book and most of them immediately became casting directors.

I NEVER did go along with a lot of people who had Queeg pegged as being more than slightly off his rocker crazy. Queeg was not simply crazy. He was sick. His was a life of frustrations and insecurity. His victories were always small victories.

He made the men stick their shirt-tails in and he cleaned up the ship. But when he was faced with a real problem the typhoon, for example he cracked up like ice at a cocktail party. In peacetime, Queeg was a capable officer. But he could not stand the stress of war. He was supernormal until pressured.

And then he blew up. Is that any different than a lot of us? Especially today. We're going through a neurotic "Queeg" period in which the psychiatrist's couch is becoming as well known as the corner drugstore. THE DAILY SUN SAN BERNARDINO SIXTIETH YEAR Published daily except Sunday, and Sunday In combination with The Sun-Telegram, by The Sun Company of San Bernardino. EDITORIAL Australia Concerned Great Britain's apparent limited concern over the need for prompt and effective measures to meet the threat to peace in Southeast Asia is not being shared by Australia, which was the allied base for World War II operations in the Pacific and is still the principal bastion of the Western Powers.

Australia is close enough to the seething Asian situation to have a more realistic view of the threat it contains for all civilization. The complacent "let's wait and see" -attitude of the British is not shared by the Australians, although they are not in favor of any headlong dash into a conflict that could spell out World War HL Richard G. Casey, minister of external affairs, has indicated he believes the time at hand for all Pacific peoples who want to preserve their independence to band together against further inroads by communism, or else face ultimate complete subjugation by the piecemeal process. He believes that all nations on continental Asia should assemble in a conference to be joined by others such as Japan, Formosa, Philippines, Indonesia and Australia, at which the independence of all would be guaranteed with moral guidance and material support from the United States. A mutual defense treaty would be the objective of such a gathering, with each participant pledging to go to the aid of the other should there be further inroads by the Communists.

And that is almost a certainty, for the Chinese Reds will continue to be prodded by Moscow so long as indecision in Southeast Asia invites conquest as it does now. He believes the soundest way to guarantee stability to Asia would be guarantees of independence to those peoples willing to make an outward stand against communism, rather than drawing a line and telling the Reds they dare not pass. Casey and his aides have conducted an exhaustive study of the situation, backed up by conferences with leaders of the various peoples. He is of the opinion that so much is at stake and the peoples of Southeast Asia have become sufficiently aware of the dangers that a mutual defense arrangement is more of a possibility than before. It is fully accepted that communism cannot be effectively resisted if the peoples involved are Unwilling to make a stand in their own behalf.

All that the United States, Australia, or all the Western Powers, can do will not be sufficient if there is no cooperation forthcoming from the danger spots. Thailand, for instance, has acted boldly. Thai leaders know they are high on the Communists' timetable of conquest and they have asked for assistance in meeting the threat. The question was laid before the U.N. when Thai representatives pointed to the massing of Red troops near their border.

Pakistan, despite protests from Communist China and India, has accepted American military and economic aid and is making ready for defense of its independence. Burma and Malaya are also virtually under the muzzles of Red guns and they may be receptive to united defense plans. Casey says he doubts if India would be interested in an Asian alliance at this time as Prime Minister Nehru still thinks he can follow a neutral line. However, the Australiais are certain that any move toward India's borders would be met fully and effectively. Indonesia wants to play friends with Communist China and professes to see no danger.

With Australia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Formosa, the free part of Indochina, Thailand and Pakistan as a nucleus, it does seem that a Pacific alliance drawn along the lines of that for the Atlantic might well be drafted. As the tension heightens in Asia, Australia feels its security becoming more involved. It remembers World War II and how aggression was carried to its very doorstep. The same, and even worse, could happen if the Communists are permitted to carve up Asia to their liking. FRANKLIN CARTER FRENCH STALL EDC TO ITS DEATH After four years of suspended animation, the European Defense Community has died before it was out of the cradle.

The British did not want it. The French did not want it. The Russians did not want it. WITH THE three great powers on the continent opposed to a European Army, the miracle is that it stayed alive as long as it did. We supported the EDC as an adjunct to our policy of "firm containment" of Soviet imperialism and also as a means of reducing the annual tribute we are paying to hold Westerji Europe in line for the defense of the free world.

The smaller European powers also favored it as usual, they did not cast the deciding vote. The European army was the child of NATO and NATO came into being in 1949, following Russia's boycott of the Marshall Plan for European recovery. The first Soviet countermove to NATO was the Berlin blockade, which we overcame by the famous airlift. This costly, delicate and difficult operation led us to press for West German rearmament. ROSCOE DRUMMOND DESERVE MORE PAY HOBERT s.

alleiv IKE NOT ANXIOUS TO SEE 4. "I couldn't make a living from radio," said the actor. "For me, this is merely an 5. Pollyanna was famous for her sunny 6. Ellis Island for decades has been the landing place of arriving-." 7.

"Gene Tunney was my most said the ex-champion. 8. Great concern has been voiced by East German authorities over the large number of 9. "Your actions should always be and reflect honor on the service," said the general. 10.

Though unable to appear in person, his testimony was presented in a sworn ANSWERS: ID; 2A; 3B; 4F; 5H; 6G; 71; 8C; 9J; 10E. (How large is your vocabulary? How many thousands of words can you use with confidence? For the answers to these questions, just send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to William Morris, in care of this paper, for a free copy of his new self-scoring vocabulary test. It will show you how many words you know now and how to increase your word power almost immediately.) 20 YEARS AGO (From the files of Aug. 28, 1934) The Board of Supervisors has voted construction of a new bridge over Lytle Creek west of St. It will replace the present iron truss that is too narrow for modern traffic.

Death Valley Scotty is in town again, this time telling how he has asked President Roosevelt to square the title to the $2,000,000 castle in Death Valley. Scotty claims a wrong survey has put the castle on Government land. The U.S. Census Bureau has issued a bulletin estimating San Bernardino's population at 40,400. THOUGHTS So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Job 5:16. Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. Carlyle. Senator Soaper Says: An old gentleman down the street is resisting his family's plans to get him a hearing aid. He's 100 now, and says he's already heard more than enough.

A slight dip in the price of coffee poses the problem of whether to drink less and hope to bring it down further or drink more to take advantage of the saving. "I never know what to get the She has so many pots and pans The French made a countersug-gestion: The formation of a European army, which would include German contingents. This struck us as a darned good idea, which would not only create a "position of strength" in Western Europe but short-circuit the historic French-German quarrel of the past 300 years. So we accepted the French substitute for German rearmament and the EDC treaty resulted. BUT THE French were merely stalling and they continued to stall, while using EDC as well as their colonial war in Indochina as an excuse for continued American economic and military aid.

The British had been very lukewarm toward the whole idea and only as it became clear that France would block it did they pay lip service to the European army. The final French perfidy came at the recent German conference, where Mendes-France bought our support for his Indochina settlement by a promise to get parliamentary approval of the EDC treaty. But when the pay-off came, he rewrote and denatured the entire plan by a so- President The feeler was not unexpected. Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nev), ardent Franco champion, had been hinting along that line for some time.

Also, the visit of Franco's only child, the Mar-quesa de Villaverde, and her husband, was generally viewed in official quarters as preparing the ground for a trip by her father. THE TOUR of the young Spanish couple could not have been arranged without the sanction of Washington and Madrid. It was considered at the highest levels in both capitals. After Gen. Gallarza returned home, diplomatic circles here credited him with receiving a "mixed reception" on the suggestion of a Franco visit.

He was quoted as saying, "President Eisenhower sees no inconvenience some time before his term expires in having a personal meeting with the Caudillo. But for the present, certain difficulties stand in the way of that." TO BE SIMPLE armament will greatly increase it. The reason for the ferment is simply the immense expense of a minimum defense program in the age of the hydrogen bomb. A really urgent and. effective effort to give America an adequate air defense, can add anything up to 5 or 6 billi6n dollars to the defense budget in another couple of years.

Another 2 billion dollars or so may be added by a really urgent and effective effort to be first with the ultimate weapon, the intercontinental ballistic missile with hydrogen warhead. THE FIRST two of these three requirements are already being gingerly debated by the National Security Council. All three re-. quirements, if met, will impose a massive additional burden on the budget that Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey is so determined to balance. Thus the impulse is strong to find the money to meet these requirements by cancelling other expenditures, and particularly expenditures abroad.

called "protocol," which the other parties to the treaty and especially West Germany were bound to reject. And they did. This ends EDC. With EDC it also destroys the basis of our entire postwar policy in Western Europe, which had already been rendered militarily obsolete by Soviet development of the hydrogen bomb. So now the prophesied period of "agonizing reappraisal" is upon us and the Eisenhower administration faces a serious diplomatic crisis.

HERE IT IS worth noting that the American foreign policy which has been placed in jeopardy, was the work of the Tru-. man administration of 1945-1953. All of the treaties, projects, and commitments which are threatened with the junk heap were the work of George Marshall and Dean Acheson and their policy was visibly bankrupt by the time Eisenhower and Dulles took over. So. it remains a fact that the Democratic foreign policies of 1933-1952 have come face to face with total failure.

Where we shall go from here is another story. FRANCO NOTE The McCarran Immigration Act bars entry to members of totalitarian parties. Franco, in addition to being the military ruler of Spain, is also chief of the Falange, the Fascist-type party that is the only one permitted in that country. However, this factor is not likely to keep him out of the U.S. if it is decided to have him make an official visit.

That would include his spending at least one night in the White House, as is customary for heads of state. TIME-BOMB There is a booby-trap in the President's hard-won foreign aid budget that may prove very painful. It's a secret "rider" that imperils the use of 800 million dollars in unobligated funds. The "sleeper" was written into the last big supplemental (catchall) appropriation bill by a bipartisan group behind the closed doors of a House-Senate conference committee. The amendment was subsequently slipped through both chambers in the adjournment rush.

B.tS All rig.O Mmd GRIN AND BEAR IT wife for her birthday already i J' Convertibility Closer The dollar gap is getting narrower, and gold and dollar reserves higher, for most countries that still restrict the use of their currency for foreign goods, foreign services and foreign travel. Many of these countries, including Great Britain, dre preparing to lift all such restrictions early next year that ist to make their currencies fully convertible by allowing the holders to use them in any way. 1 This narrowing of the dollar gap is ascribed in large part to general improvement of internal economies, leading in turn to higher exports. And foreign aid from the U.S.,' though reduced, is still strengthening many a foreign economy. The European Payments Union has helped, too.

The world annual dollar deficit reached a peak of 11 billion dollars in 1947, before the Marshall Plan got going. The annual deficit was cut in half by the end of 1949, was further reduced in 1950 when Korean hostilities caused this country to buy heavily of foreign raw materials. Wfcen the U.S. lent $3,750,000,000 to the British in .1946, we demanded that they make their currency convertible a provision that threatened to nullify the purpose of the loan until the requirement was ended. Of late London been lifting more and more of its restrictions on the use of the pound abroad, and on Aug.

19 it took another "step toward full convertibility by repaying all its out standing dollar debt to the International Monetary Fund. THE ALSOPS WASHINGTON It is time somebody stepped up and said a good word for Congress. When cartoonists and columnists need a filler, we find it pretty easy to draw a short bow and let Congress have it. This permits us to attack everybody in general but nobody in particular. What I am saying is that while Congress is criticized more often than it deserves, it rarely gets the praise it deserves.

It seems to me that the 83rd Congress does deserve praise, does deserve to be put down as a Congress with a record of accomplishment substantially above average. I WOLXD cite two major attainments: It has been a "do-something Congress." It has to its credit a sizable, significant budget of important legislation and it has worked hard to produce it. No Congress of recent memory has been as productive as the 83rd. Congresses as narrowly divided as this one, with a whisker-thin Republican majority in both Houses, have usually ended in legislative stalemate. To have avoided stalemate under such circumstances is a considerable achievement.

Both parties deserve credit. On any comparative basis, the Democratic opposition conducted itself responsibly. It disagrees on some bills, like amending the Taft-Hartley law. That makes a two-party system. The opposition rarely voted captiously, seeking to block the Administration merely as a partisan tactic.

IT STRIKES me that on the basis of this record and after the mid-term elections, Congress ought- to come back and do something for Congress. I mean put something in the pay envelope as former Presidents Hoover and Truman, President Eisenhower and a commission of distinguished citizens recommended earlier this year. You don't have to agree with everything Congress has done to agree that Congress has done a good job and an expeditious job. You may not like parts of this bill or that, or think, as I happen to think, that it seriously botched the anti-Communist law in a frantic partisan boxing match in the frenzied hours of pre-adjournment. But the solid accomplishments of the 83rd Congress remain and are clearly visible.

To mention only a few: It approved the St. Lawrence Seaway after a 30-day delay. It produced a modernization of the whole tax code a careful, constructive, monumental streamlining of the whole internal revenue structure for the first time in 78 years. It enacted basic changes in the Atomic Energy Law primarily to take account of the fact that we no longer have the monopoly we possessed when the McMa-hon Act was passed. The new law permits sharing of information with our allies on the use of atomic weapons, offers private industry opportunities to develop atomic power.

Under democratic initiative several amendments designed to protect the public interest in patents were added to the act, which also open the way to begin the President's project of a world atomic pool for peaceful uses. IT PASSED, with bi-partisan support, the most wide-ranging social security and 'unemployment insurance measures since the early days of the New Deal. A pay raise for Congress is long overdue. The case doesn't rest on what Congress has done in any particular session but its record this year would make action by Congress to raise its salaries more politically graceful. Senators and representatives are now paid $15,000 in salary and expenses.

The Commission on Judicial and Congressional salaries recommended that the figure be increased to 527,500. Such an increase would add only .00717 to the budget and' cost the country only 3.4 cents per capita. Members of the Cabinet receive $22,500 and some ambassadors salaries are $25,000. THE CONGRESSIONAL salaries have never kept abreast of inflation. Because of inflation congressmen actually receive a lower compensation than they did in 1939 when salaries were $10,000.

Congressional salaries have not kept pace with the growth of their duties and responsibilities. They are too low compared with salaries paid for similar abilities and less responsibility in private industry. At their present level they tend to limit membership in Congress to persons of independent wealth or outside earnings. If you think Congress deserves a raise, the best man to- tell is your congressman. WASHINGTON Generalissimo Franco wants to visit President Eisenhower.

The President isn't enthusiastic about it. However, the Spanish dictator has not been rebuffed; nothing like that. The U.S. is developing a number of strategic air and naval bases in his country and welcomes cordial ties. IT HAS therefore been tactfully explained that conditions are not favorable for Franco to come to the U.S.

at this time. Later, perhaps, but not now. A stormy and uncertain election impends here, while various critical situations are approaching showdowns abroad. Madrid has indicated that overtures for an invitation will be renewed later on. The recent ones were conducted by a close Franco associate Gen.

Gallatrza, minister of the Spanish air force. While in Washington for conferences with Pentagon chiefs, Gallarza discreetly broached State Department authorities about a meeting between Franco and the NOT GOING By the same token, important elements in the Conservative party are also opposed to rearming Germany. With the prospect of an election influencing all his decisions, Foreign Secretary Eden will certainly be reluctant to take a clearcut and therefore violent controversial stand on this unpopular issue. And for these and other highly practical reasons, West German rearmament is emphatically not the easy alternative to EDC that most people imagine. AT A MINIMUM, the German rearmament project will cause grave strains and intuitions; and there will be disheartening delays.

And all these difficulties will occur at a psycholigical crucial moment in American policymaking. The truth is that the "Fortress America" idea has been gaining ground in the Pentagon, and in certain other important administration quarters, for at least a year. Thus far, the ferment has been going on in secret. But it is going on all the same, and trouble about West Germany re GERMAN REARMAMENT WASHINGTON The betting is now overwhelming that the European Defense Community is a 'dead duck. Long ago, Secretary "of State Dulles warned the French that if EDC died aborning, there would have to be an "agonizing re-appraisal" of American policy.

But what kind of re-appraisal this be? ALMOST everyone appears to assume that the answer is already known. For months, the 'hints have been coming from the State Department that there 'was no alternative to EDC except German rearmament. The British and American have even agreed on this point, at least in principle. Yet the final answer is by no means certain as most people be- lieve. In the first place, the political difficulties in the way of Ger-man rearmament are greater than the American policy makers like to admit in "public.

Western Germany is still divided, after all, into British, French and American zones; and each zone is still held by the forces of the occupying powers. This country, occupying only one third of West Germany, cannot just decree West German re-armanemt. It will be very difficult, in fact, to force the French to accept West German rearmament, even if Britain and America achieve a strong and solid united front on the matter. And despite the agreement in principle between Secretary Dulles and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, that kind of Anglo-Amerl-can united front is going to be very hard to achieve. It may even be impossible to achieve.

A HIGHLIT successful propaganda against German rearmament has been carried on in Britain for more than two years. The responsible Labor Party leaders, headed by Clement Attlee, have had great difficulty holding their following in line for the European Defense Community. With Aneurin Bevan striking from the flanks, Atlee and cannot be relied on to swallow the German rearmament pill without any EDC sugar coating. I li.