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DETROIT FREE PRESS Thursday, Feb. 24, 72 7-A Mich. Liberals in Busing Dilemma Points of View An Added Dimension Oflnsight and Opinion ever, they would rather delay the busing and concentrate on quality education. Indeed, Ford hes introduced legislation to give districts $12 billion. a year for education, compared to the $4 billion they now get.

I There are two points which call the genuineness of their commitment to "quality education" arid Led by China Lobby Our Hate-China Policy Political Folfy BY RICHARD LEE STROUT desegregation into question. First, the high court said In 1954 (and has since reiterated) that "separate educational facilities 1 are inherently unequal." This means even if Ford's bill (which he knows has no chance) passed" tomorrow, the separation of theraces in education would remain and so would the gap In equality and quality. Second, if Ford and his colleagues want desegregation and neighborhood schools, as they say, then the logical answer is Integrated neighborhoods. Here, from the 1970 census, are population figures for towns in the districts of the suburban Michigan liberals. In Ford's district, Allen Park has a population of 41,000, including 29 blacks; Dearborn Heights has 12 blacks among 81,000 people, and Ford's home town, Taylor, has 20 blackj out of 70,000.

In Dingell's district, Dearborn has 1 blacks speech given by Ford last week at the monthly meeting of Democrats In his district. Because President Nixon has withheld comment on whether he would support an amendment, and because vice-president Spiro Agnew is opposed to one, Ford said they have taken "a responsible stand" on the busing question. And "they have effectively pulled the rug out from under Griffin in his attempt to use the busing issue In his campaign for re-election This is a time for sober statesmanship, not knee-jerk reaction." It would be difficult to tell from these statements that Ford, along with Dingell and O'Hara, is generally of one mind with Griffin, the President and the vice-president in their opposition to busing. Ford also gives no hint of the knee-jerk panic and the unstatesmanlike stampede that swept through the House of Representatives on the night of Nov. 3 when the entire Michigan delegation, save the two blacks, voted for a barrage of anti-busing legislation, even including one measure to deprive federal funds for busing from those districts complying with court orders.

Those proposals and others are now before the Senate, and Griffin will probably support them just as Ford, Dingell and O'Hara, et al, did. Griffin differs with Ford in his belief that only a constitutional amendment, not legislation, can overrule the courts and most experts agree. ALL OF THIS notwithstanding, Ford, O'Hara, Dingell, Griffith and other civil rights liberals insist they still support school desegregation, and the 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. How BY SAUL FRIEDMAN Fr Prut Washington Stiff WASHINGTON In 1964, four of the five Michi- gan members of Congress who voted against the landmark Civil Rights Act that year were defeated.

Since then, and until the courts ruled there was school segregation in Pontiac and Detroit, the Michigan congressional delegation has been-among the most liberal in the country, In the matter of race relations. That Is one of the reasons southerners and other traditional opponents of civil rights legislation now look to the Michiganders for leadership in the campaign against school busing. The liberals give the segregationists a cloak of respectability. The liberals (confining the term to civil rights) men like Senate Republican Whip Robert P. Griffin and Detroit area Congressmen James G.

O'Hara, John Dingell and William Ford are not comfortable providing that cloak. FOR EXAMPLE, while Griffin has Introduced a constitutional amendment to prohibit busing (which southerners prefer to back because it has a better chance coming from a northerner), he has rejected appeals from Sam. J. Ervin, to hedp lead a floor fight for his anti-buisng legislation. On the House side, O'Hara and Dingell, while they favor an anti-busing amendment, have declined to sign a discharge petition for one inspired by southerners but introduced by Republican Norman Lent of New York.

The liberal discomfort is also Illustrated by a i SEATED IN the witness box of the Senate committee room was the man who, 25 years before, traveled behind the Japanese lines on a dangerous secret mission to Mao Tse-tung In China. Ray Ludden was second secretary of the U. S. embassy in 1944. He returned from among 104,000.

In O'Hara's district, Warren, with 1TA fWl nunnla ha 10) Kl Irf mnA PantArlillA urlffl 1 Xfa.uuv lias ju uiavna, aiiu i. 10,000 people has one black. A check with the Department of Housing and Mao to report that the communists were growing stronger, had the support of the peasants, were asking for U.S. aid and were fighting the Japanese as contrasted to the corrupt and incompetent government of Chiang Kai-shek. The members of the embassy staff in 1944 agreed with him.

They were right. For i this they were hounded out of office. The thing to remember Is that neither Vietnam nor the "loss" of China had to happen. They were individual but connected acts of Urban Development showed that in all these towns there is but one housing project for the poor in Taylor for 110 people. It is not a good start toward neighborhood integration.

ffSPT OPEN DAILY 10-10; SUNDAY 11-6 SAT. 1 mmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmm j4 Lfpci senseless political folly. They represented some-, thing deep and wrong in American government. John Stewart Service was another China-born member of the embassy i staff at that time, "the ablest group of young diplomats," according to Etic Sevareid, "I had ever seen in a single mission abroad." OPEN DAILY 10- 10 SUNDAY 11- 6 kind but It lacks the safeguard of collective judgment. Roosevelt picked a flashy, band-some figure, former secretary of the Army in the Hoover MaJ.

Gen. Patrick J. Hurley. He was assigned a simple task: Just slip over to China and get Chiang and Mao and Vinegar Joe Stilwell to cooperate. Not long after, the embassy staff at Chungking found that Hurley was out of his depth.

As Barbara Tuchman says In her splendid book on Gen. Stilwell, Hurley became rattled, "raging and cursing, disrupting every embassy routine," and convincing himself that there was a conspiracy against hdm. Political officers of the staff made a final try; when Hurley was out of the way they declared in a unanimous cable home that China was on the brink of civil war, that we. must find some formula for working with Mao or see him turn to Moscow. It wasn't to be.

All the embassy' staff was transferred. Stilwell was recalled. FDR died. Truman succeeded, China fell as predicted, and up rose Joe McCarthy. Hurley suddenly resigned, charging that "a considerable section of our State Department is endeavoring to support communism." John Patton Davies was ousted as a "communist sympathizer" because he said it was better to cooperate with Mao than let him go to the Russians.

Later the courts rehabilitated them. But the hate-China policy went on and on. It was unnecessary, like Vietnam, but we had to play out our madness. At the Geneva post-war conference in 1954 Chou En-lai extended his hand to John Foster Dulles, who spurned it. The1 powerful China Lobby had its "Committee of One Million." Britain's Harold Wilson found Chou at Geneva "an extremely impressive personality; friendly and warm in all his dealings with us But not Americans; they couldn't fool us.

At home Luce's magazines spread the word; Life, for example, on June 28, 1954, carried a statement "by the editors of Life magazine" calling Chou "a political thug and professional assassin." They printed beside it an article by a correspondent in Geneva sadly noting how the Chinese were gulling Europeans but adding that "most American diplomats know Chou En4ai for what he is a iruthless intriguer a conscienceless liar, a saber-toothed political assassin." Here, Mr, Nixon, meet saber-tooth. A Civilian at S.S. Krti with Starts In tti UnitW Stolo, Canada, Puarta Rica, Auitf alia Strout 11! ifDoiniSln) But what Service and Ludden and John Pat-ton Davies fought was stronger than they an illusion of American omnipotence expressed in global evangelism, compounded with fear and hate of a mysterious, omnipotent, Godless communism. It led us into Vietnam. It led us to force Mao into Moscow's arms and to try to isolate a nation with one-fifth the world's population.

The China Lobby led the crusade. The Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek looked out from the cover of Time as Henry Luce's worshipful image of "Man and Wife of the Year." In America, too, there was patronizing complacency over the inferior yellow men: As Sen. Kenneth Wherry exclaimed, "With God's help, we will lift Shanghai up and up, ever up, until it is Just like Kansas City." Franklin Roosevelt, as the Pacific war continued, decided to bypass the State Department and use persqnal diplomacy. Personal diplomacy can be faster than the orthodox i Vietnamese Starved "PACK" CAMERA CASE Our Reg.

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"This, in large part, explains why commodities are sold for piasters to buy rice rather than consumed by the recipients." The bootlegging Is so brazen, another State Department expert that the needy often are given the food from a U.S. truck, and on the spot, turn around and sell it to a black marketeer. The corruption was sufficiently bad In 10 provinces that they were cut off completely from Food for Peace aid. Yet, elsewhere, a U.S. field official reported the peasants "were literally eating the bark off trees and were near starvation." In one such starving area, disabled Vietnamese veterans "forced themselves Into the province warehouse and stole commodities." American advisers who tried to stop them were threatened.

When the advisers sought to truck out the food, the hostile veterans threatened "reprisals." The Americans called in the U.S. Army and "the Amerlcal division (had) to truck the food back." In one instance, lower level advisers tried to report Incidents to pacification chief William Colby, but a supervisor' told them to "keep your mouth shut." Thus, the scandal was kept hushed up while each year more than half the $18 million worth of food failed to reach the three million Vietnamese. Finally, the program was all but shut down. Footnote: Food for Peace coordinator Irwin Hedges told us the bulgar was sent to Vietnam because Indonesians liked It and U.S. officials thought Vietnamese would eat it, too.

Hedges, speaking of the overall Food for Peace disaster, said: "Some of the violations were so flagrant, I'm surprised there was no publicity. But in the context of the whole Vietnamese debacle, I oppose this seemed kind of minor." PORTRAIT OR CLOSE-UP KIT SALE Our Reg. 11.97 the cable traffic between Secretary of State William Rogers and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Last fall, Bunker wired Rogers about what was happening to the pre-cooked wheat which had been sent by the thousands of tons to feed hungry Vietnamese. Bunker said "Marty recipients (have) little or no knowledge of bulgar's food value or method of preparation." Bunker reported the costly grain has become "identified as livestock feed." Bunker's own secret files put It more bluntly.

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