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f . New Yo ad 7 sAyuaaa_ . ” { in . . . febols & Memos to the Editors '. Rose hine Bak a f° Mmpiaine 7 ities y nj” she nas qiscriig ngied agpalbst io the Stork Cinb end ths he 5 Tacy been to. $ ——YT waz not in pe Stork eit at the time of the alieged dis Harbo___ courtesy...I saw Miss Baker and her party arrive. ,J saw them Alden seated at a table—about six or seven from where I gat with news . Rat Fay va ,paper friends...1 was told that they were served at least two.rounds K sony ‘of drinks before any unpleasantness happened. . ' ‘ \ Laugh) : From where I sat everything seemed both normal and peaceful, 4 —_— -and It did not occur to me that it would be otherwise...After nearly — - Mobr one hour, my friends and I left to attend the after-midnight preview Tele. Ro of a new movie on B'way...I did not know there had been any . on incident until Jate the next afternoon when I received a complaint Nease , by telegram. : me ; ra G t After 20 years on the air and almost 30 in the newspapers, I, . BPOY het thought my record was crystal-clear when minorities are gettin <7 Eee kicked around. It irritates me now to have to recite that recor : . and disgrace myself with any defense. But I have to do it to = V/ G remind some people whose Memories are astonishingly short...The ~ re facts are that whenever I have been called upon in the case against. (Pe ne man's inhumanity to man I was always easily recruited, For. - ¥ anyone to demand of me where I stand when ANY person is dis- . criminated against in a public place, means that that person is no friend of mine. . ; ‘ | Lam apnailed at the apony and embarrassment caused Josephing © ' Baker and her friends at the STork Club. Bul | al coually pppesica \ Ad ( at thelr efforts to jnvelve jue ip an incident in which i had no part \ arty A The following letter is from Walter White, executive secretary : \evu” of the National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People:” : . “Dear Walter: I have examined the facts in the Josephine : BakerStork Club incident, J have learned that you were unaware | ; of what happened and did not know that she had been the subject f. of discourtery. . a thet “[ know your record too well in your opposition to racial and i“ every other kind of discrimination to petieve that you would be a party to any insult to human dignity.—Walter White” ‘base week J called attention to a notorious amendment attached to the Declaration of Peace with Germany. I gave it my entire newspaper col'm on Tuesday. -Thanks to many thousands of readers am | ON ° who sent it to their Congressmen, that rotten amendment was de- \ JOU w l df y . “ feated by a voice-vote in the U. S. Senate 2 days Jater...The highest ee . es taxes in our history are about to go into effect, The lax bill is 80 RR high that European money is running away to South America for fear it will have to pay part of the cost of defense. The truth is ‘that if European troops are as timid as Europe’s money, we are - =, > \ MS \ — kidding ourselves if we think we have allies. The financial crisis a 4g due in Europe because financial showdown with our allies ia ee overdue in Washington...The new pay-as-you-go policy is mis-named, — It means they GOQ—and we PAY! so , / ‘By all means dow Nier’s...The -, L” + entire number _ts packed with exciting articles by_Juany_leading : | “Verlers. Wis s friohtaning Low ute ex war... ' a) , .” Some fi ; Fee nian Wevery Russian " mts 6 suthors in it are Robert E. Sherwood, Hanson W. Baldwin, Lowell Thomas, Edward R. Murrow, Philip Wylie, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Hal Boyle of the A.P., and mine is on page 89... = t { European currency is staggering. A whole series of devaluations ,- 1 ‘ig in the wind. The Yugoslavian dinar, the French franc and the | | British pound are in trouble. ..The big financial crisia over there j ; ‘may come in Feb....I¢ Mr. Churchill wins, the Conservatives will Wash. Post NOT abolish socialized medicine. In fact, the Tories will. expand . t public housing... The Int i : : . at is now_the * Wash. News Times-Herald _ ! * eS Cominform, a word _originat il the Dale-r ar on 'The murder of the Pakistan Premier" | was ‘a job by Niussian intelligence. The assassin’s house revealed §& Wash. Star stacks of money, and the slain man carried large sums...Nehrue 4 . ~ Pakistan relations wi ne li not be ruptured by the assassination...Tyge .. * p nem no British: 5 search for McLain & N.Y. Mirror D —_— or agents are s plane D " ; : . ara : “Til fat the last moment) wo amnasa : i Period... Sacha } He de VOU Pe Machov, the former stage manager and dance director.of the Sadler's *~ Wells ballet, has committed suicide. Ix, protest against ‘the ‘com: a igegion of the Czech National*Opera’ .% 7285)