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This is the concluding installment of the study “The Dallas News and Communist Russia” in The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly by Dr. Paul Boller Jr., professor of history at SMU. DALLAS On October 24, 1943, the Dallas News declared : “Whenever anyone is heard saying that the British are outslicking us or that we dare not trust Russia much, it is well to remember that this is Nazi propaganda. No matter how honest and patriotic the American who repeats such statements, he proves himself gullible and a victim of enemy wiles. We can ill afford to win the war on the military fronts and then lose it because we fall for the lies of Hitler’s propagandists. . . .” To the very end of the war in August, 1945, the News remained confident that there were no geographic reasons for AmericanSoviet conflict after the war and that there were very good economic reasons for friendly relationships. Even after the war ended, the News for several months was still referring to the Russians as “Cornrades in Peace,” denouncing “Russian-baiting” in the United States, explaining \(though not entirely policy in Poland, in the Baltic states, and in the Balkans, and urging Chiang Kai-shek to come to terms with the “agrarian Communists” of North China in order to end a civil war that might endanger world peace. In a 1945 editorial opposing peacetime conscription, entitled “Defense against Whom?”, the News expressed confidence that “there is about as little reason going to war with each other as has ever existed between two great powers in the history of the world. Though they have strikingly different political and economic concepts, there is no conflict of economic interests. Russia lies in a broad band across Eurasia from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The, United States lies in a somewhat smaller band across North America between the same two oceans. Each country has practically unlimited resources for maintenance of a high standard of living for its own population. Each country has its sphere of influence. Keeping the peace boils down to a question of whether the United States and Russia will come to grips simply because they want to fight or whether they will maintain peace because reason is on the side of their doing SO. “In making this decision, the burden is more upon the United CLASSIFIED Wanted to trade 100 acres of undeveloped oil land in Montague Co., right in the middle of the field of production, production from 1/2 mile to 1 1/2 miles, trade for rooming house in Austin. C. R. Teague Sr., Box 488, Weatherford, Texas. MARTIN ELFANT Sun Life of Canada Houston, Texas CA 4-0686 osophy which it had once looked upon with distaste. THE TRANSFORMATION could not have been more complete. From an eminently fair-minded, reasonable, open-minded and mildly New Dealish organ of opinion \(whose ideal in the 1930’s and 1940’s seems to have been the “enlightened conservatism” of the ing the 1950’s became one of the leading spokesmen for blind and irresponsible reaction in the United States. In the 1930’s and 1940’s the News had regarded William Randolph Hearst’s “sensationalism and his cooked-up crusades and red scares” with contempt; in the 1950’s it came to out-Hearst Hearst in its practice of associating anything of which it disapproved with communism and subversion. At one time, the News hailed the work of the American Civil Liberties Union in defending the rights of unpopular minorities; today, it refers to it sneeringly as a “Swivel Liberties Union.” Once, the News heartily supported the civil-libertarian decisions of the Supreme Court; today, it calls the Court a “Judicial Kremlin” because of its continued concern for our Bill of Rights freedoms. X 3C DO YOU KNOW A TEENAGER WHO WANTS TO GO TO EUROPE? Small liberally oriented tour has two openings. Combine sightseeing with study of people and problems. 7 countries, 2 weeks in German camp. July 9-August 24. $960 from NYC. TOUR FOR TEENS, 4806 Hopkins K 7C States than upon Russia. Russia is logically pervaded by. a psychology of fear and suspicion because of the isolation to which she has been subjected, during the last quarter century. BUT THE “SOFTNESS” toward / Russia \(as the News would put torial pages of the Dallas News in 1933 did not long outlast World War II. The intensification of the Cold War \(which commenced shortly after the Yalta conference 1947, the Berlin airlift, the triumph of the Reds in China, the Korean War, and the intervention of Red China in Korea gradually wrought a major traneformation in the outlook of the editors of the News. Alienated, like most Americans, by Stalin’s apparently implacable hostility toward the West in the postwar period, the News came in time to abandon its Wilsonian dream of world peace and harmony sustained by the United Nations after World War II. But whereas a majority of American liberals moved, as a result of the new hard-boiled Stalinist line, from noncommunism to anticommunism, without abandoning their liberal principles: the News gradually discarded the liberal faith that had animated it for so many years and replaced it with a phil .01 Once, the News regarded the liberal position In politics as an honorable one to take; today, for the News, a liberal Is scarcely distinguishable from a Marxist who, in turn, is scarcely distinguishable from a Russian agent. During the 1930’s and 1940’s, as we have seen, the News supported, in the main, the policy of the Roosevelt administratiOn toward Soviet Russia. Today, the News refers to this same policy as “The New Deal-Queer Deal foreign policy” and charges that it was shaped by “an unknown number of subversives, perverts, and miscellaneous security risks.” Despite a remarkable continuity in editorial personnel on the News, during the past quarter of a century, the views expressed by the editors have in recent years been almost completely turned inside out. The editors of the Dallas News have, of course, a “perfect right,” as we say, to change their minds. There are few of us who have not modified our views of things during the past few years under the impact of the breath-taking and, at times, bewildering changes that have taken place in our world. What the News does not have a right to do, morally at any rate, is to distort the history of the 1930’s and 1940’s in such a way as to convey to its more than 200,000 readers the notion that … \(Intent Dealers to undermine the American Way of Life is responsible for the time of troubles in which we now live. It especially has no right to do this, it seems to me, when the policies of the 1930’s and 1940’s which it now sees as part of a liberal conspiracy against the United States were heartily endorsed, at the time, by the editors of the News. The record \(which could be amplified in far greater detail most of the points of view which the News, in retrospect, regards with horror and denounces with savagery once appeared regularly on the editorial pages of the News itself. If they were part of a New Deal-Queer Deal plot, then the News editors were among the plotters. It is high time that the editors and owners of the Dallas Ne.vs faced that fact. PAUL F. BOLLER JR. Conclusion RELIABLE REAL ESTATE SERVICE Arthur Hajecate METROPOLITAN REALTY CO. 4340 Telephone Road HOUSTON, TEXAS LEGALS NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INCORPORATE WITHOUT CHANGE OF NAME Notice is hereby given that W. E. Sheppard, doin,g business as W. E. Sheppard Company, located at 112 Cornell, San Antonio, Texas, intends to incorporate without change of name. W. E. SHEPPARD dba W. E. Sheppard Company Dated at San Antonio, Texas, June 7, 1961. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INCORPORATE Notice is hereby {given that J. J. Lampis and G. C. Sarris doing business as Christie’s, 3031 Broadway, San Antonio, Texas, intends to incorporate under the name of Christie’s, Inc., on July 1, 1961. Dated at Austin, Texas, June .., 1961. Owners J. J. LAMPIS G. C. SARRIS 115260 CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO: Guy Brown, the legal representative of Guy Brown, deceased, the heirs of Guy Brown, deceased, the legal representatives of the heirs of Guy Brown, deceased. You, and each of you, are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the Courthouse of said County, in the City of Austin, Texas, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10:00 o’clock A. M. on the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof that is to say, at or before 10:00 o’clock A. M. of Monday, July 31, 1961, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause No. 115,260, in which M. Z. Piland is plaintiff and Paul K. Odiorne, Earl Wilson, Agness Wilson, Guy Brown, the legal representatives of Guy Brown, deceased; the heirs of Guy Brown, deceased, and the legal representatives of the heirs of Guy Brown, deceased, are defendants, the first amended petition in said cause having been filed in said court on June 13, 1961, and the nature of which suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment for plaintiff against defendants Paul K. Odiorne, Earl Wilson, and Agness Wilson for the unpaid balance of one promissory note for $2,000.00, of date December 18, 1952, signed by Earl Wilson and wife, Agness Wilson, payable to the order of defendant Paul K. Odiorne in annual installments, and for the interest and attorneys’ fees which have accrued on said note; and for foreclosure of a vendor’s lien on Lot No. 11, in Cameron Acres, a subdivision of the John Applegate Survey, in Travis County, Texas, and for foreclosure of a deed of trust lien on said Lot No. 11 and on Lot No. 10 of said Cameron Acres; for order of sale, writ of execution, writ of possession, costs, and general relief. All of which more fully appears from plaintiff’s first amended original petition on file in this office, to which reference is here made. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, Jr., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and seal of said court at office in the City of Austin, Texas, this June 13, 1961. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk, District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By A. E. JONES, Deputy CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS wife, Velma C. Weed, if living, and if dead, the legal representatives of each of said named Defendants, and the unknown heirs of each of said named Defendants; the legal representatives of the unknown heirs of each of said named Defendants, if the unknown heirs of said named Defendants are dead; the unknown heirs of the unknown heirs of said named Defendants, if the unknown heirs of the unknown heirs of said named Defendants are dead; defendants, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause. by commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before. 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 31st day of July, 1961, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 122,549, in which Herbert J. Konze and wife, Alma Konze, are Plaintiffs and the hereinabove named defendants are Defendants, filed in said Court on the 16th day of June, 1961, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiffs and against defendants for title to and possession of the following described lands and for damages: Parcel of land 50 feet by 150 acres of land part of the Henry P. Hill League, in Travis County, Texas, according to map or plat recorded in Vol. 197, pp. 425-428, of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: BEGINNING at an iron stake which is North 30 deg. 11 min. E. 88.89 feet and S. 59 deg. 49 min. E. 48.89 feet distance from the original Southwest corner of that 4.42 acre tract of land which was conveyed to Elijah Morris by N. G. Shelley, as recorded in Book 59, Page 400, Travis County Deed Records; THENCE 48.89 feet distant from and parallel to the West line of the aforesaid 4.42 acre tract of land, North 30 deg. 11 min. E. 150 ft. to an iron stake; THENCE South 59 deg. 49 min. E. 50 ft. to an iron stake; THENCE South 30 deg. 11 min. W. 150 ft. to an iron stake on the S. line of partition Lot No. Two THENCE with the S. line of deg. 49 min. W. 50 ft: to the place of beginning, and being the same property conveyed to the grantors herein by warranty deed of Louise Shepherd, a feme sole, dated April 20, 1946recorded in Vol. 793, pp. 46-48, Travis County Deed Records. Plaintiffs allege that on the 15th day of November, 1960, they were and still are the owners in fee simple of said land; that on said date defendants unlawfully entered upon and dispossessed plaintiffs of such premises, and withholds from them possession thereof, to which possession they were and are legally entitled. Plaintiffs further allege that by virtue of defendants wrongs they have been damaged in the sum of Two Hundred Dollars. Plaintiff