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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. RUSSIA’S BIG MISTAKE WASHINGTON. — If the Soviet government had deliberately set out to make mistakes it couldn’t have made more than it has piled up in the past year. In the one year that has passed since V-J Day, Russia has won the ill will of her neigh boring countries in Europe, has lost virtually all her friends in the United States and lias turned most of the world against her. In considering our present strained relations with Russia, this is all-important. It indicates that time is running on our side, that Russia’s own policies are playing into our hands, and that war can be avoided. One year ago Soviet Russia was considered the great savior of the woild. In Europe, the Russians were given credit, far more than the United States, for liberating the occupied countries, were even hailed by some as the pioneers of a new world order. In the U. S., most Americans had a genuine ad miration for the heroism of the Russian people and looked for ward to a period of friendly co operation. Today that good will has vanished. In all of Russia’s satellites, with the possible exception of Finland and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet is extremely unpopular, even hated. Romania and Bulgaria would bolt Russia in 9 minute were it not for the Red army. Hungary and Aus tria, which Russia hoped to win over, voted overwhelmingly against the Soviet. In France the strong Co. nmunist upsurge now has hit the downgrade. Even in Yugoslavia, where Tito is supposed to be su-. preme, the Russians are not popu lar. Most interesting fact is that the countries nearest the Russians usually‘dislike them most. Thus in more distant France, there is more pro-Soviet sentiment than in the ad jacent Balkans. Finally, in the American-British zones of Germany, Germans are fearful lest the western allies even tually evacute and Russia walks in. • • • U. S. STOCK GOES UP Thus the world has turned against an aggressor nation. Thus also, the world has turned toward a nation which has no selfish axes to grind and which is attempting to co-oper ate with the rest of the world. This is what Secretary of State Byrnes has sincerely tried to do at Paris; and as far as this observer could ascertain, his patient, fair- minded policy is paying dividends. Part of the world, once ready to sing Russia’s praises, has veered toward the United. States. Therefore, the No. 1 point of American policy should be to work things out within the family of Rations; to put Palestine and ot^p- controversial problems under the United Nations; not to let the British drag us into separate al liances. This is our greatest dan ger. If we oecome the tail on the British kite, we can he euchred into war with Russia — exactly where the British foreign office irrtperial- ists want us. But as long as the smaller independent nations of the world are convinced of our unsel fish motives, as long as we re main aloof from both sides, our strength as a world leader is secure. • • • TENSION INCREASES However, this alone may not head off war with Russia. As this is written, censored diplomatic dis patches from the Far East report three days of rifle skirmishing be tween American and Russian troops along the Korean border. This is the first time U. S.-USSR troops have deliberately fired at each other. Another censored dispatch from London reports the British general staff meeting daily to plan strategy for defending the British lifeline in the Near East. In other words, certain belliger ent elements in Russia are quite willing to risk war now; and cer tain elements in England believe a showdown is better now than later. In a charged atmosphere like this, one spark can cause tragedy. However, this observer’s experi ence in watching foreign affairs con vinces him that seldom does any nation provoke an incident if it knows that incident means war; thus the best way to prevent war is to let a prospective belligerent know he will get it in the neck if he sticks his neck out. In other words, if Russia knows categorically and definitely that she will be at war with us if she be comes an aggressor against the United Nations, then the chances are 100 to 1 Russia will risk no war. * * * COULD HAVE STOPPED HITLER To illustrate: If Adolf Hitler had known he would have been at war with France and England when he sent his troops into the Ruhr and Rhineland he never would have given them marching orders. As it was, fearing war, he gave them two sets of orders, one to advance and the second to retreat if the French resisted. Likewise, Hitler never would have sent his troops into Aus tria if he hadn’t known the Allies were unprepared. He was right as later events proved. ' ^Uectfome RepjVit&i in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Correspondent WNU Washington Bureau, ISlf Eye St.. N. W. Atomic Bomb Must Be Outlawed, Or Civilization Is Doomed 'TP HE President’s committee, -*■ headed by Sen. Carl Hatch (D., N. M.) which observed the atomic bomb tests at Bikini, and the mili tary evaluation board of the joint chiefs of staff have submitted their first report on these naval experi ments in atomic energy. After reciting the results of the two blasts, the President’s commit tee tersely said: “The tests at Bikini strongly indicate that fu ture wars employing atomic bombs may well destroy nations and change present standards of civili zation.” This "reporter, as one who wit nessed the Bikini experiment, is firmly convinced that unless there is a change in thinking, a veritable revolution in the minds of the Amer ican people regarding the future of atomic energy, and specifically the atomic bomb . . . unless there is an end to our monopoly of this tre mendous force, we may keep our secret for a few short years, but we shall gain the hate and envy and suspicion of the entire world. There is no alternative . . . either we share the secret of the atomic bomb and not only outlaw it inter nationally as a weapon of war, and outlaw war itself, or we surely are headed toward a third world war of annihilation. This nation and no other nation can protect itself against atomic power merely by outlawing it as we have outlawed poison gas. There is a defense against poison gas. Within a few years other nations will have mas tered the secret of the manufacture of atomic bombs, and against these bombs there is and there will be no defense. No matter how holy we may be. in our determination not to use this absolute weapon aggressively, we will continue * to reap the distrust and suspicion of every other nation. We have used it against Japan. Why would we not use it again? Such is the reasoning of worried realists everywhere. The Baruch report to the United Nations, without question, should be adopted. And the United Nations should ban the bomb, and to keep it banned, should organize an inter national inspection or police force to make certain there is no evasion afoot. 'Golden Rule' Cited Speaking on the atomic bomb and atomic energy recently, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace said: “We have all heard of the golden rule. Some of us say that it is a beautiful ideal, but not very prac tical. I say that Christian morality, not as practiced during the last 1900 years, but as Jesus himself taught it, has finally become the most practical thing in the world. “The golden rule means that we look at things from the other fel low’s point of view as well as our own. If every nation in the world could, for one week, drop its selfish, hateful, maneuvering and adopt the golden rule, we would work out an international moral code that would permit us to use atomic energy safely so as to unlock for us one door after another to abundance and joyous living.” The scientists and physicists who discovered and successfully manu factured the atomic bomb are the most international-minded people in the world. They have real interna tional co-operation and internation al thinking. International peace will not come until the rest of the peo ples of the world have this same feeling of co-operation. Scientists are aware of the horror they have created in the atomic bomb . . . they are aware of the danger of the Frankenstein boomerang . . . and no group has been more vocal than they in urging that their secret, now our secret, be given to all the nations and that international con trol for protection be set up in the United Nations. The committee report pointed out that the bureau of ships is studying the results of the Bikini tests and says, “undoubtedly they will point the way towards changes in ship size, design and structure.” The report further says that such changes in ships can offer increased immunity from flash and blast ef fect, but such changes will not pro tect manpower from the catastro phe of deadly gamma and neutron radiation. This reporter believes that once atomic energy is let loose in war, there will be no need for navies. There will be nothing for them to protect, no cities, no navy yards, nor harbor installations. Neither will there be any need for armies. For war with atomic bombs will mean a war of extermination of civilian populations. The wisest minds now working in our military establishment can see no adequate defense, not even much chance of minimizing the terrible destruction which would ensue even by going deep underground. STANDARD OF LIVING RISES IN U. S. . . . This photo-diagram shows how the average income of American families has risen and how the incomes have been more equally distributed since the semi depression year of 1936 to the postwar year of 1945. The figures show that millions of families have joined the middle income group, al though 70 per cent still fall below the S3,000-a-year mark. In the lowest brackets the total has dropped nine million families. PISTOL-PACKIN’ BADGETT QUADS . . . The seven-year-old Badgett quadruplets, Galveston, who have been accorded high honors by the governor of Texas, who has named them official Rangerettes. The girls, in high boots and full “Rangerette” equipment, do a little target practice on the Galveston beach in preparation for their newly appointed honor. Left to right: Jeraldine, Jeanette, Joyce, and Joan. The girls are in the second grade in schooL TWO AMERICANS IN FRANCE . . . Seeking the peace and quiet of the French countryside on a Sunday, away from the heated peace conference at the Luxembourg palace in Paris, U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and the American ambassador to France, Jefferson Caffery, found themselves in the village of Joy-En-Josas. Caffery (left) and Byrnes (right) are shown with Leon Blum, former French premier, and his grandchild. PALS NO LONGER . . . Marshal Tito, Yugoslav chief of state, is shown here (left) with U. S. Am bassador Richard Patterson Jr., when they were on a hunting trip together at Ruma. Patter son’s outspoken blast in connec tion with Yugoslav air attacks on unarmed American transport planes may have ended a beauti ful friendship. GREETINGS, IKE ... A charm ing Panamanian girl, dressed in native La Pollera costume, is cap tured by the warm and friendly smile of genial General “Ike” Eisenhower during a temboritO dance while on visit to Panama. EX-NAZI ENLISTS . . . Renato Caravelli, 19, shown at Philadel phia where he enlisted four weeks after returning from Germany where he fought for his Nazi enemies throughout the war— against his will. CHEMISTRY’S HIGHEST . . . Prof. Roger Adams, University of Illinois, one of leading organic chemists, who has been awarded the Priestley Medal of the Amer ican Chemical society—the organ ization’s highest award for 1946. TENSENESS IN TRIESTE . . . The politically tense situation in Trieste, bone of contention between Italians and Yugoslavs, snapped when a hand grenade explosion put a period to pro-Italy demonstra tion protesting international administration of the disputed zone. Ten persons were wounded in the explosion. The photograph was snapped at the height of the turmoil, as a policemrn tried to subdue one of the demonstrators. DOUBLE-DECKER . . . Elbie Fletcher, first baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and his six- year-old son, Bobby, team up to spear a couple of high ones as they enjoyed a pop-and-son frolic before game against Cincinnati Reds. THE PSYCHIATRIST AND THE WORLD ("Psychiatry may play an important part in world peace. United Nations World Health Organization is told."—News Item) Doctor (looking at the battered world) — Now just relax and be perfectly candid with me. I want to find out what’s the matter with you. World — Can you find anything th=it ain’t? Doctqr — It’s all a matter of psy chiatry, I think; just a matter of reviewing your past life. World — Reviewing my past will be no help, doc. It only makes me feel worse. Doctor — Just leave that to me. Now we’ve got to find out what has made you act the way you do. Did anything ever happen to you as a child? Did you ever fall out of your high chair? World — I couldn’t say for cer tain. But I’ve been falling out of it ever since! • Doctor — I ask that because I ob serve many bruises on your head. World — You should see the ones in some other places! * Doctor — Was your home life marked by violence at any period? World — Sometimes I don’t feel that I had any home life; it seems that I was always on horseback or on an army truck. Doctor — Did you as a child feel frustrated, unable to express your self, balked in attaining your de sires? World — One time when I showed up with gun powder, which was really a lovely plaything, they bawled me out sumpin’ awful. I got licked for that, too. Doctor — Clear as a bell! They filleo your young mind with the feeling of frustrations. Your natural development was thwarted. I’ll bet they even objected when you played with poison gas. » World — Yep. What a row they made. I remember they said I would come to no good end and might even wind up as the kind of boy who would throw atom bombs. » Doctor — Just as I thought! You were never allowed to express your self fully! You became an intro vert, a duplexvert and possibly a nincomvert. World — Yeah! Ain’t parents awful? (This settles everything. The psychia trist promises to fix him up in no time. All he has to do is to let himself go, shake off all inhibitions, regard himself as mas- tei of his fate, take some new vitamins, and come in every Tuesday between soars), • a • Four Years Later ("Guadalcanal invaded four years ago this month.”—News item.) 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