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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS British Laborites on Rocky Road; Scientists Warn of H-Bomb Threat; Senate Spy Hunt to Be ‘Witchless’ (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) If V " 'i-t.- ■■ k ■-J S.-.’.-.-A-t.W . •.•. : v REPORT ON MASS-DESTRUCTION WEAPONS . . . Sen. Brien McMahon (left) chairman of the joint congressional atomic energy committee, confers with Gen. Omar N. Bradley shortly be fore Bradley, who is chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff, reported to the senate-house group on possible types of mass- destruction weapons an enemy might use against the U.S. BRITAIN. Close Call British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his Labor party were •till holding the reins of British government—but it had been a mighty close call. There was a serious question of how long the Labor government could stand as m result of its meager majority in parliament. Added to that was the peril of an intra-party strife in which it was reported left-wingers in the party were planning a test of Strength with more moderate lead ers of Attlee’s government. THE PROBLEM was an easily obvious one: Should the Labor par ty walk easily in the face of its hairbreadth escape from defeat in the elections, or should it strike out boldly for continuation and expan sion of socialism? The primary interest in the elec tion for Americans was, of course, whether or not the British people were committed to more socialism and resultant nationalism of indus try and their way of life, or had they grown apprehensive enough concerning the direction of govern ment to change it? The answer was clear to the ex tent that a bare majority of the people are satisfied with condi tions—enough at least to return the Labor government to power. But, significantly enough, the balance of that power had waned so much in the past five years that it was almost nonexistent. WHAT DID IT MEAN? It was much too early to gauge the elec tion's effect on the American econ- omy or on Europe’s overall re covery program, but disappoint ment in the U.S. was widespread and there was some concern lest the uncertainty of the Labor gov ernment’s position interfere serious ly with American recovery plans abroad. win One American newspaper wom an was able to put into print con cisely and graphically the diver gent British viewpoints when she ^ reported a Conservative as saying that England would never recover until the Laborites were complete ly thrown out, and a poorer-class ' workwoman declaring that she didn’t care how much she had to do without, just as long as the rich didn’t have any more. H-BOMB: More Warnings More and more came the warn ings from experts of the dread po tentialities of the hydrogen bomb. True, there was some disagree ment, but a poll would show at this stage that a majority of scien tists who should know what they are talking about believe the bomb could kill everyone in the world. Four top scientists have issued that warning. They have declared that the bomb, if it works, could be a suicide bomb. Why? How? Here’s what they say: IF THE BOMB is ever made and used, it would kill slowly by poi soning everything and everyone with radioactive dusts. The dusts would be carried around the world by the winds. The dust would be in the air peo ple breathed. It would settle on and poison plants and trees, everything hu mans eat or use. THE H-BOMB, they add, could be intentionally rigged to do just that—and it would be relatively simple to do it. Makers of the bomb would have only to put harmless chemical , elements around the H-bomb. The bomb it self would turn these chemicals into the fantastic killing dust. Dust of that sort could be made so that it would remain active a few days, a few months or as long as 5,000 years. That is a frightening, appalling possibility. But there is a ray of hope. These same scientists say it will be an other three years before anyone will know if the bomb can be pro duced. That gives mankind a little time in which to make up his mind. The decision had better be right. SPY HUNT: No 'Witches' There was to be "no witches— no whitewash’’ in the senate for eign relations subcommittee’s probe of alleged infiltration of Communists into the U.S. state de partment. That’s what Sen. Millard Tydings (D., Md.) said of the investigation when he was named chairman of the committee which was to con duct it. THE NAMING of the committee stemmed from charges by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) that an un-named group of Communists hold— or have held—high state de partment posts. But, McCarthy rather put the committee on the spot at the start when he said that if President Tru man persists in his refusal to make state department employee loyalty files available, "an investigation would be useless.” Mr. Truman has so persisted and declared he would ignore the senate’s action in granting subpoena rights to the committee. Indications were that a court test of the President’s position was in the making if the committee chose to use its subpoena rights and called upon the President to deliver the wanted records. TYDINGS DECLINED to pass on this issue at the outset, and said, instead, that he expected a “full, fair and complete investigation” of McCarthy’s charges. "We will let the chips fall where they may,” he said, "and this will be neither a witch-hunt nor a whitewash.” The senator’s intentions no doubt were good—but there might be little to worry about where the chips would fall, so long as Mr. Truman declined to pass the com mittee the axe they needed. Answer Still ‘No’ President Truman persisted in his refusal to give congress con- fidental loyalty files on federal employees. However, he said he .had prom ised the senate foreign relations committee he otherwise would co operate in disproving what he called false charges made by Sen ator McCarthy (R., Wis.) that a Communist ring exists in the state department. He told newsmen that subpoena powers voted by the senate for committee investigators would “make no difference” to him, pointing out that it would be dif ficult to serve a subpoena on the President of the United States, since the government affords him protection from such services. And, indeed it would. But, it doesn’t say anywhere that the President may not give informa tion—if he chooses—to those seek ing to ascertain the degree of this nation’s security against subver sive elements. SPUD TALK: Ethics vs. Dollars It was ethics versus American taxpayers’ dollars as the senate argued whether it would be honest for congress to remove the price supports already promised on the 1950 potato crop. AS ALMOST every schoolboy knew, the government’s potato pro gram was one of the most jumbled, fantastic, reason-assaulting pro cedures ever evolved in the U. S. Farmers were being paid a sub sidy on potatoes to compensate them for market price differen tials, each year the potato surplus was growing, and farmers were permitted to buy back the subsi dized potatoes as low as one cent per hundred pounds for use as fer tilizer. And all this in the face oi world food shortages and a real need for the surplus potatoes by local relief agencies and school lunch programs over the nation. ODDLY ENOUGH, many Repub licans were stringing along with the lets-not-destroy-subsidies think ing, with Sen. Scott Lucas, Illinois, Democratic floor leader, sponsor ing a move to cancel price sup ports for all 1950 potatoes not al ready planted. Republicans favored ing retention of the 1950 subsidy plan included Senators Brewster, Maine, Aiken, Vermont, and Milli- kin, Colorado. Lucas was on firm ground as far as economy and mathematics went. Already the record showed, the U.S. is in the red 100 million dollars for price support operations on the 1949 crop alone. Lucas jibed at Republicans for talking about the need for economy and then opposing his potato-curb legislation. PROGRESSIVES: Support for Henry Too much attention to name calling and too little attention to issues. That’s the way O. John Rogge, former assistant attorney general of the United States, summed up the trouble with the new Progressive party of which Henry Wallace—one-time vice-pres ident of the United States—is the chief figure. ROGGE’S STATEMENT was made in support of Wallace, who had made a virtual demand that the party stop trying to "save face” for the Communists in dec larations of policy. The party held a convention in Chicago to develop aims and ob jectives during which Rogge de clared of the party’s being called "Red baiters”: "We should be as unafraid of that label as we are of the labels ‘Communist’ or *Communist front.’ ” There were delegates who found signs of new attitudes among Soviet-friendship groups as an out growth of the Tito-resistance. The resolutions committee was re ported to have shelved quietly an anti-Tito statement. Rogge touched on this schism briefly when he said: "WE SHALL NOT BEND reason backward in order to attempt to justify the conduct of the Comin- form countries toward Yugoslavia. But when the Soviet Union offers a plan in the field of atomic en ergy which, with all its faults, at least offers a better basis for open ing and continuing negotiations than the Baruch plan, we are go ing to say just that.” No one doubted Rogge’s stand. The Progressives, whether they were happy about it or not, were so completely tagged with Soviet- sympathy labels that there would be no confusion in the minds of the voters when its candidates of fered for office. Whadda You Think? EDUCATION Military Effort at School Rule Charged According to scores of educators and other prominent people in the United States, there is a "system atic and well-financed effort” by the national military establishment to “penetrate and influence the civ ilian educational life of America.” This charge was contained in a booklet of 80 pages of fine print, out through the national council conscription. Among the signers were famed scientist Al bert Einstein, author Louis Brom- field and a number of prominent church leaders. The report centered on the ac tivities of the reserve officers train ing units, military science teach ing, research contracts with uni versities, and what it sees as t trend toward putting military in high educational places. According to a group of Hol lywood photographers, Tony Curtis, a new star on the movie horizon. Is the possessor of a profile worthy of comparison with that of the late John Bar rymore, whose profile was an international classic. In this composite photograph, you can compare Barrymore’s (left) with Curtis’ and make your choice. LOOTER: Force of Habit Leslie C. Potter, the 40-year-old Detroit factory personnel expert who turned burglar by night was a victim of habit, he told police. Admitting some thousand or more burglaries in the Detroit area over the past seven years, he said loot ing homes was his “avocation.” Incidentally, there was quite some profit in Potter’s hobby— possibly as much as $80,000, au thorities said. “I GOT ONE TOO” . . . Dr. Wellington Koo (left), Chinese ambassador to the United States, tells Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, wartime O.S.S. head, that he received the Alexander Hamilton medal last year. Donovan received the medal this year. It is presented to a Columbia university alumnus each year for distinguished public service. ’.yw.y.y.+ CONGRESSMAN PLEADS GUILTY . . . Rep. Fred Crawford (R., Mich.), who was jailed for striking amateur boxer Ray Hanbury, makes friends with Lt. Elon Turner of the Prince Georges county, Md. f police shortly before his appearance in court. The 62-year-old lawmaker, who remained in jail over a weekend in protest against Maryland bond system, pleaded guilty to assault charge and paid $25. FRANKLIN INSTITUTE HONORS MARSHALL . . . Gen. George C. Marshall stands in front of statue of Benjamin Franklin in Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, holding award of hohorary membership pre sented the general in recognition of his outstanding ability as a military leader and statesman. The membership award is given rarely by the institute and only to recipients of the Franklin medal, highest honor conferred by the institute on scientists or those who have served their country and humanity. SLALOM CHAMPS . . . Georges Schneider, Switzerland, and Dag- mar Rom, Austria, are the “he” and "she” of slalom after the meet sponsored at Aspen, Colo., by the Federation Internationale de Ski. He woi world champion ship and she won women’s and giant slalom events. CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE? . . . Jacqueline Hanneman, Indian apolis, won 1950 national cherry pie baking contest in Chicago. She traveled to Washington, D. C., to present her winning pie to Presi dent Truman. mm DIGNITY UNIMPAIRED . . . Bulgarian charge d’affaires Dr. Peter Voutov walks quickly from the state department after being informed that the United States has broken off diplomatic relations with his Communist • controlled country. /. NOT * PENNY POLITICS . . William Boyle. Jr., chairman. Democratic national committee chairman, samples a steak before the $100-a-plate Jefferson-Jackson day dinner in Washington recent ly- ■ DELIGHTED YANKEE . . . Left-handed relief-pitching ace of the New York Yankees, Joe Page, waves his brand-new contract as Yankee general manager. George Weiss looks on. Page signed his 1950 con tract at an estimated $30,000 salary, after having rejected an earlier otter. The Yankee southpaw told reporters that he was “surprised and delighted” over his new contract. Joe pulled enough games out of the lire last year to win the pennant and world’s series for the Yanks. 1^'.. PENSIVE PRINCESS . . . This is the birthday portrait of Holland’s littlest princess. Marijke. who was three years old recently. The pen sive expression could be caused by the fact that she already feels the weight of state affairs. Safety Precautions R epublicans win probabb wise-crack at this one, but since Russia’s discovery of H-bomt and A-bomb secrets, it’s likely tha: the President and Vice-Presiden 1 of the United States will not agair attend a Jackson Day dinner undei the same roof. Regardless of the political party in power, this is not a pleasant kind of internal security precaution to contemplate. Nevertheless, after the Jackson- Jefferson Day dinner, someone be gan considering the gruesome ques tion as to what would have hap pened if an enemy had sent a sur prise plane over the Arctic Circle on Feburary 16 and dropped an A-bomb on Washington. Not only were the President and Vice-President under the same roof, but also every member of the cabinet, the Democratic governors of 10 states and a good part of the senate and house representa tives. The speaker was also present, and if such a catas trophe had occurred, it would have been up to a speaker pro- tern to convene the house, while Senator McKellar would have had the power to convene the senate. Whether congress would have then called for special elections, or whether the Republicans would have taken ovfer the administration is a debatable question. Undoubtedly, however, the Re publicans would have had to take over for the time being, since few Democratic leaders would have been left, and since three to six months would have been necessary to make nominations and conduct the final balloting. There also would be the question of who would declare war with pari of congress gone, and who would make the vital decisions neces sary to carry on a war. Tragic Possibilities These are just a few of the prob lems which aren’t pleasant to think about but which have to be considered in view of the now defi nite fact that Russia has all our atomic secrets. This is also why the administra tion, after inexcusably long delays, is finally and almost frantically working on civil defense, including an alternate capital of the United States. For, should a bomb be dropped on Washington, it would mean the destruction of all FBI fingerprints, all civil service rec ords, all veterans insurance and pension records, all military de fense plans, income-tax records, the Library of Congress and the government archives dating back to the beginning of the republic. In fact, there is some doubt whether the government could function at all immediately after the destruction of these records. A period of chaos would be certain, military plan ners fear, unless careful plans are made now for an alternate capital, with microfilmed rec ords stored there. Speculation is that an alternate capital would be safest somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, possibly Denver or Salt Lake City. John L Lewis’ Judge Federal Judge Richmond Keech, the man who had been slapping John L. Lewis with those back-to- work court orders, was teethed on law enforcement. His father was a District of Columbia policeman. However, the 53-year-old jurist is not a chronic “crack-downer,” but a quiet, amiable man with a homespun air that belies his black robes. He also has a tremendous, liking for people, particularly little people, a characteristic developed in the days when he used to fight consumers’ battles against the pub lic utilities as people’s counsel of the district Later Keech became a member of the public utilities commission and served for a time as corpora tion counsel of the D.C. govern ment before- President Truman recognized his talents and made him a White House administrative assistant His automobile also is easily rec ognizable. For years Judge Keech’i tag had been “16.” A bachelor, looking younger than his years, Keech would be a big success in the Washington social whirl, but he shuns it. His only concession to ’’high society” is an occasional ride with a hunt club in near-by Mary land. “Dictator” McCarran Dictator Franco’s friend. Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada, has been using Dictator Franco’s methods inside the senate judiciary commit tee. In order to smear the displaced persons commission, McCarran held secret hearings without noti fying other committee members. It was a virtual star-chamber pro ceeding. On the other hand, he re* fused to grant the displaced per sons commission a hearing to de> fend itself. ] if-''. ■ -W ’ CLASSIFIED department BUSINESS A INVEST. OP FOR. PEANUT roasters and warmer*, popcor* machines, hot dog and hamburger ma- chines: bargains. 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