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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. ]
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