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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
U. S. Defense Setup Challenged;
Progress Reported in EGA Field;
Truman Signs Crop Increase Act
OEOnOB'S NOTE: When •plniena are expressed In these eolnmns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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DEFENSE:
Charges Hurled
Charge* that the government has
been “ragging its feet” in organ
izing civil defense against an A-
bomb attack and in telling Ameri
cans how to protect themselves
have been hurled by four big-city
officials.
MAYOR Elmer E. Robinson of
San Francisco minced no words in
asserting that federal authorities
have “fumbled the ball” of civilian
defense. He urged that a policy of
total defense be inaugurated imme
diately by the federal government.
Federal planners have said that
local officials will have to assume
primary responsibility for civilian
v defense against Atomic warfare,
tile government's role being that
of coordinator.
THAT MUST have seemed an odd
stand to take to officials who have
no knowledge of atomic bomb ef
fects or of the first steps t# take
toward protection if such bombings
occur. Surely public leaders were
within the bonds of reason and logic
when they demanded that the gov
ernment channel to them more in
formation on how to provide pro
tection against atomic warfare—
information which only the federal
government possesses, if anyone or
any group does possess it.
The government's attitude seemed
a callous one and hard to reconcile
with all the scare techniques prev
alent in connection with the possi
bility of another war in which the
A-bomb or the H-bomb would be
the most frightful weapons.
FOREIGN AID:
Some Progress
As the economic cooperation ad
ministration started its thifd year
of operations, Marshall plan coun
tries were being urged to take two
steps of paramount importance to
make themselves independent of
extraordinary outside aid by tha
time EGA ends in June of 1952.
COUNTRIES participating in the
Marshall plan were to be told tfiat
they should intensify efforts to sell
more products to the United States
and other hard-currency areas.
EGA pointed to that as one means
of closing the dollar gap.
In that connection, the agency
continued, the U.S. could assist by
following increasingly liberal im
port policies and commercial pol-
cies generally so that trade bar
riers do not prevent European
countries from increasing dollar
earnings in this country.
AS to European economic unifi
cation, EGA stated its belief that
the establishment of an effective
European payments union is of
great importance. Elimination of
public and private trade restric
tions also were said to be a con
tributing factor to economic unifi
cation.
As a result of increased produc
tion and financial and political
stabilization, EGA said, commu
nism has been placed on the de
fensive in all participating coun
tries.
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Defense Secretary Louis John
son (right) talks “cold war”
in a “hot” shirt as he and
President Truman discuss de
fense strategy and anti-Com-
mtwist activities at the “little
White House” in Key West,
Fla. Secretary Johnson’s shirt
recalls the “Solomon-in-all-his
glory” quotation, t but even it
was topped by one the Presi
dent frequently donned for
pictures.
CROP BOOST:
A Compromise
In any manner likely to affect
the farm vote—with the congres
sional elections not so many
months away—President Truman
showed an unwonted disposition to
compromise, rather than come out
fighting against anything he didn’t
like, as he has done su frequently
in the past.
THE PRESIDENT compromised
on an agricultural bill raising ac
reage limitations on cotton and
peanuts for 1950 and modifying
price supports for Irish potatoes
next year.
In signing the measure after
long study, the President noted,
according to the presidential press
secretary, Charles G. Ross, that
“the good features outweighed Ue
undesirable features.” And wi'n
that profound utterance, the bill
was signed into law.
The President acted after under
going heavy pressure from groups
urging approval or veto of the
joint resolution.
The section affecting potatoes
knocks out price supports for po
tatoes in 1951 unless marketing
quotas are then in effect. Addi
tional legislation would be needed,
however, to put such quotas into
operation in 1951.
THE MEASURE as approved
authorized an increase of 1.5 mil
lion acres in cotton acreage this
year and a 50 per cent increase in
acreage of peanuts planted for oil
production. The previous cotton al
lowance was 27 million acres.
It would permit peanut growers
—^principally in Texas and Ala
bama — 100,000 more acres and
would permit excess peanuts to be
grown for oil without penalties on
certain conditions.
HOGS:
No Props
For the first time within the past
eight years, hogs were being bought
and sold at major U.S. markets
without any price supports—and
dealers admitted it was difficult to
note any difference.
PRICES were steady to 25 cents
higher. What did that mean? Was
it an indication that federal agri
cultural planners could have been
wrong all these years? If that were
the case, there probably would be
no admission of it.
In fact, one U.S. department of
agriculture spokesman hailed the
event as a “normal market.” It
was “just a matter of supply and
demand,” he naid, as if the de
partment had been aware of and
had considered that venerable Jaw
ever since the government went
into the farming business.
FARMERS and traders, however,
held varying opinions as to what
might happen when the markets
opened for the first time since hog
price supports were allowed to die.
Some felt growers would become
panicky and flood the market with
hogs. But, as was reported, nothing
happened.
Anti-support adherents, never
theless, could draw little consola
tion from the evident, for farm
ders had made it clear vigorous
efforts would be made to restore
hog price props.
SUBMARINES:
But Whose?
Cloaked with all the color and
trappings of mystery and suspense
was the report that a naval officer
had made instrument contact with
“one or more” unidentified sub
marines about 17 miles off the Cali
fornia coast.
OFFICIALLY, the western sea
frontier, which ordered the hunt,
•reported “results and comment
negative.” It added the search had
discontinued.
JAPAN:
Bible vs. Marx
Believing that Christianity and
the Bible are the dykes that are
holding up the flood of communism
in Japan, the American Bible So
ciety is beginning a campaign to
send Bibles to Japan — Bibles
printed in the Japanese language.
Already the society has dis
tributed a total of 2,789,956 Bibles
among the Japanese, but it is felt
—and this sentiment is shared by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, that isn’t
enough.
GENERAL MacARTHUR isn’t
alone in that opinion. He has asked
for millions more. And Dr. Shiro
Murata, an officer of the Japan
Bible Society, said: “The eyes of
Japan are fixed on two books. One
is Das Kapital by Karl Marx. The
other is the Holy Bible. Japan is at
the crossroads.”
To usher in its program of Bibles
for the Japanese, the American
Bible Society this month is spon
soring a huge signature book of
donors for the purpose of raising
funds with which to purchase and
send the Bibles. Every person
who contributes one dollar or more
to the project will be asked to sign
the donor book.
WHEN the campaign comes to
an end, probably this fall, the huge
book, bearing the signature of ev
ery donor, will be forwarded to
Japan where it will be displayed
in the offices of the Japan Bible
Society as a token of friendship
from the people of America to the
people of Japan.
Adam’s Daughter?
Did Adam have a daughter, no
mention of whom is in the Bible?
Dr. Guido Kisch, noted scholar,
has declared that a 900-year-old
Latin manuscript claims that Ad
am had a daughter whose name
was never mentioned in any ver
sion of the Old Testament. Dr.
Kisch said the manuscript, oldest
and most accurate version known
as “Biblical Antiquities,” men
tioned a daughter named Noaba.
SECURITY:
A Denial
U. S. State Secretary Dean Ache-
son branded as falsehoods state
ments by Sen. Joseph McCarthy
that Owen Lattimore—whom Mc
Carthy has called a Soviet agent
—was the actual director of Ameri
can policy in the Far East. An
swering questions at a press con
ference, Acheson added that:
1. Lattimore never was em
ployed by the state department.
2. He (Acheson) isn’t sure he
ever met Lattimore.
3. Lattimore’s contacts with the
state department have been limit
ed to a few occasions.
4. According to his information,
Lattimore never had a desk at the
state department.
Lattimore, a Far Eastern expert
and a professor at John Hopkins
university, had reached London
from Afghanistan, from whence he
was returning to answer •Mc
Carthy’s charges. In London, Lat
timore branded the McCarthy
charges as “unmitigated lies.”
McCarthy, meanwhile, was in a
hospital after a four-hour senate
speech in which he said he would
produce a witness who would
swear Lattimore was a member of
the Communist party. He told the
senate he has documents to prove
that Lattimore was a Soviet agent
who was getting instructions from
Moscow as long ago as 1936.
Lattimore was most important
to McCarthy, for the senator had
declared he would rest his entire
case of Communist leanings in the
state department on the outcome
of his charges against Lattimore.
And, unless the senator could
produce his witness and his docu
ments, the case boiled down to one
of the senator’s word against that
of Acheson and Lattimore, with
the public deciding as it pleased
about who was right.
FLYING DISKS:
Navy Says 'No'
If there are, or were, any flying
saucers whirring through space,
the United States navy has nothing
to do with them and knows nothing
about them. The air force said the
same thing.
THE SERVICES also denied that
they are developing secret planes,
guided missiles or anything else
that could be mistaken for flying
saucers.
These denials were issued after
two published reports traced the
saucers to navy and air force “se
cret” projects.
An air force spokesman declared
that “the armed forces are not do
ing anything that could be traced
to being the basis of reports of fly
ing saucers.”
He said the air force position was
the same as it was last December
when it announced—after investi
gating 375 reports of flying saucers
— that they were “misinterpreta
tions of various conventional ob
jects, a mild form of mass hysteria
or hoaxes.” In other words “there
ain’t no such thing” as a flying
saucer.
A NAVY SPOKESMAN denied
with equal vigor that the navy is
developing super-speed planes that
have been spotted as “saucers.”
Said he: “The navy is not ex
perimenting with, or doing research
on, any type of plane or guided
missile that resembles in any way
a flying saucer.”
So, that should be that. However,
it would be difficult to convince
many Americans that there are no
flying saucers, and if a troubled
citizen, seeking, subconsciously or
not, a momentary relief from his
woes and burdens, thinks an object
in the sky is a flying saucer, no
particular harm has been done. In
fact it may do him some good.
Boy of The Year
David Russo, who was se
lected “Boy of The Year” of
the Boys Clubs of America,
holds the plaque awarded him
and gets a kiss from his moth
er after arriving in Hollywood
for a three-day tour of film and
radio studios.
GERMANY:
Crisis Impends
According to U. S. German High
Commissioner John J. McCloy, a
“real crisis” appears inevitable in
Germany. McCloy uttered the
warning in a talk before a con
gress subcommittee. He told a
house group that Soviet pressure-
is a result of confidence, rather than
any “sense of inferiority or fear ofi
attack” by western forces. “Hie;
Russians feel their strength,” he<
said.
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SURPLUS OF SURPLUS . • . The problem of disposing pt U.S. food
surpluses seems to have brought a surplus of bills designed to deal with
the surpluses. Miss Lorraine Adamson, of the house agricultural com
mittee staff, displays some of the proposed bills. If taped end to end.
they measure 20 feet In length.
OPPOSE RELEASING LOYALTY FILES . . . Attorney General J.
Howard McGrath (left) and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J.
Edgar Hoover testify in the senate loyalty Investigation of Senator
McCarthy’s accusations that Communists infiltrate the state department.
Both the. attorney general and the director of the F.B.I. voiced opposi
tion to release of United States loyalty flies to the senate committee.
BONE BANK . . . The U.S. navy has a bone bank, similar to a blood
bank, at the naval hospital in Bethesda, Md. Bones are obtained from
amputations and operations. Some are kept in whole sections; some are
ground. Here, a technician processes a rib for the bank under sterile
conditions. The bone will be ground Into small bits and made into bone
“patties” for storage. Navy scientists are seeking ways to keep skin
alive indefinitely as they can keep bones. A skin bank has already been
started.
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POWER BEHIND PRINCESS . . . The girl behind Princess Margaret
Is first-lady-to-waiting, Jenifer Jane Bevan. She has been described
as the “brake” on the princess, the only person, ontside of the princess'
parents, who can direct the headstrong Margaret. Although Miss Bevan
frequently and diplomatically places restrictions upon Margaret, the
flrst-lady-towaiting Is one of the British princess' favorite friends. Her
la a close friend of Queen Elisabeth.
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ACCUSED . . . Owen Lattimore.
John Hopkins university official,
replied to Senator McCarthy's
charge that he is a “bad security
risk” by labeling it “mere moon
shine.”
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FACES TRIAL . . . Jack Jordan,
Los Angeles, says he faces trial
in Bermuda because of bis refusal
to divulge private business trans
actions to the Bermuda govern
ment. He represents American and
British interests in a housing
project in Bermuda.
JUSTICE RECOVERS . . . Justice
William O. Douglas returns to his
office at, the supreme court after
a 10-month absence. He says he
has fully recovered from near-fatal
Injuries he suffered when a u«. se
he was riding slipped and fell upon
him.
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AIR FATALITY . . . Lawrence
Steinhardt, United States am
bassador to Canada, was killed
when a C-47 aircraft on which he
was a passenger crashed near
Ottawa, Ontario. Four other per
sons were killed in the crash which
occurred in a dense fog.
APPLE QUEEN . . . Marylyle
Cunningham, 17, high school
senior, has been named to rale
over the 31st apple blossom
festival of the state of Washington
in Wenatchee. The festival, planned
for May 4, S, C, attracts 100,Mt.
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Truman Hits Bask
P RESIDENT TRUMAN v really
poured it on mud-slinging Sen.
Joe McCarthy in a long-distance
phone conference from his vaca
tion headquarters at Key West
with congressional leaders in
Washington.
“What’s wrong with ,that fellow,
anyway? ” exploded Truman.
“Doesn’t he know that he is doing
irreparable harm to his govern
ment by all this loose talk?”
The President commented that
McCarthy's unsupported charges
that the state .department is
“loaded with pro-Communists” al
ready - had seriously undermined
the morale, and perhaps the effi
ciency, of this vital branch of the
government
“Think of the great numbers
of loyal personnel In the de
partment who have given their
whole lives to their govern- <
ment,” he said, “and think
* what McCarthy has done to the
spirit of these people. It
wouldn't surprise me if many
of them were thinking of re
signing) They probably figure
that they'll be next on Mo-
> earthy's v list and they dont
want to have their families
dragged through such an or
deal.” /
The effects of McCarthy’s char
acter assassination and reckless
ran tings were even more damag
ing .on U.S. prestige abroad, Tru
man emphasized, particularly in
western Europe, .where we must
keep our heads high in the, cold
war with Russia.
McCarthy has played right into
the hands of Russian propagand
ists who are doing everything to
sell their satellites and other west
ern European countries the idea
that the United States is divided
against itself, the president de
clared. '
He added that McCarthy had
made the job of our fdreign diplo
mats “doubly difficult,” because
they are afraid to be seen talking
to anyone who might be accused
of pro-Communist leanings in
France, Italy and other countries,
even in the course of their duties.
As a result, the President said,
our embassies and legations in
some countries had become “vir
tually isolated” and our foreign-
servieg personnel in thdse places
seriously demoralized.
Inside Facts
Things most people dont know
about alleged “Commies” in gov
ernment: Chairman of the state
department’s loyalty review board
charged with weeding out Commu
nists is a Republican—Gen. Con
rad Snow of NeW Hampshire. He
was appointed on the recommenda
tion of GOP Sen. Styles Bridges,
a backstage brain-truster for Sen
ator McCarthy’s attacks . . . Chair
man of tpe top loyalty review
board is also a republican, Seth
Richardson, who served under
Hoover. Most of the lawyers under
him are also Republican.
Neither Truman nor anyone
else can overrale them .. . only
the courts . . . Actually, Ache
son has fired more state de
partment employees than any
other secretary of state . . .
McCarthy's attacks have been
almost as vitriolic as Mos
cow's. Here is its latest dia
tribe against Acheson, “This
Fascist-like diplomat ... a
truly incorrigible liar . . swind
ler ... a hired lackey of the
instigators of war who spent
his scanty brains to belie truth,
freedom and peace . * . Ache-
son’s true mastert are the
banks and concerns who
dream of looting the globe.”
. . . Acheson's family is wor
ried over his terrific strain.
He is wondering whether he has
not beebme a liability, that for the
good of U.S. foreign policy he
should resign . . . Writes another
secretary of state, Henry L. Stim-
son, in the Hoover cabinet, about
Senator McCarthy: “The man who
seeks to gain political advantage
from personal attack on a secre
tary of state is a man who seeks
political advantage from damage
to his country.
“Flying Saucers”
Harassed over flying saucers,
the air force now refers queries to
the first chapter of the phophet
Ezekiel who saw a living wheel in
the heavens. Airmen are not argu
ing with Ezekiel and cast no doubt
upon what he s,aw. But they do
cast doubt on .modern prophets.
They say they have tracked down
every flying-saucer report, and
there ain’t no such animaL
The Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, slightly gleeful at pres
idential seasickness, remind him:
“Mr. President, modern stream
liners, manned by competent union
crews, run daily between .Wash
ington and Florida. And no little
brown pills are required.”
Two great Bible fans are fight
ing for the Republican senatorial
nomination in NeuT Hampshire.
Sen. Charles Tobey and challenger
Wes Powell are doing their best to
outquote each other . . . Bradley
Nash has written a book on Her
bert Hoover’s reforms.
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