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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- U.S. Orders Expulsion of 22 Czech Officials; Observers Say Political Picture Becoming Foggy, Unreal (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.) Truman Speaks ! RUSSIA: Wants Hot War Most Americans, who cannot make themselves believe Russia is ready or wants a war, were being told otherwise by European diplomats. diplo-mats. In Europe the belief is growing that Russia now accepts a shooting war as the alternative to the cold war in winning world supremacy. Until recently experts believed ' European security could be viewed in terms of political activity and economic pressure. A recent poll of European diplomats, diplo-mats, however, reveals that they now believe the political bureau ol the Russian Communist party soon will be willing to fight a hot war in pursuit of its aims. One reliable source declares the Russians would be "ready" to fight in 1952. By then the Soviet Union will have a stockpile of atomic bombs and numerical superiority in ground and air forces. The Russians are estimated to have 20,000 first-line planes in operation oper-ation at the present time. That would indicate Russia may be able to fight a "hot war" on a moment's notice. It is generally accepted by observers that the atomic bomb is already in production behind the iron curtain. BARUCH: Stop Inflation Since the war all classes of Americans Amer-icans farmers, laborers, businessmen, business-men, office workers have worried about inflation. For all of them the dollar buys less than before the war. Of late, however, there has been little said or done about the inflation spiral. Now Bernard M. Baruch, adviser to Presidents for 40 years, has taken another swing at inflation. "Inflation is the cold war we Americans are waging against ourselves," our-selves," the statesman warns. "Inflation affects the integrity of all our defenses, both moral and military, national and international," internation-al," he added. "This continuing spiral doesn't necessarily mean trouble at the moment, but it means trouble ahead if we don't put a stop to it. Sowewhere along the line, the balloon always bursts." The national situation as he sees it finds the country balancing precariously pre-cariously between employment and the maintenance of a high standard of living, and unemployment and inflation. in-flation. We must work out a program to curb inflation that will be fair to everyone, he said. No one will like it, but we must do it and s'oon. STATE DEPARTMENT: McCarthy Lied The state department had waded into the McCarthy spy hunt of the department's personnel by1 issuing a white paper that hints that the senator deliberately lied. Assistant Secretary Edward W. Barrett sent 500 newspaper editors an eight-page analysis of McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's speech which charged the department was overrun by Communists. Com-munists. . Barrett's reply contained a point-by-point denial. While it did not assert as-sert in so many words that McCarthy Mc-Carthy was lying, the document repeatedly re-peatedly sought to show that he uttered "misstatements" and "inaccuracies." "in-accuracies." Meanwhile, the loyalty files, recently re-cently turned over to the senate foreign-relations subcommitte investigating in-vestigating communism in government govern-ment posts, were being studied. Senator Tydings, chairman of the committee, said he would make a full report to the people on the contents of the files. Eighty-one cases were being investigated. in-vestigated. . Parting? CZECHS: U. S. Hits Back The United States has ordered . expulsion of 22 Czech officials from this country in retaliation of recent anti-American conduct by that country. The U.S. note, which hinted at future diplomatic blows against the Kremlin - controlled government, charged Czechoslovakia "will not or cannot" conduct itself decently with other nations. Diplomats considered the U. S. note strongly worded and saw the action as clear evidence of the disintegration of relations between the two countries. It reduced the number of Czech officials in this country from 33 to 22. The state department note said in part: "Since the United States cannot conduct normal diplomatic and consular con-sular functions in Czechoslovakia and since the relations between the two governments are being restricted re-stricted in scope through the actions of the Czechoslovakia government, the latter has been requested within a reasonable time to close its consulates con-sulates in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and to make a reduction in its official of-ficial personnel in the United States similar to that demanded of the United States in Czechoslovakia." The expulsion order means the Czech government will have 11 representatives rep-resentatives in this country, all possibly pos-sibly in Washington. The order does not include that country's representation represen-tation to the United Nations. A-BOMBS: Nearer to Europe Millions who have had the jitters since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan received a new jolt when it was announced U. S. military officials are considering placing atomic weapons within easy reach of this country's European allies. Such a move indicates that this country would use the atomic bomb in case of war and has no immediate immedi-ate plans of trying to get it outlawed, out-lawed, observers said. Some congressmen called the idea terrible and predicted 98 per cent of the legislators would rebel if it should be presented to them. Observers agreed that initial congressional con-gressional reaction to the idea indicates indi-cates it will have tough sledding if it reaches Capitol Hill. Military authorities were exploring explor-ing the highly controversial proposal pro-posal and possible safeguards against having the bombs fall into enemy hands. Before atomic weapons could be made available to European members mem-bers of the Atlantic pact, however, congress would have to amend the atomic energy act. SANDERS: Farms for Living Dr. Hermann N. Sanders, deprived de-prived of his right to practice medicine medi-cine in New Hampshire following his mercy slaying trial, has turned to tilling the soil for his neighbors to support his wife and three daughters. daugh-ters. "; Some observers, however, felt he would be reinstated when the state , medical board let him apply on June 19. Meanwhile, the doctor was supplying supply-ing his own tractor for the farm This is a part of the "10 acres of citizens" that turned out to hear President Truman on his "non-political" tour across the nation. He is pictured speaking from the rear platform of his special train. POLITICS: Foggy and Unreal Observers are beginning to shout that the current political scene is becoming so foggy and unreal that the general public is confused. Perhaps Per-haps it is the observers themselves who are confused. Regardless of their shouts, however, how-ever, President Truman concluded his tour across the nation making as many as 16 speeches a day while congress tied itself into knots on one issue after another. As if that wasn't enough, the Dixiecrats had mapped plans of winning the Solid South and were screaming louder than anyone about deficit spending and creeping socialism. The President has been making speeches pointing out: (1) The lower low-er brackets can double their income in-come into "real" money within the next 10 years, possibly as high as S4.000 a year; (2) Republican charges that the Fair Deal is leading lead-ing to socialism are "silly nonsense;" non-sense;" (3) TVA power developments develop-ments "will keep us the most powerful pow-erful nation in the world"; (4) The nation's output of goods and services can be lifted to 350 billion dollars by 1960. In the East, meanwhile, the house cut the "one-package" appropriations appropria-tions bill by an estimated one billion bil-lion dollars and sent the measure to the senate. The vote, 362 to 21 was considered consid-ered a big defeat for Truman. Democrats joined Republicans in making the cut. In the South, publisher J. Oliver Emmerick told the third annual States' Rights convention that "our task is to sell the people against deficit spending, creeping socialism social-ism and the totalitarian state." They seek to weld the south into the nation's most powerful minority, even so strong they could become the national balance of political power. And, from the looks of things, they may succeed in creating crea-ting another congress very hostile to Truman. GERMANY: When A Treaty? Germany may never get a peace treaty, some political observers i ' - I' s, ; ti work and moved about from job to job on a trailer attached to his automobile. auto-mobile. Neighbors said his rate of pay for plowing and cultivating farmlands farm-lands of the area was $4 an hour. NATIONALISTS: Repulse Landing The Communists tried a practice landing on Chushan island 100 miles southwest of Shanghai but were repulsed, re-pulsed, the Chinese Nationalists report. The announcement caused speculation specu-lation that the invasion of Formosa itself, protected by 100 miles of open seas from the mainland, was about to begin. Nationalists sources said they regard re-gard a Red "inside job" as great a threat as an actual invasion. A Communist fifth column on Formosa For-mosa had been broken up, it was reported, but many of the Red agents remained at large. The Nationalists had nothing to say of their raid a few days earlier on villages on the mainland, 50 miles southwest of Chushan. WHISKEY: Big Business The whiskey industry has long been big business, but now it comes to light that moonshiners apparently are producing more whiskey in the United States than the legal distilleries. dis-tilleries. A spokesman for the industry said moonshine stills seized by state and federal officials in 1949 had a daily productive capacty of 97,709 gallons more than the nation's distilleries. iwvk uiiiLtru. J.iie uuus were uemg made after America, Britain and France announced they will keep troops in Germany and refuse to write a peace treaty as long as Russian policy divides the country. For that reason there may never be a treaty, observers report. Russia Rus-sia is not likely to change her policy because it would be a political defeat. de-feat. The Soviet is only interested in victories. The western powers said: "In view of the continued refusal of the Soviet government to permit inhabitants of their zone of occupation occupa-tion to rejoin their fellow countrymen country-men in a democratic and unified Germany, it has not been possible, and will not be as long as this Soviet policy persists, to proceed to conclusion of a treaty of peace with Germany. "In the present situation of Europe supreme authority must remain re-main in the hands of the Allied powers." The three powers, however, have agreed to the gradual modification of many controls to which western Germany is still subject. Shadows Republicans may have talked down President Truman's "nonpoli-tical "nonpoli-tical trip," but they kept an eye on him just the same. The eye was Victor Johnson, executive ex-ecutive secretary of the Republican senatorial campaign committee. He shadowed the President across the nation by chartered plane and showed up at all the chief executive's execu-tive's important speeches. The movie fans of the, nation were startled with the rumors of "strained relations" between Bing Crosby and his wife, Dixie Lee. This 1939 photograph shows the Crosbys with their four sons. Bing is in Europe and will not return until mid-June. GAMBLING: 13 Billion Take The American Academy of Political Poli-tical and Social Science reports there are 50 million suckers in the United States who lose 13 billion dollars a year to gamblers. The experts said Americans bet eight billion dollars a year with horse-race bookies. Pari - mutuel machines alone account for $1,600,-000,000 $1,600,-000,000 a year and produce more than 100,000,000 annually in tax revenue. |