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Show Page !2252 THE JOUBNAL J WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS States Orders Expulsion of 22 Czech Officials; Obseruers Say Political Scene Decoming (Foggy, (Unreal . The United States has ordered expulsion of 22 Czech officials from this country In retaliation of recent conduct by that country. The U.S. note, which hinted at future diplomatic blows against the controlled government, Kremlin will not charged Czechoslovakia 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 S3 to 22, The state department note said in anti-Americ- 4 an part: Since the United States cannot - - 'a - A ar conduct normal diplomatic and consular functions in Czechoslovakia and since the relations between the two governments are being restricted in scope through the actions I" of the Czechoslovakia government, the latter has been requested within This la a part of the 10 acres cona reasonable time to close its of citizens" that turned out to sulates in Cleveland and Pittsburgh hear President Truman on his and to make a reduction in its oftour across the ficial personnel in the United States nation. He Is pictured speaking similar to that demanded of the from the rear platform of his United States in Czechoslovakia. special train. The expulsion order means the Czech government will have 11 rep RUSSIA: resentatlves in this country, all pos Wants Hot War slbly in Washington. The order does not include that countrys represenMost Americans, who cannot tation to the United Nations, make themselves believe Russia Is ready or wants a war, were being told otherwise by European diplomats. Nearer to Europe In Europe the belief is , growing Millions who have had the jitters that Russia now accepts a shooting since the first atomic bomb was war as the alternative to the cold dropped on Japan received a new war in winning world supremacy. jolt yrhen It was announced U. S. Until recently experts believed military officials are considering European security could be viewed placing atomic weapons within easy in terms of political activity and reach of this country's European economic pressure. allies. A recent poll of European diploSuch a move indicates that this mats, however, reveals that they country would use the atomic bomb now believe the political bureau of in case of war and has no immedi- the Russian Communist party soon ate plans of trying to get it out- will be willing to fight a hot war in lawed, observers said. pursuit of its alms. One reliable source declares the Some congressmen called the Russians would be ready" to fight Idea terrible and predicted 98 per cent of the legislators would rebel In 1952. By then the Soviet Union if it should be presented to them. will have a stockpile of atomic Observers agreed that initial con- bombs and numerical superiority in gressional reaction to the idea indi- ground and air forces. The Russians are estimated to cates it will have tough sledding if have 20,000 first-lin- e planes in operit reaches Capitol Hill. That Military authorities were explor- ation at the present time. would able Russia indicate be may ing the highly , controversial proposal and possible safeguards to fight a hot war" on a moment's ' against having the bombs fall into notice. It Is generally accepted by observers that the atomic bomb is enemy hands. Before atomic weapons could be already in production behind the made available to European mem iron curtain. bers of the Atlantic pact, however, congress would have to amend the BARUCH: atomic energy act.Stop Inflation Since the war all classes of AmerSTATE DEPARTMENT: icans farmers, laborers, businessLied McCarthy men, office workers have worried The state department had waded about inflation. For all of them the dollar buys into the McCarthy spy hunt of the department's personnel by issuing less than before the war. Of late, a white paper that hints that the however, there has been little said or done about the inflation spiral. senator deliberately lied. Now Bernard M. Baruch, adviser Assistant Secretary Edward W. to Presidents for 40 years, has Barrett sent 500 newspaper editors taken another swing at Inflation. an eight-pag- e analysis of McInflation Is the cold war we Carthys speech which charged the Americans are waging against ourdepartment was overrun by statesman warns. the selves," Inflation affects the Integrity of Barretts reply contained a all our defenses, both moral and denial. While It did not asmilitary, national and Internationsert in so many words that he added. This continuing was lying, the document re- al, spiral doesnt necessarily mean peatedly sought to show that he trouble at the moment, but it means uttered misstatements" and in- trouble ahead if we dont put a stop accuracies." - A w safe- non-polltlc- al" 1 A-BOM- BS: I i i - V r i i ! j h 1 4 i I point-by-poin- t Me-Carth- h Meanwhile, the loyalty files, re cently turned over to the senate to it. Sowewhere along the line, the balloon always bursts." The national situation as he sees foreign-relation- s subcommitte In- It finds the country balancing prevestigating communism in govern cariously between employment and ment posts, were being studied. the maintenance of a high standard Senator Tydlngs, chairman of the of living, and unemployment and incommittee, said he would make a flation. full report to the people on th We must work out a program to contents of the files. curb inflation that will be fair to cases were being Eighty-on- e everyone, he said. No one will like it, but we must do it and soon. Repulse Landing The Communists landing on Chushan southwest of Shanghai Republicans may have talked down President Trumans nonpolitical trip, but they kept an eye on him just the same. hii'A 3 report.' The eye was Victor Johnson, ecutive secretary of the Republican senatorial campaign committee. He itself, protected shadowed the President across the open seas from by iqq Jjj cation by chartered plane and about to begin. the showed up at all the chief execu- Nationalists tives important speeches, ard a Red .1nsWll Said the President: Mr. Johnson threat a, aa is perfectly welcome to buy a ticket Communist fifth ctuaj and come aboard the presidential mosa had been broken., special train to get the facts." reported, but man, 0( It waa evident the GOP had a tong agents remained at larn memory. Republicans were not-s- o ..The. !?a!lonalIs M concerned about the Presidents their raid a lew ay on 1948 tour no were ey taking villages on the mafiS chance8 0f a repeat performance. miles southwest of ChusV The President won great popu- SANDERS : larity in 1948. Johnsons job was to listen to Farms for Living wha the President had to say and Dr. Hermann N. Sanden then issue comments. He did not ac- a prived of his right to practice t year possibly as blb 0 cept the invitation to board the cine in New Hampshire folk a year; (2) Republican ciaj train his mercy slaying trial, hai ? charges that the Fair Deal is lead to tilling the soil for his ne A ing to socialism are silly non- to support his wife and three P sense;" (3) TVA power developters. ments will keep us the most pow 13 Biliiun erful nation in the world"; (4) The Some observers, however, The American Academy of Poll nation', output o good, and services I tlcal tnd Social Selene, report. would be reinstated when ( be lifted to 350 billion dollar, there are 50 million tucker. In the medical board let him by United States who lose 13 billion June 19. In the East, meanwhile, the house .dollars a year to gamblers, Meanwhile, the doctor wair cut the approprtaexperts sald Americans bet ing his own tractor for fljf) t ons bill by an estimated one bil-elght billion dollars a yeap wIth work and moved about from i lion dollars and sent the measure to horse-race bookies. Pari mutuel Job on a trailer attached to hii the senate. mobile. machines alone account for $1,600,The vote, 362 to 21 was consid- - 000,000 a year and produce more ered a big defeat for Truman, than 100,000,000 annually in tax WINNIPEG: joined Republicans in enue. Thousands Flee making , the cut. Gamblers take $1,000,000,000 a One of the greatest evict In the South, publisher J. Oliver year from slot machines and the ever undertaken on this ee Emmerick told the third annual numbers racket accounts for $1, was carried out when tkt Rights convention that our 000,000 to $3,000,000,000 annually, forced to flee flood kt were task Is to sell the people against Economic experts shook their deficit spending, creeping social- - heads as they studied the figures, Winnipeg. As many as 110,0 to safety ism and the totalitarian state." Thirteen billion dollars is almost reported transported waters. They seek to weld the south Into as much as the United States will Red river flood Flooded by heavy rains k the nations most powerful minority, spend on national defense this year, North Dakotas, Minnesota and i even so strong they could become As a final warning to the Amer-th- e bk national balance , of political lean public, the academy reports itoba, the river smashed flooded! and power. And, from the looks of I you may think you have a way to Winnipegs dikes 600 About blocks. of it things, they may succeed In crea- - win, and may enjoy an occasional dreds farm lands1 Manitoba of miles ting another congress very hostile winning streak, but youll finish under water south of the city. to Truman. broke, because you never get a 0 proposition. Observers are beginning to shout the current political scene is Wfcta iplaltu arc (Eiltsr's Nilii la theta calamus, they iifduii becoming so foggy and unreal that ra thaaa af Westara Ntjrspspar the general public is confused. Per- Unlaas aawt aaslsts sal act act al this atwspspar.) attarlly haps it is the observers themselves who are confused. Regardless of their shouts, how- ever, President Truman concluded bis 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 wasnt enough, the Dixlecrats had mapped plans of winning the Solid 1 South and were screaming louder r u i J-than anyone about deficit spending 01 and I creeping socialism. The President has been making v O 'a 7 speeches pointing out: (I) The low- er brackets can double their In come into real money within the L Truman Speaks C NATIONALISTS; Shadows (United )a ex-th- srei J at . W 6,5 spe-$4,00- iue t one-packag- e" - rev-Democr- ats 000,-Stat- es 50-5- BRINK'S: GERMANY: CONVICT: When A Treaty? Records Meetings Germany may never get a peace treaty, some political observers Iowa state officials were thrown have hinted. The hints were being into a buzz when it was announced made after America, Britain and I over a Cedar radio station France announced they will keep that a prisonerRapids had secretly In Germany and refuse to corded board sessions and parole write a peace treaty as long as smuggled recordings outside the Russian policy divides the country, prison walls. For that reason there may never Gov. William S. Beardsley or-b-e a treaty, observers report Rus- - dered an investigation. Robert C. sla Is not likely to change her policy Lappen. member of the board of PoUUcal de-- control, wanted to know how he wo'd ,b Soviet only Interested secreted the microphone in the room and smuggled the recording out of mfJlclones I The western powers said: the reformatory. c0lUin'd reful A Pete Hellyer, 47, r UulU rler,nment MCP- - machinethe recorder In the prlWs shop and made the tapes whlch broadcast over tt. m,n ind lck Cedar ,?' Rapids station. ?nd m nM K.n. P0SSi!1vf' I Th come: Hellyer went Into confinement and Iowa 1" solilary policy persists, proceed to finals had VWy red faceS conclusion of a treaty of peace with Germany, CC 10 'In the present situation of Europe supreme authority must re- - Losing Cold War main in the hands of the Allied T . I Foster Dulles, recently powers." . . named special assistant to Secre- TVio State Acheson, charged that aCTeed to the eradliai modification losUlg th cold of many controls to which western I .UnUeI SUlM war. Germany is still subject The administration and the state department are unhappy about the WHISKEY: statement observers report Big Business Dulles, however, made the state The whiskey Industry has long I department unhappy by one state-bee- n big business, but now it comes ment He said on the basis of my to light that moonshiners apparently personal contacts" there was no are producing more whiskey in the disloyal employees in the state States than the legal dis- - partment tilleries. assistant to Secretary Ache- A spokesman for the Industry son also charged the United States said moonshine stills seized by state lost out In China because Russia and federal officials In 1949 had a I used its best political minds" while daily productive capacty of 97,709 the United States was content to gallons more than the nations disdrift" In the belief China always tilleries. would be friendly. rec-troo- ps )! 5' 1 ? f1 life-term- Robbed Again Brinks has been J K three Brinks guards uCoca, tered a Tompsonville, J tory with a $15,000 Boston police reported sonville gang was differ the one that pulled the j 7 Parting? er, perjcp I Ts of-Sovi- et de-Unlt- ed - I The national known protectlf J cy was taken for $15,000 thiij In January the firms Bolt! was robbed of $1,700,000, the largest robbery in tbe K history. 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