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Show Page March TIIE JOURNAL 2 No Shaky British Labor Regime Attempts to Keep Reins; Could Wreck World Four Top Scientists Warn H-Bo- British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his Labor party were still 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 a result of its meager majority in parliament. Added to that was the peril of an intra-part- y strife in which it in the was reported party were planning a test of strength with more moderate leaders of Attlees government. THE PROBLEM was an easily obvious one: Should the Labor party walk easily in the face of its hairbreadth escape from defeat in the elections, or should it strike out boldly for continuation and expansion of socialism? The primary Interest in the election for Americans was, of course, whether or not the British people were committed to more socialism and resultant nationalism of industry and their way of life, or had they grown apprehensive enough concerning the direction of government to change it? The answer was clear to the extent that a bare majority of the people are satisfied with conditions 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. left-winge- Whadda You ThinV SPY HUNT: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS mb espreaaed In these eolamna. analyata and not oeceaaarilr of art (EDITOH8 NOTEi When opinion Western Newapaper Union new v. IktiW Witches' There was to be no witches in the senate forno whitewash yfi relations of subcommittees alleged infiltration of probe Communists into the U.S. state de they are those of partment. tbla newspaper.) Thats what Sen. Millard Tydings (D., Md.) said of the investigation when he was named chairman of the committee which was to coneign f2 1 ;rZl 'OW fi duct it. THE NAMING of the committee stemmed from charges by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) that an group of Communists hold or have held high state department posts. But, McCarthy rather put the committee on the spot at the start when he said that if President Truman persists in his refusal to make state department employee loyalty an investigation files available, would be useless. Mr. Truman has so persisted and declared he would ignore the senates action in granting subpoena rights to the un-nam- rs WEAPONS . . . Sen. REPORT ON Brien McMahon (left) chairman of the joint congressional atomic energy committee, confers with Gen. Omar N. Bradley shortly before Bradley, who is chairman of the U. S. Joint chiefs of staff, n group on possible types of reported to the senate-hous-e weapons an enemy might use against the U.S. MASS-DESTRUCTIO- N According to a group lywood According to scores of educators I and other prominent people in the United States, there is a system- effort by atic and the national military establishment to penetrate and influence the civ- ilian educational life of America. This charge was contained in a WHAT DID IT MEAN? It was much too early to gauge the elec- booklet of 80 pages of fine print, tions effect on the American econ- put out through the national council omy or on Europes overall re- against conscription. Among the Al- covery program, but disappoint- signers were famed scientist Einstein, author Louis Brom- ment in the U.S. was widespread and there was some concern lest field and a number of prominent the uncertainty of the Labor gov- church leaders. The report centered on the ac- ernments position interfere seriousof the reserve officers train- ly with American recovery plans abroad. ing units, military science teach- - r compare Barrymores with Curtis' and make choice. 1950 : i the chief headaches lied leaders. This problem is gravated by Germanys rear gence toward a belligerent nation) ism on the one hand, and an parent disposition to fall with:' the Soviet orbit on the other. HOWEVER, Robert M. Has ECA mission chief in German threw a ray of hope on futi planning with a recent report he believes a great majority"! western Germans dont want part of Russia. If Hanes evaluation of the siS tion is a correct one, then troublesome phase of the proble might be eliminated and plans) unification of Germany under, proper governmental setup be pushed ahead. Hanes statement was made V, fore the senate foreign relatis committee which was considers! I an administration request for 1, most three billion dollars for 6 third-yea- r installment of Marshs plan aid. AT THE OTHER END of capitol, the picture of German of western i ij i; I chips would fall, so long as Mr. AS ALMOST every schoolboy Truman declined to pass the comknew, the governments potato pro-be- mittee the axe 'they needed. gram was one of the most jumbled, potato crop, rt reason-assaultin- g ieftj your Some Oppose Reds The problem of eventual dispes tion of Germany her status ini community of nations is one ... profantastic, cedures ever evolved in the U. S. Farmers were being paid a sdy on potatoes to compensate them for market price differen-ing- , tials, each year the potato surplus was Rowing, and farmers were Permitted to buy back the subsi-gedized potatoes as low as one cent Pe.r hundred pounds for use as ter- dzer- And all this in the face of word food shortages and a real need or the surplus potatoes by oca ree agencies and school hmd1 programs over the nation, ODDLY ENOUGH, many Repub- licans were stringing along with r GERMANY: Charged ... well-finance- d Toaj with that of the late John Bar. rymore, whose profile was n International classic. In thii composite photograph, you ui mass-destructio- Military Effort at School photographers, Hoi Curtis, a new star on the movie horizon, is the possessor of j profile worthy of coinparisot committee. Indications were that a court test of the Presidents 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, Rule instead, that he expected a full, fair and complete investigation of McCarthys charges. SPUD TALK: We will let the chips fall where tthlCS VS. Dollars they may, he said, and this will It was ethics versus American be neither a witch-hun- t nor a senate as the whitewash. dollars taxpayers The senators intentions no argued whether it would be honest for congress to remove the price doubt were good but there might supports already promised on the be little to worry about where the EDUCATION of PROGRESSIVES: fis Support for Henry Too much attention to namecalling and too little attention to issues. Thats the way O. John One American newspaper womresearch contracts with uni- Rogge, former assistant attorney an was able to put into print con- versities, and what it sees as a general of the United States, cisely and graphically the diver- - trend toward putting military men summed up the trouble with the British viewpoints when she in high educational places. new Progressive party of which Citing the desperate need for reported a Conservative as saying e Henry Wallace that England would never recover world peace, the group contended of the United States is the until the Laborites were complete- - education can provide the needed chief figure. ly thrown cut, and a poorer-clas- s leadership in that direction only ROGGES STATEMENT w a s workwoman declaring that she through the spirit of free inquiry in support of Wallace, who made didnt care how much she had to unhampered by narrow military had made a virtual demand that do without, just as long as the considerations. the party stop trying to save It added that: Whenever mill- think-- a face for the Communists in dec tary secrecy becomes important to Sen. Scott Illinois, Lucas, of policy. larations college, the political opinions of floor The party held a convention in leader, students and professors, and their Pemcratic a move cancel to supprice Chicago to develop aims and ob- didnt hold such pleasant tone! I become important. alnot 950 ad potatoes The report said that in some Pr8 jectives during which Rogge de- Instead, , Representative Celltfj favorclared of the partys being called (D., N. Y.) proposed an invests Ings from experts of the dread po- colleges the situation is such that ready planted. Republicans 1950 of the retention subsidy Red baiters: tion of the denazification prograij tentialities of the hydrogen bomb, these institutions must depend up- included Senators Brewster, rl Pan We should be as unafraid of in Germany, saying: True, there was some disagree- on military funds. Millii Maine, Aiken, Vermont, and Recent events in Germany ment, but a poll would show at that label as we are of the labels j are Colorado, kin, j this stage that a majority of scien- SCIENCE: trends cate Communist that or dangerous Communist I alio Lucas was on firm ground as far front. i if tists who should know what they .. c . which riously at work, I as economy and mathematics May Help are talking about believe the bomb There were delegates who found to continue, would undermine t could kill everyone in the world. The federal government may go I wen Already the record showed, signs of new attitudes among whole import of the denazifies;! U.S. is in the red 100 million Four top scientists have issued into the business of scientific re I groups as an out- program. dollars suPPrt operations that warning. They have declared search if a bill before the house is The growth of the fprlce that the bomb, if it works, could finally enacted into law. Vi resolutions rewas committee be a suicide bomb. Why? How? The measure is one that would ported to have shelved quietly an anti-TitHeres what they say: set up a dollar a year statement. Rogge touched Gl's, Anywhere on this schism briefly when he the arduous, IF THE BOMB is ever made and national science foundation, Although THUS said: would Berlin little kill raised the ire has airlift it FAR, opposition used, slowly by poieverywhere WE SHALL NOT BEND reason Americans soning everything and everyone been voiced, although the senate, Detroit factory personnel expert in action on the subject matter, wh0 turned relations ft with radioactive dusts. strained was backward in order to attempt to by burglar night The dusts would be carried adopted a different bill. Most op-- a victim of habit, he told police justify the conduct of the Comin-forer, it must be said that some t around the world by the winds. position stemmed from Republi- - Admitting some thousand or more countries toward Yugoslavia. came out of the operation. the The dust would be in the air peo- cans, who attacked the proposal on burglaries in the Detroit area over But when the Soviet Union offers For now, members of the economy level wherein they the past seven years, he said loot- - a plan in the field of atomic en- force who flew the Berlin air pie breathed. invalu2 It would settle on. and poison stated they objected to new gov- - big homes was his avocation ergy which, with all its faults, at airways and obtained of plants and trees, everything hu- ernment spending. there was quite least offers a better basis for open- experience in transportation c Incidentally, The bill, as considered by the some mans eat or use. profit in potters hobb- y- ing and continuing negotiations go, experience that possibly 0 a would create THE house, could they add, possibly as much as $80 000 ' au-b- e than the Baruch plan, we are go- not have been obtained in any , to reboard and foster correlate intentionally rigged to do just way, are putting that experienc thorities said. ing to say just that. that-a- nd the- it would be relatively search in pure science-t- he ... good use., potter aiso toid pollce fields oretical from which to EMPLOYING do it. Makers of the came ported, that he had THEY ARE simple in 22 ARMS AID: to bomb would have only to put the knowledge that led to the atom- - slates before comingoperated train day after day they to Michigan harmless chemical elements c bomb and medical discoveries He said he had spent the money as Best to Europe American Gls and equipment The bomb it- around the penicillin. The program would he got it mostly on for James Bruce, operating head of vehicles anywhere in the presents not on touch turn these would self chemicals applied science. some 500 friends this nation's foreign military aid In the past few weeks, Ame THE FACT that the United into the fantastic killing dust. It was one of these friends all program, dropped a hint that the transport planes were seen Dust of that sort could be made States does not approach scientific 0f whom were males, who was United States weapons going to over German cities in forma the so that it would remain active a research as a federal project may cause of Potters arrest He The air force explained was Europe to help head off Communist few days, a few months or as long be surprising to many. named as Willlam whitehead 22 aggression, will include the latest fliers, whose airlift Jobs djfl Sponsors of the proposed meas- - who shared an really end until October, last p apartment with Pot'-- and best. But there is a ray of hope These ure pointed out that its primary ter. and who admitted Atom bombs, having been ruled were training again to fly a burglary same scientists say it w.ll be an- - Job would be to replenish the war- - at an electric out previously, Bruces comments mation; but they were train appliance store other three years before anyone depleted of pool young scientists , There was a touching connec- - could refer only to such convenand unloading soldier , . loading , if bomb can the know 1 be will h e r tralnin pro tion. It seems he had robbed the tional arms nd armaments now army vehicles. duced. hrough federal scholarships. to Released by WNU Feature available for output place impress Potter. sub-tiviti- es nt I I sponsor-associatio- vice-preside- one-tim- - nt j J 1. , tl ns jj fr I I I Soviet-friendshi- p Tito-resistanc- e. EX-AIRLIFTE- RS: o 1 1 U.S.-Sovi- et . m - er b. , . 1 A |