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Show l Page 4 SATURDAY, APRL TIIE JOURNAL 2 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Off-Seas- Santa on investigations, but he was establishing no precedents. Neither was he in any hazardous position in indicating he would ignore congressional subpoenas commanding him to surrender the files. In fact, so far as could be ascertained officially, no President of the United States ever has honored a similar congressional subpoena. SO, it would seem that congress could fume and stew all it pleased, but it wouldnt get the files it wanted until President Truman changed his mind. Nevertheless, following the Presidents announcement that he would not surrender the files, the senate group investigating charges of communism in the state department promptly issued subpoenas for the records.' The Presidents action, in a way, would provide sort of an "out for Sen. Joseph McCarthy who touched off the state department spy hunt with charges that Russias top spy' was connected with the department and that it was infiltrated with persons with Communist sympathies. CHALLENGED to produce proof, McCarthy countered that evidence to support his charges was locked in federal loyalty files and in the files of the FBI. With both files closed to him and the investigators, McCarthy might still be in a technical position to continue his charges and claiming that official action In high echelons was preventing him from proving them. mild-mannere- -- war should come? SQUEEZE PLAY Reds Knock U.S. Dollar Down to 4 Rubles The Russians had come up with an economic squeeze play, and the U.S. was vigorous in its protests. ruble Moscow had set a new exchange for the American dollar. The United States charged the new exchange rate was completely unjustified. A note delivered in Moscow do manded that the former exchange rate of 8 rubles for $1 granted to -l SPY HUNT: the American embassy be restored. Moscow served notice last in February that, effective July 1, the U.S. embassy would have to pay $1 for four rubles. The effect of this, U.S. officials said, would be to increase the cost of operating the embassy by nearly a million dollars a year. While not a development, the action was another aggravation. Even with price reductions announced by Moscow at the time the ruble was devalued, the American note pointed out that Moscow extremely high prices are still relative to prices in Washington. White bread, it was asserted, costs $1.40 a, kilogram (2.2 pounds) compared with 26 cents in Washington. The Washington price of $1.52 a kilogram for butter was contrasted with a range of $8.58 to $11.03 in Moscow. Moscow was told too-importa- nt JOHNSON SAID he had not dis cussed the situation with Eisenhower since the generals state ment concerning defense and declined to discuss specific quotations from the Eisenhower speech. Asserting that he was in no controversy with Ike, he pointed out that the present defense budget was put together by. the joint chiefs of staff, of which Eisenhower is chairman. General Eisenhower has been asked to tell congress what he thinks of the current defense setup, and Johnson said: When he appears before congress I dont want it to appear that I talked with him and tried to influence him in any way. BRITAIN: A New Voice Less Buying In the mounting confusion and Great Britain, stipulating many hullabaloo of the current spy a "ifs, planned to cut purchases hunt in the state department, from the United States and other new voice was added to the chorus dollar countries by as much as 25 of the pack. Senator Styles Bridges per cent in the period from July 1, Joined in the refrain of the mas1950 to June 30, 1951. By this acter spy in the state department tion, the government hoped to cut chant and called upon congress to deficit in demand that State Secretary Dean that its order arbitrarily setting its annual half of account full a by Acheson give the new exchange rate was pureTHE DESIRED GOAL could be the wreckage of American for- ly fictitous. reached only under the following eign policy. conditions, the government said: MANY OBSERVERS were cer- JAPAN: 1. Continued good business in tain the entrance of Bridges into the United States. the hunt was the touching off of the Treaty Urged 2. The lid is kept on wages, With Gen. Douglas MacArthur avowed Republican campaign to and dividends in Britain. get Acheson by discrediting his and U.S. roving Ambassador Phil- prices 3. British productivity goes on . ip Jessup agreed on the desirabilipolicies. with no sharp increases In a manner reminiscent of Sen- ty of the move, strong pressure improving costs. in ator Joe McCarthy, who declared was building up inside the Truman 4. Exports to dollar markets inalso that Russias top spy was in administration for an early peace crease sufficiently to offset the cut the state department, and named treaty with Japan. in the of the pound last Sepvalue THERE is conflict on the issue. the man whom he accused, Senator tember from $4.03 to $2.80. It is a group principally within the Bridges asserted that Stalin . 5. exports to South state department which seeks an had help from inside our ranks. Africa can be stepped up. We must find the master spy, early treaty, while many others 6. THE DOLLAR NATIONS demhe said. "The servant of Russia believe that the treaty project onstrate readiness to accept imwho moves the puppets Hiss and should be shelved in order to proto invest capital in nonand ports Wadleigh and the others in and long indefinitely the present Amer- dollar areas. out of office in this capital of the ican control. Added strength was given the United States, using them and using our state departmbent as he treaty proponents when Great SUBMARINES: Britain urged months ago that a wills. May Be Scourged HE DECLARED that unless and treaty should be completed. AS might be expected, the Rusuntil we do find that master spy, According to a top U.S. navy exwe cannot hope to deal with Stalin sians had to put their oar in. Mos- pert, the feared submarine meance on an equal basis . . . The wreckage cow insists that there be a in the event of another war may veto over all treaty terms, not be so fearful after all. Rear of our diplomatic and military efforts in Europe and Asia is no ac- but the trend in Washington seems Admiral C. B. Momsen has decident. Stalin is not a superman. to be for the western powers to clared that he has reason to beHe had to have help from inside our proceed by themselves it Russia lieve that a development is just should refuse to join in. ranks. ahead that would enable ' the The Japanese treaty is seen by United States to drive submarines The New Hampshire Republicans statement was as one line of action off the seas. Admiral Momsen is worded proponents strongly of face the United States could take to the inventor of the Momsen made in the pleas from lung, Democratic congressional leaders strengthen its position. used in escaping from submarines. gold-doll- mid-195- Gold-earnin- g I i big-pow- j er 1. ar it appears? not hope to avoid stacles that politics its way. HOWEVER, the special tee named to do the prob". going ahead with its task two witnesses had been hear line of questioning indicated J ing that a good lobbyist is 0r, whom you agree, and a bad k 1st is one with whom yOU do5 Appointed last session, the mitee has had a staff inVes.; lobbies for some four month opening public hearings Ch? Buchanan (D., pa.) charged' only 500 of the estimated groups had registered under te of a 1946 act requiring that ; . Thomas E. Murray, mechanical engineer who holds more than 200 patents and Is an important figure in the auto and banking worlds, has been named by President Truman to succeed David E. Lillenthal on the U.S. atomio energy i. byists practices7? very nature, the invest n event of another war. Two highly important gentlemen in the defense setup had disagreed on the status of American defense strength. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied forces in World War II, had declared publicly that he feared United States defenses had fallen below Herman F. Luhrs, Detroit, the danger point. chairman of the American LeREMARK GENERAL'S THE gion public relations commitstirred a wave of apprehension in tee, presents a toy to a French conset some and many quarters boy who manages a smile degressmen on a road which may spite the unwieldy brace he lead to another look at military must wear as a result of a brok- budget paring. en neck. The toys being distribU.S. Louis defense But, uted are some of 42 tons doJohnson, Gennated by American children and secretary, didnt agree with eral Eisenhower. After a long concollected by the American Leference with President Tguman, he gion for European children. nationto assert our that emerged al defenses are sufficient . . LATTIMORE: unto the needs of the moment. Just what Mr. Johnson meant by "Pure Moonshine" that was not clear, but it was Owen Lattimore, mustachioed, United Nations emquickly apparent that there could be read into the statement a con- ployee, was the big news of the clusion that we are safe at the Communist expose which Senator moment because no war has been Joseph McCarthy had instigated declared. But those jumping to con- and of which the highlight was Ma clusion would immediately query: Carthys charge that Lattimore How sufficient are these defenses was Russias top spy in the United at some other moment say in the States and that he was in the emnext six months, or next year if ploy of the U.S. state department. Named to AEC pure-intent- sible to keep politics 0i current congressior.aigtudj J people, themselves, would to decide who was right in have the controversy on how adequate are our national defenses in the ly nee-essarl- Look-Se- e of the effort, The When opinion (Editor's Notoi are expressed In theao colomn. they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not of this newspaper.) Official Despite the Johnson, Eisenhower Differ on Adequacy of U.S. Defenses; Truman Loch on Loyalty Files ay Ease McCarthy Case President Truman has refused flatly to surrender federal loyalty files to congress in the current spy LOBBYISTS : d aH . byists register. He added that he personally garded lobbying as necessary that while lobbying in itself an evil, there are evils in lobby He said he planned to keep" study approach on a constrr ii objective basis rather than the tacular, and he hoped the c mittees work would result z provements of the lobbying k ONE COLLEGE TEACHEB pressed an opinion on the i that congressmen, committeei committee staffs play ball lobbyists to push legislation thr congress, and suggested se: questionnaires to all lobby congressmen and staff personie determine where contacts IN AFGHANISTAN on a U. N. been maintained. Chairman Buchanan would mission, Lattimore when informed more than naive if he didn't assoof the charge, cabled a press ize that the first act of the ciation that McCarthys rantings ists his committee is investi. were pure moonshine. It appeared that McCarthy was would be lobbying hardest ag out on the shakiest limb of his po- any action by his group to laws. litical life. Loudly asserting that he up the would base his entire case against the state department, which he WAR: charges was infiltrated with Com- Not Inevitable munists, on the truth or falsity of Coming from a man whose i the Lattimore case, the senator Ions the respect of a appeared to be off on the wrong of command the civilized world, a states foot at the start. ou Lattimore was working for the that war is not inevitableworld with U.N., not the state department. have some weight is via He had not been connected with ers upon whom the future them for five years, the state de- dependent. WINSTON CHURCHILL hail partment said. His lawyers hung.a that he does not believe war libel suit threat on McCarthy, conor inevitable, tending that when McCarthy named either imminent debate Lattimore as the top Red spy in ening a foreign-affair- s a private session with newsmen, the British house of commons,dec! he was outside senatorial immunity. lands wartime leader There never was a time wio LATTIMORE expressed pleasure wen that McCarthy was basing his deterrents against war whole case upon him for, he said, strong. Churchill based his statcj when he returned to Washington consciena and testified, McCarthy would upon a plea to the door world leaders that no fall flat on his face. lead to Meanwhile, there was much con- be closed which might troversy over whether FBI files ter prospects. de: Then, he added: The co: should be opened to the committee must be studying McCarthys charges. Mc- cies of the West those who Carthy contended the proof he ly convinced that If needed were in these files and in do not despair of peace.I other confidential files. FBI Chief a breathing space, as fejjJS 5 J. Edgar Hoover argued that the is, I do not hesitate to say Pcrl mistake, a be grave files should not be open because of the bad effect it might have on fatal mistake, to suppose will last forever, or even many innocent people. than a few years. THE FACT that the Bntisn NEW 'BRAIN1: servative leader touched Great Things need for conviction of th Factory workers may become ob- era tic peoples that their solete in the future if a new me- desire peace presupposed ling chanical a pin- a supposition that such ball machine on a jackpot rampa- be the case in all instanc do what its inventor actions by some leaae" ge-will to be claims it will. brought their people to o' THE DEVICE, described as cap- these leaders feel war able of operating an entire factory table and are conditioning without human aid, is designated officially as the LYING DISKS: The analyzer. ;tting Closer inventor, Floyd Steele, If there were anything, calls it Maddida for short. What sau Maddida can do was demonstrated eory that the flying beings at the opening of a three-da- y aft of inter-stellconunknown ference on computing machinery I earth for go at Rutgers university college of ey appeared to be a real tarSet. A vetrDJ engineering. , lot reported that he Steele, who is also an aeronautical engineer at Manhattan Beach, the saucers wltbinu the nations capital, Cal., said the machine was the forerunner of the completely autoitten, a congressional matic factory where goods will be rk. said he saw in 3 about 40 feet produced without help form the hur Released man hand or the human brain. tij anti-lobbyin- g Is brain-resemb- magnetic-drum-digital-differenti- al ar ! ) |