| Show II r WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS- British Laborites on Rocky Road 9 Scientists Warn of If Threat 9 Senate Spy Hunt to Be e 9 expressed In these columns they lire are those a or r When pinions ate are EDITORS EDITOR 8 NOTE Western Unions Union news new analysts And not lIot of flits M- M iJ r c cr r 7 l a r r c p y 4 ri S 4 1 0 n REPORT ON MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS S Sen Brien McMahon 1 left chairman of ot the joint congressional atomic energy committee confers with Gen Omar N. N Bradley shortly before before before be be- fore Bradley who Is chairman of ot the U. U S. S joint chiefs of ot staff start reported to the senate-house senate group on possible types of ot mass- mass destruction weapons an enemy might use against the US U.S. BRIT BRITAIN AIN Close Ca Call II British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his Labor party were still lUll holding the reins of British government government but but it had been a mighty close call caU There was a serious question of how long the Labor government could stand asa asa as asa a result of its meager majority in parliament Added to that was the peril of an intra party intra party strife strite In which it was reported left wingers left wingers In the party were planning a test of strength with more moderate leaders lead ers of Attlee's government THE PROBLEM was an easily obvious one Should the Labor party par ty walk easily in the face of Its hairbreadth escape from defeat inthe inthe in inthe the elections or should it strike out boldly for continuation and expansion expansion expansion sion of socialism The primary Interest In the electIon election election elec elec- tion for Americans was of course whether or not the British people were committed to more socialism and resultant nationalism of industry industry industry indus indus- try and their way of life liCe or had they grown apprehensive enough concerning the direction of government govern ment to change It The answer was clear to the extent extent extent ex ex- ex- ex tent that a bare majority o of the people are satisfied with conditions condi condi- enough enough at least to return the Labor government to power But significantly enough the balance of that power had waned 50 so much In the past five years that It was almost nonexistent WHAT DID IT MEAN It was much too early to gauge the elections election's elections election's elections election's elec elec- tion's effect on the American economy economy economy econ econ- omy or on ona Europe's overall recovery recovery recovery re re- covery program but disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment In the US U.S. was widespread and there was some concern lest the uncertainty of the Labor governments government's governments government's gov gov- governments government's position interfere seriously serious serious- ly with American recovery plans abroad One American newspaper woman woman woman wom wom- an was able to put into print concisely concisely con con- concisely and graphically the divergent divergent divergent diver diver- gent British viewpoints when she reported a Conservative as saying that England would never ever recover until the Laborites were completely complete complete- ly thrown out and a poorer-class poorer s workwoman declaring that sh she e didn't care how much she had t to o do without just as long as th the e rich didn't have any more H-BOMB H More Warnings More and more came the warnings warnings warn warn- ings from experts of the dread potentialities potentialities potentialities po- po of the hydrogen bomb True there was some disagreement disagreement disagreement disagree disagree- ment but a poll would show at this stage that a majority of scientists scientists who should know what they are talking about believe the bomb could kill everyone in the world Four top scientists have issued that warning They have declared that the bomb if it works could be a suicide bomb Why How Heres Here's what they say IF THE BOMB is ever made and used it would kill slowly by poisoning poi zoning everything and everyone with radioactive dusts The dusts would be carried around the world by the winds The dust would be In the air people peo peo- pie breathed It would settle on and poison plants and trees everything humans humans hu hUe mans eat or use THE H BOMB they add could be intentionally rigged to do just that that and and it would be relatively t to do it Makers of the bomb would have only to pu put harmless c chemical h hem e m i c a l I element elements s around the H The bomb Itself It Itself itself it- it self would turn these chemicals into the fantastic killing dust Dust of that tha t sort could be made so that it would remain active a afew afew afew few days a few months or as long longas as years That is a frightening appalling possibility But there Is a ray of hope These same scientists say It will be another another an an- another other three years before anyone will know if U the bomb can be pro pro- That gives mankind a little time In which to make up his mind The decision had better be right SPY HUNT No Witches There was to be no witches- witches no whitewash in the senate forn foreign foreign for for- eign r reI relations e l a t ion i o n s subcommittees subcommittee's probe of alleged infiltration of Communists into the US U.S. state de de- That's what Sen Millard Tydings D. D Md said of the investigation on when he was named chairman of the committee which was to conduct conduct conduct con con- duct it THE NAMING NAl o of the committee stemmed from charges by Sen Joseph R. R McCarthy CR R. R Wis that an un-named un group of Communists hold hold hold- or have held high held high state department department department de de- posts But McCarthy l rather put the committee on the spot at the start when he said that if President Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man persists in his refusal to make state department employee loyalty I files available an investigation would be useless Mr Truman has so persisted and declared he would Ignore the senates senate's action in granting subpoena rights to the committee Indications were that a court test o of the Presidents President's position was in the making if it 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 Instead that he expected a full ull fair air and complete Investigation o of McCarthys McCarthy's charges We will let the chips fall all where they may he said slid and this will 1 be neither a witch-hunt witch nor a whitewash Th The a senators senator's intentions n no doubt were good good but but there might be little to worry about where the chips would fall so long as Mr Truman declined to pass the committee committee com corn the axe they needed I Answer Still No Ho a j I President Truman persisted In his refusal to give congress con- con conI I loyalty files on federal I employees However he said he had promised promIsed prom prom- the senate foreign relations I committee he otherwise would cooperate co- co cooperate co co- operate in disproving what he I called false charges made by Senator Senator Sen Sen- I ator McCarthy R. R Rf Wis that a Communist ring exists in the state department He told newsmen that tha t subpoena powers voted by the senate for tor committee investigators w would o 0 u l I d make no difference to him pointing out that it would be difficult difficult dif dif- to serve a subpoena on the President of the United States since the government affords him protection from such services And indeed it would But It doesn't say anywhere that the President may not give tion-if tion he chooses chOOses to to those seeking seek seek- ing to ascertain the degree of this nations nation's security against subversive sive elements SPUD TALK Ethics vs ys Dollars It was ethics versus American America taxpayers' taxpayers dollars ns as the senate argued whether it would be honest hones for congress to remove the price supports already promised on th the 1950 potato crop AS ALMOST every schoolboy knew the governments government's potato program program program pro pro- gram was one of the most jumbled fantastic r reason assaulting procedures procedures procedures pro pro- ever evolved in the U. U S. S Farmers were being paid a subsidy subsidy subsidy sub sub- sidy on potatoes to compensate them for market price differentials differentials each year the potato surplus was growing and farmers were yere permitted to buy back the subsidized subsidized subsidized potatoes as low as one cent per hundred pounds for use as fer er- er And all this in the face of world food shortages and a n real need for the surplus potatoes by local relief agencies and school lunch programs over the nation ODDLY ENOUGH many Republicans Republicans were stringing along with the thinking think think- not lets ing with Sen Scott Lucas Illinois Democratic floor leader sponsorIng sponsoring sponsoring sponsor sponsor- ing a move to cancel price supports supports sup sup- supports ports for tor all 1950 potatoes not al already already al- al ready planted Republicans favored ing mg retention of the 1950 subsidy plan included Senators Brewster Maine Aiken Vermont and Millikin Milli- Milli kin Colorado Lucas was on firm ground as faras far faras faras as economy and mathematics went Already the record showed the US U.S. Is in the red million dollars for price support operations on the 1949 crop alone Lucas jibed at Republicans for tor talking about the need for tor economy and then opposing his potato-curb potato legislation tion PROGRESSIVES Support for Henry Too much attention to name- name calling and too little attention to Issues That's the way O. O John former assistant attorney i I general of the United States I i summed up the trouble with the new Progressive party of which Henry Wallace Wallace time time one vice pres ident of the United States States States-is is the chief figure STATEMENT w was a s made In support of Wallace who had lad made a virtual demand that the party stop trying to save face lace for the Communists In declarations dec dec- of policy I The party held a convention In Chicago to develop aims and objectives objectives objectives ob ob- during which declared declared declared de de- of the party's being called Red We should be as unafraid of that label as we are of the labels Communist or C Communist o 0 m m u n i s t front There were delegates who found signs of new attitudes among Soviet-friendship Soviet groups as an outgrowth outgrowth outgrowth out out- growth of the Tito Tito resistance The resolutions committee was reported re ree reported ported to have shelved quietly an anti Tito statement touched on this schism briefly when he said WE SHALL NOT BEND reason backward In order to attempt to justify the conduct of the Comin- Comin torm form countries toward Yugoslavia But when the Soviet Union offers a plan in the field of atomic energy energy energy en en- I ergy which with all its faults at least offers a better basis for tor opening opening open open- I in ing and continuing negotiations than the Baruch plan we are goIng going go- go Ing to say just that I No one doubted stand The Progressives whether they I were happy about it or not were so completely tagged with Soviet Soviet- soviet soviet-I sympathy labels that there would be no confusion in the minds of I Ithe the voters when its candidates offered offered of- of i er d for office i 1 I You Think I II y Y a. a J r v J's s 's y t iata According to a group of Hollywood Hollywood Hol Hol- lywood photographers Tony Curtis Curtis a new star on the movie horizon is the possessor of a I profile worthy of ot comparison with that of ot the late John Barrymore Barrymore Bar- Bar whose profile was an I international classic In this composite ph photograph you can j compare Barrymore's s left IcU with Curtis' Curtis and make your i choice LOOTER Force Forc of Habit Leslie C. C Potter the year old Detroit factory personnel expert who turned burglar by night was wasa a victim of habit he told police pollee Admitting some thousand or more burglaries In the Detroit area over the past seven years year's he said lootIng looting looting loot- loot Ing homes was his avocation Incidentally there was quite some profit In Potters Potter's hobby hobby- possibly as much as authorities authorities au au- said |
