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Show LATTON JOURNAL, LAYTON, UTAH TnURSPAY, FEBRUARY ' WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS u Army, Navy, Marines Join In Big Caribbean Maneuver ,v.vi By BAUKIIAGE Newt Aeelyti etui Commentator. WASHINGTON. About the time these line are In print, 85,000 American aoldiers, Bailors, fliers and marines and a hundred ships will be shoving ofl for the greatest peacetime maneuvers in e. Ill-fat- do-ba- de v, D-da- y, range-finder- , g, p, ... multi-billio- n '..Force . Little possibility was seen by congressional leaders for enactment of a veterans pension bill during the current session. The administration is openly opposed to any such measure, being quoted as saying a program already offered "could not be considered In Communist Stratify accord with the program of the The ultimate abjective of ComPresident munists is world communism. Their THE PROPOSAL to which the tactics frequently vary: They refence was made is a veterans' leap-fro- g and go in pension bill to give servicemen of circle but the aim remains conthe last two wars a 880 monthly stant To achieve their goal pension when they reach age 80, Communists will temporarily supplus disability payments. It is es- port international cooperation, or timated this would cost almost two even pose as human beings. This billion dollars the first year, with type of political and diplomatic exlater outlays reaching pediency is merely used to gain dollar levels- their final objective. That fact Under this measure, sponsored must never be disregarded. Communists wage a relentless by Mississippis Rankin, a veteran need onlyto-hav- e served 90 days in war in various forms: Propaganda, either world war to qualify for a treachery, deceit, espionage and inpension. Tt0 extra disability pay filtration are all. weapons. The would rapge from $20 to 9120 a battlefield may be a political or month, wkh.no proviso that the disa- social club, a government agency, a bility must have been incurred in labor union or your mind. . service! A nations ecenomlo sinews Veterans administrator Carl R. provide the pewer for Its miliGray, Jr., said that while he was tary fist. That Is why neither opposing nor favoring the hover ever democrat legislation Ip his capacity as vetelee like vultures ready te erans' administrator, its magnitude swoop down as seen aa a demust be,. weighed closely now to pression strikes. That Is why prevent unwarranted financial outtheyre always Instigating lays in .the future. He pointed out Barest . , . Amerthe cost .burden might be so great icans whs beat a dram la the as to endanger the entire gimme parade play tnte the program. dirty paws ef Cemmanists. By PRESIDENT TRUMAN was on weakening ear economy we give record pith this statement: "The strength te Communism . . . necessity for new or extended beneOddly enongh, the mightiest fits for veterans without service allies ef Commnnlsts are In-disabilities should be judged not doatrlalista whs allow Inflation solely from the standpoint of serte zoom or Wall Streeters vice in our armed forces, but in the whs pat the skids under the light of existing social welfare promarket. Bach financial finaggrams available to all veterans and ling only profit those whose alike. business consists ef destroying Mr. Truman also said In his buddemocracy. get message: "The program of vetWhen yon spot a weasel in the erans services and benefits should urorks of any international machinreflect the fundamental fact that a cinch to be a Communist its ery n our primary long-ruobligation is to dependents of veterans deceased They enter such organizations from service causes, and to vet- not to solidify global cooperation erans disabled in the service. At the but to be in a strategic position to Andreis same time, we should preserve and whls UN in the offers a Vishlnskylng stress our. basic objective of assistvivid illustration of method. that the ing recipients of these benefits Such nefarious maneuvers aren't to be as nearly as possible new: When the Soviet Union acand members cepted membership in a commission of our society. All of which indicates that vet- created by the League of Nations to erans of both world wars expecting study the problem of European Pravda bluntly confessed in pensions and disability allowances union, 1931: "By taking par in the work had best be prepared to wait of the European commission the awhile. Soviet Union will wreck the plans of the commission. SATURATION: Like ail criminals. Communists Claimed for Taxes make frequent use of aliases. Not Americans woulc. only do individual Communists Millions, of agree with the premise: Taxes in agents switch names but comAmerica have reached the satura- munist agencies are often disIn Canada the comtion point guised Former President Herbert Hoover munist party is called "Labor ProIn Colombia its tagged made the assertion to congress. As gressive. a remedy, he suggested unsnarling "Democratic Socialist. In Panama a century of government red tape, Its "The Party of the Public. In a slash in federal spending. Bulgaria, Workers Party and in FOR ALL HIS earnestness and the Germany, "Socialist Unity. force of his figures, Herbert Hoover, Communists pose as foes ef val mobsters Intent on com"great engineer of the depression, was a voice crying in the wildermitting the same crimes rob ness. bing liberty and murdering deWhile President Truman outlined It should be rememcency the need for vast federal expendibered that Russia fought tures for world social and economic aasism because it was wantonly attacked. The 8ov!et Union improvement as well as for defense had no other choice. When Rusmeasures, he had said nothing about reduction of government expendisia did have a choice It took tures. There was nothing in his anthe side of nasism by inking nounced program relating to any a friendship pact such action. Its important to realize that ComTrue, there have always been one munists rejected morality a long or two individuals in every congress time Lenin said: "When peoago. who have sought to stick a finger to talk us about morality we ple in the hole in the dike of federal For the say: Communist, morality outlay, but to date the stopper has consists of compact, united entirely never approximated the clrmumfer-enc- e to attain our ends. We discipline of the orifice. Indications were do not believe in eternal morality. tiat it would be thus in the 81st With that depraved viewpoint as a congress. guide its simple to savvy why HOOVER RECOMMENDED conCommunists are ready to condone solidation of 1.800 bureaus, commisthe most despicable crimes to sions and divisions, but lurking in achieve power. the background, ready to raise its THe extent of Communist lunacy awesome head at any moment, was can be guaged by a typical slice patronage. Patronage means votes of Stalins incoherency. In 1924 he and votes mean legislative tenure, declared: The dictatorship of the and with the one fattening off the is the new democracy." proletariat Mr. Hoover's recommendaother, . . . Imagine! Ho considers demotions commanded respect more for a synonym for dictatorship. their temerity than for any hope cracy Is it any wonder that logic has no of their adoption. effect on Communists? Should anyone be surprised when they break pacts and treaties? . . . Lies are their weapons. That is why Communists . call others warmongers while com mining acts of war. That is why they call all others imperialistic while aqting like imperialists . . . They are ready and willing to use any means to servo tLelr ends from lies to murder. There has never oeen a more shameful illustration of Minnesota terThis three-cen- t than the noisy babritory centennial commemorative bling of native Communists about their devotion to liberty. postage stamp will be placed on Of course they desire freedom sale ti.t first time on March 3, until they are powerful enough 1949. at St. raul. Minn. to destroy it . . . Their embrace ATOM RAYS: of liberty Is a shotgun wedding No Deformities Its another temporary advantage they use to reach their obAre victims of atomic bombings jective. If tyranny would serve likely to product grotesquely dethat purpose. Communists would formed offspring? be devotees of tyranny here. believe Is scientists that Many one of the terrible effers of atomic The Rankin-typ- e of wild radiation. There are as many more Inspires vodka toasts in the who disagree. Kremlin. Spreading bigotry and But the U. S. army atomic energy Impairing civil liberties only Invite commission has said no evidence the disunity that communism feeds of abnormal offspring had yet been uPn. A united democracy is the found among the Japanese exposed most potent antidote against the to radiation at Hiroshima and Rod plague. gig-sa- A ff Ysts Must Wait flip-flo- our history. Providence permitting, your correspondent will be on the scene. "off-the-cu- Whatnot Shelf Makes Fine Gift for Home PENSION BILL: U.S. Rejects Stalin Peace Talks; Norway Prefers Western Alliance, Spurns Russian Council Suggestion strange and sinister ''aggressive force which will have seized and fortified the Island of Vieques In the Caribbean will be bombarded br sea and air, attacked, and (we trust) captured by a Joint marine corps and army expeditionary force landed by Davy ships and planes have fought their way past enemy planes, and submarines. The purpose of this undertaking didnt want and never expected to officially described as "to advance and ensure have with the shadow of tragedy combat readiness over him. A man who was at first fleet Marine so apxlous to reassure the country Atlantic that there would be no break In the continuity of leadership that he 1 1 units, and to pro in where a more vide amphibious sometimes rushed man have feared experienced might for Army training and Marine Corps to tread. units There were many Admiral W. H. P. remarks with some disastrous results. Then came a Blandy, command of the period when be leaned ever backward with caution: after Atlantic fleet will com be in over-al- l that, the period when bis own mand. Lieut. Gen. party seemed to be falltag Keller E. Rockey, apart and It was 'ne secret that the man In the White House USMC, will com-- , was disappointed and unhappy. mand the Joint mar tne corps and army expeditionary Then came a gradual change troops which will be composed of which even many of his Intimates the second marine division and the did not realize, a change that grad15 th Infantry, Caribbean command. ually culminated In the combative which most of his supconfidence vet men are ef these Many ' porters failed to share. Washingerans ef Paclflo landings and ton watched his election campaign the North African operations, with considerable admiration for there tell the me, experts but, his fighting spirit but without being are many things to be learned convinced that even he, himself acbeen has for great progress tually had the confidence he dismade In amphibious training played. ainos the war. Then came the election upset and Its of Is the first operation This two months later, the tremendous kind since the merger of the armturnout at the Inauguration. There ed services has been In effect, and for those who could was evidence nothing approaching It In size has In the manner of deit, recognize ever been attempted In peacetime. livery of his Inauguration speech, Of course the marine corps was that here was still another Truman. virtually born amphibious and for At that first press and radio con'the past 28 years has perfected the ference, It was plain enough. At methods which were used In the last he was his own man. He felt late war. Now they serve as the he had earned his office. He probinstructors in this particular field ably had felt all along that he was of activity for the other branches fully competent to carry on its reof the service. sponsibilities. But now something Maneuvers which get compara-Uvel- y had been added: a controUed little notice In the press are largely regarded by laymen as a I think Mr, Truman was sinspectacle or as a series of highly cere when he told a luncheon technical military problems which meeting of the Democratlo 4' are too complicated to follow. As partys finance committee that a matter of fact, the actual manthere were a million men In the euvers are a small part of the opera United States who would make . tion compared to the planning a better President, but It was which dates back to the days when hla job and he would carry it " out. He was Caesar took his famous tenth lesimply saying gion from small boats onto the soil that he realised there were of ancient Britain, or before. men In the country with great. er ability than he had. He Perhaps the earliest Important Invasion from the sea In modem didnt say, nor did he think, times was one of the most unsucthat he didnt have enough abilcessful - the Gallipoli batity. If events prove that he tle when the British troops were alhasnt, he probably will be the most annihilated In their first atfirst te admit It. That is my own Interpretation tempt to Invade Turkey in World War I. and is offered for what it is worth. Is an impression based not only It ef this Intensive study on (Chat Harry Truman has said was made In this coon-trand done, but largely on the way and the marines had made he has said and done It If he 1 e n before strides g great to handle himself in the continues . World War n made snob train-vhe has since the election, the way tng necessary. Very few peomen In government and out, in his ple realised this. In fact, many own party and out of It, will find people probably think that the a lot easier to deal with. Likehim on a special patent Japs had wise, he Is going to be proportionamphibious tactics. more successful with those As one officer expressed It to me, ately with whom he has to deal there Is nothing secret about this method of fighting. It Is simply Priss Conferincis A vast a question of "know-hoHavi Chanted, Too ' conglomeration of minute detail At a recent White House news which Is not used at all in ordinary land fighting. For example, an conference, an old timer came up to me and remarked that the last Infantryman takes for granted that he and his rifle are more or less few times he had attended these one piece. But the first time he gatherings, all of which had been has to go over the aide of a ship especially well attended (well over he couldn't help and Into a small craft, he suddenly 100 reporters) to back the days of Taft thinking finds he is faced with a major probas he when, it, Robert Small put own not his In lem only assuring arrival on the beach but, what Is of the Associated Press and perhaps one of two others who used to be equally important, the simultaneous arrival of his gun. If you sneaked into the back door of the have ever tried to crawl down a White House for confidential talks net with no equipment whatever, with the President, but no other newsmen or women had any access you realize it requires all the hands whatever to the Chief Executive. you have. I was not in Washington then but thousands But long before I came to know Small very later out of details have been worked hundreds of miles from the scene well and I know he was known as of action. As one officer put it, "the fair haired boy of the Taft It was the first the stack of charts that have to be administration. drawn are a mile high. Beans, time I had ever heard the expresnewsbullets, shoelaces all are part of sion. Small was a brilliant man of fond and was Taft very as as much radar the picture quite him. I well recall the and The little Island of Vieques will (Taft was then chief Justice) combe pounded with tons of shells, forting Small's father at Bobs funrehauled, mauled, captured, and de- eral The former White House was porter young subcomparatively to a serted, and then go back died. tropical siesta. But what happens when he I do not know how the presa there on and before March 2 and corps felt about Small's Inti2, 1949, may be of vital Importance mate relationship with the White a decade hence.. House or the other fortunate A Niw Truman ones who were given these exclusive privileges but 1 doubt Goins to Work If It occurred to anyone te sugAs the Ides of March approach, the new administration swings Into gest the possibility of having Its stride with a good deal of honeyregular open press conferences. Teddy Roosevelt, how- moon fervor still In the air. From ever did call In press associthe day of the first White House ation men on occasion. press and radio conference after the Inauguration, It was clear that And yet such a situation (no reg we had a new President. ular conference) seems tncredibk Washington reporters had be- today. No President would dart come used to several Harry Tru- refuse to see newtfolk and stanu mans. There was the very grsve up to questions which sometimes and not very certain man who was are more impertinent that called la 1949 to a Job which he 17, 1949 SOVIET "BARKIS , , , Like the Dickens character, Russias Premier Josef Stalin was "willing te meet with President Truman te talk peace. But the question west bow willing? He Is shown above with President Truman when the two met at Potsdam. WANTS OPEN DISCUSSION Truman Won't Talk Behind Iron Curtain I It was beginning to look Uke "Uncle Joe Stalin and Harry S. Truman never would get together for a talk looking toward settlement of U. 8. and other western powers differences with the Soviets. "Meet Stalin behind the iron curtain? Secretary of State Dean Acheson snorted In disdain, declared in effect that the idea was preposterous. Acheson went further. He asserted indirectly that the Russian leader was playing politics with peace hopes of mllUons of people. U. N. Ficllitlii Offend Anyway, Acheson went on, what might be gained? Hadnt the Rus- If Truman, Stalin Meet sians consistently blocked aU efforts The United Nations stands In the United Nations looking toward ready to aid in any way it can disarmament, control of the atom in any East-Wetalks, accordbomb and creation of a U.N. police ing to a statement by Trygve force? of the Lie, secretary-generBUT THE U.S. couldnt be put In organization. disinthe position of appearing Lie ' declared he would be clined even to talk about peace, so "most happy to have U. N. Acheson left the door open for a facilities used for a conference parley; but there were some Ameribetween Josef Stalin and Presican conditions this time. The White dent Truman if the two leaders House, it appeared, (bould be willing were to suggest it. to see Stalin in Washington. Stalin Beyond that he would not go had said hed be willing to see In commenting on the interTruman behind the Iron curtain. view In which Stalin said he And there the matter stood. would be glad to confer directly Acheson made a further point. with President Truman on a The U.S., in any event, would not possible peace discuss with Russia alone any points pact having a direct interest to other He added that the U. N. has nations. , several facilities which might be As for a "peace declaration, used advantageously in the Acheson declared he found this event of such a conference. puzzling Inasmuch as Russia, the U. 8., and all other U. N. members are chosen to staled with the western already pledged "by most solemn nations a decision certain to imtreaty commitments not to engage pair Russian prestige and to show In war with one another. HE ADDED that the hopes of the the way, in some measure, at least, how other nations worlds peoples for peace are confind the out of a may way seeming to fundasidered by this nation be mental, and that the United States impasse. would not play politics with these PRESS FREEDOM: hopes. While it might appear an over- Losing Ground? simplification of the problem, many Newspapermen and radiocasters might raise the question that if from Sauk Center to Gotham would Acheson is relying on Russias U N. shout "foul!, claim the opposition pledge to keep the peace, why was hitting below the belt. should there be any official U.S. conA Baltimore criminal court Judge cern over the entire Russian rela- held three local radio stations and tions puzzle? the news editor of one were guilty The fact there Is grave concern of contempt of court because they over the puzzle Indicates Mr. Ach- violated a court rule that restricts eson may have been talking when publication of crime news. he should have been thinking. THE JUDGE, John B. Gray, Jr., in a held, verbal opinion NORWAY: that broadcasts of Information about a convicted murderer, before his Standing Pat trial last summer, constituted not no was cards. drawing Norway Standing pat, she would play the only a clear and present danger to the fair administration of justice, ones she had. but "an obstruction to Justice in IN OTHER WORDS, the wanted nothing but friend- the accuseds right to a fair trial the Soviets, but if it were with The court agreed with a defense ship D the same, they would rather decontention that the r old pend upon security in regional rule was an "abridgement of the pacts such as the proposed north freedom of the press, but asserted than upon an such an abridgement "is Justified Atlantic alliance, because it conflicts with an equally alignment with the Soviet union. The position stated by Norway potent constitutional right of an was in answer to a Soviet note ask- accused to a fair trial ing the nation's clarification of Its view on the proposed north Atlantic NEW SHUTTER: setup. Powerfully Fast Norway said the United Nations A new fluid eyelid tor a camera had failed to provide the world with can blink and take a picture in peace and aecurity, and her own of a millionth of a second. This peoples "serious concern" for their eyelid is an electrical shutter with liberty had convinced the govern- no moving parts. Its fast enough ment that it was necessary to seek to see any one of 25 things happenIncreased security through regional ing within a millionth of a second. cooperation in the defense field. THE SHUTTER is a murky fluid BUT THE NORWEGIAN government assured the Russians that it that blocks light Two electrical would never agree to foreign bases contants are immersed in it. When on its soil "as long as Norway is a current is passed through, (He not attacked or the subject of liquid becomes transparent for an threats of attack." And the govern- Instant as if a bottle of ink became ment pledged Itself to support a water clear. The photographic plate is exposed policy of The decision could be interpreted to the action in front of the shutter In no other way than as a definite for only the fraction of time when setback for Soviet expansion-bthe liquid is clear. The length of policies. Norway is a exposure is governed by the e small country and vulnerable to applied. The shutter offers a Soviet attack. Nevertheless, it has new way of slowing the action. The shutter was announced at MORE CLOTHES : the winter meeting of the American institute of electrical engineers by British Ration Posed A. M. Zaren, Stanford research InGreat Britain haa ended eight stitute. Los and F. R, years of clothes rationing prac- Marshall and Angeles, F. L. Poole, U. 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