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Show TODAY S I EDITORIAL Our Sleepy Administrator! Recent security reports and Congressional hearings have brought out startling things about the current Republican administration ad-ministration and its attitude toward our security. It comes out that at least two reports have been available for some time which show beyond doubt that the Russian military mili-tary machine has been steadily gaining on and in many instances overtaking our own. Yet in th fact of this devastating fact the GOP dominated Defense Department has consistently been cutting back. The Gaither Report, drawn up by a committee of experts (Continued on Page A) Our Sleep Administrator! (Continued from Page 1) in defense, natural science, military planning and the like, has showed how far the Soviets have advanced and what our relative positions will be in I960. It showed how badly we are being left behind in the arms race. And the Central Intelligence Agency, it was revealed by its director Allen Dulles (the secretary of state's brother) has made numerous reports to the administration on the same thing. Yet the Eisenhower administration, no doubt dreaming of the glorious days of 1945 when Ike led Allied forces to victory in Europe refused to believe what its own agencies told it. Nothing was done. Charies Wilson, then Defense Secretary, turned down money offered by Congress for beefing up this nation's defenses. No one bothered then to tell the people the facts. It was only after the Russians tossed an artificial moon into the sky where all could see that the administration has been forced out of its sleepy attitude. Even now, several months after Sputnik I, all is still confusion. con-fusion. And it won't end until the bunglers are tossed out of office in I960 at about the time when Russia, by current calculations of the aforementioned experts will have achieved military domination. |