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Show NEWS REVIEW Food Plan Opens Shakily; Comintern Brings Jitters judged Innocent until he Is proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In fact, the state department, in a "security principles" document recently re-cently made public, says specifically specifi-cally that if there is a "reasonable doubt" about a worker's loyalty the "department will be given the benefit bene-fit of the doubt and the person will be deemed a security risk." While idealists could quibble at length about abridgment of "constitutional "con-stitutional rights," few would deny that the state department simply was playing it safe in the face of a manifest danger. SOLD GOLD: Second Time Badly bent economically, although al-though not yet quite broke, Great Britain, in the latest phase of her desperate quest for dollars, has sold 120 million dollars worth of gold to the U. S. in exchange for an equal amount of ironmen. It was the second such sale from Britain's now dwindling gold reserve. re-serve. Early in September 80 million mil-lion dollars worth of gold was sold to the U. S. The September gold sale came after the 400-million-dollar balance of Britain's dollar loan from America Amer-ica was frozen by British-American agreement when Britain declared she no longer could honor the loan's convertibility clause requiring her to provide dollars in exchange for pounds sterling on demand to any nation she traded with. SIX MONTHS How Long No Meat? Amid a certain amount of weeping and wailing and less gnashing of teeth than usual, President Truman's program involving meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays lumbered lum-bered tentatively through its first week. Even the most ardent optimist could not call this phase of the food conservation drive to help Europe an instantaneous success; however, it might improve with time. And it was in the handwriting on the wall that there would be considerable con-siderable time, for administration experts predicted that the days of voluntary self-denial would last for at least six months. President Truman himself has set the dates for the interim emergency aid to Europe campaign from December De-cember 1 to March 31 although that time limit was imposed specifically spe-cifically for the raising of 580 million mil-lion dollars in cash. Regarding the food conservation aspect, Charles Luckman, head of the citizens food committee, said "Our only idea is to do the job until it is done. No time schedule has been set." Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson was a little more definite. He pointed out that conservation to save grain might be necessary until the winter wheat crop, now being planted, begins to come in next June and July. Then he offered a faint hope with a hollow ring: "Meatless days are not in the picture pic-ture indefinitely," he said. The Eating Public Public optmon, it developed, was jar from united on a solid Iron! behind be-hind the food conservation plan. Restaurant operators said their customers cus-tomers were grousing about meatless and eggless days. Millions of Americans resented the suggestion of a voluntary meatless Tuesday since they already are going without meat four or five days a week because they can't afford to buy it oftener than that. The poultry industry pointed out that it every one of the 140 million residents of the U. S. were to eat one less egg a week, the government would have to buy 600 million dozen eggs under the law requiring government support of parity prices; and the government gov-ernment already holds in storage several sev-eral million cases of surplus eggs purchased pur-chased to support farm prices. SECURITY RISKS: No Peace of Mind Communism, particularly since the revival of the Comintern in nine European countries, is taking its toll in the U. S. by undermining the American peace of mind. That obvious fact has been given added significance by the state department's de-partment's disclosure that summary sum-mary dismissal faces state department depart-ment employes who are "habitual or close" associates of persons even "believed to be" Communists. In plain language, that is a reversal re-versal of a fundamental principle of Anglo-American law that a man is ? ? Current Events ? ? Here are five questions based on recent happenings in the news. Eivt correct answers and you're eligible to appear on "Information Please"; lour and you're still plenty plen-ty good; three isn't half bad; two, better luck next time; one, subscribe sub-scribe to a newspaper. 1. Five nations recently were refused membership in the U. N. Name them. 2. At an international wireless congress, claims by the Soviet I'nion that a Russian named Popov invented the wireless were disputed. Who usually is credited as the Inventor? 3. General MacArthur has ruled that Emperor Hirohito's crest shall not appear on postage stamps. After what flower Is the crest designed? t. In delaying a shipment of sugar from Verdun to Germany, one Communist French deputy said: "At Verdun, they shall not pass." On what occasion was that phrase first used? 5. Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan has advocated that the two civilian civil-ian components of the army-merge army-merge with the army. What are those components? ANSWERS t. Italy, Finland, Hungary, Rumania Ru-mania and Bulgaria. 2. Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian 3. The chrysanthemum 4 It was used by Marshal Henri Petain in February, 1916, when the Germans were outside Verdun. 5. The Organized Reserves of the army and National Guard. |