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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS q U. S. Defense Setup Challenged; Progress Reported in ECA Field; Truman Signs Crop Increase Act (EDITOR' NOTK: Whrn opinion! ir cxprciurd In Ihcao rolamnn, thrv r thou of Western Newopaper Union' new ftnalyoU and not netnnarllr of thl newspaper.) I 'Hot' Shirt SECURITY: A Denial U.S. State Secretary Dean Acne son branded as falsehoods statements state-ments by Sen. Joseph McCarthy that Owen Lattimore whom McCarthy Mc-Carthy has called a Soviet agent was the actual director of American Ameri-can policy in the Far East. Answering An-swering questions at a press conference, con-ference, Acheson added that: 1. Lattimore never was employed em-ployed by the state department. 2. He (Acheson) Isn't sure he ever met Lattimore. 3. Lattimore's contacts with the state department have been limited limit-ed to a few occasions. 4. According to his Information, Lattimore never had a desk at the state department. Lattimore, a Far Eastern expert and a professor at John Hopkins university, had reached London from Afghanistan, from whence he was returning to answer McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's charges. In London, Lattimore Lat-timore branded the McCarthy charges as "unmitigated lies." McCarthy, meanwhile, was In a hospital after a four-hour senate speech in which he said he would produce a witness who would swear Lattimore was a member of the Communist party. He told the senate he has documents to prove that Lattimore was a Soviet agent who was Retting instructions from Moscow as long ago as 1936. Lattimore was most important to McCarthy, for the senator had declared he would rest his entire case of Communist leanings in the state department on the outcome of his charges against Lattimore. And, unless the senator could produce his witness and his docu- f V" 1 ' ",' DEFENSE: Charges Hurled Charges that the government has been "ragging its feet" in organizing organ-izing civil defense against an A-bomb A-bomb attack and in telling Americans Ameri-cans how to protect themselves have been hurled by four big-city officials. MAYOR Elmer E. Robinson of San Francisco minced no words in asserting that federal authorities have "fum,bled the ball" of civilian defense. He urged thnt a policy of total defense be inaugurated immediately imme-diately by the federal government. Federal planners have said that local officials will have to assume primary responsibility for civilian defense against atomic warfare, the government's role being that of coordinator. THAT MUST have seemed an odd stand to take to officials who have no knowledge of atomic bomb effects ef-fects or of the first steps to take toward protection if such bombings occur. Surely public leaders were within the bonds of reason and logic when they demanded that the government gov-ernment channel to them more information in-formation on how to provide protection pro-tection against atomic warfare Defense Secretary Louis Johnson John-son (right) talks "cold war" In a "hot" shirt as he and President Truman discuss defense de-fense strategy and anti-Communist activities at the "little White House" In Key West, Fla. Secretary Johnson's shirt recalls the "Solomon-in-all-hls glory" quotation, but even It was topped by one the President Presi-dent frequently donned for pictures. CROP BOOST: A Compromise ments, the case boiled down to one of the senator's word against that of Acheson and Lattimore, with the public deciding as it pleased about who was right. FLYING DISKS: Navy Says 'No' If there are, or were, any flying saucers whirring through space, the United States navy hm nothing to do with them and knows nothing about them. The air force said the same thing. THE SERVICES also denied that they are developing secret planes, guided missiles or anything else that could be mistaken for flying saucers. These denials were issued after two published reports traced the saucers to navy and air force "secret" "se-cret" projects. An air force spokesman declared that "the armed forces are not doing do-ing anything that could be traced to being the basis of reports of flying fly-ing saucers." He said the air force position was the same as it was last December when it announced after investigating investi-gating 375 reports of flying saucers that they were "misinterpretations "misinterpreta-tions of various conventional objects, ob-jects, a mild form of mass hysteria or hoaxes." In other words "there information which only the lederai government possesses, if anyone or any group does possess it. The government's attitude seemed a callous one and hard to reconcile with all the scare techniques prevalent prev-alent in connection with the possibility possi-bility of another war in which the A-bomb or' the H-bomb would be the most frightful weapons. FOREIGN AID: Some Progress As the economic cooperation administration ad-ministration started its third year of operations, Marshall plan countries coun-tries were being urged to take two steps of paramount importance to make themselves independent of extraordinary outside aid by the time ECA ends In June of 1952. COUNTRIES participating in the Marshall plan were to be told that they should intensify efforts to sell more products to the United States and other hard-currency areas. ECA pointed to that as one means of closing the dollar gap. In that connection, the agency continued, the U.S. could assist by following Increasingly liberal Import Im-port policies and commercial pol-cies pol-cies generally so that trade barriers bar-riers do not prevent European countries from increasing dollar earnings in this country. AS to European economic unifi- In any manner likely to affect the farm vote with the congressional congres-sional elections not so many months away President Truman showed an unwonted disposition to compromise, rather than come out fighting against anything he didn't like, as he has done so frequently in the past. THE PRESIDENT compromised on an agricultural bill raising acreage ac-reage limitations on cotton and peanuts for 1950 and modifying price supports for Irish potatoes next year. In signing the measure after long study, the President noted, according to the presidential press secretary, Charles G. Ross, that "the good foatures outweighed the undesirable features." And with that profound utterance, the bill was signed into law. The President acted after undergoing under-going heavy pressure from groups urging approval or veto of the joint resolution. The section affecting potatoes knocks out price supports for potatoes po-tatoes in 1951 unless marketing quotas are then in effect. Additional Addi-tional legislation would be needed, however, to put such quotas into operation in 1951. THE MEASURE as approved authorized an increase of 1.5 million mil-lion acres in cotton acreage this ain't no such thing" as a flying saucer. A NAVY SPOKESMAN denied with equal vigor that the navy Is developing super-speed planes that have been spotted as "saucers." Said he: 'The navy is not experimenting ex-perimenting with, or doing research on, any type of plane or guided missile that resembles in any way a flying saucer." So, that should be that. However, it would be difficult to convince many Americans that there are no flying saucers, and if a troubled citizen, seeking, subconsciously or not, a momentary relief from his woes and burdens, thinks an object in the sky is a flying saucer, no particular harm has been done. In fact it may do him some good. year and a 50 per cent increase in acreage of peanuts planted for oil production. The previous cotton allowance al-lowance was 27 million acres. It would permit peanut growers principally in Texas and Alabama Ala-bama 100,000 more acres and would permit excess peanuts to be grown for oil without penalties on certain conditions. JAPAN: Bible vs. Marx Believing that Christianity and the Bible are the dykes that are holding up the flood of communism in Japan, the American Bible Society So-ciety is beginning a campaign to send Bibles to Japan Bibles printed in the Japanese language. Already the society has dis- cation, ECA stated its belief that the establishment of an effective European payments union Is of great Importance. Elimination of public and private trade restrictions restric-tions also were said to be a contributing con-tributing factor to economic unification. unifi-cation. As a result of increased production produc-tion and financial and political stabilization, ECA said, communism commu-nism has been placed on the defensive de-fensive in all participating countries. coun-tries. HOGS: No Props For the first time within the past eight years, hogs were being bought and sold at major U.S. markets without any price supports and tnbuted a total of 2.789,956 Bibles among the Japanese, but it is felt and this sentiment is shared by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, that isn't enough. GENERAL MacARTHUR isn't alone in that opinion. He has asked for millions more. And Dr. Shiro Murata, an officer of the Japan Bible Society, said: "The eyes of Japan are fixed on two books. One is Das Kapital by Karl Marx. The other is the Holy Bible. Japan is at the crossroads." To usher in its program of Bibles for the Japanese, the American Bible Society this month is sponsoring spon-soring a huge signature book of donors for the purpose of raising funds with which to purchase and send the Bibles. Every person who contributes one dollar or more to the project will be asked to sign the donor book. WHEN the campaign comes to dealers admitted it was difficult to note any difference. PRICES were steady to 25 cents higher. What did that mean? Was it an indication that federal agricultural agri-cultural planners could have been wrong all these years? If that were the case, there probably would be no admission of it. In fact, one U.S. department of agriculture spokesman hailed the event as a "normal market." It was "just a matter of supply and demand," he said, as If the department de-partment had been aware of and had considered that venerable law ever since the government went into the farming business. FARMERS and traders, however, held varying opinions as to what might happen when the markets opened for the first time since hog price supports were allowed to die. Some felt growers would become panicky and flood the market with hogs. But, as was reportea, notning happened. Anti-support adherents, nevertheless, never-theless, could draw little consolation consola-tion from the evident, for farm leaders had made it clear vigorous efforts would be made to restore hog price props. SUBMARINES: But Whose? Cloaked with all the color and trappings of mystery and suspense was the report that a naval officer had made instrument contact with "one or more" unidentified submarines sub-marines about 17 miles off the California Cali-fornia coast. OFFICIALLY, the western sea frontier, which ordered the hunt, reported "results and comment negative." It added the search had been discontinued. an end, probaDly this fall, the huge book, bearing the signature of every ev-ery donor, will be forwarded to Japan where it will be displayed in the offices of the Japan Bible Society as a token of friendship from the people of America to the people of Japan. Adam's Daughter? Did Adam have a daughter, no mention of whom is in the Bible? Dr. Guido Kisch, noted scholar, has declared that a 900-year-old Latin manuscript claims that Adam Ad-am had a daughter whose name was never mentioned in any version ver-sion of the Old Testament. Dr. Kisch said the manuscript, oldest and most accurate version known as "Biblical Antiquities," mentioned men-tioned a daughter named Noaba. GERMANY: Crisis Impends According to U. 3. German High Commissioner John J. McCloy. a "real crisis" appears inevitable in Germany. McCloy uttered the warning in a talk before a congress con-gress subcommittee. He told a I house group that Soviet pressure is a result of confidence, rather than any "sense of inferiority or fear of attack" by western forces. "The Russians feel their strength," he said. |