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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Dulles Rebukes Pact Detractors; England Faces More Austerity; US Steel Dislikes Truman Plan (l' DITOR'S NOTE: whrn opinion! art rprerd In thf eolumnn, thy are those of Wratern Nepaper I'nlun'i news anulyata and nut neccaaarlly of thia newapnper.) - '&ftS& irk &l i FIRESIDE CHAT: "Selfish Interests" President Truman charged in a "fireside chat" to the nation that "selfish interests" are making budget-cut requests which threaten to "blunder" the nation into depression. de-pression. In his economic report, Truman assured the nation that it is not in a depression, despite business decline. "Political reasons" lead some people to want depression, he said. He added that depression can be avoided. He blamed "selfish Interests" tot the tax cut that congress passed over his veto and for the denial ol anti-inflation curbs he requested. HE FEARED a third great blund. er and warned that "to slash government gov-ernment expenditures now would add to the downward trend." H defended his $-12,000,000,000 budget for government spending the next 12 months. He said, "If we follow the wrong budget policy at this time and slash our expenditures, we will decrease de-crease employment, cut down investment, in-vestment, weaken our defenses, and injure our efforts for peace." His speech was seen as a movement move-ment to line up popular support for a showdown fight with the economy econ-omy bloc in congress which is demanding that government spending spend-ing be cut to income. He criticized those who say we are in a depression. "Many of these persons for political politi-cal reasons would like to have a depression," he said. "Others are saying that there is nothing to worry about and an increase of the number looking for work is a good thing. This attitude ignores J the human suffering . . ." "CONEY ISLAND:" "Trivialication" Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor chancel-lor of the University of Chicago, demanded that mankind's expanding expand-ing knowledge be turned toward achievement instead of "trivialication" "trivialica-tion" and formation of a huge "Coney Island." He spoke at the Goethe Bicentennial Bicenten-nial Convocation at Aspen, Colo. He said that world catastrophe is inevitable if the "tribal self-adoration, self-adoration, which goes under the name of patriotism continues unchecked." un-checked." He asked for a world union of "men of good will," and said that world government is a step in the right direction to avert global POTENTIAL PEARL IIARKOKS . . . Fergus llorfman, specialist on Alaskan affairs for Seattle, Wash., newspaper, tells a senate appropriations subcommittee on Alaskan defense that the territory terri-tory today Is "the most widespread collection of potential Pearl Harbors under the stars and stripes." Shown at the hearing, left to right, are Alaskan delegate 10. L. Jtartlett; Senator James E. Murray (I)., Mont.), member of senate interior affairs committee; Hoffman, and Senator Elmer Thomas (I). Okla.), chairman of the appropriations subcommittee. MONROE DOCTRINE: Poet Fuss John Foster Dulles, In his first speech as U.S. senator appealed for ratification of the North Atlantic pact and rebuked Senator Robert A. Taft and others opposing it. Taft's opposition was on the grounds that the treaty commits the United States to re-arm its European signers. Dulles countered with the defense that the pact does not obligate this nation to enter any arms program which "isn't defensible on its own merits." Dulles said that the treaty doesn't give any individual member mem-ber the right to get any particular thine from anv other member. No Vaughan Accused President Truman has been asked to suspend his military aide, MaJ. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan. The request came from Rep. Shafet, Michigan Republican, who cited the army's suspension of two other major generals, Herman Fieldman, the quartermaster general, gen-eral, and Alden H. Wuitt, chief of the chemical corps. They were suspended pending a senate investigation of army contract con-tract handling. Shafer said Vaughan was implicated in the same case, but gave no details. All three generals were mentioned men-tioned in a recent news story which particular member has any claim on any particular aid he averred. It does not require the United States to build each signer up so that it could defend itself alone, Dulles said. ANOTHER FOE of the pact, Senator Sen-ator Flanders of Vermont, wanted to extend the Monroe Doctrine in place of entering the pact. He said this nation would not be obligated in details any more than in the original ori-ginal Monroe Doctrine. Flanders also objected to possible arms commitments to Europe if we signed the pact. He said that if vast arms shipments are made to Europe we don't know what will happen to them in case of communist com-munist domination of nations benefitted. bene-fitted. Senator Scott W. Lucas, the Democratic Dem-ocratic senate floor leader, said that the treaty imposes no legal obligation for an arms program, but added such a program is needed need-ed just the same. The Truman administration seeks a $1,130,000,000 program to rearm western Europe. ENGLAND: More Austerity Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the exchequer, has placed a new austerity program before the British people. He announced that Britain will reduce her spending in the United States and Canada by $400,000,000, or one-fourth, in the current fiscal year. THE BRITISH financial situation is more serious than Secretary of State Acheson has made it appear. However, it is not insoluble. British difficulties cannot be attributed to the American slump. The British will benefit from declining prices here of raw materials and food. Inflated war prices are blamed for the rapid consumption of America's Ameri-ca's 1946 loan to England. inspired the inquiry into dealings of "five per centers," those who hire out to obtain government contracts. con-tracts. STRIKE RESPITE Steel Accepts Plan The steel industry's biggest corporations cor-porations accepted President Truman's Tru-man's 60-day peace plan under protest, thus averting a nation-wide steel strike. The fact-finding board, appointed by the president will study the dispute over a fourth round of postwar wage increases and pensions and group insurance and will make recommendations. The United States Steel Corporation Corpora-tion had asked President Truman to alter his terms for a peace proposal pro-posal with the United Steelworkers, as a steel strike deadline rushed closer. The corporation demanded that the president's proposed fact-finding board be given no power to suggest a settlement. The union threatened to strike against four companies U. S. Steel, Bethlehem, Republic and Inland. In-land. These firms are against any fact-finding boards outside the Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley act. Phillip Murray's big steel union agreed to a 60-day postponement of the walkout at companies which agreed with the president's proposal. propos-al. The Taft - Hartley act provides for an inquiry board with no power to make recommendations. Earlier, Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, Jr. (D., N. Y.) flayed Benjamin Ben-jamin Fairless of United States Steel in a speech before the United Automobile Workers in Milwaukee for not acceding to the president's proposal. "YARDSTICK" Cancer Gauger A "yardstick" for measuring the growth of cancer has been reported suicide. He argued that "communication" "communi-cation" with Russia is possible if other nations were sincerely willing to try. A "moral, intellectual and spiritual" spir-itual" revolution is the only thing that will turn the world from a downward course, he argued. He attacked the "purposeless-ness" "purposeless-ness" of contemporary living, made more so by technology, and declared that new-gained leisure has been used for meaningless recreations. rec-reations. Of atomic energy in peace and war he said, "If we have war, we shall be blown to bits; if we have peace we shall be bored to death." Hutchins compared today's civilization civi-lization with the fears and hopes expressed by the 18th century humanist, Goethe. The theme of his speech was "Goethe and world unity." Goethe's dream for the world was that it should be a "world of friends," Hutchins said. He advocated advo-cated Goethe's "civilization of dialogue." Injured I " 1 There is taking place in England, according to a recent poll of the British Institute of Public Opinion, a shift of political sentiment toward to-ward the right. A general election now mi.cht turn the Labor party out of office. Union leaders promised to try to end London's wildcat dock strike as more soldiers, sailors and airmen air-men went into the miles of wharves to unload ships and move cargoes of food. discovered. A simple, quick and inexpensive method of gauging the growth or decline of a cancer was reported by Doctors Phillip West and Jessamine Jessa-mine Hilliard of the medical school at the University of California. The technique is based on an analysis of blood compounds and will measure the effectiveness of curative treatments. It is not a cure itself, nor is it a test for the presence of cancer. Among the Injured in the crash of the New York-California airliner that came to grief in the Santa Susana mountains near Chatsworlh, Calif., was movie actress Caren Marsh. Latest estimates place the death toll of the crash at 25 with 18 injured. The plane crashed shortly after the pilot radioed that a violent fight was going on in the plane among the passengers. SCIENCE: Turbine Aircraft Research on gas-turbine engines at McGill University, Montreal, may bring about improved flying. A turbine engine is a scientific version of the mill wheel. It has many small blades instead of a few big ones, and instead of water, hot gas is used to push the blades. THE HOT GAS is produced by a blowtorch in which fuel is burned with the aid of air scooped from the atmosphere and compressed. |