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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Begins Busiest Four Years; GOP Wins First Senate Vote Test; Bevin Offers Critics Olive Branch (EDITOR'S NOTE: Wbea opinion! are eapreited la theat eolomaf. thea- ir tboM el wrslera Newspaper Union's aewa analysta and not oectiiarUy of thla newspaper.) Open Campaign INAUGURATION: Brief Interlude President Truman could lay valid claim to the title "busiest man in the world." The inaugural behind him, the nation's chief executive was up to his neck in problems, both foreign and domestic. ON THE HOME FRONT, there was a little matter of having con- U. S. BUDGET: Under Attack The question whether President Truman's 21 billion dollar budget was excessive was being raised again. This time John Foster Dulles, chairman of the U. S. delega-tion delega-tion to the United Nations general assembly in Paris, raised the issue. The budget, which Dulles questioned, ques-tioned, provides 19 billions for military expenditures, six billions for foreign aid during fiscal 1950. DULLES THOUGHT it too high. He pointed to dwindling war fears and potential menace to U. S. -economical health as reasons for curtailment of Truman proposals. Conceding that there is a "risk" of war, Dulles declared the "risk is not so great that we should seriously Jeopardize our own economic eco-nomic health ... by saddling ourselves our-selves with such vast armament." Dulles suggested cause, implied a remedy. He blamed lack of sufficient suf-ficient unification of U. S. armed forces for administration belief in the need of huge military outlay, and declared that present huge military expenditures cannot go on. "I think our armament is exaggerated exag-gerated by the fact that there is not ' sufficient unification between! the different branches of our ' (armed) services," he said. "It i seems as though the rivalry were such that each branch wants to be J strong enough so that if there is a j war it can win it alone, without help from anybody." Dulles said there is "less fear gress lmpliment Democratic campaign cam-paign pledges and provide funds for the continuing armament expansion. ex-pansion. Abroad, .with this nation committed to the gargantuan task of saving the world from communism, com-munism, the problem was equally monumental. But for awhile, on January 20, Harry Truman. Missouri farm boy who rose to the presidency of the United States, once by succession, currently on his own vote-getting prowess, relaxed, basked in public adulation, may even have forgotten the tremendous pressure under which he labored. ORIGINALLY PLANNED as a more or less sedate affair, with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Linda Brown, 4, March of Dimes poster girl, open the annual anti-polio anti-polio drive In Washington. Linda was cured of polio through the National Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. of war," than there was last year, but commented: "OF COURSE, there is always a risk. You have a tense situation like a dry autumn in the woods when any fool can start a fire. "It is entirely possible, however, to have better relations with Russia and I think it is probable." The problem was up to congress. Could it gamble on the "fool" in the woods, or should it prepare with all possible equipment to stand by for a possible conflagration? He did not completely endorse the Democratic platform, would not be led into enthusiastic "me too" declarations. dec-larations. Lucas was vehement. "On whose coattails did Chapman come to the senate," he demanded, "the Truman-Barkley coattails or those this atmosphere desired by Truman, the inauguration, instead, was turned into one of the most lavish and spectacular since Andrew Jackson rode into the top spot. Packed and Jammed, Washington Washing-ton gave a hero's welcome to the World War I artillery captain. Truman Tru-man buttons, Truman pictures, Truman banners were greatly in evidence and the President, seeing these and the vast multitudes, must have wondered if there were anyone any-one at all who voted against him In the November election. BUT THE INTERMISSION from duty was brief. The parade, the wearing In ceremonies, the round of gala capital affairs that night, and the next day, Harry Truman was again on the Job. Peace has been his rallying cry. Its importance marked all his utterances. Now he was buckled down to the Job of trying to preserve pre-serve it. Men of good will everywhere every-where in th world were wishing him success. MONKEYS: Up in the Air 1 For whatever benefit it may be of Dewey and Warren?" Other angry Democrats rushed to point out that Chapman ran 100,000 votes behind Truman and Barkley in Kentucky. JOINING CHAPMAN in the "no" votes were Democratic Senators Byrd, Johnson, Maybank, Mc-Clellan, Mc-Clellan, Robertson and Russell. Chapman didn't take criticism lying down. He declared, in effect, that if such taxes are to be removed, it ought to be done in regular legislative legis-lative process, not by hurried action on the floor. Republicans were more metaphorical meta-phorical They argued that since there is a tax on powder used an babies, a woman dressing up for an inauguration ball should regard her powder as more of a luxury than powder applied to a baby, rhis statement followed an effort to exempt baby powder from federal taxation which failed of approval. Tourist Queen VA Is? 114' to scientists or anthropologists, two sad-eyed dogs will not calm 300 Rhesus monkeys. THIS WAS graphically, if somewhat some-what disturbingly demonstrated when 30 crates of the monkeys arrived ar-rived in New York by plane from the Azores." The trip started sedately enough with all the monkeys locked in their crates. Two large, sad-eyed dogs were along because someone had said their presence would tend to keep tranquil the monkeys' spirits. Somehow most of the monkeys got out of the crates and suddenly there were monkeys in the cockpit, monkeys through the plane, monkeys mon-keys peeping out of windows and monkeys even trying to liberate other monkeys. Capt. Miguel Braganca and his OLIVE BRANCH: Bevin Recants British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin apparently was relenting in his stand on the Palestine situation. Gingerly he held out an olive branch: Britain's willingness to re- This German fraulein, Miss Elfl Glovanelli, was chosen "tourist queen" and will tour the U.S. this year In an effort to stimulate attendance at an Import exhibition exhibi-tion In western Germany. PERFECT: ji, Testers Amazed ' ' U. S. air force intelligence testers rubbed their eyes, looked again. Yes, there it was a perfect I. Q. score by a gangling, bespectacled Kentucky youth seeking a connection connec-tion with the military. WILLIAM M. BELEW, 18, of Simpsonville had done what no one before him had been able to achieve, something the army believed impossible. im-possible. Told he was not expected to answer all the questions correct- lease Jewish Immigrants of fighting age now held in Cyprus, his personal per-sonal and strong support of peace negotiations between Israelis and Egyptians at Rhodes. Observers declared this position a "deliberate and genuine effort on his part ... to seek peace with Israel and his critics in Britain and in the U. S. WHATEVER MOTIVATED the foreign secretary, there was no overlooking the fact that criticism had been mounting both in England and America. With the pressure continuing, the situation might have resolved itself into one holding the very political future of Bevin. The foreign minister also indicated in-dicated that de facto recognition 5f the government of Israel was crew, heavily outnumbered, was forced to stay in the forward part of the ship while the monkeys cavorted. The monkeys saw to that. Says the captain: "They kept hanging hang-ing on the cockpit door and watching watch-ing us all the time." When the plane reached La Guardia field, about a dozen chattering chat-tering monkeys were starting to climb out the windows, but eight airline cargomen joined the crew i and with brooms and blankets fi- -nally snared the truants. The monkeys were consigned for i Infantile paralysis research. ly, he nevertheless went ahead and, in rapid-fire order, dashed through the test without a single error. It was the preliminary test given volunteers at the air force recruiting recruit-ing office in Louisville. The testers were amazed. They checked, re-checked re-checked the score, found it perfect. They then checked the records. Sure enough, Belew was the first to make a perfect score. THESE NEW TESTS, much more exacting than the old, have been in use since last May. Questions are divided into three sections, vocabulary, arithmetic, and per-ception per-ception of spatial relationship. There are 45 questions and they must be answered in 40 minutes. Belew will give the air force a trial. If he likes It, he will make it a career; if he doesn't he will take up accounting. A Simpsonville high school basketballer and diamond Der- being seriously considered. If that step were taken by Great Britain, it would mean the death knell of Arab hopes for continuation of strife or any eventual triumph in the Holy Land controversy. DIXIECRATS: Rough Road The road ahead looked rough for state's righters. Democratic administration forces were showing little patience with southern old-liners who had bolted the party in the presidential election. elec-tion. THE PURGE SWORD swung first at the un-American activities committee com-mittee and two heads tumbled. They were those of Representative John A. Rankin, fiery Mississippian, and F. Edward Herbert, Louisiana, both of whom supported the state's rights ticket against President Tru- SIX "NO'S": Was It Revolt t Six Democrats Joining with senate sen-ate Republicans gave the GOP victory in the first test of strength since the 81st congress convened. The issue may have been trivial, but the result burned Democratic leaders. Scott Lucas. Illinois, successor suc-cessor to Vice-President Barkley as majority floor leader, "sputtered." Barkley was also put out. For, it appeared, the result was an unexpected unex-pected as it was "humiliating." THE ISSUE was exemption of J Inauguration tickets from federal amusement taxes. The exemption slid through the house 199 to 49, so one can imagine the surprise when it failed in the senate. Chief target of administration censure was Kentucky's Virgil Chapman. But those who remembered the Kentucky campaign would recall that Chapman showed no little independence in his drive for votes. man in November. Rankin, along with everyone else, knew the blow was coming, accepted ac-cepted it calmly. former, Belew stands six feet tall, weighs 160 pounds, was expected to pass the army physical examination examina-tion with ease. |