Show WEEKLY WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS- I U. U S. S Defense Setup Challenged Progress Reported in ECA EGA Field Truman Signs Crop Increase Act EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTES NOTE I when Ate re r ea up toned d In to tb the se lamn Sher a ere f lh thou thue e el l r tera n w. w and ad nd net not e i Ihli s DEFENSE Charges Hurled Charges that the government has been ragging its Hs feet In organizing organ izing hing civil defense against an A A- A bomb attack and in telling Americans Amen Ameri cans how to protect themselves have been hurled by four city big officials MAYOR Elmer E. E Robinson ofSan of ot ofSan San Francisco minced no words in asserting that federal authorities have fumbled the ball of civilian defense He urged that a policy of oft t total tal defense be inaugurated Immediately Imme Immediately by the federal government Federal planners have sl ld that local officials will have to assume primary responsibility for civilian defense against atomic warfare the governments 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 effects ef or of the first steps to take toward protection If tf such bombings I occur Surely public leaders were within the bonds of ot reason and logic when they demanded that the government government gov gov- channel to them more information in formation on how to provide protection protection protection pro pro- against atomic warfare warfare- Information which only the federal government possesses If anyone or any group does possess it The Th governments government's attitude seemed a callous one and hard to reconcile with all the scare techniques prevalent prevalent alent dent in co connection with the possibility possibility of another war in which the bomb A-bomb or the bomb H-bomb would be bethe bethe bethe the most frightful weapons |