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Show PAGE 1W6 ,t - " Tuesday, April 11, 1950 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH ' " Weekly news analysis k Santa Off-Seas- on , neo-essart- ly Named to AEC commanding him -subpoenas , When Note: opinions expressedef In these eelomns, they Western Newspaper these Unions news analysts and not et this newspaper.) (Editors srt are to surrender the files. In fact, so far as could be ascertained officially, no President of the United States ever has honored a similar congressional subpoena. SO, it would seem that congress could fume and stew all it pleased, but it wouldnt get the files it wanted until President Trumap changed his mind. Nevertheless, following the Presidents announcement that he would not surrender the files, the senate group investigating charges of communism in the state department promptly Issued subpoenas for the records The Presidents action, in a way, would, provide sort of an out for Sen. Joseph McCarthy who touched off the state department spy hunt with charges that Russia's top spy was connected with the department and that it was infiltrated with persons with Communist sympathies. CHALLENGED to produce proof, McCarthy countered that evidence to support his charges was locked in' federal loyalty files and in the files of the FBL With both files closed to him and the investigators, McCarthy 'might still be in a continue' his technical .petition and claiming that official charges in action high echelons was preventing him from proving them. --t- o. SQUEEZE PLAY The Russians had come " up with an economic squeeze play, and the U.S. was vigorous in its protests. ruble Moscow had set a, new dollar. exchange for the American The United States charged the new exchange rate was "completely unjustified. 4-t- A note delivered in Moscow dei manded that the former exchange rate of 8 rubles for $1 granted to SPY HUNT: A Mew. Voice In the mounting confusion and hullabaloo of the current spy hunt in the state department, a new voice was added to the chorus of the pack. Senator Styles Bridges joined in the refrain of the master spy in the state department chant and called upon congress to demand that State Secretary Dean Acheson give a full account of the wreckage of American foreign policy. MANY OBSERVERS were certain the entrance of .Bridges into the hunt was the touching off of the avowed Republican campaign to get Acheson by discrediting his policies. In a manner reminiscent of Senator Joe McCarthy, who declared also that Russias top spy was in the' state department, and named the man whom he accused. Senator Bridges asserted that Stalinu. . . had help from inside our ranks. We must find the master spy, he said. The, servant of Russia who moves the puppets Hiss and Wadleigh and the others in and out of office in this capital of the United States, using them and using our state departmbent as he wills. HE DECLARED that unless and until we do find that master spy, we cannot hope to deal with Stalin on an equal basis . . . The wreckage of our diplomatic and military efforts in Europe and Asia is no accident. Stalin is nota superman. He had to have help from inside our ranks. ! 5 The New Hampshire Republicans strongly - worded statement was made in the face of pleas from Democratic congressional leaders The people, themselves, would have to decide who was right in the controversy on how adequate are our national defenses in the event of another war. Two highly important gentlemen In the defense setup had disagreed on the status of American defense strength. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied forces in World War II, had declared publicly that he feared United States defenses had fallen below the danger point THE GENERALS REMARK stirred a wave of apprehension in many quarters and set some congressmen on a road which may lead to another look at military budget paring. But .Louis Johnson, U.S. defense secretary, didnt agree with General Eisenhower. After a long conference with President Trupian, he emerged to assert that our national defenses are sufficient . . unto the needs of the moment Just what Mr. Johnson meant by that was not clear, but it was quickly apparent that there could be read into the statement a conclusion that we are safe at the Thomas E. Murray, mechanmoment because no war has been ical engineer who holds more declared. But those jumping to conthan 200 patents and Is an imclusion would immediately query: How sufficient are these defenses portant figure in the auto and some other moment say in the at banking worlds, has been next six months, or next year if named by President Truman to war should come? succeed David E. Llllenthal on JOHNSON SAID he had not disthe U.S. atomic energy comcussed the situation with Eisenhower since the generals statemission. ment concerning defense and declined to discuss specific quotations from the Eisenhower speech. Asserting that he was in no contro4 Down versy with Ike, he pointed out the American embassy be restored. that the present defense budget was Moscow served notice last in Febput together by the Joint chiefs of ruary that, effective July 1, the staff, of which Eisenhower is chairU.S. embassy would have to pay man. 1 for four rubles. The effect of General Eisenhower has been this, U.S. officials said, would be asked to tell congress what he to increase the cost of operating thinks of the current defense setup, the embassy by nearly a million and Johnson said: When he apdollars a year. While not a pears before congress I dont want development, the action it to appear that I talked with him was another aggravation. and tried to influence him in any Even with price reductions an- way. nounced by Moscow at the time the ruble was devalued, the American note pointed out that Moscow BRITAIN: prices are still extremely high Less Buying relative to prices in Washington. Great Britain, stipulating many White bread, it was asserted, ifs, planned to cut purchases a kilogram (2.2 pounds) costs from the United States and other compared with 26 cents in Wash- dollar countries by as much as 25 ington. The Washington price of cent in the from July 1, per period 81.52 a kilogram for butter was con1950 to June 30, 1951. By this acto trasted with a range of tion, the government hoped to cut was told Moscow Moscow. 811.03 in gold-dollits deficit in that its order arbitrarily setting half annual mid-195by the new exchange rate was pureTHE DESIRED GOAL could be ly Cctitous. reached onjy under the following conditions, the government said: JAPAN: 1. Continued good business in the United States. Treaty Urged 2. The lid is kept on wages, With Gen. Douglas MacArthur and dividends in Britain. and U.S. roving Ambassador Phil- prices 3. British productivity goes on ip Jessup agreed on the desirabiliimproving with no' sharp increases ty of the move, strong pressure in costs. was building up inside the Truman 4. Exports to dollar markets inadministration for an early peace crease sufficiently to offset the cut treaty with Japan. in the value of the pound last SepTHERE is conflict on the issue. $4.03 to $2.80. It is a' group principally within the tember from g 5. exports to South state department which seeks an Africa can be up stepped early treaty, while many others 6. THE DOLLAR NATIONS dembelieve that the treaty project should be shelved in "order to pro- onstrate readiness to accept imand to invest capital in nonlong indefinitely the present Amer- ports dollar areas. ican control. Added strength was given the treaty proponents when Great SUBMARINES: Britain urged months ago that a May Be Scourged treaty should be completed. AS might.be expected, the RusAccording to a top U.S. navy exsians had to put their oar in.' Mos- pert, the feared jubmarine meance cow insists that there be a in the event of I another war may veto over all treaty terms, not be so fearful after all. Rear but the trend in Washington seems Admiral C. B. Momsen has deto be for the western powers to clared that he has reason to beproceed by themselves il Russia lieve that a development is just should refuse to join in. ahead that would t enable - the Hie Japanese treaty is seen by United States to drive submarines proponents as one line of action off the seas. Admiral Momsen is the United States could take to the inventor of the Momsen lung, used in escaping from submarines. strengthen its position. . to Reds Knock U.S. Dollar Rubles too-importa- nt 81-4- 0 88-5- ar 1. Gold-earnin- big-pow- er Official Look-Se- e goal Despite the of the effort, it appeared impossible to keep politics out of the current congressional study of lobbyists and their practices. By its very nature, the investigtion could not hope to avoid any of the obstacles that politics might throw in its way. HOWEVER, the special committee named to do the probing was going ahead with its task. After two witnesses had been heard, the line of questioning indicated a feeling that a good lobbyist is one with whom you agree, and a bad lobbyist is one with whom you dont. Appointed last session, the com-mite- e has had a staff investigating lobbies for some four months. In opening public hearings, Chairman Buchanan (D., Pa.) charged that only 500 of the estimated lobby groups had registered under terms of a 1946 act requiring that all lobbyists register. He added that he personally regarded lobbying as necessary, but that while lobbying In itself is not an evil, there are evils in lobbying. He said he planned to keep the study approach on a constructive, objective basis rather than the spectacular, and he hoped the committees work would result in improvements of the lobbying act. ONE COLLEGE TEACHER expressed an opinion on the stand that congressmen, committees and committee staffs play ball with lobbyists to push legislation through congress, and suggested sending to all lobbyists, questionnaires congressmen and staff personnel to determine where contacts have been maintained. Chairman Buchanan would be more than naive if he didnt realize that the first act of the lobbyists his committee is investigating would be lobbying hardest against any action by his group to tighten laws. up the pure-intention- Johnson, Eisenhower Differ on Adequacy of U.8. Defenses; Truman Loch on Loyalty Files May Ease Martliy Case President Truman has refused flatly to surrender federal loyalty files to congress in the current spy investigations, but he was establishing no precedents. Neither was he in any hazardous position in indicating he would ignore congressional- LOBBYISTS: Ji Detroit, LeAmerican chairman of the commitgion public relations tee, presents a toy to a French boy who manages a smile, despite the Unwieldy brace he must wear asa result of a brok toys being distributed are some of 42 tons donated by American children and 'collected by the American Le-Herman F. Luhrs, LATTIMORE: "Pure Moonshine" mustafhioed, Lattimore, United Nations employee, was the big news of the Communist expose which Senator Joseph McCarthy had instigated and of which the highlight was Ma Owen mild-mannere- d Carthys charge that Lattimore was Russias top spy in the United States and that he was in the employ of the U.S. state department. IN AFGHANISTAN on a U. N. mission, Lattimore when informed of the charge, cabled a press association that McCarthys rantings were pure moonshine. It appeared that McCarthy was out on the shakiest limb of his political life. Loudly asserting that he would base his entire case against ,the state department, which he charges was infiltrated with Communists, on the truth or falsity of the3 Lattimore case, the senator appeared to be off on the wrong foot at the start. Lattimore was working for the U.N., not the state department. He had not been connected with them for five years, the state department said. His lawyers hung a libel suit threat on McCarthy, contending that when McCarthy named Lattimore as the top Red spy in a private session with newsmen, he was outside senatorial immunity. LATTIMORE expressed pleasure that McCarthy was basing his whole case upon him for, he said, when he returned to Washington and testified, McCarthy would fall flat on his face. Meanwhile, there was much controversy over whether FBI files should be opened to the committee studying McCarthys charges. McCarthy contended the proof he needed were in these files and in other confidential files. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover argued that the files should not be open because of the bad effect it might have on many innocent people. anti-lobbyi- ed ng WAR: Not Inevitable Coming from a man whose opinions command the respect of most of the civilized world, a statement that war is not inevitable ought to have some weight with world leaders upon whom the future is vitally dependent. WINSTON CHURCHILL has said that he does not believe war is either imminent or inevitable. Opdebate in ening a foreign-affair- s the British house of commons, Eng- lands wartime leader declared There never was a time when the deterrents against war were so strong. Churchill based his statement upon a plea to the conscience of world leaders that no door should be closed which might lead to bet- ter prospects. Then, he added: The democracies of the West must be constantly convinced that those who lead do not despair of peace. If there is a breathing space, as I feel there is, I do not hesitate to say it would be a grave mistake, perhaps a fatal mistake, to suppose that it will last forever, or even more than a few years. THE FACT that the British ConNEW 'BRAIN': servative leader touched on the Great Things need for "conviction of the demoobworkers become cratic peoples that their leaders Factory may solete in the future if a new me- desire peace presupposed at least chanical ling a pin- a supposition that such might not ball machine on a jackpot rampa- be the case in all instances that do what its inventor actions by some leaders have ge-will . claims it will brought their people to believe that THE DEVICE, described as cap- these leaders feel war to be ineviable of operating an entire factory table and are conditioning the pub- without human aid, is designated officially as the FLYINGDISKS: The analyzer. Getting Closer inventor, Floyd Steele, If there were anything to the calls it Maddida for short. What Maddida can do was demonstrated theory that the flying saucers are at the opening of a three-da- y craft of inter-stellconbeings surveyference on computing machinery ing earth for unknowm reasons, at Rutgers university college of they appeared to be getting closer to a real target. A veteran private engineering. Steele, Who is also an aeronautipilot reported that he sighted one cal engineer at Manhattan Beach,' e saucers within 25 miles Cal., said the machine was the of the nation sLcapital. Bertram A. forerunner of the completely auto- Totten, a congressional library matic factory where goods will be clerk, said he saw the disk which produced without help form the hu- was about 40 feet in diameter. man hand or the human brain. Released by WNU Features brain-resemb- magnetic-drum-digital-different- ial ar of-jh- |