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Forces Surprise Communists With Amphibious Attack at Ministers Plan European Defenses NOTE When lire In Ihry ara el Newspaper newa analyst and not of i a i J Robert Schuman of Dean Acheson of the V. and Ernest of Great Britain to open the Bit Three foreign ministers conference at the in New Main topic of conversation was the defense of Europe against Communist Now the Offensive With unexpected and dramatic suddenness the war in Korea turned from the defensive to the It was sudden in that the American people were surprised that United Nations forces could be mustered to launch an And it was dramatic In Its conception and execution by Douglas From June when the Communist struck with surprising force and the people of America watched one continual They heard of one Communist advance after another and the fall of such cities as Kumsan and Further and further the Communists advanced until U.N. forces held a beachhead in the southeast corner of Korea that offered little or no room for further retreat and little possibilities for an And then in one stroke General MacArthur launched an invasion of Korea over miles behind the Communist lines at Other forces landed at and at points on the east The main invading force on the west coast at had one the capture of former capital of South and cutting the supply routes of the Communists from North At the same time a general offensive was launched in the south from the U. N. General MacArthur did not try to hide his eventual hopes for the He wanted to cut Korea Just below the parallel and have the Communists armies between two hammers that would lowly but surely beat them to pieces and destroy The Initial invasion was U. S. marine and army divisions captured islands In less than an overran I end advanced on the best in was and American troops stood at the outskirts of The southern offensive progressed slowly against stubborn Communist rear guard There were that Communist defenses were Slack Admits Guilt Alfred Dean a former chemist at a ad in federal court at he was guilty of wartime spying for Soviet Slack said he supplied Russian agents with a sample of a high and the formula for U. S. attorney James M. Meek told the court were in Slack's jot and recommended prison Meek told the court how Harry a Philadelphia biochemist awaiting trial on espionage made contact with Slack nd asked him to obtain details of the manufacture of Slack reportedly Defused three times to give Gold the but when threatened with exposure as a obtained a sample of the explosive and ie and turned them over to Ready for Treaty Since the end of the shooting war progress toward a Japanese peace treaty has been blocked because the big powers were divided over what the treaty should be and the procedure for drafting the United States has announced It is ready for a treaty and the state department I representative John Foster Dulles I Instructed to begin dis-i BIG Not in Accord Diplomatic sources noted with concern a although not considered too in the relations of the Big Three foreign ministers in their first series of New York Dean representing the United Robert Schuman of and Ernest Bevin of Great Britain were not in accord on the U. S. proposal to rearm western That was the major source of The United through had urged the North Atlantic council to reach agreement In principle that western German forces should become part of the projected western European The U. S. idea was that German troop units would be included In the western European indicated that she wanted to go slow and easy on the The gist of the French attitude seemed to be that It was premature to agree immediately on the principle of eventual German That attitude was understandable in that France had not or is likely to World War I or World War sparked by German Observers said that there was a possibility that the foreign ministers might come to some sort of agreement In principle among though it might not be announced The ministers discussed r broad range of urgent A issued by the three said they were fully agreed that the most urgent problem was that of strengthening the defenses of the free world both in Europe and in Asia and were equally agreed that Immediate effective steps must be taken to that was a true Indication of the atmosphere which the ministers It was not a question of what had to be but the best way to accomplish Anger Close to Tears In an atmosphere of that at times brought senators to their feet in anger that bordered on congress cleared the way for General of the Army George C. a soldier for 40 to serve as secretary of The waiver to the unification act which forbids the office of secretary of defense to a commissioned officer within 10 years of the end of his active service was approved by the house to and by the senate by 47 to But before the vote in the William E. Jenner of Indiana took the floor and for an while the senators sat in silence and launched into an attack on Marshall's honor that astounded foes and friends It was the of the bitter core of Isolationism and Robert Taft of Ohio and Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska Immediately made It plain that they were not going along with Jenner's denunciation of General Marshall as a soldier and a Taft opposed the waiver on the grounds that it would put a military man In the cabinet as head of the military establishment and would strike at the old American tradition of civilian control of military Taft also contended it would strengthen the position of the secretary of state relation to the Chinese That was as far as he would attacked Marshall as an unsuspecting or an actual co-conspirator with the most treasonable array of political cutthroats ever turned loose In the executive branch of the Scott Lucas of Illinois called Jenner's speech the most diabolical speech In the halls of congress that I have ever heard In 16 years The Republicans in the senate were Inclined to Most observers said that Jenner's attack on a man who has served his country for 40 years and Is greatly respected by the American people In every walk of will have further and deeper The Indiana senator Is known as one of the most consistent Isolationists In His although denied by such men as Taft and still carries the label of the Republican party and may be reflected In the coming Curbs on Credit With the restoration of government curbs on consumers' easy-payment credits affecting furniture and household 32 war materials Including Industrial and nylon yarn were placed under federal non-hoarding Although no consumer Items were the was broader than had been No shortages are expected to but the move was made to prevent overbuying by administrator William H. Harrison purpose of the order is to make clear that national interest demands there be no accumulation of materials beyond what Is needed for immediate The new defense law provides a fine and one year in prison as maximum penalty for Harrison ordered Industry to or promptly any orders which already may have been If they would bring stocks to an illegal CIVIL-DEFENSE Plan Handed Congress A blueprint for a vast civil defense greater than that of World War was placed before It was designed to rally the nation from an atomic attack and enable it to strike back swiftly and destroy the W. Stuart chairman of the national security resources board which drafted the said the program was needed because for first time since the war of 1812 enemy has the power to our and for the first time in our history that attack may come with little or no The board's report a few minutes' casualties could be reduced by over 50 per cent proper organization and training in civil The program outlined a mutual-aid system reaching into every home and calling for the services of hundreds of thousands of paid and unpaid workers at and local Tape Was Too Long On the lighter side of the Michael a Chicago masonry sued F. W. Wool-worth company and the Waterbury Lock St Specialty company for tor selling him a rule that was ine foot too claimed the foot caused him to build oral garages and a house a too big and he is being sued irr not filling his |