Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Senator Pepper Is Savings Bond Drive Loyalty Files Opened to Probe When opinions In he Iney are thai r I and not of A New Political observers wore face to face with the Is there new political trend In the In Florida George defeated Claude one-time new by well over In the democratic Critics of the Fair especially the revolting called it a victory over alarming big unbalanced budgets and the welfare The told Re publicans to take no comfort from his He people of Florida In this election proved they were unwilling to depart from the well-established and basic principles of the Democratic They do not wish to venture off down the side roads of extremism or dangerous are they interested in turning the clock back to isolationism and the do-nothing attitude of the Republican the people of Texas elected the first Republican congressman in 24 years when Ben H. Pampa broker and former defeated 10 It was a sudden-death election to fill the term of Gene who had resigned to become a federal Guill said he was going to Washington as one small protest and If I go up there as one small the powers that be won't think they have the whole country in the Maybe some of those big shots will take a look at this little segment of Texas and take BOND Save for Independence With a gentle tap on the Liberty Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder on May 15 opened the greatest savings bond drive in the peacetime history of the The drive continues through July The bell is the symbol of the 1950 The for your independence buy U.S. savings Fifty-two replicas of the historic relic are on tour of the 48 District of and Puerto They will visit over communities and will be viewed by millions of The bells were made at the foundry of the Sons of Georges at Annecy-le-Vieux in France and are said to produce the exact tone of the Liberty Bell before it was cracked in The treasury department has one objective to promote the sale of savings bonds in order to encourage An attempt will be made to contact every potential buyer of savings bonds in the At the conclusion of the Snyder said a bell will go to each state and territory for permanent I To Get Aid Secretary of State announced in Paris that Indochina would get immediate American aid in the form of military equipment In an effort to rid the country of the guerrilla war which has been going on for four He announced the hulk of already appropriated to combat communism in the Far East will go to the French backed Vietnamese of ex-Emperor Bao Dai and the associated states of Cam- I bodia and Laos to fight Moscow backed Ho Chi Many observers felt the move was an important one in the battle against communism in that section of the Some believed the Communists may have made too I many gains and the aid will be little and too Acheson indicated the United States would expert a greater degree of government for the three Indochina states under the He United States considers the situation to be such as to warrant its according aid and military equipment to the associated states of Indochina and to France in order to assist peaceful and democratic Crowns 1 i Boston-born who has been on the front pages of American newspapers a great deal recently because of his marriage and the announcement that he had written music for a Broadway a nine-tiered crown on his head and became Rama king of The coronation was performed with all the mystic pomp and ceremony of the The George casta his vote it- his race against Senator Claude Pepper for the t Smathers defeated Pepper by well over Pepper had been member of the upper house for 14 His defeat Is considered a blow against President SPY Files Available The Communist spy called by many a witch hunt and a mud slinging campaign against administration big took a new turn when President Truman agreed to give Investigators the complete state department loyalty files on the 81 cases by Senator Although Truman's approval did not cover a great amount of material is included in the It now comes to light that the 81 persons named by McCarthy have been investigated by four other congressional or me subcommittee which has been looking into McCarthy's adverse report concerning these employees came to the floor of the house or the floor of the senate and none was sent to the state department after the other Some sources are saying public opinion is beginning to blow the lid off the scandals of the Truman But others believe too much time and money are being wasted in an effort to create Communist hysteria for political The was becoming a little bored and skeptical of explanations from either Some logical explanation of what has been going on had better be made and the voter was On Tour President Truman began his western tour with four speeches on behalf of the Brannan agricultural but took time also to preach the gospel against And it was a new using gentle ridicule against his political enemies instead of the sledgehammer blows he used on a similar trip two years That in Itself was enough to make many a politician raise his The President his needle of ridicule deep when he touched on He isolationism would be a cheap policy to It would be easy and cheap to stop spending money on our army and navy arid air force and to stop sending supplies other countries who survived the great We can stop these things would be mighty cheap for today and tomorrow and maybe next You remember how cheap isolationism wag it he Taxes were at least for the big but look at the ter price we have for isolationism in the second world war exactly the name issue faces There are still some men who keep telling you that we can economize by following an isolationist These men can't see beyond the end of their don't see that isolationism would let the rest of the world be swallowed up by That would certainly bring on a new world war just as it did in Wc reneged in as Russia today is doing with the help of our own Strike Settled The Chrysler the second longest and costliest in the history of the automobile has been The union claimed it won the cents an hour in pensions and hospital and medical benefits for which the strike was To put the strike above the mercenary president Walter P. Reuther Chrysler strike was a part of a great human crusade to build a better tomorrow and a better But labor observers said the strike was too long and too costly for anyone to About Chrysler workers In 25 plants and In supplier plants had been Also on the labor John L. Lewis announced that the welfare fund would resume payment of benefits next Benefits were suspended for almost a year during the drawn out strikes and restricted work Another important move In the world was the announcement of William Green of the that his union is willing to meet with the CIO to form a united organization all forces and groupings of organized In a letter to Philip Green To co-ordinate work on legislative and political To achieve organic T-H Non-Red Oath Labor bitter enemies of the Taft-Hartley act since the day It was found themselves confronted again with one of the most disliked provisions of the The U.S. supreme court upheld the provision that requires union officials to file non-Communist oaths if their unions are to use machinery of the national labor relations Both national and local officers of most unions have filed such although a few holdouts Chief Justice Vinson said in his so Congress has would subvert the public interest cannot escape all regulations at the same they carry on legitimate political To encourage unions to displace them from positions of great power over the national economy while at the same time leaving free the outlets by which they may pursue legitimate political activities of persuasion and does not Beem to us to contravene the purposes of the first Near Record Bet A Texas colt and a Texas boy won the greatest sport event on the American scene the running of the Kentucky The colt was The boy was Bill Boland of Corpus There was another news story In the Those who keep an eagle eye on the nation's purse were startled that wagering on the race was only short of the A total of was The record handle of was set in For the full nine-race derby day the handle was the third highest in A total of was The 1947 record wag The handle In second highest in was If betting is any indication of the economic the prospect for the rest of 1950 would seem Observers point out that people don't wager when times are Greater Freedom Two Important announcements concerning one from Russia and one from the western were in the The Russians have it Is to city-wide elections in divided But with of The western powers re near agreement to give tte republic virtually complete leeway in political and economic |