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Show NEWS REVIEW Defense Pact Ratified; Inflation Bill Offered This Is, as Sen. Arthur Vanden-4 berg (Rep., Mich.) told his fellow senators, "a significant moment to demonstrate the solidarity of this hemisphere." And with the knowledge of that certain fact uppermost in their minds members of the U. S. senate voted 72 to 1 to ratify the Inter-American Inter-American defense treaty agreed to by 21 American republics at the Rio conference last summer. The hemispheric agreement for mutual defense of nations in the Americas embodies three main points: Iln case of armed attack from outside the hemisphere, all nations na-tions have the automatic right to meet the attack with military force. 2 If attack occurs inside the i hemisphere, American nations may go voluntarily to the aid of the victim, with consultations to follow. 3 If attacks occur both Inside the hemisphere and outside the security se-curity region immediate consultations consulta-tions will be called. Virtually unanimous approval of the treaty by the senate was a good indication that congress was fully j yy 4WIHaiM tl cn 'mm mi'o1h i 1 Kji i i ' ii toss: iz:r:nn . ..Tr I 1V?S) tffZJe' mm tow B J.' 'turn I LlZ 1 aware of the cardinal principle of successful foreign relations that commitments abroad are worse than useless unless the nation forms strong and lasting alliances to support sup-port those commitments. The hemispheric hem-ispheric treaty had in it the makings of a good foreign policy. Meanwhile, President Truman had some thoughts on how inter-American inter-American defense could be advanced ad-vanced from theory to the realm of actuality. He proposed to congress con-gress that the Panama canal be converted Into a sea-level waterway water-way (see map), and that a unified command be established In the Atlantic At-lantic area with Adm. H. P. Blandy in authority over army, navy and air forces from Iceland and Greenland Green-land to the Caribbean. CHALLENGE: Accepted Republican leaders had Issued a direct challenge to the administration administra-tion to offer a bill incorporating President Truman's ration-and con-trol con-trol recommendations for combating combat-ing Inflation, and the measure which the administration Anally proposed was neither more nor less than any-' one had expected. Handed to the senate Judiciary committee by Avcrell Harrlman, secretary of commerce, the specific bill called for expansive powers to ration food, gasoline, steel and other scarce commodities. Theoretically it was a bill to allocate allo-cate materials to essential users, control business Inventories and continue export controls; but administration admin-istration spokesmen admitted that the allocation powers provided for would authorize the government to impose consumer rationing and even to buy up entire grain crops if it saw the necessity for such action. And through the welter of the administration-Republican melee over what to do and how to do it there came at least two charges of "socialization" "so-cialization" from top U. S. businessmen business-men leveled at the government's avowed program. FODDER Spuds for Cattle A New Jersey cattleman, Eugene K. Denton, has a theory that might go a long way toward easing the grain shortage. His Idea is to feed cattle raw potatoes po-tatoes instead of grain. Experimenting with 20 yearlings purchased especially for the purpose, pur-pose, Denton fed them on a special diet, based on ground potatoes, salt and molasses, for 25 days. The steers, which averaged 667V4 pounds when the experiment began, showed an average gain per steer of 1.4 pounds a day or 25 Vi pounds per steer for the test period. Prof. William Ljundahl of Rutgers university department of animal husbandry called the experiments a success. Denton made public this simple formula: To every 100 pounds of freshly sliced potatoes add one handful of regular salt and one gallon gal-lon of molasses water. The molasses water is prepared by adding one pint of molasses to one full pall of water. LANDON: Big Medicine Alt M. Landon, the Kansas budget-balancer who might have been president of the United States if Franklin D. Roosevelt hadn't defeated de-feated him by a landslide in 1936, has come out publicly in favor of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower for President Presi-dent in 1948. Landon was known to have joined forces with Roy Roberts of the Kansas Kan-sas City Star to push the Eisenhower Eisen-hower bandwagon. In Chicago to address ad-dress a Kiwanis meeting, Landon said, "The Kansas delegation to the Republican national convention will be for Eisenhower." That, coming from the shrewd former governor of Kansas, was strong political medicine. "I don't think any of the politicians politi-cians in my state will get out of line on that I think I know what the general's social, economic and political po-litical views are. He hasn't said anything to me about the presidency directly or indirectly but it's my guess he will make his views known when he leaves the army and they will be all right." Meanwhile, it was announced that Eisenhower was scheduled to take over his scheduled position as president presi-dent of Columbia university next June 7 Just about two weeks before the Republican national convention Is supposed to convene. |