Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS US revamps planning policy for defense on red hed A bomb tip truman says critics antedated EDITORS NOTE when pinions are expressed in theme columns elam nt they hey are those hole or 0 western New newspaper r union oo gewo anal Tt vats and not ilir or thin thil newn vever 77 7 7 7 7 1 ol 01 A 4 all 11 U 6 7 I 1 t 6 A 1 1411 21 f THESE ADD UP TO HOUSING HEADACHE across the nation if there was any relief from the housing shortage it was spotty inadequate the twins above born to her in brooklynn Brook lyns hospital made the shortage doubly acute for mrs william buckley she and her husband together with another child add up to five people who must share one room apartment mrs buckley wondered where shed park the twins when she left the hospital THE BOMB do reds haye have it does russia really have the atomic bomb president harry truman said they did and tor for once there was no presidential contradiction when columnist drew pearson pe arson said they did but whether they have it or not the truman announcement stirred up a nest of jitters everywhere DEFENSE CHIEFS backed up for a new look at the world situation congress reacted as might have been expected the armsto arms to europe program balled the announcement no as added proof of the correctness of their stand other congressmen blamed laxity over the past few years in our state department part ment and defense setup for dussias Rus sias having the bomb now if she does have it A noted atomic scientist declared that for russia to contend it had the bomb in 1947 was fantastic that the date was one pulled out of a hat but he ha said the soviets might well have the weapon most tangible result in congress of the presidents statement that tha t there had been an atomic explosion pl oslon inside soviet russia was agreement by house and senate conferees on the billion dollar a appropriation for arms to europe the legislators got together very quickly on the view that to cut the appropriation as had been first planned would be an unwise move IN THE UNITED NATIONS brit ains foreign secretary 1 ernest bevin lashed out with a furious tirade against the russians charging them with stalling efforts to control atomic energy like russia bevin said england wants the atomic bomb banned but the british want effective control first skeptics of the idea that the re reds ds have the bomb were asking why russia wanted to outlaw such a potent weapon it if she really had it or did she think the western world suckers enough to outlaw and foreswear fo use of the bomb and thus give the edge to any ethics lacking nation who might have the bomb and would drop it without warning I 1 TITO get out yugoslavian marshal tito or dered nine hungarian diplomats expelled and accused russia and her satellites of rattling their arms along the yugoslav border HE STATED that his enem enemies les were digging trenches in hungary and romania apparently the fiery dictator of yugoslavia kasnot was not frightened still ready to wage war with moscow verbally or otherwise we will permit no one to impose their will upon us he thundered despite the dramatic atmosphere surrounding expulsion of the hun garlans ga rians titos action was a retaliatory one since it followed within 24 hours a si millar action against 10 members of the yugoslav legation in ili budapest TITO CLAIMED the russians were plotting to stage a revolution in yugoslavia in order to supplant his government with a regime servile to moscow whether or not the russians had fiad the atomic bomb as has been re ported tito seem to be bd any less disposed to quarrel with the kremlin TRUMAN way ahead president harry truman was still battling vigorously for his domestic program in congress with his usual expansive attack on critics he charged present detractors with being years behind the times nevertheless the president was making a strategic approach to the congressional races next year in a drive for women recruits to the democratic party in a white house radio address beamed at the women of the nation mr truman pointed to hertaf certain people who denounce his fairi fair deal policies as alien or dangerous NOTHING of the kind declared the president in fact he asserted our program consists of measures which have come up from the grassroots our program I 1 I 1 is as american as the soil we walk on it Is a program dunshak ably founded on the principle that the power powe of the government should be used to promote the general welfare dissidents might go along with such items of the program as public lic housing and expanded social security benefits but on the subjects of farm price supports as advocated by the administration and socialized medicine there would be some arguments about these being of grassroots origin n TOSSING A BOUQUET to W worn m ans intelligence the president declared that women are not misled by political slogans added they look beneath the labels to see the facts ROCKETS far targets just before the end of world war 11 II the germans reported experimenting with rockets that could span oceans now according to information emanating from the soviet zone of berlin german scientists are producing such rockets for the russians the informants who were said to have access to the offices of the soviet packed east german police said the mammoth underground under ground munitions plant at t on the baltic coast was turning out rockets at full speed allied intelligence officers conceded they know knew of certain activity at but declined to elaborate one of them explained pla ined if russia Is making munitions in germany its a high level matter and not for discussion here |