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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Lewis Bailies Taft-Hartley Law; Baruch Sees Total fiMilizatEon'; , Eisenhower Repeats Ilk ISefeal I ' Released by WNTJ Features (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union'a ftcwa analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I 'Greatest Killer' i TO WALLACE: Veiled Hint Henry Wallace, whose third party movement was coming more and more to follow the standard Communist Com-munist party line, had reached the status of a complete pariah as far as President Truman was concerned. In his St. Patrick's day address in New York the President had rejected re-jected angrily any notion of accepting accept-ing Wallace's support in his campaign, cam-paign, even if it cost him the election. elec-tion. Then, during the course of remarks re-marks made at a dinner meeting of Greek-Americans in Washington, Mr. Truman turned on still more heat. He issued an acidulous, thinly veiled suggestion that Wallace take his third party movement to Russia where Mr. Truman obviously thinks it belongs. "I was going to tell you that the Greeks had a Henry Wallace," the President said to his listeners. "I was going to tell you that the Greeks had a statesman, an orator, a demagogue. dema-gogue. . . . They had the greatest demagogue of all times, Alcibiades." (Alcibiades was a famous Athenian Atheni-an who, after committing certain indiscretions, was forced to flee Athens. He went k Sparta and there betrayed secrets of his countrymen coun-trymen which were instrumental in bringing about, the fall of Athens.) Mr. Truman continued: "If imitators imi-tators of that ancient Greek conqueror con-queror want to see . . . liberties subverted, I suggest that they go not to the Rocky mountains that's fine country out there. He ought to go to the country he loves so well and help them against his own country if that's the way he feels." r ) . v - ; i i LABOR: Lewis Fight John L. Lewis and the Taft-Hartley law were locked in a mortal struggle. His United Mine Workers wero still out of the pits in a "voluntary" "volun-tary" objection to the companies' alleged refusal to provide them with a $100-a-month pension plan. Most of the 400,000 miners were out fishing. fish-ing. Lewis himself was out gunning for the Taft-Hartley law, enactment of which was largely the result of his activities in the first place. After the miners had gone out, President Truman, acting under the Taft-Hartley law, had appointed a fact-finding board to investigate the difficulties. But when the board asked John L. Lewis to testify, he refused. Then the board issued a subpoena requesting that he appear. Again Lewis refused, stating that the board had no right to demand his presence before it. ft, W ift.ni.g. w,tl-: -rf !i.-.v,ft.Marttfn tbtfim Glenn L. Martin, pioneer aircraft air-craft builder, revealed that the U. S. has developed an offensive weapon superior to the atomic bomb. He called it a "radioactive cloud the greatest killer of human hu-man beings ever devised." Martin said also, '.'I'd be in favor of using it before I'd become a slave to another nation.". Aw, Drop Dead iliililiii :'?xt-" 7l'! f ? i- - He said he based his disinclination disinclina-tion to testify on the facts that: 1. Neither he nor the UMW had - done anything covered by the Taft-Hartley law, thereby nullifying the President's invocation of the law, and 2 Two of the three board mem- bers were "biased and prejudiced preju-diced and in honor should not serve." Finally, minutes before the deadline, dead-line, the burly, bushy-eyebrowed chief appeared. It was obvious, of course, that the UMW chief was out to break the Taft-Hartley enactment. Apparently Apparent-ly he was determined to, drag the pension dispute all the way through the courts preferably as high as the supreme court to get a final verdict. And any way it turned out, the process would react for the miners' immediate benefit. While the courts would be mulling over the matter the date for the annual renewal of the mine workers' contract in June would be approaching. The longer the present dispute remained unsettled, unset-tled, the worse the nation's coal situation would grow, thus putting Lewis in a good bargaining position to extract a favorable contract for next year. MOBILIZE: Controls ? Bernard M. Baruch approves of selective service and universal military mili-tary training for the present quasi-crisis, quasi-crisis, but he does not think that is enough to meet all the implications the world situation holds. The financier and presidential adviser ad-viser called also for an "economic mobilization plan" and said that America's failure to muster all its resources now for peace would leave "no alternative but to mobilize for war" in the future. Baruch told the senate armed services serv-ices committee that he was afraid that if the nation suddenly and without with-out preparation were called upon to mobilize and prepare for a big war, such forces of domestic inflation would be set in motion as could blow the country wide open and leave it defenseless. He suggested the appointment of someone to "watch the impact upon our economy of the partial mobilization mobiliza-tion we are entering upon and to maintain a constant inventory, balancing bal-ancing all our growing commitments against our resources." It had not been a hidden threat, but Baruch's statement had focused attention on the possible danger that a sudden spate of military spending could bring about ruinous inflation. As a result, talk of reviving the defunct OPA was being heard in Washington. Baruch's warning touched off informal discussions in congress about the possibility of reviving re-viving wage-price controls, rationing and other curbs on the domestic economy. This, of course, had been an integral in-tegral part of President Truman's famous 10-point program against inflation in-flation which he proposed last year, but most congressmen virtually had gagged at the thought of reimposing price and wage controls, and the President was accused of trying to set up something like a "police state." Now, however, congressmen were not so sure. They were beginning to wonder if the military spending necessary to contain Russia might not have to be buttressed by controls con-trols at home. LUCIUS CLOBB On "War Nerves "Pharonie," said Lucius Clobb to his helpmate as he arranged a quizzical quiz-zical wrinkle in his brow, "d'you think we're thunderin' toward another an-other war?" "Soon as you open your mouth I figure we're in for at least a sldr-mish," sldr-mish," retorted Pharonie. "If you spent half as much time cultivating my peace of mind as you do your soybeans we wouldn't have near the arguments we do." She impaled the elder statesman of Paivhooley county coun-ty on a spearrlike glance. "Dang it, Pharonie, why do you have to drag your rockin' chair militarism mili-tarism into everything I set out to do a little talkin' on? One of the reasons you married me m the first place was to get security. Now you got security but you still want to fight." The light of creative achievement gleamed- briskly in Lucius Clobb's eye. "Say, by gosh, that there gives me a right smart idea for an aphorism. Nothing I like better than an aphorism. aphor-ism. What d'you think of this Pharonie: Pha-ronie: Between 1941 and 1945 we were united with Russia in the bonds of holy warlock, but now the honeymoon's honey-moon's over, the lock is busted and there ain't nothin' left of the original orig-inal idea except war." "Mister Clobb, you can put that out in the corn crib with the rest of your aphorisms," commented the critical Pharonie. "Mebbe so," sighed the elder statesman, "but it worries me not knowin' how to feel about this here world situation. I'm gettin' on toward 69, so could afford to think that in order to have peace and a secure foreign policy we first got to rig up a strong backbone at home. And a strong backbone right now means a strong army and navy and air force." REPEAT: Ike's 'No' Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fair-haired fair-haired boy of both political parties, said it once more: He would not be a presidential candidate on anybody's any-body's ticket. There had been a lull following his unequivocal refusal of Republican Republi-can overtures, and then the . pro-Eisenhower pro-Eisenhower sentiment was resurrected resur-rected in the hearts of no fewer than four widely divergent groups. Probably the most unique approach ap-proach was being made by Torrey Stearns, a New York public relations rela-tions man, who harbors the opinion that Eisenhower is a Republican.' He conceived a "People for Eisenhower" Eisen-hower" movement. The method is a nationwide solicitation of voting citizens to send in postcards bearing bear-ing this signed testimony: "I want to vote for General Eisenhower Eisen-hower for president in November. I am a citizen of voting age." "On June 21," Stearns announced, "all of the statements will be presented pre-sented to the Republican national convention as indisputable evidence that the people of the United States demand the nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower for president." But Eisenhower was having none of it. Speaking through a statement by Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks, army press chief, he indicated that "his no politics statement of some weeks ago" should "apply to all parties and groups of voters." Few people can appear more human hu-man than this quizzical simian as he bestows a suspicious glare on photographer Arthur Sasse and obviously is thinking he wants his picture taken about as much as he wants a hole In the head. Sasse, staunchly unafraid in his belief that no animal would attack a photographer, has been taking pictures pic-tures at New York's Bronx zoo for 28 years. HOMEBODY: No Meeting With the arrival of spring and th yearly rebirth of hope eternal, a second-hand rumor suddenly was revived re-vived across the Atlantic. It had to do with the rebuilding of the stripped gears of East-West relations. rela-tions. The rumor, which was being circulated cir-culated widely in Europe, said that President Truman was planning a trip to the continent for a Big Three conference with Attlee and'Stalin. Another version, as given currency cur-rency by newspapers in Turkey, reported re-ported that the President might go to Europe sometime in April and possibly visit Turkey and Greece. All this was good for a flurry of excitement, but in the end it turned out to be nothing more than a clutching at straws. Mr. Truman, the White House announced, an-nounced, had no plans for leaving the country, and there was no prospect pros-pect of a Big Three meeting. SPIES: In Germany Conditions were getting back to the cloak and dagger state. With a dramatic flare, radio Moscow Mos-cow charged that Russia had uncovered un-covered an American-directed spy ring of former German army officers offi-cers operating out of western Germany, Ger-many, Austria and Sweden to learn Soviet zone secrets. Leader of the group functioning in the Soviet zone had been captured and had confessed, Moscow reported. re-ported. The broadcast claimed, in part: "He confessed he was a member of an illegal Fascist organization existing ex-isting in the western occupation zone of Germany, consisting of officers of the former German army who are being used by the American intelligence in-telligence service for espionage in the Soviet zone." PIPELINE: funked x The Canol pipeline, that 140-mil-lion-dollar project constructed during dur-ing the war as a means of getting an emergency oil supply from Norman Nor-man wells in Northwest Canada to Alaska, is ending in the junk yard. All that is left of it now is being trucked out for shipment to junk dealers in the Midwest United States. Fifty trucks work night and day out of Johnson's Crossing on the Alaska highway haulins salvn |