Show f WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS- British Laborites on Rocky Road Scientists Warn of H-Bomb H Threat Senate Spy Hunt to Be Witch less less' EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these thue columns column they are those of Western Newspaper Unions Union's news analysts and nod not necessarily of ot this Ibis newspaper r r IE 4 n s Ir b o y REPORT ON MASS-DESTRUCTION MASS WEAPONS Sen Brien McMahon left chairman of the joint congressional atomic energy committee confers with Gen Omar N. N Bradley shortly before before before be be- fore Bradley who is chairman of the U. U S. S joint chiefs of staff start reported to the senate-house senate group on possible types of mass- mass destruction weapons an enemy might use against the US U.S. BRIT BRITAIN AIN Close Call British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his Labor party were still tIlI holding the reins of British government government but but it had been a mighty close call There was a serious question of how long the Labor government could stand as asa asa asa a result of Its meager majority in parliament r Added to that was wai the peril perU of an intra party intra party strife in th which J Itco it co was reported wingers left-wingers in the party were planning a test of strength with more moderate leaders leaders lead lead- ers of Attlee's government ti THE PROBLEM was an easily I obvious one Should the Labor party party party par par- ty walk easily in the face of I its hairbreadth escape from defeat in inthe r I x the elections or should it strike out boldly for continuation and expansion expansion sion lion of socialism The primary interest in the election election election elec elec- tion for Americans was of course whether or not the British people were committed to more socialism and fond resultant nationalism of ot industry Industry industry indus indus- try and their way of life lile or had they grown apprehensive enough concerning the direction of government government government govern govern- ment to change it The answer was clear to the extent extent extent ex ex- ex- ex tent that a bare majority of the people are satisfied with conditions condi condi- enough enough at least to return the Labor government to power But significantly enough the balance of ct that power had waned so much In the past five years that it was almost nonexistent WHAT DID IT MEAN It was much too early to gauge the elections election's elections election's elections election's elec elec- tion's effect on the American economy economy econ econ- omy orny or on Europe's overall recovery recovery recovery re re- covery program but disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment In the US U.S. was widespread and there was some concern lest the uncertainty of the Labor governments government's governments government's governments government's gov gov- position interfere seriously serious serious- ly with American recovery plans abroad One American newspaper woman woman woman wom wom- an was able to put into print concisely concIsely concisely con con- and graphically the divergent divergent divergent diver diver- gent British viewpoints when she reported a Conservative as saying that England would never recover until the Laborites were completely complete complete- ly thrown out and a poorer-class poorer workwoman declaring that she didn't care how much she had to todo todo todo do without just as long as the rich didn't have any more H BOMB More Warnings More and more came the warnings warnings warnings warn warn- ings from experts of the dread potentialities potentialities potentialities po po- of the hydrogen bomb True there was some disagreement disagreement disagreement disagree disagree- ment but a poll would show at this stage that a majority of scientists scientists scientists who should know what they are talking about believe the bomb could kill everyone in the world Four top scientists have Issued that warning They have declared that the bomb If it it works could be a suicide bomb Why How Heres Here's what they say IF THE BOMB Is ever made and used it would kill slowly by poisoning poisoning poisoning poi poi- everything and everyone with radioactive dusts The dusts would be carried around the world by the winds The dust would be in the air people people peo peo- pie breathed It would settle on and poison polson plants and trees everything humans humans humans hu hu- mans eat or use THE H-BOMB H they add could be intentionally rigged to do just that that and and it would be relatively simple to do it Makers of the bomb would have only to put harmless c chemical h hem e m i 1 c a l I elements around the H The bomb itsel it itself itself it- it self sel would turn these chemicals into the fantastic killing dust Dust of that sort could be made so that it would remain active a afew afew afew few days a few months or as long longas as years That is a frightening appalling possibility But there Is a ra ray of hope These same scientists say it will be another another another an an- other three years before anyone will know if it the bomb can be pro pro- That gives mankind a little time in which to make up his mind The decision had better be right SPY HUNT No Witches There was to be no uno witches- witches no whitewash in the senate foreign for tor- eign r reI relations e 1 a t 1 ion o n s subcommittees subcommittee's probe of alleged infiltration of Communists into the US U.S. state de de- de- de That's what Sen Millard Tydings D. D Md said of the investigation when he was named chairman of the committee which was to conduct conduct conduct con con- duct it THE NAMING of the committee stemmed from charges by Sen Joseph R. R McCarthy R. R Wis Nis that an named un-named group of Communists hold hold hold- or have held high held high state department department department de de- de- de posts But McCarthy rather put the committee on the spot at the start when he said that if President Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man persists in his refusal to make state department employee loyalty files available an Uan investigation would be useless Mr Truman has so persisted and declared he would ignore the senates senate's action in granting subpoena rights to the committee Indications were that a court test of the Presidents President's position was in the making if the committee chose to use its subpoena rights and called upon the President to deliver the wanted records TYDINGS DECLINED to pass on this issue at the outset and said instead that he expected a full fair and complete Investigation of McCarthys McCarthy's charges We HWe will let the chips fall where they may he said and Hand this will wilI willbe willbe be neither a witch-hunt witch nor a whitewash Th The e a senators senator's Intentions no doubt were good good but but there might be little to worry about where the chips would fall falI so long as Mr Truman declined to pass the committee committee committee com com- the axe they needed SPUD TALK e Ethics vs Dollars It was ethics versus American taxpayers' taxpayers dollars as the senate argued whether it would be honest for lor congress to remove the price supports already promised premised on the 1950 potato crop AS ALMOST every schoolboy knew the governments government's potato program program pro pro- I gram Iram was one of the most jumbled fantastic reason assaulting procedures procedures procedures pro pro- ever evolved in hi the U. U S. S Farmers were being paid a subsidy subsidy subsidy sub sub- sidy on potatoes to compensate them for tor market price differentials differentials differentials each year the potato surplus was growing and farmers were permitted to buy back the subsidized subsidized subsidized potatoes as low as one cent per hundred pounds for use as fer fer- And all this in the face of world food shortages and a real need for the surplus potatoes by local relief agencies and school lunch programs over the nation ODDLY ENOUGH many Republicans Republicans w were re stringing along with the not lets thinking thinkIng thinking think think- ing with Sen Scott Lucas Illinois Democratic floor noor leader sponsoring sponsoring sponsoring sponsor sponsor- ing a move to cancel price supports supports sup sup- I ports for all 1950 potatoes not already already already al al- al- al ready planted Republicans favored ing lag retention of the 1950 subsidy plan included Senators Brewster Maine Aiken Vermont and Millikin Millikin Milli- Milli kin Colorado Lucas was on firm ground as faras faras far faras as economy and mathematics went Already the record showed the US U.S. is in the red million dollars for tor price support operations on the 1949 crop alone Lucas jibed at Republicans for lor talking about the need for tor economy and then opposing his potato curb legislation PROGRESSIVES Support for Henry Too much attention to name- name calling and too little attention to issues That's the way O. O John former assistant attorney general of the United States tes summed up the trouble with the new Progressive party of which Henry Wallace Wallace time time one vice pres ident of the United States States States-is is the tho chief figure STATEMENT w wa a a amade made In support of Wallace who had made a virtual demand that the tho party stop trying to save face for the Communists in declarations declarations declarations dec dec- of policy The party held a convention in Chicago to develop aims and objectives objectives objectives ob ob- ob- ob during which declared declared declared de de- of the party's being called Red We should be as unafraid of that label as we are of the labels Communist or C o 0 m m u n i 1 s t front There were delegates who found signs of new attitudes among Soviet-friendship Soviet groups as an outgrowth outgrowth outgrowth out out- growth of the Tito THo The resolutions committee was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported to have shelved quietly an Tito anti-Tito statement touched on this schism briefly when he said WE SHALL NOT BEND reason backward in order to attempt to justify the conduct of the Comin- Comin form countries toward Yugoslavia But when the Soviet Union offers a plan in the field of atomic energy energy energy en en- ergy which with all its faults at least offers a better basis for opening opening opening open open- ing and continuing negotiations than the Baruch plan we are going going going go go- ing to say just that No one doubted stand The Progressives whether they were happy about it or not were so completely tagged with Soviet- Soviet sympathy labels that there would be no confusion in the minds of the voters when its candidates offered offered of of- for office |