Show NEWS REVIEW I Defense Pact Ratified 1 Inflation Bill Offered This is as Sen Arthur Vanden- Vanden berg Rep Mich told his fellow senators a significant moment to demonstrate the solidarity of this I hemisphere And with the knowledge of that certain fact uppermost in their minds members of the U. U S. S senate voted 72 to 1 to ratify the inter- inter American defense treaty agreed to toby toby toby by 21 American republics at the Rio conference last summer The hemispheric agreement for mutual defense of nations in the tho Americas embodies three thre main points In case of armed attack from 1 outside the hemisphere all nations nations nations na na- na- na have the automatic right to meet the attack with military force If attack occurs inside the 2 hemisphere American nations nations' may go voluntarily to the aid of the victim with consultations to follow If attacks occur both inside the 3 hemisphere and outside the security security security se se- se- se region immediate consultations consultations consultations consulta consulta- will be called Virtually unanimous approval of the treaty by the senate was a good indication that congress was fully wL u 10 1 01 ION 0 t V e V 1011 10 let I u ti 1 r e 1 T I Inano nano n ww 1 aaN aware are 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 support support sup sup- port those commitments The hemispheric hemispheric hemispheric hem hem- treaty had in it the makings of a good foreign policy Meanwhile President Truman had some thoughts on how inter- inter American defense could be advanced advanced advanced ad ad- from theory to the realm of actuality He proposed to congress congress congress con con- gress that the Panama canal be converted into a sea-level sea waterway waterway waterway water water- way see map and that a unified command be established in the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic area with Adm H. H P. P Blandy in authority over army navy and air forces from Iceland and Greenland Greenland Greenland Green Green- land to the Caribbean CHALLENGE Accepted Accented Republican leaders had issued a direct challenge to the administration tion to offer a bill incorporating President Truman's ration con recommendations for combating combating combating combat combat- ing inflation and the measure which the administration finally proposed was neither more nor less than anyone anyone anyone any any- one had expected Handed to the senate judiciary committee by Averell Harriman 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 allocate allocate allo allo- cate materials to essential users control business inventories and n e continue export controls but administration administration administration admin admin- 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 ad ad- Republican ministration-Republican melee over what to do and how to do it there came at least two charges of socialization socialization socialization so from top U. U S. S businessmen business business- men leveled at the governments government's avowed program |