Show McCarran as AdvisorS Advisor I OEN EN PAT McCARRAN of Nevada Nevada Nevada Ne- Ne S SEN vada No 1 enemy of Europe's homeless refugees now has set himself up as chief volunteer public pub pub- lic lie relations counsel to Europe's No 1 Fascist dictator On his latest junket abroad supposedly supposedly sup sup- to investigate the current refugee situation McCarran gave Spain's Francisco Franco some shrewdly cynical advice on how to tomake tomake tomake make friends and influence people In n the course of two interviews Interviews interviews inter inter- views the senator from Nevada assured his I att attentive host that with a little smart handling at this end Spain can be right back In the front parlor by this time next year McCarran happens to represent a state containing less than one- one tenth of 1 per cent of the U. U S. S population and most Nevadans are not the slightest bit interested in Franco Nevertheless McCarran did not hesitate to speak for all the American people The overwhelming majority of the American people he said are convinced that your country has been given a raw deal Its It's just a question now of pounding the point home and getting enough pressure put on enough congressmen to whip the state department pinks A healthy hlo bloc of senators I I McCarran added are prepared to advocate early in the next congressional congressional congressional con con- gressional session that the United States sponsor Spain's admission to specialized agencies of the also United Nations They are prepared to put the heat on a few of our European charity patients so that you can get invited into that western union club of theirs McCarran said However McCarran warned Franco dont let your pride keep you from blowing your own horn good and loud Youve You've got to keep telling everybody that Spain Spam deserves deserves deserves de de- de- de serves a place plabe on the anti Corn antiCommunist team Dont Don't bother about anything else or answer any other criticism just keep hitting that lone one line and you'll make the grade Franco whose background hasn't given him much experience in molding public opinion must have been grateful for these tips For less than a week later Franco followed McCarran's suggestions closely man in an exclusive interview TY ro 1 I Wl n a u U. U i Radio Madrid on its wave short-wave broadcasts to the Americas has also begun to bear down heavily on contributions to the struggle of western civilization on against Russian Communist barb Darb- barbarism arism High point of these propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda blurbs is the the cryptic dec dec- declaration declaration If it hadn't been for Spain England would now probably probably probably ably be the only free nation in western Europe U S. S Unsung Bureaucrats Thousands of words have been rained upon the reading public about the inequities of bureau bureau- However there are bureaucrats bureaucrats bureaucrats bureau bureau- and bureaucrats and without some of them the government couldn't function today For instance a handful of medical medical medi medi- cal bureaucrats are risking death and disease every day to safeguard safeguard safeguard safe safe- guard the thc health of others Thedoor The Thedoor Thedoor door outside their bureau at Bethesda Bethesda Bethesda Be- Be thesda Md might be covered with quarantine signs but one sign alone tells the story Infectious diseases Inside doctors and assistants arc are exploring with microscopes and test tubes seeking cures for everything from everything from polio to the common cold At one time nearly everyone on or other the staff has been bedridden with some disease at least three have bave died during the past decade victims decade victims of their own research For such risks these doctors are paid a modest government salary ranging from to though they could earn far morein more morein morein dont don't in private practice They work for the glory either since I their discoveries are kept anonymous anonymous the public health service I by i iThe selfless research goes on Yet their I The doctor in charge of polio research research re reo re- re search for example is Dr Charles Armstrong who spent eight months in bed and nearly died from tularemia tular- tular emia or rabbit fever and also came down with dengue fever parrot parrot parrot par par- encephalitis encephalitis rot fever Q fever and litis on othet assignments He is isnoW isnow isnow now searching desperately for a serum that fuat will prevent polio S S SNo No Cure for Colds Golds Another important research task force under Dr Leon Atlas is exploring the common cold He has already isolated the elusive virus which causes colds has proven this by dropping the virus into the nostrils of volunteers from the district dis dis' district of Columbia jail However discovered Dr Atlas has also there are many types of ot colds- colds caused by other viruses allergic and mild diseases that do not gc past Dast the preliminary tace |