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Show DREW PEARSON The Merry -Go -Round INDIAN ambassador Asaf Ali had a secret talk with President TrumMi asking aid to India. The Hindu ambassador pointed out that India has five billion dollars frozen in London which the British won't let them cash. . . . Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's new economic czar, says England will need more help under the Marshall plan soon. However, treasury department figures show England's gold reserves now are -close to two billion dollars, more than twice what they were before the war in 1939. Washington newsmen covering the state department are told almost daily that a special session of congress is absolutely necessary neces-sary because of the world crisis. But when they go a few blocks away to the White House, newsmen are told just as regularly that there is no need for a special session. The army would be happier if some brass hat3 kept their mouths shut. Maj. Gen. Lunsford E. Oliver, in charge of a U. S. mission to Turkey, recently made this absurd statement before a Chicago audience: "The massacre of the Armenians after World War I really was started by the Armenians." A few days later, General Oliver was removed from his command. . . . The atomic energy commission soon will issue strict blanket regulations to prevent export of machinery which could be used in producing atom bombs. |