Show N 4 Z z POTENTIAL PEARL HARBORS fergus hoffman offman II specialist on alaskan affairs for seattle wash newspaper tells a senate appropriations subcommittee on alaskan defense that the terri tory today is the most widespread collection of potential pearl harbors under the stars and stripes shown at the hearing bearing left to right are alaskan delegate E L bartlett senator james E murray D admont DM alent ont member of senate interior affairs committee hoffman offman II and senator elmet elmer thomas D okla chairman of the appropriations subcommittee dulles rebukes pact detractors toft taft flanders are speakers targets john foster dulles dulle s in his first speech as US senator appealed for ratification of the north atlantic pact and rebuked senator robert A taft and others opposing it tarts tafts opposition was on the grounds that the treaty commits the united states to rearm re arm its european signers dulles countered with the defense that the pact does not obligate this nation to enter any arms program which defensible on its own merits dulles said that the treaty give any individual member the right to get any particular thing from any other member no particular member has any claim on any particular aid he averred it does not require the united states to build each signer up so that it could defend itself alone dulles said ANOTHER POE FOE of the pact senator flanders of vermont wanted to extend the monroe doctrine in place of entering the pact he said this nation would not be obligated in details any more than in the original monroe doctrine flanders also objected to possible e arms commitments to europe if we signed the pact he said that if vast arms shipments are made to europe we dont know what will happen to them in case of communist domination of nations bene fitted |