2 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thurt Mar. 9, 1950
With Hydrogen Domb, Who
Strikes First At Advantage
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON- Here' i nice on la think .bout.
Thii country and Russia ire spending billions on trmi and bomb
niking. So tar cin be een, they'll continue doing that.
In time both countries may have bombs big enough to wipe out
who citiea, one bomb to a city.
Scientist! say a hydrogen bomb
can do just that It there s a war,
the one which attacks first will
have a big advantage.
For instance, suppose Russia in a
sneak attack was able in one night
to -vipe out Washington, New
York, Chicago and Detroit.
After that our chances of win
ning the war, or even waging war
very long, might not be good.
Russia Ready
True, our bombers, if scattered
around, might try to attack in turn.
But, having started the war, Russia
would be ready for that.
Could Russia tee off on us sud
denly without a formal declaration
of war, which would be enough
warning to usT Sure.
The Russians could get going on
an order from above, from Joseph
Stalin and his group.
But could the Russians actually
get their whole war machine going
without our knowing-? Maybe so,
maybe not. No one can answer that
now.
We weren't prepared for the Jap
anese attack on Pearl Harbor. And
this time, because of the hydrogen
bomb, we'd be In a sad fix if our
spy system failed.
But there's the problem of how
the United States would go to war.
Under the constitution, only Con
gress can declare war. But, if we
reached a point where Congress
gathered to declare war, the Rus
sians would have plenty of warning
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Perlman is attending the American
academy of allergy convention
here.
and time to attack first.
In the past this arrangement no
war unless declared by the people's
representatives in Congress has
worked all right. It waa the demo
cratic way, the backbone of this
country's way of life.
It saved the people from the dan
ger of possibly sudden action by
one man, the president, who other
wise might have been able to put
the people into a war they didn't
want.
But times have changed, as this
story has tried to point out, because
of the advantage that would go to
Jie one who attacked first with
hydrogen bombs.
Just because times have changed,
this same democratic process, the
wide open declaration of war by
Congress, might in the next war
mean the end of the republic by
giving the enemy a chance to at
tack first
What could be done to be sure we
weren't attacked first? As commander-in-chief
of the' armed
forcea the president, if he thought
the danger great enough, might try
to save the country by ordering our
oomoers to start the war ana at
tack Russia without waiting for
congressional action.
Might Be Impeached
Yt, if he did so, he might be Im
peached by Congress. Whether that
happened, of course, would depend
upon what Congress and the people
thought after the war started.
On the other hand: Suppose we
knew an attack waa coming but,
through fear of impeaenment, let it
come, preferring to let Congress
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go through the comparatively slow
and public process of declaring
war.
In a case like that, it's possible
he might be impeached for failing
to take the necessary steps at
tacking firrt to ssve the nation, if
anv congressmen were left alive
after the enemy attacked here.
If you think these questions are
far-fetched. Senator McMahon, Con
necticut Democrat, made a senate
speech in which, speaking of future
bombs, he said:
"I need not tell you that these
weapons impair in a most serious
way the constitutions! power of
Congress to declare war. As a
democracy we are incapable of
launching the first surprise blow.
It seems possible that this very
democratic process, slow and wide
open to the world, could mean an
ends to the republic since it would
give an enemy time to attack first."
McMahon is head of Congress'
atomic committee.
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Wers, Mayor Flegel end William Dutch Mills, American Ltgien post commander. The bill,
rewritten from that lest voted upon by the people of Oregon, to include all veterans, would
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British Vote Contains Lesson For
Republicans If They Can See It
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
A lot of our Republicans think the British election results boost
' their own stock for next November's balloting In this country. They
believe they see a worldwide "trend to the right."
There may well be some sub-1
stance to this notion. But there are
some millers the Republicans
ouiC.it to review before they start
getting too confident.
In the first place, as has been
pointed out many times, the wel
fare state wasn't at issue in Rri
tian. Nor was the socialism that
has already been put into effect.
The Conservatives accept all that
the Labor party has achieved up
to now under these headings.
They do promise not to do any
more socializing. But on the other
hand they pledge themselves to ex
pand some welfare programs, par
ticularly housing.
All this places the Conserva
tives well to the left of the most
extreme leftists among President
Truman's Democratic followers.
And it stamps them unmistak
ably as a "me-too" party.
So t'.ie Britirh trend is hardly
what U.S. Republicans may like to
for tempting
LENTEN
MENUS
PEANUT
:3fEk BUTTER.
ltv-
FRESHER
t your
GROCER'S
think it is. It may be well for them
to remember, too, that Labor's
share of the total British vote
dropped less than 2 percent as com
pared with 1945.
Republicans have been torn for
some time now over the wisdom
of me-tooism. Some leaders have
accepled the majority of chances
wrought by the Democrats, but
others insist this gives f.ie voters
no real choice.
Britain has now contributed to
the GOP debate. For the Conser
vatives, embracing the bulk of
their opponents' established pro
grams, have bounced back within
a short five years to a level almost
even witti Labor.
By contrast. Republicans in this
country, confused about where to
take ttieir stand, have been kept
out of the White House for nearly
18 straight years. And except for
the brief 1946-48 interlude, thev've
been denied control of Congress
for as long. ...
The British result' doesn't prove
that "the worm finally turns" for
an opposition party merely con
tent to oppose and wait. The Con
servatives' quick recovery is root
ed in a grasp of social and politi
cal realities. Their performance
bears little resemblance to what
the Republicans have been doing
for 18 years.
If the GOP can understand fiij
lesson and act upon it. the Bri
tish balloting may indeed have
helped the party's cause in the
1950 campaign. But if the Republi
cans insist on interpreting the out
come as assurance they've been
rieht all along, they'll be deluding
themselves with false comforts.
And November will bring another
rude awakening.
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