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Acheson Is Target Of GOP Spokesmen DEMOCRACY'S Republicans Tee Off On Foreign Policu FOREIGN policy is going to be one of the big controversial issues : in this fall's Congressional elections. Republicans already have started slugging at what the Administration has liked to think of as its bipartisan approach to international affairs. It mav mean the end of political unity on foreign policy, a pre carious truce that has been maintained by both parties since World War n. The Republicans opened up last weekend with a charge that Adminis tration policies in the Far East vir 1 tually had invited Russia to grab off what it wanted in China, Korea and Formosa. The statement was signed by four senators (Wiley, Wise.; H. Alexander Smith, N. J.; Hickenlooper, Iowa,' and Lodge, Mass.). r Endorsed by Vandenberg The statement reportedly had the endorsement in principle of Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, chief GOP advocate of nonpartisanship in world affairs. Vandenberg, who is 01, did not sign it These five comprise the Republican membership of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the nation's most potent foreign policy-making body outside the State Department it- sell . r ' Democratic reaction was bitter and Immediate. Sen. Tom Connally (D Tex), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called it a "palpably political statement" On the Senate floor. Sen. Brien McMahon (D-Conn) accused ; Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, the Senate Republican floor ; leader, of. having fought every Administration " effort to keep Europe out of Com munist hands. He added: "At a time when our forces are hard-pressed in Korea and Jakob Malik is trying to put over a whole sale fraud (in the United Nations), our Republican colleagues have chosen to issue a crafty political statement on foreign policy designed to cozen a few votes in November." Sen. Wherry announced he sub- . scribed to every word the four Repub lican senators had written, adding that he would have gone further. , - -' Acheson Is Target Wherry called for the resignation of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and characterized both the Marshall . Plan and the Point Four program as throwing money down a ra thole." ' , Sen: Owen Brewster of Maine, who heads the Republican senatorial cam 1 paign committee, declared in a speech at Charleston, W. V&, that Secretary . Acheson "must go," charging that the American people no longer had con ' fldence in his leadership. Harold Stasseh urged Congress to take over leadership from the Whlta "House in foreign affairs and declare that war would come to Moscow itself . if another communist, invasion c- curred anywhere, either by Russia di- - rectly or its satellites or puppets. " Sidelights O In San Diego, the Rev. Arthur W. Wheeler, 69, died of -a heart attack ; while performing a marriage. His ' - wife, Florence, also an ordained min ister, took over and completed the -ceremony.- ' -. . O Mrs.. Oksana Kasenkina revealed on the second anniversary of her three-dory leap from .the Russian consulate in New - York that she is writing a novel about Premier Stalin, entitled "The Red DeviL" O Newark, N. J, is considering a dry ordinance limiting a family to not T more than one dog and one cat; penal ties for violators, a $200 fine, 90 days in jail or both. '- OA nationwide impatgn to fly handmade United Nations flags In every town and village is planned as a symbol of support for U.N. action in ' Korea. Sponsoring organizations in- . elude the National Grange, 4-H Clubs, -the Federal Extension Service and J other farm groups. rt-::'-- U (40 RiffUi AP Kvtf9atmrtt) CHALLENGE Weapons V New Proving Ground - . Korea, like Spain before World War n, is becoming a huge test tube for new military weapons and tech niques. Both sides are trying out new devices and revamping old ones. The communist invasion, planned for a quick overpowering sweep down the peninsula, has turned into a long, tough slugging match. . The second new American weapon has made its appearance in the Korean fighting. It is the 11.75-inch Tiny Tim, a heavy armor-piercing rocket used for the first time in combat by carrier based Navy Corsairs. - Effectiveness of the new super-missile is reported excellent One Tiny Tim knocked out a bridge at Chungju. The first .new American weapon was the 3.5-inch rocket introduced several weeks ago, which proved more than a match for the heavy Russian-made North Korean tanks. Both are out growths of the 2.3S bazooka developed in World War n. ; Navy pilots are dropping depth charges on certain strategic land tar gets. These "ashcans" were designed as anti-submarine, weapons but their tremendous concussion has proved ef fective against chemical plants. The North Korean Reds are em ploying many techniques used by the Russians. One of the most ingenious is the underwater bridge. These stone- and-loe structures are built at night a foot below the surface of shallow' rivers, i . V; ANCIENT V ESCAPE irrnATUS-A CI la the US. Rrst Covclry Civitlon, somewhere In Korea, pores ever "The, Peeks! IHstery cf the See end World War" while his exhausted buddy crabs O winks. wo tit HEY, DONT LEAVE Ml KO REA: The Battle AMERICANS never have been afraid to face facts, declared Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early in Washington and then he proceeded to give them facts which he said must be faced. The Job in Korea," he said, "is go ing to take time and effort American troops and troops of other nations; it is going to have an impact on Amer icans, on the way we are going to live for some time to come." Early, who was press secretary for the late President Roosevelt said that American forces in' Korea had per formed a "military miracle" during the first 50 days of the invasion. . Pnsan Is Hub The American and South Korean defenders now are backed into a 6,000 square mile rectangular cordon about Pusan, the vital , port , through which the mass of men, guns, armor and supplies for the eventual counter-attack must pass. This beachhead is about three times the size of Delaware; there is -plenty of room for maneuver. It is rimmed to the west and south by mountains, along which Lt Gen. Walton Walker, U. S. ground troop commander in Ko rea, has deployed his strength. - The United Nations forces are still outnumbered two or three to one. but they are dug into natural lines ox defense, They comprise five Ameri can and five South Korean divisions, nearly 150,000 troops. Build Up for Assault t Against this entrenched line, the North Koreans massed their men, heavy tanks and self-propelled artil lery. They pushed bridgeheads across the Naktong River in the south and central sections and held them stub-. bornly. A force of over. 10,000 swept down from Yongdok in the north and took Pohang, the fishing port at which the U. S. First Cavalry Division de barked three weeks earlier. Outside Pohang, an American air field had to be evacuated by fighter planes but the airbase ground forces stayed behind to " fight" HISTORY - -4 ' li If 'Hi I v - --- r,.M ... - . J i - SUM AS SHOOTING V r-r i f 1 nfirrh - nftr' (.; l ft-- f..,A,...t.t ,.;.wt lr -n WELCOME A band and honor guard with flags off th United States, United Nations and the Korean Republic salutes incoming troopships at a South Korean port which must be nameless. The Korean Reds fight with an Asi- by driving the United Nations forces miles from Russia's Siberian border, atic fury ; and press on, paytag little into the sea before August 31. ' Najin has been referred to as a pro attention 'to heavy losses. They, are In an order of. the day .on the fifth spective base for Soviet submarine skilled in infiltration and sift through anniversary of Korean liberation from operations in the Pacific the defense lines at night to operate ; Japan, Kim called for prompt anni- Bomb Barrare as guerrilla bands behind the lines. i August Deadline The beachhead battle has not been won yet by the invaders and time no longer is on their side. North Korea's premier, Kim n Sung, commanded his armies to win the war Age Back to School Again? Life expectancy of man in the fore seeable future may be pushed up to -125 years,' says a New York medical specialist and all but the last few years could be comfortable without disabilities now associated with age. Dr. Martin L. Gumpert says the whole concept of retirement must be changed in order to provide solutions : for the problems of aged people so cial problems as well as medical ones. He advocates establishment of pub lic schools for people well along in years. Education, he says, should be a lifetime job for everyone. .Dr. Henry S. Curtis, Ann Arbor, Mich, educator; said schools for the elderly are needed because of the great number of people living beyond the age of retirement ' . - There should be planning for retire ment he said, and as a first step boards of education in industrial cities such as Detroit should set aside or build special schools to train people for what lies ahead. In Short Passed: By India's Parliament in - New Delhi, an emergency law em- ' powering the government to jail food , .hoarders up' to seven years and fine them 20 times the value of the hoarded food. - . :; ! " Kefosed: By AFirjoogshoremen, to unload Russian canned crabme&t val ued at $250,000 from a British liner in Hew York. . Announced: By the White House, appointment of New York City's Mayor William ODwyer as -ambassador to Mexico lor sometime in Sep- : tember; ODwyer will resign his $10,-. CCO-a-year job for the $15,0O0-a-year diplomatic post bringing about a may oralty election in November..' Bora: To Princess Elizabeth, a six-: pound daughter, her second chiW. - of the 'it I) K "'I Ir aiii&ttiiwmKMVmm-!mi'-wv--'Mimwi Viinii' i hilation of the UJ. defenders. "The longer this is delayed," he said, "the stronger will become the United States and South Korean defenses." In massive air strikes reminiscent of World War IL American Sunerf orts dropped more than-500 tons of bombs on Najin, North Korean port only 17 Dates Tuesday, August 22 Primaries in Wyoming, New York, Mississippi. ' Anniversary (86th), Interna tional Red Cross. Wednesday, August 25 - Birthday (67th), Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright . Friday, August 25 Uruguay's Independence Day. Saturday, August 28 Anniversary (30th), Woman Suffrage, 19th Amendment Nation Production Up . Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council ot Economic Ad- visen, says the national production of goods and services should zoom to 350 billion dollars a year by 1955. It's not there yet but it's climbing in that direction. ' ; Commerce Department reports show production during the second Quarter ' of 1950 at the highest rate on record nearly 270 billion a year. The previous high was 267 billion in the last quar ter of 1948. "0 The new mark Is a sharp climb from the annual rate of 254 billion in the last quarter of 1949 and 263 billion for the first three months of this year. National production statistics do not yet reflect influence of the Korean fighting. That began June 23, a few days before the second quarter ended. ' National production, often called the "gross national product'' is made up of things like personal spending for consumption, private investments Jand government spending. ' ' Government spending was the same Jn the second quarter as the first but personal spending went up two bffliao and ' private investments increased than Jive billion. : : : Fleets 1 THE KILLINGS mi i iiTTiiii'iii Next day, B29s dropped 980 tons on Red troop concentrations along the NaVtnn a Rivrr An earthmiake TueaHav nn of ia most violent in 50 years,' prompted communist . DroDaeandists to charee that the U. S. had dropped an atom bomb on Korea. Europe Red Problem . The Iron Curtain rung down by the Soviet Union over eastern Europe after World War II serves a double purpose. It not only keeps out western influence but it serves to keep in resi dents of the v little nations yoked to the Red sphere of satellite states. There is ample evidence that behind that barrier which bisects Europe from Norway to Trieste, Moscow is having difficulty in chaining men's minds as well as their bodies. , Yugoslavia, of course, -broke away openly and Marshal Tito is a marked man. -.. . -- ..' In Czechoslovakia, one of the key states in the Red empire, there is an almost constant purge ! going on. In the three little Baltic republics, Russia is conducting an all-out purge ' to protect coastal defense secrets. This is the coastal area where Russia is said to have its supersecret submarine pens and rocket-launching sites, near which an American plane disappeared earlier this year. ; . Experts say Moscow. has to rear - and communire another generation before the danger of revolt is lessened. Quotes " EH2 Mauldla, World War .II cartoonist of. GI humor, chosen to act inHollywood's filming of The Red Badge of Courage: "I think my selection as an actor is a damn fool idea, 1ut TU go along with it I can make enough money to go home and finish my ; boot" f ', -, : j , s TTygve Lie,- U.N. secretary general: There is no road back from Korea except a victory tat the principle of justice over the principle of power politics." - Pound Beachhead i ::: of Superforfs Korean Reds - Tart, Im'mih ttmm AREN'T All, IN KOREA Unofficial Parliament - i FDR the first time since Hitlers Belch withdrew from the old League of Nations, German dele- gates are back at an international political parley. The 18-man delegation from the 1 Bonn government of West Germany sat down with political leaders of 14 , other nations at Strasbourg, France, under the- green and white banner oi the Council of Europe.' , They were self-conscious at first but soon joined actively in discussion of ' western Europe's defenses. One Ger man Socialist delegate protested at in corporating West Germany into the -plan, saying, "The day the first Ger man armored division is created the v Russians will have their best pretext for attacking." - Propose European Army . Winston Churchill retorted that the -calculated designs of the Soviet gov ernment would not be timed or de flected by such events. A Churchill ! resolution for creation of a "unified j European army" was passed by a vote- of 89 to 5. t - Britain waged a lone and losing bat tle before the Consultative Assembly against the Schuman plan to pool ' . western Europe's coal and steel. The Council of Europe actually has - no jurisdiction ; over the coal-steel . talks. Delegates of six - continental i powers are meeting in Paris where they hope to complete a first draft of the treaty by October 1. The British patently wanted to ex plain their stand fully before the un- ' official Parliament The French f or- -eign minister, Robert Schuman, cam down to Strasbourg to explain his plan. He said one of its advantages would be to lessen tension between France and Germany. No Real Power I f The Council is little more than Europe's unofficial Parliament It has ? two branches: the Committee of Min isters, composed of foreign ministers , of the member countries, and the Con sultative Assembly, which consists of f delegates chosen by national Parlia- " ments. The committee has no real power since each minister has the -right of veto. j Science , Civilian Defense Primer i .The Atomic Energy Commission has issued a grim report that seems destined to hit the best-seller book lists. It is a guide to Americans on how to organize civilian defense i against possible ' attack by atomic bombs. t Sen. Brien McMahon, chairman of the joint Congressional committee on . Atomic Energy, pointed out that the 'Kremlin alone is responsible for the - .fact that the 438-page book deals only on destructive aspects of atomic fis sion. , "In this fact" he said, "lies the deepest and starkest tragedy of our time. Not only our troops in Korea x but every man, woman or. child on . our homefront lives amid growing': danger." - . " The book "Effects of Atomic -Weapons" sells for $L25. It is recom mended by the National Security Re- wiuvca ogua to staie ana municipal authorities as a handbook of basic measures that might save tniinni of ; lives in the event of an atomic attackv It is the most comprehensive report , yet made on certain aspects of atomia explosions at discusses the three types: high in the air as at Hiroshima... surfacesas at Alamogordo, N. M, and submarine as at Bikini- It takes up for the first time the explosion of an A-bomb underground ; to produce an artificial but destructive earthquake,; No such experiment has: . been conducted but laboratory deduc tions show it might be peculiarly af fective against a city like New York, , situated above a buried rock strata. Damage to a city built over deep lay -era of light soil, it says, would be less. r i f r t Js , 1. . . k-.j J L
