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-
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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
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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 .
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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.
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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
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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. -
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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. : : :
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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
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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." -
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AREN'T All, IN KOREA
Unofficial
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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.
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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.
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