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Washington, Dec. 1 W
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army
chief of staff, said today that
"serious study is being given to
applying the atomic bomb to in
fantry tactics."
His comment, given in answer
to a news conference question,
represented a departure from
earlier military thinking.
In the first years after the
war, military men felt that the
mass destruction characteristic
of the weapon meant it would be
useful only for strategic attack
on cities. It would be too pow
erful for use against troops in
the field.
Collins, replying to other
questions at the conference, also
said:
1. The army is buying out of
current funds new models of
28-ton light tanks, building a
sample of a medium 35-ton tank
and is studying plans but has
no prototype model yet for a
heavy tank of more than 50 tons.
GI Gold Rush Men and officers of the 5th and 9th recon
naissance technical squadrons stationed at the Solano county
air base pan for gold at Webber creek, near Placervllle, Calif.,
In search of nuggets to gain funds for the purchase of equip
ment for their recreation room. Under the seasoned guidance
of old-time prospectors, the GIs tried hard and had a lot of
fun, but didn't enrich their recreation room fund by very
much. (Acme Telephoto)
FACES HIDE PLANS FOR DESTRUCTION
Skating on Edge of Unreality;
5 Men Decide Atom's Fate
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, Nov. 30 W) The room was bright with sunlight
and jammed with newsmen. The five members of the atomic
energy commission came in and sat down behind a long table.
This was something new. Every month the commission was
going to have a news conference like this where reporters could
ask questions
the atom could
peace?
So the question and answers
skidded around the two main
questions which weren's even
asked: What's the score now?
And where are we headed?
The law would have forbid
den an answer to the first and
not even the commissioners
could have answered the sec
ond.
Certain types of television in
terference which make them
selves known visually are call
ed "snow" because they look
just like that on the screen.
15
James Mftrlow
about the atom
ic program and
the commission
ers would try to
answer.
It was undcr
(tood they could
not answer ev
ery question
since the pro
gram was tied
In with nation
al security and
there was a law against giving
away atomic secrets.
For example, if someone ask
ed "are we building a bomb
1,000 times as powerful as the
one which destroyed Hiroshi
ma?" A yes or no answer might
be of military importance to the
Russians.
So, in a case like that, and
there would be many similar
cases, the commissioners would
turn aside the question with a
"no comment."
Perhaps in recent years you
have felt in yourself a sense
of unreality, a feeling that some
how the world and events were
whirling past too fast for you,
as you read about Schnorkel
submarines, jet planes traveling
faster than sound, and all the
rest of modern wonders.
Well, I had a sense of unreal
ity like that Monday during the
news conference of the atomic
energy commissioners. The
chairman, David E. Lilienthal
who's quitting Dec. 31, did most
of the answering.
But since the atom is some
thing you can't visualize, and
since work on the atom is over
the heads of most laymen, the
questions and the answers or the
"no comments" seemed almost
to be dealing with an unreal
world.
And yet all of us in the room
knew that those five atomic
commissioners were engaged in
two separate searches:
How to make more powerful
weapons from knowledge of the
atom and how to find ways of
using the atom to help mankind
There we sat, members of
citizenry which had delegated to
these five commissioners and the
government, power to withhold
from us secrets that may some
day change our lives or change
the world.
Yet, because it was our gov
ernment doing the atomic re
search, the secrets were ours al
though we couldn't be told them.
Actually, through our congress,
we erected walls to keep our
selves from being told too much
Through our elected congress,
we, have provided to keep us
or rather, congress informed
and to keep a check on the work
of the five commissioners and all
those employed by them.
Ana yet our congressmen
themselves passed the atomic
law in such a way that they
can't divulge or at least, are
not supposed to the secret
stuff which might hurt us by
helping pn enemy.
And the unreality went even
further. The five commission
ers themselves are laymen.
They're hired managers, paid to
see that the atomic program is
run-all right.
And behind them are the
physicists and other scientists
dealing in mathematical worlds
that the commissioners can't en
ter because they lack the spe
cialized knowledge.
Looking into the pleasant
smiling faces of the commission
ers we could not tell what new
and awful forms of destruction
they had approved or might soon
approve.
And the commissioners them
selves could not know what
magic revelations might come
tomorrow out of an accident in
a laboratory or the cool calcula
tions of a mathematician.
Sitting there, watching the
commissioners, I had the feeling
we were skating on the edge of
unreality. Or was it the edge
of some golden future wherein
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It also Is purchasing many new
high-reaching anti-aircraft guns,
the "skysweep."
2. The joint chiefs of staff
have agreed on a plan for de
fense of Alaska which will be
carried out as soon as housing
for troops can be completed. It
is "not a grandiose plan, just a
modest plan."
Meanwhile there is an interim
plan to "take care of the situa
tion if anything happens" be
fore housing is completed and
more troops are moved in.
3. Collins knows of no plan to
rearm Japan or build up a Jap
anese army.
4. The individual commanders
of each of the six armies in the
United States now have author
ity to take immediate action in
their own areas if an attack
should occur, without waiting to
ask permission from the Penta
gon. Highways Bare
The pavement is bare on all
Oregon highways, the state high
way commission said today.
Street cars formerly used in
New York City now operate in
Vienna, Lima, Peru, and Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
Airforce Cuts
Aleutian Bases
Washington, Dec. 1 VP) The
air force said today that because
of money limitations and a man
power shortage it is withdraw
ing personnel from six installa
tions in the Aleutian islands air
way system. The installations
will be turned over to other gov
ernment agencies.
"These forces," the air force
said in answer to a question,
"have little or no defensive ca
pability and their withdrawal
will have no appreciable effect
on the air defenses of the United
States and Alaska.
"Since the users deriving the
most benefit from these facilities
are now civil air carriers, we
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday. Dec. 1, 1949 29
intend to turn over to other gov
ernment agencies such air force
fixed installations on the chain
as they may desire to continue
in operation,
mya; an auxiliary field at Am
chitka; Davis base on Adak isl
and; Cape base on Unmak island;
Thornbrough base at Cold Bay
near Dutch Harbor, and an aux-
The bases involved are: She- iliary field on Atka island,
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