Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, January 29, 1948
'Year of Decision' Arrives for U.S.
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By BAUKHAGE
No________ _
X eia Analyst and Commentator.
N a m e __
WASHINGTON.— Cartoonists and others have titled 1948
“the year of decision.’’ It is a pretty good title. The only trou­
ble is that America’s most important decision has already
been made, and nobody seems to realize it. We know that the
British empire has broken up, but, aside from the fact that
there is some grumbling about loaning money to the British,
it doesn’t seem to concern us very much.
Address
In the current issue of the United Nations World magazine, the British
historian and author, D. W. Brogan, has an article entitled "The British
Shed No Tears for Their Lost E m pire." In it, he says:
•*. . . in the nineteenth century,
the progress of English prosperity
Temporarily, at least that much
....... .. ............. was in close as­ of the carefully-planned Soviet pro­
sociation with the gram failed. But new steps are be­
spread of a gen­ ing planned. A part of the pattern of
eral political and communization is Communist a lli­
economic religion ance with the left-wing non-Commu-
of all sensible nists. The Reds cooperate with the
men. The Bank non-Reds, help them bring about
of England, free their objectives, then slowly domi­
trade, parliamen­ nate and absorb them. One method
tary government used by Reds to get rid of non-Com-
a ll i n c r e a s e d munist left-wing resistance is to
their range of in­ help a reactionary government into
fluence together. power. Such a reactionary govern­
And the English ment suppresses the non-Commu-
looked on what nist left-wingers, and pushes those
was largely their surviving deeper into Communist
work — and their toils.
Baukhage
profit—and tound
That is where the Wallace
it good. They were satisfied with
third party fits into the Kremlin
what they had accomplished.
design. The Reds hope it w ill
" I t is natural enough, today, when
split and weaken the liberals in
this world situation has changed to
this country, increase the fric­
take pretty calmly the decline in the
tion between them aud the con­
favored historical position of Eng­
servatives as much as possible,
land. If the spread of English ideas,
aid the conservatives to get into
practices and profits has ceased,
power. Then when the reaction
why worry— unless you are Eng­
sets in, the conservatives w ill be
lish.”
thrown out, and the well-organ
"Unless you are English.”
ized Communists can take over
And yet the people who ought
easily.
to be doing the worrying are the
Greece is a testing point in the
Americans.
Russian-American struggle.
The
We are taking over where Britain only way in which the Communist
left off. and the job is a bigger one internal aggression there could be
than England faced. But, the aver­ checked was for B ritain and the
age person in this country w ill say United States to step in and actually
in horror: “ You talk like a Commu­ direct the Greek government. That
nist! America's whole tradition is was done. Much as any country dis­
non-intervention. Of course we had likes having a stronger one run its
a wild period in South America, and affairs, the United States, as a
in our salad days as a nation, we choice of evils, is the less unwel­
somehow acquired what we called come to the Greeks, especially when
Texas although the Mexicans, at the
we come bearing gifts without which
time, thought it was a part of Mex­ the government knows it cannot re­
ico, and then, there's Hawaii. But sist the Communist organization.
those days are over. See how
When one talks with the "exiles,”
prom ptly.and politely we returned
the Philippines to themselves, and the refugees from the Red terror,
took our marines out of the banana one is appalled by their attitude.
plantations where they didn’t be­ Recently I spoke at length with a
long. and the other day even aban­ form er foreign m inister of one of
doned our bases in Panama. Don’t the countries now firm ly in the jaws
tell me we're going to establish a of the Soviets. He assured me that
today, if there were a free election
second British empire!
We aren’t. The spirit of live and in his country, not 1 per cent of the
let live is just as strong as it ever people would vote to support a Red
was in this country. Unfortunately, regime. He said these "satellites”
however, what Brogan calls “ the are not satellites at all, they are as
spread of a general political and much a part of the Soviet Union as
economic religion of all sensible the Ukraine or Outer Mongolia The
m en" suddenly encountered a force secret police paralyzes all independ­
that threatened to destroy it when ent action.
the Germans marched into Poland
There is a desperation about
and the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor.
the attitude of these men who
fought the losing battle against
It took all America could af­
the Kremlin. They say there is
ford, and more than Britain
absolutely no hope for Europe
could afford, to stop that force.
unless the Russians are driven
And today, another and stronger
back to their old borders, and
force is gaining power, and
the Balkan states, Poland and
there is nobody to stop it but the
Finland are freed of Russian
United States.
domination. They say there is
When a British official in London
only one thing that w ill have ef­
said “ every means short of war”
fect: A threat by the United
would be used “ by the British and
States to use force.
American governments to keep
Greece within their own strategic
When the quotation of the London
and ideological orbit,” it didn't official which I mentioned, stating
make much of a ripple outside of that the United States and Britain
Washington. But it was a statement were committed to “ measures short
of tremendous import, for it means of war” came over the wires, I was
that the Truman doctrine was not reminded of the conversation with
just a phrase, that its implementa­ the former foreign minister.
tion is now certain. It means that
He had said to me: " I f the United
the people responsible for the des­ States threatens to use force now,
tiny of the United States know that the Russians w ill pull out of Eastern
the year of decision is here, the de­ Europe. They cannot afford war
cision having been made not in now. They fear the United States.
Washington, but in the Kremlin, just But in a few years, mere threats
as the decision to fight Japan was w ill not suffice. The Russians then
made, not in Washington, but in the w ill be ready to fight.”
office of one squat little man now
And this force moving against the
awaiting a death sentence in Tokyo,
"political
and economic religion of
one Hideki Tojo, form er premier of
all sensible men” is moving not only
Japan.
in Europe. A ll along Russia’s pe­
riphery, the red tide is rising
Partisans Succeeded
against its frontiers, in the Middle
In Soviet Sphere
East, in India whose gates Russia
Today it is fashionable to make has threatened for centuries, in
funny cartoons about the “ third China, Korea, in the islands adja­
party” announced in December by cent to Japan.
Henry Wallace. Yet that third party
fits neatly into a plan to wreck our
way of life, the plan, another part
of which was the careful coaching
by the K rem lin of the "partisan”
fighters in World War II. The parti­
sans were formed, first to help beat
down one of the Soviet’s enemies,
but they also were groomed to de­
Armed with microscopes instead
stroy representative government in
of 16-lnch guns, naval medical scien­
their respective countries.
The partisans were most success­ tists are preparing for a new sor' of
ful in the countries nearest Russia, African safari on which they w ill
in te rrito ry where the Red army, In study some of the diseases native to
the guise of allies fighting a common the dark continent.
enemy, gained a foothold which they
The navy medical group w ill ac­
kept when peace came, and which
was used to put their trained company the African expedition be­
ing sponsored by University of Cali­
stooges into power.
In Ita ly and France, they were un­ fornia, hence w ill have the duty of
able to capture completely the parti­ providing medical service to the
san or resistance movements. But university paleontologists and an­
they did get a grip on both countries thropologists who w ill cover most of
which neither France nor Ita ly Africa this year seeking traces of
dared throw off until the United prim itive man and apes.
For their own purposes the navy
States made a tacit condition of aid.
The expulsion of the Communist doctors w ill study such native dis­
eases as African sleeping sickness,
oarties from both governments.
Enterprising Lad Uses
Horse Car in Business
THEY WON'T LAND . . . In Philadelphia at a rally of the marine corps
reserve. Gen. C’lifton 11. Cates (right), new commandant of the marine
corps, took occasion to announce that no leathernecks are scheduled
to land in Palestine. lie also dismissed the sending of about 1,000 ma­
rines to the Mediterranean as "routine." With General Cates are Fleet
Adin. W illiam Halsey and James II. Duff, governor of Pennsylvania.
f
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The 1859 horse car ut Baltimore**
sesquicentennial exposition is buck
in business. Retiring the bell
clanging und children clambering
aboard, officials investigated They
found a nine year-old boy noting
as conductor and charging a pen­
ny a fare.
He hud 12 paid pussengers be­
fore officials put him out of busi­
ness.
NEW S R E V IE W
Slump Possible: Truman;
Cite Air Power Need
In this season of presidential r e ”
ports to the nation the alarm bells
were jangling for everything from
the state of the entire world to the
frayed condition of John Doe's back
pocket.
And through his "Semi-Annual
Economic Report of the President,”
Mr. Truman sounded the gong omi­
nously on a new note: The impend­
ing peril of economic disaster in the
U. S.
The nation's economy, he said. Is
operating on borrowed tim e and in­
flation-ridden Americans are oper­
ating on borrowed money in a situa­
tion flirting with depression.
M illions of persons in the lower
income groups, his report pointed
out, now are keeping the inflation
carousel w hirling by liquidating
their savings, reducing their current
savings and by extensive use of con­
sumer credit.
"Such use of savings for current
living expenses is an ominous sign
for the economy as a whole.”
Without stopping to consider any
possible political aspects of the
President’s economic report, Amer­
icans could take it as a sober, realis­
tic picture of what lies beneath the
relative luxury in which many of
them are existing now.
Exhaustive and complete, the eco­
nomic survey presented figures no­
table in that they:
Showed for the first time that
real purchasing power” of the
American masses—basic factor sup­
porting U. S. economy—has declined
8 per cent since the first quarter of
1946, and that
Millions of Americans are living
on their savings accounts and
borrowing money. Almost one-quar­
ter of all families and more than
(»ne-half of families earning less
than $2,000 yearly "held no liquid
assets in 1947.”
Then Mr. Truman tied in these
facts with his administration's pro­
posed policy to beat the inflation
rap. If inflation, he said, is “ per­
mitted to run its own course, it will
break with destructive force.”
And in order not to let it run its
owti course the President again
urged adoption of his anti-inflation
program—lim ited price and ration
controls.
That way, he indicated, lies a
new, greater economic era for the
U. S. embodying maximum employ­
ment and solid and lasting pros­
perity.
1.
2.
serious danger of atomic attack w ill
exist.”
On that premise the group recom­ HIHHHMIllHtMHIOHOMMMIHI
mended that the government start L'OR luncheon in a gala mood,
now to spend on the air force in 1948
• use your new tablecloth all
1.3 billion dollars more than the 2 85
abloom with roses and forget-me-
billion currently scheduled for this
nots! Single, outline and lazy-daisy
calendar year, and that in 1949 the
total be raised still another 1.3 bil­ stitches.
• • •
lion dollars.
W ell-dressed tabic« o re w e a rin g th is !
For actual air strength the com­ P a tte rn 7211 has tra n s fe r of 14 m o tifs
mission said that by 1942 the U. S. l ‘ < by 2 to U by 13 inches.
should command a total of 12. >0
ft» ^» ^»
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first-line planes, plus more than £» ft»
8.000 held in reserve.
Although it was extremely un­
likely that the air policy commis-
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peacetime congress, the report put
realistic emphasis where emphasis
T h e Q u estio n s
belonged. Everyone has been aware
1.
What
is a brumal month?
that air power is mandatory if the
2. In what country is Amharic
U. S. is to have any degree of na­
tional security in an era of feverish spoken?
3. Which is the higher in rank,
atomic-bomb production, and the
commission has succeeded in put­ marquis or an earl?
4. Did the 7-day week originate
ting that awareness on as tactual a
in historic or prehistoric times?
basis as is possible now.
,
I ASK M E
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OPEN CITY:
Jerusalem
Since apparently nothing can stop
the quasi-civil war between Arabs
and Jews in Palestine, that coun­
try ’ s harrassed government has
done the next best thing and re­
quested both factions to spare the
holy places of Jerusalem from any
depredations they might carry out.
The Palestine government asked
the Christian, Moslem and Jewish
religious communities to declare Je­
rusalem's ancient walled area an
"open city.”
That plea couldn’t stop the blood­
shed but it could preserve the re­
ligious relics sacred to all three of
the world’s main religions.
Meanwhile, transportation was
being made available to evacuate
any of the 1,500 Jews still living
under Arab siege inside the walls.
They are the remnants of 4,000 nor­
mal residents of the area.
Which Wav Judea?
AIR STRENGTH:
(A-Day 1953
How im portant is it that the U S.
have a potent, efficient air force?
V irtually a m atter of life or death,
thinks the President’s air policy
commission which recently reported
on the status of the nation’s air
strength.
Immediate and substantial en­
largement of the air force for “ sur­
vival in the air age” was urged by
the commission; and January 1,
1953, was set as "A-day,” or the ulti­
mate date when the U. S. might con­
sider itself relatively secure against
atomic attack.
After “ A-day,” the commission
intimated, it w ill be anybody's ball
game as far as airborne atom
bombs are concerned. "The air
force is hopelessly wanting in re­
spect of the future . . . when a
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ANOTHER
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5. From what part of the whale
is whale bone taken?
C. Is the word corpse correctly
applied to anything but the human
body?
7. Does fog indicate bad weather
to come?
8. What is the difference be­
tween standard coins and token
coins?
T h e A n s w e rs
□nt use
Harsh Laxatives
Keep requ/ar
W hs hea/rtrfv/ way-
The juice o f a lemon in a glass of
water, when taken first thing on aris­
ing, is all that most people need to
insure prompt, normal elimination.
N o m o r e h o r lh la x a t iv e « that irrita te
the digestive tract and impair n u tri­
tion! Lemon in water isj/ood for you!
G e n e r a tio n « o f A m e ric a n « have taken
lemons for health — and generations
of doctors have recommended them.
They are rich in vitamin
supply
valuable amounts of Bi and 1’ They
alkalinize, aid digestion.
Not too t h o r p or «our, lemon in w ater
has a refreshing tang — clears the
mouth, wakes you up. I t ’a not a
purgative — simply helps your sys­
tem regulate itself. T ry it 10 days.
USI C A L IF O R N IA S U N K IS T L I M O N S
More than just
a TONIC-
it’s Powerful
nourishment!
1. A winteilike month.
2. It has been the speech of
Ethiopia since 1300 A. D.
3. A marquis.
4. Prehistoric.
5. The jaw.
6. No.
7. No, fair weather.
8. Standard coins w’hen new are
worth their face value as metal.
Token coins pass for more than
their actual value in metal.
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by Many
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children build sound
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8 M illion Heard Lecture;
Paid Some $5,000,000
The most widely heard speech
of all time was "Acres of Dia­
monds,” a version of the idea that
there are riches in your own back
yard, written by the American
educator and clergyman, Dr. Rus­
sell H. Conwell (1843-1925) says
Collier’s.
During the last fifty years of his
life, Dr. Conwell gave this inspira­
tional lecture in person 6,000 times
before 8,000,000 people who paid
some $5,000,000 to hear it.
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Moshe Shcrtok, head of the Pal­
estine Agency’s political depart­
ment, now in the role of liaison
official to U. N., ponders one of
the many enigmas partition of the
Holy Land has thrust upon him.
He said the Jewish agency soon
would ask U. N. for an interna­
tional police force, arms and
funds to enforce the partition
agreement.
FROM SNAIL FEVER TO MALARIA
Plan African 'Disease Safari'
bilharzia or snail fever, plague,
scrub typhus, yellow fever and
malaria. They also w ill scrutinize a
number of parasites which inhabit
human beings, for instance the par­
ticular form of hookworm in Mo­
zambique, Portuguese East Africa.
To pursue their studies the group
w ill have to trap and shoot animals
which are the disease carriers.
Among these are the rodent-carriers
of bubonic plague, the zebra, deer,
gazelle, elaq and possibly lions,
tigers and leopards which are be­
lieved to be reservoirs of African
sleeping sickness.
Most of these animals have not
been used in research by American
medical scientists before because
animals which are potential disease
carriers are not allowed to be im ­
ported. I f they should escape captiv­
ity they m ight introduce an entirely
new series of diseases into the
United States.
There are particular regulations,
for example, against the fru it bat, a
known carrier of malaria, which. If
once established here, would de­
stroy citrus fruits.
The fru it bat, however, is highly
regarded by medical scientists as a
good laboratory animal because it
is easily raised in captivity. It is
possible that certain phases of the
m alaria «ycle now entirely under­
stood could be worked out through
study of it.
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