EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. April 22, 1932
Memoirs of Senator
Vandenberg Printed;
Tell of Secret Talks
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Roosevelt gave British
Prime Minister Winston Church
Ill "some sort of assurance" be
fore Pearl Harbor that the
United States would go to war
with Japan, according to the
memoirs of the late Sen. Arthur
H. Vandenberg.
The Michigan Republican's
memoirs also disclosed that
President Truman considered
calling Soviet Premier Josef
Stalin "on the phone" a month
before the 1048 presidential
election in a bid for closer U. S.
Soviet friendship.
Papers Published
These other disclosures are
contained In Vandenberg's pri
vate papers, which will be pub
lished in book form Tuesday.
1. Mr. Roosevelt, at the 1943
Quebec Conference with Church
ill, gave Britain a wartime veto
over American use of atomic
bombs. This required Mr. Tru
man to get British approval be
fore A-bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The veto was clmlnated In Jan
uary, 1948.
2. Mr. Truman told Vanden
berg and others at a high level
conference on July 14, 1B49,
that this government proposed
giving Britain "a full partner
ship' 'on atomic energy "In
cluding sharing trte 'know-how'
on weapons making." Vanden
berg successfully opposed the
proposal.
3. Vandenberg had high hopes
that Gen. Douglas MacArthur
would be the 1944 Republican
presidential nominee.
Foresaw Iks Nomination
4. In 1949, Vandenberg ex
pressed the opinion that Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower might be
the GOP presldenital nominee
this year.
5. Vandenberg, at the 1940
Republican convention, rejected
an offer by Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey to be Dewey's running
mate and countered with a pro
posal that Dewey be Vanden
berg's running mate or that they
flip a coin to see who should
head the ticket.
Wendell L. Willkle won the
nomination.
6. Vandenberg frequently
made acid comments about Pres
idents Roosevelt and Truman,
Sens. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio)
and Tom Connnlly (D-Tox.), Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson,
and other public figures.
7. Vandenberg went to the
1948 GOP convention with an
acceptance speech "to be avail
able in the totally unexpected
event of my nomination."
The 559-page book, entitled
"The Private Papers of Senator
Vandenberg," consists of docu
ments and personal correspond
ence from 1939 to his death from
cancer on April 18, 1951. This
period covered Vandenberg's
transition from an isolationist to
an outright supporter of inter
national collaboration.
In a Jan. 27, 1942, diary en-
Fire District Signing
Brisk in C. P. Region
Central Point Over half of
the names for the petitions being
circulated for the Central Point
rural fire district have been se
cured. Fire Chief Richard Krupp
reported yesterday.
Krupp said he expected that
enough names would be secured
by Saturday to complete the cir
culation of petitions. Only 200
signers or 25 per cent of the
registered property owners are
needed in the proposed district,
Krupp added.
try, Vandenberg wrote that
Churchill had won "some sort
of assurance" from Mr. Roose
velt that the "U. S. would go to
war with Japan, regardless
whether Japan attacked us or
not. In still other words, we
were slated for this war by the
President before Pearl Harbor.
The major objective of British
diplomacy , , . has been to get
us into the war. Even we in the
Senate can't find out what is
going on. This is Roosevelt's
private war."
Phone Call Described
Details of the hitherto secret
idea of a Truman-Stalin phone
call were contained in an Oct.
5, 1948, diary entry. Vanden
berg wrote that Mr. Truman
personally called him and Con
nally to the White House and
"chatted informally about the
possibility he might 'call Stalin
on the phone' overseas and see
what he could do with him."
This was after the abortive plan
to send Chief Justice Fred M.
Vinson to Moscow. Vandenberg
said he "made no comment ex
cept to say that I thought a bi
lingual phone conversation
would be rather difficult." The
call was not made.
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Alinj M01L7
Around Hollywood
Hollywood (U.R) Italian ac
tor Vittorio Gassman has been
accused of promoting his Holly-
w o o d career
via his bride-
to-be, Shelly
Winters. But
he turned out
Tuesday to be
a senior genius
who's reached
the top already.
Vittorio
shrugged he's
turned down
one major stu
dio cantract here because "I
want to be free to continue in
the theater in Italy."
Besides, he added, he likes
Shelley not because she's a star
but because "she's a sweet girl
and she likes to eat."
Newsmen have purred that
the handsome Italian came to
Hollywood with Shelly just to
pursue a movie career. But,
Gassman, the movie colony is
finding out, is a top actor in his
own right.
Recently he gave a reading of
Italian poetry at the local .Cir
cle theater. Most of the movie
luminaries there didn't under
stand Italian. But he held them
spellbound for two hours, any
way. Top Italian Actor
Gassman, 29, is one of the five
top movie and stage idols in
Italy. His father is a well-to-do
construction engineer, and he
studied at the Academy of Dra
matic Arts in Rome.
Since then he's starred In 93
plays in nine years. His name
has been up in lights for such
stage successes In Italy as "A
Streetcar Named Desire," "All
My Sons," "Romeo and Juliet"
and "Anna Christie."
He's also written a play, and
ALINI MOSSY
United Preu Correspondent
is a director of note in the Ital
ian theater. He specializes In
Shakespeare and classical Greek
drama. He's had a book of poems
and a short novel published.
IS Movies
Shelley's future husband has
been a leading idol on celluloid
since 1948, too. He's appeared in
19 movies, and was the villian
who attacked leggy Silvano
Mangano in the popular "Bitter
Rice."
Furthermore, he says, he knew
virtually nothing about Shelly
when he met her in the lobby of
a Rome theater last fall.
"Hardly any of her pictures
had played in Italy and I had
never seen her on the screen,"
he explained. "I Just knew she
was a star, which I'd read in
the movie magazines.
"I didn't believe all I read,"
he added gallantly. "I'm interest
ed in her future, not her past.'
First Movie Due
Gassman starts his first Holly
wood movie, "The Glass Wall,"
with Gloria Grahame, for in
dependent writer-producer Max
well Shane next month. For six
months of every year, he and
Shelly plan to stage English
language plays in Italy. He's
opening a theater in Rome next
fall, and it will be subsidized by
the Italian government.
"I like Shelly because on our
first date she was not pre
occupied with diet," beamed
Gassman.
"In Europe actresses tend to
be sophisticated and snobbish.
They are impossible to talk to.
But Shelly takes to everybody.
This is a very sweet quality."
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Slight Rise Due
In Living Costs
Washington (U.R) T h e gov
ernment's cost - of - living ther
mometer was due to register a
slight rise Tuesday.
The Bureau of Labor statistics
said it would issue a report show
ing what happened to consumer
prices between February 15 and
March 15.
Informed sources said the in
dex would be up about 0.1 of 1
per cent. This would be the first
time since December 15 that
there has been any increase at
all. Prices dropped sharply last
month.
The rise leaves prices one half
of 1 per cent below last Decem
ber. The slight rise will prevent
any cost-of-living wage increases
this month and when balanced
off againsUast month's drop may
cause a wage cut for some
groups. Contracts covering less
than 100,000 workers are tied
to this month's index, with ma
jor "escalator" contracts falling
due on other months.
Among those affected are some
20,000 CIO electrical workers at
the Spcrry Gyroscope plant,
Long Island, the Ford Instru-
Grain Spoilage Seen
Investigation Subject
W a s h i n g ton (U.R) Sen
George D. Aiken (R.-Vt.) has
called for an investigation to de
termine how much grain has
spoiled In government storage
bins.
Aiken made the demand as the
Senate Agriculture committee
continued its inquiry Into short
ages of grain stored in private
warehouses.
The committee called repre
sentatives of the Plains Grain
Co., Fort Worth, Tex.; Hender
son Grain Co., Farwell, Tex., and
Garden City Grain and Seed Co.,
Garden City, Kan., to testify.
42 Names Drawn Monday
For Columbia Farmland
Othello, Wash. (U.R) Forty
t. names were drawn from
pool of 3.000 names of applicants
seeking priority to full-time Co
lumbia Basin farms here Mon
day. The drawing, largest ever con
ducted in the basin by the recla
mation bureau, will be followed
on May 31 by the last drawing
of the year.
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