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MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1953 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVEN Scandinavians Know They're Right In Line of East- West World War By GODFREY ANDERSON AP Foreign Correspondent OSLO Scandinavians know they ere right In the line o fire If the Kast antf West clash in a new world war. Their strategists recognire that the shortest routes to Russia (or Mom bombers and guided missiles bo across Scandinavia from bases in North America, Greenland, Ice land and England. They know this same atomic air corridor would 'Conspiracy' Claimed By Magnuson WASHINGTON Wl Sen. MRg nuson iD-Wnsh.) aroused the Ei senhower administration Saturday of "actively conspiring with pri vate monopolies to help hl-Jack" power resources "owned by the people and developed by the peo ple." In a speech prepared lor senate delivery Magnuson said President Elsenhower has revealed "his ig norance of the facts." Magnuson used much of the ma terial from his prepared speech during running debate on approp riations for western power proj ects. Then, without , formally de livering his address, he obtaincdJ unanimous consent to nave its text inserted In the Congressional Rec ord. He accused Secretary of Inter - ior McKay and Republicans in Congress of "trying to stop the clock on western progress and de velopment." If the new Republican power pol icy stands, Magnuson said, "it will inflict lrreparabfe damage to the west and south." 'It will throw the west back to the days of water grabs and land grabs; the south back to the to talled reconstruction era. "The new Republican Dower ool. icy under President Eisenhower's administration Is more weighted In behalf of private monopoly by far uian me xtepuDiican power policy m me naraing, coolldge and Hoov er administrations." t Magnuson's attack wax based upon cutbacks in funds for federal power projects in the west and iouw, decisions of Secretary Mo a-af in awarding power sites to privately - owned utility compan ies, and power policy statements by them and the House appropria tions committee. The Senator cited President El senhower's remarks at a June 17 press conference about what the .camcui, crnieo. me socialistic the. j vwieieoy taxes from all the u. re used to subsidize K....uWr region which 'then sought to draw business from oth- 'Squeezed Off Air By Idaho Power Co.' WASHINGTON in Sen. Mag nuson (D-Wash) told the Senate Saturday that the Idaho-Oregon Hell's Canyon association was cut olf Radio Station KDHS at Boise, Idaho, because a private power company did not like the broadcast. The associaton favored a federal power dam on the Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon border, which has been withdrawn by Secretary of Interior McKay allowing a pri vate utility, the Idaho Power com pany, a Maine corporation, to pro ceed with its project there. Magnuson referred to this during Senate debate over a policy of the Eisenhower administration and got Senate consent to include letters concerning the incident. Lloyd Tupling of the Hell's Can yon Association wrote Magnuson his group was "bucking suppres sion and censorship" in Its effort to reach the public with broadcasts favoring the Hell's Canyon project. Tupling said the association bought 13 weeks time on KDHS for broadcasts but that Earl Blade. Jr.. station manager refused to sell additional time because the "Idaho Power Company objected to the broadcasts." be used in reverse by Soviet bomb-i ers and missiles from bases north or west of Moscow. - In military parlance, this is beuii "under the gun." It isn't a comfortable position for Scandinavians. Norway and Denmark already are committed to the west as members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Sweden s maintaining its traditional position as a neutral. But strategists In allied Norway and Denmark and ouiciaiiy neutralist Sweden don't agree on what part their countries may play if a hot war really comes. One group tniiuts oi.tt"uu which from the polar Ice cap to the south of Denmark repre sents roughly half of the east west contact line tn Western Eu ropewill become a local point in any conilict. The other, backing tne proDaoii ity of a primarily air and atomic war, thinks Scandinavia may u fought over rather than fought through. Lt. Col. Sam Myhrman, a Swed ish stalf officer, writing in the Ny Militar Tidskrlft INew Military Journal) predicted: "Scandinavia will become storm center of any European east west conflict. It lies under the bul let trajectory and Is a highly desirable base area to both par ties." Col. Myrhman points out that a Soviet thrust westward across Eu rope would leave the Red Army's northern flank exposed unless Scandinavia were also taken. Allied Alrbases in Southern Scandinavia would permit the al lies to bomb the Russian extended line of communications through Poland, East Germany or across the Baltic. The mere risk of such a threat, he thinks, would cause the Russians to take preventive meas ures against Srandtaavia from the start. "If Denmark and Norway were occupied without Sweden being in volved, the result would be com' plete encirclement (of Sweden) by Soviet or Soviet-controlled areas. he warned. "Such a situation might mean that Sweden would be completely dependent upon the Soviet union. "Prom a military point of view, however, it isn't possible for Rus sla to carry out occupation of Nor way without involving Sweden. Be cause Norway, supported by the Atlantic Pact, will offer deter mined resistanoe, the Soviet Union would be forced to put in very strong ground or airborne forces. This, In turn, would require strong air support and extensive supply services. A tactical air support Can hardly act anywhere else than In the 'Cap' area (ex treme northern tip of Scandinavia) witnout involving Swedish territory." A primary Russian aim must Broadway Cleaners WILL BE CLOSED from July 4th through the eleventh. Office will be open to receive clothes and let out orders. also be to disrupt the west's vital trans - Atlantic communications. Once again the deep silent fjords of Northern Norway may Become enemy submarine bases. The bases would have to be secure on the landward side and there would have to be air cover to protect the subs stealing in and out. The other group fo Scandinavian muilary insist that defensive strat egy should be keyed to the needs of I960 rather than 1939. Some In this group feel much NATO planning. Insofar as it has been disclosed, is based on outmoded views. They believe 1960 strategy la being discussed at the Kremlin. They believe, too. it is being dis cussed in more realistic terms at the Pentason. These strategists feel inae in next war will be an atomic air war and that little else will be of conseouence. They believe that the .united States has a stockpile now of about 1,000 atom boms, while the Russians have "several hundreds.' Between 1958 and 1958 they expect both Russia and American to have in mass production, Jet bombers caDable of carrying atom boms riant to the enemy's backyard. By 1960, they say, both powers will be in a position to wage a war based on strategic ideas nev er applied before each hitting hard to the other's home bases in a serins of attempted knockout The opinion here Is that the U.S. should have the initial ad vantage in such an atomlo ex change. With nearer bases. Its planes won't have so far to fly. But the Russians would be quick to retaliate on bases from which at tacks are made. In the view of these Scandinavian officers, the Red Army would amost certainly seek to occupy Western Europe and snatch handy Channel bases for pounding Great Britain to submission. But they believe occupation of the Scandinavian area might have less importance in Soviet eyes. They reckon lt might take the Russians three months and a mil lion men to get the northern penin sula nrmiy in their hands, Norway and Sweden stood firm with the NATO powers behind them. Sweden has the world's fourth largest air force, mainly equipped with latest type Jets. (The first three are the U.S., Russia and Britain.) Sweden has been build ing her defenses steadily since 1939 and claims a well trained army. , Norway, which had virtually no army in 1940 when the Nasies swept in, now has a small well equipped force. Denmark, with flat open coun. try where tanks can- move freely. is a 1-reater strangle problem. 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