U. S. Needs Earlv
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Treaty -Ratification
WASHINGTON. (/P)—President
Truman declared Tuesday that
early ratification of four Balkan
peace treaties is "v’ital to our for
eign policy.”
Secretary of State Marshall
read a note to the Senate foreign
relations committee, in which Mr.
Truman said he concurs whole
heartedly with Marshall and
James F. Byrnes, former secre
tary, in urging speedy ratification
of treaties with Italy, Bulgaria,
Hungary and Romania.
Arguing that the United States
should maintain a consistent pol
icy on such matters, Mr. Truman
said "it would be a great misfor
tune and a blow to this country in
world affairs” if the treaties are
not ratified.
Marshall himself told the com
mittee that “the world would lose
all confidence in our proposals
and our leadership” if the Senate
fails to ratify the Italian, treaty
speedily.”
In his letter to Marshall, Mr.
Truman said he does not share
Illegally Withdraw
Rationed Sugar
SANTA FE. N. M. (/PI—Dispo
sition of federal charges involving
illegal withdrawal and use of a
million and a quarter pounds of
rationad sugar for soft drinks
manufacture Tuesday awaited the
setting of trial dates for 11 of 47
corporations and individuals in
dicted by a New Mexican g**and
jury.
The 11 defendants. among
them the so-called parent Dr. Pep
per Co., of Dallas. Tex., pleaded
innocent yesterday. Two dozen
others—three companies and eight
individuals — entered pleas of
guilty.
U. S. Dist. Judge Colin C. Neb
lett announced there would be no
action on the guilty pleas pending
disposition of contested eases.
the view of some opponents of the
Italian treaty that its ratification
wotlld conflict with his March 12
proposal to Congress to give aid
to Greece and Turkey to bulwark
them against Communism.
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National Troops
Rerapture Taian
NANKING, (/P) — The official
Central News Agency Tuesday re
ported that Government troops
had recaptured strategic Taian, 33
miles south of the Shantung pro
vincial capital of Tsinan, after
hand-to-hand fighting with Com
munist troops.
Reported recapture of the im
portant city on the Tientsin-Pu
kow rail line followed a visit by
Chiang Kai-Shek to Tsinan, where
he exhorted his commanders to
destroy the Communists.
Taian fell to the Communists
only a few weeks ago.
The tides of battle were moving
against the Government to the
1 west, in rugged Shansi province,
where Communists threatened
Taiyuan, the capital, from all
sides following occupation of
Showyang, 30 miles to the east.
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Soviets Make
Turkish Charges
MOSCOW, </Pt—A charge was
put forward in Izvestia Tuesday
that “numerous” American and
British agents dressed in civilian
clothes are operating in Turkey
as business men.
The assertion was also made
that “Turkish reactionaries” con
template a “cordon sanitaire”
stretching from Iran through Tur
key into the Balkans and Central
Europe.
"Apparently history has taught
nothing to Turkish reactionaries.”
said A. Anatoliev, author of the
Izvestia charges in a “letter from
Ankara.”
“Several weeks before Presi
dent Truman’s message on giving
*aid’ to Greece and Turkey,” said
the Izvestia article, “the Turkish
official newspaper Ulus wrote
concerning a proposal to create a
so-called security zone.
‘The meaning of this zone was
entirely clear. The idea of the cre
ation of an anti-Soviet ‘cordon
sanitaire’ i3 revived in it.
Before the \va-\ ‘b° 'nur,T, an
t
der t'e leade.shi » of Engli :hni?n,
bui’t over 1n0 a:re/ones and as
phalted st-ate^ic roads and also
cconst: uctcd the ports of I s ken
deron, Me sh and T/.mi:\” Izves
tla said. “It shoull he mentioned
that Izmir :• la -cclv y military
no 1 naval base. New, powerful
••odio s‘ations are being erec.ed in
Avt "a a r.nd Istambul and Izm:r.”
•’Such ‘recon-true* inn’ cau-es a
crowing feel:ng of alar m in those
circles in Turkey who wish to see
Turkey an independent, peace
loving state.”
The dispatch asserted that un
employment was growing in Tur
key because “local enterprises
are compelled to reduce their ca
pacity of production, not being
able to compete with the industry
of “other capitalistic countries.”
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