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headed today for swift approval
in the U. S. House and Senate.
The $5,580,000,000 measure was
whipped into shape late yesterday
by a conference committee which j
had to iron out differences be- i
tween the separate bills passed by
each house to continue the Mar
shall Plan for 15 months.
A full-scale debate on the North '
Atlantic Alliance shaped up today
in the United Nations assembly as
a result of Russia’s opening blast
yesterday at the 12-power treaty, j
The United States and other
countries have demanded the floor
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to join battle on the pact. |
Congress is expected to act soon |
on a bill lifting U. S. admission
bars to additional thousands of
Europe’s displaced persons.
A House judiciary committee
has completed work on a measure
to liberalize the DP act of 1948,
eliminating allegedly discrimina
tory features and boosting the ad
mission quota from the present
205,000 to a possible top of 400,000.
Friday. April 15. 1949
The first round of the east-west
battle over the Atlantic pact
wound up in the United Nations
assembly last night with a final
Russian charge of “hypocrisy.”
The accusation was voiced by
Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet dep
uty foreign minister, in reply to a
statement by American delegate
Warren R. Austin that the alliance
is not aggressive and that the
United States does not want war
with an>*)ne.
The Russian delegate declared
Austin’s spech concerning the de
fensive character of the pact was
“thoroughly hypoc r i t i c a 1 and
false.”
Gromyko charged that the truth
about the purposes of the treaty
would be found in speeches by
American political leaders instead
of by “pompous phrases about the
struggle for peace and security.”
U. S. secretary of state Dean
Aeheson indicates he expects the
cold war with Russia to last a long
time.
Speaking informally before del
egates of the Inter-American de
fense organization in Washington
yesterday, Aeheson gave the im
pression that the western world
has taken the initiative away from
Russia during the last year and a
half, but that the end of the strug
gle is not yet in sight.
Diplomats attached particular
i m p ortance to the secretary’s
words in that they reflected the
views of America’s foreign policy
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chief at the end of a particularly
successful period of western di
plomacy.
The communists still were hold
ing up their end in the battle of
words.
The cominform bulletin in Bu
charest declared today that Reds
all over the world will unite to
“smash the aggressors” in any fu
ture war.
It said Russia, China, the “peo
ple’s democracies” of Eastern Eu
rope, the colonial peoples and
communists in every country
would join to win any war that
might be unleashed.
The bulletin is a publication of
the communist international in
formation bureau.
The United States demanded to
day the early release of Vlasta
Vraz, American relief worker held
in a Czechoslovak prison for a
week by Czech police. Miss Vraz
told a consular official she is be
ing detained during an investiga
tion of “suspicion of political ac
tivity.”
Westerners speculated today
that the failing health of Bulgar
ia’s communist premier Georgi
Dimitrov has taken a turn for the
worse. The Sofia government said
yesterday Dimitrov had gone to
Russia for medical treatment.
The Greek government reported
today that fighting has broken out
again all over Greece. It claimed
107 rebels recently were killed
and 114 captured. It placed gov
ernment losses at 18 slain and 56
wounded.
Pope Pius XII in a Good Friday
I Fliers Set New
Record; Will Try
For 1,000 Hours
FULLERTON. Calif. VP)—With
a new world’s endurance record
ion their log, Dick Riedel and Bill
Barris droned on today toward
i their goal of 1,000 hours—six full
weeks aloft.
They sailed past the 726-hour
mark established in 1939 by Wes
Carroll and Clyde Schlieper of
Long Beach. Calif., and radioed to
1 their home field here:
“We feel wonderful and the en
gine’s purring as smoothly ns tt
did on take-off 30 days ago.”
Riedel and Barris. however, did
not officially receive credit for a
new record until they hit the 727
hour mark at 6:44 p.m. IPST> yes
terday. Barris was at the control::
of the little Aeronca monoplane
Sunkist Lady and swooped lov/
across the field to salute the
crowd.
Their best previous mark wa*:
563 hours.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Sally Carrigher was admitted to
the hospital for medical attention.
encyclical from Vatican City
asked that an international regime
be instituted for Jerusalem and
its surroundings. The plea was
i sent to nil Catholic bishops in the
1 world.
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