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determine under its own constitu
tional processes the manner in
which it would act to meet an at
! tack.
! General elections in Belgium—
expected because of a split in the
: coalition cabinet—will not be held
i until after ratification of the At
1 lantic pact.
The pact must be ratified by the
main signatories, of whom Bel
gium is one.
| In Sofia the Bulgarian press,
i echoing the Soviet reaction “de
■ nounced the proposed alliance to
j day as designed for “imperialistic
; aggression.”
Russian finance experts were
examining in Berlin measures to
“meet the situation” presented by
I the ban on Soviet currency in
• western sectors of the city.
Col. Alexander Jelisarov, acting
Russian commandant in Berlin,
j denounced the ban as a step to
■ “deepen the split in Berlin.” How
ever, he said the Russians will not
restrict the use of east marks now
held by Weste Berliners, and this
is being viewed as a concession.
Dr. Harlow Shapley, leader of
, the world peace conference to be
held in New York has complained
that U. S. officials have either de
nied or revoked visas for 12 Euro
pean and South American dele
gates.
The 12 were not among the 22
delegates from Russia and other
“iron curtain” countries who have
| been granted visas to attend.
The U. S. state department has
said the three-day cultural and
scientific conference for world
i peace, opening in New York Fri
day, will be used to spread com
munist propaganda. Sponsors of
I the parley have denied this.
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Wednesday, March 23. 1949
Secretary of State Acheson to
day denounced as “altogether
false” Russian charges that the
United States is turning Iran into
a military base for use against
Russia.
! At.the same time Acheson re-af
f'rmed American interest in the
security of Greece, Turkey and
Iran.
I His statements to a news con
ference were evidently intended
to prevent any impression that re
cent Washington concentration on
the North Atlantic pact meant a
lessening of American interest in
the Middle, East.
i Acheson first denied any “less
i ening of our interest” in that area.
Then he recalled the statement he
made in his major speech on the
Atlantic treaty last Friday. This
I was that American policy is “to
help free peoples to maintain their
integrity and independence . . .
wherever the aid we are able to
provide can be effective.”
Acheson said that the American
embassy at Tehran has reported
intensifying “Soviet pressure upon
Xi’an in the form of persistent
press and radio propaganda” in re
cent weeks.
This propaganda, Acheson said,
l charges “among other things, ac
tivities by United States advisors
j in Iran hostile to the Soviet Un
ion.”
•U.S. Commissioner's Co *r'
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Gertrude Henry was given a 90
day suspended sentence for being
drunk and disorderly.
Peter Rock was sentenced to
30 days in the federal jail for
drunkenness and disturbing the
peace in a private dwelling. .
Atlantic Pact Is
Good Insurance
Against War
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Therefore, Vandenberg contin
ued, “I believe the past and any
subsequent legislative implemen
tation must be the subject of total !
exploration and complete public
hearings in the Senate.”
Chairman Connally <D.-Tex.» of
the Senate foreign relations com
mittee has declared there will be
‘‘wide open” public hearings by
that group. He said they will be
gin soon aifer the precedent
breaking alliance is signed on
April 4.
The state department can sign
the treaty for the United S'ates,
k
but it will not be binding on this
country until the Senate approves
it by a two-thirds vote.
Vandenberg, reviewing events
leading up to Warld War II, noted
that the 1939 neutrality pact told
Hitler that the 'United States
would keep out of the conflict. He
added:
“The North Atlantic pact—
wholly to the contrary—will tell
any aggressor in 1949 that from
the very moment he launches his
conquest in this area he will face
whateer united opposition, includ
ing that of the United States, is
necessary to beat him to his knees.
“I re-assert that this is the
.greatest war deterrent ever de
! vised. No itching conqueror will
lightly view such odds.
“Yet no other nation on the face
of this earth needs spend one
sleepless night over any sort of
menace from this pact unless it is
plotting armed aggression against
neighbors whose only aspiration is
peace with justice and honor in a
free world of free men.*’
Vandenberg said he reserved
Oily Ashby,
Ex-Nomeite Dies
TACOMA, (&)—One of the fab
ulous figures of the Yukon gold
rush days. Oily VV. Ashby, died at
the age of 86 at his home here
Sunday.
Ashby was just 21 in 1883 when
he and his brother, Thomas H.
Ashby, now living in Juneau, left,
their * Missouri home and headed
for Alaska in search of adventure
and fortune. They found both.
They crossed Chilkoot Pass to
become one of the earliest pioneers
of that rugged country. In 1886
they went into the Yukon River
country to mine the bars of Stew
art River, and from then on for
several years the two successfully
prospected on most of the Yukon
tributaries.
He came ‘ Outside in 1898 and
established a home in Tacoma
But in 1899 news came of a big
strike at Nome and with a non
descript vessel, the Skookum, he
took a million feet of lumber from
a Tacoma mill to that far north
ern outpost.
While there he acquired mining
interests and became one of Alas
ka’s biggest contractors, heading
the Topkok Ditch Company.
He would have been married 55
years in June. His survivors in
clude Mary E. Ashby, the wife
who accompanied him on one of
his trips across Chilkoot Pass.
That was in 1896.
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his position regarding any details
of the administration’s plans for
military aid to Western Europe.
But he unequivosally endorsed
the pact itself.
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