New Foreign Policy
Demands Present
Armed Strength
*o • u l v '••m nagp One
(•1 this general question:
1. Should t ie planned avenge
strcngi’i for the year beginni v_
ncxt July 1 of 1,070,000 for the
army and 571.000 for the navy b<
carried out or should the rate of
reduction be checked to stabilize
the armed services at a highe*
manpower figure?
2. In this case, will Congress an*11
the White House proceed with Mr
T r u m an’s recommendation of
March 3 that selective service be
not renewed upon its expiration i
date of March 31?
The nation’s military forces are j
of definitely modest proportions in
the area where the new foreign i
policy focuses most sharply, the!
Mediterranean.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman overruled his top military
manpower experts in advising
Congress to let the wartime draft
act expire at the end of this month.
This became known today after
chairman Gurney (R.-S.D.) made
available to a reporter the trans
cript of a closed door session of the
Senate armed services committee.
Gurney previously reported a
committee decision to urge a delay
of at least three months in the
transfer of draft records from local
boards to state capitals because of
the troubled world situation.
The recorded testimony of Tues
day’s committee meeting disclosed
that both Ma.j. Gen. W. S. Paul,
army chief of personnel, and Mai.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective
service director, conceded under
questioning that they had recom
mended continuance of the draft.
Europe Joyous
Over Truman's
Message Of Aid
•Continued .'rom Page One*
was no longer a national probl’-m.
Air. Truman’s message to a jo n? !
*c s .> 1 of Congress yesterday was i
• .scussc 1 at a British cabinet’s
regular weekly meeting, official
sources disclosed.
LONDON, (Ah—Winston Churc-1
h.ll, commenting on President Tru- j
man’s appeal for U. S. aid to;
Greece and Turkey, said today: i
“No step that I have seen taken i
lately has more increased the!
chance of the maintenance ol ;
world peace and world freedom.” i
He spoke at a Conservative par- i
ty meeting.
“If such a step had been taken i
by the United States before the j
last war it would have stopped it,” t
Britain’s wartime F5rime Minister!
declared. “If it had been taken af
ter the first war, still more would i
it have stopped it.”
DALLAS, (Ah—The walkout that
silenced hundreds of thousands of
Texas telephones ended today as
members of the Independent
Southwestern Bell Telephone com
pany union flooded back to their
jobs. Governor Beauford H. Jes
ter’s action in naming a fact find
ing committee last night was cred
ited with terminating the walkout.
SON BORN TO
MR. AND MRS. JERRY LOMEN
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lomen have i
announced the birth of a baby boy
born on February 23rd in Seattle.
He has been named William
Weaver Lomen.
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BINKS SEIFFERT BREAKS ARM
Binks Seiffert is wearing his arm
in a cast, having broken his arm
when slipping on the ice.
U. N. Boundary
Commission May
Be Established
(By John A. Parris. Jr.)
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. bp)—Au
thoritative sources said to:lay tha*
he United States may propose the
establishment of a permanent
boundary commission to watch
over the trouble spots in the Bal
kans.
These sources said U. S. offic'als
felt it may be advisable for such a
commission to watch the borders
of Greece, Yugoslavia. Albania,
and Bulgaria for some time.
Such a step appeared to be tied
in closely with President Truman’s
declaration of America’s new for
eign policy aimed at halting the
world march of Communism, es
pecially in the Balkans.
There was no indication just
how far the American delegation
to the United Nations has gone
toward drawing up a plan for a
permanent U. N. boundary com
mission. But authoritative sources
said it was under consideration.
An American delegation spokes
man said the President’s proposals
to aid Greece would not conflict in
any way with the efforts of the U.
N. security council's Balkan in
quiry commission now studying
frontier conditions in Greece, Al
bania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
The spokesman said the pres
ence of the security council’s com
mission would have a “stabilizing
influence” in the border regions
and would tend to thwart propa
ganda against members of Ameri
can missions who would be sent to
Greece under the President’s plan.
Meanwhile, top U. N. authori
ties considered President Tru
man’s appeal to Congress for
American aid to Greece and Tur
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War Dept. Wants
Hawaii's Land
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The war
department today "tentatively re
quested federal owneish.p of Ha
waii’s public lands as a condition
for admitting the territory as the
49th state.
Col. William J. Hughes, Jr.,
speaking for the army’s judge ad
vocate general, told the House pub
lic lands committee he "though it
might be a good thing” for the fed
eral government to keep title to
the lands in case military expan
sion is necessary.
The statement added to the pub
lie land controversy, which ap
peared to jeopardize Hawaii’s
chances of achieving statehood
this year.
key “too hot” for comment. It was
met by what one informed source
described as “apprehensive” si
lence.
300 Underground
Jews Safe
JERUSALEM, U¥)—An officer
of Hagana, largest and most mod
erate of the Jewish underground
groups ;n Palestine, declared today
that 300 passengers from the
beached refugee ship Susanna had
made their way safely ashore “and
are now members of the Yishuv,”
the Jewish community in Pales
tine.’’
The claim was issued while the
British army was busy in Haifa
transferring approximately 400
other illegal immigrants from the
Susanna to the deportation ship
Empire Rival, which is to take to
Cyprus.
The Hagana officer told the As
sociated Press in a clandestine in
terview that his organization had
“planned and executed ' toe beach
ing of the small ship on the barren
coastline of southern Palestine and
that “except for a disastrous piece
of bad luck we would have gotten
them all ashore.
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