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Harriman Pleads
For Arms Aid
Bill Passage
WASHINGTON, (/P)—W. Aver
ell Harriman, the Marshall plan’s
roving ambassador in Europe,
urged Congress yesterday to ap
prove the administration foreign
arms program promptly “to pro
tect the growing generation from
war.”
Harriman made the appeal in
testimony before the House for
eign affairs committee.
As he testified, secretary of
state Dean Acheson went into a
huddle behind closed doors with
members of the Senate armed
services and foreign relations
committees.
This combined group is expect
ed to open hearings soon on the
arms air program.
Harriman told the House com
mittee that “I earnestly believe we
are winning the struggle for peace (
and freedom in Europe.”
But he emphasized any delay in
shipping arms to America’s Euro
pean allies would create doubts i
which might reverse this trend.
“The voices of the subversive;
elements, the appeasers, those
who would trust ‘neutrality’would I
rise again and have an effect on ;
the confidence and determination
which now exists,” he said.
Harriman, who was once the
American ambassador to Moscow
added “I believe that it is our duty
to make the present sacrifices'
which may be necessary to protect
the growing generation from
war.”
The ambassador spoke out as j
Democrats joined with Republi
cans on the committee in calling
for more details on President Tru
man’s request for approval of the
$ 1.400.000,000 program to help
friendly nations arm against Sov
iet aggression.
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Gen. Marshall OK’s
Foreign Arms Plan
WASH INGTON, </P) — Gen.
George C. Marshall told Congress
yesterday that hesitation in ap
proving President Truman’s pro
gram of foreign arms aid would
be “most unfortunate” and have
“wide ramifications.”
The former secretary of state,
who was army chief of staff dur
ing World War II, testified before
the House foreign affairs commit
tee that, while failure to approve
the program at this time would re
sult in “a minor economy,” it also
might result in the possibility of
a major outlay later on.”
Endorsing President Truman’s
$1,450,000,000 program, Marshall
agreed with previous statements
by secretary of state Acheson and
the army chief of staff, General
Omar N. Bradley.
Marshall told the committee
that he had not sat in on consul
tations while the plan was being
worked out. but that he was brief
ed on it at the state department
last Friday.
“I had been strongly of the
opinion . . . that action of this
nature was urgently necessary,”
he added* “As to the fundamental
policy involved there is no doubt
in my mind as to the desirability
of action of this nature immedi
ately.”
It is necessary, he said, for the
nations of Europe wha are friend
ly to the United States and are
resisting Russia to have “mutual
ly cooperative action against ag
gression.”
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(lament Plant'”
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• i>P) Special Washington Service
WASHINGTON, i/Pi— An interi
or department spokesman urged
enactment of legislation to pc mb
the government to construe* an i
operate a cement plant in Alaska.
William E. Warne, assistant sec
retary of the interior, told a Hons*
sub-committee on Territories that
there was great need for a cement
plant in Alaska.
He said the need was based
upon three factors.
1. It is essential that building
materials be made available in the
Territory at lower prices.
2. Alaskan resources should be
drawn upon to produce commodi
ties for Alaskan use to increase
the strength of the Territorial
economy.
3. The location of a cement
plant in the vicinity of Windy in
the rail belt, would afford a down
hill haul for cement carried to
either Fairbanks or Anchorage, or
points between, thereby improv
ing the balance of the operations
of the Alaska Railroad.
Warne said one major obstacle
in connection with the develop
ment of Alaska revolved about
transportation and transportation
costs. He said that shortage of
building materials at prices com
parable to Stateside levels was a
deterrent to housing and highway
construction.
Warne said the need for a ce
ment plant in Alaska has been
particularly acute in view of the
'real construction activities there
of the national military establish -
men!.
He said the military establish
ment is spending between one and
two million dollars a year for ce
ment ter use ih Alaska and that
possibly a third could be saved
through a Territorial cement
plant.
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JUNEAU, (/P)—An appeal will
be taken from last Friday’s feder-1
al court ruling that Alaska’s non-1
resident fishing tax is illegal, Ter- •
ritorial attorney general J. Gerald
Williams said yesterday.
Williams also instructed tax
commissioner M. P. Mullaney to
continue collections of the tax
from non-resident salmon fisher
men on grounds that Judge George
Folta’s decision did not settle the
status of the salmon tax.'
Last week’s decision was in an
action brought by A. H. Ziegler,
Ketchikan attorney, in behalf of
two Seattle halibuters and the Po- j
lar Fisheries of Ketchikan.
The tax, one of three enacted by
the 1949 legislature and attacked
in the courts, requires a S50 li
cense from all non-resident fish
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MacArthur Warns
Japs To Slow Up
TOKYO, «/P>—General MaeAr
thur’s headquarters was reported
today to have sent Premier Shi
geru Yoshida a letter which has
had the effect ox slowing the pres
ent government trend toward re
strictive measures.
Informative sources said the
letter has spiked efforts by Yo
shida’s conservative regime to re
new the pre-war police system,
modify the strict American sug
gested economic recovery plan
and permit wholesale “pardons”
for purged ultra nationalists and
business monopolists.
The government was told to
make a distinction between com
munism and the Japanese govern
ment party. The implication was
that the party is a legal entity and
should not be illegally suppressed.
No doubt was allowed, however,
opposition to communism was dis
tinctly the government’s business.
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