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Nome, Alaska, Monday, September 2(>, 1949
HOW FAR WILL WE GO FOR TITO?
The Russian demonstration of power along the Yugo
slavion frontier may be for no more serious purpose
than to persuade the nations of the West that it will be
bad business to make a loan to Marshal Tito.
If the loan is made, the Communists in Moscow will,
of course, present it as proof that the Marshal has lined
himself up with ‘Western capitalism.” This charge
would be pressed in an effort to isolate the Yugoslav
leader from the Communists of other countries and to
prevent him from becoming something of a leader in
the minds of dissident Communists.
Even, so, the chance exists that some frontier incident
might lead to trouble and that Moscow thinks of Yugo
slavia as a part of Russia which Moscow has the right to
punish without creating an international incident. This
being so, it would be well for the United States, Great
Britain and other Western powers to understand very
clearly how far they are prepared to go in supporting
opposition in Yugoslavia.
LICENSING OF NEWSPAPERS IN GERMANY
(British Information Service)
The Times” notes that the licensing of newspapers in
the British zone of Germany has been handed over to
the Germans themselves, as it has already been in the
American zone. The “Times” says:
“It is obvious that the occupation authorities will
have far less influence on the press; they will still be
able to intervene when the prestige and security of the
occupation forces are attacked, but they will not be able
to insure that their case is adequately presented.
“Some papers may be expected to be strongly nation
alist in tone and appealing to the worst instincts of the
German people. But in the long run, the German press
will only reflect the state of German opinion. It will be
for the German Parliament at Bohn to shape that opin
ion and if the Parliament grows strong as the guardian
of German democracy, there would be no need to worry
unduly about a few violent nationalist newspapers.”
DOLLAR SHORTAGE STOPS TRADE
The dollar problem that threatens to stifle internation
trade arises from the fact that the other nations need
and buy more goods and services from the United States
than this country is willing to buy from them.
The only way to relieve the dollar shortage is by the
process of permitting other peoples to sell something in
the United States. As they sell they will acquire the
dollars necessary for their purchases.
While the reciprocal trade program has made consid
erable progress, the tariff still stands as a bulwark
against the importation of foreign goods. As long as it
blocks the American market to other nations there will
continue to be a dollar shortage which can be relieved
only by gifts of money, the lending of credits and the
investment of American capital in other lands.
President Truman, in his speech at Philadelphia,
called attention to the situation, declaring that “we
must increase our buying abroad if we are to achieve a
palanced world trade.’' This is a pleasant way of saying
that we must increase our imports. If this is what we
want, the way to do so is to lower some tariff rates to
the point where foreign products can be sold on the
American market.
COLD WAR SLACKENS, SAYS TRUMAN
O the tenth anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Po
land, President Truman, responding to a newspaper
man’s question, remarked that the tension in the cur
rent was of nerves had deidedly slackened and express
ed the hope that it would end, just like the shooting war,
in surrender.
Atomic News
j Speeds Up Air
Defense Planning
(By James J. Strebig)
• Associated Press Aviation Writer)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman’s disclosure that Russia
have an atom bomb appears likely
to speed u air defense planning
without changing its direction.
This country’s military leaders
have long based their thinking on
the possibility of Russia’s having
the atom bomb. They gave 1952 as
the date the bomb probably will
be ready for military use by a for
eign power.
Friday’s announcement indicates
Russia may be well ahead of the
estimated schedule. Among defense
officials, especially air specialists,
this news is considered likely to
hasten the development of these
phases of atomic air warfare
planning:
1. The United States must push
its interceptor fighter program.
2. It must push the program for
a radar detection screen. This pro
gram is barely underway in con
nection with the billion-dollar 15
year plan for an electric airways
and air traffic control system, now
scheduled for completion in 1963.
3. It must push development of
ground-to-air interceptor missiles
to be used in defense against en
emy bombers and missiles.
4. Intelligence efforts to deter
mine possible enemy progress on
I aircraft and missiles able to de
! Daughter Kills
Incurable Father
STAMFORD, Conn. (^P)—A po
lice sergeant died Saturday in his
1 hospital bed after being shot by
his 20-year-old daughter because
he was hopelessly ill with cancer.
“She didn’t want to see him suf
fer,” said police chief John B.
Brennan.
! Sgt. Carl Paight, 50, died at
Stamford hospital of a head
wound. Brennan said the daugh
ter, Carol, shot her father with
his own service revolver a few
hours after she learned his case
| was inoperable.
The girl collapsed in hysteria
after the shooting and was put to
bed in the hospital, not far from
her father’s room.
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Green's Furniture Store has
opened a new deparment this
week which not only improves the
building but gives the store con
siderable more floor space to dis
play a large variety of stoves, in
fant furniture, unpainted furni
ture and other items yet to be un
packed.
The copper mines of Falun,
Sweden, have been worked since
the 13th century.
: liver an atom bomb, and on de
1 velopment of ' launching bases,
must be stepped up.
5. It may be necessary to tighten
control of international aircraft
crosing the nation’s border.
We presume that the President has some information
upon which to base his belief that the war of nerves is
; less intense and for the hope that the conflict between
the democratic nations and Russia and her satellites will
1 end bvlhe acceptance of Western democratic principles
in internationa conduct.
There is evidence upon which one can conclude the
Marshall Plan, the co-operation of Western nations of
Europe and the Atlantic Pact have slowed down the
Russian effort to extend Communist influence. Whether
this pause means that the Communist leaders have
, found the facts against them or are only delaying while
the Russian Government marshalls its resources for an
| other step is unknown.
The breach between Russia and Yugoslavia offers
something of an opportunity to test the resolution of the
Russians. From the notes exchanges between the two
nations, it is clear that Moscow does not want its satel
lites to believe that they are entitled to any real equal
ity or independence: Marshal Tito has asserted both
principles with determination and, if he gets by, there
mav be other satellite countries to follow his leadership.
GETTING HIS LUMPS AGAIN_
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JOHN l
LEWS
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want international control. So does
the United States. Despite this ap
parent meeting of minds on the
part of the statesmen there is no
agreement. The types of control
the Soviet Union wants bears no
resemblance to the control urged
by the West.
j Tass, the Soviet news agency,
| said the Russians stand on their
! former position. This would mean
absolute prohibition of the use of
atomic weapons. But the Russians
want first, before any convention
is signed, the destruction of pres
ent stockpiles. At the same time
the Russians insist upon retention
of the big power veto in matters
dealing with atom control, a stand
which make any agreement on the
! atom worth little more than the
paper it is written on.
Tass said Russia has had an
atomic weapon since 1947. The
West has discounted this as a bluff
aimed at indicating she already
j has begun stockpiling. The opinion
in the West is that she is at a
point now where the Americans
were in July, 1945, when the first
atom bomb was exploded in a New
Mexico desert.
Some Western observers ex
pressed hope that Russia now
would make some concessions to
the West in the quarrel over atom
control, to avoid a potentially dis
astrous standoff.
A new uranium mine is report
ed opened in communist-dominat
ed Czechoslovakia under the di
! rection of Soviet engineers. At
least two Czech mines are known
to be sending to Russia now quan
tities of uranium, a source of
atomic energy.
Franco Spain, already in posses
1 sion of uranium deposits, is re
ported to have found new veins, a
! discovery which could enhance
Franco’s bargaining position in the
West.
In the U. S. Congress, the ques
tion of American security was
stressed. Oe member of the House
un-American activities committee,
Rep. Velde <R.-Ill.» spoke of de
manding a Congressional investi
gation of the entire American se
curity setup.
Chairman McMahon <D.-Conn.)
of the joint Senate-House atomic
energy committee, disclosed a pro
posed report on its atomic energy
commission investigations will be
made in the section dealing With
' security measures.
, Russia, meanwhile, was report
ed to have dotted Eastern Europe
with launching bases for rockets
deadlier than Hitler ever useu in
World War II. Reliable German
sources said a Nazi-built plant in
Soviet-occupied Germany now is
producing rockets for Russia.
In the Far East, the Chinese
Communists threw three armies
into Kwangtung province in the
long expected drive for Canton,
the nationalists’ provisional capi
tal. The red force, 75,000 strong,
surged from Kiangsi province in
a 50-mile thrust carrying it within
90 miles of Canton.
Lorin Oldroyd. director of the
extension work of the University
of Alaska, whose names is synon
omous with the growth of that de
partment and the growth of the
University for many years, is here
on his first visit to Nome and
stated that he is glad of the delay
of the North Star on which he is
to travel as a member of the spe
cial investigation committee, as he
is having an opportunity to see
this area and learn a lot about the
Northwestern Alaska.