days of fighting weather I will de
yet, my reconnaissance planes
haven’t been in the air for four
teen days, and I haven’t the faint
est idea of what’s going on behind
the German lines.
“Dammit, Sir, I can’t fight a
shadow. Without your co-opera
tion from a weather standpoint, I
am deprived of an accurate dis
position of the German armies,
and how in hell can I be intelli
gent in my attack? All this prob
ably sounds unreasonable to You,
but I have lost all patience with
Your chaplains who insist that this
is a typical Ardennes winter, and
that I must have faith.
“Faith and patience be damned!
You have just got to make up
Your mind whose side You’re on.
You must come to my assistance,
so that I may dispatch the entire
German army as a birthday pres
ent to Your Prince of Peace.
“Sir, I have never been an un
reasonable man. I am not going to
ask You for the impossible. I do
not even insist upon a miracle, for
all I request is four days of clear
weather.
“Give me four clear days so
that my planes can fly; so that my
fightfer-bombers can bomb and
strafe, so that my reconnaissance
may pick out targets for my mag
nificent artillery. Give me four
days of sunshine and dry this
blasted mud, so that my tanks
may roll, so that ammunitions and
rations may be taken to my hun
gry, ill-equipped infantry. I need
these four days to send, von Run
stedt and his godless army to their
Valhalla. I am sick of this unnec
essary butchery of American
youth and in exchange for four
liver You enough Krauts to keep
your bookkeepers months behind
in their work.
Amen.”
Must Administer
Aid In Business
Like Manner
—
WASHINGTON, </P)—Secretary
of state Marshall told House mem
bers yesterday a “business like”
administration of the proposed
European aid program is impor
tant, and the way to get it is to
put it under a single individual.
Marshall testified before the
House foreign affairs committee
where considerable sentiment has
developed for an eight-member
administrative board. Those back
ing this ijlea say it would mean a
‘‘business like” administration, i
Both President Truman and
secretary Marshall want a single
administrator who would be re
sponsible to the secretary of state
on matters of foreign policy.
As he did when testifying be
fore the Senate foreign relations
committee last week, Marshall
urged that Congress authorize a
European aid program adequate
to provide “genuine recovery.”
He said “the time for relief pro
grams is past,” and added:
“If we do not move out to meet
the problem in Europe today it
will certainly come to us here in
the United States under conditions
far more unfavorable to us.”
The administration is asking
Congress to authorize a four-year
program of aid for Europe’s eco
nomic recovery and to vote $6,
800,000,000 for the first 15 months,
of the program. The amount of
later spending would be up to the
Congresses of the future.
Some influential Republicans
are talking of cutting the $6,800.
000,000 figure in half.
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Budget Demands
Will Widen Truman
Congress Breach
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman sent to Congress Monday
a 1949 budget certain to widen
the breach between the White
House and Capitol Hill over his
election-year proposals.
While the President’s estimates
remain officially secret until
clerks start reading the message
in the Senate and House, there
have been reports for weeks that
the budget would approach $40,
000,000,000.
That would exceed by more
than two billion dollars estimated
federal spending for the current
fiscal years ending June 30.
Chairman Taber (R.-N. Y.) of
the House appropriations commit
tee has termed anything in the
neighborhood of forty billion dol
lars “too damn high.” Other Re
publicans have joined him in pre
dictions that the total will be
chopped down.
And, takrng note of predictions
that the budget would show a rec
ord surplus of six billions or
more, party members insit that
factor will add steam to their
drive to put through a $5,600,000,
000 tax cutting bill.
Mr. Truman propoed in his
state of the Union message last
week that Congress vote a $40 a
person “cost of living” tax credit
and make up the revenue loss with
higher levies on corporation prof
its. j
Still a third White House mes
sage is due this week—the Presi
dent’ economic message on Wed
nesday, and every indication is
that it will simply add to the dif-j
ferences between the chief execu
tive and the GOP-controlled Con
gress.
Administration officials have
hinted that document will outline
the details of a welfare and re- j
sources program and renew the;
chief executive’s request for
standby wage-price control and
rationing powers.
Eisenhower Draft
May Upset
GOP Calculations
(
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j WASHINGTON, (JP)—The dar
ing young men on the Eisenhower
i for-President political trapeze to- j
i day threatened to upset Republi
can party calculations with a flyer
into the April 27 Pennsylvania
primary.
Unabashed by the general’s
newest by second-hand disavowal
of political desires, the Pennsyl
vania draft-Eisenhower league
announced at Harrisburg that v i
slate of delegates will be entered
for the retiring army chief of I
staff.
Thus Pennsylvania, with 73 na- j
tior.al convention votes, offers a \
possible testing ground tor those j
who think Dwight D. Eisenhower
ought to be the Republican nom
inee and insist they intend to pro
ceed along that line, come what
may.
A Democratic national commit
tee official who didn’t want to be
identified by name said he thinks
Eisenhower is “flirting” with the
:dea of running, but may not have
made up his mind.
THE POPULATION OF NORTH
America more than doubled in the
60 years between 1880 and 1940.
According to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, the population of the
continent increased dumng this
period from about 73,000 to mfcre
han 185,000,000.
Senator Thomas
Made Plenty In
Commodities
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Commod
ity trading by Senator Elmer
Thomas (D.-Okla.) drew the atten
tion of investigating collegues to
days as Edwin W. Pauley an
nounced he had made $932,703 in
the commodity speculation during
the last three years.
Pauley, special assistant to sec
retary of army Royall, made the
.statement of his profits in a tele
gram to Harold E. Stassen in
which he accused the Republican
Presidential aspirant of “false
statements.”
He told Stassen he would “ex
pose” him if the former Minnesota
governor returns to testify before
a Senate appropriations subcom
mittee looking into Stassen’s ac
cusations that government "insid
ers” profited in commodity deal
ing.
Stassen told the committee last
week that Pauley had made al
most $1,000,000 in the markets
and contended the former Demo
cratic national treasurer had not
told the group of all his opera
tions.
Pauley insisted in the telegram
that he already had given the
committee the information and
added:
“Why not stop the pretense as
well as the evasion.”
Senator Thomas acknowledged
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
(By Hugh Fullerton. Jr.)
NEW YORK, (/P)—Minnesota’s
Jim Kelly, who spent some time
looking over European track tal
ent, brings word that everything
won’t be beer and skittles for
American runners in the Olympic
games next Summer—in fact, they
may not find a skittle anywhere
. . . without mentioning too many
names. Jim points out that Eng
land and Holland have some good
sprinters and hurdlers, Sweden
plenty of good distance men—and
from what he could see, ther’re by
no means undernourished. ... In
addition Australia likely will
check in with a good team and Ja
maica, with runners like Herb
McKenley and Lloyd Labeach.
may pick up a couple of victories
. . . The U. S. will have to look to
the relays and field events for
most of its victories, says Kelly,
who then adds: “It will make the
games all the more interesting to
have such competition.’’
Rabbit meat has come into fa
vor again and the amount con
sumed since the start of the war
has steadily increased.
over the week end that he had
dealt in commodities and other
markets for years but, like Pau
ley asserted he had not made use
of any inside information.
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