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ment bulletin said Russia may
make a German peace treaty and
withdraw its occupation troops
from East Germany sometime this
year.
N (Friday. December 2. 1949)
An armada of freighters weight
ed with the greatest shipments of
armaments ever to leave Ameri
can shores in peacetime—$1,000,
000,000 worth—will start moving
to Europe in a few weeks.
Signal for the American arms
aid program to start rolling was
given yesterday when defense
ministers and chiefs of staff of 12
Atlantic pact nations initialed a
master defense plan in Paris.
The arms shipments must be
certified by President Truman as
acceptable to the United States
and there are a few more nation
to-nation agreements to be signed
to comply with Congressional
safeguards. But no difficulty is
seen on this score since the plan
is largely American in origin.
The aim of the North Atlantic
defense plan is to stop any ag
gressor—the nation feared is Rus
sia, which has the world’s biggest
armies.
Communists in Italy made a
weak showing in a 24-hour gen
eral strike they directed. The bulk
of the nations workers ignored the
strike call. The strike was well
observed in the industrial north
s
where the communists have a
firm grip. Most ports were idle.
But government and conserva
tive party spokesmen said the
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strike was a flop and demon
strated that the communists have
not the disciplinary hold over the
mass of Italian workers ■which
they appeared to have in the im
mediate postwar years
A strange trial is proceeding in
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, where the
spark of World War I was ignited.
The Yugoslavs are trying 10 Rus
sians accused of spying for the
Soviet Union. A gray-bearded
Russian Orthodox Russian priest
today pleaded “partially guilty”
to the spy charges. Yugoslavia,
now an outcast from the Russian
directed Cominform. is trying to
uncover the Cominform under
ground which aims to oust Pre
mier Marshal Tito and bring Yu
goslavia back into the Kremlin
led bloc.
The Chinese Nationalists are
looking about for another capftal.
They fled from Chungking to
Shengtu this week but the Red
forces are right behind them. Ob
servers said Sichang, high in the
mountains of Sikang province
would be their next stop. If all
mainland points fall the govern
ment is expected to make a last
stand at Taipeh, Formosa.
GUN SHOP TO
OPEN HERE SOON
An addition to Nome’s business
houses will soon open in a build
ing recently moved between the
Masonic Temple and Munz Air
ways.
This will be a gun shop and will
be operated by Wilson Russell
and Sgt. Ted Warner. The open
ing date has not been announced.
About 5 per cent of American
urban homes have running water.
Sen. Smith Boosts
MacArthur For
Far Fast (,zar
WASHINGTON, i/Pi — Senator
H. Alexander Smith <R.-N. J.)
proposed yesterday that General
Douglas MacArthur be placed in
command of American policy
throughout the Far East.
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Smith said he is convinced after
talking to MacArthur in Tokyo
that the general—while he didn’t
say so—would be willing to accept
this broader responsibility.
MacArthur believes, the Sena
tor added, that the United States
is neglecting events in Asia “that
may well be the decisive factor as
to whether there will be a World
War III.”
Smith gave his views in an in
terview and later to a news con
ference in releasing a report on
his recent trip to the Orient as a
member of the Seante foreign re
lations committee.
He told a reporter that MacAr
thur is the one man who could
give unity and direction U Amer
ican policies in the Far East.
Smith also urged an immediate
move to encourage economic and
political reforms in the areas out
side communist control.
Sm.th said that Chiang Kai
Shek. now directing the battle
against Red China from tne new
nationalist capital of Chengtu, has
a burning determination to return
to power as a leader of , free
China.
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