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In his radio-television report to the people on the
Southeast Asia Defense Pact, Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles said the plans called for “our maintaining
at all times powerful naval and air forces in the western
Pacific capable of striking at any aggressor by means
and at places of our own choosing.”
It will be remembered that General Douglas
MacArthur had such forces in Korea, and so did
General James Van Fleet—and both wanted to do
some striking “by means and at places” of their own
choosing.
But Korea, of course, is not a member of SEATO.
FOR TWO WEEKS, New York authorities have
sought vainly for two union officials who have been
drawing $32,760 a year for “administering” their
union’s welfare fund, which also provided them with
two Cadillacs and a Packard, plus credit for gas. They
were reported as spending most of their time in Florida
and Catskill Mountain resorts.
We wonder if it has occurred to the process servers
that they may now be finding Bermuda is better for
their health.
Sen. Kafauver, Returning
From Abroad, Says U. S.
Foreign Policy Failing
NEW YORK, .tfl — Sen. Estes
Kefauver (D-Tenn), returning
from abroad, said Tuesday that
American foreign policy is falling
apart as a bulwark against
spreading Communism.
He said the “diplomatic de
feats” of Geneva and the Europ-1
ean Defense Community have
done much “to blunt the force of
our efforts” and urged a “dra
matic manifestation of our peace
ful motives.”
Such an effort, he said, might
be announcement that the United 1
States planned to build a series
of atomic plants “for peaceful
purposes and the development of
a cheap atomic power in Asia
and some of the backward parts |
of the world.” '
Speaker Martin Predicts
Statehood For Hawaii If
Congress Goes Republican
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Ml —
Speaker of the House Joseph W.
Martin last night predicted state
hood for Hawaii if a Republican
Congress is elected in November.
Martin told a reporter here
during a stop-over between Lew
istown and Cut Bank, that he
does not think Alaska is ready
for statehood yet. He said the
House passed the Hawaii bill but
it was lost in the Senate by tack
ing on the Alaska measure.
Martin also predicted Republi
cans will increase their congres
sional margin by 15 votes in the
forthcoming election.
Martin chided that election of a
Democrat governor in Maine was
just a case of a lot of Republicans
who thought they could afford the
luxury of a Democrat.
Secretary Stevens Says
Army On Threshold Of
Unparalleled Mobility
ST. LOUIS, (i'P)—Army Secre
tary Stevens, citing the need for
“maximum mobility” of fighting
forces in this atomic age, says
the Army is on the threshold of
“battlefield mobility unparalleled
in military history.”
Stevens, in a speech before the
St. Louis chapter of the National
Transportation Association yes
terday, said:
“We are moving into an era
in which railroad cars will be
highballed into a port, rolled into
specially designed ships and at
the end of the sea voyage re
turned to land rails.”
Stevens said in addition assault
type aircraft have been developed
which are capable of air-landing
“our combat troops without bene
fit of air strips or runways.”
Indian Feels That Jails, Though
White Man's Institution, May
Just As Well Be Comfortable
CAUGHNAWAGA, Que. WP) —
Chief Andrew Paul said today a
Blackfeet reserve near Calgary
boasts one of “the best jails in
the world.”
Spring mattresses and running
water are among the attractions,
he told 80 Canadian chiefs at an
Indian convention.
It was built, he explained, after
a member of the tribe advised a
meeting: "I’ve been in jails all
over the country. They are a
white man’s institution, but if
Indians are going to have jails
let’s make them comfortable.”
Darn Clever These Librarians
WESTFIELD, N. J., UP) — The
public library wants its readers
to help it move — by borrowing
eight books each and holding
them until Oct. 11.
Strikes Twice In The Same Place
EAST HAMPTON, Mass., UP) —
Edward Hanlon, 77, stepped from
a curb three years ago and frac
tured his right hip.
He stepped from the same curb
yesterday, fell and fractured his
left hip.
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U.S. Today Could Wipe Out Every
City In The Soviet Union With Rain
Of Atomic Bombs, Says New Book
WASHINGTON, OPI—A new book'
says the United States could wipe
out every city in ahe Soviet Union
with a rain of atomic bombs
today—and, within another year,
could do the job with hydrogen
bombs 50 times as destructive.
“The hydrogen bomb,” a copy
righted book by Time Magazine
staffers James R. Shepley and
Clay Blair Jr. warns at the same
time that “within only a few years
or even less” the Red air force
“must be conceded the same capa
bility against the United States.”
Shepley and Blair say that
“within another year after 1954”
most of the bombs this country
could drop in a mass raid would
be H-bombs of at least 15 mega
tons’ force—that is, the explosive
power of 15 million tons of TNT.
This compares with the esti
mated 500 kiloton force of the
biggest existing A-bombs—equiv
alent to 500,000 tons of TNT. The
authors say the potential strength
of the H-bomb is 45 megatons—
45 million tons of TNT.
“It seems doubtful,” the book
says, ‘that any people actually
could survive the shock of say
1,000 obsolete 500-kiloton bombs.
It seems more than probable that
no people could survive if one
substitutes in the equation the
potential 45 megatons of the ther
monuclear (hydrogen) bomb . . .
“Any time in the year 1954, the
U.S. Strategic Air Command had
the capability, if the President of
the United States issued such an
order, to rain down complete ur
ban annihilation on the Soviet
Union . . .
“Within another year after 1954
most of the bombs in such a raid
would be not 500-kiloton bombs
but thermonuclear bombs of at
least 15 megatons force. One thou
sand Soviet targets wiped from
the face of the earth would leave
little else to hit even in such a
vast land.”
The Shepley - Blair book, an
abridgement of which appears in
the current U. S. News & World
Report magazine, says atomic
scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer
actively opposed the hydrogen
bomb more than a year after
President Truman ordered work
on the superweapon begun.
Oppenheimer, who has since
been barred from atomic secrets,
has testified before an Atomic
Energy Commission panel that he
dropped his opposition to all-out
H-bomb research once Truman
gave the go-ahead on Jan. 31,
1950.
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