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NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE?"
(Christian Science Monitor)
Sometimes it is not clear whether Moscow or
Washington is more active in heating up the cold war.
Often it appears that Russia is subjecting the West to
alternate spells of tension and relaxation. Often Am
erican officials seem to be following the same pattern.
Several times in the last two years “crisis” reports
from Washington have tuned up the tension. Some
times within six months a sharply contradictory view
of the situation has become “official.”
Remembrance of this history necessarily affects
our response to a recent unofficial official, off-the-rec
ord for-the-record summary from Washington. The
gist of the picture painted for newsmen a week ago
was that Russia is setting in motion a fresh, dynamic
power-politics offensive. We are glad the President
has now cooled off the alarm created by this report.
. He sees no crisis.
The chief evidence adduced for the new alarm
had to do with increased pressures in Germany and
Moscow’s anti-Semitic drive. The official report said
the thousands of Germans coming out of the Soviet
zone are really expellees, pushed out purposely by the
Reds. News dispatches, however, have reported the
Communists endeavoring to check the flow of migrants
—at least to retain “desireables.”
Whether expellees or refugees, these East Ger
mans do constitute a problem for the West. Moreover,
the Communists have made their part of Berlin more
nearly self-sufficient—in case they want to apply new
pressures to West Berlin. These moves hardly consti
tute a new offensive, but they do improve Russia’s
position. Certainly measures to counter them should
be sought.
Moscow’s drive against Jews is read as a new
Russian bid to the Arab world. The breaking of rela
tions with Israel adds to the impression. Yet the drive
could be motivated mainly by internal causes and can
be read as a sign of weakness. Information obtained
by Edmund Stevens for this newspaper (C.S.M.) from
Russian refugees indicates that harmony is by no means
complete east of the Oder.
It is easy to understand the failure of mankind to
agree upon the fundamental truth when one reads the
accounts of a controversial meeting by differing writ
ers, with different political allegiances. '
Territorial Legislature Acts On
Veteran Loans, Salaries, Liquor Bills
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JUNEAU, (IP—The House voted
22-1 Friday night to extend vet
erans’ loans provisions to- Alas
kans who have had a year’s mili
tary service since the outbreak of
the Korean War, but not to qualify
them for territorial bonus.
The measure was a compromise
after some sharp exchanges on
the floor intermittently for the
past week over veterans’ legisla
tion that proposed extending ben
efits for as little as 90 days’ ser
vice. William Boardman declared
that the vets’ legislation had been
a “knotty problem, since the Kor
ean fighting is not over; the
World War II bonus act was not
passed until the war was over;
this is a conscientious attempt to
solve the situation without an ap
propriation.’*
Rais* for Attorney General
The House voted a 35 percent
salary boost for the attorney gen
eral in a general salary increase
bill, but didn’t reach final action
after a wrangle developed over a
proposal to restore the Alaska De
velopment Board manager’s pay
to its present $12,000.
The bill, brough out by the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee, had proposed cutting the man
ager’s salary to $9,500.
Rep. Dorothy Prior, contended
that the position, held by George
Sundborg, had been overpaid.
Rep. Wendell Kay defended the
post as a key job largely respon
sible for bringing industry and
tourists to the territory.
The raise approved for the at
torney general is from $10,000 to
$13,500.
New Dedolal Board
The House passed a bill previ
ously approved by the Senate
calling for the creation of a bi
partisan legislative council to
study government problems and
organization between sessions.
In other action, the Senate
passed a bill to put in a whole
new territorial dental board. It
passed 15-1 after it was amended
to stipulate that not more than
two of the five board members
can be from the same dental
school.
Three Liquor Bills
The three liquor bills, sponsored
by Sens. Paul Robison and Gerrit
Snider, which passed the Senate:
One for limited local option in
precincts outside cities, but a
clause prohibiting any liquor sales
for credit was eliminated after it
set off a storm of debate by sen
ators objecting to restriction on
grocers, delivering liquor or beer
on regular store credit account.
One to set a limit of liquor li
censes at two for each l,500»popu
lation in a city, but not effecting
existing licenses.
One to require liquor dispen
saries to be farther from churches
and schools.
In a strict sense, a wigwam is
a dome-shaped wooden Ameri
can Indian house, the skin struc
tures of similar shape being
tepees.
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Zapotocky ‘Voted’
Communist Head
Of Czechoslavakia
VIENNA, Austria, W)—Antonin
Zapotocky, 68 - year - old former
Nazi concentration camp trusty
wanted by the Dutch on war
crimes charges, was elected Com
munist president of Czechoslav
akia Saturday.
Prague radio announced a rub
ber-stamp Czech parliament voted
unanimously, 271 to- 0, to put the
one-time trade union leader in the
seat vacated just a week ago by
the death of President Kelment
Gottwald.
Gottwald, 56, caught a fatal cold
at the funeral of Joseph Stalin in
Moscow, according to Communist
announcements.
Westerners in Vienna said they
did not expect any change in
Czechoslovak policy as a result of
Zapotocky’s election. He has been
a faithful pupil and puppet of
Moscow his entire policical life.
The Nazis arrested Zapotocky
and threw him into a concentra
tion camp when they took over
Czechoslavakia in 1939. In camp
he became a trusty, and was
charged with responsibility for
the death of a number of Dutch
inmates of the camp. As a result,
the Dutch government three times
sought his extradition on war
crimes charges in 1947. But the
Czech government of the then
president, Eduard Benes, refused
the requests.
Governor Heintzleman
Arrives in Juneau
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territorial capital, nine miles from
the airport, was having its heavi
est snowfall Ikice January.
The trip by car to the airport
was tougher than the flight north,
which was made under favorable
conditions most of the way.
Gov. Ernest Gruening and his
wife greeted Heintzleman official
ly and briefly then stepped aside
in favor of Republican legislators.
The legislative reception group
was headed by Mayor Waino
Hendrickson who will become
secretary of Alaska; Senate Presi
dent Charles Jones and House
Speaker George Miscovich.
Commenting on landing condi
tions, the governor-designate quip
ped: “We landed by what I guess
you’d call a small majority.”
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Tito Takes Back
Britain’s Pledge to
Support Y ugosla via
LONDON, (#>—President Tito of
Yugoslavia wound up a historic,
visit to Britain Saturday with the
declaration: “All that we have
hoped for has been attained. We
have reached full agreement.”
What he was taking back to
Yugoslavia with him was a British
pledge to stand by his Communist
Balkan state in the event of ag
gression.
A communique from 10 Down
ing Street, Prime Minister Church
ill’s residence, contained no iron
clad treaty and there was no for
mal pact, but the British govern
ment clearly expressed itself with
the words:
“The two governments declare
their common interest in resist
ance to aggression and in the pre
servation of national indepen
dence. u,
“They undertook to wop’ll close
ly together and with other free
dom-loving nations to defend
peace. They were in full agree
ment that in the event of aggres
sion in Europe the resulting con
flict could hardly remain local in
character.”
In diplomatic language this is
tantamount to a statement that
Britain would step in event of an
attack on Yugoslavia.
MINISTER SAYS INVESTIGATE
ALL FAITHS FOR
UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES
PHILADELPHIA, (£>—Dr. Dan
iel A. Poling, prominent Baptist
minister, said he believes that
clergymen of all faiths should be
investigated for un-American act
ivities.
“I think that the clergymen of
all the faiths should be investi
gated just as I think that certain
educators should be investigated,
because there are false prophets
among us.”
There are 136 English names
for the salmon and sea-trout.
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