Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1945 — Page 18

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RUSSIA AND THE BOMB

by Foreign Commissar Molotov.

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his main point was clear enough.

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TALIN’S failure to deliver in person his usual So anniversary speech, and to attend the big military demonstration, took some of the edge off the address read

That is natural, for both Russians and foreigners know that Stalin is the Moscow government as much as any one man can be the absolute ruler of a nation. If Stalin is ill, or is about to withdraw for any reason whatever, that would be world-shaking news indeed. . The future of American-Russian relations, the United Nations organization, and the entire international situation obviously would be influenced by any Moscow change. ~~ But, since Americans are as ignorant as the Russians themselves regarding the health and plans of Stalin, all the speculation on this subject now is futile.

HE long speech delivered by Molotov was a rather strange mixture of retraint and boast, at once provocative and concilitory in tone toward Russia's allies. But |

He said, in effect, that the atomic bomb should not an cannot be kept a secret from Russia; that she will get it. “We will have atomic energy, and many other things, too.” To which Winston Churchill replied yesterday that Russia would not share the secret if she had it, and the United States and Britain should not divulge the bomb

i It seems to us that both Molotov and Churchill, as well’ "as many in this country, are putting the wrong emphasis

The issue is not whether America should share this _ terrible responsibility with Russia. The issue is whether | we can turn over the responsibility to a world organization strong enough and democratic enough to handle it.

_J¥ Russia were given the bomb process tomorrow, because she doubtless will be able to develope it on her own in five or 10 years, the international problem would not be

There is no solution short of the international one. _ The alternative is an atomic armament race. That cannot be prevented permanently by withholding the process from Russia, but giving it to her now would only speed that race. The best security for Russia, as for the United States and others, is in strengthening the UNO so it can control the atom bomb for our mutual protection.

Hes 1) RAT] | A RA LETS face it; Japan wag a second-rate military power. Our fighters in the Pacific couldn't believe they were meeting the enemy’s best. Always, after taking an island and assessing the opposition—the inferior tanks, the, out- ~ of-date guns—our boys told themselves that the Japs must

They kept believing that “next time” they'd meet the

Only now, since we've occupied Japan, has the truth _ come out. The men, the guns, the tanks we found in the Solomons and the Marianas were the Japs’ best. They had nothing better at home, Even our jeeps puzzle dnd con- | |

Japan was a second-rate military power. Let's con_finue to face that fact as we debate whether, this time, to} keep ‘ourselves strong by a system of compulsory military

For the first éight months of world war II, Japan—a ~ second-rate military power—gave us a thorough: shellack“ing. From December, 1941, until August, 1942, we lost

_ JLVEN after we stopped them on Guadalcanal—and that | ~~ was touch-and-go for months—all we could manage was a holding war. It took us seven months to get enough - men and guns to hop to New Georgia. We weren't able

Close Call His Own Fault

IT WAS on Gavutu that Jimmie had his one

clothing drenched. He found some Japanese duds and put them on. Suddenly someone opened fire. A bullet tore through the side of the Jap raincoat he was wearing. Several more went over his head.

you think you're shooting at?” His answer was a fresh burst of fire. He stripped

enemy clothes.” Somehow fighting in the Solomons didn’t bother Reed. He came through with none of the tropical diseases a lot of the other fellows caught.

Job and took the family back to Jowa. But his mother lived only two years. In 1931, Jimmie went back to Alaska briefly, and then returned to Iowa where he became a farmer. He was farming when war came and he joined the marines.

Chatted About 65-Below Weather IT GOT so hot after we left New Hebrides heading for the Gilbert that the boys liked to sit around and hear Jimmie talk about Alaska. He had to keep telling the story of his first Alaskan fishing trip. The ice was thinner than he expected, he said,

he'd gone in, but his clothing was frozen stiff before he could move. It was 65 degrees below zero, Jimmie always added with nonchalance. Jimmie waded in over the roofs at Tarawa, lugging his rifle. He climbed over the barricades, and helped push “the Jips “back until thers was Ho place for them to go. . 3 It always seemed a bit strange to us. Only Jimmie didn't think it was unusual for an Eskimo to 80 hunting around in the Solomons and Gilberts,

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Followers Dissatisfied IT IS no secret that what might be called the Wallace ‘wing of - the -party, not nearly so numerous in official places as it once was, is not well satisfied with the way things are going. President Truman and his administration are on record for many of its objectives. - But there is a lack of spirit of aggres-. siveness that once was so manifest here. . Crusading officials have been supplanted by less ardent men, more conservative, more inclined to accept rebuffs from Congress, less inclined to issues. This applies, too, to the man in the

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Mr. Wallace, himself, cannot be too happy the general situation. But there is not a great he can do about it. He has chogen the inside to do what he can to keep

Barring the unforseen, his path in ination seems effectively blocked. naturally must renominate Presiden Mr. Hannegan seems to have this in mind -

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Code ‘Gag’ Bill By Douglas Smith

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8-—~The administration is