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"THE DIPLOMATIC chite of 12 nations have signed the North Atlantic

sPact pledging those nations to col--!

lective self-defense against armed aggression. Most historians of our period believe that if such a - collective-sttion agreement had existed in 1930, Hitler .

would not have invaded Poland and touched off World |

War IL Sponsors of this treaty hope If’ will prevent World War 101. ‘Hitler used the “divide and conquer” theory when he embarked on his expansionist program. He expected to

gobble up one small nation at a time while avoiding a |

showdown with any of the major powers. He did not believe Britain and France would go to war over his attack ‘on Polish sovereignty. He was mistaken. ~The events which followed that error of judgment set most of the 1wotid on fire.

THE North Atlantic Pact which came into being yesterday, subject to ratification by the signatory nations, is ad_wance notice that an armed attack against any member of the

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8 10 oop developing more and better tools of produethe things that can lick inflation, prevent depresand tring ating prosperity.

House of Representatives, for the second straight , has passed a bill repealing the unfair federal taxes d lcense fees on margarine. Last year the vote was 260 16-106, This year it was 287 to 89. The measure, as it originally reached the House floor, would have repealed the taxes but would have barred ship- . ment of pre-colored margarine in interstate commerce, thereby preventing sale of the table spread in the states - that don’t have margarine factories. The House threw out that absurd restriction, sensibly heeding the wishes of millions of housewives who want to buy margarine any‘where, ready for use and without having to color it at home.

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= Statelaws in 18 states still operate against the sale and i manufacture of margarine but with the 63-year-old federal

_. anti-margarine laws off the books, prospects will be brighter for similar action in these states. i The bill now goes to the Senate where last year it died "in the : rush. We think the Senaté should act * promptly, and as honestly as did ‘the House, in giving the + consumers what they want.

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—other hand, victory for the Senator could move him right into the center of the contest for his own

and will throw into the Senator's campaign every bit of help he asks. Mr. Taft himself will make a warm-up swing around his state at the end of the present Congress session. “There's a prospect of one of the “better Sen-

completed an unheralded size-up Mr, Taft. On the

cratic victory over Sen. Donnell.

job of “selling” the GOP story.

AMONG other Senators whose seats will be

swing through the Midwest, paying particular attention to Missouri, where President Truman unquestionably will turn-on the heat to try to gain a Demo-

will be on the job energetically from now on. The House Republican Congressional Committee, headed by Rep. Leonard Hall of New York, also is planning some major moves independent of the national committee. One of these will be a public relations effort to" do a better

. erans, could some need, but we already - — el BE RAT" have enacted and have operating social security every German wants re- 334 U4 ag saistance JEWS 10 Sate Sul any ali 4/ : * citizens, so thers should be no need to snsct gerdiess of politic “Russia would accept only | NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Charles T. ucey special pension bills In this country, © A would not tolerate. The boys who fought in World War IT have eign ministers will do this week tn W Xpecis vore ains in | pant ope therefore, ‘is to get together on Trizonia-—-West the men of World War 1. have returned ern Germany. ; WASHINGTON, Apr. 5 — Tumbling prices ate taces for the New York seat how held by | to communities unable to give them decent or After World War 1, a general peace confer and industry layoffs are being transiated by the Sen, Robert ¥. Tr a td adequate housing; as yet the country has not "ence was called within 30 days after the end of Republicans into probable political gains in next Some { ‘that, if the political winds blow just | faced up to this problem. Now the proposal is hostilities, Come May 7, it will be four years ' year’s co right, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey might be the Re- to saddle these young men with the expense of since VE- and peace seems more remote It's the old theory t declining publican candidate. pensions for World War I men. This is most than ever. Mi has blocked every move. it adds up to sizable unemploy- Another major contest will be in Iilinols, | Unfair. Yet, incredibly emough, she is contriving to up a political lability for the where the present Senate Democratic leader, || TI cannot forget that Rep. Rankin and the make millions everywhere believe that it is the | 8." Already GOP leaders predict re- Ben. Scott Lucas, probably will be opposed by | type of individual who asks for his pension plan United States who is the culprit. gain control of the Senate. And they intend to the former GOP Congressman, Everett Dirksen. | are the very people who with isolationist arguAnd unless by some sort of peace move the | ‘Un the most aggressive campaign in recent ; ments howled down every measure proposed to West calls the bluff, Russian propaganda will | Jars to whack down the Democrats’ 90-sest Senate Seats at Stake change the neutrality law or to get us ready for continue to fool many, . House margin. lve us ou

1950 ; at stake’ next year are Democrats Brien McBlock 1s 200 ai» hel hy Democtats. Bint oe Mahon (Conn.), Millard Tydings : payers of the future, should not have to carry hasn't a look-in. But perhaps nearly a dosen J. Myers (Pa.) and Pat McCarran (Nev.), and such an unjust burden, but unless théir mothers n' tne | states appear good hunting grounds for the Re. Repub! nell (Mo.), and fathers wake up {o ihis danger and do : publicans. Sen. Own Brewster (R. Me), Sen. Hicken {lowa), Wayne Morse (Ore.) and smethilg construetivey $e burden will bs Jong. ate 3 y n a. ‘ With the Times | £88 SErntiims “mony sm ww = win majority control. Eg + publican : on next years | What Oth national campaign, and that is to run more of a ers . Barton Rees Pogue Taft Campaign : the show from Capital Hill and depend less on | — ‘ Republican National Committee headquarters ALL (a ce) can do is talk in titudes BUT the Democrats will be out to grab Re- here, It stems Tom thelr lack jasy i In pia THE BOY WITH A WATER ES 1 in their lack of con--| snd generalities about things that don’t mat- - publican seats, of course—and in at least one fidence in National Chairman Hugh Scott and ter . . . so why should people spend their time WHEEL fight wage, that against Sen. Robert A. anything his national headquarters can produce. | listening?—U. 8. Suprems Court Justice Wiley = Taft in Ohio, the prospects are for one of the Mr. Scott has managed to retain his place | Rutledge. High Danks and dense bushes almost -concesl | termination 0 1ry th drive from the Senate the Lon icans ke his pertculsr ound of yoltia FROM A . .. national view, we have a This boy with a dog and water-wheel co-author of the Taft-Hartley Labor Law. y ngr . pumwariel WonboR Hut, .\f } war you, 1 should ; " This election will have national significance GOP Hires ‘Expert maintain my composure adh 14 my alt An undershot wheel going ‘round and ‘round, As nearly as any one man, Bob Taft typifies ~Sumner T. Pike, member of the U. 8. Atomie Supported by sticks he had stuck in the ground, | the Republican Party. President Truman often ON the Senate side, the GOP has hired Vie- | Energy Co commenting on the pos“A simple plaything, with a creative ideal ‘has singled him out as his chief adversary in tor Johnston, one of the most competent politi- SIbitY 51 stomis shargy replacing present present fuels, To the mind of the boy with the water-wheel, Congress. cal craftsmen in the business, to direct its fight : eee ] The Democrats would count ft a happy omen tO regain Senate control. Mr. Johnston has just th A UNION:{s no more than a medium

which individuals are able to act tos gether; union power was begotten of individual helplessness. — Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, in an opinion upholding econstitntonality of several State laws prohibiting elosed

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BEHIND its iron curtain (the Soviet Union) is manufacturing fear. Out in the open, we, along with 51 other countries, are building peace, ~U. 8, Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup.

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DEMOCRATIC CONFLICT ‘as BY Marquis Childs Politics in Alaska

WASHINGTON, Apr, 5—Given the fumbling of the party in power and the obstruction for obstruction's sake of the party out of power, the wonder is that anything gets done. And the answer, all too often, is that it doesn't. A miner but nevertheless significant example concerns Alaska. To most Americans, Alaska is a faraway place full ‘of scenery and Eskimos. If they think of it at all, it is as’ a place that might be nice to go to for a vacation some day. In reality; of course, Alaska has become one of the most important strategic areas in the world. It lies across a narrow strait from Soviet Si A successful Pearl Harbor attack, followed by occupation of the Alaskan mainland, would be a ‘disaster of a magnitude impossible to exaggerate. For many weeks the Senate has delayed confirmation of Alaska’s Gov. Ernest Gruening to a third term. As a territory, Alaska has a governor appointed by the federal government for a four-year term.

Won Popularity

GOV. Gruening, according to most reports, has won wide popularity in Alaska. ‘Those who know the territory say that it Alaskans had the vote and Gov. Gruening wers running for office, he would get a large majority. As evidence of his popularity, a number of prominent Alaskans flew to Washington to testify in his behalf. But Gov. Gruening has offended certain powerful interests accustomed to thinking of Alaska as their own private province. Shipping, cannery and mining interests have for many years done just about as they pleased in the big, empty territory. . Mr, Gruening has fought to develop ‘the country-—to bring in new industries and new people, antagonizing the group that wants things left as they are. They have sent their spokesmen to Washington to try. to block his confirmation.

. They resent Mr. Gruening's efforts to.open new means of transportation to Alaska.

They did not iike a territorial fax applied to their opera-

| dotaing the Gruening nomination 1m committe. In the 80th

of the two first senators to be elected.

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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

; &5 < GOL 149 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. . 06, REG... & PAT. OFF, ; “Imagine fhatl. He gives me a Cin. history—and I've pretended to be madly interested in the course all semester!”

Congress, when Mr. Butler was chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, he had a Tot to do with blocking statehood for Alaska and Hawail, “That is tha larger lseue in the confrmatics

Statehood, it seems to me, is the only practica: answer, This solution has its hazards. Some senators, who might otherwise

be pathetic; shake their heads and say .t with such a |; A feresta: would ‘aimiost certainly

1 population, the powerful interests send their owh men to Washington. - = But that in fo contees that democracy wil not work. The fesponss io Goy. Gri 's constructive program in Alaska is a refutation of such pessisien... The. Sepals, should Jat im

ECONOMICS . . . By Earl Richert

Healthy Conditions

"lion would be of no assistance in a panic—it is the psychological good among - people of the country. I see no reason why the present FDIC fund | cannot be cut considerably.”

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Insured Deposits

WASHINGTON, Apr. 5—Is a $1 billion kitty in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. a big enough ante by our bankers to provide insurance for our deposits? In all, we've got $150 billion deposited in banks insured by the ¥DIC, but only $75 billion of this is insured because the governs ment stands back of deposits of only $5000 or less. A lot of bankers think this $1 billion is enough for them ta be forced to put up, judging by the mail now reaching congressmen. Some propose reductions of various amounts from the 1/13 of 1 per cent they now pay to the FDIC on their deposits. . Others favor cancellation of all payments until the FDIC reserve fund lowers itself to some fixed floor, such as $750 million. A bank official sald the increasing agitation to lower the FDIC assessments resulted largely from the desire to cut bank costs as loans sagged. ;

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THE BANKERS all point to the healthy conditions of their banks as justification for regarding the present FDIC reserve fund as adequate. “We all know,” said one southwestern banker, “that $1 bile

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is not sufficient or at least T see no reason why the assessments

As yet, no banking organizations have gone on. record as favoring a reduction in the assessment. But the FDIC committees of the American Bankers Aseociation is scheduled to explore the

. An official connected with the association said most of the SEation for SUCHE SES ee hl trom’ the nig bankers. Small bankers, particularly in the rural areas, seem to favor its continuance until the economic outlook becomes clearer. The executive committee of the Indepeniaent Bankers Associ. turned down a resolution to ask for a decrease in the assessment. :

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