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Spending Must Be Cut/ congress and then in
the United Nations, he said, “We
should set forth with unmistak-
Tackles Key Problem U. S. Power in Little Wars
by direct attack on Russia stirred wide comment here and in the United Nations today. Mr. Stassen's address is probably the most detailed and pro- vocative move from the Republican side to lay down a foreign policy for 1950. It tackles a key
on Russia
to lay down a foreign
a crash. FOURTH: Directing a surprise attack on the U. S. "by land
through Alaska, by air the northland, by sea through submarines and by subversion, sabotage and Communist terror-
sabotage and/ ism."
Sets Forth Problem
Mr. Stassen posed our own problem thus:
We cannot permit the Russians
World War III by aggression through satellites and puppets we and our associates in United
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nor Marshall Plan as usual, nor pork barrel as usual, nor even services as usual during these next crucial years while priority is given to adequate rearming of ourselves and our friendly associates in the United Nations." Mr. Stassen pointed out that a dollar spent by us in Asia will go further in Asia's non-industrial economy than in Europe and urged “early initiation of a comprehensive Asiatic economic program, parallel to the Marshall
Critical of Administration Mr. Stassen was extremely critical of the Truman administration. He said history would judge it "one of the most incompetent in our nation's lifetime." series of
major mistakes in policy.” He branded its leaders as “confused,” “inefficient,” “wasteful” and “neglectful.” He said they had “added to the strength of this foreign opposi-| tion and have sadly weakened our own preparedness." But he followed no standpat GOP line—he bucked many congressional Republicans, for example, in proposing an Asiatic economic program. Mr. Stassen said the only safe basis for our future policy was
to conclude that the ruthless rulers in the Kremlin have world
domination as their “grim fixed objective.” “He foresaw four possible Soviet courses:
to pick off other nations one by one. But if we try to meet every aggression where it
To avoid becoming a giant pinned to earth by our own errors of policy, weakened and laid open to direct assault” Mr. Stassen proposed: ONE: Congress should declare it to be American policy that if further aggressions occur that the Kremlin be held directly responsible. TWO: We should ask the United Nations to approve this policy and fix responsibility. Mr. Stassen also urged a U. S. civilian defense program such as England had in World War II. and arms aid to other nations willing to help themselves. This may cost $35 billion annually, he
some administration people are using. Mr.
would include an additional federal tax take of $10 billion a
allocations, price and wage ceilings—"for use only when needed." And he insisted there must be one
fective mobilization.
to good conditions between now was/and Aug. 21 when moderate disturbance is expected was the pre-
for short wave radio fans by forecasters at the national bureau
that any further aggression by any of her satellites war with the United States.
House Republican leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) agreed with Mr. Stassen.
a giant/Chairman Pat McCarran (D. Nev) of the Senate Judiciary.
Mr. Stassen's home-front plan
great over-all war agency for ef-
SHORT-WAVE OUTLOOK FAIR By Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—Fair
diction made here this morning
“There is no question but we should make it plain that we will stand for no further
With Firecrackers
ward by the Communist army as
tacks, a South Korean spokesman
Behind the police, he said, come the third wave-North Korean
rean army public relations offidisplayed
By RUTHERFORD POATS United Press Staff Correspondent WITH 8TH U. S. ARMY. Korea.
Aug. 16—South Korean schoolboys armed only with noisy firecrackers have been driven for-
the first wave of its infantry at-
charged today. He said Red police drive the boys forward as cannon fodder.
ars. Col. Sun Keun Lee, South Ko-
cer, displayed firecrackers he said were picked up from dead
The man who started all the
self with an air of mystery. He seldom makes speeches and tries to stay in the background. But yesterday he reported to headquarters. Headquarters for all Communists is Moscow, of course, and Kim Il Sung sent a message to Joseph Stalin to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Korean independence. The tone of the message left no doubt as to who was running the show in Korea and it was much more revealing than a two-hour
Running the Show in Korea
By HARRY FERGUSON, United Press
News Editor trouble in Korea combs his hair
Hitler-fashion across his forehead and operates under an assumed
To the outside world he is known as Kim II Sung, chief of state in North Korea and commander-in-chief for the armed forces. Like most leaders of international communism, he surrounds him-
standing Communist tradition when he changed it. Stalin's real
name is Djugushvill; Trotsky's
parents were named Bronstein, and Lenin was born Ulyanov. Kim Il Sung entered North Korea with the Soviet army in 1945. {Apparently he was Stalin's boy from the start because the Russian commissars put him through a big build up. There had been a real Kim II Sung a guerrilla hero of the Korean independence movement in 1918-19, So Kim Sung Chu became
aggression on the part of Russia,” he said.
Mr. Martin added that the United States should "stop do- ing business with Russia and her
ing business with Russia and her satellite nations now." Idea Called ‘Excellent’ Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R.
Foreign Relations Committee, praised Mr. Stassen’s idea as “excellent.” Sen. Smith said he would dis-
Committee said he goes along with the Stassen proposal “very emphatically.” But he said the United States should “act now, and not do too much talking.” “We should break off diplomatic relations with Russia and isolate the aggressor nation standing behind the puppet states,” he said. But Sen. Theodore F. Green (D. R. I. ) didn't think much of Mr. Stassen’s speech.
N. J.), a member of the Senate |
Boy with both legs in casts prays before improvised shrine in
“I don't believe the State De-
Mr. Stassen’s advice,” he said.
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Times State Service
partment or Mr. Truman needs
Culver to Graduate said a figure not far from what
Hundreds of Pilgrims
Mrs. Fred Van Hoot,
Farm Wife Back at Work After Reporting New Vision
Warn of Threat by ‘Enemy of God’
NECEDAH, Wis., Aug. 16 (UP)-A worn and gaunt farm wife went quietly about her duties today near the spot where she said the Virgin Mary appeared to her before a throng of praying pilgrims.
40-year-old mother of seven children,
and captured boys after a successful counter-attack today against a Red regiment on the eastern flank of the Naktong River bridgehead/east of Waegwan.
Convict Who Escaped At Mother's Rites Seized
WORCESTER, Mass, Aug. 16 (UP)—A 21-year-old convict who escaped two reformatory guards while attending his mother's funeral was recaptured by police early today. The fugitive was John F. O'Brien who fled through a third Floor lavatory window Monday while services for his mother Mrs. Alice M. O'Brien, 54 were under way on the first floor of a funeral parlor. O’Brien was serving a five-year sentence for burglary and larcency at the Concord Reformatory when his mother died and he was granted leave to attend
Acme Telephoto.
speech by Jacob Malik in the United Nations Security Council.
Sends Greetings people's government of
Kim II Sung in an attempt to trade on an heroic legend.
Early Life Veiled
"The people's government Korea,” Kim a ‘Sung told Stalin, the place from where he now “send hearty congratulations and ules Communist Korea—the Red thanks-to-the Soviet of: Ldttle is government through Stalin, "kno vn about his early Tite, but it “The Korean people do not wish is definite that he attended China's to be a colony of another coun-/famous Whampoa Military Acadtry and are resisting U. 8. mili-jemy. tary interference and imperial-| From there he went to Moscow ism and continuing a just war to where he was thoroughly indoc= defend our country's independ- trinated with the political philosence and freedom. {ophy he now is trying to impose “The Korean people won't for-| by force upon the South Koreans. get their: joy at being lberated He probably was attached to the by the great Soviet army. On! Chinese Communist army for a
forces which liberated Korea and her people." Kim II Sung is about 38 years old. His pictures show him to be a roly-poly, sleepy-eyed man with dark hair brushed across the/as the "Korean Mao Tse-tung." forehead toward his left eye./Word has got around that Kim His real name is Kim Sung/II Sung prefers "The Stalin of
against now in Korea. His career parallels in many ways that of Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Communist leader. But none of his followers refer to him
watches as Mrs. Anna Van Hoof Necedah, Wis.
the services.
STRAUSS
SAYS: TR
Hear Her
Chu, and he followed a long-/ Korea."
TRADITION WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROW!
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government of/Kim II Sung was born close to
the fifth anniversary of Aug. 15/while, and learned some of the we pray for Stalin's health. All/tricks American troops are up glory to the Soviet forces which/against now in Korea.
CULVER, Aug. 16-Six boys from Indianapolis are candidates for graduation from the Culver Military Academy summer schools.
Expecting to
Saturday are Jimmy P. Hubbard, 5932 Winthrop Ave.; Jack M. Eiteljorg, 330 W. 62nd St;
Mrs. Fred Van Hoof,
The farm was. deserted except for the Van Hoof family and an occasional curiosity seeker. Its yards and fields, trampled
receive gradua-/yesterday by an estimated 100,tion certificates/000 pilgrims, were strewn with
litter and covered with ankle-deep-dust. Roadside stands which sold religious goods and box lunches were being dismantled. Pilgrims Leave
Stewart R. Schaefer, 5367
R. A. Karl F.
Ave.; Richard Hansen, 5781 N.
FIRST: Conquest of other na-
Pennsylvania St., Johnson, 321 N. Wallace Ave.
No pilgrims prayed last night
er for the conversion of Russia. “You must pray and pray, and pray hard,” she told the crowd as she stood before a statue of the Holy Mother. The hushed people, most of them devout Roman Catholics, apparently saw nothing. None of the cripples who came hopefully reported a miracle. Church Casts Doubt The Roman Catholic Church officially cast doubt on the claims
Kenwood Ave.;/Mrs. Van Hoof stood transfixed/of
in the clump of ash trees where Mrs. Van Hoof stood transfixed at noon yesterday.
of Mrs. Van Hoof in advance of But state po-
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of standards.
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She said the Virgin appeared and Wilfred/and warned her that the only hope for peace was through pray-
sheep's clothing were taken off-
the demonstration. lice estimated that 100,000 persons came by automobiles, busses and special trains to worship yesterday, the Catholic Feast of the Assumption.
Speaking over a public address system after the claimed visitation. Mrs. Van Hoof told the crowd in a halting voice: “The time is here, now. We
Mrs. Van Hoof said the Virgin told her that “the enemy of God is all over America.” “You'd be surprised if the
they'd be all around you,” she said.
Apparently referring to the “enemy,” the farm wife said that Alaska was their “stepping stone.” The Korean war, she said, would be “only the beginning if you don't pray." Repeatedly, she urged the devout to "pray and pray and pray." Then, sobbing, she stumbled
to her humble home.
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