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M'CARTHY SAYS BRITAIN
SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR
'CHEAP' ATLEE ATTACK
•y G. MILTON KELLY -
WASHINGTON (JV-Sen. McCar
ty (R-Wis) said today Britain
Should apologize for what he
termed a “cheap** attack by for-
Her Prime Minister Attlee on
President Eisenhower and the
American people.
Conservative party members of
the British Parliament, McCarthy
•aid, sat silently last Tdtsday
While Attlee made “one of the
Most insulting speeches ever made
li the legislative body of a recipi
ent nation against an ally which
has been pouring out her economic |
Ufa blood for practically every
•ther nation on earth.**
In a speech prepared for Senate
delivery, McCarthy declared:
"The American people are en
titled to an apology for this cheap,
uncalled for, fantastic attack upoh
the President and people of the
United States.
"We are entitled to an explana
tion as to whether the majority
party in Britain agrees with Mr.
Attlee, who was rejected by the
British people.**
One by one McCarthy took up
Attlee’s reported declarations that
"there are elements in the United
States that do not want a truce in
Korea"; that the presence, of Ei
senhower or any American might
"hinder** direct peace talks with
the Russians; that “the American
Constitution was framed for an
Isolationist state," and that “the
Americans do not wish to have
anything to do with Europe.”
McCarthy’s prepared text con
tained no mention of Atttoe’z state
ment that “one wonders** whether
Eisenhower or McCarthy wields
the greater power in U. S. foreign
policy.
“What shocked me" McCarthy
said, “was that no memoer of the
majority party arose to contest
what he had said.**
“I shall distribute to whatever
senators who desire it,” McCarthy
said, “a copy of a picture of Attlee
reviewing Communist troops in
Spain in 1987 with Communist Gen.
Miaja. and Commissar Anton, a
leader of the Communist party in
Spain, all three giving the Commu
nist clenched-ftot salute.
“But lest someone think Attlee’s
Communist salute was merely an
act of courtesy on his part, 1 have
here a letter in Attlee’s own hand
writing. ... He first praises in
glowing terms the Communist bri
gade and extolls its devotion to
the 'cause of.freedom and social
justice.’
"And listen to this closing para
graph: 1 shall try to tell our com
rades at home of what I have
seen.* ...
'“Comrade* is a Communist
term meaning fellow Communist"
Several times thereafter the text
of McCarthy’s speech mentioned
Attlee as “Comrade Attlee."
McCarty said Attlee welcomed
Churchill’s proposal for a big
power meeting, but “hinted the
presence of any American would
only hinder talks."
McCarthy said that was a “libel"
against Eisenhower and “slanders
the American people."
“Perhaps Mr. Attlee forgets that
the U. S. has suffered 130,000
casualties in Korea, while the
British figure is roughly 3,700,” the
senator said. He went on:
“In connection with his state
ment that there ere elements in
the U. S. who do not want a truce
In Korea, Comrade Attlee knows
full well that this nation which has
contributed so much in agony,
Mood and tears ... does want
peace in Korea and peace through
out the world, but peace with
honor—peace without surrender."
It should be, he said, “the kind
of peace we could have obtained
when Doutfaz MacArthur was in
charge in the Far East, had he
not been hamstrung and his hands
tied by the Achesons and Attlees
of this world."
“This country that Attlee calls
isolationist—which he says wants
' nothing to do with the rest of the
world," McCarty aaid. “haa given
since the end of the shooting pert
of World War Q what would
amount to 191,643 for every day
since before Christ wet b0rn....”
Those figures, he said, drama
tize the lump sum totals of 31
billions of foreign aid already pro
vided, and the administration re
quest for six Miltons more next
fear.
McCarty renewed his denuncia
tion of British trade with Red
China. He said a recent edition of
the London Sunday Express re
ported British exports to China to
January were valued at 1,300,000
pounds sterling, compered with
74,000 pounds e year earlier.
He referred then to a letter from
Secretory of Defense Wilson which
he had made public recently con
tending teat any trade with the
Chinese helps their ability to make
war.
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cutting bacon into email bits tor
casserole or muffin topping*, lor
mine tog parsley, end far quarter
a marshmallows. When using the
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Radiation From Blasts Gives
Uranium Prospectors Trouble
Tidelands Oil
Bill Is Ready
For Signature
Twice-Vetoed Law
To Give States
Title To Oil-Rich
Land Paeeee House
WASHINGTON UR—Twice-vetoed
legislation to give states title to
oil-rich, submerged offshore lands
was ready today for the promised
signature of President Eisenhower.
It cleared its final congressional
hurdle yesterday when the House,
by roll-call vote of 278 to 116, ac
cepted Senate amendments to an
original House measure. That sent
it to the White House, where pop
ularly called “tidelands bills"
have gone before.
In 1948 President Truman ve
toed a similar measure, as he did
again in 1951.
The five-year issue figured prom
inently to the 1952 presidential
campaign, during which Eisen
hower promised to support the
coastal states* claim to the off
shore land and its rich mineral
resources.
Final House action found 184 Re
publicans and 94 Democrats sup
porting tha bill. Opposing it were
98 Democrats, 17 Republicans and
1 independent.
Opponents have served notice
the measure’s validity will he chal
lenged to court. The Supreme
Court has held in three suits that
the federal government has “para
mount rights" over the submerged
lands off the coasts of Texas, Cali
fornia and Louisiana, although it
has not passed specifically on the
question of title to the area.
The Senate had deleted from the
House bill e section to which fed
eral control over the continental
shelf was assarted out beyond the
states* seaward boundaries.
By accepting the Senate amend
ments, the House was able to send
the bill directly to the White House
and thus avoid possible further de
lay in the Senate.
Just before disposing of the
states* ownership bill yesterday,
tha House voted 309-91 to pass a
separate measure which would as
sert federal control over tha outer
continental shelf and authorize de
velopment of the territory. This
was tha intent of the section which
the Senate struck‘from the states*
ownership bill.
The measure sent to the White
House would fix state coastal
Kwangtung Farmers Win Reds’
Pledge For Private Ownership
By BRIO HAMPSON
HONG KONG UR Fanners in
Kwangtung—China's Dixie ap
pear to have won their own pri
vate little fight with the Commu
nists.
The Reds claim they finally
have accomplished their land re
form program there, but the an
nouncement reads like a page
from capitalism.
A IS - point directive, which
sounds strangely soft for the Reds,
pledges to Kwangtunfc fanners:
private management, private own
ership, private employment, pri
vate money lending. It promises
that no farmer shall be forced into
a co-operative or collective move
ment.
Kwangtung, In teeming, lush
South China, is a restless and
dangerous land and noted as a
political hater of the “ins/' Sun
Yat-sen's I*ll rebellion started
then. Chlang Kai-shek licked the
war lords from there.
Now the Communists have this
tiger by the tail and have “re
formed” its land. AD winter the
Reds have been easing away from
their tougher form doctrines.
Why?
A recent report by land reform
inspectors—who investigate after
land reform has been carried out
warned Petping that too much gov
am mem interference was cutting
production. It said that fear of col
lectives was causing many form
ers to step faming, that newly
redistributed forms were too
small far efficiency and that farm
ers were migrating to the cities
t Last month Premier Clm te*
Thursday, May 14, 1953
By JULIUS GOLDEN
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. Wl
Prospectors sav Western New
Mexico is being bombarded with
so much radiation from atomic
tests that at times it’s impossible
to test for uranium ore.
Fruit growers in Northwestern
New Mexico are blaming frosts on
atomic tests in Nevada.
Residents in one area think a
wave of lightheadedness and nau
sea may have oeen caused by Ya
dioactivity.
Atomic Energy Commission of
ficials discount all the complaints.
Prospectors in the Gallup, N.M.,
area, where uranium hunting has
reached the proportions of an in
dustry, have been unable to hunt
the precious ore at times following
tests.
The radioactivity count jumped
so high that prospector’s Geiger
counters couldn’t distinguish radio
activity in the air from radioac
tivity in uranium ere, the prospec
tors say.
A spokesman for fruit growers
in San Juan County in Northwest
ern New Mexico made up a list
for newsmen showing that three
atomic tests were made between
48 and 60 hours before heavy frost
damaged fruit.
The first explosion listed, April
6, occurred two days before temp
eratures fell to 24 degrees and
ruined apricots and peaches. After
an explosion May 1, half the apple
crop in the area was frozen. The
rest of the peach crop went two
days after the May 8 explosion.
U. S. Weather Bureau officials
in Albuquerque, queried on the
fruit growers’ theory, said:
“Purely a coincidence. We’ve
been having unusual weather
throughout the spring."
A wave of nausea and lighthead
edness among residents of Gallup
had doctors puzzled. They dis
agreed on the question of whether
it might have resulted from the
radioactivity which at times has
ranged up to five times normal.
The AEC flatly stated there have
been no dangerous concentrations
of radioactive fallout in any part
of the country outside the con
trolled area at the Nevada test
site. But it added that higher than
normal levels of radioactivity have
been measured in isolated in
stances and for short periods of
time.
You’ll make cakes and cookies
in jigtime if you keep mixing and
measuring utensils needed for
these baked products near your
mixing counter. These untensils'
are: mixing bowls, mixing spoons,
egg beater, measures for dry and
liquid foods and measuring spoons.
boundaries at three miles gener
ally and I<W% miles for the Texas
and Florida Gulf coasts.
lti directed such migrations should
bo stopped.
The Communists began their
land reform in 1949 and finished
in most of China by 1952. But in
Kwangtung it dragged along,
meeting Moody resistance. In some
of the tougher zones there may
not have been any land redistribu
tion at all.
N6w the “examination of the re
form to going on," the Commu
nist news agency reports. The
Reds say almost four million acres
were confiscated and divided
among peasants in an area that
contains 32 million people.
The new Red proclamation re
assures the new owner that the
land to his and that there are no
strings attached.
“Safeguarding of private own
ership of land, bouses, and ail
kinds of properties is guaranUfed.”
says the proclamation. Even the
“re-examiners must not take it
away.”
The new farmer also shill “en
joy the rights of tree operation,
management purchase, sale and
exchange of his property without
interference,”
The directive said farm co-oper
ative movements should be encour
aged but “compulsory organization
of farm co-operatives or mutual
aid teams is strictly forbidden **
Above all the Red proclamation
says nothing must be done to tn
ierfere with production Even tax
es must net mterfen
The Reds deemed: "Farmers
whn produce mom than the fixed
normal yield upon which taxes are
based shall net be taxed on the
qnce**.”
A LETTER FROM RILL LANTAFF
Dear Neighbor:
Much concern has been express
ed over the Postmaster General’s
recent announcement which indi
cates that polictical award rather
than merit is to be the criteron for
the appointment of postmasters.
Oyr President, in a pre-election
speech, stated: “The single choice,
the single standard (for Federal
jobs) shall be merit and not poli
tical award." With that statement
I heartily concur. But the Post
master General’s first major act
registers for 1700 postmaster posi
tions and calling for new examina
tions, plus his subsequent notifica
tion of Republican state ‘adivsors’
that even ‘acting postmasters’ can
be replaced, is entirely contrary
to pre-election pledges and could
well lead to a breakdown of our
Civil Service system.
Upon learning of the Postmaster
action, your Congressman launch
ed an immediate investigation and
was shocked at the findings. It
was learned that of the 1700 ex
aminations to be discarded, 1666
examinations had been completed.
Of this number, 205 are registers
containing less than three eligi
bles.
The Civil Service Commission
had already spent $265,777 in com
pleting the 1,461 examinations
which the Postmaster General has
now requested be cancelled. In
addition, it is estimated that it will
cost $450,000 more to conduct these
examinations over again. Based on
Experiments
May Lead To
Safer Flying
By RENNIE TAYLOR
AP Science REPORTER
LOS ANGELES A daring ex
periment on the hearts of five
young Air Force doctors has
opened the way for development
of anew, more comfortable kind
of gravity suit to prevent pilot
pilot blackouts.
The tests, conducted by Capt.
Owen L. Slaughter, now of Evans*
vflle, Ind., were reported to the
closing meeting of the Aero Medi
cal Association here.
Two long, flexible tubes called
catheters were inserted through
blood vessels in the neck and into
the heart ot each physician under
test. This was done to measure
the exact blood pressure in the
heart while the lower halves of
their bodies were being com
pressed as in a gravity or black
out suit.
' Catheters are used frequently on
one side or the other of the heart
but never before have that keen
used simultaneously on both sides,
Dr. Slaughter said. The one-sided
operation is only slightly danger
ous but the hazard is increased
many fold when both sides are
catheterized. However, no bad ef
fects appeared, Dr. Slaughter re
ported.
Flight surgeons long had be
lived that tight-squeezing gravity
suits worked by preventing the
blood from crowding into the lower
part of the body during high-speed
dives or turns, leaving little or
none in the head and causing
momentary unconsciousness.
The tests showed, Dr. Slaughter
said, that the gravity suit does
not work that way. Instead it
causes the arteries in the legs and
lower abdomen to increase their
resistance to blood flow. This
causes increased blood pressure in
the upper pert of the body and
makes it easier for the heart to
pump blood to the brain, he re
ported.
Aa a result. Dr. Slaughter said
he would suggest that gravity suits
be redesigned specifically with the
idea of compressing arteries in the
lower part of the body, as e first
aid worker might do to holding
the '‘pressure points” to sty hem
orrhage.
It should not he necessary to
make auito that will compress the
flesh, he said.
Dr. Slaughter recently complet
ed hie tour of Air Force duty and
returned to •private practice.
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these same figures, the cost of
calling new examinations for the
205 registers containing less than
three eligibles will approximate
$61,500. The total cost to the tax
payers, of this patropage inspired
move will be another half-million
dollars to the taxpayers’ burden.
What is the reason advanced for
this wasteful and extravagant act
ion? It is stated that the new ad
ministration seeks to raise the
standards for -e postmaster ex
aminations. Your Congressman
has always been under the impres
sion that Civil Service require
ments were very high. According
to the Civil Service Manual, all
applicants for a first-class post
mastership must show they have
had business training and exper
ience comparable with the duties
of a postmaster. Since your Con
gressman came to Congress, there
has been only one vacancy in the
classification in his district. Nine
businessmen in that town took the
examination, eight failed to meet
the stringent requirements estab
lished by the Civil Service Com
mission and the Post Office De
partment. Constituents complained
that the established requirements
for this particular examinations
were too high; but your Congress
man felt they should be high for
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this important position. Naturally,
the Civil Service Commission re
commended the one man who
passed the examination and my
appointment was awarded him
without regard to his political af
filiations.
It seems rather obvious to me
that the only reason for throwing
out current Civil Service registers
is to sabotage the merit system
and resort to the spoils system
rather than follow President Eisen
hower’s mandate that the only
standard for such positions be
merit, rather than political award.
Sincerely yours,
BILL LANTAFF.
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