Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that Izvestia, the Soviet Government newspaper, had stated in a piece by Eugene Tarle, a respected Russian historian, that if the Anglo-American military alliance proposed by Winston Churchill at Westminster College a week earlier were to be implemented, there would be a sharp negative change in relations between Russia and the West. He said that Russia would not allow a repeat of the German invasion of June, 1941 and would not permit even modest preparation for an offensive attack. Mr. Tarle counseled against showing force toward Russia, historically a supreme irritant to the Russian people. He asserted that the British Labor Government was supportive of Mr. Churchill's position, that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had encouraged Russia's southern neighbors to resist Soviet aggression.

Mr. Tarle recalled the troubled past between Britain and the United States, contrasting it with the untroubled relations between the United States and Russia, that Russia had been the only major power, for instance, which had taken a neutral stance during the American Civil War, while Britain and France had sided with the South.

Senator Tom Connally of Texas, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, called for a new Big Three meeting to discuss in plain language the differences which had emerged between Russia and the West, to make it plain that Russia's right to determine its form of government did not extend beyond its own borders. He stated his belief that the Soviets did not wish war.

Daniel De Luce reports from Nuremberg that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring testified before the war crimes tribunal on behalf of the defense of Hermann Goering that he was at least partially responsible for the bombings of Warsaw, Coventry, and Rotterdam, the worst bombings inflicted by Germany.

Paul Koerner, who had known Herr Goering since 1926, testified that Goering had intervened against the Nazi Party purge of 1934 and had established concentration camps only as a means of re-education of enemies to the State.

In Buenos Aires, it appeared that Col. Juan Peron, the incumbent vice-president, had defeated Dr. Jose Tamborini in the election for the presidency of Argentina. A major organization which had supported Dr. Tamborini conceded the Peron victory. At present, Col. Peron led or had already won in provinces which would give him 216 electoral votes, needing only 189 to win. Dr. Tamborini led or had already won in provinces with 160 electoral votes.

An anonymous OPA source indicated that OPA would soon grant to Ford, Chrysler, and Hudson new car price ceiling hikes of about three percent.

Former President Hoover, having been placed in charge of an emergency committee by President Truman to assess food needs in Europe, announced that the necessary cereal to avert starvation in Europe was eight to nine million tons short of minimum needs, but that all except about one to two million tons could be made up by reducing American and Latin American consumption. He expressed the hope that the U.S. could obtain five million tons out of Latin America and another two million from reduced consumption at home.

Correspondent Eddie Gilmore provides the first in a series of articles on what was taking place in Russia. He tells of the railways having been one of the major handicaps of old Russia; now they had been improved during the war and new and improved rail systems were still being built. In 1937, Russia had 53,000 miles of rails, compared to 236,000 in the United States.

Many of the new projects were in Kazakhstan in the southeastern Soviet Union. He provides the details of the new lines and their routes.

Hal Boyle reports again from Cairo, that students from 15 to 25 years old formed the backbone of the movement for independence of Egypt from British influence. Mustapha Momen, 23, an architectual student, was their most influential spokesman. He had led the previous five demonstrations, some of which had ended in violent bloodshed. He was a member of the Moslem Brotherhood Association, which sought political liberty for Moslems from Casablanca to Calcutta. He predicted that the students would revolt unless the U.N. took positive steps toward removal of British troops from Egypt. The British, he said, had promised twenty times since 1882 to remove their troops.

In Hollywood, actress Judy Garland gave birth this date to a daughter, Liza, who weighed six pounds, 10.5 ozs. Ms. Garland had been married the previous June to director Vincent Minelli.

Happy birthday.

On the editorial page, "A Strange Time for Apathy" discusses the Republican effort for the upcoming Tenth District Congressional race, having chosen from a hat P. C. Burkholder of Mecklenburg as their nominee, thus conceding by default the race to the Democrats. Perhaps, because he liked buttermilk, disliked the smog of Charlotte, preferred the country.

There were only four days left before the filing deadline and only one Democrat, Hamilton C. Jones, appeared on the primary ballot. Mr. Jones had been rejected by the voters on four previous occasions. The incumbent Sam Ervin had stated in January when selected to complete the unexpired term of his deceased brother that he would not seek re-election. Thus, Mr. Jones might, by default, become the next Congressman from the district.

The piece laments the apathy demonstrated by both parties, even in the face of a great part of the citizenry believing, as never before, that the country was going to hell in a handbasket. As things presently appeared, it offers, the election would only be a reflection of the electorate's apathy and not its choice of leadership.

Indeed, four-time loser Mr. Jones would win the race. He would be re-elected twice before losing in 1952 to Charles R. Jonas, a Republican, who would serve in the district until 1973.

"A Parable for Our Time" tells, in quasi-Biblical terms, of the seemingly paradoxical banner for the times, "Raise Wages: Prevent Inflation", as carried by those who were "organized, affiliated, and amalgamated". Those within the ramparts of Free Enterprise cried out that these were evil days, and thus sought to lay down an edict against the right of organization, affiliation, and amalgamation.

"And a stranger in the land, seeing these things, cried out, 'It passeth understanding.'

"Selah."

We suppose, having mentioned above Mr. Jonas and 1973, we would be remiss were we not to make remark of this piece's confluence in style with this publication, also from 1973. How we came to know of it is not your concern. It is on deep background, part of our mission on earth. Never doubt it. Don't talk back either, or you will regret it.

"Flying Dutchmen of Highway 21" finds that it was not a waste of court time for a judge to conduct a study of how much liquor could be hauled into Mecklenburg from South Carolina on a single trip. There was a one gallon per person per trip limit set by law. Bootleggers merely employed persons to carry the legal limit from Fort Mill each day.

The piece suggests that increasing the limit would decrease wear and tear on Highway 21 to Fort Mill and decrease the overcowding of the buses. While some would complain that it might increase the flow of liquor into the county, it could not imagine how the flow would become any greater than it already was, with liquor readily available by telephone any time of day.

A piece from the Spartanburg Journal, titled "The Pot and the Kettle", comments of Judge H. Hoyle Sink of the Mecklenburg-Gaston judicial district favoring a five-day waiting period for obtaining a marriage license after applying for it. Many of the divorce cases he heard were of couples who had married in South Carolina, underage at the time.

Drew Pearson reports that the nuclear scientists were largely pleased with the way the Navy was setting up the atomic bomb tests for Bikini Atoll. Admiral William Blandy, in charge of the tests, had taken nearly all of the scientists' suggestions, except that they had wanted it postponed for a few weeks—which ultimately would occur, from May to July. Their concern was that they could not complete certain equipment designed to measure the tests by the May date. The Navy at first was balking because of the prospect of the typhoon season and the consequent necessity of postponing a year if it were postponed for even a few weeks. The Navy's appropriation for the coming year was dependent on the outcome of the tests.

Marquis Childs finds it encouraging that action was finally taking place to get the necessary food to Europe to avoid widespread starvation, with the Hoover plan now being developed in conjunction with Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson.

Mr. Childs had talked recently to Sir Ben at a cocktail party, where food flowed plentifully, stuffed eggs, salted nuts, anchovy paste on toast, celery, olives, salted nuts again.

Sir Ben had declined the offerings several times but finally succumbed, taking from the tray one olive.

He had informed that, at this juncture, rationing in America would do little good, but would be likely necessary the following winter, at least as to some foods.

The only sacrifice presently being made in America was to substitute dark bread for white, which had to seem odd to the parts of the world living in starvation.

Samuel Grafton comments on the formalization of the bloc in Congress formed between the Republicans and Southern Democrats. Seventy-five Representatives of both parties had met the previous Wednesday to arrange strategy on curtailing price control. Another 25 Congressmen had expressed their agreement with the group.

A letter writer suggests that Burke Davis had painted a too rosy picture of the A.B.C. system of controlled liquor sales, stimulating revenues in wet counties to fund schools and other public facilities. He cites an article from State magazine out of Raleigh indicating that liquor ratioining might be on the horizon because bootleggers were buying liquor at A.B.C. stores in the Eastern counties and then reselling it at triple or nearly quadruple profits.

A letter from a regular writer indicates that Mr. Churchill's speech at Westminster College had been in poor taste and that, if he wished to undertake political speeches in the United States, he ought become a U.S. citizen. The author disfavored a military alliance with Britain in peacetime.

An engineer of the State Highway Commission writes a letter complimenting Burke Davis for his thorough examination and report on the Charlotte Traffic Survey prepared by the City Planning Board.

"Tired and disgusted Navy men" write a letter from Tokyo, complaining of slow demobilization, asking for support to get them home.

Another letter writer indicates that the black citizens of Charlotte were tired of having lies told about them by persons such as the letter writer of March 5 who had complained of blacks crowding out white people on buses and sidewalks. She says that the buses had signs reading, "White patrons please seat from front, colored patrons please seat from rear," and yet the white patrons would sit at the back when there was plentiful seating at the front, while the black patrons always obeyed the signs. She believes that the previous letter writer must be one of those whites.

If whites like him thought that blacks would move out of the way on the sidewalk so that they might pass, they were mistaken.

"I notice," she continues, "he hasn't accused any Negro of crowding him out from the bullets and bombs or the space of ground with the white crosses so many of them got in the Army."