The Charlotte News

Monday, September 26, 1949

THREE EDITORIALS

Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that before the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, Yugoslavia accused Russia of using pressure, including armed demonstrations, economic blockade, threats, troop movements along the Yugoslav borders, and armed incidents provoked by Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary, to force Marshal Tito to accede to the will of Moscow. The Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Edward Kardelj, did not, however, call for U.N. intervention. He refused to side with China's protest the previous week against Russia for allegedly backing the Chinese Communists, because, he said, it was advocating war against the Soviet Union.

From Berlin, it was reported that Russia had constructed rocket bases throughout Eastern Europe, their exact locations unknown. Allied military intelligence officers said that they believed that a chain stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea, but that there was no evidence that the Eastern zone of Germany was being so prepared. The Soviet program was centered at Peenemunde, the former Nazi rocket plant located in East Germany, and at Rechlin, another underground former Nazi rocket facility, with German scientists believed primarily responsible for producing the rockets, improvements on the German V-2 used in the latter phase of the war. Rumors at the end of the war were that the Germans had been working on a rocket capable of reaching the U.S. East Coast.

The joint Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee, chaired by Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut, had sent back the first draft of its report to be rewritten in light of the revelation of the first atomic explosion by the Russians. The chairman said that the section on preserving atomic secrets would be the focus.

Reports of new discoveries of uranium deposits in Czechoslovakia and Spain, already known to have deposits, prompted talk of an atomic arms race. The official Soviet news agency Tass reported that the Russians had possessed nuclear weapons since 1947, a claim dismissed by Western observers, and that the Soviets were ready to engage in some form of atomic energy control.

Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and high-ranking military officials, including the Joint Chiefs, sailed from Norfolk aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of Task Force 87 maneuvers, to provide the officials a look at how modern seapower worked. Also aboard were about eighty civilian leaders from labor, education, religion, and industry, all invited by Secretary Johnson.

Ooooo, as Sir Donald of Orange said last night at the debate, General MacArthur might not agree with that, showing everything to the potential enemy, being too transparent when opacity and stealth are demanded, such as with his secret plan to dismantle ISIS—which the generals will impart to him after they meet when he is elected President. It is, in other words, so sensitively secret that even he cannot be trusted with it, yet, though he is in possession of the plan presently at all times. It is why he must be orange.

But why does Sir Donald care of anything General MacArthur might have liked or not, when, last we heard, he was touting President Truman, General MacArthur's nemesis in 1950-51, as a role model. Maybe Sir Donald has not progressed that far in his history lesson.

The President signed the two-year Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act extension, providing the President free discretion in working out tariffs with foreign nations. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, present at the White House for the first time since VJ-Day, September 2, 1945, was present for the signing ceremony. Mr. Hull had originated the reciprocal trade concept, passed initially in 1934.

In Pittsburgh, crucial talks began to try to avert a steel strike set to start the following Saturday, failing acceptance by the companies of the ten-cent per hour pensions and social insurance fund contribution recommended by the President's fact-finding board. The vice-president of CIO expressed pessimism that the talks would yield an agreement.

In Dover, Del., a 16-year old boy, accused with his mother of murdering an elderly man, testified in his trial that the man had become fresh with a 26-year old woman with whom the boy admitted having sexual relations. The trial was in its third week. The boy and his mother were accused of luring the man with a lonely hearts letter and then killing him for his money and personal belongings.

In Winston-Salem at the conference of Western North Carolina Methodists, assignments were given Methodist ministers for the new church year, with the ministers for Charlotte listed. Dr. Clovis Chappel of Charlotte's First Church delivered the memorial sermon in which he said that most Christians dreaded death as a form of finality, whereas Jesus regarded it as only going from one room to another. Dr. Chappel said that it was worse to be morbidly afraid of life than death, though not wholesome to exist either in the latter condition.

In Chapel Hill the prior Saturday, Governor Kerr Scott had been booed at the UNC-N.C. State football game in Kenan Stadium when his halftime appearance was announced at the start of the game. At the halftime ceremony, he said that the State was building a new hospital in Chapel Hill for the Carolina team, with Greensboro Woman's College graduates stocking it as nurses, but admitted that he was a "State College man", prompting more boos. UNC beat the Wolfpack 26 to 6—about the score last night at the debate.

Gosh, though, it was sure amazing that Secretary Clinton even showed up and did not collapse on the floor in an epileptic fit of coughing or head-shaking spasms. She cheated with an invisible microphone in her ear, while the microphone of her opponent, as he said afterward, was rigged by the liberal mainstream media not to work. That's why she won. She also, undoubtedly, had cue cards being held up by the invisible Globalist Government hologrammatic teleprompter. She, herself, may have been a hologram.

By the way, Sir Donald, it is incorrect to say that you were probably "unsatisfied" with an architect's work and so refused to pay him after moving into the building which he designed. The word is "dissatisfied"—or in this case, "stiffed". The architect was unsatisfied, being the stiffee. Maybe they did not teach English at Fordham and Wharton, or maybe you were too busy at the time trying to plan how to spend your father's "small" million-dollar graduation gift.

On the editorial page, "Weak Spot in Defense Program" tells of two vacancies in the nation's defense apparatus, one on the Munitions Board and the other on the National Security Resources Board, the latter because of rejection by the Senate, for lack of experience in the area, of the President's nominee, Mon Walgren, whose nomination was withdrawn. The President had also declined to allow standby economic mobilization legislation to be presented to the Congress, a situation which would lead to chaos in the event of a national emergency.