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N. Korean reverses will pose problem for Russia

(EDITORS NOTE: The Jollowing dispatch was prepared prior to North Korean advances on the United Nations perimeter in Korca. Despite this, it is felt that the basic questions put forth are still valid, and there fore the dispatch has been sued.)

Washington, September 7. What will Russia do when hor North Korean satellite bogins to lose the

war?

Reverses for the Red Korean Army will force a decision by the Russians on whether to move openly into the Asiatic war or bide their time for another day when the stokes could be greater and the odds better.

Truman optimistic on Korea

Washington, September 7. President Truman said. to- day that North Korean forces would be pushed back before the end of this week to the line they held 10 days ago.

Speaking at his weekly press conference, Mr. Truman acknow- ledged that certain points had been crashed along the American front ling in the past 10 days, but the Communist forces would be pushed back their former ground be- fore the week was over, he de- elared.

The President was asked to comment on the present position in the Korean fighting between Communists and United Nations forces in the southern tip of the peninsula.

"I am no desk strategist," the President replied..

He added that he left such mat ters to the military and that he received a daily report from Gen- eral Omar Bradley, Chairman of the United States' Joint Chiefs of Staff,

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The time for Moscow's decision is apparently coming nearer.

The swift and long advance of the North Korean Army may come soon to a temporary hall, build-up of strength by American with more help from other forces, United Nations members in the offing, is under way, An offen- sive to destroy the Korean Red military force is in prospect the months just ancadi. It is then Russia will have decide,

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She will have to possible effect on other nations within the Soviet sphere of do- feat for her Korean Communist state against the risks of takin a direct hand in war with the United States and United Nations.

Peculiar technique Russia, for reasons of her the time own, may conclude to move isn't now but fator when her military strength a even greater, meanwhile using the Korea altuation as material for her pecullar propaganda technique.

Some officials at high level in Washington incline to the belief that Russia,docan't want to pro- voke a world wer until later, when she is fully prepared.

The time table they use Ja these guesses varles considerably

from two to five years,

The Russians have an immense army---some estimates range correspondents pointed around

4,000,000 which -is out that there had been continuous equipped with superior tanks and newspaper stories in recent days excellent artillery. They have of United Nations forces being a large tactical air force for pushed back, the President

support of the ground army. acknowledged that certain points had been "crashed" but the North Korean units were being pushed back to their former positions, he stated. This would happen be- fore the week was over. Reuter.

Soviet Russian expansion since 1939

But tho Russians may want more time to improve and augment weapons in the highly

technical category.

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Another two or

years may be neaded for them to stockpile large number of atomic bombs..

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tions of Russian capabilities and Intentions,

DON A DISA

Now York, Tuesday. The news that a baby had been born to Princess Elizabeth came to millions of listening Americans at their breakfast tebles.

The

Fatrol" 7 2.17. "Dawn radio programme and the clet o'clock newscosis featured the royal blessed event, and every hour, on the hour, the American radlu notwork carried detalled accounts from London.

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After weeks of gloomy reports from the wat front and deadlock at Lake Success, the birth of the baby Princess lightened American forts.

IDDON'S

DIARY

Britain is doing regarding Korea | You must remember it is electioa is rather flattering.

year.

Altogether the U.S. presents a dluzy canvass.

half the world's

Here is the super-nation with wealth and machines carnestly requesting

In Newark, New Jersey, houIPO- ald from a country that only holders are to be limited to ond recently was 'belug described as dog and one cat per dwelling, down-and-out, on the Utoplan | Alarm clocks that seh a light rocks, Bnished, and foundering. In the sleeper's face as well as clong a bell in his cars are now

If Americans did not hold the) on sale. British in such tremendous re- U.S. savings hands are being gard,, if they felt sure of them-sold through bubble-gum contests selves without us, there would not be this shril SOS.

One reason why there is such a to-do here about Britain is that American 'nerves are really get-

In fact, perhaps citizens heating row, chould be formed tactfully that The man in the apartment next the child is Britain's Princess, door tells me he is to be trained and not America's.

as an air-rald warden and that | we are to have four types of warning signal-yellow, blue, red, and white-whatever that means.

Evening papers publish huge pictures of Princess Elizabeth and Prime Philly on their front pagea. The alory has not displaced Korean news, but it is being given a lavish second place.

Up and down the town you could hear the comments among the typists, shopgirls, and wait- resses. "Heard about the Princess? They wanted & girl, you know. No. I don't know what she weighs."

Americe is very happy over the good news. It congratulates Prin- cess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. It congratulates all Britain and the Commonwealth.

I'm telling them Readers write ine angry letters. 1 is their privilege.

They say: "Tell the Americans that faritain fought two world wars from first shot to last.

"Tell them this country was bled white by the last war and is still making colossal sacrifices. Tell them the British have been. fighting Communists in Asia for more than two years."

the winner or blower of the lurgest bubble receiving the bond from the gum manufacturer-and the American Government is running a bargain sale offoring 100.000.000 dollars' worth of butter, cheese, dried eggs, dried skim-mlik, dried beans, dried peas, and canned Mexican beef, for a mere 14,000,000 dollars.

A friend of mine, and a fellow Lancastrian. Sir Thomas Ree- |

cham, is wingbig new fame. This A friend in City Hall nus in- time as disc-jockey, or commen- formed me that special armleta tator on gramophone records. marked "Press" will soon be London's Harry Alan Towers available to New York cor- hus put Sir Thomas on tho respondents.

American alr, The result in Out in Chicago the authorities stimulating and inrtruelive. Beo complete plans to tattoo the real-cham at his best. dents under the

armplis with their blood types.

What about us ?

Britaly's David Farrar hay signed a seven-year contract lor which half his services belong to Universal International. the American company, and half to Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

The sum involved is about a

Boston is building a combined underground garage and shelter.

Every hamlet and its Chamber of Commerce, swollen with self-inillion dollars. Farrar is worth Importance, shouts: "What aboub

it.

With the stars

Here in New York we are being given a grim Government docu- mcnt called "The Effects of Gertrude Lawrence is recover- Atomic Weapons," and the papers ing from her back injury, caused sprout with handy guides on by a toll. Despite faining fits avoiding atomic destruction.

she has gone on with the show in think the organisers of Civil | Cave Cod's Summer Theatre. Pelence are overdoing the alarma. Olivia de Havilland is asking. They are out to curdle our blood. the highest terms in. history to I only wish I felt more herole, appear on Broadway as Jullet. I but my theory is that as long as doubt whether she will get them. Kusela's Jakob Malik is here at Relax, Livie-Academy Awards Lake Success 1 am safe enough. | don't last for ever.

Mr. Malik has now become the Dorothy Lamour is writing a mucabre matinee idol, the star song entitled "Don't Chide Me, villain of the American scene and Mr. Truman, I'm Only Hoarding television screen.

Love."

I arn telling them. It should not be necessary, but apparently It is.

I am also telling them that Britain is spending more of ita national income on armaments. proportionately, than the United On the home front the panic States; that three per cent of Britain's population is in the Armed Forces, compared with Anterica's two per cent; that the Iron Curtain appear to have been Eritish work-week averages 46 and bullets. greatly increased during the last hours, as against America's 40 few years of East-West tension.

hours.

On the other hand, the already efficient operations of Russian counter-intelligence behind the

There are reasons to belleve the Russians are locating and liquidating more and more of Intelligence within Russia and the satellite nations, thinning the already slim trickle of information from those coun-

sources

tries.

The outstanding misjudgment of Russian capables, of course, was the matter of the atomic bomb. The Soviet produced an atomle explosion at least two |ydars earlier than was thought probable by Western military and scientific Intelligence experts.

Russian ability to produce air- craft, especially the complex, jet Aghter versions, also proved to be far better than estimated. In some aircraft categories, it now is qstimated that Russian pro- duction is more than 90 per cent ahead of American production Associated Press.

Egypt's reply to Britain

London, September 7. Egypt has replied to a British note protesting against addi- tional Egyptian restrictions on ships passing through the Suez Canal, a Foreign Office spokes- man said today.

The spokesman said that the reply received by the British Embassy in Caire was on its way to London and would be studied when received.

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It is flattering

The fort that there has been se much hollering here about what

Kirk says "No" five

times

Washington, September 7.. Admiral Alan Kirk, Amer- ican Ambassador to Moscow, sald "no" five times to the Kussians in refusing to accept the Soviet protest note on the downing of a Russian plane in Korean waters.

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Four times Admiral Kirk sald "no" politely but firmly to the Minister, Mr. Soviet Foreign Andrei Vyshinsky, in an parently tense face to face meet- ing in Moscow.

with Mr. Vyshinsky Inslating that be cept the

noto,

Kirk told Admiral Russian to take it up with the United Nations at Lake Suc- cess-that it was their business, not the United States. Admiral Kirk then returned to the Ame- rican Embassy.

Before long, a messenger ar- rived with a copy of the note. Admiral Kirk said no again and sent it back with his own note. Ho reiterated in his note that it was a matter for the United Na tions ond closed with this diplomatic touch: "Accept, Ex

assurances of cellency, renewed my most distinguished considera-

tion."

The State Department disclosed all this today. It said that after Admiral Kirk's rebuff, the So

The

restrictions Britain protest ed against Wore:

1.The refusal of port facil- ties to ships passing through the They have the beginning of a Canal who were on an Egyptian long-range bomber force for de- "black

list." livery of the bombs, but may 2.-The need for the ship's need considerably more long-masters to guarantee thele cargo viet Embassy here sent a messen- range bombardment aviation,

the country of

ger, with a copy of the note, to They have begun a huge ex-unloading the master's guaran-

the State Department. It went Washington, September 7.

pansion of their submarine fleet. tee to be counter-signed by an The Soviet Union has ex-

back. Russian undersc3 Egyptian Although the

speeding omcial at

at the port of Russian representatives at Lake panded about $15,000 square feet may number as many unloading.

Success also failed to deliver the iniles since 1938, a U.S. Con-300 submarines, only a small por-

these

restric- note to the United States dele- The object of gressional study shows.

tion of that fleet is believed to

was understood to be to pre- gation there rather than to the ba of the modern high-speed was

reaching Israel. vent cargoes

Nations. The Depart- ment press

Mr. long underwator cruises.

on August 12, the Egyptian

Bald Those estimates

Act ernment made it known that miral Kirk "did exactly the right these restrictions did not apply thing." Ho

wald:

"He acted on to British Fleet tankers passing his ow

mind making up his through the Canal provided they while Mr. Vyshinsky was read- could prove they were Governing the communication to him--

United Press. ment-owned-Router.

Acquisitions in- type, equipped with Snorkels for shortly after Britainted

Its territory, now is 8,591,700 square miles. cluded Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, as well as parts of Poland and Finland.

This study was made by the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee to provide background information on the Soviet Union in international re- ∙lations.

The study is a compilation of material based on published docu- ments. It is a 19-page record' citing Boviot violations of treaty obligations and obstructionism in the solution of international pro- bleme.

Chairman Kee (Democrat, West Virginia) of the Committee, sald the report shows definitely that the Russians jobsérvé obligations. treaty only when it will servei their

purposes.

in

them is shown in a study of the One difiquity is dealing with

and

hopes

that Russla may not be ready for war now are predicated on "evaluations" made by the mill- tary-political Intelligence system. The danger is that the intelli- gence may be faulty, as It Has been on some past occasions..

Co-ordination

Michael McDermottesman, .

PAKISTAN FLOODS

Karachi, September 5. World. War. Il did much to Sudden floods marooned thou- Improve American Intelligence sands of villagers tonight a few machinery. Ginoo than It has miles North, of Lahore. Early bean co-ordinated, the opera reports suggested that many lives⠀⠀ tlone of the three milltary, in had been lost.

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WATCH ON TIBET FRONTIERT Srinagar, Kashmir,

September 5.

A close watch is being kept on telligence unite being method. The villagers caught by the the passes connecting Tibet with with activities of other govern- rapidly rising waters of the Ravi Ladakh, Kashmir, to keep out ment walls like the Stato De-River, on which Lahore stands, potential trouble-makers and partmental under general climbed troos and houseatops at to prevent arme ammuggling. In- direction of the central Intelli the floods swirled around them formed sources say.

Red Crom workers and police Under en order ganda, aganoy?

equada were trying to evacuate travellers from Tibet er Binkl those cut on fundreds of frenng must leave their arms st fugees who escaped from the Leh, Ladakh,, until their return

Tourneykaregledan

One high offcial privately rates American Intelligence, as improve

ing hut not yet good. However, flooded areas before they were arrow mountain sealla which Joint United States-Boviot Com is to be animed that const surrounded were moving towards mission on Korea Duing a year derable information pleked up by Lahore, driving their catta be cross 10,000-foot paseos and and a half this Cordinisalon mat 62 the intelligence, serviews, of other fore... them and carrying their dangerous sinalara biuro (used strong and then broke down,-A- North Atlantic nations la pooled: possessions on their: behandeltesze mostly by traders be from fala's

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Greta Garbo is again talking buying has slowed, although a about her return to the screen. new kind of hoarder has appeared It's time she did it and stopped

the hunter, hungry for guns talking about it.

The demand for rifles and am-. munition has increased 100 per cent in the past few weeks. Ot course, the citizens may merely want the firearms to deal with invaders.

and

Not very wise

They say about Esther Williams that she's the only girl who carns $5,000 a week and all doesn't

At least the housewife is show-keep her head above water.

Heard around the town: Who- ing restraint. She has to.

up the wisecrack Once again the grocer, the ever thought

that Britain is sending America butcher, the fishmonger,

more uld and shorter help wasn't clothier are in charge.

very wise. Some politicians ob- viously think that this is the time to rise above principles.

Footnote: Perhaps someone should .emind General MacArthur that Clemenceau once said: "War is too serious a matter to leavo in the hands of generals.”

No controls yet

There are still no controls over prices, 'wages, or anything else, though everyone, except the poll ticians, says they are imperative.

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