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pRANCE, traditionally a land of
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the Communists as "our own little
cold war.” It is a wry French joke,
told. without a smile.
De Gaulle won a big election vie
tory recehtly when his Rally of the
French People (RPF) gained 40 per
cent of the seats in the upper house
of the French Parliament—the Coun
cil of the Republic. '
The general stepped down as pro
visional president of France in Janu
ary, 1946, disgusted at the bickering
of splinter parties. He said, then, “I
have had enough!” M
A Strong Man
In political retirement, however,
the general had a change of heart He
began preparing for a comeback on
his own terms. The RPF is his party
and its two main planks are (1) fight
Communism and (2) change the con
s^on™^ The" ^ PreSidCnt “
Communists, with the backing
of 5,000,000 voters chiefly from labor
unions, are the largest 5f Parlfam^nt, single party "the in
the lower house
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not dominate the assembly because
other parties combine against them.
Nonetheless, the two houses now
dramatize the fact that France slowly
but surely is splitting into two camps.
Frenchmen dread this as much as a
world split between east and west
..Squeeze on Coalition
Caueht in the middle is the C oresent
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publican Movement (MRP). Neither
the De Gaullists nor cabinet Communists are
French the
coalition oftenOTe^fundl- cabinets are
* . formedof men who
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Hiey
agree. Euch truoM don’t last geS long
along* In addHon with* to ea* difficulty Sher,“ffl ta
QueSille’s cabinet is under pressure
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“counter revolution.” Gen. De Gaulle, *
like many of his political opponents, take
says the French Communists
orders from Moscow.
forces of the center may take the
Communists into the government in
an effort to s’.ave off De Gaulle.
De GauUe recently declared that if
the Communists came back into the
government he would hot wait for
“ ke — “
He did Ai a not go into detail, T,„ but t Jt it is
common knowledge in France that he
has a large backing in the army. The
French government admitted recently
the army was supplying gasoline and
-h.de, tor De Gaulle , pohUeal cam
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Sidelights
• Two Army planes crashed on an
Indianapolis airfield and one, with a
dead pilot at the controls, circled
wildly on a runway. A policeman
finally halted it by blasting off the
tires with a riot gun.
^ a Radio comedian Arthur Godfrey
has ordered Ms band not to laUgh at
jokes or clown through choruses with
him because that makes them actors
under union rules. This would cost
him about $5,000 more a week.
. e In Boston, the Navy hereafter will
stamp the word “minor” on liberty
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cards issued to sailors under 21 to
help bartenders keep from serving
liquor to persons under age.
O After 20 years in the United States,
the., original manuscript of “Alice in
v Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll was
returned to Britain as a gift from an
anonymous group of Americans who
purchased it privately for $50,000.
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Chinese Communists appear to be
shooting the works in a great bat
tie for Suchow. Suchow is the de
fense bastion for Valley. Nanking and the
whole Yangtze ■
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If they can win this one decisively,
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and
his Nationalist regime must either fall
or flee. ■. .
If the Reds fail and the fighting
bogs down, the two foes may slog
around in that north-central region
all winter inconclusively,
Chance for Chiang * t(
This would give Chiang a breathing
spell It would give him a Chance to
get his battered, demoralized forces
and his wobbly government back bn
their; feet ’
It would provide time for American
aid, both military and economic, to
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Th e i nB of war ia so thick that onlv
one forecast now is safe: the imme
diate fate of China rides on the out
come 0 f the Sudiow-Yangtze cam
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Both sides are 5 ^aiming bit sue
wiUi huge inflichrf
on the other. Nobody accepts either
claim at RmiriimmW, face value.
me Duruen, nowever, wouia appear
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government together . by his fierce in
ap te r^eated mihtary and i&Jfc economic
Chiang re P° rtedly ^ the th. supi>jrt
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Dates
Thnrsday, November 28
Thanksgiving Day.
r Saturday, November 27
Army-Navy football game in
Philadelphia.
Sunday, November 28
Anniversary (165th), first UB.
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radio-controlled Ha,,
some ships with ex
plosives for use in blowing up har
bors and clearing channels. But this
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Navy amphibious officer explained
this week.
size from huge cargo boats to small
amphibious sea sleds for this one
way type of duty. The biggeic ships
carried as much as 7,000 tons of ex
plosives. ,
Some small landing craft, packed
with TNT, were tried out during the
invasion of southern France, their
only operational use. They were used
to block off beach and underwater
obstacles, ^h.^MT«r
and s gun smoke, went out of £
and cut tight little circles.
it near the ... beach, the
was
craft^detonated it andj he blast
on me o*. » •»««•«,
several men.
During the Bikini atom bomb
some of these sea sleds, known
“X-craft," were used td check
activity of the target vesiels by
mote control
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h«diul rf "bitter mdtev"
Tl ' e *“*J.«cMar of his political advisors,
^ ader membwa and Kuomintang the
* 881(1 to believe time
Sf* come to open negotiations,
are rumors that the govern
m ent may •bHt to Canton or some
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Meanwhile *°rehpi«i
China stay or are head trying for to decide home. whether Many are to
jammed, principally with women and
Chfldren.
DB. Dependents Out
.. Practicallyall , L'aL'Lm of the dependents . of .
Amencan, A military advisory groups
h ! v ? been evacuated. The military
advisors themselves probably will
i government eave -^ « should 8 CwununisWominated take over.
H the Conupunirts should walk into
Nankin * « Shanghai within th. next
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SCIENCE: This Growing World
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ciety of America., •' w,„; v». ,
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radioactivity melts rock tomations
thousands of miles wide. Theta
bubble .upward slowly like thick
fudge over a slow fire. This process
makes and unmakes continents, ocean
beds asSSEftgft and mountain ranges.
f~.*» es ,’ pe slightest danger that this
buried atomic energy can blow up
tbe ^ ear th, or IhZ any rVw part of it.
% fam^i u propounded g^logist
by Dr - Bailey
of stanf ord University, and Dr. C. W.
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. Record enrollment _
The federal Office of Education says .
there are 2,410,000 students in Am$ri
can colleges this year, 72,000 more
than ever before,
But there are only 1,022,000 war
veteran students, a drop of 100,000
from a year ago.
Apparently enrollments at the na
tion’s 1,800 colleges and universities
s=¥j third successive 3 year, Ksrar*
The _ over-all „ increase , this „ , year is ,
only three per cent, compared with
a^l2tt owe* h/>. per cent me increase iuuu u last iuu however* year, ov per the
cent cent above above prewar prewar levels, levels, however.
The nine per cent slump in veteran
enrollments has been felt most sharp
ly in junior colleges, where total en
rollments fell five per cent, to 208,000,
of which 54,000 are veterans.
temh. U, ff itod bi, ter^a
colonies remaining.
At Tsingtao, where the UB. west
era Pacific, fleet is based, the main
worry is whether the Navy will pull
out—not whether encircling Reds will
come in. Hie Navy has said it will
The metropolis oi Peiping, treas
ure-trove of ancient Cathay, expects
the Communists to come soon, but re
seems afraid.
One pSin^idSf^fidTetom
munists. already had picked a city
government staff which is waiting in
a nearby village. He reported that
many Chinese even know the name of
the mayor-to-be and are not worried,
They believe the changeover will be
bloodlros.
Nanking, on the other hind, is a
city of fe« and despair. The capital
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flow ’ melta a la f? e under *«» u “
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The Arctic Ocean, he says, is wLw prob
a y “ 1 ® hole where a great blister
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by hv^hSter b dein * u W “ * continent ’ ralsed
h,,.'y, T h d ““p.Kuy oart of the north ftajl Pioifte
collapsed blister.
Both scientists agree that the bub
bles are enough to account for the
height of the world’s roof, the Him
alaya Mountains. Sizes of melted rock
areas range from 100 miles to thou
sands. Even a small blister, they hold,
can cause mountain building and vol
canoes out beyond the bubble edges.
Aerial
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Supersonic Efficiency
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economy as present forms of trans
portation, an aerodynamics expert
told the National Academv of Sel
cnees at Berkeley, Calif.
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T * ~* ati< ?P aI Adv ^ ory Comnuttee
Ior Aeronauucs -
." ith awept-back wings to mini
ndze alr fasjstance at supersonic
speeds and with designs permitting
operation at 60,000-foot altitudes,
there should be ho excessive waste of
fuel, Jones said.
Designs for planes intended for
flight in such rarefied atmosphere
tend to make them capable of flying
slowly in denser, low altitudes for
landing, he said.
In planes of this type, he predicted,
the present turbojet engine would
not fall far short of equalling the fuel
economy ot more Conventional en
gines.
A new propellor-tipped supersonic
parachute has been developed to
bring back information from atmos
phere 100 ttllles or more above the
earth.
General Electric engineers sey
their “rotochute” can be shot frotn a
.rocket at the peak ot its flight and
carry 20 to 80 pounds of delicate in
struments chute slows sifely to earth. The roto
its speed as if falls. Ordi
nary parachutes art ripped to shreds
in passage from great heights.
As the rotochute falls into the
denser air surrounding the earth its
blades begin revolving. Gradually
they are forced into a horizontal posi
tion, breaking the speed to 27 miles
an hour.
(AO Wehtt Swmirt , 4P Ntwifaturet)
Is filled with . government workers
£nv°™™ h a e bS whU e kind r of a
blacklist the Communists may have.
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Failure of the gold yuan, the new
money which Chiang instituted only
three months ago, hit this half-east,
half-west city a terrific blow.
The currency slump wiped out the
**• 8av “* 8 of thousands. Chiang
failed . to deliver Shanghais quota of
nc*^. op tune, end lor
*f varal was hu *** e £ “J 1
A rush delivery.of rice halted
th J? violence^ temporarily. ,
Tortured China is full of startling
strnies and rumors. Some merchants
^ fu f t0 a f epl blg i ur ? ncy biUs
^® lhey arin £ Cb the J an * Communists s P° rt ^ wUl because not
Ss^aTthM/e P* ^encouraged SdVa^
1 wil * Wause
Communists tfre anxious to make
China a “going concern”—-which it is
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There are rumors that China aeain
is splitting into war-lord zones. One
airline reportedly is flying machinery,
automobiles and ammunition to Ning
sia, the northwestern province con
trolled by Gov. Ms Hung-KweL Nan
king is supposed to control all trans
portation, so vital to the war effort,
but is said to keep its hands off this
deal.
his own remote province, is report
^ ^ ****?*< ^ 10 Tientsin and wid
sold. All this, while the Reds close
ever tighter about Tientsin.
Many urban Chinese say the pres
entwar crisis will end with a Com
munist-dominated coalition govern- rt
ment. They believe the Reds will
tain as much present government help
as they need to run the cities and the
nation.
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SALUTE—With London's historic Towor Bridge In background,
Royal Artillery fire a 41-gun salute heralding Britain's new
prince, born to Princess Elizabeth last Sunday. Those colorful
ceremonies are a survival of the davs when nows of a royal
birth was spread by cannon, Mils and beacons.
PARALYSIS—The longshoremen's strike piles up goods for ex
port in the Jersey City railroad yards. Railways embargoed
freight for oast and west coast ports until striko is over. Piers
along New York's usually hectic harbor wora also a picture
of desolation.
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WAR LORDS-Jopon's wartime leaders with Nldeki Tojo (ex
treme loft) who plotted the attack on Pearl Harbor, listen
intently as s their sentences are read. Te|e's fate: deathl
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At the American Federation of Labor’s 67th annua l convention
in Cincinnati, President William Green said, “We are not vindictit ■- ■
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Britain ■
if.. Boy.
You don’t have to be a Briton to
understand some of the jubilation
over the birth of a prince who some
day may rule what is still the world’s
largest empire.
The'son born to Princess Elizabeth
and Prince philip lg a distant cousin
Jjj y, e crowned heads ot conti
nental Europe. £ Through t his father, he
wU1 bring the Br tish throne for
the Hardicahute first time glnce ^ de ath of King
In 1040 a direct male
descendant from the Danish race
which U credited with a half share
i n the ancestry of the English.
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S^and'pSL^K^oS Sf 01 "»d Philip The infant ousted
P nnces Margaret as second in sue
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th. «1 aio.ee,ter. ,
Princess Elizabeth’s first child was
' x>rn at 9:14 P M - Sunday in Buck
ln * ham Palace. Celebrations planned
for weeks by cities, towns and vil
lages were postponed one day in or
der not to mar the dignity and quiet
of the Sabbath.
But the fetes lost nothing in wait
ing. . Monday, the King’s Troop, Royal
Horse artillery, wheeled into historic
Similar volleys were fired from the
Tower of London and then the fusil
Ude went round the world, at the
Royal Navy boomed salvos in Ceylon,
Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa.
The great bells of Westminster Ab
bey led all English churches in a
three-hour joyful tolling. Beacons
flared all along the coast, fireworks
and thousand torchlight processions were held
in of communities.
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j e y Act.”
a«as& repealed ayssaiS
and Democratic platform
pledges to labor would be fulfilled
within 30 daya after the new *•*«««• «—
meets.
Tobin predicted a “fair and just”
•ubstitute for the Taft-HarUey law
would be enacted by March 1,
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The Taft Harttev ^ law i. ,,*1 *_ ",
« on which ooena PeDJ MmuWin ‘’"■f Portland,
Ore
toreversHh2rTS* R ut 15 senat* Jm ^L h * V *
toey bacTthe HarXv
wiobia ^uS£S$Luo Taft
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who will be members of the new
Senate, in voting last June to over-
2f ^ TrlUnan 0< **
portbOit, tto. Ute Prrt.
d ®nt may suggest reenactment of the
Wagner Labor Act with iwne
modifications of the Pment law. This
a ^* ler f°^ to
get legislators to vote for
Pf 81 °* 8 measure they ro
higWy of a few month, ago th^r
^{P* veta 1 TOacl 11 over the Presidents
A Filibuster . _ Threat .
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haven t changed their minds la
{«* CW* ^ dec
tion, had promised to limit Senate de
batein order to try to enact anti-dis
crimination, anti-lynching, anti-poll
tax law ^
W the Truman Administration tries
that, it will run into a flliburter,
Promised Sen. John L. MtClellan (D
Ark.), who has been active in such
Qne of th tfr e^fart *g fc rep iJ1 n ort, V acfaedttled
^ * Till ■ ,1 ." ■ ^
rttsustXmmr Carter (D-AU.),
said Rep. Manasco a
member ofthecommlssion. “is to pro
side over the Senate and vote in case
of a tie. If he were in charge of a
department he might not be on hand
when hu vote was needed.”
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In Short...
Produced: By University, a magnetic cooler, at
Ohio State the lowest
temperature ever recorded in Amer
ica, nearly 459 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit.
Declared: By President Truman,
the U.S. will pot enter any four
power negotiation mi any phase of the
German question, while Russia main
tains a blockade of Berlin.
Asserted: By Israeli foreign minis
ter Moshe Shertok to the United
Nations, that his country will not
yield the Negev desert area in south
ern Palestine to Arabs but will fight
to hold it
Defense
Just in Caso
The dusk-to-dawn dimout which
blanketed coastal cities during the
last war probably won’t be back in
any future war.
The Office of Civil Defense, a
branch of the national military estab
lishment under Defense Secretary
Forreatal, has made a comprehensive
report on steps to be taken if a new
war should come. The dimout is not
one of them.
The report amounts to a primer for
the public on what to do if hit by
the weapons of modern war.
Cities are advised to forget about
air raid shelters; they offer only par
tial protection. The experts say em
phasis should be on preparation of
systems to save the injured, put out
fires and prevent panic.
Police and fire departments are ex
cellent starting points for civilian de
fense but, the experts say, volunteer
mobile reserve battalions should be
set up undqr state control, equipped
in part by the federal government
The planning board estimates that
in wartime as many es 15 million
Americans might be engaged in civil
defense.
A preliminary warfare plan for combatting
germ has been prepared but
because of military, the top-secret rating given
it by the nothing about it
can be disclosed to either the public,
which is directly concerned, or local
governments which will carry it out
Indeed, the roper*, does not even
mention bacteriological warfare but
refers obscurely to * mrcial weapons.”
These weapons p. oy .de a means of
possible attack on humans, delivered livestock,
crops. They might be by
hostile aircraft guided missiles ox
saboteurs.
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