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And I will shew wonders
in heaven above, and signs in
' the earth beneath, blood and
‘ tire, and vapour of smoke.
The sun shall be turned
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that great and notable day of the Lord come,
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Radar Fence Was Stymied
"49's Tight-Fi
By "49's Tight-Fisted Congress
y BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. =~ (NEA) ~ Congressional Mil
itary Appropriations gubcommittees are showing off
a lot of righteous huff and puif these days, up
braiding the Pentagon brass hats because they don’t
ask for more money.
Presldent Trunan's request for $10,000,000,000
additional defense money thig year has in general
-t con greeted in Congress with - raised eyebushes,
1 rinkled domes and amazed expressions of, “What!
C 'ly 10 billions?"
"he inference ig tha¥ the sky is now the limit and
t - soldier, sailor and fly-boy can have anything
t -eir Wttle hearts desires Things weren’t like that
lot yeaw,
There i 3, Sor instance, the sad story of the Am«
erican~Canadien paday fence, This, you may recall,
was 10 be the metworkk of radar plane-detection
stations, The stations were to be built all around
the odge of the U, 8, bwt partioularly to the north.
So thet i any Russiam planes sreaked across the
North Pols with an A-bomb oy two, the radar
vick-wps would eatch thera im the act and fighter
planeg wowuld streak up to stop them hefore they
reached vitel targets.
Well, the truth of the matter is that this radar
iince hean't been built yet, although the project
1. 2s fiseh proposed over a year and a half ago.
A start has been made. But the Alr Force, which
is in charge of gonstruction and operation, doesn's
like to say how much or how little has been done,
for obvious reasons of security.
EVERYTHING EXCEPT MONEY
The reason for the delay is simply that Congress
failed to appropriate the necessary money to finish
the job. The last $31,000,000 is just now being
appropriated by Congress as part of this year's reg
ular $13,000,000,000 military money act.
The original plan for the radar fence was firsh
presented to Congress in January, 1949, The Air
Force has been developing plans for it some months
before that. Canadian Prime Minister Louis St.
Laurent came to Washington and made an agree
inent with President Truman, The fence was to ex
iznd all the way across the Arctic frontier from the
Aleutians and Alaska to Newfoundland and beyond,
via sea patrols, ”
Rep, Carl T. Durham of North Carolina intro
duced the bill to authorize construction, It whizzed
through both Houses of Congress and became law
in March, 1949. Total cost was to be $16,000,000.
The only catch was that Congress never did ap
propriate any money to do the job. In fact, Con
gress told the Air Force that if it built the radar
warning system at all, it would have to pay for it
by diverting money from other projects already
approved.
Going even farther than that, Congress specified
that not more than $50,000,000 was to be spent on
the project for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950.
By dint of cancelling other contracts, General
Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, man
aged to scrape together $50,000,000 that he could
divert to the radar fence job,
SLOW CONGRESS AN EXPENSIVE ONE
Then he had to get another act of Congress au=
thorizing him to make the switch. He was finally
ready to go ahead with the project only at the end
of last December.
A little over $42,000,000 worth of existing radar
equipment — mostly World War II material—was
transferred to the fence job. The Naw kicked in
with four picket vessels, which were to be re-equip
ped at a cost of $7,000,000. But that still left some
$26,000,000 worth of new equipment to be procured,
And there was no money for it, unless that, too, was
taken out of other funds.
The original bill authorized something over $85,-
000,000 for acquisition of sites and construction of
buildings to house- equipment and personnel. Gene
eral Vandenberg's original $50,000,000 diversion
went to®ards that. Defense Secretary Louis Johne
son’s office kicked in with another $4,000,000 from
its special funds. But that still left the Air Force
$31,000.000 short of money to finish the fence.
This is the money which Congress is just now
getting around to appropriating. In the meantime,
it has been found that building costs and radar
eguipment have both advanced in price, So that in=
stead of costing about $31,000,000 to finish the job,
it may cost close to $40,000,000.
By monkeying around in this manner and econo
mizing, Congress hag managed to run up the costs
by about $9,000,000.
It's no wonder, perhaps, that when congressmen
Tiow say, “Why don’t you ask for more?” some Pene
tagon planners start swearing fervently under thelr
breath,
’;1:: d:Ofld is morg settled now than in 1036.—
Nt Truman,
Leopold’s Abdication Is Only
Solution so Belgian Disunity
Back in the 1930’s King Leopold 111 of Belgium
was a popular figure not too far down the scale
from the now Duke of Windsor., When Leopold’s
first wife, Queen Astrid, was killed in an automo
bile accident, sympathy was voiced everywhere.
World War II turned that sympathy to criticism,
and for some, to hate. For on May 28, 1940, just 18
days after Hitler invaded France and the Low
Countries, Leopold suddenly surrendered Belgium
to the Nazis,
The British and the French were shocked and
outraged, The Belgian flank of their armies was
left dangerously exposed, hastening their defeat
and the eventual evacuation at Dunkerque. The
Allies claimed Leopold gave them no warning.
Until 1944 the Nazis held him prisoner in Bel
gium, but then they moved him inland to Germany.
Little was really known of his circumstances then,
but rumors circulated that the king was living well
under his Nazi conquerors,
After the war he lived in exile while his country
debated whether to return him to his throne, The
Belgian parliament finally decided by a fairly close
majority that Leopld should come back,
But his recent return to Brussels proved only
that his bitter opponents had not given up the
fight,
The Belgian Socialists, spearheading the opposi=
tion, made clear to Leopold and the government
that civil war was certain unless the king got out.
The country was deeply divided, \
But Leopold is a man who wants to be king. Only
under extreme pressure from his friends, who
posed the threat of revolution, did he finally yield
and agree to abdicate.
Temporarily he has transferred his power to his
19-year-old son, Prince Baudoin, who will for
mally take over the throne on his 21st birthday in
September, 1951.
Leopold’s personal tragedy in this outcome is
great, He defends his capitulation to Hitler on the
ground that defeat was inevitable and he was de
termined to save lives.
The issue being so clearly disruptive of Belgian
unity, Leopold’s withdrawal is the only sane solu
tion, Belgium, a snrall but indispensable member of
the free western community of nations, can’t afford
internal strife at this moment in world history.
Leopold must leave to the judgment of careful
‘World War II historians the question of the wisdom
of his 1940 surrender to Hitler. It is now an old
story that has no place amid the new troubles of
1950.
Odds Should Be More Even Now
The landing in South Korea of the Army’s Sec
ond Division and the First Marine Division comes
as the most welcome news of the war.
These fresh froops are better fit and better equip
ped with material to engage the North Xorean
enenmy which is driving desperately for a decision
while the odds still favor him, If that enemy is to
be stopped, it is these men who must do it. Not for
months can we expect additional manpower to be
ready for Korea.
The next few weeks, when the Army’s Second
and the Marines’ First will be fighting it out on
our narrowing perimeter of defense, will tell the
story whether we are to stay in Xorea now or
whether we shall have to come back over water
later—at greater cost in men and munitions.
. .
Keeping Pace With the Books
Army Secretary Frank C, Pace, jr., is in a strange
position. As Director of the Bureau of the Budget
last year, Mr, Pace played a leading part in cutting
down the Department of Defense budget from orige
inal requests for about $22,000,000,000 to the $13,«
000,000,000 figure finally announced by the White
House and passed by Congress, Now, as Secretary
of the Armry, Mr. Pace is plugging for bigger de
fense budgets,
When reminded of the shift in position, he said,
“Yes, darn it, I know it.” One reason the former
Budget Bureau director was given the Army secre=
taryship, of course, was to put someone in charge
who could help straighten out the bookkeeping.
Even before President Truman asked Congress
for additional credit controls, auto finance coms=
panies in the Washington area began voluntarily to
scrutinize loan applications a little more carefully.
For anyone in the draft age bracket, credit was
held up.
One point not generally recognized, say Federal
Reserve Board officials, is that easy credit upsets
the normal laws of supply and demand. If buyers
can make lower down payments and if they can take
longer to pay installments, they tend to buy more.
Purpose of request to Congress for authority to eurb
credits is to reduce this artificial. demand. ¥t cuts
down inflation and saves nraterials.
It takes an investment of about $15,000 to make
& new job in industry teday. — Robert E. Wilson,
chairman of the board of Standard Oil Company of
Indiana.
Our liberty was not obtained cheaply or easily.
It can slip away unless it is fought for constantly,
—Lt. General Leslie R. Groves, wartime atom bomb
production chief.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
Battle Fatigue, Age
Retires Mascot Moe
BY HAL BOYLE
A FIFTH U. 8. AIR FORCE
BASE IN KOREA~-(AP)~Leaves
from a war reporter's notebook:
M America’s most veteram
gombat dog, has been retired from
the alr wars by old age and bate
tla fatigue.
The peppery little black and
white mongrel has spent six years
with the Air Force. He was first
picked up in Australia by Lt: Jack
Coghlan of Longview, Texas, and
later flew 25 combat missions in
the Second World War standing in
the catwalk of a Douglas Havoc
bomber,
In the years since then Moe has
lived on practically every air base
in the Pacific and had half a doz
en or more owners, He is known
by name to hundreds of airman
in the Far East. Since coming to
Korea his duties have been strict
ly limited to ground observation
and security patrols.
“He won’t make any more mis
sions,” said his present owner,
Sgt. Daniel Kinney, San Francisco.
“He’s really got combat fatigue—
he shakes all over now every time
he goes up in a plane.” =
But Moe doesn’t like war on the
ground much better. The soldiers
sometimes tease him by pointing
their carbines at him. Each time
Moe barks worriedly until the gun
is put away.
- Moe wears Sgt. Kinnery’s dog
tags and there is a deep and real
attachment between them. At the
sergeant’s command Moe will sit
up, roll over, shake hands, speak
or retrieve anything from a rock
to a baseball bat.
His greafest enemy is a tattered
stuffed moneky that hangs from a
wall and bears the sign “Special-
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