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PUBLISHED SIX DAYS
A WEEK FEATURING
- LOCAL NEWS
BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN
WEATHER
Satt'ercd showers, warmer tonight
and tomorrow. Few thunderstorms
tomorrov. Lowest tonight near 34.
UNITED PRESS Wire Service
NEA Feature Service
Devoted to the Dissemination of Information and Upbuilding of Stephens County
NO. H7
BKEl KENRIDGE, TEXAS—FItlDAY, APRIL II, 1952
PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY
WATE1
SUPPLY" THREATENED- Flooowtor.s
forcing some 2,400 resident-! t< flee th. i homes
drinking water supply of the citv.
soun in ar i rust
fast i i.-ing wat< is ;u'i
el' 2-~> feet at Pierre, S,
threat -ning tli«• power
(NKA Teh-photo)
THE
OBSERVER
WEATHER REPORT
THINGS DOING HERE
SAM SNEAD'S HAT
SEEN OR HEARD
SHOWERS AND THI'NDER-
storms were predicted today ;*« a
now cold front cut across Texas,
but i*t this writing only a cover-
ing of clouds had developed here.
Th" new. front was expected to
bring winds up to 40 miles an
hour at Amarrtlo, and 35 at Lub-
buck.
This left Breckenridge with a
fuel
(>I.i
owing dust, or both, th>'
weather to be followed by
or weather tomorrow.
cooler
warm-
t.OOD FHfDAY, ,THE DARK
day of Christendom, will be oh
served in n music program tonight
at the Methodist Church, beginn-
ing at 7 :30, when the last Words
ef Christ on the cross will bo
sung. This will mark public ob-
hoi vance here.
In I rusale-m the InM stey>s <.r
Christ were being retraced today
by Roman Catholic and Protestant
pilgi ims.
The pilgrims .ire making their
v.'iv along the Via Dolorosa to the
holy sepulchre where the womer
fount! the stones rolled aside on
tint first Faster morning, 2,000
j r • ago. (
In Rome, processions and pray-
er :«tu heintr offend in sorrow
• *er the crucifixion of Christ and
reported grey skies over Rome
iefb cted the prevailing sorrowful
tllO d.
(!ood Friday is a day of fasting,
abstinence and pen nance for some
foil.- hundord million Catholics ; s
w-.•II as for protectants in every
country of the world. All of which
make: for the "ladness of Easter
mom.
Phone Strike Enters
Second Day In Breck
IS reckon ridge telephone workers
still were in "continuous meeting"
this morning with switchboard
service only for emergency calls.
Western Electric pickets picked
up at least 44 more cities in Tex-
as Thursday, in some places "stop
and go"' practice employed. That
is service for cert; in periods thee
only emergency calls. More calls
were taken here yesterday after-
&
THE TELEPHONE STRIKE
ionium <1 today with one slight
change noticed. Subscribers were
a k'-'l "is the call essential?" This
lnad* it better on sticklers for the
iibsolut. truth. A call can !«• very
i i ntiai without being an emer-
gency.
A romaik to one telephone comp-
any worker to effect of "I wish I
could use my telephone", brought
• he reply, "and I wish I could go
back to work".
This seemed to sum up the sit -
nit ton here, with press report
iwenting toward an tally break in
this deadlock, starting in Detroit.
FOLLOWING THE MUSICAL
program at the Methodist Church
tonight there will be a rehearsal
for th. sunrise Easter service,
Charles Kiker said this moiling.
(Continued on Page 2)
Mack Mauldin
Ir Installed
VFW Officer
Mack Mauldin, above, wa -, in-
stalled as local commander of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars for
the coming year at a meeting of
that organization in the VFW
Home last night.
Other officers installed by in-
stalling officer C. W. Gold of
Hamlin, District Commander, were:
senior vice-comm:nder, Eddie Of-
field; junior vice - commander
Clyde DeMasters; quartermaster
David Decker: chaplain, R. V
Meador; post advocate, Charier
Lohofi.
Mauldin is head of the Soil Con
servntion Service here, a graduat<
of Texas Tech in Lubbock, am'
during th" last war served witl
the Third Division in France. Pete
Alexander is outgoing comaiander
District Commander Gold re
minded members of the Distric'
Convention to be held in Snide
May .'1-4. A large delegation if
expected to go from here. Thos<
wishing to attend should contact
M.-.uldin before April 30 for reser-
vations.
Robbery of Barnes-Williams Store in
Ubilene Represents 3rd Time Score
"Profession?,!" buniflsrs. who
did a "smooth" job of blasting the
Harries & Williams Drug Store
safe in Abilene Wednesday night,
scored thus'y for the third time
on the drug store, according to
Paul William* of Breckenridge.
Williams is part owner of the
Abilene drugstore, as well as
owner of the loci Barnes & Wil-
liams on W. Walker.
He said burglars twice in the
past had forced entry into the
store, each time by cutting a hole
in the ro f. The first time culprits
turned over a brand new safe,
cut a hole in the bottom of it with
cold chisels, and removed f|>out
$1,200 in cash and checks.
The second time the would-be
thieves apparently were scared
away said Williams. This time
they had cut another hole in the
roof, approximately in the same
place :n the time before, and let
a rope down to let themselves in
with. Nothing wns taken, however.
Wednesday night entrance to the
store, located at North Seventh
and Hickory Sts., was grined by
prying bap off a window. The;
t< ok about $1,000 in cash am
checks and naieotics valued a'
$250.
Thursd av night. City Deteetivi
George Sutton said police werr
without clues becruse of the thor
oughness of the burglars' work
The $250 worth ef narcotics wa
valued at retail rater. Underwork
rates would run the value up t<
about $1,000, detectives said.
A form of "soup" nitroglycerine
was used to blow open the safe
in a stock room in the rear of th<
building, officers said.
Before blasting the safe, t h<
burglars knocked the knob off
Then they inserted the charge in a
part of the lock mechanism, ran
a wire from the charge to the pre-
scription room, attaching the othet
end of the fire onto two flashlight
batteries to set off the explosion
Investigating officers at the
scene found 20 feet of the wire, an
electric detonator, and two flash-
(Continued on Page 2J
noon and this appear d to be the
case hi re. but unofficial report
today said this was because of
letup in calls to permit the super-
visors to make the connections
during that period.
Included were many cities in
West Texas. Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co. late Thursday said
Lubbock Cisco, Ranger, Brecken-
lidge. Fasti;-,nd. Hamlin Stamford,
Colorado City. Anson, Odessa,
Monahans, Fort Stockton, Kermit,
Bit" Spring and Midland were
struck.
Early reports indicated that
Sweetwater pickets n elt d away,
that ,'to employes were off Thurs-
day as compared t > 15 Wednesday.
Pickets wore withdrawing from
at least IS other cities and South-
western Bell was attempting to
restore normal service there. I iter
in the day, pickets reappeared at
some of these cities.
"Stop and go"' tactics were not
appli <1 fo major metropolitan cen-
ters such ; s Houston. Dallas. San
Antonio arid Fort Worth'.*fn those
cities. Western Electric strikers
continued to picket with the co-
operation of Southwestern Bell's
workers.
The newly struck cities, tele-
phone operators walked-out to at-
tend "continuous union meetings"
despite the fact that picket lines
had not been erected.
Western Electric is the install-
ing and mlintenance arm of Bell
Both at' • subsidiaries of American
Telephone and Telegraph. Em-
ployes of both are members of
CWA-CIO.
Spread of the strike to smalloi
cities had raised the number of
Bell employes off work in Texas
to about 6,200. This is an increase
of 1,200 over the Wednesday esti-
mate by Bell.
Pressure is being applied by the
union in metropolitan centers to
maintain picket lines. Predictions
of the number out on strike would
vary a great deal under the "stop
and go" tactics applied Thursday
in many of the smaller cities.
o
New Plant For
Atomic Energy
WASHINGTON, April 11 <U.R—
The atomic energy commission an-
nounced today that it plans to
>ui!d a fifth atomic explosives
slant to cost around one billion
dollars.
The new plant will be a uranium
■paration woiks even vaster than
he one at Oak Ridge. Tenn., and
.he new one b< iirg constructed near
Paducah, Ky. It is expected the
tew plant will be built in the Ohio
•'alley.
Resignation Of
Eisenhower Is
Made Public
WASHINGTON, April 11 (U.R.'—
General Dwight Eisenhower has
resigned as supreme allied com-
mander in Europe.
The .'announcement was made in
Washington by the White House.
President Truman says Eisen-
hower has asked to be. relieved
June 1 as supreme commander of
the allied power in Europe.
Eisenhower sent a request dated
April 2 to Secretary of Defense
Robert Lovett, asking that he be
relieved June 1 and placed on in-
active status when he returns to
the United States.
The general did not sav when
he expects to return to this coun-
try and take an active hand in his
campaign for the Republican pres-
idential nomination. But presum-'
ably he would come back early in
June.
White H;-ise Secretary Joseph
Short says the time and date of
the announcement of his resigna-
tion was made by Eisenhower.
Short says President Truman
isn't ready yet to name a succes-
sor and he doesn"t know just how
long that will take.
In his letter Eisenhower pointed
out that his request for relief
conforms with an understanding
he had when he accepted the orig-
inal appointment in Europe in De-
cember 1!)50. The general has said
he would not return until he felt
his job war? done.
This morning h> ended his secret
paper war test of western defens-
es. And he gave the word to an-
nounce his resignation a short time
late;1.
He said in his letter that he
feels the specified purposes for
which he was recalled to duty in
1950 and sent to Europe have
been "largely accomplished."
Secretary of Defense Lovett al-
ready has replied to Eisenhower.
He wrote the general yesterday
that he can have his release, that he
will go on inactive status when he
returns to the United States, that
a successor will be selected.
o
Big Income Made
BREAK
TELEPHONE STRIKE
SEEN IN MICHIGAN MEETING
By UNITED PRESS
Tide Water Associated Oil Co, (
has announced in Houston a net has issued, an appea
income last year of $37,000,000 as
compared to nearly $33,500,000 in
1950. The announcement was made
by William F. Humphrey, president
of the company.
Water Slops And
Sops Over Pierre;
2,400 Homeless
The tragic stillness of disaster
hangs over Pierre, the capital of
South Dakota.
Muddy waters of the Missouri
are waist-deep on Main Street. And
almost one-third of Pierre's resi-
dents are homeless.
Everywhere is the sound of
gurgling water, water that poured
through broken windows and doors,
floated furniture and turned mer-
chandise into pulp.
Over the scene of ruin hovers
the dank smell of rotting sand-
bags, spoiled food, and gasoline
from tanks uprooted when the
worst flood in 71 years boiled down
the river on a crest 10 feet above
flood stage.
Across the swollen river, in Fort
Pierre, the scene is even worse
Some houses there are chimney-
deep in water, and only three
blocks remain dry.
The two towns count more than
2,400 people whose homes are no
longer livable. In those that re-
main dry, the refugees, are huddled
as many as 20 to the house.
The Missouri is bearing its great
crest southward toward Iowa and
Nebraska, already smarting under
earlier high waters. Sioux City,
Iowa, for instance is bracing for a
river level of 24 feet. That's five
fpet above flood stage, and 18 in-
ches above the crest reached in the
big flood of 1881.
Cioux City has been declared an
••mewwicv area, and four compan-
ies of National Guard are on duty.
Elsewrere. the Red River con-
tinues swelling. The Red Cross
says it expects about (50 families
in Fargo, North Dakota, and 125
families in Moorhead, Minnesota,
to be forced from their homes if
the'river hits its expected crest.
And the mayor of Belncoe, Iowa,
has issued, an appeal to residents
in the lowland area to evacuate
their homes immediately. Army
engineers say the area is one of
the chief danger points on the
Missouri River south of Sioux Citv.
o—.—
Swede Minister
To Inspect Plants
By UNITED PRESS
Th« prime minister of Sweden
was scheduled to inspect the auto
industry in Detroit today, and then
fly to Weshington where he will
• ieet with- President Truman and
Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
Prime Minister Tape Erlander
said that the Swedish "are interest-
ed in seeing that democratic coun-
tries stay as strong as possible."
Lying Charge Is
Hurled By Murray
CHICAGO. April 11 <U.R:_The
president of the Inlnmd Steel Com-
pany, Clarence Randall, says he
has no comment on Philip Mur-
ray's statement today assailing
Randall's radio address of la3t
night.
Randall lashed out at the ad-
ministration's handling of the steel
crisis in his talk and also aired
chr.rges of a political deal between
President Truman and the CIO,
which Murray heads.
Murray retorted today, accusing
R&ndatl of a "deliberate lie."
GREEN THUMBS EXPECTED TO
STAGE RECORD SHOW IN CITY
Several hundred green thumbs
are expected in Breckenridge next
month for the biggest flower show-
in this town's history.
The thumbs will be connected, of
course, to ladies from 10 towns in
this area who will participate in
competition for awards in the Dist-
rict 8 Spring Flower Show, held in
Breckenridge for the first time
this yer.r.
Hostesses to the visiting ex-
hibitors will be members of three
local garden clubs; the Brecken-
ridge Garden Club, the Home and
Garden Club, and the Woodland
Hills Club.
An original scheme of present-
ing the show is hinted at in the
theme; "From Drought To
Plenty."
The idea, according to Mrs. Ross
Elliott, general chairman of the
show, is to describe graphically, by
the use of the flower exhibits, how
Breckenridge grew from a virtual
wasteland to fertility.
Division number one in the com-
petition, Artistic Arrangements
will be devoted almost exclusively
to carrying out this theme.
The various classes in this di-
vision include arrangements that
will fit the class titles, such as
"Our Prairies", "Flowering Gold",
"Our Hills and Lakes". There are
eight classes in this division.
Formal and informal table set-
tings make up the second division.
Defense Work In
Texas Mounts Up
(By UNITED PRESS)
The National Production Author-
ity says that 218 defense facilities
in Texas costing more than a bil-
lion dollars are 36 per cent com-
plete. The estimated cost of de-
fense facilities already complete
in the state amounts to more than
436 million dollars.
The report has been issued by
region NPA director Ernest Tutt
and rovers work completed as of
March 31.
Judge Appointed
n«rernnr Allan Shivevs has nem-
ed Harold Clayton, a Port Arthur
attorney, as judge of he 60th Dis-
trict Court. Clayton succeeds the
late Judge Tom Kenna of Beau-
mont. ,
Shivers snvs the anpointment
was made with the understanding
that Clayton would not be a can-
didate for the judgeshiy in this
year's elections.
while the third is devoted to potted
house plants. Horticulture entries
will be shown in a fourth division.
The local clubs have also set
aside a fifth division for Boy and
Gir' Scouts.
Some of the local floral shops
will set up displays, but will not
compete for prizes. The rules of
the contcst also provide that non-
members of garden clubs in dist-
rict 8 may enter displays in the
Invitation Class, but not in compe-
tition for prizes.
The day scheduled for the show-
ing is Friday, May 9, from 2 to
8:30 p. m.. in the Woman's Club.
Tickets sell at 50 cents for adults
and 10 cents for children and may
be bought at the door or from ?ny
member of a garden club.
Presidentes of the local garden
clubs are: Mrs. Ruel Pace, Wood-
land Hills, Mrs. R. D. Smith,
Breckenridge, and Mrs. W. H.
Blodgett, Home and Garden.
Chairmen of the show, besides
Mrs. Elliott, are: Mrs. Blake John-
son, schedules; Mrs. E. A. Cain
and Mrs. C. G. King, staging;
Mrs. Guy Ewing, Jr.. entrances;
Mrs. James Corley, judging; Mrs.
C. F. Hogan, classification; Mrs
W. If. Blodgett. publicity; Mrs. B.
M. Kingston, Mrs. Ear] P. Mc-
Cathren, and Mrs. C. F. Hogan.
clerks; Mrs. Jack Cox, tickets:
Mrs. Jeff McM.-Jian, hospitality:
and Mrs. T. P. Robertson and Mrs
A. W. Tipton, special projects.
o
County Agents
To Meet Here
County agents from six West
Texas towns will meet in Breck-
enridge next Wednesday to plan
a two-day summer camp for 4-H
Club boys, Bryan Swaim, local
county agent, announced today.
Swaim said he and the visiting
agents would decide exact date and
oth;r arrangements of the six-
county camp, to be held at Lake
Cisco, "probably the first part of
June."
The ramp is an annual affair
designed to give 4-H boys a plan-
ned outing of swimming, camping,
and other forms of recreation.
Fathers are also invited to the
camp.
The following agents will meet
here at 2 p. m. Wednesday; Bill
Lehmberg, Jones County; W. C.
i
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N'KW COMMAND—("apt. Kurt Carlson, loft, chats with unidentified
admirer as he arrives in Mobile to assume command of Flying Enter-
prise Second. The ship will bo loaded with grain'rt Houston for delivery
in France. Ship is named after ill-fated vessel Carlson stayed aboard
for l.'i days in an Atlantic storm. (XKA Telephoto)
Two Other Main
Strike Meetings
Also Under Way
(By UNITED PRESS)
I ederal labor mediators are
staging extraordinary bargaining
sessions in Detroit in the hope of
blazing th.' trail for settlement of
the nationwide telephone tie-up.
It's reported that the first break
in the phone rtrike may be in the
Michigan Bell system.
Round - the - clock negotiations
are unrf r way in Detroit, negotia-
tions which may bring a sudden
break.
In Michigan, federal mediators
are holding separate meetings
Vines, Shackelford County; Ralph
Lindsey, Palo Pinto County; J. M.
Cooper, Eastland County; and G.
W. Green, Callahan County.
Two Wells Are
Slated In Two
Stephens Areas
Woodson Oil Co. of Fort Worth
No. 1 TXL is to be drilled as
Stephens County wildcat.
Di illsite for the 4,800-foot rotary
project is six miles west of Elias-
ville, 1,920 feet from the south and
2,173 feet from the west lines of
Section 3, Block 5, T&P Survey.
In the Williams & Jack Marble
Falls Field, seven and one - half
miles northeast of Breckenridge,
Oil Associates, Inc., of Fort Worth
N'o. 2-D Black Brothers was snot-
ted.
Contracted for 4,500 feet with
rotary, drillsite is 3,170 feet' from
the south and 1,050 feet from the
east lines of Section 24, Block 4,
SP Survey.
Applications were filed with the
Railroad Commission Thursday re-
questing permission to drill rive
projects in the recently discovered
oil area at the Cisco west city lim-
its in Eftstland County.
The discovery for the -n-ea n*ns
L. A. Warren, et al, of Cisco N'o.
1 Maurine Mancill Rovall, one-
eighth miles west of Cisco, com-
pleted for a daily potential of 1">7
narrels of 43 gravity oil from the
Lake Sand.
All of the locations have contract
depths of 4,000 feet with rotary to
try for Lake Sand production.
L. A. Warren and others staked
three locations.
Site for No. 1 Jack Wi nston is
one-tenth mile west of Cisco, 327
feet from the west and 'it>8 feet
from the north lines of the south-
east quarter in Section 8C>. Block
4, H&TC Survey.
No. 1 A. C. Jones A Ed Petiee
was spotted one-tenth mile west of
Cisco, MB feet from the north and
90 feet front the east lines of the
southwest ouarter in Section 8<
Block 4. H&TC Survey.
Location for No. 1 Mis. Cora Leo
Latson is at the outside edge of
the west city limits, fi25 feet from
the south and 218 feet from th
west lines of the northeast quarter
in Section 86, Block 4, H&TC Sur-
vey.
E. C. Johnston & M. O. Johnston
of Longview staked two locations.
N'o. 1 Davis-Edwards is to be
irilled at the e. je of the west city
limits, 1.637 FN & 395 FW lines
>f th" southeast ouarter in Section
86. Block 4, H&TC Survey.
Site for No. 1 Mrs. Frank Har-
'•11 is three-fourths mile west of
Cisco 330 feet from the south and
"ast lines of the northeast omirtei
:n Section 16, Block 2, BBB&C
Survey.
Red Speech Only
Action On Truce
By UNITED PRESS
Korenn truce men made a record
of sorts today.
They met for 90 seconds, the
shortest session ever held in the
nine-month-old talks.
One minute of the time was
'"ken on w'th r Cnhimunist speech,
in which the Reds renewed then
demand that Russia be allowed to
help police an armistice.
At the end of the talk, the speak-
er proposed that the meeting ad-
journ until tonight, if the UN had
nothing new to offer. An Alliet'
truce man took up a fraction of ;
second to say: "I agree."
After the streamlined meeting
a UN spokesman told reporters
the Allies will see the talks drap
out all year rather than accent
Russia as a policing nation. H(
said the Reds appear to be mark-
ing time, waiting for instructions. •
Marvin Naylor
Points To Good
From Golf Club
The Breckenridge Golf Club is
one of the most outstanding ad-
vertising mediums the city has,
said Marvin Naylor- ex-mayor of
the city, today. Mr. Naylor went
on to state that while he was in
office, he found that the need to
spread Brecken ridge's reputation
was great and in the Golf Club the
citv has an ideal source of good
publicity.
"The more people and town?
that know about Breekenvidge the
better," he commented, "not only
because it brings in outsiders to
the city for more trade, but be-
cause it establishes in outsiders'
minds that Breckenridge is a pros
perous. active community. It
shows that we take pride in our
civic projects and organizations.
The Golf Club and jointly the city
itself has attracted widespread
publicity- in its rnnual irolf tourna-
ment. Entries come from as ir
away as Houston and Austin. In
fact, our present pro first heard a-
bout Breckenridge and its fine golf
course when he lived in Austin
through our invitational tourna-
ment.
Without exception, outsiders
h'-ve always gone away with no-
thing but favorable comments on
the club, course and city. But even
closer, and of more importance
front local view point, has been
the introduction this winter of th:
weekly Pro-Am tournaments with-
in a seven-city circuit. Nothing
that we have ever done as a city
h is done as much to promote good-
wil among our neighboring townr
thin these Saturday games. In-
cluded in the playing have been
Eastland, Cisco, Ranger, Stamford
Mineral W.'ll i and Wer.therford as
well as Breckenridge. Two tourna-
ments have been held in each
city and they have done an untold
amount of good in cementing sol-
id friendships between these
neighbors of ours.
It is interesting to note that
the!* have been more players in
fConlinued on i' "i> ?"
Settlement Basis
For Strike Found
Federal peacemakers may have
fouj'd the key to settlement of the
nationwide telephone dispute.
The CIO roninyiniration workers
and the Michigan Bell Telephone
Company have announced "basic
agreement" on a pay formula that
may i im the telephone tangle.
The sot tie in: nt calls for a 12 and
seven-tenlhs cents hourly pay
boost lor the Bell operators. Coni-
pany and union spokesmen say
"basic agreement" has been reach-
ed on all other issues, but full
details would not be i-evealed until
the contract is signed.
with hf ads of the CIO Communi-
ca'inns Workers and the Michigan
Bell Telephone Company. But it's
been learned that a major break
may come when the two sides are
brought into a joint meeting, a
break -.ihich might set a patterp
for a "iuick nationwide settlement.
In San Francisco i; a similar de-
velopment. The Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph has promised a
"thorough study" of modified
union <ii mands presented last
night. The now demands consist of
wage inert ases and fringe benefits
which would cost the company a-
bout L.v> cents an hour p< t worker,
instead fo* almost 40 cents an hour
demanded e.irliei. The company's
best offer before the strike totaled
about 10 cents.
They resumed negotiations on
tlv> lower demand this morning.
Things aren't moving so quickly
in the other industrial dispute ef-
fecting the nation's economy. Gov-
ernment - sponsored negotiations
between the CIO Steelworkers and
heads of the steel industry in
Washington are reported at "dead
center.'"
Union President Philip Murray
has call d meetings today with
members of his union's executive
boi.td and the wage police commit-
ted to bring them up to date on
tire dispute. It's reported that the
union is willing to be "natietu"
and not press wage demands while
the industry is under government
seizure.
Now that the American flag is
flying over the nation's steel
plants signifying government ope-
ration, commerce secretary Char-
les Sawyer says production will
soon be back to normal. He has
ordered a lifting of the ban on
steel shipments to non-essential
users, effective today.
A mediation meeting also was
scheduled today in the Western
Union Telegraph strike, but there's
no sign of any progress toward
settlement. Federal Mediator Jacob
Mandelbuunt has been shuttling
(t oni inilert or Ps 2s
Russians Seek Big Price From UN
In Exchange For Unifying Germany
By LEROY POPE
(By UNITED PRESS)
The Russians still are trying to
tnake us pay them a big price for
unifying Gel-many.
And they expect German public
opinion to put on enough pressure
to make us yield to their demands.
At the very least, they think that
by merely keeping the issue alive
they will succeed in wrecking our
hop? of bringing Germany into
th North Atlantic pact.
That's the meaning of the new
Russian note. The note tries to
sidestep our demand for immediate
free German elections and inveigle
us into a conference in which Rui-
si:, could stall for a long time.
At this conference, v.hile pro-
ending she was the one who
wanted Germany united. Russia
actually could block unification
while demanding as her price for
agreeing to it that we recognize
Germany's new frontie* with Po-
land p.nd abandon all efforts to
bring West Germany into the At-
lantic Pact Army.
The Russians also reiterate their
demand that Germany be given a
national rrmy of her own, like the
decision to let Japan have a na-.
tional army if she wishes. But thi.
proposal is worded in a way that
indicates Russia will drop it an I
agree to neutralize a disarmed
Germany with its own armed forc-
es would be preferable to forma-
tion in West Germany of forces
which. Russial claims, will be de-
signed to unleash a third world
w,v.
The note does not actually tie
the other Russian condition's t >
unification and free elections. Put
the iirtolied tie-in is abundantly
clear. As expected, the Russians
rejected I UN supervision of uni-
fication elections. But UN super-
vision is not vitally important to
western allies. Big four super-
vision would do just f.s well, pro-
vided all the big four had- equal
supervisory powers in all four
zones of Germany and in Berlin.
Up to now, the Russian plan
was for each occupying power to
supervise elections in its zone—
which meant East Germany would
st:«y Communist and the Commun-
ists would have an excessive voice
in the new government.
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