Milford chronicle., 1945-12-14
stop Your SquaWking

Detroit
stop Your SquaNking
The American Government isn't
trying 10 starvc any part of Europe
|nd the attacks upon Congress be
cause il doesn't keep on sending
shlpload after shipluad OF food to
the starving people OF Europe is
all nOnS"n9e. The Senate Apprupri-
atlunS 0mluittcc has Just apprO\
I'd 4 80 million dollar appropria-
tlon, and House Foreign Affairs
committee has approved a new ST.
-" o0",o00 for l'NNRA. There ha.
heen Il lot Of criticism of the Ad-
miniStration and Congress. SO.
these are the facts which prove
that Uncle sam is Sympathetic. and
luSt as soft and generous as ever.
| ncle Sam Must Have Air Defense
General Carl y. Spaatz. Chief of
|. ;. Strategic Air Forces, in a
si2ned article in Golfers MAGAZINE
l"tratts the now already familiar
picture Oi the almost Incredible"
destruction that can be expected
within Il few years if atomic bomb
i"adrd Jet propulsion planes, rock-
cts, and hOmherS-to-he attack any
Edtlon. But his description merely
stands as an introduction to his
presentation of an air defense pro-
gram tor Uncle sam.
General :ipaatZ Scoffs at the idea
that scientists will invent weapons
tC guard us against atomic bombs.
Not that he would not welcome anv
such American-made inventions.
hut he asserts that we cannot trust
our future to any such possible de
Nelopments. We must plan our de
tense, and plan it now. he insists.
on the basis of the war wpapons
ana the strategic areas OF lama
which We control
Here is what General Spaatz ur-
SeS: The building of an advance
network OF air bases. stretching
from Okinawa in the Pacific to un-
named points in the Atlantic.
Bases in the Marianas Islands. the
Aleutians and Alaska would be in
would stretch more than halfway
round the northern hemisphere.
And planes could fly over the once
feared Arctic, the shortest route. to
many enemy" strong points.
These baSas. far from our As
states. would stand as distant
&uardS over our security. But more
important than that. as General
SEaatz points out. is that long
range hombers capable of flying
l".Ooo miles bomberS which are
now on the drafting boards could
take off from these bases with their
loads OF atomic bombs and attack
very important city in any part OF
I'll" northern hemisphere Thus
lhey could deliver. AT almost mo-
pi"nt notice, multi~City attack
IN any a@@reSsOr nation.
General Spaatz' program is de
'erNln2 Of the thoughtful cOnSide-
ration of our militaristS. our legis-
latorS, our Administration, and the
latl0n as a whole.
Hurley Tells En- What's Wrong
Major General Patrick J. Hurley /
FORMER Secretary of War in the
iooNer Administration resigns his
'oSt as Ambassador to China, be- !
&lSc lin diplomacy we are permit
ING ourselves to be sucked into a
over bloc on the side of CBritish) /
'"Iohlal Imperialism against Com
l'lhlSt Imperialism" Hurley prais- +,
Ut president Truman and Secreta
u state Brynes, but skinned the
l'o on career men in the foreign 4,
VrNlct who do not carry basic )
hlted States policies into action. :,
ie deScrihcd the World as being in :.
,ufmoil-boiln& over. spelling
'd apparently expecting more
vars.
Practice and Preaching
senator Wheeler hits hard and "
'ciarcS that Russia is bad, very i
cry bad; and Britain is naughty ,
W" ol them, he says. are trying
= Nidp power and territory. In
'v!' thelr skins are as tough and
as ever. Under the "
"',IS'dllccS he feels that the Il
nI'rd States must reassert its l.
'r|lS' ana Whenever decision is y
'"u' hy the Security Council 10
armed forces that Congress la
,,I"lu ~ he Immediately informed 81
;a' - ''"llptlN stand by our tradi t
Inn' ',,"l policies. According to The ol
nnh una statesman we preach a
.tn, H'ull' Hhd fail for schemes u
', ',,iipu by Russia and usually ', W
nPp"r' !, Britain, rs a matter of ma :
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