The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-29
DEMANDS
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Atom Bomb Talk Again to Forefront -0ther Infer
 national Affairs
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 Great Britain. France Canada and China demanded in the United Nations today an end of talk on Russia's scheme to prohibit atom bombs.
 The denounced Russia's propos- als as inadequate and unrealistic. capable of helping an aggressor nation gain overwhelming military supremacy and lulling peoples into a sense of false security.
 The United States, through Ber- nard M. Baruch, proposed atom bomb control nearly two years ago. The Baruch proposal would dis pose of existing atom bombs and set up an effective world control system, divorced from the U. N. veto. The Russians countered with scheme for outlawing the bomb immediately, with controls to be worked out later. The fruitless talk has gone on since
 Barucn MakeS Plea
 Baruch today urged Congress to enact promptly universal military training and selective service legis- lation to achieve stability and last ing peace He called also for an economic mobilization plan"
 The time for decision has come, there is no reason for panic O: even fright the Elder Statesman told the Senate Armed Services Committee. The resources, econ omic, military and spiritual, which the free peoples of the world hold are vastly superior to those which the totalitarians can command
 War-Like Move, Korea
 A reporter visiting the demarca- tion line between U. s, and Russian troops occupying Korea found So- viet soldiers and North Korean villagers building trenches, foxholes and gun emplacements at theii boundary There was no explan- ation and no similar activity on | the American side The trenches command roads in the five pal- leys having the main travel routes between North and South Korea, the peninsula wrested from Japan after the war.
 Gen. MacArthur invoked general strike ban to stop spreading walk outs of Japanese government work CTS. Tn China, the National Assem- bly, met to elect Chiang Kai-shek the first constitutional President of that country. torn by war with the Communists.
 Rumanian Election
 The Rumanian government said the Communicated bloc obtained 90 percent of the vote in Sundays elections. The National Liberal and Independent Socialist parties did not run and the National Peasant party-dominant before the Communists took over had been suppressed
 Violence continued in Palestine between Jews and Arabs. About 100 were killed and 200 wounded dur- ing the weekend
 In China, government dis patches to Peiping said a general government counteroffensive had set back Communists fighting through inner Mongolia toward Manchuria.
 Pcpe's AdmOnition
 Italians, whose election April Is will test Communist strength, got the admonition from Pope Plus XII: The great hour of Christ ian conscience has sounded
 In blessing 100000 onlookers from St. Peters in Vatican City. the head of the Roman Catholic Church said Italy and the world are at the crossroads.
 From Communist Russia, now negotiating treaty with neighbor- ing Finland. came accusations against the military head Of near by Sweden.
 The Moscow Army and Navy newspapers, Red Star and Red Fleet, said the Swedish Army Com mander-in-Chief, It. Gen, Helge Jung, Is planning to build bases for United States planes and para troops in his country.
 Saturday, the Moscow govern ment newspaper Izyestia charged the Norwegian government with planning to lease army bases to the U. s. and Britain.