Evening star., 1949-01-20


Cooperation Administration pre-
dict that more designations Of top.
flight officials are in the offing.
They confide that the resigna.
tions OF Deputy Administrator
Howard Bruce and Information
Director Bryan Houston are only
the beginning in gradual change
in policy-making positions.
It's an open secret at ECA that
a lot of Democrats are after jobs
now being held by Republicans
who were appointed during the last
two years to win support Of the
Both Republican Congress for the
Administrations foreign aid pro-
gram.
Now that the Democrats are
back IN the saddle on Capitol Hill
as well as downtown, agency in
siders are predicting the appoint
ment Of more and more Democrats
\
DCE'S-Discouraged over the fail
ure Of the program to find them
Government unemployment, a group
of displaced career employees is
planning to enlist the aid Of Con-
gress.
Chairmen Johnston and Murray
of the Senate and House Civil Serv-
ice Committees will be asked to in
vestigate the entire situation and
prod the Civil Service Commission
into taking positive action in getting
these jobless careerists placed in
other Federal jobs.
Those does interested in join
ing the group should contact Cliff
ford L. Frank, 3707 Forty first ave-
nue., Cottage City, Md.
X v 4
NOTES-Dr. A. v. Astin Is the new
chief of the National Bureau Of
Standards electronics division i.
The Society for Personnel Admin
istration meets at 7:30 pm. Tues
day in the Archives auditorium.
The speakers will be Wilfred S.
Williams, Budget Bureau; DR.. Seer
ley Reid, Office of Eduaction, and
P. G. Maynard, Navy Depart
ment Mary Gushing Niles, as
sistant to the chairman of the Fed
eral Personnel Council, has written
a new book, Middle Management"
being published by Harpers today.
Mrs. Niles knows the subject of per-
sonnel management as we'll as any
man in the Government.
(Be sure to listen In Sundays
at 1875 am. over WMAL, The
Star Station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast uersion OF the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
ne1Us and uie,Ds of the Govern
ment Scene.)
vide unmistakable proof of the joint
determination Of the free countries
to resist armed attack from any
quarter" He added that each coun-
try entering into these agreements
will be expected to do its full share
for the common defense.
Might Prevent Attack.
"If.' he continued. 1--WE can make
it sufficiently clear in advance that
any armed attack affecting our ma
t1onal security would be met with
overwhelming force, the armed at
tack might never occur"
The President concluded this
phase of his address with a fiat
statement that he hopes soon to
send to the Senate for ratification
a treaty respecting the North At
lantic security plan. He coupled
with it a prediction that this coun-
try will supply military equipment
to help arm the free nations CO.
operating in the plan.
Mr.. Truman's devotion to the
United Nations as the agency
which ultimately will see that peace
with justice is maintained In the
world was manifest. He placed
adherence and support of the
United States as the first OF the
four major courses which should
be taken by the United States to
establish peace. The second course
is to continue unabated the Euro
pean Recovery Program.
I'VE must" he said, keep our
full weight behind the European
Recovery Program. We are conf
dent of the success of this major
venture in world recovery. We be-
lieve our partners in this effort will
achieve the status of self-supporting
nations once again"
Would Share Benefits.
Mr.. Truman predicted that the
fourth course, 'the bold new
program" for making the benefits
of American scientific advances and
industrial progress available for the
and growth of under
developed areas. would be a great
benefit to all countries, including
the United States.
He cautioned that the ma
terial resources the United States
can afford to use for the assistance
of other peoples are limited, but he
added that our impenderable re-
sources in technical knowledge are
growing and are mex
haustible"
Our aim" the Presidnet said,
should be to help the free peo-
Piles of the world through their
own efforts, to produce more
food. more clothing, more materials
for housing and more mechanical
power to tighten their burdens"
Mr.. Trumans address also in
cluded a pledge of freer and more
trade, a pledge Of what he called
economic justice, and ban on 'old
neutrality-suspicious. for for
eign profit"
President Truman confidently de-
He confidently declared that
slowly but surely we are weav-
ing a world fabric of interna-
tional security and growing pros
perity,' and he insisted:
I'm due time. as more and more
nations come to know the benefits OF
democracy and to participate in