Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06


dawn cabinet meetings cause little
hardship among the principals. AS
for the people who have to get
breakfast for them, and staff their
Of1ces-they are realizing, like Gin
derella that the giddy whirl is over
and it's time to get some smoke
coming out of the chimney.
And speaking of smoke, it was
rumOred that White House Office
girls had been ordered not to smoke
at their desks. Pinned down on the
matter by newsmen, Presidential
Press Secretary Jim eHagerty spar
red for time, and finally reported
that there had been mo fat ban"
on the weed, and that the young
ladies might smoke at their desks
if they wished.
In his pre-inaugural New York
Office, Ike is said to have passed
the word that there would be no
more twO-hOur lunches, and if any
body had to have a cocktail, one
would be the limit. You get the
idea. So is Washington.
BOMBAST?
Out Independence way, the Sc
cret Service seems to have been
superseded by what you might call
the "NOtoriety Service" At any
rate it would seem that as long as
newspaper men are on hand to meet
our care-free ex-President at his
back door at seven a. m, and fall
into stride with him on his matu-
final workout, he will have head
lines bits to feed them and
viCe-versa.
He has confirmed that he told
his fellow mixers: Il am not con-
vinced Russia has the (atOmic)
bomb" And when three members
of the Joint Congressional Commit
tee on Atomic Energy stated there
was ''indisputable evidence" that
Russia did have the bomb. Our
Harry characterized them as pin
heads" and "sQuirrel-heads," who
think they know more than any
body else on any subject
In Akron, Ohio, Chairman Cor
don Dean of the Atomic Energy
Commission said ''Mr. Truman must
have been misunderstood" and in
Washington an Acc spokesman
called attention to Chairman Deans
fat statement of January 2, 1851:
Russian does have the bomb"
So we wonder just when Citizen
Truman was seized with these
doubts. Was he in doubt on Sep
tember %, 1949, when the White
House announced an atomic ex,
plOsiOn" in Russia on October
3, 1851, when the White House an
nOunced another atomic bomb
had been exploded in the Sovie
Union on October %, 1851
when the White House announced
another atomic explosion" in Rus
sia, apparently as part of a tes
series?
Was he in doubt last June 8tI
, hen he told a reunion of tn
Thirty-Fifth Division at Spring
field, Ill: "YOu remember that tn
Soviet Union had set off it's frs
atomic explosion in the fall of 194S
Shortly after that, / directed tn
top officials OF our Government t
make a new study taking int
account the fact that the Sovie
Union now had the secret of tn
atomic bomb" And was he in dOub
as late as this January 9Th, whe
he said in his State-Of-the-U UniO
Message to Congress-: Historical
ly, it was the Soviet atomic explO
sion of 1949, nine months befor
. the aggression in Korea, whic
stimulated the planning of our pre-
gram of defense mobilization?
Or is he merely a headline-shOl
i lygoster?
I WE LIKE IT FINE
The French, we read, are SHOCK
e ed at Secretary of State John Eos
ter Dulles first speech to the An
e erican people the speech /
q which he calmly outlined the Pre-
= gressive encirclement Of the fire.
= world by the Reds who alread
outnumber us seven-tO-One
and in the same matter-Of-faC
tones observed that if NATO cam
= unstuck, we'd have to change ou
n European policy. It was brutal
= it was a threat" said the Frenc
: press. But next day the Frenc
d cabinet submitted to the ParliS
d ment the European Army treat
and the German Peace Contra,
f which had been gathering dust fC
), eight months.
+ Actually, we think Mr.. Dulle
= speech was written for American
= To eXnlain to them the world si