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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1951
Page
4
The passage argues about who bears blame for policy shifts in Korea and questions whether President Truman intended to fire General MacArthur. It notes conflicting explanations from White House aides and supporters, while critics call it a rash, spur of the moment remark amid strain.
Two former Decatur residents plan to move back so their children can attend the Decatur negro schools. One, a Northern firm employee and armed forces reservist facing recall, intends to leave wife and children in Decatur while he serves. The story counters critics who say Southern negroes lack education or economic opportunities.
Alabama Journal urges all citizens to vote stressing how single ballots have decided races from Nashville to Albany and beyond. The piece cites close contests and recalls ties and near defeats to show the power of each vote.
In 1945 George S Wheeler an American citizen fled to Czechoslovakia with his wife claiming to teach. He had been suspected of disloyalty by the Civil Service Commission five years earlier and fired before being reinstated for a key Germany job. Support came from David A Drew Pearson Morse Gen Frank J McSherry and Gen Philip Fleming highlighting how easily Americans could be swayed toward communism.
The Civil Service Commission first moved to fire Wheeler in Germany over alleged KPD links. Letters from William H. Hull cite his supposed communist alignment, while David A. Morse defended Wheeler’s integrity. Wheeler later served in the American military government and sought asylum in Czechoslovakia in 1950 amid praise for a communist regime.
Arlie B. Davidson notes Karl R Stoltz points out five distinctions between men and women. Men stress main issues while women focus on details. Women rely on feeling. men on thinking. Women value beauty. men pursue art creation. Mothers emphasize children. fathers pride in themselves. Women are more personal, less charitable in judgments.
The Universal Postal Union meeting in St. Gallen saw Turkey Mexico Colombia and Brazil join anticommunist efforts after Redding urged their attendance. The vote 10 to 6 with three abstentions removed communist China from the union.
General Ridgway cables the Defense Department about Korea’s troops. Rhee wants independent units. Ridgway argues for integration with U S forces to prevent Chinese offensives. Marshall seeks State Department cooperation to insist on integrated forces. The Wake Island notes mention Truman and MacArthur differing views.
In Quebec City parishioners of Notre Dame de la Garde hold a twice yearly scrubbing bee. Volunteers of all ages bring pails hot water Canadian soap brushes and rags to clean the little church at no cost to the parish. The effort will be repeated before next Christmas.
The principal airport at Peiping lies nearer to Korea than Tokyo, highlighting strategic reach for air routes. This fact underscores Peiping's role in regional aviation and its influence on travel and logistics in East Asia.
A first person meditation on the newspaper business criticizes editors who avoid naming syndicated columnists. The writer defends columnists as strong reporters and laments declining masthead editors. He cites a 135,000 city incident where a faker story was not fired due to wage rulings.
New York recalls the 132nd anniversary of the Savannah voyage the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. The piece notes future fleet growth with the United States at Newport News and discusses postwar shipping battles and U S maritime strength highlighted by the American Export Line ships Independence Constitution and others.
The Chesapeake Bay extends about 4,000 miles of tidewater shoreline when counting the mouths of its streams. This figure highlights the bay’s extensive coastline and its numerous inlets and estuaries.
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