Truman weighs war options as Moscow holds key
President Truman seeks to rally allied strength against expanding Communist power and hints Russia must choose between all out war or a difficult peace. Washington says Moscow has the initiative while the US claims advantage in atomic arms and anti tank tech as defense build up accelerates.
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Truman
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Moscow
Kremlin
United States
Defense Department
Congress
West
New Delhi Press Condemns U S Peace Stance
New Delhi July 20 The Indian press condemned the U S refusal to follow Nehru's peace plan for Korea. Nehru's letters with Stalin and Acheson were published, seen as ending Nehru's Korean peace push. Stalin backed admitting Communist China to the UN security council as a step toward peace.
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India
U. S
Nehru
Korea
Stalin
Dean Acheson
China
United Nations Security Council
Acheson
Indian News Chronicle
Congress Eyes Truman Power Expansion in Defense Bill
Congress to consider broad new powers for the president including allocation priorities and credit controls as part of a defense production bill. Critics warn of possible inflation and call for restraint while supporting mobilization and excess profits taxes. Maybank vows hearings with NSRB chief Symington as first witness.
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Truman
Taft and Bricker
Ohio
Wherry
Nebraska
Senate
Congress
Russell
D.-Ga
Halleck
R.-Ind
O'Mahoney
D.-Wye
Morton
R.-Ky
Arends
B-Ill
Lyndon Johnson
D.tex
Taft
GOP
Rep. Wolcott
R.mich
House Banking Committee
Walcott
Maybank
D.-S.c
Senate Banking Committee
New Dealers Planned Government Dictatorship Says New Dealers Planned Government Dictatorship
Virginia speaker T Coleman Andrews told 600 delegates at the Southern Industrial Relations conference that advocates of the New Deal and Fair Deal aim to establish a dictatorial government He warned that private enterprise is vanishing and some leaders enable government overreach while four delegates joined an open forum on preserving the American way of life with figures from Georgia South Carolina and Alabama
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Blue Ridge
Virginia
T. Coleman Andrews
Richmond
Southern Industrial Relations Conference
John W. Hanes
The
Treasury
Andrews
Harvard
United States
U. S. Rubber Co
Hogansville, Ga
Warren Whitney
Birmingham
Ala
Truman warns on price control over buying speculation
President Truman told a nationwide audience he is ready to order price control and rationing if prices rise unduly due to excess buying and speculation. He called scape buying foolish and selfish and condemned profiteering as aiding enemy aims. He linked Korea crisis to international Communism and criticized Russia for its stance.
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Truman
al Anisean
Voice of America
British Broadcasting Corporation
South Korea
United Nations
Russia
Moscow
Leopold II Restored to Belgian Throne by Parliament
In Brussels the Belgian Parliament voted 198 to end the regency of Prince Charles and restore King Leopold II to the throne after his exile in Switzerland. The decision split the country with Socialists largely opposed and many Liberals and Communists abstaining.
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Brussels
Leopold II
Switzerland
Belgium
Leopold
Prince Charles
Truman outlines economic mobilization for defense
President Truman details a broad national program calling for price controls if needed, rationing, and job controls to support a wartime economy. He proposes stronger taxes, government run or expanded steel and materials allocation, and pay-as-you-go financing to fund a $10 billion arms program while maintaining civilian production until capacity expands.
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Truman
Mr. Truman
Senate Moves to Expand Fighting Forces and Reserve Call-Up
Senate and House armed services committees push to remove manpower ceilings and grant 12 month retention authority for enlisted personnel. President Truman seeks power to call up reservists and bring National Guard units into federal service as Korea looms.
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Truman
Senate Armed Services Committee
Tydings
Cmd
House Armed Services Committee
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Korea
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Senate
House Armed Services Committees
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Gurney
R-Sd
Lyndon Johnson
D-Tex
Morse
R-Ore
Russell
D-Ga
Chapman
D-Ky
Byrd
D-Va
Bridges
Defense
Johnson
Defense Department
National Guard
Guard
Storms Hit Ohio Texas And Midwest Causing Injuries And Flood Risk
Tornadoes struck two Ohio communities and a west Texas town. About 20 people were injured and heavy property damage occurred. A child died from lightning near Quitaque Texas.
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West Texas
Quitaque
Tex
Lubbock
Ropesville
South Plains
Lima O
van Wert
Lima
Kansas
Highway Department
Nebraska
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Neligh
Battle Creek
Rock River
Rock Island
Freeport
Ill
Pecatonica River
Midwest
Illinois
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Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Grand Marais
Cleaning Woman Finds Fourty Thousand Dollars
Syracuse, July 20. Mrs. Mary Sakowski an eighteen dollar a week cleaner found forty thousand dollars on the First Trust and Deposit Co bank floor while sweeping last night. She carried the money home in a paper bag with her shoes and called the bank to report the find.
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N. Y
Mary Sakowski
First Trust and Deposit Co
Sakowski
Americans inflict heavy losses on northern invaders
Front line reports say the 24th division withdrew from Taejon as Maj. Gen. William F. Dean's whereabouts remained unknown amid a Korean Communist tank assault. U S. forces held positions, used new 3.5 rocket launchers, and airpower claimed additional tanks destroyed.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Taejon
William F. Dean
Japan
Dean
Washington
Defense Department
South Korea
Kamehon
Iri
Chonju
Kumje
MacArthur Says South Korea Line Breach Triggered Bold Push
In Tokyo today General MacArthur credited a desperate decision to land American infantry in Korea for slowing the Communist advance. He said North Korea has lost its chance for victory, as air and sea power backed by U S troops begin a rapid counteroffensive to hold the Pusan perimeter and begin a counterpunch.
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Han River
Seoul
United States
MacArthur
North Korea
Han
Pusan
Sun
U. S
Korea
Navy
Air Force
South Korea
Cominform Leaders Attend Berlin Meeting Amid Tensions
In Berlin on July 20 top Cominform figures from 18 nations assembled for the opening of East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party congress. Western observers saw the gathering as a broader show of Soviet bloc unity amid rising Yugoslav and Greek tensions and possible Vishinsky activity. Notables Suslov and Pospelov were listed among attendees.
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Communist Europe
Red China
Communist Party
East Germany
Socialist Unity (Communist
Red
Yugoslavia
United Nations Committee On the Balkans
U. N
Trygve Lie
Cominform
Greece
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Karlsbad
Czechoslovakia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Benin
International Red Organization
Socialist Unity Congress
Russia
M. Kk. Suslov
P. N. Pospelov
Suslov
Russian Communist Party
Bazooka Mows Down Tanks In Taejon Battle
Tokyo reports the army’s 3.5 inch ground rocket launcher scored seven confirmed tank kills in its first battlefield test. A front line dispatch says an eighth was knocked out as 24th division gunners faced Communist armor in Taejon. The weapon, built in the United States, is a larger shoulder-fired recoil-less gun.
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Taejon
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