Year of Decision Arrives as Nations Confront Soviet Power
Washington column argues the key choice shaping postwar world was made by the Kremlin not Washington. It warns of a planned Soviet strategy to expand influence through leftist allies, Greek crisis intervention, and a Wallace third party to fracture American liberals.
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Truman Warns Inflation Risk Tracks Air Power Need
The President’s annual economic report says inflation threatens U.S. finances as families draw down savings and rely on credit. It links anti inflation policy to stronger output and jobs, plus calls for meatier air force spending to deter atomic risk. The air policy commission urges substantial force expansion and sets A day for security.
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Open City bid to spare Jerusalem holy places
Palestine government urges both Arabs and Jews to declare Jerusalem's ancient walled area an open city to protect religious relics. Transportation is arranged to evacuate about 1500 Jews still inside the siege, part of the area’s 4000 normal residents.
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Which Way Judea? Shertok Eyes International Police Role
Moshe Shertok, head of the Palestine Agency's political department and liaison to the UN, faces the partition puzzle. He says the Jewish Agency will soon ask the UN for an international police force with arms and funds to enforce the partition agreement.
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Navy plans disease safari in Africa with UC aid
Naval medical scientists join University of California on an Africa expedition to study sleeping sickness bilharzia plague typhus yellow fever and malaria while locating disease carrying animals. They may trap and shoot rodents zebras gazelles and possibly big cats to advance parasite research.
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Africa
Mozambique
Portuguese East Africa
United States
Walter Winchell Doodling on the Typewriter
A chaotic column notes federal probes into a major New York theater operator for alleged income tax evasion. It parodies celebrity gossip and references Doris Duke touring Europe, a Hungarian waitress in the Senate snack bar, and a Hollywood toupee incident, all amid radio spook show chatter.
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New York
Doris Duke
Paree
Milady
Colyum
U.S. Senate
Vienna
Scranton
Doctors to Study Atomic War
Drew Pearson reports that strategists forecast the US facing an atomic threat by 1951 and calls for a secret medical course for doctors. The program aims to cut fatalities by 25 to 40 percent by training on blast injuries, radiation exposure within one mile, gamma rays, and particle risks to guide rapid treatment after an atomic strike.
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AMY
NAVY
United States
Russia
Truman Porches and Political Fallout Stir White House Debate
The piece treats President Truman’s decision to build a $15,000 porch on the White House as a political flashpoint. It suggests the porch signals broader policy distractions, mocks porch expansion, and warns of potential extended presidential alterations while referencing Republican slogans and public reaction.
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Harry Truman
White House
America
Art of Debate Declines in Public Discourse
Westbrook Pegler laments the decline of reasoned argument across congress and media. He argues the press and radio amplify incoherence, turning debate into theatre during a presidential election year marked by grandiose rhetoric and repeated historical humiliations of American intelligence.
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Clamor
Yammer
Congress
Wallace's Third Party Bid Could Rally Radical Vote
Wallace faces a long hurdle to gain ballot access as a new party runs through state-by-state recognition. If successful, his candidacy may sharply separate radical elements from both major parties by grouping Moscow line followers, socialists, and government planning advocates into one faction.
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Moscow Party
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