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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1949
Page
6
The piece reviews American tax loads for 1948 49 totaling 54.5 billion dollars, about 372 per person and 1415 per household, with 20 percent from corporations and 10 percent from property taxes. It notes postwar needs, social security tax debates, and a call to paste this résumé for 1948 49 in one’s hat for 1949 50 comparison.
A 1949 column argues the United States mis-shapes foreign policy by chasing a world state through the League of Nations and UN, sacrificing national interests. It praises James T. Shotwell, critiques Hull Treaties and the Good Neighbor Policy, and calls for a complete policy and personnel overhaul.
Cardinal Spellman condemns Eleanor Roosevelt for anti Catholicism amid claims she endorsed The Protestant a pro Communist publication. J B Matthews Kenneth Leslie and others are cited as authorities in a long critique of her religious and political stances.
Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism, will be flown from Vienna to Israel and interred on a Jerusalem hilltop tomorrow. Born in Budapest, he worked as a journalist and dramatist and urged Jewish nationalism as a homeland.
Los Angeles Times notes confusion over the presidents pledge not to share atomic secrets without Congress. The piece points out federal law criminalizes sharing secrets with possible death, questions how the president could pass along such information without law change, and cites Sen. McMahon about hush hush conferences and congressional restraint in debate.
A reader in the Christian Science Monitor notes that when the U S government falls behind it can appropriate funds rather than refinance mortgages, contrasting public finance with private borrowing and expressing envy of government powers.
In London on the eve of war a banquet honors an American publisher during his twenty fifth UK visit. British luminaries praise him as he drinks alcohol and finally, after rising to speak, he grows woozy and falls asleep mid sentence with the remark Gentlemen as I was saying.
A Washington column rails at wartime contracts and postwar favors amid five per cent hearings. It targets Gen Harry Vaughan and Gen. Vaughan’s absence at a press event, mocks political impropriety, and riffs on Mrs Truman and the president’s stance while noting corruption rumors and perks.
Washington gossip column recounts a scandalous kiss between Vice President Barkley and a married reporter in a Senate phone booth. It also notes shortages blamed on CIO leader Harry Bridges and recalls notable figures Ickes Mac Leish and Perle Mesta. A District of Columbia sports czar provides comic relief.
A 1949 King Features column critiques postwar diplomacy noting repeated phrases about leaving the door open in talks with Russia and Europe. The piece satirizes cautious appeasement and asks what door remains unclosed in diplomatic strategy.
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