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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, - HERTFORD,' N. C, FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 198. PACE THREE : T7T,YrVlVV, . . ot. 11. .' -- I HariRoii W. Baldwin. rtlllUry rnt- ould The V, S. Bnildi;'!: ' th l-TimMall stal has recommended an Air r:orce. .r i 7o-Ti; a, , "Lr . L v. ,sn!Bcribed-the. United' States Army as vear despite the fact that W. aart Symington, Secretary of the r Force, and General Carl Spaatz, delVet Staff, have testified that a ventyrgroup force is "essential to .tlonal security." - . ' Advocates of'., the larger unit say at the , President's Air Policy Com Ission recommended .such a force, sertlng that it could retaliate after surprise attack and maintain a sus ined counter-offenaivei'-A, fifty-five oup force ; could retaliate but not 'stain the counter-offensive. IThe Secretary of Defense; in ex- aining his position, estimated that would cost around ?ib,ouu,uuu,uuu !npTnB th Air Force to the size ider discussion; because it would be jary to build up the Army and e Navy:to.wnere wey woum con- jitute' a balanced .team. I General :Omar - Wl Bradley, Army hief of Staff, .pointed out to a Sen U committee that about ten per cent i: the" Army's total strength is used Icclusively to support the Air Force, nder .a seryice agreement, the Army trnishes Quartermaster, construction, 'jspitalisation and similar services, he General also testified that another i. - a.1 A , j- nriy ner cent ut wie Army a kitiu. id administrative . functions would devoted to the Air Force, but he Id nnt snecifv the percentage of lanpoweY involved in these activities. The urospects are that there will be jmething of a Congressional airing c the subject because many members I CBngress are publicly in favor of he larger Air Force. Meanwhile, the 'resident's recommendation for urii jersal military training and a tem Jorary selective service operation will ' taken up in the Senate in April. .That happens to these proposals will Jaturally affect the subsequent deci on as to the size of the Air Force tself. lilitary Leaders , l' f. 7 1 At time when the international fituation is apparently growing tight- r. there ia some dansrer that our hilitary leaders may create the wrong . ... impression in foreign countries Dy repeatedly Stressing . the weakness f our military strength. Obviously, the officials are attempt- Vif owaIfa- Hnnffwiaa ami rho American people to the necessity of ha aifiiotinn - Thflv lrnAur that tho Wple of a Democracy require rea ons for the approvalf a program f military expansion. . Consequently, hey talk for home consumption and, it times, - arouse the, suspicion that jhey are overdoing the job. hnllnw Bhll". Obviously, he Bays, thA rirTm of-thin country will find it liard to understand why the expen diture of more than ten billion dollars a year can get us only a ' hollow shell." ; , .;. This neems to be a fair question and the answer must lie in the fact that our leaders compare our strength with the potential strength of pos sible enemies. " American Officials Bluntly Discuss War With Russia tWa' hluntnemi with which Ameri can officials discuss the possibility of war with Russia is somewnat amaz ing, in comparison with accepted ideas of diplomatic verbiage. The Soviet Union, or course, sei th examnlB bv exhibiting rudeness at international conferences, coupled with an unlimited verbal offensive nc-ninat tha capitalistic -nations. The Mmveraatinn at hieh officers in Wash ington certainly matches anything that the Russians have offered so lar. Recently, the head ' officers of the Air Force told a Senate Committee that our lorig-rahge bombers can strike "any part of Russia" and get back to American bases. rney Diunt ly admitted, however, that "this would hiot be decisive" and added that it is necessary to obtain bases closer to the enemy than those mentioned. The "enemy" is apparently Kus- sia, although, despite bad reeling and ugly propaganda, the two nations re main at peace. The talk of the Air Force officials is hardly calculated to improve the prospect of long-range eace between Kussia and the united States, because their remarks will undoubtedly be played up in the Sov iet Union. A type of "propaganda" that is somewhat different comes from the Navy, which reports submarines "sighted off ou shores", with the re mark that they did not belong to any nation "west of the Iron Curtain". The background is the reported sight ing of three submarines, one seen at sea at nitrht. the other in he Aleu tians, and the third near (Palmyra Island. Obviously, there is no international law that prevents the Russians, or any other nation, from sending sub marines on experimental cruises. It is, no offense in international law and should not. of itself, be considered warlike manoeuvre. Whilo we re thorouffhlv convinced that the United States snould possess the power requested by the High Command, as a matter of safety and security, we doubt if the people of th. TTnitl Statj rennir this tvDe of publicity in order to support the de mand ' ' f or ' adequate ' . preparedness. Certainly, the international situation will not be helped,.! ' Desperate Democrats May Draft Eisenhower ! t, . General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his statement some weeks ago, made it perfectly clear that he believed tnat professional .soldiers should aoatam from seeking high political office but, despite this unequivocal statement, there is a definite trend among me Democrats to nominate the General for the Presidency. In Viin statement. General Eisen hower declared, "I am not available and could not accept nomination to hiirh political office." He spoke of his decision to remove "myself complete ly from the political scene, caning it "definite and positive". He added: "I could not accept nomination even under the remote circumstances that it were tendered me." If the Democrats, in theft nation al convention, ignore the statement of General Eisenhower and proceed to nominate him for the Presidency, thov will create an' interesting po litical situation. General Eisenhower, no doubt, would not formally accept the, nomination. The inquiry, there fnro. ia whether the General would Serve as President if elected. With all due deference to the sin- (eritv nf General Eisenhower, which we do not question, we feel that he would, like any other citizen, accept the Presidency u eiectea. The movement to draft the uenerai has received some publicity recently with the -announcement by two of the sons of the late Franklin p. Jte ncovolt that, he should be nominated. The argument advanced by Franklin J. Roosevelt, Jr., is tnat tne uenerai vould bring about "the unity of our .ountry in this time or crisis anu w hp ia a man to convince the lussians that the aim of our policy s to secure a lasting peace, but one who, at the same time, will take all lecessary steps to stop runner ag gression by the Soviet Union against the free peoples of the world. - " ' Republican leaders openly express the opinion that the. move to draft General Eisenhower represents one of desperation by the Democrats. They suggest that while General Eisenhower has had no personal po litical affiliation, his family has been Republican and they doubt that the effort is likely to succeed. U. S. Only Nation Able To "Balance" Soviet Power Th illustrntinn has V. - VCCU UDCU UtS- fore but it is worth reprinting what Dr. Isaiah Bowman, President of John Hopkins University, says in con nection witn military training: "It is no stand a fire department to send in a mail order for a fire engine when it hears that a house is burninsr." This is almost, n nerfoM illiierotinr, of .the nlicht nf a nation nntknnt on adequate military establishment, when 1 . T . . - ... war areaics out. unless it has some powerful friends, able to send assist ance-, catastrophe will result Tn. the nrerfent world situation, with Soviet Russia bestriding Europe and possessing the military mignt to overrun the Continent, there is no power in the world able to balance Cpnimunist strength except the Unik ed States. 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