THURSDAY. MARCH 17. 1735
Ike Soys Atomic Weapons
OK on Military Targets
WASHINGTON, March 16 (VP) —President Eisenhower declared today that "of course”
the United States will use atomic weapons—against military targets —in event of war.
Under the law, the President alone must decide whether to use such weapons.
“Now, in any colhbat where these things can be used on strictly military targets and for
strictly military purposes,” Eisenhower told a news conference, “I see no reason why they
shouldn’t be used just exactly as you would use a bullet or anything else.
"I believe the great question
about these things comes When
you begin to get into those areas
where you cannot make sure that
you are operating merely against
military targets. But With that
one qualification, I Would say,
yea, of course, they would be
used.”
Supports Dulles
EiSenhoWer thus put his sup
port behind Secretary of State
Dulles.
Dulles said yesterday he as
sumes tactical nuclear weapons,
sueh as small bombs and artillery
projectiles, would be employed iri
anjr major military action any
where in the world. He empha
sized he was speaking of small
weapons that could hit military
tasgets with precision without en
dangering civilian areas.
The tandem statements by the
secretary, and the President ap
peared designed to impress upon
an uneasy world and the Chinese
Communists that:' .
Military Action
Any major military action is
likely to touch off atomic war
fare. '
Such a war need not inevitably
involve use of hydrogen bombs
capable of mass destruction of
’ast areas.
In response to questions oh
civil defense, Eisenhower said,
"This is one of the most serious
problems facing us today.” A re
cent Atomic Energy Commission
report on effects of nuclear wea
pons, he said, shows it is pos
sible for an individual to take
care of himself. It was intended
to be reassuring rather than ter
rifying, he said.
MatusowSentenced
To Three Years
EL PASO, Tex., March 10 (VP)—
tt.S. Diet. Judge R. E. Thomason
today sentenced turnabout wit
ness Harvey Matusow to three
years in federal prison.
The judge said he was con
vinced MatusoW Was lying in re
canting testimony against ac
cused Communists.
Thomason sentenced Matusow
for criminal contempt of court
for filing an affidavit taking back
testimony as to the Communist
connections of Clinton Jencks at
a trial here in 1954.
Matusow and other witnesses
testified against Jehcks who was
convicted of falsifying a non Co
mmunist affidavit under the Taft-
Hartley Act ahd sentenced to five
years In prison.
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House GOP Leaders Predict
Defeat fQr Cuts in Income Tax
WASHINGTON, March 18 (ZP)—House Republican leaders voiced
strong confidence today that a Democratic drive to cut everybody’s
income taxes next year is all but beaten.
They commented as the battle over the issue shifted from House
and Senate floors to a 10-man Senate-House Conference Committee.
A-Blast Planned
Near Tank Troops
WASHINGTON, March 16 ( JP )—
The Army will demonstrate un
der an actual atomic explosion
condition next month its theory
thdt tank troops can survive and
fight in nuclear warfare on the
battlefield.
It announced today that 55 M4B
tanks will stand two miles from
a tactical-size bomb burst at the
Nevada proving ground, probably
sometime about mid-April. In
them will be their crews—four
men to a tank, or 220 men in all.
The Army said that “for the
first time in history, American
soldiers will depend on armor
protection from an atomic de
tonation.”
The thick steel of a tank tur
ret about three inches affords
protection not only against the
shock wave of the explosion but
against heat from the blast of
tnei bomb. At two miles, with a
tactical-size bomb, there would be
no dangers of instant radiation
from the explosion.
North Korea Called 'Red'
SEOUL, March 16 (ZF)—President
Syngman Rhee today pictured
North Korea as a virtual Red
China province; its population cut
more than half by war and dis
ease, its women forced to marry
Chinese soldiers.
“According to what refugees
have told us,” Rhee said, “There
are only about three million of
our people left in North Korea.”
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The committee must decide the
next step in the politically im
portant scrap.
The House passed a bill to cut
income taxes $2O tor each tax
payer and each dependent—sloo
for a family of five—starting next
Jan. 1. The same bill would post
pone for one year about three bil
lion dollars in annual corporation
and excise tax cuts now set tor
April 1, just 15 days away.
. The Senate yesterday voted 61-
32 against the $2O per person tax
cut. It passed a bill merely ex
tending the corporation and ex
cise taxes—just what President
Eisenhower has urged. The Senate
defeated a milder Democratic
“compromise” tax cut 50-44.
That action drew a one-word
comment from President Eisen
hower at his news conference to
day: “Hurrah!”
House Republican Leader Jo
seph Martin (R.-Mass.) and Dep
uty GOP Leader Charles Halleck
(R-Ind.) joined in confident pre
dictions the conference committee
eventually will accept the Senate
tax bill, without any income tax
cut.
Martin declared that even if
the conference committee ap
proves a tax cut, Republicans
now have the votes to defeat it
on the House floor.
House Democratic leaders were
wary about predictions. They
gave no outward indications of
yielding oh the issue, but they
expressed none of the sure-fire
optimism emerging from the Re
publican side.
Bevan Ousted From Job
In British Parliament
By Divided Labor Party
LONDON, March 16 (jP)—Britain’s divided Labor party blotted
the Laborite brand off rebel Aneurin Bevan so far as his career in
Parliament is concerned and turned him loose as a political ma
verick today.
Laborite members of Parliament kicked the fiery, 67-year-old
leftist out of their ranks by a vote
of 141-112 for challenging the
moderate leadership of former
Prime Minister Clement R. At
tlee over the past three years.
The final breach came two
weeks ago when Bevan led 57
MPs, including asserted pacifists,
in bucking rigid party voting
discipline in the House of Com
mons on the hydrogen bomb issue.
Bevan demanded party Bupport
of a move to bar Britain from
ever using the H-bomb except in
retaliation against an H-bomb at
tack. Attlee refused. Then the
Bevan bloc abstained from a vote
on a Labor party motion to cen
sure Prime Minister Churchill’s
government for its general hand
ling of the defense program.
Penally is Grim
Bevan’s penalty—life as an in
dependent barred from parlia
mentary party councils—is con
siderably grimmer under the
the British system than in the
United States, whose foreign poli
cies he has often attacked.
He is still a Laborite outside
Parliament. A Moderate move to
strip him of even that status is
subject to action by the National
Executive Committee, which At
tlee. controls. It meets next
Wednesday.
Conflicting Reports
Britons heard conflicting re
ports as to whether Bevan will
ever ask reinstatement. He would
have to petition to be taken back
and pledge to obey orders to re
turn. He was thrown out once
before, on the eve of World War
11, but got back in the party’s
good graces.
The expulsion of this often bril
liant, usually controversial and
seldom contrite Welshman sum
moned up fogs of doubt not only
about Bevan’s future, but about
the suture of the party.
Bevan insists he did not chal
lenge the party’s leadership, bu
its policies
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Harlan Appointed
To Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, March 18 (/P)
—The Senate today confirmed
President Eisenhower’s nomina
tion of Judge John M. Harlan to
be a justice of the Supreme Court.
Harlan, 55, now a judge of the
Second U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals in New York, was nomi
nated last November to fill the
Supreme Court vacancy '.eft by
the death of Justice Robert H.
Jackson.
The vote was 71-11.
Harlan’s nomination was ap
proved after wide-ranging de
nunciation that hit the court it
self and the United Nations.
Nine Democratic senators and
two Republicans voted against
confirmation.
Voting for confirmation were
32 Democrats and 39 Republicans.
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