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Volume 49
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1950
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Number 89
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Proposal To Raise
Phone Rates Made
By JOHN TAPLEY ^
The Southwestern States Tele-
, phone. Co. has proposed a hike in
the telephone rates for the Col
lege Station and Bryan area. E. H.
Utzman, Bryan district manager
for the company placed the formal
application for rate adjustments
-before the College Station city
council in regular session, Monday
night, February 13; ,
' The application asks for a rate
increase in all forms of telephone
service in Bryan, College Station
and'the surrounding area. The ap
plication, which asks the two cit
ies for the approval of a hike
in the telephone service, will come
before the councils at their next
meeting!. r .
V ' Wide Range
The proposed rate changes
range from 12 Vj c percent increase
on residential connections, to as
high us 150 percent, on business
phones. However, the average res
idential increase is 35 percent,
XjUman Justified the company's
movement to the College Sta
tion city council by saying that
this Increase Is the first since the
company started operation in this
Of Bryj
Special Meet
an C.C.
i Set Thursday
The Bryan Chamber of
Commerce has called a special
meeting of the chamber’s
board of directors for 7 p! m.
Thursday, . following the or
ganization’s annual banquet Wed
nesday night, to discuss important
developments in the financial af
fairs of the organization.
In the letters addressed to all
directors, 'the meeting was de
scribed a,s “extremely important”
by B. F. Swindler, president.
Tickets for the annual banquet
are still available either at the
Chamber office in the - Va:
building or ai the places of 1
Hess'' of most Chamber directoj
The Finance and Membership
Committee has announced a_ goal
of 1,000 members for 1950. The
committee has planned a break
fast for next Monday morning at
B a. m. to get the membership
drive underway. It was also agreed
'to. make membership drives either
bUmonthly or 1 monthly throughout
the year in order not to miss any
one. ‘ |
' More than half (the total funds
raised during 1949^ which amount
ed to $15,000, have already been
pledged to the organization for
this year through limited mail
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Student Speaker
Slated for Annex
'i Richard Ryan, student at the
Austin Presbyterian Theological
Seminary, will be guest speaker at
the Annex chapel Sunday.
He Is a native of Seguin and a
graduate ojf the University of
Texas. Ryait has preached at A&M
three times since last September,
Currently seeking a liu'chelor
of Divinity degree from the Sem
inary, Ryan is classified us a sec
ond-year student.
area in 1927.
He also' pointed out that cities
comparable to the size of Bryan
and College Station have had high
er telephone rates for some ti|
The hike is designed to increi
the telephone company’s net ,ir
come on its investment from about
1.6 percent to 6 percent.
Cost Up
Utzman said that increased costs
and especially the federal gov
ernment’s new minimum wage law
make the increase necessary s|t
this time.
Mayor Ernest Langford of Co
lege Station said Tuesday aftei-
noon that the telephone service
has “noticably improved over what
it has been”.
The noticeably higher rate for
business phones was explained by
Utzman by the fact that, whil?
residential phones are used on the
average of ohly eight times a dtt],
business telephones are used ajs
much as 100 times a day. The weafr
and service on the business |tel«-
phones Justifies the highet* i)aU<i.
No Session
I). D. Burcihard, chairman df thu
College Station Development A>
soclation's special telephone con
mltfeee, was present when Utzmn i
presented the plans. He s^ld latejr
that he had: no plans to’call his
group buck into session.
Mayor Roland Dunsby of BryAti,
said that n public hearing imay ht>
advisably since '‘Practically ever^
citizen” is affected by {he Inf-
crease.
The document for the propose 1
hjke also contains proposed rated
for rural dial service which is now
non-existant.
Newsstand Sale
Of; Battalions
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Begins Today
The Battalion goes on sale
today at local news stands for
the first time in its history,
the co-editors announced this
morning. -1 J
Th s increased circulation which
will result from news stand sales
of the paper was described by the
editors as part of their plan for
greater service to.the Col
lation community. -f
The entire College Station area
givin
lege
will
speec
this
said.
benefit from the delivery-
-up which will result from
new system the co-editors
North Gate residents of the
community ‘may buy 1 copies of The
Battalion at two locations, Aggie-
i's 'Ne
land
Standi.
Ms
barmacy and Nita’s News
deley’s Pharmacy at;
South Gate will offer The Bat
ion
that
Phar uac;
be Tl
their
the
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to persons living in
of the town. Black's
macy at the East Gate will
he Battalion diatributot for
for sale
section
... area.
Tb> paper should he on the!news
stand by 1:45 p. m., the co-editors
said. This will mean the paper will
be a reliable to residents of the
cbmn unity much earlier thanlwhen
it w»n delivered through the; loenl
post office.
Cout of the paper will bo five
centll the same rate charged for
■other newspapers.
Th" Battalion recently innugu-
n new Associated Press tele-
schedule which will enable it
blish the latest state, national
international news together
rated
type
to pu
and
with complete campus coverage.
T.S.C.W. Mod
Appears Here
By SID ABERNATRY
The 45-voice Modem Choir of
TSCW will appear in Guion Hall,
Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7:15 p. m,
the Student Activities office an
nounced today.
Th* .vocal group, under the 'di
rection of William E. Jones, pro
fessor of music at TSCW, is com
posed of the. finest talent avail
able at the college. Members of
the choir come from all over the
state and many i from out of th;
state. !’ j. '
Adapting his choir to the trends
of the time, Dr. Jones, has develop
ed an idea unique in the Southwest
with the organization. Technical
features of movies, radio, and
speech arts have been introduce!
and combined with music.
Appealing to a wide range ojf
musical tastes, selections present
ed by the Modern Choir are chose]
for general, audiences of the South
west. The repertoire of the grouj
includes compositions from classjj
to modern music, as well as
rangements from musical comedids
and light operas.
Diversification is given to thL)
program through the interspersio
of vocal and instrumental hoIoii,
trios, and duets. Miss.Loyce Miles
from Atlanta^ Gu., acts as mistress
of garemoniea for the choir which
has been trained to present the
grenter part of each program wltl
out a directoj*.
The ' choir ;Haii for many yearja
been in demand by organizationU
in leading Cities of the Southweit
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during its annual spring concert
tours, In addition to these appear
ances, it has won widespread radio
audiences through numerous: con
certs over the air.
A favorite with Texas audiences
its organization, the .choir
Sen i
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who
the
All
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them
Tn Choir
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mnee its organization, tne sc
has ippeared at joint sessions of
the 1 exas Legislature, at high
schools throughout the state, at
convejntions and at veterans' hos
pitaj;
Sol lists for the Modern Choir in
clude Lou Ann Wright, Eagle
Rock Delores High, San Antonio;
Clemisntine Neighbours, Memphis,
Tenn,; Betty Poindexter* Cle
burne; Katherine Bethel, El Do
rado, Ark.; Shirley Caradine, Mem
phis, Tenn.; Betty Lou Hamilton,
Dallas; Pat Mullen, Beaumont;
Tlocis Schultz, Garland; Jean
Chun h, Kingfisher, Okla.; and
Charlott Williams, Munday.
Featured with the choir will be
three instrumental soloists Misses
Joan Loerzel, Wheaton, 111., pian
ist; Carolyn Jung, Little Rock,
Ark., flutist; and Winona Perkins,
Evansville, Ind., violinist.
or Ring Orders
Being Ttaken
era are now being taken in
Administration
Building for
rings for those students
became eligible at the tfnd of
at semester.
students ordering their
before March 1 will rfeeive
by April 5.
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night’s Junior Ball. From left to right, the faa- who was
clnatln' femme* are Znnna Lander* of TCU; Whlttel. i
Docia Schultz from TSCW; Wanda Jean Kerch- Woodrow
val, another contribution from Teaaloland; Ann
•year-old
Wilson Hlg^i
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brunette from Hockaday,
falTeat of them all; Jo Ann
Hoclcnday; and Doris Ellis of
High School In Dallas.
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Record Crowd!
Hears RE Talk
By CURTIS/BDWARDS
Dr. Henry H. Crane held a
highly receptive Aggie audience of
some 1500 spellbound in his third
talk of Religious' Emphasis Week
this morning at 11 in Guion Hall.
Norman Braslau, junior phyj-
sics major from Galveston, . pre
sided over the service.' The ihvo-
The first twelve winners of the Association of
Former Students “Opportunity Award*” will be,
graduated In June as members of the ela*a of
IA50. One other winner of the first Opportunity
Awards, Henry A. Simpson of Dullu*, was grad
uated In •lunuury. Pictured In the front row,
left to right, are Joe H. Mullins, Royce McClure,
Vernon Porter, Bert Keyes, Joe Zumwalt, and
Jimmy Morrow. In the rear rank are Bobby
Joe Bland, Frank Cleland, John Hunt, Marvin
Mueller, John Taylor, and Fred Robertaop.' 1
Original Opportunity Award
Group to Graduate in June
By RAY WILLIAMS
The Association of Former Stu
dents in 1946 made a $50,000 in
vestment in Texas manhood. This
June, that association will realize
its first dividend from that in
vestment—and a big one it will be,
too.
In ’46, 16 Texas boys were
awarded the ■ first Opportunity
Awards ever presented at A&M.
Scholarships awarded to deserving
students on the basis of financial
need, the grants pay the student
$200 to $300 per year plus a
chance for student employment.
This year, 13 boys from that
original group will graduafe. Of
the sixteen selected in 1946, two
dropped Out during their first
semester.
One other completed his fresh
man year and then transferred to
a ministerial school. He is now
president of the student body at
the church school and fills a pulpit
every Sunday in a small West
Texas town.
Still another member of the
group doubled up in his work and
graduated in January. The remain
ing 12 men graduate in June.
They were a scared bunch when
they came to A&M four years ago
to compete in the Opportunity
Award examinations. Today they
are mature, confident young men
who have made outstanding rec-
onls in college.
Frank Cleland of Geneva is a
good example. He is majoring in
Chemical Engineering. A distin
guished student and honor military
graduate, Frank holds the medal
for best drilled cadet at thk‘ col
lege in 1949. !
He is a member of the Ross Vol
unteers. the Press Club, and the
student chapter of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers;
He Is serving this year as cadet
colonel of the composite regiment.
Graduating in June are Cle
land; John/L. Hunt, Fort Worth;
Bobby Joe Bland, Merkel; John
L. Taylor, Rotan; Vernon R. Por
ter, Italy; Royce L. McClure, Dal
las; Joe P. Zumwalt, Halletsville;
Marvin H. MWller, Brenham; J.
Fred Robertson, Pluinview;-Jimmy
H. Morrow; Gradford; Joe H. Mul
lins, Carrico Springs; and Hum
berto V. Reyes, Berclair.
Henry A. Simpson! another
award holder from Dallas, was a
January graduate.
The twelve June graduates will
become reserve officers.
Zumwalt; Taylor, Porter, Mul-
Rats
Editor’s Irk?
Use of Work!
There’s a very disillusioned co
editor of The Battalion running
around the campus today.
Yesterday the journalist, Bill
Billingsley by name, was accost
ed in the halls of the Club Leg-
get by Tom Allison, a pre-med
major and a fellow tenant in that
handsome hostelry.
“Do you know where I can get
about 50 Batts?” Allison queried.
Billingsley, his professional heart
beating faster, seized op the ques
tioner, thinking that, surely, here
was a man who appreciated the
finer things in journalism, and
in addition wanted them in car
load lots.
Quickly the pride-stricken edi
tor, who is accustomed to occas
ionally having his product less eag
erly sought after, began recalling
subscribers and advertisers jfrom
whom he could regain fiftyj pre-
cIouh copies of his handiwork.
Ag - Tessie Newman
Clubs Hold Dance
The annual Tessie-Aggie New
man Club dance will be held in
Denton on Saturday, Feb. 18.
Program for the day’s activities
as scheduled by Miss Estelle La-
mora, -TSCW Club President, is
as follows:
Saturday, 6 p.m. coffee hour
with dance to begin soon there
after. On Sunday morning, group
attendance at Mass to be followed
by a Religious Discussion in the
Club Assembly Room. Luncheon
at 12, followed by a tour of the
campus during the early ! after
noon.
Dates will be provided for those
who so desire, and rooms for Sat
urday night have been made avail
able by the Dean of Women.
A chartered bus will leave Col
lege Station at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Round trip tickets are $5.60 per
person. All who plan to make this
trip please contact the following
men as soon as possible.
Ray Langlinais, Box 2839, Wal
ton F-5
Manuel Kuto, Dorm 10, Rm. 228
John W. Strousser, T-231, Annex
"And by the way,” he added as
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you want ivith the papers.”
an afterthought, “what did you
Maid Allison, pausing a
white
"Well’
moment, "I take care of the
rats over in the biology labs, and
those Batts jtmt fit In the bottom
of their cages”.
In there any department that’ll
accept transferred journalism
hours?
Press Club Has
Monthly Meeting
It is a newspaper’s right to
publish true statements of facts
as to qualifications of any person
for occupation, profession, or
trade,” Otis Miller, professor in
the Journalism Department, said
last night at the monthly meeting
of the Professional Press Club at
the Fin Feather Club.
Miller lead the discussion with
his talk on “Legal Itemjj in Pub
lishing.” His talk was: based on
three phases, legal advertising,
the copyright law, and the libel
law. The speaker stressed the lat
ter two laws because of their im
portance to Texas newspapermen.
D. A. Adam of the Agricultural
Extension Service is president of
the organization. Secretary of the
chib is D. D. Burchard, Head of
the Journalism Department.
Dorm Discussions
By RE Speakers
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Discusions will again be held
in the various lounges of the
dorma tonight at 9 p.m. in accord
ance with RE Week- activities,
lounges is as follows;
Dorm 1 ,. Rev. Wassenich
Dorm 5 ....... Chaplain Gaskins
Dorm 10 Rev. Hardin
Dorm 14 Rabbi Malev
Legget Hall Rev. Sweet
Puryear Hall Rev. Abell
Hart Hall ...» Ned Linegar
lips, Mueller, McClure, Hunt, Cle
land and Bland Were designated
honor graduates by the military
department.
Taylor, Hupt, Cleland, Bland,
Mullins, SimpsOn and Zumwalt are
distinguished students.
They are all cadet officers and
have filled their quotas of class of-
ficerships, serVed; on committees
and in club organizations, 1 and
played their parts in intramural
athletics.
troub-
Reyes ran
IdS at First,
comeback and
in! the cavalry, secretary of the
College 4-H club, member of the
Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Brush
Country Club and the Newman
Club. 1
The boys set a high standard in
their studies and not a one of
them has had disciplinary troubles.
This group is the first to grad
uate under the Opportunity
Awards plan. Since their en
trance, the scholarship prograin
has grown until 148 boys are now
in A&M under its benefits, with
more than 60 new students expect
ed to be admitted next year.
Cadets Attend
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Roberts Buri
At Moran Home
More than lOO cadets from
A&M Monday attended the
funeral services 0 f R. D.
"Tiny” Roberts in Moran,
Texas.
Roberta, a junior anfl member of
Q Flight Air Force, w«« killed Sat
urday In the crash of a BT 13 sur
plus army plane at Ooultjer Field.
He was pilot of the draft 1 when it
plunged to earth during a routine
takeoff.
Every member of 0 Flight and
dozens of cadets froin other ! out
fits made the 300 mile trip to Rob
erts home.
The outfit sat aa a group dup
ing the services and later formed
an honor guard at the churohl and
at the graveside.
Three buglers from the Aggip
Band played Sliver j Tape at the
cemetery following the service^.
They were R. L. Robinson, WiaynjB
Dunlap, hfid Richard Lay.
The pallbearers were all mem
bers of Roberts' flight. They were
J. S. Boroughs, W. D. Gardner, L.
M. Oaplan, C. TP Peebles, K. D.
Hallmark; J. D. Mayfield, T. W.
McAshan, and J. K. Deason.
The men: who attended the serv
ices were joined by Dean Bennie
A. Zlnn and Major; Olln Franks
representing the collage.
Silver Taps on the Campus was
postponed until Tuesday night ait
the request of the members pf Q,j
Flight, so they mighf attend the
pate th(e
funeral and still parti
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Ordering Date For
Leaflets is March 4
March 4 is the closing date for
ordering personnel: leaflets for sen
iors graduating before Sept, said
Wendell R. Horsley of the Place
ment Office.
“Those leaflets help you to get
your foot in the <|oor by present
ing personal Information and a
photograph In It liuslnessllke man-
• nor," Horsley said;
Although the actual cost of 75
leaflets Is over $6, the cost to stu
dents is but $6, the Placement
Office absorbing the additional
cost of makeup and administra
tion.
These leaflets are important to
many employee's, since some in
terviewers refuse ] to consider a
man who does not have a leaflet
attached to his application, said
Horsley.
About 75% ojf the persons regis
tering with the placement office
usually order j personnel leaflets,
he continued. ]
“It takes about i three weeks to
print the leaflets,’* Horsley said.
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Livestock Team To
San Antonio Show
The junior judging livestock
team of A&M is planning to at
tend the San Antonio Fat Stock
Show this week end, according to
Coach Waco W. Albert. The team
will leave College Station at 3:00
p. m. Friday and will return late
Saturday evening, or early Sun
day morning.
The team irillj judge several
classes of horses, hogs, sheep, and
cattle. The team is preparing for
a contest at Oklahoma City during
the first part of March.
The team was in Houston last
week at the Fat $tock Show and
Livestock Exposition. They watch
ed the judging of the sheep show,
and judged several classes of beef
cattle on Thursday, February 9.
Eight other men who are trying
out for the team were on the
Houston trip.
Visual Aids To i
Get Color Film
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Two color films and two
black and white films about
the agricultural, oil, and sul
phur industries have been
added recently to the Photo
graphic and Visual Aids Labora
tory according to toward Berry,
director of the Laboratory. These
16 mm. sound movies have been
received on’ a permanent loan ba
sis from the producers Berry said
The agricultural pictore, ‘fSage
Of The Soil”, is a color production
of the Minneapolis-Moline ' Power
Implement Co. It is a pictorial tour
of 14 countries on ; 3 continen
showing the agricultural meihoi
UHed in such countries an Lorp
hardy, Switzerland, Denmark and
the Nile valley^ and *how» the irp-
portance of agriculture to the eco
nomy of a nation.
The United Staten Buieatr 1 qfj
Mines sent the other three film*.
"Evolution of the Oil Industry"
ii a 63 minute black and white
movie that show* the history of
the oil industry and methods qf
oil refining and transportatlojn. i
A new picture, “The Stoi’y pf
Gasoline", is a 23 minute jcolojr
strip showing the process of turn
ing crude oil into gasoline, j ii
The story of the mining of sul- 1
phur by the Frasch j process
shown in a 29 minute black
white picture , entitled ; “Sulpj
Fort Worth ASCE
Host to A&M Mien!
S. R. Wright, Head of the Civ
il Engineering Department and
vice president of the state ASCE,
and Clifford A. Miller, Senior civ
il engineering student from Dallas,
were guests of the Fort Worth
chapter of the American Society of
Civil Engineers at a dinner in the
Worth Hotel in Fort Worth Mon-
day.
Miller was selected by the local
ASCE student chapter to compete
with other outstanding civil engin
eering students from three other
Texas colleges in the ASCE con
test on technical papers. i
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Student Voted As
Chamber Member
Frederick H. Donovan, reporter
for The Battalion and senior i
dent from Chillicothe, was
member of the College
Chamber of Commerce
at the regular monthly
President E. M. Burgess
pointed Donovan to the ~
formed publicity commit!
cation was given by Don Jarvis,
architecture major from Ft. Worth.
Special music was a solo by
TaTthP
Harold Hughes. He was
panied by Leonard Perkins
organ. |j'j. ' ,
Dr. Crane combined dramatic
talent with a commanding personf
ality to illustrate and put over
his ideas. I! I ■.
The text of hi* talk was- the
“Christian's Style”. Acording t4
Dr. Crane, the important thing to
know about a person is.hla "style?
A person’s style, is made u;i
not of just one, two, or ten in
gredients, but of ALL He L
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Dr. Henry H. Crane, Religion*
Emphawla Week speaker, will
speak to members of the faculty
at 4 p.m. Thursday, February 16!
In the YMCA chapel.
Crane said, It is that total com
bination of personality qualities
that gives his his uniqueness, his
individuality,, his distinctive ria-
lUro—his essential spirit.
Crane Mire sued our I points iih
his disouslon and explanation of
the "Christlan'a Styled The Iffst
major matter to remember la ?If
we would feally know thu Master
better, we must know His' sty!*."
We must be aide to recognise
and understand examples of -his
parable of the Prodigal Son.?
A second significant fact
brought out by Dr, prane. Is >‘tthe
one, way In which Jeeps almost
Invaribaly sought to authenticate
himself was by directing atten
tion to his style." When asked if
te was the mesial), Jesus
si not. in words but. in action)).
he was the mesiah. Jesus utisjvetv
cd not. in words but. in action)).
Hb healed the lame, the fiind
could see, the deaf hear, 1 andi the
lepers were cleansed—all dinot
ing his style. • . ; j
: “That which bothers us most
about Jesus, arousing our bittfrest
antagonism is his style”. Crane
continued. It in not his teachings
or his words. Nor is it his;code
of ethics or moral principles; that
irk us. It is his style—his -utter
selflessness, his complete; indiffer
ence to material possessions! and
his exhalation of character Iqual-
ities above o v erything else, i
ifejast
1 test hs to
sd followers,
is this: Do
tion of the only valid .
whether we, his so-called folio!
are really Christian
we have his style? i r, ,
“Can we, with Paul, honestly
declare that we live, yet noi we,
but Christ liveth in us?" “If so,”
Crane concluded, “then hefe is
bur final text:.-We know th«t we j
abide in Him and He in ufc be
cause we , have His spirit. :That;
is the Christian. Style.” j. i
Churchill Asks
Big Three Talks
Edinburgh, Scotland, Feb.
15—(AP)— Winaton Chiurc-
lt « hill Urged last jnight a new big
d„ three conference to reach
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truce in hatreds between! the
East and Wsst.
If Conservatives win Britain’s
general eltwtioin right days hjsnc*,
the participants in any such i con-
fmhco presumably would be
Churchill, Htulln and President
Truman.
tabor Prime Minister Attlee
said he saw no reason for Inviting
Stalin and the President to [Lon
don for such a conference, j
- Churchill gave foreign affairs
bis major attention for the first
time In the campaign.
“I cannot help cbming hack to
this idea af another talk with Sov
iet Russia upon the highest Idvel,”
Churchill sold.
"The idea appeals to me qf a
supreme court to bridge the {Gulf
between the two Worlds so that
each can live their life, if not
in friendship, at least without
the hatred of the cold war."
The wartime prime mitiister
said American “superiority” in
the atomic bomb was tonight “the
surest guarantee of world peace,”
and added: .1 ,. . •
“It is my earnest hope that we
may find our way to some Imore
exalted and August fouhdatioh for
somber balancing power of the
bomb.” i ,
“It is not easy to see how things
could be worshipped by a parley
at the summit, if such a thing
were possible,” he argued. “Chris
tian men ahould not close the door
upon any hope of finding a new
foundation for the life of the self-
tormented human race.”
• Stalin Willing?
Talk of another conference—
on a big two basis—was raised in
its most intense form on Jan. 30,
1949. In answer to a questionnaire
Stalin said then that he had “no
objection” to meeting President
Truman at a mutually
»
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place to discuss a “peace pact”
The Berlin blockade was then at
its height.
The White House said the next
day that the president was willing
to meet Stalin—in Washington.