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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, August 4, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes August 1s61 Britain offers to Arm West with help from Page i incl iodine to Tor the British proposal was set Forth in a memo Randy m handed to us ambassador Douglas Fey prime mini scr Clemen r the last week asked Britain the other 0 members of the Atta Atic what contribution it could make to Hie Western Aliice Overall rearmament drive a real was called for toy 5 Truman has already asked Congress for 000 to theod the arming of treaty of income the Rej esd by 10 a owning staid in program of the size envisaged Cost 30 Jar cent of by Isains nil Sinaj income 1or the next Britain is already spending nearly 8 per cens of its National i Ruwis for if the program tens of thousands of persons must be to key an sex a Roper is the electronics which produces radar the memorandum said the arms program will inevitably slow Down inc postwar recovery of the United kingdom e c o n o m but said Britain was anxious to contribute 1o the defense of the free world in the present threatening Situa program1 it added 11 is the largest pro Gram practicable within the period envisaged and without restoring the direction of the requisitioning of or embarking on the slow Progress of building and equip Ping new Industrial capacity which could not have rapid the 5talejnenl warned that the whole three year program will involve Teal and substantial sacrifices by the British it went could not undertake so big a defense program unless the United Stales can offer financial Par i in arid pan in freely convertible dollars military Effort with Britain defense appropriation at defense minis Ter Emanuel Shinwell told com Mons last week immediate rearm inem measures stemming from the korean conflict would account for a further annual expenditure of the new program will be sub misted to parliament for approval Only when Britain and the have worked out some kind of Deal on the the announcement i dutch make preparations to mobilize 3 divisions the 3 Netherlands preparations tonight for mobilization of three divisions and measures to Speed up defense in an official it said the government did not intend to Call up these divisions for Active but would take such Meas ures so As to be Able to mobilize disaster network 3 the Federal  com Mission moved today to set up a  radio network to Speed  in such emergencies As armed acc has reserved Broad casting frequencies Between 175c and 800 kilo cycles Tor the Emer gency several thousand radio hams7 would tie licensed to operate Over uie with commercial broadcasting stations and Annex services outlets the facilities would be designed to operate on either a local or National As required by pressure of in a messages to Rescue and Relief and government would have top but acc said that if regular communications facilities were out of business and personal messages could be handled so Long As they did not inter Fere with priority there would be no charge for any communications handled Over emergency controls tied to Prie Erise Scoutin tied front Page i de Only Powers to allocate scarce requisition certain materials and and curb then he bowed to congressional pressure and agreed to accept standby Powers to impose wage Price rationing Congress gave him full discretion in put Ting them into the bus Price Index covers retail prices of serv and other necessities of life for moderate income families in a selected group of Large yanks on River ssi  South koreans have thrown Tricot Yong idol tid Are Pursuit in them North in according to Gen Douglas Mac Arthurs the 1st Cav diet Rinshed a communist attack at a Naclion the Trotti have  in an a Furt to disorganized threatened affy naive around a Lienju on Short France wont Send troops to Korea 3 a France does not plan ground forces to Kuojui at Tfaye French foreign office 1his Inan official statement adding is no change in the Zilfi Vijil government policy with re Gard to the dispatch of troops to Senate group rushes work of tax increase 3 the Senate f i n a c e committee pushed work on president Truman Interior tax increase program to and an administration Leader warned thai huge new will Cote with a real the committee started out yesterday by voting to junk Worth of House approved cuts in world War ii luxury taxes and to impose levies on television sets and Home the warning of real sacrifices to be made if the becomes involved a major War came from Senate democratic Leader Scott of who told news men we get Imo a real you Are going 10 see the most drastic tax legislation in our we will have to make real sacrifices and Well see that nobody gets Rich at the expense of Well Sake the profits put of the from Page 1 inf div was reported holding the red attempt to sweep across the Ai coastal Plains to All civilians were the it was expected thai the 1st Marine div might launch a com Zrallack there shortly for i was the one Gap in the new defense 90 Miles Long and 50 wide which is based on the n a n g planes pasted every ap7 searing today on the Road leading East from Schinju and South from Piloti reported they blew up villages because tanks Hare been tiding beneath the thatched roofs of heavy artillery and mortar was concentrated on positions on the South coast Early this morn North korean troops attacked command Post and some gun but were driven Back i Best position a spokesman at Macar theirs who said 00 per cent of South Korea had been said the situation looks bad the but actually we Are in the Best position today the War he said uie americans and South koreans now had Shorter which they defend in far greater he said the Senec of a red air Force the Small beachhead less precarious than if it were under bombing american officers described the Paktong to 30 feet As a natural defense they pointed out that the Paktong was deeper than the site the stand above arid mentioned the More fact that there Are More troops in Korea now than in those desperate Days around the line begins on the coast and runs in the it cannot pinpointed for Security except to say that it which is 31 Miles from run northward past the Junction of the and Nam Pasi a Point 14 Miles West of the South capital of until curves eastward North of to the area South of arid then drops southward again to Yongdok on the East coast Philippines Send i 7 tank to Korea philippine Republic notified the United that it had sent 17 Sherman tanks destroyer to for univ forces the Philippines already have pledged economic Aid to tace in Effort and volunteers Permis Sion to join fighting forces in Fratrik Futrea daily banned authorities today banned local co in m u n i s 90 Days because of a communist poster German police were sent to lock up the Plant of  Volk Zeitung socialist Peoples paper tonight to compliance with com missioner Hesse James r Newman the Reading the of r the mans1 Ami americans go was to be the step in a resistance Campaign ordered by the communist Congress Lin last priv try i end confirmed error i peace arid its press reported Cha life launched the third Dayi a propaganda Laden procedural Battle with a repetitive but tempt to Label perpetrator of far carefully avoiding any to the 52 us sanctions Resolution Ahi the growing sending ing Aid Malik that the korean on direct birders from Gen Mislik who took an in his to out of the with every parliamentary j never keep the admission communist to in and peaceful settlement in Korea Abbyej item strenuously objected a Aitt to the Muhi St korean a g g s s i o n in the so Long As menace dying Battlefield defense Austin Council will not to cheapen their suffering or Sully their heroism by engage the Side ration of bribery or Cuba arid Ecuador joined ills Britain in standing the soviet declared out sized the Coram Nissi considered important the separate Sun Esaid he mediate consideration of Nair Tylij for w nationalist c h i Ting fun my j was without any opposition declared the Viust continue yith the Busi Ness South i Tsiang at the Angl i of chinese declaring it upset efforts to Stem in terming the two items Asi said Istat it strange this on the v Israel offers medical Aid Tel aug 3 is medical nations forces in foreign minister Moshe Sharett today in general Korea arid at the same consider fruits of such country the Council would be with one hand what it is doing the spoke to Coridell austins motion and accused trickery the lit provisional i insisted that the i discussion be on and items a that this was inc and proper yanks Pierce Eiter twines 22 a spoke Sian had said Ali at government leaders w e r e debating tie possibility of sending a Token France has already dispatched a Small Sloop to United nations naval Page i jumping off place for the dash to Ward the boys had a few hours res and 6 am yester Day began their troops of the 2uh div held Ihetu line East of Schinju to 4ay after gallon into enemy the tanks probed for Miles be Hind enemy lines yesterday in the deepest penetration american forces have made in this conflict Gen com Nian Ding the told associated press correspondent King timing was our at tack stopped theirs from getting under the task Force smashed through the enemy and caught communist elements by Surprise the americans engaged the reds Road Battle and rolled almost into the task Force a of machine gun fire All the but it captured enemy maps and Russia made e u i p men intelligence officers said these were important four s h e r m a n tanks and Lour armoured cars were the americans withdrew Toroid positions four Miles Southwest of Chu Jamni and about 40 air Miles from Pusan after the reds closed in behind them and Cut off the tanks tie North koreans stopped first tank and the last t a n k Crews a m As t Arm Redcar Crews americans then fanned put to their to Mala position take wounded v v the brought All their wounded and dead Back they also brought had hit by 75mm guns Toliese tanks were spine to the although they had he had experience in climbed into them by 6 us h after Midnight As Back the men at Down a Strong Force of tag apparently trying artillery v a the came about 175 of the Alt were  
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