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Monday, January 17, 1949 Nome, Alaska, Monday, January 17, 1949 Chinese nationalists massed 50,000 men on a 300-mile front BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, BORN JANUARY 17, 1706 today in an apparently hopeless effore to save menaced Benjamin Franklin, whose is observed to- anking, birthday by communist troops in double was “the most acute and broadminded day, January 17, that strength. thinker of his in the estimation of the day,” Encyclopae- The government’s forces already dia Britannica. have abandoned Pengpu and evac- The first edition of the Britannica, published in 1768 uated towns in the path of an ex- pected communist into the when Franklin was 62, devoted many pages to his dis- sweep Yangtze river had coveries in the field of And 181 valley. Pengpu electricity. today, years been an anchor of the govern- later, Franklin is still praised for his creative mind, his ment’s Hawai river defense line. practical good sense and his humanitarianism. Nationalist headquarters were back to 30 miles “Other men may have been greeter, but very few pulled Chuhsien, northwest of Nanking. have been more human,” the Britannica points out. With the position of government “Franklin’s achievements are so and so numer-1 great ‘roops before the capital daily ous that it is to sum all of His impossible up them,” sci- growing more precarious, the gen- entific interests ranged from his theory of electricity to1 eral public and official bodies want full Commonwealth in their new stra- speculations on the nature of earthquakes, and the Au- cooperation heightened the clamor for a nego- tasks in the Far East.” tiated settlement with the com- rora Borealis, the origin of the common cold and the tegic The that the are munists. causes and cures of “Daily Express” agrees Americans smoky chimneys. While and Israel reached at communism in Asia as well as in Egypt he to see America within aiming restricting Although hoped develop agreement at Rhodes on a contro- Europe but, it says, the Dutch are to do the same the British empire, he threw all his energies into the trying versial point—officials would not in Indonesia and therefore, the U. S. colonial cause when his first hopes proved impossible. thing paper thinks, say which one—in their armistice criticism of the Dutch action is out of The at Dr. “Nobody in the 18th century knew so well as he how quite place. negotiations Rhodes, Ralphe J. Bunche, the United Nations me- to pull the wires of public opinion and make use of Express says: daitor, was reported launching a secret societies and “The Dutch are taking justifiable steps to restore or- newspapers, academies,” the Bri- general peace offensive in the Mid- der and have taken to heart the British withdrawal tannica asserts. He served his country as a member of dle East. designed to bring peace from which surrendered Burma to Congress, postmaster general, minister to France, and Burma, disorder and oe tween Israel and all the Arab delegate to the Constitutional Convention. spreading anarchy. No wonder that the Dutch have re- States opposing her. solved to act without for Progress in Jewish armistice “He was the first American economist, a distinguished regard the whims of those who have no in talks with Lebanon was indicated and a frutiful social reformer. He was1 responsibility Indonesia.” political thinker, from the Israeli capital, Tel Aviv. always clearer, less abstract and more practical than The Irrael army has released four CHINA HAS “GENERAL the theorists he followed.” OF THE NAVY” of 15 villages it had occupied and he Lebanese Even the index of the Encyclopaedia Britannia re- ((/P) Newsfeatures) j have moved out of a village in northwestern Galilee. veals the remarkable of Franklin’s mind. In most countries an admiral runs the navy. Not in versatility Reliable Israeli sourcs said Israel References to him are in as on China. the to a found such articles that They gave job general. also had begun armistice talks the American Philosophical Society, an outgrowth of a The general has the title of admiral, but he’s still a with Trans-Jordan. club he founded, and the oldest scientific association in general, if you can follow this. The bloody race rio s in the the United States; and listed under his name are found The general or admiral is Kwei Chung-si. commander Durban area of South Africa threatened to to other “Declaration of Independence,” which he corrected; in chief of China’s navy, which is made up mainly of spread places in the Union. In Durban,* harmonica,” a musical instrument he invented; gunboats. It’s enough to drive an old salt water to drink. “glass where more than 100 were report- and of It drove a former rear admiral to “University Pennsylvania,” which he helped to resign. ed killed in street fighting which establish. As he tells it—and he doesn’t want you to use his .up.ed Thursday, police still were “Nobody could approach'him without being charmed name because he’s still “a loyal servant of Chiang Kai- fkkng on native Zulu rioters ram- ;»..ging through stores owned by his conversation, his humor, wisdom and kindness. shek”—the army just moved in. by Indian?. He had a of stories that “This is the one in the world a way telling delighted all his country where general More ho.i 25,000 of the Indian can friends and was well liked by the ladies because he get appointed head of the navv,” he sighed. He said minority of the area have fled seemed equally to enjoy listening to them.” all experienced “floating officers” were sent off to teach their homes. Flarups were report- ed in J South Afri- When he died in 1790, at the age of 84, “the whole civ- in the naval academies and the army boys picked off all hannesburg, ca's largest city, 310 miles north- ilized world was moved the of the old the good jobs. That’s when he by disappearance resigned. west of Durban, and in other cit- who had done so much The hasn’t had too much »to do in the but sage good during his long life,” navy war, ies. Troops and police were alert- Britannica concludes. its job is being cut out for it. The navy has to patrol the ed throughout the Union. Yangtze and try to keep the Communists from crossing In Greece, political leaders tried to a new coalition COMMUNISM IN ASIA it for an attack on Nanking. The former real admiral patch up gov- ernment to continue the fight (British Information doesn’t much of the chances. Services) thing army-run navy’s against the communist guerrillas. The “Financial Times” discusses the possible effects “I believe,” he added, “that one good English or Yan- King Paul told the 10 political of final Communist victory in China on both the United kee (navy) lieutenant given command of the Chinese parties if they failed he would be to “find for out States and the British Commonwealth. The paper sees navy, would be the fleet’s salvation.” compelled people some other solution.” One the Americans ,aiming at consolidating the Far East — —-. politi- # cal leader said the King may mean their economic co- SECURITY CONTROL IN GERMANY against Communism, withdrawing a dictatorship. Aged Themistokles operations to countries near China. Here it quotes the The London Daily Herald, writing on Western Al- Sophoulis resigned Saturday as decision to bring Southern Korea into the system of the lied control of the Ruhr, stresses that safeguards will Premier of a shaky coalition. Turkey, with Greece a Economic Cooperation Administration and the directive have to be maintained against any revival of the Ger- recipient of American aid in the Truman to General Mac Arthur to up man machine and It speed Japanese recovery. military spirit. says: doctrine program to halt com- The “Financial Times” considers the “German nationalist has Japanese recovery agitation already begun with munism, also struggled to find a vital point in the new structure protests against the destruction of the war industry, de- government. Premier Hasan Saka “But,” it says, “Britain and the Commonwealth must mands for the abolition fo Allied controls and even sug- resigned Friday after his govern- ment failed to lower the cost of ask themselves how far this recovery should be allowed gestions that the beginnings of a German should army living. to go. Australia is concerned to see that be specially Japan permitted. Czechoslovakia promised a does not once as a “It is again emerge great power. Both Aus- essential for the Germans to acept a security statement on reports that a num- tralia and Britain wish to see the burden of lift- control which will in no restrict their democratic ber of high officers of the army Japan way ' ed from the American taxpayer, but not so quickly as to freedom or hamper their economic recovery.” are under arrest in a plot to over- throw the government of commun- obscure the demand of in the Pacific for secur- I _ peoples ist Premier Klement Got'wald. a a ity against country with such long record of aggres- Some families try to keep up with the Joneses. Others I Russia and Poland announced sion. The Americans must pay attention to this if they keep the Joneses up. an agreement to increase their al- ^_ i __