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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940
How Long Can He Defy Soviet Gravity?
By Daniel Bishop. St. Louis Star-Times
The Editorial Page-
The National Guard
Congress will probably be asked soon to boost the authorized strength of the national guard. President Truman, in his state of the nation speech, indicated he still considers a strong military force an indispensable asset for peace.
Several months ago, national guard officials stated they desired the authorization of 100,000 more men, which would bring the guard strength to 441,000. This increase would require appropriations for more armories and equipment.
The national guard, in addition, wants all its 27 divisions to be included in the army's defense program. So far, only six divisions have been selected to be part of the force that would be ready to retaliate first in case the United States were to be attacked. Army officials say, however, the present appropriations and equipment cannot support more than six divisions on a ready-for-war basis.
If the president and congress are really convinced that military might is essential in a plan for peace, they cannot overlook the national guard's request. It has long been a major part of our military backbone.
The history of the national guard is laced with firsts. It has led American military efforts in the last two world wars. It has been first at the scene of many American disasters and trouble spots. During World War II, the national guard bore the brunt of the early stages of Pacific fighting and gave the army more time to organize. Many of the men captured when the Philippines fell were guardsmen.
In a recent article, Hanson W. Baldwin, military editor of the New York Times, said the United States has the lead in air power and also has a small technological advantage, but that our land forces "are weak indeed." An increased, well-equipped national guard can go a long way toward correcting that situation.
—John Riley.
A Bungle
The Democratic party has made its first major bungle of the new session. It has reduced the Republican membership of the powerful foreign relations committee to its lowest permissible minimum, five, and it has packed the committee with several additional Democrats. The old ratio was seven to six in favor of the majority. The new one will be eight to five.
The only defense of this maneuver which we have seen is Senator Barkley's explanation that the Democrats have a larger majority in the new congress than the Republicans had in the old one, and that membership on the Foreign Relations Committee ought to reflect the change. This explanation isn't good enough. The country is supposed to be operating under a genuinely bipartisan foreign policy.
This little coup which the Democrats have staged amounts to saying that the senate Republicans can't be trusted to go along with this policy. It deals a blow to the prestige of Senator Vandenberg. It seems certain to complicate the task of winning the two-thirds majority the administration
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If the senate Democrats are capable of sound second thought, they will promptly add two additional memberships to the foreign relations committee, give them to Republicans and establish an 8-7 ratio in this vital area of congressional action
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