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Before the Senate Preparedness subcommittee last week, Bernard Baruch, mobilization authority in two world wars, gave his considered answers: "We are losing. No decisive victory in the cold war is possible as long as the Soviets hold as terrifying an edge in military readiness over the West as they do today...
...Baruch thus put his finger on the vague, wishful and widely held notion that the U.S. is steadily overtaking Russia's military head start. In effect, said Elder Statesman Baruch, the U.S. is complacently counting birds in the bush where it should be after birds in the hand. "Since the outbreak in Korea, more than roo billions have been appropriated for defense-an enormous sum. Why has it produced proportionately so little in the way of actual weapons...
...Stretch-Out. The Truman Administration's stretch-out of defense-production goals, warned Baruch, may prove an invitation to disaster. "Far from slowing down, our security requires that we step up our defenses both in speed and scale . . . The whole defense program should be reviewed to determine whether too heavy an emphasis has not been placed on building new facilities and too little on turning out weapons . . . No aggressor was ever stopped by blueprints...
Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, wearing one of her improbable hats, emerged from a plane at the Charleston, S.C. airport, where she was greeted by Old Friend Bernard Baruch, wearing a dashing cape. Visitor and host motored off to Baruch's Hobcaw Barony estate...
Entitled "The Welfare State and the National Welfare," the volume is a collection of essays and addresses by such outstanding Americans as Bernard Baruch, Vannevar Bush, Harry F. Byrd, John Foster Dulles, and Herbert Hoover. It is especially notable however, because it includes several of General Eisenhower's expressions on his political thought...