HOW AMA FIGHTS HOOVER PLAN
STOUT, JONATHAN
Washington and the Nation How AMA Fights Hoover Plan By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON. D. C. GOVERNMENTAL reorganization plans developed by former President Hoover, and adopted in major form...
...1. providing for a Department ar'd a Secretary of National Welfare, would make official what lui^ already taken place -that is, since 1933, by force of circumstance, and by Act of Congress, the govcrnmcnta»iijMeasingly has gone into the problem of providing for the welfare of the Ann-: ican people...
...Acheson left himself an opening—or rather a back door when he added that the United Stniea would fully support its own obligations under the Charter...
...Policy in Far East THERE IS AN OMINOUS overtone in the news from China...
...Plan No...
...An indication of Acheson's reluctance to face a showdown on the White Paper's warning to the Communists — with Hong Kong as the issue;—was indicated by the position he took that any action by the Chinese Communists that violated the borders of the British crown colony would call for action by the Security Council...
...Secretary Acheson said that the United States attitude would depend on what happened in Hong Kong...
...The State of Illinois found these activities laudable in themselves and certainly in the interest of the business success of the members of the A.M.A., but went on to make the point that "these are not activities which make for or assist in the primary purpose of a scien^fic or educational association...
...That seemed a rather cryptic remark, but it does provide a possibility that despite a Soviet veto the United States might still find another avenue to support the British resistance in Hong Kong...
...The court found "little distinction, therefore, between that feature of the A M.A.'s activities and the work of a Better Business Bureau or a Retail Merchants Association...
...Her testimony spoke for itself...
...Ewing's public advocacy of the President's National Health Insurance Hill is the reason...
...They simply wanted to make them, after years of exposure to horrible conditions in the Old World, feel at home in the New...
...The State Department's White Paper, in one of its three main points, uttered a warning that, while we did not Intend to take any action to stop the Communist conquest of China itself, we would regard it as a warlike act if the Communists extended their conquest beyond the legal borders of China...
...4 » • » The US vigorously assailed the Anglo-Argentine trade pact that mould assure England the meat she craves...
...The numerous extorted confessions prove tliat the police-states encourage their subjects to sing often and freely...
...Acheson knew thai the rule* of the U. N. require unanimity by the great powers on the Security Council, and he knew that such unanimity could hardly be expected with the Soviet Union as one of the members of the Council...
...The new critical center is Hong Kong, and threatens to bring to a quick boil a situation which the State Department's White Paper seemed to indicate was a slow simmer for the distant future...
...At the time, those possibilities, of course, still lay in the somewhat distant future, and it may have been thought we would not be called upon to put-up01 -shut-up on our warning for quit** stwne time, if ever...
...lobbyists seemed to feel sure that if a Department of National Welfare is established, Mr...
...Two points were brought out: (I) That British officials have expressed their determination to retain control of Hong Kong, and (2) That the British so far have failed to obtain any firm commitments from the United States as to whether we will support the British position...
...The point at issue is that^the Communists claim Hong Kong is Chinese territory...
...This Bureau also deals with information as to the collection of accounts, provides fee schedules, and so forth...
...Pen Points Accumulating evidence points to the end of the Klun's heyday of nocturnal forays and midnight beatings...
...and may require the United States under the White Paper's definition to denounce the Chinese Conlmunists as having committed a warlike act against the peace of the world, and the United States...
...in Russia they simply disappear...
...whereas England claims, by virtue of ancient treaties with China, that Hong Kong is a British crown colony...
...Those responsible for mistreating DP's resettled in some southern sugar plantations have some justification...
...The Boston Communist who strengthened the prosecution while testifying in defense of the II Communists on trial probably was truthful in boasting of direct descent from John and Priscilla Alden...
...What is one nation's merit is another nation's beef...
...Its repeal will legitimately raise their morale and legally boost their spirits...
...THE MOST DETERMINED opposition tn the establishment of a Department of National Welfare, oddly enough, came from the American Medical Association, which does not like Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing...
...And that speared to confirm the opinion expressed in diplomatic circles in Washington when the White Paper was first issued two weeks ago that our Chinese policy as delineated In that document might make war with the Soviet Union more rather than less, imminent...
...But Mr...
...There is nothing turpising in Russia's closing her Shanghai consulate on the ground she does not recognise the new regime...
...Russia is not endearing herself to the world by the obstructionist tactics designed to hamstring the UN which she helped fotind...
...No one will be taken in by their hypocritical plea of respect for their cloth...
...Plan No 2 called for the transfer of the Bureau of Employment Security from the Federal Security Agency to the Labor Department...
...These plans were urged by the lloovei Commission and accepted by President Tinman as part of a long-range effort tn streamline the complex set-up of the executive branch of the government...
...Many separate and seininutnnomous agencies have been can mi...
...Some nations favor issuing to her a certificate us a charter dismemberer...
...D. C. GOVERNMENTAL reorganization plans developed by former President Hoover, and adopted in major form by President Truman, were to go into effect this morning unless either the Senate or the House of Representatives disapproved of them by Friday midnight...
...All of this led me to do some be lated research into the American Medical Association...
...Paul Robeson is correct in asserting tfuit the people in the Soviet satellite lands are forever singing...
...Hong Kong May Be Test Of U.S...
...Morrit I. CNhpmaa...
...The A.M.A...
...The Chinese Communists are threatening to occupy Hong Kong, after they occupy Canton...
...Kremlin boasts of higher efficiency in Russia than the US are bolstered by the recent purges...
...Bureau also maintains complete records of professionally con trolled collection agencies which provide physicians with data as to the financial status of the patient...
...What I found, I must confess, came as a great surprise to me, as it might to you...
...It often happens that being very very close to an object interferes with your recognition...
...That the Senate might do so was suggested by the fact that the Senate Expenditures Committee already had voted against them...
...on this work with only slight reference to each other and to any over-all coordinated direction...
...In saying that, of course, Mr...
...II the British view of the legal situation is supported by the United Nations, or if our State Department finds it necessary to back up the British, then the Communist invasion of Hong Kong makes the Chinese situation immediately ominous, rather than distantly so...
...The State of Illinois also found that the A.M.A...
...That warning apparently overlooked Hong Kong and had in mind the possibility that the Chinese Communist drive might sweep beyond China's borders into French Indo-China, Siam, Malaya and possibly India...
...Tfic US Indians insist that the only result of the law prohibiting the sale of liquor to them is to encourage bootlegging...
...I found that in the State of Illinois ten years ago it was judicially determined that the American Medical Association is not a professional society at all but a business organisation on a par with a retail merchants association...
...Ewing will be' named as Secretary of National Welfare...
...In our country those in disfavor disappear from public life...
...as a professional society, concerned solely with such things as the ethics of the profession and research in medicine...
...Secretary Acheson indicated his realization of the seriousness of the sit nation in his press conference last Saturday when he revealed that there are discussions between the United States and Britain over the Communist threat to Hong Kong...
...Two plans had reached their final form . . with more to come Flan No, 1 called for creating a National Welfare Department with Cabinet status...
...In making its findings, upheld by the State's courts, the Illinois State Hoard of Review based its findings on the fact that the A.M.A.'s Bureau of Medical Economics,, during the year 19.Ul...
...I had always thought of the A.M.A...
...It would note require a poiucrful shot in the arms to revive their flogging spirits...
...Former I'resident Hoover's idea was to bi 11114 all of these togethei in a single etlicienlly administered government depal fluent...
...The Ku Klux Klan is fighting desperately for its right to wear masks...
...spent a substantial portion of over $;»5,000 for the printing and issuance to its membership of such business information as ' Collecting Medical Fees" and "Organized Payments for Medical Services," giving to its mem bcrship information used by commei - rial collection agencies...
...But suddenly, the future has been cut down in size to what may be only a matter of days...
Vol. 32 • August 1949 • No. 34