THE WEEK

The Secretary of Defense, Mr. Charles E. Wilson, has for the first time conceded that Soviet Russia is out-producing the United States in long-range bombers (the dominant weapon of modern armies). The admission is serious in itself. What makes it truly frightening is the fact that it was almost extorted, from a very unwilling Secretary of Defense, by the preceding testimony of General Curtis E. LeMay, Strategic Air Commander. LeMay had informed the Senate that by 1958 the Soviet Union will have a greater over-all striking power in the air than the U.S. And this is the true measure of our predicament: the American people learn only accidentally that their nation is fast turning into a second-class power (second-class, in war, meaning certain defeat); while the Administration keeps jubilating about Peace & Prosperity.

After all, Mr. T. Coleman Andrews is an authority on the subject of taxation: he was, until his recent resignation, for three years head of the Internal Revenue Service. Now when Mr. Andrews says that the income tax is inequitable, unenforceable, and ought to be repealed (as he recently did in the American Weekly), it must be presumed that, as the saying goes, he knows what he is talking about. There are bureaucrats and bureaucrats, and maybe out of the mouths of some will come the facts about bureaucracy that even the congressional investigating committees cannot obtain.

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The Secretary of Defense, Mr. Charles E. Wilson, has for the first time conceded that Soviet Russia is out-producing the United States in long-range bombers (the dominant weapon of modern armies). The admission is serious in itself. What makes it truly frightening is the fact that it was almost extorted, from a very unwilling Secretary of Defense, by the preceding testimony of General Curtis E. LeMay, Strategic Air Commander. LeMay had informed the Senate that by 1958 the Soviet Union will have a greater over-all striking power in the air than the U.S. And this is the true measure of our predicament: the American people learn only accidentally that their nation is fast turning into a second-class power (second-class, in war, meaning certain defeat); while the Administration keeps jubilating about Peace & Prosperity.

After all, Mr. T. Coleman Andrews is an authority on the subject of taxation: he was, until his recent resignation, for three years head of the Internal Revenue Service. Now when Mr. Andrews says that the income tax is inequitable, unenforceable, and ought to be repealed (as he recently did in the American Weekly), it must be presumed that, as the saying goes, he knows what he is talking about. There are bureaucrats and bureaucrats, and maybe out of the mouths of some will come the facts about bureaucracy that even the congressional investigating committees cannot obtain.