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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Oernadoite's Liurder Dramatizes Question of Palestine Before U.N.; East-West Crisis Hits Final Peak 1 By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: ftktn opinions art tmrtisH In thei. column thr . r, . l "" New.pap.r Lo.oo . new. .l-,, and n.i dH.,,.". .i Ih'J w.S"p' ") Shrinkage HOLY LAND: Murder The sullen-faced, uniformed men In the jeep didn't say a word after they had stopped the procession of United Nations cars that was winding wind-ing through the Katamon section of Jerusalem. Carrying a machine gun, one of them walked up to the automobile in n'S" yiui ? t &Zl "' i n 'HIM 1939 A - Midi COOOl 176 - VAIUI io" J W -" Mm - -Mil ' i Bernadotte which Count Folke Bernadotte and Col. Andre Pierre Ser-rot Ser-rot were sitting, looked inside and started shooting. The two killers fled, leaving Serrot dead and Bernadotte Berna-dotte mortally wounded. The U. N. Palestine mediator died as he was being be-ing carried into ? Current Events ? you haven't been spending all your evenings taking the dog for a walk or fixing the vert house, chances are you've been reading about some of the events on which the following five questions are based. Can you answer them? 1. The United Nations general assembly recently convened In Paris for a 10 or 13-week fall session. What Is the name of the elaborate building in which the assembly Is meeting? 2. The American, British and French ambassadors who have been csnferring with Molotov recently re-cently took their leave of Moscow. Mos-cow. Can you name them? 3. This year, 16 years after he soared 10 miles Into the stratosphere strato-sphere in a balloon, a Belgian scientist-explorer plans to plunge two miles under water to investigate investi-gate the deep sea world. Who is he? 4. Who Is the man who took the assassinated Count Bernadotte's place as U. N. mediator in Palestine? Pal-estine? 5. Princess Elizabeth of England Eng-land was in the world spotlight when she got married last November. No-vember. Now she is in the news again for a different reason. What is It? "ANSWERS 1. Palais de Challlot. 2. Walter Bedell Smith (U. S ), Frank Roberts (British). Yves Cha-taigneau Cha-taigneau (French). 3 Prof. Auguste Plccard. 4. Ralph Bunche, an American, Bernadotte's assistant. 5. She is expecting a baby In November. No-vember. PRICE AID: Sure Thing One thing is dead sure about the coming election: No matter who gets into office, farm price supports will be continued. Governor Dewey is on record as favoring the Hope-Aiken law passed by congress last June, and Presi- ! dent Truman says he is in favor of farm price supports and has been all along. BOTH SIDES have promised their help to the nation's farmers. As a result of the growing amount of light that has been shed upon the idea of price supports there has been a lot of argument as to whether wheth-er they keep up costs of living in the city and, hence, contribute generally gen-erally toward inflation. The system was started in the 1930s to save farmers from bankruptcy bank-ruptcy caused by surplus production and lack of consumer buying. It (Graph by Family Economics Bureau. Bu-reau. Northwestern National Life Insurance In-surance company.) Since 1939 the total number of dollars in circulation in the U. S. has more than trebled from 33 billion to nearly 109 billion while our industrial production of goods to buy has less than doubled. Result: Cheaper money. Each dollar's proportionate worth in goods has fallen until it now takes 1.76 dollars to buy as much as one dollar would buy in 1939. Over three times as many dollars bidding frantically for less than twice as much goods equals inflation. in-flation. RUSSIANS: Western Stand Those who, in commenting on the strained relationship between the East and West, have been wont to say, "It'll get worse before it gets any better," probably had reached the end of their rhetorical rope. For it was unlikely that it could get any worse without producing armed conflict of some kind. This, it appeared, was the top of the heap of crises that had been piling up for two years. Hadassah hospital on a stretcher. For Bernadotte, head of the Swedish Red Cross, nephew of the king of Sweden, diplomat and humanitarian, hu-manitarian, it was a wretched, futile fu-tile end. His death was mourned not only by governments but by millions of ordinary citizens, yet he died not knowing when or if ever his assiduous assidu-ous and sincere efforts to organize peace in the Holy Land would be fulfilled. Bernadotte's assassination brought Jerusalem and all of Palestine, for that matter perilously close to the brink of general violence. There was danger, too, that the uneasy Arab-Jewish truce might fall to pieces under the circumstances. For the time being, Bernadotte's killers remained unidentified. The Israeli government called it the work of Stern gang terrorists and issued an edict outlawing that extremist ex-tremist group. In Oslo, Norway, U. N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie added his panegyric to the praise that was being be-ing heaped on the martyred Bernadotte: Berna-dotte: "He burned with eagerness to bring about an understanding be-tweens be-tweens Arabs and Jews. He thought always of justice and peace." accomplished that end. IT WAS CHANGED during the war to make farmers produce more food than the country needed to feed less fortunate nations who were fighting the Axis. It did that. After the war this incentive system sys-tem was continued to keep greater amounts of food flowing into destitute desti-tute areas abroad. It was successful success-ful in that, also. Now, however, as a result of this artificial stimulation, production is beginning to pile up in the U. S. The wartime pattern of price support sup-port no longer fits the American market. THE POTATO situation is a case in point. As the government continues con-tinues to stimulate the production of potatoes the guaranteed prices keep consumers from getting the surplus crops at bargain prices, and at the same time the system keeps farmers growing too many potatoes. Congress this year elected to revise re-vise the price support program, effective ef-fective in 1950, by providing new parity prices based on modern farm practices and by allowing a fluctuation fluctu-ation in support levels to conform with general economic conditions. Dewey and Eggs There were these developments: THE AMERICAN, British and French ambassadors, who had been talking with Soviet Foreign Minister Min-ister V. M. Molotov and Premier Stalin in Moscow for six weeks, left the Russian capital, presumably ending the four-power discussions. THE THREE western powers asked the Kremlin for a simple and I final "yes or no" on the question I of whether Russia will lift its blockade block-ade of Berlin. U. S. SECRETARY of State George Marshall, speaking before the U. N. general assembly, warned the Soviet Union that American patience pa-tience should not be mistaken for weakness. With the Moscow talks at an end i the center of action in the crisis had shifted to Paris where the issue is-sue would be debated in the U. N. The western nations the U. S., France and Great Britain plainly had had enough and were determined deter-mined not to give another inch. In an hour-long speech before parliament, British Foreign Secretary Secre-tary Ernest Bevin expressed his nation's na-tion's determination: "We are firmly firm-ly resolved to go on with our policy. pol-icy. "I AM NOT SAYING by that that we are committed to war and all the other things that might ensue. We have not reached that stage yet." Speaking to the United Nations in Paris, George Marshall, U. S. secretary sec-retary of state, outlined the basic U. S. foreign policy in much the same manner as Bevin. The United States, he said, would not "compromise "com-promise the essential principles" or "barter away the rights and freedoms of other peoples." HOME OWNERS: Record High One of the most maddening of all the modern paradoxes is that while millions of American families are searching desperately for decent places to live, at the same time more American families own their own homes now than ever before in history. About 49 per cent of the nation's non-farm families owned their homes at the beginning of this year, it has been revealed by a federal reserve board survey. That comes to a total of 18.5 million city and town families. Although the survey did not take up farm families, the proportion of home owners among that group traditionally tra-ditionally has been much higher than among city cfwellevs. FINAL REPORT: 'End It Noiv As the United Nations general assembly as-sembly convened for its fateful 1948-49 session in the Palais de Chail lot the member nations took timn out to pay somber tribute to Count Folke Bernadotte, their representative representa-tive in Palestine who had died while trying to implement the peace of which they were supposed to be f -architects. Then they began consideration ui the plan for an enforced Palestine settlement that Bernadotte had submitted sub-mitted before his death. THE SWEDISH COUNT'S final 35,-000-word report recommended that the Arab-Jewish war should be "pronounced "pro-nounced formally ended." If the Arabs and Jews refuse to make peace, the U. N. should do so itself, the report said. It calls for changes in the boundaries bound-aries of the U. N. partition plan adopted in November, 1947, proposing pro-posing that the Negeb desert be given giv-en to the Arabs and that the Jews should receive all of Galilee instead of only the eastern part. Other recommendations include: 1. INTERNATIONALIZATION of Jerusalem by placing it under U. N. control. 2. ESTABLISHMENT of a technical techni-cal boundaries commission to delimit delim-it the new frontiers. 3. CREATION of a Palestine conciliation con-ciliation commission to deal with population exchanges .ind supervise other parts of U. N. decisions. 4. SETTLEMENT of the problem of 360,000 Arab refugees by giving them the right to return to their homes in Jewish territory or to re ceive compensation if they choose not to return. It was a good plan, the United States thought, and Secretary of State Marshall announced that this nation would back it to the fullest extent. Said Marshall: "THE UNITED STATES considers consid-ers that the conclusions contained in the final report of Count Bernadotte Berna-dotte offer a generally fair basis for settlement of the Palestine question." ques-tion." He called it "the best possible basis for bringing peace to a distracted dis-tracted land." adding that "No plan could be proposed which would be entirely satisfactory in all respects to every interested party." In sharp contrast to Henry Wallace's Wal-lace's unsavory experience with eggs in the South, the product of the hen brought nothing but good to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, GOP presidential candidate. At his Pawling, N. Y., farm he was made honorary member of the national "Good Egg" club and was presented pre-sented with an egg-bedecked plaque by Hobart Creighton. (left), GOP nominee for governor of Indiana In-diana and president of the Poultry Poul-try and Egg national board. ANSWER MAN: Drannan When it comes to questions Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Charles Bran-nan Bran-nan gets all kinds, many of which have nothing to do with farming. Pouring in at the rate of 3, (WO a d.v, the queries vary from: "How do I bury cats in the ground?" to "What was Little Eva's, last name in the play, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin?'" and "Can you recommend a lonelj hearts club? Three of us girls ar |
