Show NE NEWS WS RE REVIEW YIEW showdown near in UN grain exports reduced SHOWDOWN choice secretary of state george mar shall sounded like a man who was getting a lot of things off his chest what he said in an address before the U N general assembly of 55 nations amounted to a call tor for a showdown with russia the soviets he intimated have held to their stubborn veto bound course in the united nations long enough to make the delinquents come to time marshall proposed a four point plan of action to the general assembly he suggested creation of a new I 1 ahe assembly committee of 55 coun tries which would operate without veto and would remain constantly in session to consider world security questions and function as a board of appeals potentially the committee would be a rival to the security council he announced that the U S was 2 ready to relinquish in all but the gravest cases its veto privilege and implicitly challenged russia to do likewise he blamed russia for the U S 3 ahe soviet deadlock in korea and said that america would submit the case to the general assembly tor for action he blamed russia for using 4 vetoes to protect yugoslavia albania and bulgaria from being pronounced guilty of meddling in greece he said the U S would ask the assembly to vote guilt for the three satellites and to demand that they refrain from interfering in greece PRICE BATTLE exports cut secretary of agriculture clinton P anderson had a horatio at the bridge air about him as he an bounced that the government had made a drastic cut back of gram grain and flour allocations for export in no vember the move generally was account ed eci as another noble stand against the forces which are causing domes tic food prices to sp ral TO dizzily this one however had the blessings of the grain trade as a step in the right direction reducing the export allocations for november was in line with the government governments s surprise revision of the nation s 1947 export goal from some million bushels of grain down to million in a significant sidelight an derson scoffed at the prospect of returning to rationing by pointing out that such a program could not be put into ef feet before the need for it would be over next move it was hinted would be an attempt by secretary ander son to put through a sharp reduction of total food exports not just grain as the only practical way of pull ing down prices the U S state department how ever committed to its save eu rope program no doubt would ob eject vehemently to any such action I 1 atom aftereffects after effects I 1 although the atom bomb elpio in japan have caused some sterility among the people they have not affected the soil adversely and may even have brought about an improvement in the rice crop dr shields warren harvard pro fessor recently returned from ja pan where he studied after effects of the bomb said that its effects on human beings may carry into the third generation producing freaks WHOSE FULT FAULT taft talks sen robert taft kep rep ohio who had to crash a sign toting pick et line to get to his audience told a republican rally in los angeles that if president truman had not jumped the gun in scrapping price controls the current inflation spiral might have been delayed a while longer exactly how taft arrived at that rather hazy taft sion was not imme clear the senator himself last year was de bounced by mr truman tor for his part in writing a price control extension bill which the president branded as being worse than no controls mr truman s subsequent veto of the bill allowed price controls to expire automatically nailing down the first plank in what apparently is designed to be his campaign platform tor the 1948 presidential nomination taft as sailed the administration administrations s record on taxes and spending the country must elect a lican president next year if it is gen amely interested in reducing taxes and spending taft observed SPEEDUP SPEED UP forrestal restal in james V forrestal wasn gasn t due to be sworn in as U S secretary of defense for another week but dent truman mani featly alarmed over the trend of world events ordered the former secretary ot of the navy to jump the gun in taking over his new job mr truman ob served that in view of conditions forrestal abroad the nation should have its secretary of defense in office and functioning the conditions which he did not specify probably were the current unrest in trieste and the U S russian stalemate in the united nations topped off by sec see detary of state marshall s challena chal leng ing speech before the general as now presiding over the unified army navy and air forces forres tal is the the armed forces only depre tentative senta tive on the president presidents s cabinet |