Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS palestine jeas proclaim new state of israel Ri tacked ly by arab armies U ED victim of russian propaganda by bill staff writer EDITOR EDITORS S NOTE when eci oiin niona lons are espres expressed s ed in these columns they are those of e western newspaper un on a new news analysts na lysta a and n d not nece ly of this newspaper impulse to zion arnold british his torian types the jews as a fos remnant of an extinct civilization he meant that because of their single minded faultless devotion to the religion of moses and their strict adherence to ancestral customs the jews descending through history as a compact group have retained most of the original characteristics which marked them when first they emerged as part of the syriac civi civilization libation liza tion thousands of years before christ they are recognized today as bein being in but not of the societies in which chich they appear on an every portion of the globe they al most invariably form a minority group and as such they have been targets for endless tion socially world jewry has been of two minds concerning the most desirable end it could achieve for itself those two conflicting trains of thought are represented by the zionists and the I 1 the have aavo bated that jews should mingle freely with whatever people they have chosen to live among and gradually be assimilated by that people zionists of course favor establishment of a national homeland an indestructible ideal ever since moses led the exodus to canaan since the war with nazi attempts to obliterate german jews completely and subsequent displacement of millions of eu jews in has been given a tremendous impetus that impulse to zion has been distilled into what the world has come to know as the palestine problem more recently it crystallized even further in the actual establishment of a jewish state called israel in pales tine ancient homeland of the pre christian era jews ISRAEL in palestine moved with the swiftness of time itself in the holy land equalizing ritualizing the expiration of great britain s 30 year mandate rule over palestine sir alan cun dingham british high commission er hauled down his personal flag in jerusalem and flew to haifa where he boarded a cruiser that was that britannia no ion lon ger ruled the palestinians then the jews who had been denied a legally partitioned state proclaimed the existence of a new mo DA em AN A JERUSALEM jew or arab independent republic in palestine which was to be called israel before israel was 20 minutes old it had received formal diplomatic recognition from the united states first nation to extend such tion and philp while israel was yet only hours old it was already at war the newborn state was invaded from the north by regular army forces of lebanon and syria and from the south by egyptian troops it was shelled from the east by trans jordan Jordans s arab legion and bombed and machine gunned from the air by arab planes the princ pal jewish fighting force rushed troops sea by months of guerrilla war fare to all fronts and the fight ng settled down to the pattern with which every adult to in the world has become familiar during the initial furor israel israels s provisional council of state man aged to find time to elect dr chaim a scientist and elder statesman of zio zionism nisin first president of the nation most momentous news connected with establishment of israel was the agonizingly prompt U S diplo matle recognition of the state CRISIS supersonic there is a crisis developing in military aviation says cedr lynn S beals jr navy doctor because it is not yet known how to keep human beings healthy when they fly faster than sound main trouble is from vertical vi bration the up and down motion that comes as a plane reaches the speed of sound this vibration is so fast that it equals five to six times the pull of gravitation WINDFALL propaganda in ambassador halter valter bedell smith smiths s formal and completely rou tine statement to sov et fore agn minister V M molotov the rus thought they had a kropa ganda bonanza it was cleverly done smith a otherwise tough statement which simply repeated the basic U S foreign policy with regard to bus rus sia contained one sentence that moscow took as a loophole As far as the united states is concerned the door is always wide open for full discussion and the composing of our differences molotov seized upon that sentence and the announcement was broad cast to the world that russia an a cepter the american offer to ne it looked like a propaganda vie tory of major proportions for the soviets briefly it put them in the position of being able to to point with pride to their manifest willingness to settle the bitter differences which have kept the world unnerved for so long if the U S refused to talk that would be ane t ne with the russians who would capitalize on that fact a vengeance if a peace con terence ference d d develop as a result ot of the original trick the old and fa soviet obstructionist tactics would be brought into play to do the usual job of sabotage that was about the way it stacked up to the high officials in wash agton both president tru man and secretary of state george marshall made it clear that there would be no conference that there was no logical basis for one and that such a conference could not possibly succeed at this time because neither the U S nor russia had altered or modified its position in any way in addition to the propaganda value of thellus the russian sian move it might also have been calculated to throw some sand into the gears of the me U S defense program if the soviets suddenly assum ing a peaceful mien were able to hypnotize the american people into feeling falsely secure congress congressman inan election year might be coerced into wasting a lot of time in preparing such items ot of the defense program as the 70 group air force bill and the draft bill that wasted time could in the light of possible fu ture events turn out to be bably precious sequel second episode of the afta affa r of the russian peace overture was a stalin to wallace pass that went over the head of the U S govern ment the russian premier took ad vantage of an open letter which henry wallace had addressed to him demanding an open showdown between the two nations wallace s proposals as summarized by stalin included I 1 general reduction of f armaments and prohibition of atomic weapons 2 conclusion of peace treaties with germany and japan 3 evacuation of troops from china and korea 4 respect for the sovereignty of individual countries and non Anter interference ference in their domestic at af fairs 5 world development of inter national trade I 1 don t know whether the united states government approves mr wallace a program stalin said making it starkly clear that he was talking not to the govern ment but to the american people he applauded the wallace letter as the most important document of recent times and declared As far as the government of the USSR is concerned it considers that mr wallace a program could serve as a good and fruitful basis for an agreement apparently a russian attempt to bring about a showdown in the east west struggle before an au diance of world public opinion stal ins in s bombshell statement renewed the queston quest on of whether the new soviet tactics are merely kropa ganda or a genuine effort for peace either way the U S was in a difficult position if the russian appeal is taken at face value it cuts the ground from under the tough american cold war strategy if it it is propaganda it undoubtedly will serve to put the U S in a bad light I 1 FARM PLAN tt man 9 8 to shore up his sinking prestige in his campaign for president truman pro posed to congress a four point farm program which he claimed is es to a productive prosperous agriculture in the U S burden of his message were these recommendations aa A permanent system of flex ble price supports ports tor for agrical tural commodities full tull support to the contina 2 ance and expansion of our program of soil conservation legislation by congress to 3 continue and strengthen pro grams to assure adequate tion of agricultural products we need to consider other 4 means for assisting farmers to meet their special problems for example we must support and pro hect farm cooperatives we must continue cont nue to vork work toward a sound system of crop insurance there was nothing very startling about the proposals and they car ned ried the unmistakable ring of a campaign year bid tor for the farmers favorable attention ITALY vox pop luigi 74 a banker is to be president of the italian republic for the next seven years he was elected at a joint session of both houses of parliament on the fourth ballot after the corn com mun ats who had been b e e n supporting enrico de nicola threw their votes to him on three previous ballots none of the dennial prospects had been able to command the re quiren majority because of the communist bloc an opponent of communism einaudi also was a foe of musso lim lini s brand of fascism he Is an internationally known writer on public finance and economic his hi tory ory s first task as president of f the republic was wad to designate a premier and instruct him to form a cabinet there was no doubt that he would name alcide de gas pen peri premier of the provisional government to continue in that capacity on a permanent basis DISPLACED bill pending although the desperate problem of europe s displaced persons has not been attracting much headlee beadi ne attention lately congress has been busy working out legislation to ad nut mit quotas of into the U S latest report was that an in formal poll showed that a majority of the senate would vote for a bill to admit displaced persons into this country during the next two years the actual bill being considered by the senate judiciary committee sets the figure at DP imm grants tor for the next two years but several senators have introduced amendments to raise that total to and to remove some eions imposed by the committee one senate source said the poll indicated that at least beas 55 senator senators were ready to vote for the less re astrictive strict ive version the house judi clary committee already has approved a similar measure to admit in the next two years ATOM RACE otti official cial governments of the world never have been farther from outlawing the use of atomic weapons in fact the aton atomic ac armament race Is just settling down to a long straight away dash it is a contest involving astron costs with horrible disaster if not ultimate destruction possibly lurking lust just beyond the horizon so far the U S Is well in the lead as indicated by the recent announcement of the development and successful testing of three new atomic weapons which are said to supersede the original atom bomb bombs in destructive power the united nations atomic ener gy commission made the race off cial when after two years of fruit less effort to work out some kind of international atomic control it finally voted to suspend negolia eions other developments followed swiftly to prove that the V U S is deadly serious about developing a powerful and diversified atomic arsenal david E lilienthal chairman ol 01 the atomic energy commiss on reported that the present stage ot of the commission a tests ol 01 atomic weapons Is concluded president truman then author iced the commission to take steps at once for further de based on information gained from the tests what russia was doing about atomic weapons remained pretty much of a mystery at least as tar far as the american public was con berned it was an accepted fact that the russians knew how to make an atom bomb whether they had the industrial facilities to d do 0 so still remained a matter of consid erable conjecture A |