Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1948 1940 election campaign hits stride As democrats lemoc rats GOP P vie uie for labor soviets aggravate berlin situation by bill staff writer EDITORS EDI TOll S NOTE when plutonic plu toni are expressed in these columns hey they are those of wea ern New newspaper r union s new analysts analysis and not necessarily of t this newspaper I 1 A A A it t J it a S t WC yin 4 THE GOLDEN KEY trygve lie secretary general of the united nations beams as he accepts from former french premier robert schuman a golden key as a symbol et of france s temporary tempe surrender of sovereignty over the palais de chaillot where the U N general assembly opened on an september 21 what treasures of peace that key might unlock this year is a question that gives pause to the entire world trumpets CAMPAIGN sounded politicians cleared their throats as with the sound of trumpets and the 1948 presidential election cam laign swept into motion the first skirmish between betwee n demo brats and republicans featured president truman and harold E stassen who carried the word of their respective parties into the great industrial area around de troit THAT INDICATED that tor for the time being at least the pivotal fac tor directing the policies of both GOP and democratic Demo cratie camp campaigns aiges would be the labor vote to win the election this novem her ber mr truman probably will need the same proportionate amount of the labor tabor vote that turned out in favor of roosevelt in the 1932 1936 and 1940 campaigns whether he will get it is very much open to question at this stage truman launching his battle tor for re elec tion in the detroit area over the laber labor day week end president truman fired at will AT GRAND RAPIDS lansing detroit pontiac and flint he ex hooted all the little people of the U S to register and vote in the november 2 election if a heavy vote turns out he in aisted not only will he be re elected but the republican majority in con gross gress will be replaced by a democratic one IF YOU STAY home next no vember and keep these reaction enes ories in power you will deserve every blow you get and you can ca n expect a barrage of body blows I 1 said mr truman this was a tion of an idea that you 11 get what you deserve which he had expressed earlier in the year and wh ch at the time was received with some animosity by the people to whom he addressed it you tan an elect a reactionary ad ministration and go into an era of fear or you can elect a congress and an administration that stand ready to play fair with every elem ent of american life and enter an era of new hope we re in m a hard tough fight against shrewd rich op they don t count on your vote they lust just don t want you to vote judging from ins labor day speeches president truman Is planning to shape his campaign around these contentions I 1 THAT THE MAIN issue boils down te to republican special leges as against democratic con cero cern for the little man 2 THAT THE DO NOTHING congress under GOP control has done nothing to justify its re election S 3 THAT ANYTHING EXCEPT an all out vote by labor on election day would be a betrayal by la bor of its own interests 4 THAT IF THE MASS of the nation nations s voters go to the polls on election day a democratic victory is assured stassen just a step and a half behind mr truman came harold E stassen striving valiantly to scatter the coals of the bonfire the president had bad kindled in detroit apparently blessed by thomas E dewey GOP presidential candidate stassen 3 speech in the motor city was billed as the official kickoff of the republican campaign STASSEN SPARED no words in taking president truman to task referring to him as a complain ing failure who had resorted to demagogic appeals in seeking re election specifically he charged that mr truman had dishonored labor with an extreme demagogic appeal to set class against class in thus resorting to the time hon ored political device of attacking and reproaching the opponent from a personal standpoint stassen had bad gone mr truman one better in his detroit addresses the president did not even mention thomas dewey THE DEFEATED GOP aspirant for the party s nomination declared that mr truman had come not to laud labor for its record but as a complaining cand date for election seeking labor s vote his scolding threatening corn cum pla ining speeches indicated that he lacks the leadership in affairs at home and abroad so vitally need ed in these next crucial years said stassen he failed when he had a democratic congress to work with he failed when he had a lican congress to work with TURNING TO THE P political foot ball which the election year has made of the issue of communist activities in the U S stassen as seated that the republican party is driving the red herring out of the official water waters of the potomac by y means of congressional inquiries into the communist problem too many red herrings have been in washington for too long a time he blasted the president should help man the red herring nets instead of complaining com compla nag against the fishermen BERLIN more alore trouble there was it appeared no end to the russian sponsored trouble in berlin and it was having its grimly detrimental effect on the fiber of the peace latest incident piled atop many other instances of petty soviet en croach ments needed little more than a small flame to turn into a funeral pyre tor for what is left of world harmony IT WAS A FLAGRANT invasion of american offices in the berlin city hall by armed russian con trolled police who kidnapped 19 western sector policemen who had sought sanctuary in the building what the purpose of the raid was never became quite clear on the surface it leaked looked like pure terror carried out as part of the overall soviet plan eventually to get control of the entire german capi tal AN AMERICAN prote protest st by col prank frank howley american comman dant dt in berlin was rejected e ct ed blunt ly by the soviet commander maj gen alexander kotikov who flatly warned the U S officials not to in in matters which don t con cern them kotikov s letter followed rejection of french protests that demanded the release of another 19 ant anti cam corn eunist western sector policemen who were by soviet police while traveling in a 2 french convoy under a russian guarantee of safe conduct in the face of these intolerable developments hew how could east west negotiations for a berlin agreement continue apparently they couldn coulden t except under almost impossible strain SECRETARY OF STATE george marshall charged that the beri berl n city hall were aimed at least in part at disrupting the talks by the four military gover nors who were ostensibly bly seeking the road to a settlement of the ber I 1 in n problem and the issue of uni urd form currency thus it was easy to understand why U S diplomatic authorities were con concerned corned with the poss bil ity of an early collapse of the for mal negotiations it was likely that the kremlin would be the first to flash the red light CABINET sil plait they coulden t find and a government in france As a political situation that appeared slightly ludicrous from across the atlantic but frenchmen rench men were becoming sorely worried for fear ear that they bad had lost the ability or power to govern them selves AFTER arter PREMIER andre marie s cabinet fell president vincent auri aurl ol 01 appointed robert schuman as premier and gave him the usual instructions to form a cabinet schuman duly gathered together an in administrative body and then 64 hours later watched it fall apart when he was defeated on a cal proposal to postpone ques questioning dioning of the new cabinet by the national assembly in short he failed to get the necessary vote of confidence desperate by this time president auriol then named henri veteran radical socialist to sue aeed schuman WHAT QUEUILLE could do to brug produce ce some kind of order out of political confusion and economic travail no one knew he is 64 years old a little known political figure in france and was a wartime as distant of gen charles De the situation pointed up the alarmed belief becoming more pre dominant in france that no indi vidual or group can command the working majority that will enable him to govern the nation success fully it is a paradox that the parties in the moderate center of the political scale in france can speak tor for less than 25 per cent of the people gen era eral De on the right corn com mands 45 per cent of the vote and communist groups hold another 30 per cent although the past few weeks have not been conducive to a coherent examination of the political situa hon tion in france the principal trend seems to be toward a return of gen era eral De and bis his right wing beliefs to power ANYTHING NEW bloomin sage that sagebrush is mighty pretty when it blooms purple and the song writers can cant t be blamed tor for mak ing something out of it but out west they hate that sage it swathes nearly 98 96 million west era ern acres in a tough resistant blanket and ranchers and federal range managers alike consider it an almost complete nuisance THEY WANT TO REPLACE the whole 86 96 million acres with autri bious grasses lor for cattle and sheep some of the sage would have to be retained to prevent erosion but most of it could go they were talking about the problem of eliminating sagebrush at the annual meeting at fort collins colo of the american society of agronomists and the soil science society despite efforts to control or bradl cate it the sage continues to spread and probably cover covers a greater area now than before the pioneer settlers went west MOST HOPEFUL development Is the new brush land plow 10 of which are being built tor for further trial also congress will be asked next year to provide more money tor for range re seeding and improvement about five million acres of west ern range already have been re seeded these pastures almost invariably carry more nutritious and abundant food for cattle than the original prairie according to U S forest service officials animals make better gains on it it IN THE LONG RUN that could mean more and cheaper meat lip service 4 let ajr k t r vav f k at J k 6 t 1 A P A first frothy byproduct by product et of the fermentation of the 1948 dennial campaign Is the dewey duster I 1 a false Dewey esque mustache to tickle the fancy of stiff upper lip republicans soon to appear on store counters across the nation the gadget consists col of a bit of f black chenille clipped to the upper lip in true blue GOP style POLIO mice alice cured columbus university has an bounced the development of a new sulfa type drug called Darvis ul that cures one kind of in infant fantle ie paralysis in mice and is also a sue preventive to the disease ui iii mice despite extensive tests during the past summer it Is still not known whether the new drug will prove effective against polio in 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