Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U H N fi says cease fire in palestine truman asks more defense funds fund 1 S atom control plan approved by bill staff writer I 1 EDITOR EDITORS S NOTE when opinion opinions are expressed in these colu they are the those of western newspaper union a news analysts and not necessarily ot of this newspaper CEASE FIRE holy land almost before anyone knew what was happening fierce fighting be tween israeli and egyptian forces had flared into bloom in the negev southern palestine desert area ISRAELI government spokesmen said the purpose of the israeli at tack was to smash open the road to jewish settlements in the negev blocked transportation lines had prevented the jews from running supply convoys to isolated settle ments in the district but dr ralph bunche acting palestine mediator for the U N in his report to the security coun cil told a different story blame for the eruption of fighting in the negev he said was not a question of black and white EACH side has soiled its hands in the grim business of trying to win a war through the instrumental ity of a forced truce was his ver sion of the conflict by the time the battle had pro ceedee savagely tor for six days the harassed U N security council had had enough it commanded both arabs and jews to issue immedi ate cease fire orders earlier bunche had attempted 0 promote a three day truce in the fighting with each side holding the positions it then was occupying the effort fell through however wl when en israel rejected the proposal EVEN as the security council act ed the fighting was spreading from the negev to other fronts in the holy land along the jerusalem tel aviv highway where trans jordan forces were grouped and northeast of tel aviv in areas held by other arab forces results of the security council or der at the outset at least were disappointing each side tried to shift the blame to the other neit neither appeared willing to hold the battle batt palestine truce observers in formed the united nations that the israeli forces generally appeared to be the attackers in the new fighting that had developed outside the southern front in the negev CONTROL PLAN how atoms to establish effective work able control of atomic energy on an international scale is one of the rocks upon which the U N has al most foundered more than once but the situation be began gan to look a shade or two brighter when the united nations suddenly steeled its resistance to almost immoss ble rus demands on the issue OVER the objections of the soviet bloc the UN political committee overwhelmingly endorsed the west era ern plan for atomic control as a necessary basis for eventual elaml nat on of atomic weapons the conflict which has kept the atomic control problem deadlocked for or so long is simply this the U S and the west insist that an air tight system of international control and inspection must be es before the U S would teel feel safe in destroying its atomic weapons the resolution which the political committee adopted is generally in line with the american policy the plenary session of the general as was expected to give it a I 1 routine final approval peculiarly enough this was the first time since bernard baruch presented the american plan to the atomic energy comm isison in june 1946 that all of the united nations had a chance to vote on it bously atomic energy was discussed only in the security council and the atomic energy commission SHORTLY prior to the U N ac tion the U S had demanded that the world group turn the deadlocked problem over to the five great pow ers and canada for direct negolia eions at that time warren R austin chief U S delegate had told the 58 nation political comm atee that the U N could go no further in its efforts to control the atom until the soviet union agreed to participate in the world community on a co operative basis HOW much good the U N vote of approval would do as long as the russians continued continue cr to object was a question that remained hang ng fire it was conceded generally that regardless of how much satisfaction the western nations might achieve by thus overruling and snubbing moscow the paramount problem that of preserving the peace ably had not been moved very far along the road to a solution george polk x N last may george polk CBS correspondent was taken out on kalonika Sal bay in a boat where he was blindfolded bound hand and foot and shot through the head his murderers communists their motive simply to produce a murder the blame for which might be pinned on the rightist greek government in order to de fame it abroad gregory communist kalonika Sal news confessed he had witnessed the slaying and implicated three other greek communists DEFENSE big bu budget adget world tension had slacked off sl ghaly but according to president truman s estimate on next year years s defense budget the U S doesn doean t in tend to relax its vigilance on that account THE MILITARY budget for 1949 will be a neat 14 4 billion dollars that is it if mr truman s current e quest doesn doean t get trimmed it rep resents an outlay about two billion dollars higher than the figure at which defense spending is running now it doesn doean t make any d fforence whether president truman won or lost the election he still was re quiren to prepare budget estimates for the congress next 1 january i the president said that his de bense officials had wanted a budget of around 23 billion dollars for the fiscal year starting july 1 but that ahe 1 he had cut them back to the 14 4 billion figure WITH RARE candor he admitted that it would take a croesus to maintain spend ng as many bill ons I 1 as the officials wanted his own aim mr truman said was to get a military program the country could pay tor for he added that he hoped evenou ally to reduce military expenditures to about five to seven billion doi lars a remarkably optimistic state coming as it did before the election when he was conceded vir dually no chance of being able to control any kind of governmental spending after the first of the year ATOM PLANE seten set en look up into the sky in about sev en years and you might see an atomic powered airplane scudding across the clouds scientists now think there is a good chance that nuclear propelled aircraft will be in production by that time AN OAK RIDGE scientist david M poole startled the atom c con 0 n public with the announce ment that the theory of an atom driven airplane has been worked out to completion and is ready to be translated by engineers into actual plans tor for such a plane the nuclear scientists have thought out a way to tap the power of a mobile atomic pile poole said the problems ahead are to de vise the engine fuselage and con and to build A 9 shield to pro hect the plane planes s crew poole disclosed that the fists have made up their minds how to make the best use of the power whose source is the heat general ed in an atomic pile what kind of eng ne will be used to chain the tremendous power con cent rated in the uranium fuel the rocket thrust motor was tried and abandoned said poole steam tur bine turbo jet let and ram jet all were crossed off THE POWER unit will be a nu fill clear rocket just what a nuclear rocket might be is top secret anfor mat on all anyone can even guess at at this point is that it probably involves a new principle of alph cation of power SQUABBLE yugoslavia YI avia russia continues no not only to great and grievous trouble with united states and differences opinion with most ol 01 the countries of the united nations her political rift with the up starl satellite also is growing worse in stead of better THE TROUBLE originally began within the framework of the comin cornin form communist information bu reau the master organization through which russia controls her satellites when marshall tito said his nation would not bow to the Comm form edict ordering yugoslavia to make itself a precise mod el of soviet russia in all political and economic aspects and in recent weeks the heresy of tito and the central committee of the yugoslav communist party has become more absolute and more determined than ever THAT holds true despite the tact fact that yugoslav foreign minister ed ward kardela has been displaying firm adherence to the position of the russian bloc in the united nations general assembly arguments WALLACE on to 52 henry wallace the incorrigibly incorrect visionary who stumped the political experts by getting his progressive party on the ballots of 43 states now is working hard to keep his party alive for the 1902 campaign in a pre election speech in de troit he criticized doubters who argue that although a new party is needed it t be formed until 1949 WHILE wallace didn dian t name any names he obviously was referring to the united auto workers headed by walter reuther who had an bounced plans to orm a genuine third party of progressive minded people after the election the leadership had con damned the wallace third party as a communist inspired movement and supported president truman tor for re election IN THE waning days of the cam laign wallace was appealing to his followers to stick with him after november 2 1 I hope you are with us all the way after november 2 he told one audience putting heavy emphasis on the word after you ve got to drive it home to the rank and file of the and all labor where do we go after november 2 but wherever they were going it t didn dian t look like wallace would be in a position to do much guiding coming event 1 ar 11 41 4 i f all he the way through the now historical election campaign one thing was sure somebody would get to be president on that the ory work was begun last month on stands in front of the capitol building in washington which will be used for the inauguration ceremony next january this odd angle view was taken from the capitol dome JAPAN on the spot gen robert L eichel berger former military governor of occupied japan admitted he might have made a mistake to in not leaving the japanese a few guns for their own protection IT BOILS down as most inter national d faculties do these days to a matter of communism and communist influences influences inside the country As a matter of tact fact said eichel berger communist pressure I 1 in japan and the far east in general may force the U S to carry out ou a limited rearmament of the japa nese I 1 believe I 1 went too far in dis arming the japanese he said they need a few machine guns and rifles to protect themselves them selve vec against internal disturbances IF AND when the Aine amelcar army withdraws the japanese wil have to be given something with which to defend themselves a strong police force or a smal arny army ar ny communist influence in japan he said I 1 is s about th the e same as it ii ia here they are a nuisance beyond ther numerical strength but its it i always the wrong guy that gets th pistols ANOTHER GONE nazi general former german field marsha walther von Brauc hitsch died in the british military hospital at ham burg germany where he was un der guard awaiting trial as a mafoi war criminal the british army s announcement announce men of the death did not state the cause von Brauc hitsch who was 67 anc had been ill tor for forne time wai scheduled to come up for or trial it hamburg to in january |