Show VEE KiY NEWS ANALYSIS russ reject U N berlin proposal stalin flits hits three vestern estern IP powers As attempting to start tart a new 11 ar by bill staff writer EDITOR S 8 NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of western newspaper union a news analysts and not necessarily ot of this newspaper X aire DIFFERENT COAL STRIKE french troops in battle array march into the villiers mine in the st etienne area of france as the govern ment seized strike bound coal mines throughout northern france vicious rioting and assorted civil battles preceded the government governments s action in gover the mines REJECTION U N proposal russia wouldn t play ball with the united nations brathe on the settle ment of the berlin dispute A six power face saving resolution for solving the crisis was presented to the U N security council and promptly batted down by y the soviets to the surprise of no one concerned THE resolution proposed that russia lift the berlin block ade immediately that the four military governors of germany begin immediate negotiations to implement the moscow agreement of august 30 tor for a soviet backed four power controlled mark in ber lin by november 20 and that a foreign ministers council be con within 10 days thereafter to take up other serious differences over germany russia s stated objection to the resolution was that it provided for the lifting of the blockade before the currency control went into effect previously the western powers had turned down andrei sky s counter proposal for simul ganeous lifting of the blockade and putting into effect the currency agreement IN REALITY this point of dif terence ference upon which the latest deadlock centered was a minor one but it served to illustrate th the e vast gap that must be closed be fore a meeting of minds between the east and west can be achieved MOREOVER it has become in creasm gly clear that moscow does not even have any desire to lift the blockade it is for the them in to too good a weapon with which to at tempt to bludgeon the U S and the west into granting them fur ther concessions in germany in eluding a voice in the operation of the all valuable ruhr industrial area STALIN TALKS horrors in what Is probably the most amazing outburst he has made since the war soviet premier josef stalin told the world that the U S great britain and france are seeking a new war through a policy of aggression the accusation despite the high level of its source amounted to nothing more than a repetition of the already stereotyped russian practice of attempting to turn an opponent opponents s reasoning back on him HOWEVER he added the pub he ile forces favoring peace are too strong to permit the instigators of a new war to plunge the world again into the horrors of con flick stalin named winston churchill church as the main instigator of a new war and predicted that church III s pupils of aggression would be rejected by the people just as churchill has been although he did not label prest dent truman or any other leader as a pupil in aggression the implication was too clear to be mistaken particularly since the moscow radio had broadcast a pre diction that mr truman would be defeated on november 2 STALIN accused the U S and britain of twice rejecting settle ments of the berlin crisis with russia and said that debate on the berlin question in the U N security council was a display of aggression on the part of anglo american and french ruling cir cl s the british and americans the soviet premier said declared null and void an agreement reached in the kremlin confer ances august 30 that would have lifted the soviet blockade ended the crisis HE CHARGED that the powers fear most of all to any agreement with the union what they want is not agree ment and cooperation but talk about agreement and c dopera tion so as to put the blame on the U S S R by preventing agree ment and to prove that compera tion is impossible stalin s statement obviously was issued as a high powered kropa ganda stroke a move the bus rus undoubtedly hoped would tip the 13 berlin ealm scales in their favor headliners r ANO NOW r belm ANCI ll 11 rea av avdy 0 0 0 I 1 IN YORK pa mrs walter sechrist made a wide eyed an no that her gas range picks up short wave transmissions made by her next door neighbor an amateur radio operator vowed it had broadcast a conversation be tween the neighbor and another op aerator in south america IN SALEM mass robert C carter claimed in a divorce suit that his wife had deserted him a block from the church just two minutes after they were married in 1944 IN hagerstown HAGERS TOWN mo thieves broke into the potomac edison building got away with a specially equipped camera set up to take pictures of thieves breaking into the potomac edison building IN LITTLE eng postmaster N C parrott looked down his nose at the man with the gun trying to rob him of his postal receipts sneered the revolver is not loaded you know sorry said the crushed desperado slink mg ing away IN DURAND wis a frank was forced to reassure his customers as to the fact that be he still was in the popcorn and soft drink business after he began mak ing deliveries with an old hearse BLUFFING in berlin gen H H arnold wartime corn com mander in chief of the U S air forces turned up in the news with a military man s hearty opinion about what to do with the russians m berlin WHY NOT take a motor convoy and push it through the corridor to berlin 9 be he suggested perhaps we might have learned something from gen george patton s tech it if patton were running the s show how he would take it through russia he claimed is attempt ing a tremendous bluff against the U S and the western allies but Is not ready to fight doesn doean t want to fight and wont won t fight if some one should call her bluff WHAT would the russians do if an armed convoy did plow through the blockade not much if any thing was arnold s laconic esti mate it would be a grave and basic error to let the communists bluff us out in the present deadlock ck in germany ney are not ready to fight light and they do not want to fight we should curb the national tendency to be in awe of the russians an awe amount amounting mg almost to tear fear TIME plays with the russians we have the superior power now they may have it later meantime it would be folly to let them bridge the gap by bluff alone whether he was right or wrong hap arnold at least had done the worrying U S public one favor by reducing the problem to hard simple terms of pure action and divorcing it from the intricate realm of diplomacy diplo nacy he made it ap pear more understandable less overwhelming and less frighten ing general arnold at least isn t expecting a war tomorrow TREATY on the t way in view of the existing phys physical ical and ideological rift which has dl di vided the world into two opposing battalions it has come to seem almost inevitable that the western bloc sooner or later would devise some kind of formal military treaty for the mutual protection of the nations concerned AND A few days before the elec tion word began to creep out from among high american sources that a military treaty was on the way the report was that drafting was scheduled to begin soon of an agreement pledging full aid to the five live nation brussels alliance of western europe results of the U S election were in no way sup posed to affect the plan since both major parties had committed themselves in principle to backing the brussels alliance SUCH AN alliance supposedly will link the united states and canada in formal treaty relation ships with britain france bel gium holland and luxembourg from a behind the scenes stand point this will not be a new move it is highly probable indeed that the broad outlines of a north at lantic alantic pact with some details sketched in has been in existence for or some time the alliance is expected to corn com mit the U S and canada to I 1 BUILD up air land and sea forces of the brussels powers 2 standardize equipment and training 3 CREATE a seven nation uni fled military strategic command under an american commander in chief 4 PLEDGE a guarantee of each nation s territorial integrity in case of war 5 GIVE the north american powers the right to establish air land or sea bases in any of the five other countries U S officials expect that the treaty will be ready for rati fica tion by the middle of 1949 barring extraordinary events how con gress will react to such a treaty trealy Is for the time being a debatable question shipbuilding navy expands increasing importance in the minds of U S defense chiefs of underwater and air warfare in eluding consideration of possible attacks across the arctic was re healed in a statement the navy navys s postwar post war program vice adm adin earle M mills of the bureau of ships listed the development of advanced proto types in four major fields as the aim of the building and conversion plan FIRST aircraft carriers cap able of handling the fast heavy long range naval planes developed and under development since the war second high speed deep submergence submarines third anti submarine vessels to combat these submarines fourth ships equipped for polar and picket service battleships were not mentioned in the statement nor was there any direct reference to preparations against air attack over the roof of the globe but toe the program programs s em on polar ships was consid ered self explanatory IN THIS phase of the program two destroyer escorts and two sub marines will be specially fitted for offshore off shore aircraft detection one cargo ship and two floating dry docks tor for landing ships will be con averted for service in polar waters the aircraft carrier part of the program includes the construct construction fon to begin late this year or early in 1949 of the yet unnamed super carrier of 85 tons designated as the 58 conspicuous first U 4 A k one of th the minor sidelights of the late great election was provided by mrs rannie 1 rock well of danbury COT conn in she turned years old on october 25 and celebrated this chronological attainment six days later on november 2 by casting a vote tor for the first time in her life RED PRICES going go ing up america doesn doean t have a capital monopoly on inflation russia is getting her share of that un comfortable condition too here s what happened in russia in august postal and telegraph rates were boosted 33 per cent train fares and long distance phone call rates went up in vary mg ing amounts in moscow subway fares lumped jumped 25 per capt and streetcar fares ares from 50 to per cent |