| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS pressure lift aut in berlin controversy british Bri welcome farmer priority looms isi in legislation by bill staff writer I 1 EDITOR EDITORS S NOTE when opinions ioni are expressed in these column columns they are those of 0 western newspaper union a new news analysts analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper PRESSURE polite WO NO sore point in all the berlin con troverse tro versy continued to be the soviet blockade of the ex reich capital the big three western powers still blamed russia for continuation of the crisis through perpetuating the blockade and president harry tru man bad had given emphatic evidence that he planned no further discus with russia on the subject until the blockade was lifted following his return from a flori d vacation the president went into a full dress review of american foreign policy with secretary of state marshall and W averell har riman U S ambassador at large in europe the gravity with which united nations leaders viewed the berlin situation was evidenced in the et forts torts ot of U N secretary general trygve lie and H V evatt gen eral assembly president THESE TWO made urgent ap peal to chief executives of the four big powers going over the heads of these nations U N delegations to do so to bring the berlin dispute to an end and thus bring about world peace this appeal was without avail the united states france and eng land said no politely but firmly they declared the issue must re main in the bands hands of the U N se carity council until the russian blockade is lifted russia reacted as usual blaming the western powers for the stalemate evatt and lie argued that the dis cannot be settled within the cramped confines of the security council and should be aired in the wider fields of the general assem bly aggravating the situation was the coming winter with its con sequent obstacles to the air lift the russians appeared content to wait out this phase of americans Amen cani aid to germany in the apparent condic tion or hope that bad weather would so impair air lift efficacy as to make it negative in the battle for germany if the situation were to be re solved by diplomatic means amer ican thought and procedure on the question would carry top weight with the big three under this setup president tru man mans s evident intention to spurn discussion of the problem unless the berlin blockade were lifted would indicate the united states was pre pared to continue the cold war with the russians and to bet with the elements that the air lift would continue to be efficient and that premier stalin and his communists would have to come to terms in the end PRESIDENT TRUMAN reiterate reit erat ed that he planned no american mission of any sort to moscow and that be he and secretary marshall were in accord on all questions the president would stand for no pressuring in discussion of the ber lm question even it if it came from top chieftains in the U N PRIORITY for farmers the man with the hoe put the X where it counted november 2 and as a result america americas s farmers are to reap a share of president tru man s smashing victory at the polls even now administration chiefs are moving to give the nation nations s farmers top priority over labor in any legislative program coming up cor for action by the next congress THE FARMER S reward is to come immediately not in the fu ture and the outlook is that labor may have to stand behind the farm er when awards for a part in pres ident truman s triumph are to be handed out in a legislative program best friend of the farmers when the plums are to be passed around Is secretary of agriculture charles brannan no doubter of where cred it for mr truman s victory belongs brannan already has assigned louis M bean department economist and election forecaster to prepare charts and graphs to show the dent that he owes his election manly marily to the farmers THAT ISN T all that will be done to insure the farmers a fair return or their investment in mr truman tor for top level planners are drafting a new flexible price support pro gram to go into effect early in 1949 instead of 1950 as would have been the case under the republican alken aiken farm bill add to this the tact fact that senator elect clinton anderson D N M day of judgment A 4 tojo tejo former prime min ister and top war lord of japan was found guilty of wartime atrocities by an allied tribunal in tokyo and was sentenced to death by hanging lie ile is the last sur divor of the infamous hitler mussolini tojo axis former agriculture secretary took a direct hand in supervising drafting of the new measure and personally will introduce it and it becomes evi dent the farmer s happy in the administration sun is most assured BASIS of brannan s contention that farmers elected mr truman it if it t for the farm states in the agricultural west the 11 indus trial states on the atlantic seaboard that voted for governor dewey would have swung the election re publican how will farmers fare under the administration plan here s the projected program to protect the farmer against an crop price fall offs he would be given a flexible price floor that would protect growers but would not burden U S taxpayers with an extended permanent sub sidy of farm surpluses PROVIDE adequate storage bacill ties for farmers in corn and wheat belts to prevent loss of bumper crops extend reclamation and soil con benefits to more farm lands and provide an increased rural electrification tor for more farmers this to be sponsored and paid for by the government this then is an extension ol 01 the benefits which farmers may have felt were imperiled in the dewey program and tor for which they felt they were voting when they cast their ballots tor for president truman WELCOME infant rex v or hours the solemn faced con stable had kept his vigil in the chill of the november night impassive in the fact of the huge throngs that pushed against the gates he guard ed he waited for the word at last he saw a royal page garbed in blue walk stiffly from a palace doorway the page strode to the constable constables s side bent over and spoke in a low voice THE CONSTABLE constables S face lighted he walked quickly to the iron railing against which the crowd was dense ly packed and declared exultantly it its a a boy boyl then throwing his head back he shouted A prince has been born to princess elizabeth heir alpar ent to the throne of england and her consort prince philip duke of ed amburgh had been born a son A prince by a special royal decree of king george VI issued several days before the birth of the child their young prince was born just six days short of the royal couple s wedding anniversary november 20 THE NEWS that elizabeth s child was a son told the usually stolid londoners what they wanted to hear that the royal heir was a child who might someday be their king into a world of crisis and unrest an age of a dwindling empire for britain was born a whose future as a potential ruler is fraught with imponderables both he and his mother would be cut off the line of succession to the throne should a son be born to the king and queen monarchial gov ern ments even of the benevolent type are fading from the world scene the contracting empire s di mansions men are subject to speculation but even were these thing things non existent there Is the last and great est imponderable of them all the atomic bomb REFUND pay up if you re an ex GI and figure to cash in on those service insurance dividends next year make sure you re square with the veterans administration or you re likely to get left in the cold VA says it may withhold all or part of the checks of two groups of veterans those who have re overpayments tor for education or training subsistence and those who have defaulted on GI loans very millennium unfunny when a radio comedian backs ott off from laughs the event rates in news value with the man bites dog item but there s method about 18 16 worth weekly in arthur godfrey a 3 madness godfrey is the guy who has ordered his musicians not to laugh at any of his jokes THE BED RED HEADED radio comic explains wistfully that his must musi dans clans used to laugh at his jokes sing with him and have all kinds of fun but that s all over now godfrey says he ile adds that union rules provide that it if his musicians laugh at his jokes or join him in songs they will come under an additional union the american federation of radio artists and that says godfrey would mean an extra cost of to a week tor for each musician his men would sing choruses and they d kid each other the comedian says but now if they open their mouths to sing they come under AFRA s jurisdiction that adds the extra salary no hairyshirt Hair shirt here 5 I 1 J al h A pi picture of carefree content meat ment president truman accod himself in casual shirt while tripping lightly through his vacation at key west fla lie ile whiled away the drowsy hours by formulating the broad outlines of his administrative pol icy fey for the next tour four years and paused for a moment to turn down a proposal for another biff big four conference at this time NEW LIGHT from isaiah new light and interpretation ma mal be thrown on the old testament by discovery of the complete scroll of the prophet isaiah all ali 66 chapters of the book with only a few portions missing have been found one of the most dramatic biblical discoveries of all time the scroll was brought to light recently when four of the oldest hebrew manu scripts thus far known were found in a cave near the northern end of the dead sea scholars date the isaiah scroll as early or second cen tury B C which would make it the oldest biblical document yet to be discovered intact THE DISCOVERY of a complete isaiah scroll dating back a thou sand years before the oldest one known promises scholars an eunity to seek new meaning from the bible and to td determine by corn com parison the extent that errors may have found their way wa into biblical manuscript with the passage of time bible scholars point out that the book of isaiah like all of the bible came down to us as the result of many coppings copy ings by scribes who would make additional scrolls as the old ones wore 0 t |
