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Show NEWS REVIEW Greek Warfare Flares; Flood Curbs Advocated The United Nations security coun-4 cil, which has yet to meet a tough problem head-on and overcome it, rejected an American appeal for an emergency debate on the Balkan situation, despite reports of increasing increas-ing strife in Greece. When Herschel V. Johnson, deputy dep-uty U S delegate, warned that the crisis developing in Greece "may burst into explosion any day," Andrei Gro-myko, Gro-myko, Soviet delegate, dele-gate, protested that an emergency debate on the issue was unnecessary and France added that the United Matinns "must not ter, told a press conference at Ioan-nina Ioan-nina that several of 20 prisoners taken by the defenders were unable to speak Greek and wore the Red Star insignia of the Soviet Union. In the meantime, a war department depart-ment announcement said that one invading force of 2.000 had been gripped In a pincers nine miles from Albania and that a battle of annihilation was in progress. A second sec-ond column was halted in its drive toward Ioannina and surrounded by the government troops. FLOOD CONTROL: 1 0-Year Program Terming the problem one of "desperate "des-perate urgency," President Truman, Tru-man, in a special message to congress, con-gress, proposed that a swift start be made on a 10-year, 850 million dollar program to control floods in the entire Mississippi basin and change the character of the river from a destructive giant to a productive pro-ductive force. He strongly implied that the present pres-ent congress should undertake the immense, long-range task before its adjournment. A number of senators immediately threw their support behind the President's proposal. In general, the construction program pro-gram as outlined by Mr. Truman would provide a coordinated system of storage reservoirs in all the major ma-jor tributary basins of the Mississippi, Missis-sippi, coupled with levees, flood-walls flood-walls and diversion channels to protect pro-tect cities, towns and farms in those basins. Also, he proposed that soil conservation con-servation measures be put into effect ef-fect farther up-river on the tributaries tribu-taries of each mhjor basin in order to retard the flow and run-off of waters from heavy rains and reduce re-duce topsoil loss. RACKET: Training Hit Dr. Allan Bates, a Chicago scientist, scien-tist, testified before a house armed services sub-committee that universal univer-sal military training has become "a vicious political racket" and will be "a horrible cancer on the United States." He cited the fate of European na- , tions in the last war, declaring that despite assurances from their top army leaders that universal training train-ing would safeguard them from invasion in-vasion they all fell before the Nazi blitzkrieg. As an alternative to universal military mil-itary training. Bates said the United States should concentrate on a strong striking force, a large air force, strong reserves and a well organized national guard, all backed by adequate scientific and industrial industri-al research. JOHNSON act too hastily." However, the council did schedule sched-ule two special meetings in response re-sponse to an American request to speed up the discussion of trouble in southeastern Europe. Russia objected ob-jected to this, too, charging that the U. S. was attempting to "prove that an extraordinary situation had been created in Greece." Main U. S. proposal for working out the difficulty in Greece calls for Yanks Are Coming The conservative Athens newspaper Elinikon Aima has reported on "excellent" authority author-ity that United Stales troops will aid Greece' halt further invasions in-vasions such as the one government govern-ment forces now are righting. The newspaper quoted an American spokesman as saying, say-ing, "The United States are decided de-cided to contribute to the safeguard safe-guard of Greek freedom and independence, in-dependence, even with American Ameri-can armed forces." establishment of a powerful 11-na-tion border patrol with authority to scout both sides of the borders separating sep-arating Greece from the Communist-dominated countries of Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, Bulgaria and Albania. War Again As additional troops were sent up to reinforce both the invading leftist guerrillas and the Greek government govern-ment forces, the swiftly developing battle in the rugged heights of northern Greece began to take on a cast reminiscent of the Spanish civil war. The war ministry disclosed that six strong guerrilla units had been concentrated along the Albanian "and Yugoslav frontiers of Greece and that all were poised to join the original invasion force of 2,000 which government troops had so far been able to repel. Napoleon Zervas, defense minis- |
