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Show NEWS REVIEW Aid to Poland Cancelled; Reds Delay Jap Treaty "the big shots in Washington," but apparently held no animosity toward to-ward the President. Later, he was sent to a Washington Washing-ton hospital for observation. The coincidental appearance of President Truman in the senate chamber was the result of a dare which he took while having lunch with some of his former colleagues from the senate. He spoke for five minutes from the seat he held as the senator from Missouri, dwelling largely on the "auld lang syne" theme. READING PUBLIC: 49 Per Cent Heard It is probably a safe surmise that Secretary of State George Marshall was shocked clear down to the bottom bot-tom of his briefcase when a Gallup poll revealed that only about 49 per cent of America's voting population had heard or read of his celebrated cele-brated plan for repairing and rebuilding re-building Europe's shattered economy. econ-omy. On the other hand, he could take some consolation from the fact 57 per cent of those who were aware of the Marshall plan also approved of it. (The plan, in simple terms, was e suggestion to the European nations that they get together to work out their economic saltation on a cooperative, coopera-tive, sell-help basis. Playing a major role in financing the recovery would be American money obtained through taxation of both the 49 per cent who had beard of the plan and the 51 per cent who hadn't.) Here is the first question which Gallup pollsters asked: "Have you heard or read about the Marshall plan for helping Europe get back on its feet?" POLAND AID: t Canceled Following a report by U. S. survey sur-vey mission that Poland has enough food to meet her minimum requirements require-ments at least for this year, the state department canceled Poland's share of the 350 million dollar American relief program. In its announcement, the state department de-partment said that special items, such as medical supplies and sup-lementary sup-lementary foodstuffs for particular groups, could be supplied Poland through private relief agencies and other organizations. The announcement added: "In view of the above and of the fact that funds available are sufficient suffi-cient to meet only the most urgent relief needs, it has been decided not to undertake a relief program for Poland." Next on the list, according to indications, in-dications, might be Hungary, where better crop prospects are in sight. The state department said that the decision to cut off relief to Poland was based entirely on the relative needs of European countries. coun-tries. No official comment was made on the fact that Poland is well within the Soviet sphere of influence in-fluence and that Hungary is definitely defi-nitely Communist-dominated. NEW SPLIT: Peace Treaty Russia's rejection of the United States proposal for drafting a Japa- ! nese peace treaty is showing up as another breach in the already badly weakened structure of American-Soviet American-Soviet unity. In addition, it may delay indefinitely indefi-nitely work on a peace treaty for Japan which, the United States contends, con-tends, is an absolute necessity if the conquered nation is to get back on its economic feet. American proposals for beginning begin-ning the task of writing a treaty on August 19 were turned down by Moscow on the grounds that the U. S. was attempting to act unilaterally uni-laterally and without having made any previous agreements with Great Britain, China or Russia. Major question now facing the United States and other nations interested in-terested in making progress on a Far East peace settlement is whether to go ahead with the writing writ-ing of the Japanese peace treaty without Russia. GUN TOTER: Coincidence For a few minutes Washington police thought they might have a would-be assassin on their hands when they picked up a man carrying carry-ing a gun inside the capitol just after President Truman had made a visit to the senate chamber. But Clifton R. H. Spires, 39, of Augusta, Ga., arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, appeared ap-peared more confused than anyone else about the affair. He seemed to think that he had a grudge against |