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Show NEWS REVIEW . Conserve Food: Truman; U.N. Adopts Agenda ; FOOD PLANS: Conservation It wasn't hard for President Truman Tru-man to figure out: Europe is in desperate des-perate need of food from the U. S.. but the U. S. will leave itself wide open for even greater price spiralling spiral-ling if it boosts its exports much higher. ine answer, ne told a special press f conference, is food conservation by i all Americans. It is not a matter of eating any less, he said, but of i wasting less. In line with that, he announced the setting up of a citizens food committee com-mittee to develop a food conservation conserva-tion program in the nation. Charles Luckman of Cambridge, Mass., president pres-ident of Lever Brothers, was named president. Regarding Europe, Mr. Truman said the food and fuel situation there is too critical to allow time for detailed de-tailed study. Titus, apparently in an emergency frame of mind, the President Presi-dent called together congressional leaders to discuss possible steps that could be taken immediately to aid the starving continent. If possible, he said, he would not call a special session of congress if stop-gap aid for Europe could be pushed through without resorting resort-ing to that step. Americans could start preparing for a heavy barrage of food conservation con-servation propaganda. TOUGH AGENDA: No Dodging United Nations general assembly proved at least one thing in the first I wees oi us current session it isn t i going to dodge any issues. After riotous preliminary sessions in which they heard the U. S. and Russia flay each other verbally and U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie call for an end to feuding, the delegates dele-gates voted doggedly to take on the entire list of tough, almost insoluble problems standing as a barrier to ' world accord. Among the items admitted to the agenda were the partition of Palestine, Pales-tine, peace in the Balkans, independence independ-ence of Korea and Marshall's pro posal to reorganize U. N. machinery to hold a tighter rein on the turbu- j lent peace. Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky's ' resolution calling on member na ! tions to take criminal action against warmongering propagandists was whole-heartedly admitted to debate, probably because it will provide a chance to mull over the concept of freedom of the press. BSOLVED: lirohito Even while five high-ranking Japanese Jap-anese army and navy officers were being hanged by the neck in payment pay-ment for their crimes of cannibalism, cannibal-ism, torture and murder of U. S. prisoners, Emperor Hirohito was being be-ing publicly absolved of any responsibility respon-sibility for the Pacific war by the chief U. S. war crimes prosecutor. Joseph B. Kennan told the international inter-national war crimes tribunal that "The prosecution believes the people in the dock are really responsible for this war. If there had been anyone any-one else, they would be in the dock too." |
