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Show I WfEKI.Y NfWS ANALYSIS I). H. Says Cease Fire in Palestine; Truman Asks More Defense Funds; U. S. Atom Control Plan Approved By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whm pinion arc eipreiard In thett column!, Inn? re thou of tVcateta Newspaper Union' ntw analyst! and not neeeuarlly of this nePP'-- ' George Polk ft y . i - w ' - - '"...'i i SQUABBLE: Yugoslavia Russia continues not only to hav great and 6 United States and differences with most of the memoe Tntries of the United Nations bu rift with the up-sta- ri Satellite also is growing worse in. StTHETROuJLE original began witnin the framework of the Comin. Information Bu-reau), form (Communist the master organization which Russia controls her atellL, wh,n Marshall Tito, sa. his nation would not bow to tha Cominform edict ordering Yugo-slavia to make itself a precise of Soviet Russia in all politick and economic aspects. And in recent weeks the "heresy of Tito and the central committee of the Yugoslav Communist party absolute and has become more more determined than ever. THAT holds true despite the fact that Yugoslav Foreign Minister Ed-wa- Kardelj has been displaying firm adherence to the position of the Russian bloc in the United Nations general assembly arguments. WALLACE: On to '52 Henry Wallace, the incorrigibly incorrect visionary, who stumped the political experts by gef ing his Progressive party on the ballots of 43 states, now is working hard to keep his party alive for the 1952 campaign. election speech in De-troit In a pre he criticized "doubters" who argue that although a new party is needed, it shouldn't be formed until 1910. WHILE Wallace didn't name any names he obviously was referring to the United Auto Workers, headed by Walter Reuther. who had an-nounced p.ans to form a "genuine" third party of progressive-minde- d people after the election. The UAW leadership had con-demned the Wallace third party as a Communist-inspire- d movement and supported President Truman for re election. IN THE waning days of the cam-paign Wallace was appealing to his followers to stick with him after November 2. "I hope you are with j us all the way after November 2," he told one audience, putting heavy emphasis on the word "after." "You've got to drive it home to the rank-and-fil- e of the UAW, and all labor: 'Where do "we go after November 2?' " But wherever they were going, it didn't look like Wallace would be in a position to do much guiding. Coming Event CEASEFIRE: Holy Land Almost before anyone knew whal was happening fierce fighting be-tween Israeli and Egyptian forces had flared into bloom in the Negev, southern Palestine desert area. ISRAELI government spokesmen said the purpose of the Israeli at-tack was to smash open the road tc Jewish settlements in the Negev. Blocked transportation lines had prevented the Jews from running supply convoys to isolated settle ments in the district. But Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting Palestine mediator for the U. N.. In his report to the security coun-cil, told a different story. Blame for the eruption .of righting in the Negev, he said, was not a "question of black and white." "EACH side has soiled its hands in the grim business of trying to win a war through the instrumental-ity of a forced truce," was his ver-sion of the conflict. By the time the battle had pro-ceeded savagely for six days the harassed U. N. security council had had enough. It commanded both Arabs and Jews to issue immedi-ate cease-fir- e orders. Earlier, Bunche had attempted promote a three-da- y truce in the fighting, with each side holding the positions it then was occupying The effort fell through, however when Israel rejected the proposal. EVEN as the security council act-ed the fighting was spreading from the Negev to other fronts in the Holy Land along the Jerusalem Tel Aviv highway, where Tran-Jorda- n forces were grouped, northeast of Tel Aviv in are.i? by other Arab forces. Results of the security ! der, at the outset, at lea disappointing. Each side shift the blame to the other, n appeared willing to hold the ban io Palestine truce observers in-formed the United Nations that tiie Israeli forces generally appeared to be the attackers in the new fighting that had developed outside the southern front in the Negev. CONTROL PLAN: Last May, George Polk, CBS correspondent, was taken out on Salonika bay in a boat where he was blindfolded, bound hand and foot and shot through the head. His murderers: Communists. Their motive: Simply to produce a murder, the blame for which might he pinned on the rightist Greek government In order to de-fame it abroad. Gregory Stakto-poulo- s. Communist Salonika news-paperman, confessed he had wit-nessed the slaying and implicated three other Greek Commun - DEFENSE: Big Budget World tension had slacked off htly, but according to President urnan's estimate on next year s use budget the U. S. doesn't in-- : t relax its vigilance on that .. :nt .MILITARY budget for 104!) k a neat 14.4 billion dollars- -- ' .' is, if Mr. Truman's current ;e .est doesn't get trimmed. It rep-resents an otitlay about two billion dnlia-- s higher than the figure at whir:. fense spending is running lt doesn't make any difference whether President Truman won or lost the election. He still was re-quired to prepare budget estimates for the coneress convening next i I ' I ' ' ' ' ' 1 For Atoms How to establish effective, work able control of atomic enemy t i International scale is one ,' rocks upon which the U.N t . most foundered more th;i-- ' but the situation beiran to ; ,i shade or two brighter when ti Nations suddenly steeie-- j tt.i resistance to almost impossih:.? Iiti.-.-eia-demands on the issue OVER the objections of the t Oloc. the U N. political committee overwhelmingly endorsed the we1' ern plan for atomic control necessary basis for eventual nation of atomic weapons The conflict which has r ; t atomic control problem de.s ' tor so long is simply this: The U. S. and the West insist ti.' an air-tig- system of international control and inspection must be es-tablished before the U. S. would feel safe in destroying its atomic weapons. The resolution which the political committee adopted is generally in line with the American policy. The plenary session of the general as-sembly was expected to give a routine final approval. Peculiarly enough, this was first time since Bernard l.tu...n presented the American plan to the atomic energy commisison in June. 1946. that all of the United had a chance to vote on it Previ-ously atomic energy was discussed only in the security council and the atomic energy commission. SHORTLY prior to the U.N ac-tion the U. S. had demanded that the world group turn the deadlocked problem oyer to the five great pow-ers and Canada for direct negotia-tions. At that time Warren R. Austin, chief U. S. delegate, had told the political committee' that the U.N. coi'ld go no further in its etl'orts to control the atom until th" Soviet union agreed to "pnrtici! in the world community on a i operative basis." HOW much good the U.N, vu', approval would do as long as t:,e Russians continued to object was a question that remained hang.ng lire It was conceded generally that, regardless of how much satisfaction the western nations might achieve by thus overruling and snubbing Moscow, the paramount problem that of preserving the peaceprob-ably had not been moved very far along the road to a solution. ' January.) The President said that his de- -' tense officials had wanted a budget of around 23 billion dollars for the fiM-a- l year starting July 1, but that he had cut them back to the ' : ' :':'on figure. ''."ITU RARE candor he adn...- .i! it would take a Croesus to mrttain spending as many billions the officials wanted. His own .mi, Mr. Truman said, was to ge' a military program the country could pay for. He added that he hoped eventu-- iy to reduce military expenditures io about tive to seven billion doi-;.ir- s a remarkably optimistic state-- ' nt. coming as it did before the i lion when he was conceded vir-tually no chance of being able to control any kind of governmental spending after the first of the year. ATOM 1'LAiNE: Spvph Years? Look up into the sky in about sev-en years and you might see an atomic-powere- d airplane scudding across the clouds. Scientists now think there is a good chance that nuclear-propelle- d aircraft will be in production by that time. AN OAK RIDGE scientist, David M. Poole, startled the atom-consciou- s public with the announce-- , nient that the theory of an atoin-- j driven airplane has been worked out to completion and is ready to tie translated by engineers into actual plans for such a plane The nuclear scientists .. ,v-- thought out a way to tap the power of a mobile atomic pile. Poole said The problems ahead are to rie vise the engine, fuselage and con-- trols and to build a shield to pro-- ! tect the plane's crew. Poole disclosed that the scien-tists have made tip their minds how to make the best use of the n-whose source is the heat r ed in an atomic pile. What kind of engine will trt chain the tremendous poi centrated in the uranium fueiv rocket-thrus- t motor was tried and abandoned, said Poole. Steam tur-bine, turbo-je- t and ram jet all were nssed off. I'UE POWER unit will be a "nu- - ear rocket." Just what a nuclear rocket might be is top-secr- mfor-mation- All anyone can even guess at at this point is that it probably involves a new principle of appli-- I cation of power. Ail the way through the now his-torical election campaign one thing was sure: Somebody would get to be President. On that the-ory work was begun last month on stands in front of the Capitol building in Washington which will be used for the inauguration cere-mony next January. This odd-ang- le view was taken from the Capitol dome. JAPAN: On the Spot Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Eichel-berger- . former military governor of occupied Japan, admitted he j might have made a mistake in not leaving the Japanese a few guns for their own protection. IT BOILS down as most inter-- ! national difficulties do these days to a matter of Communism and Communist inlluences inside the country. As a matter of fact, said Eichel berger, Communist pressure in Jal'an and the Far East in genera' may force the U. S. to carry out a limited rearmament of the Japa-- ru se. "i believe I went too far in dit-arming the Japanese," he said ihey need a few machine gum i"id niles to protect themselves against internal disturbances "If AXD when the Amencar army withdraws, the Japanese wil have to be g:ven something with wh,ch t0 defend tnemselves- -a strong police force or a smal j arn-.y.- Communist influence in Japan he saui, "is about the same as it j. here. They are a nu.sance beyonc their numerical strength. But if. always the wrong guy that gets thj pistols." ANOTHER CONE: JSazi General Ua ther von Brauchitsch died in th. British military hospital at Ham nurg, Germany, where he was un der guard awaiting trial as a maioi war criminal. ritl'sh "my's announcemen- of the death did not state the Von Brauchitsch. who was 67 had been ill for rome t ane scheduled to come up for WaM' Hamburg in January " j ivmam U. S. Presidents Respect Members of Fourth Estate By BAUKHAGE Newt Anulyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. In this post-electi- on calm which has settled over the domestic political scene, many a vest, shirt, blouse, or slip in the capital conceals a palpitating heart. What about my government job after the glad (?) New Year? The regular classified civil servants haven't much to fear. They can't be fired without cause, and no matter how thorough a new admin-istration- 's housecleaning may be, most of the furniture lands right back where it was before, although here and there, you may at first fail to recognize an old friend in a new slipcover. Long ago most 100 per cent New Dealers in high places displayed the Baukhage wisdom which they felt was the better part of valor and va-moosed. Others assumed new col-ors. Some who had not been too careful previous-ly to keep the right hand from knowing what the left hand was do-ing gradually be-gan to grow am-bidextrous and soon were able to write the lesson be the public relations secretary in the White House. The other was a man who probably won't be in Washington at all Dewey's veteran political adviser, Edwin Jaeckle. There was no conflict between the two, a rare situation indeed. Jaeckle supplemented Hagerty. This would seem to contradict the sharp charges of Warren Moscow, author of "Politics in the Empire State" which came out this fall. Moscow, one of New York City's top-ran- k political reporters, who also covered Albany, claims that Dewey shut down news sources dur-ing his governorship in an attempt to thwart any criticism. That he even tried to lay down a press con-ference rule that a question was "off the record," thus covering up the fact that an answer had been given not to be made public or had been refused. Moscow asserts that Dewey wanted to be the oracle, the one and only, the sole source of what should be reported. If that was true earlier in Dewey's career, the dapper New Yorker who has been widely-toute- d of late for being able to take advice and for being able to pick people who know how to advise, has had some good advice. If he should revert to methods such as Moscow describes, two things would happen: first, he would suiler; second, he would fail In his attempt, and the effects of the effort might be permanently disastrous. Some presidents have tried to conduct government by dis-turbing the "checks and bal-ances." It never works lung and the freedom of the press is one of the checks a prin-ciple that is part and parcel of the American concept of ; government. on the blackboard without exposing the wedding-rin- g finger. There is however one class of permanent Washingtonians which goes on like the brook. But even individuals in this class may find the nature of their daily tasks dif-fering slightly as administrations change. I refer, of course, to the Fourth Estate which now includes commentators (since radio news-men as well as newspapermen are eligible to the National Press club), thus establishing at least a mini-mum standard of merit. Naturally we who cover the White House always wonder what manner of man we are going to have to handle. While new incumbent Is learning the art of getting his name favorably Inserted into a Wash-ington dispatch or broadcast we have a chance to learn the care and feeding of the source of news which feeds the news to os. Once Dewey had a bad reputa-tion in this regard. But then, most candidates are suspect before they Start, since it is taken for granted that they all are subject to the dis-ease of presidentitis which afTerts victims differently. Coolidue, . for instance, was per haps least afflicted with this malady that attacks the strongest individ-ual when he walks under the white-pillare- d portico of 1600 Pennsyl-vania avenue to stay for at least four years. And Coolidge was about as rich in front page material of his own making as the clam he sought, to emulate. I remember a remark William Hard, now an editor of Reader's Digest, once made to me: "Cal never seemed to suiler from presidentitis" (Hard invented the word, I believe) "he is the only occupant of the White House I know of who, when he lay down to take his daily siesta, didn't think when he awoke that the world had gone to pieces." No newsman, except toward the last, could complain about Franklin Roosevelt's news con-ferences. Regardless of what one might think of his views, his news was always printable. It will be hard to produce an-other such. The heavy majority of those who traveled with Dewey on his cam-paign trips had nothing but praise. But a few of those who had ex-perienced his press conferences, and had enjoyed or otherwise his press relations in earlier days were cynical. "Wait," they said, "until the honeymoon is over." I found it hard to get concrete predictions. I myself had seen a vast improvement in Dewey's press relations over the years since his first campaign. And I see no rea- - son why a person can't and doesn't learn. On the train, whenever he could (and that is the way most of the correspondents described it "could," not "would"), Dewey went into the press car attached to his train, chatted individually with the fellows, learned to connect names with new faces, answered questions, and at kast appeared to be frank and free with his "off the record" remarks concerning Re- - publican doubts and fears, real, im-agined, or assumed. He sometimes took time for a game of chess "with the boys." There was, however, less Informality in the : of his entourage tuan there was in Truman's. The Dewey affair moved so smooth-ly that a creak or two would have been welcome. Like the farmer in the poem "so even I ran his course of life the neigh bors thought it odd." There was one man who made press relations on the Dewey cam-paign train a joy well, two men. Ore was Jim Hagerty, trained re-porter himself, who is expected to A notable example of how the very weight of the news, legitimate news, breaks through any wall, was the case of the financial conference called by President Hoover just be-fore the end of his regime 1931, to be exact. Hoover had no intention whatever of deceiving the public. He simply didn't understand that you couldn't have a gathering like that without making an adequate explanation of some kind. At any rate just a bare announcement Free Press Is r."st Check j i next day at the White House ' . conference, Hoover said he would not comment on the meeting (though the notice had' appeared in the papers), and that he consid-ered it the duty of the press not to print anything which was only par-tially true, or else incomplete. Richard Oulihan of the New York Times, one of the most be-loved and respected correspondents who ever covered Washington, and an outstanding leader, made a typ-ically dignified, but very emphatic protest then and there. He said it was out of the question to ask the reporters not to get as complete a story as they could. It was pointed out by another well-know- n reporter that the press would have to have the story, and the reporters would have to get it, regardless of the President's wishes. The President refused at first, but the reporters insisted. Finally he agreed to give out an official state-ment after the conference. I have known other examples of short-live- d gag rules. One which Secretary of the Treas-ury Morgenthau tried to estab-lish on the treasury. He issued an order that none of the treas-ury ollicials could talk with newsmen. He might as well have told reporters not to read the market quotations. It failed. Legitimate news continued to be 'torted as it always had been. :anklin Roosevelt had, at one M..e, at least 80 per cent of the newspapers "against" him. He knew he couldn't change their edi-torial views by giving out news to their representatives. He also knew that if he tried to withhold news, the American people would be far less likely to support him. And be- - cause he understood the meaning of the freedom of the press, he wouldn't have thought of trying. And he knew how to make it appear as favorable as possible. The most effective check in a democracy is not the first, second or third, but the fourth estate. An unenlightened public conceivably might elect a totally bad president and a totally bad congress which would establish a totally bad su-preme court, but unless the press is gagged, the public in a democracy cannot be democratically unen-lightened. develop his interest s In, build one &' Pss wagons from' gem offered be; exactly a. 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The blessed event arrives at George-town Univ. Hosp. ... The Rex Har-rison-want friends to know they are more in love than anybody. ... Ed-die Cantor's dghtr, Marilyn, and socialite thrush Hugh Shannon ol Le Perroquet are on key. ... Do the Marcus (novelist) Goodrlchej (Olivia DeHaviland) know that hii Helen's been a secret bride sine Aug? She's Mrs. H. McEldowney ol Pittsburgh's Lorgnette Set. . . . The Freddy Bartholomews should count ten hundred. ... Bill Eythe, star ol "Lend an Ear" (due soon), and Nancy Kelly are closer than Tru-man and Oblivion. rres. Truman's advisers are begging him to use his title of Commander-ln-Chlc- f and re-verse the clemency decision on Nazi butcher Use Koch and oth-ers freed by Gen. Clay. . . . Con-demnation letters to the Presi-dent (over this judicial farce) now crowd most of the White House mailboxes. The International Airport Show and the Golden Jubilee Exposition in New York City may cost the city a million bux, so anemic were the . . . New Canaan edi-- i tors are checking the tip that the wealthy P. Hanson Hisses will be news. He's cousin to Alger Hiss, who isn't going steady anymore with the Spy Probers. . . . Scott Brady of the films and Shirley Bal-lard are Counting Stars. . . . Eve Orten is Richard Ney's new insom-nia. . . . Arthur T. Robb and News-- week got unmarried. He was in its Press section. ... Do the ship lines deny advising against foreign travel after Jan. 1st? OVERSEAS TICKER: Gen. Clay tnd Irench Commander Koenig are at u ar on bow Allied Germany should be run. . . . Molotov is expected to make a last moment Barry more en-trance at the UN. . . . Arms are be-in- g smuggled into Egypt in defiance of the US truce. Everyone just winks. . . . Ellen Adler, beautiful dghtr of ictress Stella Adler, and playwright lean Paul Sartre are a duetcetera in Paree. . . . Violinists in Paris swank ifiots (such as the Lido) get $2.75 per night in U. S. money. , . . The Duke of Windsor may return to England solo to seek an official job. (Wot could 'e doooo.3). . . . Field Marshal von Rundstet of Hitler's army, allegedly in prisoner of war camp in Wales, fpends most of his time touring Lon-don night spots with British top brass. . . Mayor LaGuardia's nephew, Rich-tr- d Gluck, is now in a Berlin court Hght over who adopts him. When the colyum reported that Franco's Gov't sent Japan congratul-ations after the attack on Pearl Harbor that fact was questioned by some readers and listeners. Some sditorialists echoed the denial. . . . "This is a canard which cannot be proven!" said one. . . . Veriwell. See page 114 of the book, "Compla-cent Dictator." The publisher is Knopf. . . . The author is Viscount Templewood, who was Britain's wartime ambassador. . . . Page 114 says in part: "Serrano Suner was s wrong about the results of Pearl Harbor as the Japanese Minister. He also seemed to think that it was a decisive victory for the Axis. In any :ase, he ordered the staff of his Min-str- y to leave cards of congratula-tion at the Japanese Legation the lay following the outrage." Jim Farley was recently quot-ed from Madrid as saying: "Yes, I've heard such things always by the left-win- g press!" . . . Leftwing or lefthook? Broadway Stardust: Critic George lean Nathan (famous for walking ut tn new shows) rejected an in-vitation to occupy a colleague's ex-r- a seat closer to the stage. ... "I hslike leaving my seat empty," he la'd. J'lfs unfair to the manage-nent.- " . . . Whipping up a best-lelle- r doesn't always mean you'll ing the bells on the Hollywood cash egisters. Variety reveals the top lve fiction aces have been ignored y the movies. Yet they are always wailing about the scarcity of expert tones. . . . prof, Cugaf s rhumbas md sambas are graaaand, but this an wishes he'd leave the jokes to he experts. This metropolis (New York) Is composed not merely of stone and steel: It also contains 285 farms! By cracky, there Is even a farm In Manhattan at 2141b street. Hows crops, Elmer? The word bank originated from Jie Italian word, banca, meaning sencn. In Venice banking was car-ded on in the market place. In 1787 the motto, "Mind your r.Ulev''" W8 '"tinted on coins, gets credit for that DEFENSE SURVEY Experts Eve U. S. Mobilization Plans Top military planners are rushing work to complete a spot-chec- k of United States mobilization require-ments by November 15. The check will disclose whether the United States over-al- l strategic defense plan makes sense and whether it can be applied readily. Mobilization experts intend to find out if the requirements listed by the army, navy and air force can be reconciled with one another, and if this nation has the capacity to fill the military's estimated wartime needs. i All this doesn't mean that war is j necessarily around the corner. Com-- I prehensive analyses of the strategic ; blueprint are routine steps in U. S. j mobilization planning. However, ; the spot-chec- k is in line with the j faster military tempo these days. |