Show NEWS REVIEW greek reek warfare flares X flood F X 0 od curbs advocated the united nations security coun oil ell 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 macreas ing strife in greece when herschel V johnson dep uty U S delegate warned that the crisis developing in greece may burst into explosion any day andrel andrei gro oro ayko soviet dele 0 I 1 k gate protested 41 that an emergency aw debate on the issue w was a s unnecessary and an d france added that the united nations must not JOHNSON act too hastily however the council did sched ule two special meetings in re to an american request to speed up the discussion of trouble in southeastern europe russia ob ejected 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 tor for working out the difficulty in greece calls for yanks are coming the conservative athens A t h e n s newspaper Eli nikon aima has reported on excellent author ity that united states troops will aid greece halt further in evasions such as the one govern ment forces now are fighting the newspaper quoted an american spokesman as say tog ing the united states are decided to contribute to the safeguard of greek freedom and in dependence even with ameri amerl can armed forces establishment of a powerful 11 na tion border patrol with authority to scout both sides of the borders sep abating greece from the comma dominated countries of yugo slavia bulgaria and albania war again As additional troops were sent up to reinforce both the invading leftist guerrillas and the greek 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 which government troops had so far been able to repel napoleon defense minis ter told a press conference at loan 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 depart ment announcement said that one invading force of 2 had been gripped in a pincers nine miles from albania and that a battle of annihilation was in progress A sec see ond column was halted in its drive toward joannina lo Io annina and surrounded by the government troops FLOOD CONTROL 10 year program terming the problem one of des urgency president tru man in a special message to con gress proposed that a swift start be made on a 10 year million dollar program to control floods in the entire mississippi basin and change the character of the river from a destructive giant to a pro force he strongly implied that the pres ent congress should undertake the immense long range task before its adjournment A number of senators immediately threw their support behind the president presidents s proposal in general the construction pro 9 gram ram as outlined by mr truman would provide a coordinated system of storage reservoirs in all the ma jor tributary basins of the sippi coupled with levees flood walls and diversion channels to pro hect cities towns and farms in those basins also he proposed that soil con measures be put into ef feet farther up river on the tribu tanes of each major basin in order to retard the flow and runoff run oft of waters from heavy rams rains and re duce topsoil loss RACKET training hit dr allan bates a chicago s cien aist testified before a house armed services committee subcommittee sub that 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 eions in the last war declaring that despite assurances from their lop top army leaders that universal train ing would safeguard them from in they all tell fell before the nazi blitzkrieg As an alternative to universal mil gitary 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 Indu industry al research |