| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS palestine trouble leads heads for climax ima As erab arab nations prepare to attack dives gives warning to russ I 1 by bill staff writer EDITOR S NOTE when opinion opinions are expressed la in these columns they are those of western newspaper union a 8 new news analysts and not necessarily of thi this newspaper CLIMAX palestine with a clashing of arm arms and a babble of alarmed voices ev events ants in palestine appeared to be piling up tor for another minor but bloody climax in human history th s particular ens cris s had its im mediate beginning in a savage at tack on the A arab rab city of jaffa by members of leumi jew ish underground force fact that the foray against jaffa was made in defiance of orders by the regular jewish militia carried no weight in the rush of in that followed from palestine s coastal plain site of the neighboring cities of jaffa arab and tel aviv jewish the focal point of the disturbances moved swiftly inland to the holy city of jerusalem arabs and jews hastily deployed their on the scene forces in tion for what stacked up to be a maior battle for possession of jeru salem facing each other across a scant yards of no man mans s land each s de had its eyes fixed on the strategic kalamein camp which the british were evacuating but that gasn wasn t all it soon be oame came apparent that the arab league nations surrounding palestine did not intend to stay out of this fight reports were current that six arab nat ons had decided to invade the holy land with ground sea and air forces before the british ended their mandate on may 15 the whole thing was shaping up in the form of a more or less total arab effort to crush completely the jewish intention of creat ng a zionist state in palestine Palest me worried united nations delegates meanwhile cast about for a means to prevent the inevitable carnage or at least to preserve the city of jerusalem france pushed its sponsorship of a heavily armed volunteer U N po lice corps to safeguard jerusalem hint of the make up of such a force was given in the suggestion that it might include new york police volunteers but no russians this protective army would number from to members while the palestine palest ne situation leaped into a frantic state of flux the united states kept discreetly out of it all in conformation to its re bently adopted policy of apparent d sincerest sin terest to what happens in the holy land DEFIANCE two issues in a surprise speech at a dinner given by Mi michigan chikan chambers of commerce for the state a congles dional delegation sen arthur van denberg served notice on russia that the united states may join west ithe era ern europe in a military alii ili ance against communist aggression and we shall not surrender to corn coin 2 eunist conspiracies in the unit ed states thus the chief republican ent ct of bi partisan bipartisan foreign policy split the rind on two issues which like grapefruit will come more and more to be in the public eye as this year wears on simply stated those two issues are whether the U S should I 1 ne up militarily alongside the recently formed union of western european nations and whether the communist party should be outlawed in this country they could become decisive issues in the presidential campaign in deed harold stassen already has introduced one of them by coming out bluntly in favor of outlawing communists in the U S said we are sui bidal tools fools it if we do not root out and destroy any treason at home which may dream of bring ng world revola tion to the united states the michigan senator only hinted at a U S military alliance with western europe but his remarks hardly could be misconstrued what Vana enberg didn dian t say is that wh ie le the U S has no formal or cial role in the un on of western eu nations american aid and support mil tary wise of that un on almost ginev tably bably is impi ed whether or not th s nation will grant that assurance will come to be a towering quest on in the public mind soon SKYHIGH SKY HIGH bombing A team of air force and army ordnance men is seeking better methods of h eting p n po nt bomb targets from extremely high alti alta tudes audes out of reach of most anti air craft guns or tighter planes this jo 0 o nt organ izat on is conduct ing most of ts secret tests in the Cali califord forn a desert at duroc air base it s ass gement is to carry out re search in bomb ng bechn ques par ticul arly at h gh alt tu es OUTLOOK the dim peace gen omar N bradley army chief of staff was taking a dim view of the possibilities of peace in fact he admitted to the senate armed services committee the pros hect of a war is appreciably greater now than it was three months ago adding forcefully to the pattern of evidence which U S armed forces representatives have been construct mg ing to support their requests for a military draft and universal tram ing bradley said I 1 th we would be neglecting our duty it if we d d not try to tell you that we are a little bit more afra d something will happen than we were three months ago when we were talk ing in terms of reserves and he added we are not so sure that war might not be looming in the immediate future to his testimony bradley appended th s cl richer we know that we are all speaking about russia there it was a responsible ap by the chief of staff of where the present talking war between russia and the U S might lead what caused general bradley to think the situation is more cratl critical cal now than it was three months ago he d t say but there Is only one apparent explanation the tide of power politics has turned against russia and is moving in favor of the western democracies with ERP beginning to channel money and supplies into europe the t elds felds most favorable to communist growth poverty hunger and dis satisfaction are starting to be re claimed As far as getting control of west ern europe was concerned comma fists saw their main chance go gl amering when they lost the ital lan ian election they have in short gone beyond the stage where they can carry out territorial acquisitions through pol coups in order to expand further now russia probably would have to apply force which in this case would be the red army and that may be why general bradley thinks war Is more of a likelihood now than it was three months ago for atoms to expand further further the constantly widening f elds of atomic research a g gant c new cyclotron will be built at the university of california at a total cost of nine million dol lars in announcing the project the atomic energy commission said the new cyclotron commonly known as an atom would be 20 tunes times more powerful than the 4 ton ma chine currently in operation at the berkeley dinst aution david E lilienthal LIhen thal chair man provided a hint as to the kind of long range planning tor for peace the commiss on is visual z ng when he said that the new cyclotron serves notice to the world that it is the in tent of the people of the united states to be pre eminent in the de of fundamental science of all kinds engineering already is under way on the huge atom splitter but it will take five years before it is corn coin plated conceived as 20 times more powerful than the most powerful cy flotron now ng it will pro duce atomic bullets ranging in force from six billion to 10 bill on volts at lare large a secretary of commerce W aver ell harriman his been named by pi es dent truman as ambassador at large for the european recovery program harriman resigned his cabinet post immediately target A r Y walter P reuther Ben ther president preside nt of the united auto workers CIO was seriously wounded when he was shot by an unknown assailant who fired a shotgun at him hirn through the window of his detroit home communists were suspected of being behind the attack because of reuther a strong opposition to them in the union MINERS temporary let not the public be deceived by the spell of quiet that is reigning in the nation a soft coal mines and the temporary evaporation ot of john L lewis from the stage As it looks now this peaceful situ aaion Is good only until june 30 even while the miners continue to chop coal in the pits they make it clear that they expect to go back to their fishing on that date june 30 Is the day the present wage agreement between the united mine workers and the coal operators expires it Is possible of course that a new agreement may be reached before then but it Is impossible to find anyone who thinks so after lewis tussle with federal judge T alan goldsborough in which he and the union were fined a total of 1 1420 the miners went back to work after hearing john L a wish that they do so this how ever Is regarded as merely a tern tem horary truce one of the reasons advanced tor for lewis cantankerous delay in coming to terms on the pension dispute was that the mine leader was eking out the work stoppage as long as pos sible in order to deplete the nation a coal reserves and so put himself in a better bargain ng position when the contract begot actions came up that he accomplished that end there is no gainsaying coal stocks went down almost to zero all over the country result ng in curtailment of steel production a cut in rail travel and various major and minor industrial shutdowns it is a fact too that industry will not have recovered its balance clentry by june 30 to cope adequately with whatever emergency lewis might precipitate this time FOOD PRICES logical not that it makes it any e easier asier to pay the grocery bill but the rea sons why food prices are so high are no mystery U S has been channelling food and resources into foreign countries at a rate and volume naver before approached also every american able to digest solid food is eating 17 per cent more than he did before the war finally until just recently con sumers have been spending their money on food because there was nothing much else available to buy those conclusions were reached by university of wisconsin economists after an investigation into the causes of current high price levels center of the whole spiral are grain gram prices strong exports of corn and wheat caused an upswing in prices on the commod ty markets more eapen sive grains cause prices of flour bread ham pork loin and rib roast roasts to go up OREGON next up after whirling breezily through ohio to the thorough disgruntlement of sen robert taft campaign ng harold E stassen set his political s gats on the may 21 oregon primary election where he was due to joust with gov thomas E dewey tor for that state s republican convent on delegates in a kickoff kick off address in portland stassen refurbished his foreign and domestic policies tor for the ed fi cation of oregon voters who will elect the 12 member GOP delegation stassen was taking his oregon campaign seriously because a larga large measure of importance was being attached to the election insofar as it would provide the f test of west coast op nion on republican dennial contenders SHORTAGE farm machinery chinery Ala behind the present shortage ot of farm machinery in the U S lies a now all too familiar story more such machinery is being produced than ever before but it isn t enough to meet the demand wait waiting ng list tor for farm machinery is phenomenally long yet per cent more tractors cream tors and other pieces of farm equipment were produced in 1947 than were available in 1939 |
