Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS farm groups OK brannan choice truce request fails ili in palestine GM M wage pat pact could set pattern by bill staff writer EDITOR EDITORS S NOTE when op nion are expressed in thess these columns they are r those ol 01 western newspaper union a new news analysts nal yati and not nece ly ol 01 th s newspaper APPROVED Br brannan anizan president truman s choice of charles F brannan to succeed e ed clinton anderson as secretary of agriculture has received the whole hearted approval of the national farm organizations they consider the 44 year old former assistant secretary of agn culture a friend of the farmer one of the bases for this feeling of harmony Is the tact fact that bran nan and the farm organizations con cur in thinking that the prewar parity law Is badly outdated such crops as soybeans for in stance have attained a much great er importance since the law was passed but still have no satisfactory price fixing basis other farmers including cattle and dairy brodu ers claim their parity scales are out of line in this postwar period ideas developed by brannan to help remedy this situation have been largely adopted by the lead ing farm groups and are rated in bills now pending before congress unless congress acts by the end of this year the law guar ap teeing farm prices at 90 per cent of the fixed parity rate will expire serving quietly as assistant sec detary of agriculture for the past four years brannan has made himself the backbone of the ad nuni ministration s drive to enact a long range farm program thus the farmers think a ld lot of brannan because he has demon that he is looking out tor for their interests in a realistic level headed fashion president truman it appeared had made a good choice in putting brannan at the head of the de apartment part ment almost everybody was satisfied and that in an election year was a most desirable situa tion for mr truman FAILURE no peace it was difficult to say who would suffer more from the arabs bejec tion it if V U N truce plea for pales tine the arabs themselves the jews or the united nations probably the jews came oft off to better advantage in the world coun ails of public opinion inasmuch as through their willingness to accept a truce they now can appear in the role of a nation which has been wronged and Is forced to fight a war that has been thrust willy nilly upon it the arabs simply brushed aside the idea ot of a truce with the con that they could not halt the shooting war until the state of israel is abandoned and the jewish army demobilized there never was any question in the minds of arab lead ers about the truce it was literal ly unacceptable to them their position was stated definitively by the egyptian premier mahmoud fahmy Nok pasha who said there never will be founded a state called israel or any other name as long as the creation of that state relies upon the theft of arab land the extermination of its arab owners and the sacrifice of moral principles of its arab neigh bors nevertheless the arab refusal was a bitter blow to the U N security council it had been or for the express purpose of resolving just such disputes as this one in palestine yet it could do nothing more than make a weak gesture of placation there was little doubt that the se carity council had been rendered toothless and impotent on the pal estine issue by the U S attitude or rather lack of attitude what position the united states would take as an individual nation with regard to the palestine war was not clear either at a conference with chaun chaim Welz mann israel s president pres ident truman promised that the U S would provide financial support for israel in the form of a loan of about million dollars further he hinted at the possibility that unless the arab states cease fire the U S might provide arms for the jews day after the conference how ever mr truman dismissed weiz mann s plea for a loan as something that could be handled by the export import bank and he con co n plemely ducked the issue of raising the embargo on arms shipments to the middle east no quarter LEBANON I 1 el i SEA kw TRANS JORDAN EGYPT I 1 RAEL I 1 I 1 fires of war between arab and jew continued to burn in the holy land when the arab states re fused to comply with a U N request for a truce attacking jew ish forces at all points the arabs said they would not quit until the jews renounced their new state of israel meanwhile as victorious troops took over acre 1 egyptian planes intensified the air attack on tel aviv 2 and arab troops enjoyed their greatest victories in jerusalem 3 PAY HIKE new For formula muG when general motors corporation averted a threatened strike of auto production workers by of fering an 11 cent raise based on a cost of living formula it probably set a precedent which will be fol lowed in m settling other industrial labor disputes under the agreement described as an entirely new approach to the living cost problem GM pro workers get an 8 cent cost of living increase and a 3 cent pay boost based on annual industrial efficiency improvement terms provide that wages be ad austed up or down each three months to conform with eions in the consumer price index of the bureau of labor statistics it appeared to be a sound plan and one that might be followed to good advantage by other industries biggest flaw in the scheme was the tact fact that general motors might have to pass the cost of living raise on to the public which step might have the eventual effect of nullify ing the benefits of the raise to the th workers significance of this adjustable cost of living wage formula can be b seen in a review of th the e rise ir in prices since 1940 the cost of liv hv ing today is 69 09 per cent higher than in 1940 using 1940 as a base y a which is what GM and the uni united ed auto workers did in arriving at their agreement living costs now are at per cent cent VOICE BeItt belittling ding voice of america broadcasts which have never received a full measure of congressional approval sank to an even lower level of disesteem because of a series of ill starred programs beamed to latin america last winter the scripts in question denounced by senators as sabotage slander and libel of the U S first attracted attention in march during house appropriation committee hearings on the voice of america in the sample script that the committee wanted to look over were some ill chosen remarks about wyoming stouthearted stout hearted wyoming congress men shrieked in anguish other scripts were examined and sen homer capehart rep ind tin fin ally aired the whole thing before the senate the legislators shuddered as they heard capehart read from the scripts such excerpts as new england was founded by hypocrisy and texas by sin nevada s two main cities corn com pete with each other because people get married in las vegas and divorced in reno the programs were handled by the national broadcasting company under contract with the state department kene rene borgia the man who wrote the scripts was fired and alberto gandero borgia a su per visor resigned for breakfast some of the more sentimental hands around the american broad casting company a chicago studios like to think of don mcneill as a beautiful and vibrant symbol of the rise and snowballing success of ABC itself at least they both were young together and both had to way up through a welter of opposable circum stances to find ad joining places in the sun As toastmaster of t th h e uninhibited breakfast club pro gram mcneill will celebrate his mcneill anniversary on june 23 with the same kind of capers he has been executing five days a week between 8 and 9 aa p nl since 1933 despite the subterranean regard which this sophisticated generation purports to hold for the more di and obvious types type of humor mcneill has found that chat being a pays oft off he works with 0 out t a script and his gags are strict ly off the cuff he once invited a herpetologist a student of reptiles and ians lans who visited the program to come into the parking lot after the broadcast and I 1 ll 11 show you a rare specimen A windshield viper and when a new jersey woman told him that her husband is a butcher and she is a ha he commented what an ideal ar ran gement he lie fattens them up and you pull pun them in mcneill parlays this kind of ex patter with a feeling of genuine camaraderie tor for the plain people who are guests on his show to produce a program that has had a nationwide cult of early morning listeners begging for more for or 15 consecutive years |