Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS indian troops invade Hyder abad endanger shaky peace russia infuses aisis risis in berlin I 1 by bill staff writer S NOTE when opinion opinions are expressed in these columns they are those 0 of wes western r newspaper e union s sew news analysts and not ly of this thi new newspaper INVASION Hyder abad ev ats in india were a tar far cry from the days when Mo mohandas bandas gandhi a philosophy of passive diplomacy prevailed among the at af fairs of that sub continent indian troops strongly supported by armored units had invaded the princely state of Hyder abad see map whose moslem ruler called the nizam had refused to join ain with the other indian dominions even though Hyder abad a population is predominantly hindu THAT WAS THE whole story the nizam and his small compact mos lem lern court would not agree to follow the other ind an princely states in acceding to the dominion of india which was established last year the nizam often called the rich est man in the world and the only surviving heir at of the great mogul emp re wanted to rule an in depend ent hyder abad whether he could have succeeded in doing that even if the dominion government had not opened costill ties against him is questionable Hyder abad is completely landlocked and has no access to the sea except by courtesy of the states surround ing it all of its it imports and exports therefore must pass through india might pro fess its independence as a state chances are that the economic and political conditions of actual inde pen dence never could be achieved can india 8 invasion of Hyder abad be justi justified fed not too easily if at all it was not a matter of sending a police force into the state to quell internal disorders it was apparent ly a deliberate deh berate act of aggression and as such should go before the U N security council for foe judgment from a practical standpoint there was not only no so need for the inva sion but there is an actual danger a NEW DELES J I 1 A CALCUTTA involved there are no linguistic or racial differences between hyder abad s hindus and the hindus of ad jacent states the boundaries of Hyder abad are arbitrary and his not dependent upon the ge of the vicinity INDIA MIGHT well have refrained from pushing the issue for a year or two pending a peaceful settlement the potential danger lies in two phases of the situation L 1 THE war might prove to be the factor that tha t will pre civitate violent conflict between hindu and moslem pakistan whose more or less peaceful relations now are strained and uneasy 2 IT 13 A BLOW to the british commonwealth te to which both india and pakistan still belong with the russians acting the way they are any a ny disturbance of the delicate bal ance of power that still prevails in the east could bring still another catastrophe down upon the world RUSSIANS fantastic not even the most starry eyed pollyana could deny that the U S soviet fracas over berlin was down right fantastic and getting more so every day the whole thing simply had stopped making sense even to many of the diplomats who were embroiled in the situation WHAT CHANCE was there tor for any logical kind of peace when even while western diplomats were to in moscow attempting to work out a formula with soviet foreign minister molotov the russians in berhn berlin were inciting riots kidnapping western sector policemen and firing on american planes engaged in the air aft one complication was being piled oa on top of another with the ensuing result that any possibility of a peace the last mogul K A 4 7 vrr T sir mir osman ali all khan sometimes called the richest man in the world is the nizam of hydera bad land locked princely state in india which was mas attacked by india s dominion troops ful solution was getting buried deep er aid and deeper that all this confusion was being fostered deliberately by the soviets was quite evident their purpose tor for so doing was more obscure THE RUSSIANS want fun full control of berlin taking that as their im mediate objective ultimately they want to force american occupation troops completely out of germany after which russia could take over the great german industrial poten bial including the inestimably able ruhr section however there might be still an other reason tor for this display of so viet diplomatic aggression which was planned almost a year ago to erupt this fall the russians might be trying to harass the western nations to the point where the entre ent re berhn berlin issue will be dumped in the lap of the united nations once the crisis comes under U N jurisdiction the russians might plan to use the in evitable squabble as a pretext for resigning from the world t on and taking their satellite states with them THE EAST WEST split into two opposing power spheres then would be complete moreover the U N itself probably would be reduced to total impotency in guiding internal dional affairs and the question of whether the soviet union is entertaining motives like these might be answered by the end of the year for the western nations were determined that if they didn dian t get some satisfaction from moscow soon they would arraign russia before the united nations this fau fall lift COTTON dot dat bale with the largest cotton crop since 1937 being harvested this year uncle sam is making ready to stage a comeback in the cotton buying busi ness of the 15 bales to come off the land the cotton trade estimates that about a third will go into stor age under federal loan TWENTY ONE MILLION people in the united states depend on an cot ton for their livelihood and the fate of the cotton crop therefore is not only a personal but a national coi con cern the federal government Is corn com ing into the picture because cotton prices are coming down they have I 1 reached 31 04 cents a pound which is pretty close to the support floor of 30 74 cents here s what happens WHEN THE COTTON grower hauls his lus crop to the warehouse he gets a receipt tor for it and then he either sells the cotton at the market price or accepts the government a standing offer to lend him money on it if he chooses to accept the loan he is paid 30 74 cent a pound on the average the exact price depending on the kind and quality of the cotton then he is free for one year to sell the cotton for more money pro vided the price goes up if be he doesn doean t sell it within a year the government becomes owner of the crop PROBABLE EFFECT of this oper atlon will be to keep a lot of cotton off the market this year thus pre venting the price from dropping through the support floor also it will greult in the government governments s end ing the year with several million bales of cotton on its hands I 1 BIG FOUR or little the U S government governments s acu lar suit against the big four meat packing companies swift armour cudahy and wilson promised to be one of the biggest anti trust actions since president theodore roosevelt said something about carrying a big stick filed by the justice department in federal court in chicago the suit asks that the four companies be broken up into 14 separate firms specifically the U S wants swift and armour to be carved into five separate companies each and wilson and cudahy each to be split into two firms TOM CLARK attorney general said in a statement the tour four de fend fand ants named in the complaint are charged with suppressing campeti tion in the sale of meat and meat products the sherman anti trust law is being invoked in the action clark described the suit as an other in a series of cases instituted by the department of justice in fur therance of its program to free the production and sale of food and food products from monopolistic re stra ints aill PACKERS ACKERS Jr had another story to tell however with playing poll tics as one of their key phrases said john holmes president of swift and company it is significant that the charges appear at the be ginning of this fall fail a political cam laign apparently an attempt is be ing made to shift responsibility for inflationary price trends no one can control either live stock prices or meat prices holmes fumed INFRARED frost killer the day or night of the old fash boned smudge pot as the main but fer between plants and killing frost may be nearing an end science has taken over to come up with a new kind of frost killer development ot of which aich was sponsored by the american iron and steel in statute THE contraption known as the plymouth infra red lamp is in a fair way to affect materially the nation a agricultural system the in statute thinks reporting on the new device the institute pointed out that while farm ers will find the lamp invaluable in saving crops during the first touches of frost the growing season actual ly may be extended as techniques technique ss for its use are developed dr arthur W farrell of mich igan state college one of the men responsible for development of the infra red machine cited an exam pie on september 2 1946 to take one example michigan had a two hour killing frost the next frost did not occur until october I 1 a month later had tomato and melon growers been able to protect their crops for about two hours on the morning of september 2 they would have had four more weeks of very favorable growing weather As it was they lost everything THE FROST made up of sheet steel and a little ingenuity will put an end to some of nature s nonsense the lamp is composed of a cir cular piece of stainless steel shaped in cone shaped steps with an oil burner within the framework when the burner is put into action the steel heats until it becomes become 5 cherry red at this point infrared infra red rays are thrown off spreading over the area to be warmed even entering the ground in their anten intensity S ity B BLIMP iq gest yet B agest blimp the U S navy avei ordered and the first to be contract ec for s nee the war soon will be dundei L d construction at the goodyear ar air craft corporation tion in akron ohio the U S navy bureau of aeronautic aeronaut ici has announced the sh p will have a helium capac ity of cubic feet and ar empty we of about 34 pounds it will be feet long 71 feet airi wiri and 92 feet high |