Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS murder dramatizes question of palestine before UN east crisis hits final peak by bill staff writer EDITOR S NOTE when opinion opinions are expressed in 1 these columns they arc are th those 0 se of or western newspaper union a new news analysts and not necessarily of 0 this newsy newspaper a pe r HOLY LAND murder the sullen faced uniformed men in the jeep didn dian t say a word after they had stopped the procession of united nations cars that was wind ing through the karamon section of jerusalem carrying a machine gun one of them walked up to the automobile in which count folke bernadotte and col andre pierre ser rot were sitting i looked inside and started shooting the two killers fled leaving dead and bema berna dotte mortally wounded the U N palestine mediator bernadotte died as he was be ing carried into hadassah hospital on a stretcher for bernadotte head of the swedish ked red cross nephew of the king of sweden diplomat and hu sanitarian mani it was a wretched fu tile end his death was mourned not only by governments but by millions of ordinary citizens yet he died not knowing when or if ever his assida ous and sincere efforts to tr organize gamze peace in the holy land would be fulfilled bernadotte s as assassination sa ssi nation brought jerusalem and all of palestine Palest ms for that matter perilously close to the brink of general violence there was danger too that the uneasy arab jewish truce might tall fall to 0 o pieces under the circumstances for the time being bernadotte s killers remained unidentified the israeli government called it the work of stern gang terrorists and issued an edict outlawing that ex treaist group in oslo norway U N secretary general trygve lie added bis his panegyric to the praise that was be ing heaped on the martyred berna dotte he burned with eagerness to bring about an understanding be arabs and jews he thong thought nt always of justice and peace FINAL REP REPORT ORT end L it now As the united nations general as convened for its fateful 1948 49 session in the de chail lot the member nations took time out to pay somber tribute to count folke bernadotte their re presenta live in palestine who had died while trying to implement the peace of which they were supposed to be the architects then they began consideration of the plan for an enforced palestine settlement that bernadotte had sub bitted before his death THE SWEDISH COUNT S final 35 word report recommended that the arab jewish war should be pronounced formally ended if the arabs and jews refuse to make peace the U N should do so itself the report said it calls for changes in the bound anes aries of the U N partition plan adopted in november 1947 pro posing that the nageb desert be div en to the arabs and that the jews should receive all of galilee instead of only the eastern part other recommendations include 1 internationalization of jerusalem by placing it under U N control 2 establishment of a cal boundaries commission to delim dehm it the new frontiers 3 CREATION of a palestine con commission to deal with population exchanges ind siper supervise vise other parts of U N decisions 4 settlement of the problem of arab refugees by giving them the right to return to their homes in jewish territory or to re ceide compensation it if they choose not to return it was a good plan the united states thought and secretary of state marshall announced that this nation would back it to the fullest extent said marshall THE UNITED STATES consid ers that the conclusions contained in the final report of count berna dotte offer a generally fair basis for settlement of the palestine ques ta tion he called it the best possible basis for bringing peace to a dis land adding that no plan could be proposed which would be e entirely satisfactory in all respects to every interested party shrinkage PR acts VALUE too 1100 19 39 LIE cs DOLLAR R C 0 1948 57 2 MON graph by family economics bu reau northwestern national life in aurance company since 1939 the total number of dollars in circulation in the V U S has more than trebled from sa billion to nearly billion while our industrial production of goods to buy has less than doubled result cheaper money each dollar s proportionate worth in goods has fallen until it now takes 1 76 dollars to buy as much as one dollar would buy in 1939 over three times as many dollars bidding frantically for less than twice as much goods equals in nation RUSSIANS western stand those who in commenting on the strained relationship between the east and west have been wont to say it 11 get worse before it gets any better probably had reached the end of their rhetorical rope for it was unlikely that it could get any worse without producing armed conflict of some kind this it appeared was the top of the heap of crises that had been piling up for two years there were these developments THE AMERICAN british and french ambassadors who had been talking with soviet foreign mm min ister V M molotov and premier stalin in moscow for six weeks left the russian capital presumably ending the four power discussions THE THREE western powers asked the kremlin for a simple and final yes or no on the question of whether russia will lift its block ade of berlin U S SECRETARY of state george marshall speaking before the U N general assembly warned the soviet union that american pa tience should not be mistaken for weakness with the moscow talks at an end the center of action in the crisis had shifted to pans paris where the is sue would be debated in the V U N the western nat ons the U S france and great britain plainly had had enough and were deter mined not to give another inch in an hour long speech before parliament british foreign secre tary ernest bevin expressed his na tion s determination we are firm ly resolved to go on with our I 1 pol 0 o icy I 1 AM NOT SAYING by that that we are committed to war and all the other things that might ensue we have not reached that stage yet speaking to the united nations in pans paris george marshall U S sec see detary of state outlined the basic U S foreign policy in much the same manner as bevin the united states he said would not corn promise the essential principles or barter away the rights and freedoms of other peoples HOME OWNERS record high one of the most maddening of all the modem modern paradoxes Is that while millions of american families are searching desperately for decent places to live at the same time more american families own their own homes nony now than ever before in history about 49 per cent of the nation s non farm families owned their homes at the beg nning lining of this year it has been revealed by a federal reserve board survey that comes to a total of 18 5 million city and town families although the survey did not take up farm families the proportion of home owners among that group tra has been much higher than among city dwellers PRICE AID sure thing I 1 one thing is dead sure about the coming election no matter who gets into office farm price supports will be continued governor dewey Is on record as favoring the hope alken aiken law passed by congress last june and prest dent truman says he is in favor of farm price supports and has been all along BOTH SIDES have promised their help to the nation s farmers As a result of the growing amount of light that has been shed upon the idea of price supports there has been a lot of argument as to cheth er they keep up costs of living in the city and hence contribute gen brally toward inflation the system was started in the to save farmers from bank caused by surplus production and lack of consumer buying it accomplished that end IT WAS CHANGED during the war to make farmers produce more food than the country needed to feed less fortunate nations who were fighting the axis it did that after the war this incentive tern tem was continued to keep greater amounts of food flowing into desti I 1 tute areas abroad it was success ful in that also now however as a result of this artificial stimulation production is beginning to pile up in the U S the wartime pattern of price sup port no longer fits the american market THE POTATO situation is a case in point As the government con thues to stimulate the P production ro of potatoes the guaranteed prices keep consumers from getting the surplus crops at bargain prices and at the same time the system keeps farmers growing too many potatoes congress this year elected to re vise the price support program et ef in 1950 by providing new parity prices based on modern farm practices and by allowing a aaion in support levels to conform with general economic conditions dewey and eggs in sharp contrast to henry wal wai lace s unsavory experience with eggs in the south the product of the hen ben brought nothing but good to gov thomas E dewey GOP presidential candidate at his pawling N Y farm he was made honorary member of the national good egg club and was pre anted with an egg bedecked plaque by hobart crelghton creighton left GOP nominee for governor of in diana and president of the poul try and egg national board ANSWER MAN brannan when it comes to questions secretary of agriculture charles bran nan dan gets all kinds many of which have nothing to do with farming pouring in at the rate of 3 a day the queries vary from how do I 1 bury cats in the ground to what was little eva s last name in the play uncle tom s cabin and can you recommend a lonely hearts club three of us girls are interested |