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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . Set Defensive Pattern Against Future Reich.; Lewis Ruting Upholds Power of Judiciary I f'?H by Western Newspaper IT""" i ' (EDITOR'S NOTE: Wben opinions are ex Western Newspaper L'Dlon's news analyst EUROPE: Hem in Reich Even before determination of the future design of Germany, the major ma-jor powers are proceeding to build a ring of steel around the reich to guard against a revived German state waging a third war of aggression. aggres-sion. The British and French forged the first link with a 50-year alliance, pledging the two countries to go to each other's assistance in the event of an attack by Germany or any other country. At the same time, the two allies agreed to integrate their economies to build an industrial indus-trial base for war and promote the exchange of goods. France's declaration that she would offer the same terms to other major powers led to speculation whether the treaty would implement the U. S. proposal for a defensive alliance of the Big Four against the threat of future German resurgence. resur-gence. Thus far, Russia has shied away from the U. S. proposition, but has been dickering with Britain for a mutual aid pact. Holland and Belgium were expected expect-ed to act favorably upon the French Invitation to consummate a similar defensive and economic pact. On the other hand, Poland and 'Czechoslovakia 'Czechoslo-vakia were expected to look to Moscow Mos-cow for instructions on negotiating such a treaty. PALESTINE: Use Psychology Britain resorted to psychology instead in-stead of arms in an effort to check the rampant Jewish underground in Palestine. By imposing martial law in Tel Aviv, the British sealed this Jewish industrial, financial and commercial hub from the rest of the country, seriously disrupting its business. Thus, the Jewish leaders were faced CRDIE: j Alarming Rise Authorities' fears of a postwar I crime wave materialized in 1946 when cases broke all records for the last decade. A total of 1.685.203 major ma-jor offenses was committed, an increase in-crease of 119,622 over 1945. One major crime was committed every 18.7 seconds and every 5.7 minutes there was a case of murder, mur-der, manslaughter, rape or assault to kill. Thirty-six persons were slain daily. As law enforcement agencies, the judiciary and penal institutions were strained to combat the growing crime wave, at heavy cost to the taxpayer, most categories of offenses of-fenses showed appreciable increases. in-creases. Totals: Murder and manslaughter, 8,442. Manslaughter by negligence, 4,701. Rape, 12,117. Robbery, 62,782. Aggravated assault, 67,512. Burglary, 357,991. Larceny, 941,738. Auto theft, 229,920. GREECE: SOS A rightist bastion in the eastern 1 Mediterranean and scene of a bit- i ter undercover political war between , Britain and Russia, Greece appealed to the U. S. for financial and tech- i nical aid to keep from going under and becoming a Soviet satellite. Greece's plea followed Britain's notification to the U. S. that her own economic difficulties made it necessary for her to pull out of the country. In asking the U. S. to assume her obligations, Britain estimated esti-mated that it would cost 320 million dollars to bolster Greece during the , next three years. Congressional sources stated that 250 million dollars dol-lars in relief and -credit may be required this year alone. Primarily an agricultural state, Greece was hit hard by the war, with communications shot up, production pro-duction hampered by lack of equipment, equip-ment, livestock depleted and essential essen-tial imports cut off. As a result of Britain's inability to lend economic assistance because of the pressure of satisfying domestic needs and maintaining essential exports, the U. S. already has extended Greece 400 million dollars in postwar aid. U.N.: Atom Row The question of national sovereigntyof sov-ereigntyof a country retaining its freedom of action has long blocked efforts at effective international cooperation, co-operation, and the same question threatens the utility of the United Nations. ' ; Russia brought the question ifho the open in the U. N. security council's coun-cil's deliberation on the U. S.'s proposal pro-posal for international control of atomic energy. Delegate Gromyko declared that any plan that failed to protect the national sovereignty of participating nations lacked reality real-ity and could not be accepted by practical statesmen. ; Under the U. S. proposal for an j all-powerful atomic authority that would regulate the use of nuclear energy and possess rigid inspection rights to guard against violations, Gromyko said that the authority could interfere in Russia's internal affairs in matters not directly associated asso-ciated with atomic production. He repeated the charge that the U. S. plan placed other countries at a disadvantage dis-advantage because America would retain its atomic secrets and plants during the period when the rest of the world would be complying with initial controls. pressed fn these columns, they Are those of . and not necessarily of this newspaper.) 1 business before June 30 by refusing a deficiency appropriation and chopping chop-ping nine million dollars from previous pre-vious appropriations, the senate provided pro-vided funds for closing out the agency agen-cy within the next three months. As a result of these differences, the bill was sent to a senate-house conference confer-ence for settlement of terms. JUDICIARY: Curb Lewis The Supreme court decision against John L. Lewis and the Unit-r- -r. ed Mine Workers f j has been regarded jjf as one of the mo-' i I mentous verdicts in i J American history, I If definitely establish- 1 . j ing the power and i j dignity of the courts $ I in civil affairs. x By a 7 to 2 ruling, I Sfc the court cracked sL a i i down on Lewis' and the UMW's open Chief Justice flaunting of Circuit Vinson Judge Goldsbor-ough's Goldsbor-ough's order calling for a suspension of the recent soft coal strike to provide additional time for working on an agreement. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice Vinson wrote: "The interests of orderly government gov-ernment demand respect and compliance be given to orders Issued by courts. ... In our complex society there is a great variety of limited loyalties, but the overriding loyalty of all is to our country and to the institutions institu-tions under which a particular interest may be pursued. . , To emphasize the gravity of the offense, the court sustained Lewis' fine of $10,000 and placed the UMW fine at $700,000. The accompanying issue of whether wheth-er the Norris-La Guardia act prohibiting pro-hibiting the issuance of injunctions against strikes in labor disputes could be applied in the UMW walkout walk-out against the government found the court more narrowly divided. By a 5 to 4 decision the majority decreed de-creed that the act does not apply to government employees and since the U. S. has been operating the mines UMW members fell in that classification. classifi-cation. SMALL BUSINESS: More Openings Fully expectant of cashing in on the huge postwar need for all kinds of goods, 509,000 new small businesses were opened up in 1946, the department of commerce com-merce estimated. This brought the total number of business enterprises en-terprises up to 3,733,000. During the first six months of the year, 365,000 new businesses were begun, the department disclosed. dis-closed. While the rate declined somewhat in the latter part of the year, it was estimated 322,-000 322,-000 new establishments opened their doors, bringing the grand total to 687,000. Against this, 187,000 businesses failed. Shortages of some goods, high prices and stiff taxes failed to check the small business boom. Other lines were adopted to supplement sup-plement income, an increase in . installment buying helped to ease high prices and operators still made money despite federal taxes. If ' s 5? " M , jk - British soldier searches aged bomb suspect outside detention camp In Palestine. with continuing heavy losses or cooperating co-operating in suppressing the terrorists. ter-rorists. Martial law also was imposed in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem. British authorities arranged for movement of bread and vegetables to 25,000 isolated Jews and the Jewish Jew-ish welfare committee was permitted permit-ted to set up free milk and food lfitnhpns fnr th npHfv The British cracked down after the Irgun Zvai Leumi underground organization had blown up a British officers' club in Jerusalem with a loss of 14 lives and attacked other British personnel and installations in Its fight for a Zionist state in the Holy land. CONGRESS: Doom OPA Long the whipping boy for public ' and politican alike, OPA was headed head-ed for the discard by June 30 because be-cause of congressional limitation of its funds. The office of temporary controls, established last December as the supervisory agency over remaining re-maining wartime regulatory bureaus, bu-reaus, also was scheduled to go. With abolition of OPA, it was reported re-ported that rent control would be transferred to the department of commerce and sugar control to the department of agriculture. Because of the scarcity of housing and sugar in the face of tremendous demand, legislators continued to favor then-regulation then-regulation to prevent hardship and skyrocketing prices. While the Republican minority continued to ride herd in the house and threatened to put OPA out of MEAT: Consumer Pressure During the extensive debates over decontrolling meat, arguments flew thick and fast whether strict government gov-ernment control or the law of supply and demand constituted the best method of keeping retail prices within with-in bounds. Little was heard of consumer sense, but consumer sense it is that has been keeping meat prices within with-in reasonable levels in recent weeks, packers report. Much as people like pork, they have been passing it up for cheaper cuts of beef, andimany butchers have been following the line of least resistance in serving customers. Having processed pork from the recent record price hogs for fresh sale, packers have been compelled to cut wholesale charges as much as eight cents a pound under costs to move their supplies. Even with the cut, they have encountered difficulty dif-ficulty selling their meat. With the pork trade determined by demand, packers have scaled down their offerings of-ferings for live hogs, with the result that the record prices gradually have receded. DIET: Recent limited experiments conducted con-ducted under direction of the quartern-aster corps have indicated that unless a man consumes a minimum of 1,800 calories a day, it is impossible impos-sible for him to retain the proteins essential for nourishment of his body tissues. The army ration provides pro-vides a minimum of 3.600 calories. These studies and associated research re-search have further indicated that diets deficient in calories cause a pronounced fall in the basal metabolic meta-bolic rate. |