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Show PAGE TWO WEEKLY NEVS ANALYSIS ? Bernadotte's Murder Dramatizes Question of Palestine Before U.H.; Washington Social Hours: Cold Turkey, Hot Gossip Crisis Hits Final Peak East-We- st By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer- (EDITOB'S NOTE: Wben (pinion, nr. eipreea-- d ,h Western Newspaper Imion'e Dews analysts and net theM necea.ar.l, f -- ,nu By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. Washington cocktail parties and other social gatherings have been widely publicized as makers and breakers of reputations, national candidacies and international policies. Not all of these affairs may forge or fracture the destiny of nations but many 'often bring together as great a variety of human as are to be found at any one place at any one time, anywhereingredients For example I have Just returnedfrom lunch. I probably should say ' sidering what it ' must have cost my $ i college mate host whose excuse for giving it was the fact that he was celebrating his 55th birthday but whose real reasons lay beyond distant frontiers. The bearded Italn v::.sitri-.ian scientist on his 1 4. left reminded him iw'J''m'iWrTai " that the occasion wa BAUKIIAGE unique because it was hardly likely he would celebrate a similar occasion 55 years hence. A little macabre, I thought, but no one seemed to take it that way least of all the fellow-citize- n of Dante who was enjoying himself immensely over his cold smoked turkey and doubtless became lyric over the lira and other important transalpine institutions before we were through. On the bearded one's left was a representative of the state department who gave me a disappointingand unsensational acly count of the recent parliament session of one of our South American neighbors a session which I had judged from previous dispatches, would be punctuated by revolver shots. red-head- We had heard rumors of mys- terious shootings there which were supposed to have made up In political significance what they lacked in marksmanship. Also there had been hints of cabinet changes due not. only to mistakes in policy, but to hasty burials. I asked my fellow guest abont it. "Oh, no," he said, "there were no cabinet changes." "But what about these terrible rumors of graft and corruption?" "Well, the President in his address did make particular reference to the evils of political corruption and to the importance of selfless loyalty on the part of the servants of the state." "But was that all?" I persisted. "No names, addresses, or telephone numbers?" "That was all," he insisted, "It was a very quiet session. Furthermore there was none of the protocol we observe at a joint session of the two houses of the American congress. This parliament was called to order, the President came in, spoke his piece, and went out." At this point, my host broke In. He Insisted that I repeat the story of the opening of this summer's special "turnip" session of congress which nobody outside of a few million radio listeners who happened to be tuned In had heard before. Legittlative Faux Pat, De Luxe Style This July 26 when a very angry house of representatives was called to order, it was known that the regular chaplain could not appear. So, when a stranger took the rostrum, the members rose, bowed their heads, as is the custom, to listen to the prayer. The first words they heard resounding through the chamber were: "Whereat the public Interest requires that the congress of the United States should be convened at 12 o'clock noon on Monday, the twenty-sixtof July, 1948, to receive such communication as may be made by the Executive; Now, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States . , ." and so on. . . . h ily, had outlived the Japanese oc- cupation, and with his sister, had participated in the effective Philippine underground, memories of which made this day's current tragedy of the Philippines the eruption of Hibokhibok volcano on Camiquin island a decidedly minor concern. On my left was a prominent Washington lawyer. During a lull in the discussion of international, if not cosmic affairs, he suddenly asked: "What was your mother's maider Gradually the members real-le- d that the man addreaalnr thrtn was not the suhatltute for the absent chaplain of the hoove, but the substitute for the equal reading elrrk whose duty It Is to read bills and official communication,. It was most embarrassing. The voice they were hearing was not the voice of a man repeating the word of God; It was the voice of the substitute clerk repealing the proclamation of the man at whom they were maddest. The members didn't like to make public admls-io- n of their error by sitting down, and so they had to stand through the painful pronouncement which had torn them from the bosom of family and constituency, snd brought n Ihem back to Washington. Next to the state department official who had unwittingly provided the excuse for my anecdote was the l of the Philippine republic who happens to be the son of another college classmate of mine. He, like the rest of his fam nt d heat-ridde- HOLY LAND: The sullen-faceuniformed men in the jeep didn't say a word after they had stopped the procession of United Nations cars that was winding through the Katamon section of I ii "LOO Jerusalem. Carrying a machine gun, one of them walked up to the automobile in which Count Folke n msmifl Bernadotte and Col. Andre Pierre Ser-rwere sitting, ot inside and started shooting. The two killers fled, leaving Serrot dead and Bernalooked dotte ns It 9 ..." sh COOPS J V MOM IV f " OOIW1 lC0" Current Events Quick Cross Stitches ? If you haven't been spending all your evenings taking the dog for a walk or fixing the hen house, chances are you've been reading about some of the events on which the following five questions are based. Can you answer them? 1. The United Nations general assembly recently convened In Paris for a 19 or fall session. What is the name of the elaborate building in which the assembly is meeting? 2. The American, British and French ambassadors who have been conferring with Molotov recently took their leave of Moscow. Can yon name them? 3. This year, 16 years after he soared 10 miles Into the stratosphere in a balloon, .a Belgian scientist-explorplans to plunge two miles nnder water to investigate the deep sea world. Who is he? 4. Who Is the man who took the assassinated Count Bernadotte's place as U. N. mediator In Palestine? 5. Princess Elizabeth of England was in the world spotlight when she got married last November. Now she is In the news again for a different reason. What Is it? ANSWERS II I"'"" "'ffl fill (Graph by Family Economics reau, Northwestern National Life surance company.) 37 BuIn- Since 1939 the total nnmber of dollars in circnlation in the U. S. has more than trebled from 33 billion to nearly 109 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 inflation. If you want to see tb American foreign correspondents in Europe, you'll find them in the Savoy Grill in London, at 21 Rue de Berri in Paris, the American Press club in Berlin, the Park hotel in Frankfurt, the Hotel de la Paix in Geneva, the Grand in Athens and the Stampa in Rome. If you stand close enough to their elbows, the chances are they'll be talking about: The preparations of the Swiss Those who, in commenting on the strained relationship between the East and West, have been wont to say, "It'll 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 British and French ambassadors, who had been talking with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and Premier for six weeks, left Stalin the Russian capital, presumably discussions. ending the THE THREE western powers asked the Kremlin for a simple and final "yes or no" on the question of whether Russia will lift its blockade of Berlin. U. S. SECRETARY of State George Marshall, speaking before the U. N. general assembly, warned the Soviet Union that American patience should not be mistaken for weakness. With the Moscow talks at an end the center of action in the crisis had shifted to Paris where the issue would be debated in the U..N. The western nations the U. S., France and Great Britain plainly had had enough and were determined not to give another inch. In an hour-lon- g speech before parliament, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin expressed his nation's determination: "We are firmly resolved to go on with our policy. "I 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 AMERICAN, four-pow- yet." Speaking to the United Nations in Paris, George Marshall, U. S. secretary of state, outlined the basic U. S. foreign policy in much the same manner as Bevin. The United States, he said, would not "compromise the essential principles" or "barter away the rights and freedoms of other peoples." Es-te- ra general staff for a Russian airborne attack in the dead of winter. It may never come, but every Swiss male over 16 has an army-issu- e rifle within reach. . . . The way General Clay is working himself into an early grave at his desk before eight in the morning until midnight, when he goes home with a sheaf of papers in his briefcase. He not only administers if. S. policy in Germany, he's got to make it up as he goes along. Washington gives him as much guidance as a seeing-ey- e dog with cataracts and a broken leg. PRICE AID: Sure Thing One thing is dead sure about the No matter who coming elections gets into office, farm price supports will be continued. Governor Dewey is on record as law passed favoring the Hope-Aike- n by congress last June, and President 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 whether they keep up costs of living in the city and, hence, contribute gen-- , erally toward inflation. The system was started in the 1930s to save farmers from bankruptcy 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 sys-- , tern was continued to keep greater amounts of food flowing into desti-- ; 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-- 1 port no longer fits the American' market. THE POTATO situation is a case in point. As the government con- -' tinues to stimulate the production 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, effective in 1950, by providing new parity prices based on modern farm practices and by allowing a fluctuation in support levels to conform with general economic conditions is 1 HOME OWNERS: Record Uipdi One of the most maddening of all the 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 now than ever before in history. About 49 per cent of the nation's non farm families owned their homes at the beginning 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 traditionally has been much higher than among city dwellers. Wal- eggs In the South, the product of the ben brought nothing bat 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 presented with an plaque by Hobart Crclehton (left), GOP nominee for governor of Indiana and president of the Poultry and Egg national board. ANSWER MAN: America's Rural Fire Loss Can Be Cut able to almost any community that wants to make the effort. Principal means of cutting rural fire losses, according to the National Board of Fire Underwriters, Is a volunteer fire department, good quartered in a small town but serving the surrounding area that has been organized Into a fire protection district, such as now Is authorized in 39 states lirannan When It comes to questions Secretary of Agriculture Charles Bran-na- n gets all kinds, many of which have nothing to do with farming. Pouring in at the rate of 3.000 a day. the queries vary from: "How do 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.' to the JUST six These gay and frisky little motifs are so easy to embroider for kitchen towels look like ginges ham! Give these to daughter for her first embroidery I Pattern 7314; transfer, 6 motifs 6',ix7 i4 inches. Sewing Circle NeedlecraR Dept. Randolph St. Chicago 80, in. Enclose 20 cents for pattern. 564 W. No "" Water in Mines m Mine water problems in the Pennsylvania hard-coregion are of long standing but are growas opposed, ing worse ; the average anthracite tersnipe It is presumed, to the more gentle- mine now pumps out about 13 manly species. . . . The confidential tons of water for every ton of coal Labor party report that if a general removed in comparison with an 1 ratio 25 years ago. election took place today, Attlee would be returned by a margin of less than 25 seats in the Commons, which makes the next election For 30 al anti-Semit- 8-- (scheduled for 1950) an even money proposition. The "de facto" appointment of Montgomery as commander-in-chie- f (in addition to Britain's army) of the French, Belgian and Dutch armies. No appointment was necessary; they merely accept his military leadership as the world automatically accepted FDR's diplomatic leadership. . . . The Duchess of Kenfs private crush on Danny Kaye. (My word, so unregal!) The Vatican's intelligence system, which has superseded the British as the most effective in Europe. No other chancellery knows as much about what's going on inside Russia. . . . Marshal Tito's sudden generosity with visas for American correspondents to work out of Belgrade. He feels safer with America's free press looking on just in case the Russians start a roughhouse inside the country. Lucky Luciano's qnlck and frequent round trips between Rome and Naples, apparently on argent business bat nobody knows what business and be isn't telling. . . . Rome's Excelsior hotel which looks like a branch office of the 20th Century-Fo- x administration building except that the Hollywood place hasn't Orson Welles standing oat In front like a cigar store Indian. Jack Warner's heavy losses In the European casinos during Aagnst ninety thousand box, they say, one night. (Only the brave chemln de fer, said R. E. Sherwood. Or was It Wooflcott?) ... Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead," which has the former war correspondents green with envy. The trained seals saw lt all but left it to a GI to write the masterpiece. . . . The ofThours literary activity of the American correspondents in Italy (everybody Is writing a novel) since Lionel man in Rome) Shapiro struck Hollywood gold with two books in a row. The modesty of Homer Bigart who. despite the fact that he regularly scoops the pants off every foreign correspondent. Is the most beloved guy in the business. , . . The talented toughness of We Gallagher, AP's Berlin chief, who has worn the same scowl practically since birth. His nickname: Laughing Boy. best-selle- r, ... In sharp contrast to Henry FRISKY ,AS A PUP The of Ernest Bevin, whose personal hate is the best known political fact in London. Some of his best friends call him a "gut- (ex-CB- S lace's unsavory experience with " gSjrj working. The - AS A KfTTEN cross-stitch- The growing exhaustion of oar air force pilots who've been flying the Berlin route since June 21. They see Yaks In their sleep as well as In the air. . . . Lt. Gen. Curtis LeMay, the "lift" commander, who made his reputation by never asking his pilots to do anything he wouldn't do himself. Every few days he walks out to "the circle" like any second lonie and flies a freight plane to Berlin just to see for himself how the thing is Palais de Chafflot. Walter Bedell Smith (U. S ), Frank Roberts (British). Yves (French). 3. Prof. Auguste Piccard. 4. Ralph Bunche, an American, Bernadotte's assistant. 5. She is expecting a baby in 1. 2. Dewey and Eggs HUNGRY AS A BEAR Bre-tag- ' RUSSIANS: , Western Stand 1 The European Beat: er oooos mortally Arab-Jewis- ap, newspaper' Shrinkage Murder wounded. The U. N. Palestine mediator died as he was be name?" Bernadotte "Alice Blood," I replied. ing carried into Hadassah hospital on a stretcher. "Yes." he nodded In satisfacFor Bernadotte, head of the tion, "My aunt, Clara Brown, Swedish Red Cross, nephew of the often told me about your mothking of Sweden, diplomat and huer. They were classmates (Ingmanitarian, it was a wretched, fuham university '78), and she was tile end. a bridesmaid at your mother's His death was mourned not only wedding in La Salle, Illinois." by governments but by millions of Skipping your correspondent ordinary citizens, yet he died not around the table, we an ve at a knowing when or if ever his assidufamous scientist. We exchanged ous and sincere efforts to organize reminiscences too, for he also was peace in the Holy Land would be a graduate of the same college. As fulfilled. we talked, I remembered an anecBernadotte's assassination brought dote about him I had heard from a Jerusalem and all of Palestine, for mutual college friend. that matter perilously close to the brink of general violence. There A Check by Any was danger, too, that the uneasy Other Name . . . h truce might fall to Not many years after his gradua- pieces under the circumstances. tion, this scientist and his young For the time being, Bernadotte's wife arrived in the city where our killers remained unidentified. The mutual friend was in business, and Israeli government called it the called on him. The businessman work of Stern gang terrorists and recognized the scientist's face im issued an edict outlawing that ex mediately but for the life of him, tremist group. couldn't remember the man's name. In Oslo, Norway, U. N. Secretary-During their lunch, the scientist General Trygve Lie added his remarked that he was going on an panegyric to the praise that was beextended trip into Canada and had ing heaped on the martyred Bernaunfortunately run out of money. He dotte: wondered could he get a check "He burned with eagerness to cashed at the businessman's' bank. bring about an understanding The businessman gladly acquiesced, Arabs and Jews. He thought thinking that when he saw the sig- always of justice and peace." nature on the check, he would recognize the scientist's name. TogethFINAL REPORT: er they went to the bank, the scienNotv' tist wrkte the check, and the two 'End men went to the cashier's window. As the United Nations general asBut as the scientist handed In the sembly convened for its fateful check, all the businessman could 1948-4session in the Palais de Chail-lo- t read was the name of a bank in a the member nations took time very distant city and the amount-fi- ve out to pay somber tribute to Count hundred dollars. Folke Bernadotte, their representaHe had already said to the cash- tive in Palestine who had died while ier, "I want you to meet my friend trying to implement the peace of but could get no further. Ter- which they were supposed to be the ribly embarrassed, he turned to the architects. scientist and said: "I'm sorry, but Then they began consideration of I can't recall your name." the plan for an enforced Palestine settlement that Bernadotte had subOf course the cashier overmitted before his death. heard this remark and with the THE SWEDISH COUNT'S final natural caution of the banker, report recommended that said to the businessman: "This war should be "prothe Arab-Jewiwill be fine, Mr. X, bat will yoi nounced formally ended." If the please endorse this?" Mr. X Arabs and Jews refuse to make turned it over, noted the name but did not recognize It, trempeace, the U. N. should do so itself, the report said. bled to think of what would hapIt calls for changes in the boundpen to bis bank account if it bounced (and be was sure it aries of the U. N. partition plan would), and signed. Farewells adopted in November, 1947. prowere spoken, the scientist deposing that the Negeb desert be given to the Arabs and that the Jews parted. Day after day the businessman awaited the call from should receive all of Galilee instead the bank. of only the eastern part. Other recommendations include: In fact, he told me he had picked of 1. INTERNATIONALIZATION out a space on the wall where he intended to frame the paper so that Jerusalem by placing it under U. N. he could call attention to it casu- control. 2. ESTABLISHMENT of a technially should some other vaguely identified caller request a similar cal boundaries commission to delimit the new frontiers. favor. 3. CREATION of a Palestine conNothing happened. A month or so later, another col- ciliation commission to deal with lege friend came to town. The busi- population exchanged and supervise nessman related the story, describ- other parts of U. N. decisions. 4. SETTLEMENT of the problem ing the scientist and his occupation Unaccountably his listener burs of 360,000 Arab refugees by giving Into laughter. them the right to return to their homes in Jewish territory or to re "Didn't you know," he said beceive compensation if they choose tween g "That man's technot to return. nical as well as scientific InforIt was a good plan, the United mation whleh he acquired at States thought, and Secretary of school along with his Ars Mag-IntState Marshall announced that this made him a cool million nation would back it to the fullest the year after he was graduaextent. Said Marshall: ted-" "THE UNITED STATES considAt the luncheon there was also a ers that the conclusions contained Chinese oil expert who merely lis- In the final report of Count Bernatened and an ERP representative dotte offer a generally fair basis for who left early. settlement of the Palestine quesAnd now back to my tion." host He related the adventure of He called it "the best possible one of the guests who had been un- basis for bringing peace to a disable to appear. It seems this gen- tracted land." adding that "No plan tleman had formed a corporation could be proposed which would be called "World Development, Inc." satisfactory In all respects or something very similar. When entirely to every Interested party." my host heard his glowing prospectus, he said, "Aren't you covering a lot of ground." THERE'S SO EXCUSE "Oh. no." said the promoter who since had acquired considerable Inin international fluence affairs, "this is Just a subsidiary of the Although fire prevention week Is ver for this year, the danger of corporation." Then I had to go, so I never knew farm Ores is not over and possibly for the rebuilding never will be. what master-plaBut that seeming Inevitability Is nd exploiting of the nation, the world or the sidereal spaces wert no excuse. As a matter of fact, fire discued or consummated. But I protection experts say, there Is no have no douht you can go a lont longer any excuse for America's annual farm fire way in Washington starting wit loss cold turkey. er consul-genera- Thursday, October 7, 1948 THE TIMES-- NEWS, NEPH1, UTAH Confirmation from high Czech sources (now In the American zone) of the details of Masaryk's death. Trapped by Gottwald's gestapo as he was about to leave his office for a flight to freedom he shot four of the secret cops before backing out of the window to his death. . . . The flood of French big business money flowing into DeGaulle's treasury because it is now a bet that he'll be the leader (not the premier) of France. . . . The Russian drunk (a colonel) at a party in Vienna, who mumbled: "Nobody can afford a war except the Soviet Union. What have we got to lose?" The sergeant, full returned to Frankfurt from three years at a Soviet war priioner who estimate! that I) per tent of the men in hit outfit have become Communist. Constipated Years But No More '1 suffered constipation over 30 years but got no help till I began to eat at every break Kellogg's ajll-bra- n fast. What a difference 1 I'm a "regular' now." A. C. Buethe, St. Cloud If your diet lacks bulk for nor-m- al elimination, this delicious cereal will supply it. Eat an ounce every day in milk and drink plenty of water. 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