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Show Thursday, November 4, 1948 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH PAGE TWO WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS SQUABBLE: Yugoslavia Says Cease Fire in Palestine; Truman Asks More Defense Funds; U. J. U. S. Presidents Respect Members of Fourth Estate Control Plan Approved U. S. Atom HIP Russia continues not only to hav great and grievous trouble with tht United States and differences oi opinion with most of the membei countries of the United Nations, but her political rift with the satellite also is growing worse instead of better. THE TROUBLE originally began within the framework of the Comin-for(Communist Information Buthe master organization reau), through which Russia controls her satellites, when Marshall Tito said his nation would not bow to the Cominform edict ordering Yugoslavia to make itself a precise model of Soviet Russia in all political and economic aspects. And in recent weeks the "heresy" of Tito and the central committee of the Yugoslav Communist party has become more absolute and more determined than ever. THAT holds true despite the fact that Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj has been displaying firm adherence to the position of the Russian bloc in the United Nations general assembly arguments. Man About Town: I New By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer- - By BAUKIIAGE When opinion! are expressed In these eolomns, they are those el Westers Newspaper Union's news analysts and Dot necessarily el tnis newspaper.) (KD1TORS NOTE Analyst and Commentator. In this calm which has settled over the domestic political scene, many a vest, shirt, blouse, or slip in the capital conceals a palpitating heart. What about my government job after the glad (?) New Year? WASHINGTON. post-electi- on CEASE Almost before anyone knew what was happening fierce fighting between Israeli and Egyptian forces had flared into bloom in the Negev, The regular classified civil servants haven't much to fear. They be fired without cause, and no matter how thorough a new administration's housecleaning may be, most of the furniture lands right back where It was before, although here and there, you may at first fail to recognize an old friend in a new slipcover. southern Palestine desert area. ISRAELI government spokesmen said the purpose of the Israeli attack was to smash open the road to Jewish settlements in the Negev. Blocked transportation lines had prevented the Jews from running supply convoys to isolated settlements in the district. But Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting Palestine mediator for the U. N., in his report to the security council, told a different story. Blame for the eruption of fighting in the Negev, he said, was not a "question of black and white." "EACH side has soiled its hands in the grim business of trying to win a war through the instrumentality of a forced truce," was his version of the conflict. By the time the battle had proceeded savagely for six days the harassed U. N. security council had had enough. It commanded both Arabs and Jews to issue immediate cease-fir- e orders. Earlier, Bunche had attempted .o truce in the promote a three-da- y fighting, with each side holding the positions it then was occupying. The effort fell through, however, when Israel rejected the proposal. EVEN as the security council acted the fighting was spreading from the Negev to other fronts in the Holy Land along the Jerusalem-Te- l Aviv highway, where Trans-Jordaforces were grouped, and northeast of Tel Aviv in areas held by other Arab forces. Results of the security council or der, at the outset, at least, were disappointing. Each side tried to shift the blame to the other; neither appeared willing to hold the battle. Palestine truce observers informed the United Nations that the Israeli forces generally appeared to be the attackers in the new fighting that had developed outside the southern front in the Negev. Long ago most 100 per cent New$ Dealers In high places displayed the be the public relations secretary wisdom which in the White House. The other was was the felt they a man who probably won't be in valor and . a of va-- i moosed. Others assumed new colors. Some who had not been too careful previously to keep the right hand from knowing what the left hand was do- tag dually be- - bidextrous and soon were able to Baukbage write the lesson on the blackboard without exposing the wedding-rinfinger. There is however one class of permanent Washingtonians which goes on like the brook. But even individuals in this class may find the nature of their daily tasks differing slightly as administrations change. I refer, of course, to .the Fourth Estate which now includes commentators (since radio newsmen as well as newspapermen are eligible to the National Press club), thus establishing at least a minimum standard of merit. Naturally we who cover the White House always wonder what manner of man we are going to have to handle. While a new incumbent Is learning the art of getting his name favorably inserted into a Washington dispatch or broadcast we have a chance to learn the care and feeding of the source of news which feeds the news to us. Once Dewey had a bad reputation in this regard. But then, most candidates are suspect before they Start, since it is taken for granted that they all are subject to the disease of presidentitis which affects victims differently. Coolidge, for instance, was perhaps least afflicted with this malady that attacks the strongest individual when he walks under the portico of 1600 Pennsylvania avenue to stay for at least four years. And Coolidge was about as rich in front page material of his own making as the clam he sought to emulate. I remember a remark William Hard, now an editor of Reader's Digest, once made to me: "Cal never seemed to suffer from presidentitis" (Hard Invented the word, I believe) "he is the only occupant of the White House I know of who, when he lay down to take his daily siesta, didn't think when he awoke that the world had gone to pieces." No newsman, except toward the last, could complain about Franklin Roosevelt's news conferences. Regardless of what one might think of his views, his news was always printable. It will be hard to produce another such. The heavy majority of those who traveled with Dewey on his campaign trips had nothing but praise. But a few of those who had experienced his press conferences, and had enjoyed or otherwise his press relations in earlier days were cynical. "Wait," they said, "until the honeymoon is over." I found it hard to get concrete predictions. I myself had seen a vast improvement in Dewey's press relations over the years since his first campaign. And I see no reason why a person can't and doesn't learn. On the train, whenever he could (and that is the way most of the described it correspondents "could," not "would"), Dewey went into the press car attached to his train, chatted individually with the fellows, learned to connect names with new faces, answered questions, and at least appeared to be frank and free with his "off the record" remarks concerning Republican doubts and fears, real, imagined, or assumed. He sometimes took time for a game of ch-'with the boys." There was, however less informality In the .m phere of his entourage ,. there was In Truman's. Dewey affair moved so unmibi ly that a creak or two hoiikI have been welcome. I.Ike the farmer in the pmm "so ran his course of life the nc-- i bors thought It odd." There was one man win- t .. press relations on the Denei can paign train a Joy well, two men One was Jim Hagerty, trained reporter himself, who is expected to g white-pillare- s rv d Washington at all Dewey's veteran political adviser, Edwin Jaeckle. There was no conflict between the two, a rare situation indeed. Jaeckle supplemented Hagerty. This would seem to contradict the sharp charges of Warren Moscow, author of "Politics in the Empire State" which came out this fall. Moscow, one of New York City's political reporters, who also covered Albany, claims that Dewey shut down news sources during his governorship in an attempt to thwart any criticism. That he even tried to lay down a press conference rule that a question was "off the record," thus covering up the fact that an answer had been given not to be made public or had been refused. Moscow asserts that Dewey wanted to be the oracle', the one and only, the sole source of what should be reported. If that was true earlier in Dewey's career, the dapper New Yorker of late who has been widely-toute- d for being able to take advice and for being able to pick people who know how to advise, has had some good advice. If he should revert to methods such as Moscow describes, two things would happen: first, he would suffer; second, he would fail In his attempt, and the effects of the effort might be permanently disastrous. Some presidents have tried to conduct government by disturbing the "checks and balances." It never works long and the freedom of the press is one of the checks a principle that is part and parcel of the American concept of government. A notable example of how the very weight of the news, legitimate news, breaks through any wall, was the case of the financial conference called by President Hoover just before the end of his regime 1931, to be exact. Hoover had no intention whatever of deceiving the public. He simply didn't understand that you couldn't have a gathering like that without making an adequate explanation of some kind. At any rate just a bare announcement wa' issued. top-ran- k ' i Best Check The next day at the White House news conference. Hoover said he would not comment on the meeting (though the notice had appeared in the papers), and that he considered it the duty of the press not to print anything which was only partially true, or else incomplete. Richard Oulihan of the New York Times, one of the most beloved and respected correspondents who ever covered Washington, and an outstanding leader, made a typically dignified, but very emphatic protest then and there. He said it was out of the question to ask the reporters not to get as complete a story as they could. It was pointed out by another reporter that the press would have to have the story, and the reporters would have to get it, regardless of the President's wishes. The President refused at first, but the reporters insisted. Finally he agreed to give out an official statement after the conference. I have known other examples of short-live- d gag rules. One which Secretary of the Treasury Morgcnthau tried to establish on the treasury. lie issued an order that none of the treasury ofllcials conld talk with newsmen. He might as well have told reporters not to read the market quotations. It failed. Legitimate news continued to be rr ported as it always had been. Franklin Roosevelt had, at one time, at least 80 per cent of the He newspapers "against" him. knew he couldn't change their edi-- i tonal views by giving out news to their representatives. He also knew that if he tried to withhold news, the American people would be far less likely to support him. And he understood the meaning of the freedom of the press, he wouldn't have thought of trying. And he knew how to make it appear as favorable as possible, The most effective check In a democracy is not the first, second or third, but the fourth estate. An unenlightened public conceivably might elect a totally bad president and a totally bad congress which would establish a totally bad supreme court, but unless the press Is gagged, the public in a democracy cannot be democratically air-tig- n e ' i nounced plans DEFENSE: to Big Budget World tension had slacked 6ff slightly, but according to President Truman's estimate on next year's defense budget the U. S. doesn't intend to relax its vigilance on that account. THE MILITARY budget for 1949 will be a neat 14.4 billion dollars that is, if Mr. Truman's current request doesn't get trimmed. It represents an outlay about two billion dollars higher than the figure at which defense spending Is running rank-and-fi- experts J wAuwp deny advising against after Jan. 1st? ATOM PLANE: Look up into the sky In about seven years and you might see an atomic-powereairplane scudding across the clouds. Scientists now think there is a good chance that nuclear-propelleaircraft will be in production by that time. AN OAK RIDGE scientist. David JAPAN: x the Spot On Gen. Robert L. former military governor occupied Japan, admitted he Lieut. the public with the announcement that the theory of an atom-driveairplane has been worked out to completion and is ready to atom-conscio- of n might Elchel-berger- have mistake made a In not leaving the Japanese a few guns for their own protection. be translated by engineers into IT BOILS down as most intera actual plans for such plane. national difficulties do these days The nuclear scientists have to a matter of Communism and thought out a way to tap the power Communist influences inside the of a mobile atomic pile, Poole said. couhtry. The problems ahead are to deAs a matter of fact, said ' vise the engine, fuselage and conCommunist pressure in trols and to build a shield to pro- Japan and the Far East In genera! tect the plane's crew. may force the U. S. to carry out Poole disclosed that the scien a limited rearmament of the Japa lists have made up their minds how nese. to make the best use of the power "I believe I went too far in diswhose source is the heat generatthe Japanese," he said arming ed in an atomic pile. "They need a few machine gum What kind of engine will be used and rifles to protect themselvei to chain the tremendous power con-- i against internal disturbances. contrnted in the uranium fuel? The "IF AND when the Americar rocket-thrus- t motor was tried and army withdraws, the Japanese wil abandoned, said Poole. Steam tur- have to be given something with and ram jet all were which to defend themselves bine, turbo-je- t crossed off. strong police force or a smal' THE POWER unit will be a "nuarmy." a clear rocket." Just what nuclear Communist influence in Japan, h inforrocket might be is said, "is about the same as it li mation. All anyone can even guess here. They are s nuisance beyonc at at this point is that It probably their numerical strength. But it'i involves a new principle of appli-always the wrong guy that gets tin cation, of power. pistols." Elchel-berger- . 1 reconciled with one another, and if this nation has the capacity to fill the military's estimated wartime nee'ls All this doesn't mean that war Is necessarily around the corner Comprehensive analyses of the strategic blueprint are routine steps in U S mobilization planning However, the spot check is in line with the faster military temt" rtsivs ! General Former Field Marsha Walther von Braurhitsch died in thi British military hospital at Ham burg. Germany, where he was un der guard awaiting trial as a majoi war criminal. The British army's announeemen of the death did nut state the cause Von Brauchitsch. who was 67 ant ! German hod been ill scheduled to Han-bur- fur come ome time, wai up for trial u in January Gen. Clay When the colyum reported that Franco's Gov't sent Japan congratu lations after the attack on Pearl Harbor that fact was questioned by some readers and listeners. Some Capitol dome. d startled the odd-ang- le d Poole, a way through the now hiselection campaign one thing was sure: Somebody would get to be President. On that theory work was begun last month on stands In front of the Capitol building in Washington which will be used for the inauguration ceremony next January. This view was taken from the All build. Pattern is merely traced on the wood specified. 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And your friends are certain to welcome holiday - sent Camels and Prince Albert (Adv.) 1 travel be run. . . . Molotov is expected to make a last moment Barrymore entrance at the UN. . . . Arms are being smuggled into Egypt in defiance of the VN truce. Everyone just winks. . . . Ellen Adler, beautiful dghtr oi actress Stella Adler, and playwright Jean Paul Sartre are a duetcetera in Paree. . . . Violinists in Paris swank spots (such as the Lido) get $2.75 per night in U. S. money. . . . the Duke of Windsor may return to England solo to seek an official job. (Wot could 'e doooo?). . . . Field Marshal vun Rundstet of Hitler's army, allegedly in a prisoner of war camp in Wales, spends most of his time touring London night spots with British top brass. . . . Mayor LaGuardia's nephew, Richard Gluck, is now in a Berlin cour fight over who adopts him. torical Seven Years? M. OVERSEAS TICKER: 1 tut foreign and French Commander Koenig are at war on bow Allied Germany should I'M : YOU want to boy happy and F make some little at the same time develop his interest in woodworking, build one of these sturdy express wagons from the full size pattern offered below. It is easy to I wealthy P. Hanson Hisses will be news. He's cousin to Alger Hiss, who isn't going steady anymore with the Spy Probers. . . . Scott Brady of the films and Shirley Ballard are Counting Stars. . . . Eve Orten is Richard Ney's new insomnia. . . . Arthur T. Robb and Newsweek got unmarried. He was in its Press section. . . . Do the ship lines le 5 as the officials wanted. His own aim, Mr. Truman said, was to get a military program the country could pay for. He added that he hoped eventually to reduce military expenditures to about five to seven billion dollars a remarkably optimistic statement, coming as it did before the election when he was conceded vir tually no chance of being able to control any kind of governmental spending after the first of the year. Show Airport and the Golden Jubilee Exposition in New York City may cost the city a million bux, so anemic were . . . New Canaan edithe tors are checking the tip that the Coming Event Mobilization Plans intend to find The International form a "genuine" A'ozi Mobilization Pres. Truman's advisers are (It doesn't make any difference November 2?'" But wherever they were going, whether President Truman won or lost the election. He still was re- it didn't look like Wallace would quired to prepare budget estimates be in a position to do much guiding. for the congress convening next ! oi begging him to use his title of Commander-in-Chie- f reand verse the clemency decision on Nazi butcher Use Koch and others freed by Gen. Clay. . . . Condemnation letters to the President (over this judicial farce) now crowd most of the White House mailboxes. d now. Hugh Shannon Aug? She's Mrs. H. McEldowney of Pittsburgh's Lorgnette Set. . . . The Freddy Bartholomews should counl ten hundred. . . . Bill Eythe, star oi "Lend an Ear" (due soon), and Nancy Kelly are closer than Truman and Oblivion. third party of progressive-minde- d people after the election. The UAW leadership had condemned the Wallace third party as a Communist-inspiremovement and supported President Truman for IN THE waning days of the campaign Wallace was appealing to his followers to stick with him after November 2. "I hope you are with us all the way after November 2," he told one audience, putting heavy emphasis on the word "after." "You've got to drive it home to of the UAW, .and the all labor: 'Where do "We go after Experts Eye U. S. out if the requirements listed by the army, novy and atr forre ren be socialite thrush Le Perroquet are on key. . . . Dc the Marcus (novelist) Goodriches (Olivia DeHaviland) know that his Helen's been a secret bride since WHILE Wallace didn't name any names he obviously was referring to the United Auto Workers, headed by Walter Reuther, who had an- ANOTHER GONE: spot-chec- more in love than anybody. . . . Eddie Cantor's dghtr, Marilyn, and until 1949. DEFESSE SURVEY Top military planners are rushing of work to complete a United States mobilization requirements by November 13. The check will disclose whether the United States over all strateRic defense plan makes sense and whether It can be applied readilj split-secon- Henry Wallace, the incorrigibly incorrect visionary, who stumped the political experts by getting his Progressive party on the ballots of 43 states, now is working hard to keep his party alive for the 1952 campaign. n In a speech in Detroit he criticized "doubters" who argue that although a new party is needed, it shouldn't be formed Last May, George Polk, CBS correspondent, was taken out on Salonika bay in a boat where he was blindfolded, bound hand and foot and shot through the head. Communists. His murderers: Their motive: Simply to produce a murder, the blame for which might be pinned on the rightist Greek government in order to defame it abroad. Gregory Stakto-ponlo- s, Communist Salonika newspaperman, confessed he had witnessed the slaying and implicated three other Greek Communists. January.) The President said that his de- fense officials had wanted a budget of around 23 billion dollars for the fiscal year starting July 1, but that most foundered more than once, i he had cut them back to the 14.4 but the situation began to look a billion figure. WITH RARE candor he admitted shade or two brighter when the a Croesus to United Nations suddenly steeled its that it would take maintain spending as many billions Rusresistance to almost impossible sian demands on the issue. OVER the objections of the Soviet bloc, the U.N. political committee overwhelmingly endorsed the western plan for atomic control as a necessary basis for eventual elimination of atomic weapons. The conflict which has kept the atomic control problem deadlocked for so long is simply this The U. S. and the West insist that an system of international control and inspection must be established before the U. S. would feel safe in destroying its atomic weapons. The resolution which the political committee adopted is generally in line with the American policy. The plenary session of the general assembly was expected to give it a routine final approval. Peculiarly enough, this was the first time since Bernard Baruch presented the American plan to the atomic energy commisison in June, 1946. that all of the United Nations had a chance to vote on it. Previously atomic energy was discussed only in the security council and the atomic energy commission. SHORTLY prior to the U.N. action the U. S. had demanded that the world group turn the deadlocked problem over to the five great powers and Canada for direct negotiations. At that time Warren R. Austin, chief U. S. delegate, had told the political committee thnt the U.N. could go no further in its efforts to control the atom until the Soviet union agreed to "participate In the world community on a cooperative basis." HOW much good the U.N. vote of approval would do as long as the Russians continued to object was a question that remained hanging fire. It was conceded generally that, regardless of how much satisfaction the western nations mieht achieve by thus overruling and snubbing Moscow, the paramount problem that of preserving the peace probably had not been moved very far along the road to a solution. cluck-cluckin- '52 On to CONTROL PLAN: For Atoms How to establish effective, workable control of atomic energy on an international scale is one of the rocks upon which the U.N. has al- Lady Astor's son and dancing stai Katherine Dunham have Londoners g behind the backs ol their handsl . . . Ambassador tc Egypt Stanton Griffis' son, Nixon, and Martha Hughes (the New Canaan sculptor) are now Renotables. . . . Emily Hahn, the beautiful novelist, rushed from England so thai the new image (due any will be a Yankee Doodler. The blessed event arrives at Georgetown Univ. Hosp. . . . The Rex Harrisons want friends to know they are WALLACE: n Free Press well-know- George Polk FIRE: Holy Land can't better part : Sturdy Express Yagon For Junior to Have editorialists echoed the denial. . . . "This is a canard which cannot be proven!" said one. . . . Veriwell. See page 114 of the book, "Complacent Dictator." The publisher is Knopf. . . . The author is Viscount who was Britain's Templewood, wartime ambassador. . . . Page 114 says in part: "Serrano Suner was as wrong about the results of Pearl Harbor as the Japanese Minister. He also seemed to think that it was a decisive victory for the Axis. In any case, he ordered the staff of his Min- NATURE'S REMEDY (NR) LETSA purely vegetable TAB- laxative to relieve constipation without the usual griping, sickening, perturbing sensa- tions, and does not cause a rash. Try NR you will see the difference. or candy coated their action is dependable, thorough, yet gentle millions of NR's have proved. 25c box and use as directed. 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