Show k- k WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1948 1940 Election Campaign Hils Stride As Democrats GOP Vie for labor t Soviets Aggravate erin Berlin Situation t I By By Dy Bill Staff StafI Writer Writer- EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTES NOTE When opinion are expressed In these colomos the they ore are those of or Newspaper Unions Union's news Analysis ODd nod not Dot necessarily of or this n sp p r. r P TilE THE GOLDEN KEY Trygve Lie secretary general of the United Nations beams as he accepts from former French Premier Robert a golden key as a symbol of Frances France's temporary surrender r of sovereignty over the Palais de Chaillot where the U. U N. N general Jeneral generali v i assembly opened on September 21 What treasures of peace that t key might unlock this year Is a question that gives pause to the entire world CAMPAIGN Trumpets Sounded Politicians cleared their throats ats atsas as with the sound of trumpets and I the 1948 presidential election campaign campaign cam cam- 11 r swept into motion The first fint skirmish between Democrats Demo Demo- Democrats and Republicans featured President Truman and Harold E. E Stassen who carried the word of their respective parties into the great grea t industrial area around Dc- Dc troi troit t. t THAT INDICATED that for the the It time being at least the pivotal factor fac- fac 11 t tor directing the policies of both GOP and Democratic campaigns would be the labor vote To win the election this November November Novem- Novem ber Mr Truman probably will need the same proportionate amount of the labor vote that turned out in favor of ot Roosevelt in th 1932 1936 f- f and 1940 campaigns Whether he t will get it is very much open to if question at this stage Truman f Launching his battle for tor reelection re-elec re o tion non in the Detroit area over the Labor Day week end President I Truman fired tired at will AT itT GRAND RAPIDS Lansing t Detroit Pontiac and Flint he ex ex- exhorted exhorted 7 all aU the little people of at the U. U S. S to register and vote in the November 2 election If II a heavy vote turns out he insisted insisted in- in s-isted s not only will he be re elected j but the Republican majority in congress congress con- con conr II gress will be replaced by a Demo- Demo era cratic tic one IF YOU STAY home next November November No No- 1 I vember and keep these thes reactionaries reaction- reaction aries eries in power you will deserve to every blow you ou get and you can expect a barrage of ot body blows said Mr Truman This was a repetition tion of idea that idea that an get what hat you OU deserve which deserve which he had exp expressed essed earlier in the year and which at the time was received with some animosity by the people to whom he addressed it You can elect a reactionary administration ad- ad I ad-I add ministration and go Into an era of at fear or you can elect a congress I and an administration that stand I ready to play fair with every element element elem elem- ent of ot American life and enter an era of ot new hope Were We're in a hard tough fight against shrewd op- op They dont don't count on your I vote they just dont don't want you to f vote Judging from his Labor Day speeches President Truman is planning to shape his campaign i around these contentions 1 THAT TilE THE MAIN lAIN issue bolls boils 4 down to Republican special t 4 f leges as against Democratic concern concern concern con con- cern for tor the little man 2 THAT THE DO NOTHING h congress under GOP control has done nothing to justify its re- re election 2 v 3 THAT ANYTHING EXCEPT 11 i an out all vote by labor on election I T it day would be a betrayal by labor labor la la- labor la- la bor of its own interests jn 4 4 T THAT A T IF TIlE THE MASS l of the nations nation's voters go to the polls on or I election day a Democratic victory IP P Is assured I p. p Stassen i r Just a step and a halt half behind Mr 7 1 Truman came Harold EI E. Stassen b striving valiantly to scatter the thc coals of the bonfire the President t thad had kindled in Detroit Apparently blessed by Thomas E E. E Dewey GOP presidential candidate Stassen's speech in tn the motor cit city was billed as the official kickoff o of f the Republican campaign STASSEN SPARED no words in ir t taking tr t t. t taking aking President Truman to task r referring to him as a complaining complaining complain I ing ng failure who had resorted to tc demagogic appeals in seeking re re- e election lection Specifically he ho charged that Mr I T Truman ruman had dishonored labor laboi w with ith an extreme demagogic appeal 1 t to o set class against class In thus resorting to the time hon ored o red political device of attacking a and nd reproaching the opponent from froma 1 a personal standpoint Stassen had hac I Ione gone g one Mr Truman one better I In h his is Detroit addresses the President t a am ala la not even mention Thomas Dewey D ewey TOE THE DEFEATED GOP aspirant f for tor or the party's nomination declared th that at Mr Truman had come not to l laud aud labor for tor its record but as a c complaining candidate for election s seeking labors labor's vote His scolding threatening complaining complaining com corn corni P laining speeches indicated that h he e lacks Jacks the leadership in affairs 3 a at t home and abroad so vitally needed needed need need- e ed d in these next crucial years said S Stassen C He lie failed when he had haI a Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- Demor cratic c congress to work with He Ho failed when he had a Republican Republican il lican can congress to work with TURNING TO TilE THE political football foot toot b ball all which the election year has r m made ade of at the issue of Communist a activities in the U. U S. S St Stassen asserted assorted as- as s f sorted that the Republican party i j is s driving the red herring out of r the he t official waters of the Potomac b by y means of ot congressional inquiries i into nto the Communist problem Too many red herrings have b been een in Washington for too long a aime t time ime he blasted The President s should hould help man the red herring J n nets ets instead of ot complaining against the fishermen BERLIN i More Trouble I There was it appeared no end to t o the sponsored Russian-sponsored trouble in B Berlin erlin and it was having its grimly detrimental d effect on the fiber of ot the peace Latest incident piled plied atop many other ther o instances of ot petty Soviet encroachments en en- c needed little more t than han a small flame fIame to turn into a f funeral pyre for what is left of ot world harmony IT WAS A FLAGRANT invasion of at American offices in the Berlin city hall hail by armed Russian con trolled rolled t police who kidnapped 19 western sector policemen who had sought sanctuary In the building What the purpose of the raid was I never became quite clear On the surface it looked like pure terrorization terror terror- carried out as part of ot the overall Soviet plan eventually to get control of the entire German capi capi- tal AN AMERICAN protest by Col Frank Howley American commandant commandant commandant comman comman- dant in Berlin was rejected bluntly blunt blunt- ly by the Soviet commander Maj Gen Alexander Kotikov who flatly warned the U. U S. S officials not to Interfere Interfere interfere in In- in matters which dont don't concern concern con con- cern them Kotikov's letter Jetter followed rejection of French protests that demanded the release of at another 19 Corn anti western sector policemen who were by Soviet police while traveling in a French convoy under a Russian guarantee of safe conduct In the face tace of ot these intolerable developments how could East West negotiations for a Berlin agreement continue Apparently they couldn't except under almost impossible strain SECRETARY OF STATE George Georg Marshall charged that the Berlin city hall were aimed at least in part at disrupting th the talks by the four military governors gover gover- nors who were ostensibly seeking the road to a settlement of the Berlin Ber lin problem and the issue of ot uniform uni uni- form currency Thus it was easy casy to understand understands why U. U S. S diplomatic authorities were concerned with the possibilIty ity of an early collapse of the formal for for- smal mal negotiations It was likely that tha the Kremlin would be the first t to flash the red light CABINET Sil V ous Plait They couldn't find a n government in France As a political situation that appeared slightly ludicrous from across the Atlantic but Frenchmen were becoming sorely worried for fear tear that they had lost the ability or power to govern them them- selves AFTER AFFER PREMIER Andre Maries Marie's cabinet fell fell President Vincent Auriol Auri- Auri ol appointed Robert Schuman as premier and gave him the usual instructions to form a cabinet Schuman duly gathered together an administrative body and then 64 hours later watched it fall apart when he was defeated on a technical technical technical cal proposal to postpone questioning of ot th the new cabinet by the national assembly In short he hc failed to get the necessary vote of confidence Desperate by this time President Auriol then named Henri veteran Radical Socialist to succeed succeed suc sue Schuman WHAT QUEUILLE could do to produce some kind of order out of ot political confusion and economic travail no one know He is 64 years old a 8 little known political figure in France and was a wartime assistant assistant assistant as as- of Gen Charles The situation pointed up the alarmed belief becoming more predominant predominant predominant pre pre- dominant in France that no Individual Individual Indi Indi- vidual or group can command the working majority that will enable him to govern the nation success success- fully It is a paradox that the parties inthe Inthe in inthe the moderate center of ot the political scale in France can speak for tor less than 25 per cent of the people General General General Gen Gen- eral on the right commands commands com corn mands 45 per cent of ot the vote and Communist groups hold another 30 per cent Although the past few weeks have not been conducive to a coherent examination of the political situation situation situa situa- situation tion in France the principal trend seems to be toward a return of General General General Gen Gen- eral and his wing right-wing beliefs to power |