Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS' Arabs and Jews Go o pack BaCr to War As U. U IN Nil Truce Fails ails in Palestine Truman farm arm Price Support By Bill Staff Writer Western V EDITORS EDITOR'S t I Newspaper NOTE g When Unions Union's f n opinions news ns analysts are expressed and not In these theeo necessarily column no of this they 1 7 n newspaper ore are those of oI r V r FAILURE UN U.N. Truce There was not peace but once more a sword in Palestine The United Nations truce had failed As the week four Interruption of hostilities between Arabs and Jews dragged somberly through Its final V hours ho how jours urs combatants on both sides w were ere making preparations to reme resume resume re re- re- re su sume me warfare They had failed to come tb terms an and d that failure arose out of the act fa ct that there had existed no political po- po lit ical or social basis upon which a peace agreement could be rested nor no r were either the Jews or Arabs pa particularly eager enger to create one Their attitude throughout the tr truce ruce uce negotiations had been that th he the e contest over whether the state of Israel Isrnel should be allowed to exist m must necessarily be a flat win-or- win lo lose ose se battle with no middle ground V solution lution so possible Count Folke Bernadotte UN U.N. m mediator in Palestine had tried lard hard ha rd but he had had to carry out V hi his us s negotiations in what might bermed be V te termed a spiritual vacuum between th he the e Jews and Arabs There simply w was vas as no meeting of minds upon L w which he might have capitalized Before the truce expired Bernadotte Ber na dotte had endeavored to get it extended tended ex and continue the ti ions ons Israel had agreed to such an extension but the Arab league op opposed posed it Previously during the last days of the truce the Arabs had rejected re- re je a plan submitted by Bernadotte Bernatte Bernadotte Berna Berna- do dotte tte which included an nn extensive I re revision vision of the now defunct UN U.N. pa partition scheme Bernadotte's Bernadette's proposal would have re restored stored the area of Palestine to rew w what hat it was before Trans-Jordan Trans w was as separated from rom it and that to total otal area then would have been pa partitioned Into independent Arab an and d Jewish states The Thc plan as ns presented had a aring aring ri ring ng of desperation in it It must h have lave ave been obvious even to Bernadotte Ber- Ber n adotte that the Arabs would not a accept such a scheme particularly si since nce they had violently opposed th he the e original UN U.N. partition idea Trans Jordan was especially antagonistic antagonistic an an- ta to the plan pIan insisting that it t would put the nation under at le least east partial jurisdiction of the U United Nations thus making it no b better etter than a dependent state As Bernadotte Bernadette and his stat staff left Palestine alestine P guns already were firing a and nd the Holy Land had relapsed In into nto to a condition of war F FARM ARM BILL P Price rice Support To the accompaniment of ot his now customary c blast at the BOth congress con- con g gress ress President Truman signed into into in in- t te to o law a farm bill that extends present present pres pres- e ent nt price support policies for tor 15 months m and establishes a range long fl flexible support program to begin January Januar J 1 I. I 1950 Signing the bill the President s said aid I I wish to make it plain once a again gain that legislation for price supports sup sup- p ports orts is only part of the action this c congress should have taken to meet t th the e problems of American t ture ure Thus he was not criticizing the f farm rm arm price support bi bill in Itself but r rather ather giving another run re-run to the j f familiar theme whereby he has b been een castigating congress for doing doing do do- V I ing ng a little when a lot more more was was V n needed Congress he said failed to enact enact en en- V a act ct legislation to strengthen the I s soil soU oil conservation program it did V n not ot provide the necessary funds for marketing research it did not act acton acton o on n the international wheat V agreement agree agree- ment It failed he specified to t meet the serious problems of ol j r rural ural housing health and tion ion t In the field of agriculture as inso in is inso L t s so o many others most of the business business busi busi- ness n ess of the BOth congress was left u unfinished Mr Truman observed V Under the extension bill farm farrr prices generally will be supported I at their present levels However t the he support price for lor cotton will Wa I drop from 92 to 90 per cent o of ot I parity The Idea behind parity arity farm farrr prices is to Insure the thc farmer larmer the tin same buying power compared with the he rest of the community that he h had during a favorable crop period Usually the standard interval upon which parity prices are based are art a athe the five years from 1909 to 1914 Five other basic crops will continue continue continue con con- to be supported at 90 per cen cent t of parity They are arc wheat com corn V rice peanuts and tobacco BERLIN ERLIN B T Trouble rouble As U U. S. S planes continued to 11 fly t tons ons of food into beleaguered Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin li n the West East-West stalemate over ove G Germany ermany was solidifying in a stubborn stub stub- b born jorn orn mold The Russian blockade of Berlin BerTh h had ad brought the painful German is issue issue is- is s sue ue to a head and both the Soviets Soviet S a and nd the western powers were anticipating anticipating an an- I- I ti that events might begin a t to o move very rapidly soon There were these developments The Communists announced that tha t t hey they were drawing up a constitution a for f or a German republic and also a t year two plan to link Berlin economically economically eco eco- t. t n with the Soviet zone At the same time on the free fre ree e s side ido of the Iron curtain German Germa n p political leaders were expressing g t their heir opposition to the western wester n p powers powers' plans for a West German Germa a f federal government In Berlin power cuts were ordered ordered or Os d dered cred in the three western sectors sector 5 o of f the city to save the dwindling g coal oal c stocks The action was taken take n d despite espite the fact tact that coal shipments shipment s h had ad begun to arrive by air Key to the situation perhaps w was as the Communist proposal for for a anew anew n new ew constitution The Soviet spon ored s German Peoples People's Congress o of f eastern Germany announced that hat t the document would be official I In n a statement the group said that Germany is an indivisible republic l lic ie made up of states and that executive executive Li tive ve power stems from the people That appeared to bring Soviet Intentions In in- t more or less out in the o open pen It means that Russia apparently apparently e is determined either to force t the he western democracies out of Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin fin or bludgeon them into an agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment whereby the Soviets would ben bein be bein in i n virtual control of the city REP REPUBLICAN Changes If Although the presidency of the United States still is far from a reality for Gov Thomas E. E Dewey of ot New York the Republican nominee nom nom- m inee oe nevertheless Is giving considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable thought to some of the problems problems l lems ems that will face him him if he does get elected to the office If It for instance he Is to make good his promise to sweep out 16 years of Democratic cobwebs cobwebs' from the federal government these are some of the tasks he will be expected to perform Replace hundreds of officials In Washington and all nIl over the nation with men of his choice who will wil put his policies into effect Establish with congress a coord coordinated coordinated program of policies for all al federal departments both foreign and domestic Streamline government functions and eliminate duplications in the present structure of alphabetical agencies and bureaus It will be a gigantic task Policies Pol PoI that a Republican president would have to establish would range through the current conduct of foreign foreign for for- eign domestic spending of taxpayers' taxpayers money federal relations with private business labor anc and industry housing veterans agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture and social improvements Then there will be the matter of choosing a cabinet that will be geographically representative oJ ot of the entire nation PRICES Up Again Consumers Consumer's price Index formerly called the cost of living Index for mid-May mid this year rose 6 6 pCr per cent above that for mid April to reach a new time all high according to figures released by National Industrial Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial Conference board Expressed In 1923 dollars the purchasing purchasing purchasing pur pur- chasing power of the dollar stood at cents In May That represents represents represents a drop of ot 0 6 per cent April and 74 per Der cent from June 1947 RAILROADS No Strike Federal Judge T. T Alan GoldsbOrough Goldsborough Goldsborough ough was not a man to stand idly by and watch society disintegrate as he termed it so he issued an injunction injunction in in- junction forbidding a national rail rall strike The injunction was a n permanent one replacing the temporary no strike order he be Issued last May after the government had seized the railroads in the face of ot an impending impend impend- ing strike by the three operating brotherhoods Justifying his action Goldsborough said that if it he be had not Issued the order the whole economic and political political po po- system of the nation would be upset Although rail unions had protested that a permanent injunction was unnecessary un V necessary Goldsborough said they could not be permitted to adopt a process which will disintegrate socIety society society so so- V itself That held true he heV pointed out regardless of ot whatever V merits the unions union's case might hold Our political Influence throughout through through- out the world would be done away V with wed we'd become a laughing stock V To permit a strike of this kind is V something society should not be V forced to tolerate But as the stalemate dragged on the disputants apparently lost some of their zest for tor the contest Finally a series of conferences arranged arranged ar are V ranged by John R. R Steelman presIdential presidential presidential pres pres- assistant resulted in a more or less amicable settlement The unions agreed to accept a wage increase in crease of 15 cents an hour plus pIus some changes in operating rules Chortled President Truman as he c called the labor and management cre re representatives into his office You I d di div did d this on your own hook and I feel fee I v very ery good about it I congratulate all au I of you on it C CYCLES Fre Freezing F People who are addicted to the th theory eory that human existence Is defined defined de de- fi fined ned by cycles have made a hor her horrendous horrendous rc prediction This will be a a L w world orld of dictators for the next 25 years y ears That prognostication was made ina in ir ina L a law of ot growth of ol nations published published pub pub- U shed by the Foundation for the tin St Study udy of Cycles This law indicates indicate fu further that after the period of dictators dictators dic die ta tors will come a static or frozen rozen ci civilization This frozen civilization probably probably a ably bly v. v will ll be a happy one but it is n nevertheless doomed to o orate rate The end is foreseen when whet 1 I younger y peoples eager for the loot leo t I o of f the world rise to give the coup coui de d e grace to the emasculated western western west vest e ern m powers Who Vho these younger peoples are art areIs areis a is not revealed revea They may be a afresh afresh fr fresh esh group of barbarians or near near- b barbarians who will come sweeping sweepIng sweep sweep- t. t ing la g down from rom the north or up from Iron 1 th the e south |