Show WEEKLY WEE NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS'S S 'S Murder Question of Palestine U. U UN U.N. East East- West West Crisis Hits Flits final Peak By Bill Staff Writer EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion re I re expressed la In these thue columns they are those ho of or Western Vestern Newspaper Unions Union's news DIW analysts and sod not necessarily of this Ihl newspaper HOLY LAND Murder The sullen-faced sullen uniformed men in the jeep didn't say a word after they had stopped the procession of United Nations cars that was wInding winding winding wind wInd- ing through the section of Jerusalem Carrying a machine gun one of them walked up to the automobile in which Count Folke Bernadotte and Col Andre Pierre Ser Ser- rot were sitting looked inside and S 'S 7 started shooting The two killers S fled leaving dead and Bernadotte Bernadotte Berna Berna- dotte mortally wounded The U. U N. N Palestine mediator died as he was being being be be- ing tug carried into Hadassah hospital on a n stretcher For Bernadotte head of the Swedish Red Cross nephew of the king of Sweden diplomat a arid and d humanitarian humanitarian humanitarian hu hu- hu- hu it was a wretched futile futile futile fu fu- tile end His death was mourned not only by governments but by millions of ordinary citizens yet he died not knowing when or if il ever his assiduous ous and sincere efforts to organize peace in the tile Holy Land would be fulfilled Bernadotte's assassination brought Jerusalem Jerusalem and and all of Palestine for tor that matter perilously matter perilously close to the brink of general violence There was danger too that the uneasy Jewish Arab truce might fall to pieces under the circumstances For the time being Bernadotte's killers remained unidentified The I Israeli government called It the work of Stern gang terrorists and issued an edict outlawing that extremist extremist ex ex- group In Oslo Norway U. U N. N Secre Secre- General tary-General Trygve Lie added his panegyric to the praise that was being being being be be- ing heaped on the martyred Bernadotte Bernadotte Bernadotte Berna Berna- dotte He burned with eagerness to bring about an understanding be be- Arabs and Jews He thought always of justice and peace FINAL REPORT End It Now As the United Nations general assembly assembly assembly as as- convened for its fateful 49 1948 session in the Palais de Chaillot Chail Chan lot tot the member nations took time timeout timeout timeout out to pay somber tribute to Count Folke Bernadotte their representative tive in n Palestine who had died while trying to implement the peace of which they were supposed to be the architects Then they began consideration of the plan for an enforced Palestine settlement that Bernadotte had submitted submitted submitted sub sub- before his death THE SWEDISH COUNTS COUNT'S final 35 word report recommended that the Jewish Arab-Jewish war should be pronounced pronounced pronounced pro formally ended If the Arabs and Jews refuse to make makepeace makepeace makepeace peace the U. U N. N should do so Itself the report said It calls for changes in the boundaries boundaries boundaries bound bound- aries of the U. U N. N partition plan I adopted in November 1947 proposing proposing proposing pro pro- i posing that the desert be given given giveen give en to the Arabs and that the Jews Jews Jews' should receive all of Galilee Instead of only the eastern part I Other recommendations include 1 INTERNATIONALIZATION of Jerusalem by placing it under U. U N. N control 2 ESTABLISHMENT of a technical technical cal boundaries commission to delimit delim delim- it the new frontiers 3 CREATION of a Palestine conciliation conciliation conciliation con con- commission to deal with population exchanges and nd supervise other parts of U. U N. N decisions 4 SETTLEMENT of the problem of Arab refugees by giving them the right to return to their homes in Jewish territory or to re receive receive I compensation if they choose not to return It was a good plan the United States thought and Secretary of State Marshall announced that this nation would back it to the fullest extent Said Marshall THE UNITED STATES considers consid consid- ers that the conclusions contained in the final report of ot Count BernaI Bernadotte Berna Berna- dotte offer a generally fair basis for Cor I settlement of the Palestine ques ques- tion I He called it the best po possible sible basis for bringing peace to a distracted distracted distracted dis dis- dis- dis land adding that No plan could be proposed which would be entirely satisfactory In all re respects I to every interested party I Shrinkage VAtU 00 o a I 00 1500 j f Ice cc oS VAtU D t. t a 57 Graph by Family Economics Economic Bu flu- reau resu Northwestern National Life We Insurance Insurance In In- company Since 1939 the total number of dollars in circulation In the U. U S. S has more than thaD trebled trebled from from 33 billion to nearly billion while billion while our industrial production of goods to buy has less than doubled Result Cheaper money Each dollars dollar's proportionate worth in goods has fallen Callen until it now takes dollars to buy as much as one dollar would buy In 1939 I Over three times as many dollars bidding frantically for Cor less than twice as much goods roods equals in in- tion RUSSIANS Western Stand Those who in commenting on the strained relationship between the thc East and West have been wont to say get worse before beCore 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 tor two years There were these developments THE AMERICAN British and French ambassadors who had been talking with Soviet Foreign Minister MinIster Min Min- ister V. V M. M Molotov and Premier Stalin in Moscow for six weeks left the Russian capital presumably ending the power four-power discussions 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 blockade blockade block block- ade of Berlin U. U S. S SECRETARY of State George Marshall speaking before the U. U N. N general assembly warned the Soviet Union that American patience patience patience pa pa- tience should not be mistaken for weakness With the Moscow talks at an end I i I I I the center of action in the crisis had shifted to Paris where the is issue issue issue is- is sue would be debated in hi the U U. N. N The western nations the nations the U. U S. S France and Great Britain plainly BritaIn plainly had had enough and were determined determined determined deter deter- mined not to give another inch In an long hour-long speech before parliament British Foreign Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Ernest Bevin expressed his nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's determination We are firmly firmly firmly firm firm- ly resolved to go on with our pol pol- icy 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 yet Speaking to the United Nations in hi Paris George Marshall U. U S. S secretary secretary sec see of state outlined the basic U U. S. S foreign policy in much the same manner as Bevin The United States he said would not compromise compromise com corn promise the essential principles or barter away the rights and freedoms of other peoples HOME iE OWNERS Record High 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 hi history About 49 per cent of the nations nation's non-farm non families owned their homes at the beginning of this year It has been revealed by a federal reserve board survey That comes to toa a total of million city and town families Although the survey did not take up farm Carm families the proportion of home owners among that group traditionally tra tra- has been much higher than among city dwellers PRICE AID Sure Thing One thing is dead sure about the coming election No matter who gets into office farm price supports will be continued Governor Dewey Is on record as favoring the Hope-AIken Hope law passed by congress last June and President President President dent Truman says he is in favor of 01 farm price supports and has been all along BOTH SIDES have promised their help to the nations 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 er they keep up costs of living in inthe inthe inthe the city and hence contribute generally generally generally gen gen- I toward inflation The system was started in the to save farmers from bankruptcy bankruptcy bank bank- 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 system system tem tern was continued to keep greater amounts of food flowing into destitute destitute desti desti- tute areas abroad It was successful successful successful success success- ful in that also Now however as a result of this artificial stimulation production is beginning to pile up in the U. U S. S The wartime pattern of price support support support sup sup- port no longer fits the American I market THE POTATO situation Is a case caseIn casein in point As the government continues continues con con- to stimulate the production of potatoes the guaranteed prices keep consumers from getting the I surplus crops at bargain prices and anda a at t the same time the system keeps farmers growing too many potatoes Congress this year elected to revise revise revise re re- vise the price support program effective effective effective ef ef- ef- ef in 1950 by providing new parity prices based on modern 1 farm rm practices and by allowing a fluctuation fluctuation in support levels to conform with general e economic c conditions Dewey and Eggs In sharp contrast to Henry Wal al al laces lace's unsavory experience with eggs ells in the South the product t of the hen brought nothing but good to Gov Thomas E. E Dewey GOP presidential candidate At his Pawling N. N Y farm Cann he was made honorary member of the national Good Egg club and was presented presented pre pre- pre pre- with an egg bedecked plaque by Hobart Creighton left GOP nominee for Cor governor of Indiana Indiana In- In diana and president of oC the Poultry Poul Poul- try and Egg Egl national board ANSWER MAN iAN Brannan When it comes to questions Secretary Secre Secre- Secretary tary of Agriculture Charles Brannan Bran Bran- nan gets all kinds many of which have nothing to do with farming Pouring In at the rate of day the queries 5 a vary from from- How iio do I bury eats cats in the ground What to was Little Evas Eva's last in the play Uncle Toms Tom's name Cabin and is Can YOU recommend a lonely hearts club Three of us I girls Interested ar arB |