| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Korea Military Picture Senate Passes Mobilization Nation's Farmers in When nrc In rt of rn and not nee ml tin- Picture Changes As the Korean war went into the third month military observers were inclined to comment picture has And from available information it seemed the Communists had lost the power to mount groat offensives involving thousands of North Koreans launched one attack in its objective the city of temporary capital of the South Korean republic and supply terminal for U. N. It In some of the bloodiest fighting of the U. S. and South Korean troops smashed the held and then proceeded to smash bulges all along their One of the most spectacular operations of the Korean battle was the concentrated air Attack on an assembly area at involving 08 each loaded with 40 all The load was dropped in a rectangle miles long and miles General commander of United in a report to the security council ground continues to be of a most savage Our outnumbered forces face an enemy with fanatical The whole operation has assumed the character of a major He went on to ask for troops from other members of the United To date the number accepted for action in Korea included Thailand the Philippines Turkey and the Kingdom It will be several weeks before they can be brought to Military observers agreed that the picture had but added that it will be long and hard winter in In Fine Shape In a major speech at Secretary of Agriculture Brannan asserted that the nation's farmers are in and took the opportunity to put in another plug for his farm Said the allowing for increases in military food requirements we expect to have enough food so that civilians can continue consuming as much as in the past two Farmers worried about possible economic controls of agriculture were reassured when the secretary said there are grounds for hope that such controls can be postponed for a considerable time or perhaps avoided entirely the emergency becomes much Talking up the Brannan the secretary said we need a program which protects farm prices In case of a sudden slackening of yet an abundance of and other perishables In the hands of consumers at attractive Brannan added that the present program of sliding-scale price supports fail to assure support on some of the most important commodities and offers no Incentive for necessary production Highest Level The agricultural department has fixed price supports for 1951 wheat t the same level as the 1950 crop 90 per cent of The department said acres of wheat may be If yields are this acreage would produce This year's crop is estimated at In fixing the wheat support at the highest possible Secretary of Agriculture Brannan view of the world tt is imperative that our supply of bread grains be maintained In strong Ample supplies will be a major factor in assuring reasonable food prices to consumers and our ability to meet our international food believe the wheat-production and price-support programs have been developed to protect the interests of both producers and The price support announcement had been since Brannan is required by law to announce supports in advance of winter wheat planting starts Only farmers who keep within acreage-allotment limits can get price CASUALTIES Toil Is Heavy The shattering realities of the Korean conflict reached into many American homes as the conflict went into its third More than families the cities and small towns and on the farms of the nation have been notified of wounded or missing in At the same a military said that Korean Communists had lost Victories U.S. troops won victories on nearly all fronts In Korea during the eighth week of the The big Communist on from the north was driven South Korean troops recaptured and another bridgehead across the was beaten American forces flattened the bridgehead in the Mobilization Bill The by a vote of 85 to passed a home-front mobilization bill which would give President Truman power to invoke controls and other anti-inflation curbs at any The bill then went to a senate-house conference for the ironing out of differences between the senate measure and the bill passed earlier by the In one point the bill was a defeat for the administration since it directed the President to put wage and price controls into effect simultaneously and virtually across the board if he invoked them at The President has maintained he sees no need of wage-price curbs or rationing at this the administration requested authority to control commodity but neither the house or senate versions contain such Both bills contain an anti-hoarding provision prohibiting the accumulation of excessive supplies of goods designed as The administration suffered another setback in that its plea for retention of the provision which would let the President fix controls on selected commodities for example in advance of any genera controls was Angry People Americans have never liked the evasive tactics and double-talk used by That such a dislike still persists in the minds of average Americans was indicated by the increasing number of letters to national leaders and members of the United Nations demanding that Soviet delegate Jacob Malik be thrown out of the security The letters asked why prolong the arguments in the security Why not expel the Soviet the people in the small towns of America wanted to In answer to these questions Warren U.S. chief delegate to the United made the following objective is We do not find peace by throwing out the person with whom we must make must be firm in our We be But we must also be the United we must keep trying to convince Malik and his government of their errors and of our peaceful intentions Through the United Nations we can reach the peoples of the Soviet Union and of other is not the it is the circles' that we encounter That creates a force of public backed by moral authority that opposes aggression and even the Soviet dictatorship cannot ignore such n is a strain for us to listen to the deceit that the spokesman has poured But truth will prevail it is for diplomats to get Indigestion than for young men to get Americans was Straight talk and to their Suspect 8 A stocky American electrical who fled to Mexico when the began nabbing suspects in the Klaus Fuchs spy had een arrested and charged with passing defense secrets to Identified as Morton he was the eighth American rounded up and charged with passing defense secrets to officials said he is a radar 1 There Is Still Hope The belief that there Is still hopi for perhaps for only a short but still respite from wide Is growing in many The hope is not one for permanent but one of based on the belief in high diplomatic circles that the Russians are not ready for all-out war at the Diplomatic circles call it the of war or It is based on three major Russia fears the effects of American atom bomb Russia does not possess an adequate stock pile of atomic Russia's industrial potential Is still too weak in comparison with that of the western allies to risk a major The first two of the assumptions of mere guess But there are statistics to back up the For America's steel production for 1950 is expected to exceed 71 million Great Britain will produce around 16 million tons and the rest of western Europe approximately 24 million the allies will produce a total of million compared with Russia's 22 Russia also lags in the production of another of the top essentials for On these assumptions western Europe is planning a three-year rearming If the program is successful peace may be but the world will be divided into two great armed Strikes Close Steel The brotherhood of railroad trainmen and order of railway conductors went on strike against three terminal disrupting several of the country's steel arteries In the midst of the Korean with the steel industry pressed to capacity to meet the needs of the stepped-up munitions program and the booming civilian many sources predicted that President would seize the The unions singled out key terminals in St. Paul and Chicago and Republic Steel's switching terminal at Cleveland for the first display of About men walked out for five Approximately including were made Negotiations between management and union with presidential assistant John R. Steelman taking produced no progress in the first 24 Observers believed the government would take drastic action before the situation deteriorated and crippled the nation's vital steel Headed by Smith Walter Bedell former ambassador to was named by President Truman as director of central He will succeed Rear Roscoe H. around the end of The agency's job is to gather and analyze reports from military and all other Some members of congress were not surprised by Smith's There had been demands in congress for a shake-up of the agency since the Korean Some legislators contended the United States was caught flat-footed by the invasion of South Korea by Communist General now has had a long military which includes service as chief of staff to Dwight Eisenhower in World War Later he became ambassador at Johnson Defense Secretary Louis Johnson confers with Tom chairman of the foreign relations Johnson has been under increased attack by of the administration and some Democrats for Ibe way he handled his office during the year before the outbreak of fighting in Election Crossfire The American political picture cleared somewhat with one definite trend in the the voter faces a furious election year partisan The issue will be U.S. foreign The bipartisanship In foreign as existed before the Korean war is a thing of the From now or voter will hear charges and counter-charges on U. 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