| Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- Truman Tells U. N. This Country Committed to Armament Costs of Living Near Record High In are el ara ant mi Armament for Peace President speaking before the United Nations general on United Nations' told members of the world organization that the United States would prefer universal but this nation Is committed to rearming because It is the only way to stop The President used Korea as an example of what united effort by U.N. members can accomplish In stopping He termed the Invasion of South Korea by Communist forces a direct challenge to the world As for disarmament and the solution to world Truman said the U. S. was willing to enter but only if all nations proved their good Such negotiation could only be carried on if there was concrete evidence of good Intention and the open and free exchange of ideas between The chief executive said few acts in our time have met with such universal approval as the intervention of the United Nations in the Korea It was significant that the President did not mention Russia at all during his speech as the chief threat to world It was to what world power he referred when he said the freedom loving nations of the world will continue to build up their armed because they have no other LIVING Hears Record High The latest government consumer price Index reported the cost of living continued to move The gain was per cent from the previous The index stood meaning per cent above the The was only putting Into figures what that American housewife has known for some Low and fixed income families felt the pinch shortly after the Korean war The latest index figure was only of a per cent short of the high reached In August and Even with the publication of these figures there seemed little possibility that the government planned any Immediate action to stop the rising coat of In the average American elty the housewife now pays for a food basket costing at the outbreak of World War During August and September of this year housewives were paying per cent more for and including per cent for pork per cent for and per cent for per cent for canned fruits and and per cent for The government's price index is taking on Increasing importance in American business economics as more and more contracts between unions and employers allow for wage changes as the index rises or this does not help old people or white collar workers living on fixed Ike Says D. of Columbia is shown with Dean Philip Toung of as they announced the establishment of the at the a convocation of representatives of the government and the to work out answer to critical problems facing the Ike repeated his about running for Headliners Leon H. chairman of President Truman's council of economic speaking on the country economic do not need as many or as tough controls as in 1944 because the transition of military activity Is not nearly so rapid or so Stuart economic-mobilization also had something to say on the same begins to look as if everybody wants controls so long as the controls don't affect Dwight D. speaking on the Founder's Day program at Carnegie Institute my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they But In my opinion there Is no such thing as a preventive Scene of New Plot The foreign minister of Russia and the representatives of seven satellite states met in Prague to plot the next Communist move since the gamble in Korea must be written off as a complete From that meeting came four demands to the western but the free nations were more interested in what the Communists did not say than In the new This is what the Communist That the governments of the United France and Russia should publish a declaration saying they will not allow the remilitarization of they will not allow Germany to become in any plans of and will try to carry out the Potsdam agreement to a peace-loving That all restrictions hindering the development of Germany's be removed while a revival of German war potential should not be That there should be concluded a treaty of peace with Germany which would renew the unity of the German tte In harmony with the Potsdam that all occupation forces of the great powers be withdrawn from Germany within one year after a peace treaty is That on a basis of representatives from east and west Germany should form a for all of Germany to prepare formation of a democratic sovereign for all The West was not naive enough to believe that any agreement could be reached on Plans for rebuilding a strong western Germany and an European army continued in full Western diplomats were asking themselves what new acts of did Russia and her satellites cook Calls Him Silly Harold E. former governor of created a lot of Interest with his letter to Joseph Stalin asking for a face to face meeting of Americans and Russians in an effort to the drift towar Stassen did not receive a reply from but the official voice of Communist published an article calling him and among other The article in a flat rejection of the Stassen The writer made it plain that the Soviet government does not consider Stassen's letter worth a formal The article said in demands no no less than a change by the Soviet Union of Its It is not difficult to see that Stassen is not only crude but also ridiculous in advancing this wild denand which excludes all possibility of a serious view of any degree of worked out by the president of Pennsylvania university cooperation with veteran warmongers Eisenhower and The former aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination had little to say about the He indicated he would wait for a direct reply from |
