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Show r WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1 U. N. Says Cease Fire in Palestine; Truman Asks More Defense Funds; U. S. Atom Control Plan Approved By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer tFDITOR'S NOTE) Wba aylaloa are eaorteaad la tkee eelanaa. Ike ara taaaa af YVt.t.r. N.w.p.p.r tal.a'a a.. a aaa a.t ...MI," .If I" T...") CEASE FIRE: Holy Land Almost before anyone knew what was happening fierce fighting between be-tween Israeli and Egyptian forces had flared into bloom in the Negev, southern Palestine desert area. ISRAELI government spokesmen said the purpose of the Israeli attack at-tack was to smash open the road to Jewish settlements in the Negev. Blocked transportation lines had prevented the Jews from running supply convoys to isolated settlements settle-ments in the district But Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting Palestine mediator for the U. N., in his report to the 'security council, coun-cil, told a different story. Blame for the eruption of fighting in the Negev, he said, was not a "question of black and white." "EACH side has soiled its hands in the grim business of trying to win a war through the instruments!-ity instruments!-ity of a forced truce," was his version ver-sion of the conflict. By the time the battle had proceeded pro-ceeded savagely for six days the harassed U. N. security council had had enough. It commanded both Arabs and Jews to Issue immediate immedi-ate cease-fire orders. Earlier, Bunche had attempted o promote a three-day truce in the fighting, with each side holding the positions it then was occupying. The effort fell through, however, when Israel rejected the proposal. EVEN as the security council acted act-ed the fighting was spreading from the Negev to other fronts in the Holy Land along the Jerusalem-Tel Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, where Trans-Jordan Trans-Jordan forces were grouped, and northeast of Tel Aviv in areas held by other Arab forces. Results of the security council order, or-der, at the outset, at least, were disappointing. Each side tried to shift the blame to the other; neither appeared willing to hold the battle. Palestine truce observers informed in-formed the United Nations that the Israeli forces generally appeared to be the attackers in the new fighting that had developed outside the southern front in the Negev. CONTROL PLAN: For Atoms How to establish effective, work-sble work-sble control of atomic energy on an international scale is one of the rocks upon which the U.N. has almost al-most foundered more than once, but the situation began to look a shade or two brighter when the United Nations suddenly steeled its resistance to almost impossible Russian Rus-sian demands on the Issue. OVER the objections ot the Soviet bloc, the U.N. political committee overwhelmingly endorsed the western west-ern plan for atomic control as a necessary basis for eventual elimination elimi-nation of atomic weapons. The conflict which has kept the atomic control problem deadlocked tor so long Is simply this: The U. S. and the West insist that sn air-tight system of international control and Inspection must be established es-tablished before the U. S. would feel aare in destroying Its atomic weapons. The resolution which the political committee adopted Is generally in line with the American policy. The plenary session of the general assembly as-sembly was expected to give it a routine final approval Peculiarly enough, this wss the first time since Bernard Baruch presented the American plan to the atomic energy commlslson In June, 1048. that all ot the United Nations had a chance to vote on it Previously Previ-ously atomic energy was discussed only in the security council and the atomic energy commission. SHORTLY prior to the U.N. action ac-tion the U. S. had demanded that the world group turn the deadlocked problem over to the five great powers pow-ers and Canada for direct negotiations. negotia-tions. At that time Warren R. Austin, chief U. S. delegate, had told the o8natlon political committee thot the U.N. could go no further In its efforts to control the atom until the Soviet union agreed to "participate in the world community on a cooperative co-operative basis." HOW much good the U.N. vote of approval would do as long as the Russians continued to object was a question that remained hanging fire. It was conceded generally that regardless of how much satisfaction the western nations might achieve by thus overruling and snubbing Moscow, the paramount problem that ot preserving the peace probably prob-ably had not been moved very far along the road to a solution. George Polk pi.iWiifm.imwiijun x I,,, mmum,,,- : - ' - - A V ; " 5 VI, 4j 1 . y Jr ' y J If.iumi nil .n nr. tdmti. jKtmiummd Last May, George Polk, CBS correspondent, was taken out on Salonika bay In boat where he was blindfolded, bound hand and foot and shot through the head. Ills murderers: Communists. Their motive: Simply to produce 'murder, the blame for which might be pinned on the rightist Greek government in order to defame de-fame It abroad. Gregory Stakto-poulos, Stakto-poulos, Communist Salonika newspaperman, news-paperman, confessed he had witnessed wit-nessed the slaying and implicated three other Greek Communists. DEFENSE: Big, Budget World tension had slacked off slightly, but according to President Truman's estimate on next year's defense budget the U. S. doesn't Intend In-tend to relax its vigilance on that account. THE MILITARY budget for 1949 will be a neat 14.4 billion dollars that is, If Mr. Truman's current request re-quest doesn't get trimmed. It represents rep-resents an outlay about two billion dollars higher than the figure at which defense spending is running now. (It doesn't make any difference whether President Truman won or lost the election. He still was required re-quired to prepare budget estimates for the congress convening next January.) The President said that his defense de-fense officials had wanted a budget ot around 23 billion dollars for the fiscal year starting Ju!y 1, but that he had cut them back to the 14.4 billion figure. WITH RARE candor he admitted that it would take a Croesus to maintain spending as many billions as the officials wanted. His own aim, Mr. Truman said, was to get a military program the country could pay for. He added that he hoped eventually eventu-ally to reduce military expenditures to about five to seven billion dollarsa dol-larsa remarkably optimistic statement, state-ment, coming as it did before the election when he was conceded virtually vir-tually no chance ot being able to control any kind ot governmental spending after the first of the year. ATOM PLANE: Seven Years? Look up Into the sky In about seven sev-en years and you might see an atomic-powered airplane scudding across the clouds. Scientists now think there is a good chance that nuclear-propelled aircraft will be in production by that time. AN OAK RIDGE scientist David M. Poole, startled the atom-conscious public with the announcement announce-ment that the theory of an atom-driven atom-driven airplune has been worked out to completion and is ready to be translated by engineers into actual plans tor such a plane. The nuclear scientists have thought out a way to tap the power of a mobile atomic pile, Poole said. The problems ahead are to devise de-vise the engine, fuselage and controls con-trols and to build a shield to protect pro-tect the plane's crew. Poole disclosed that the scientists scien-tists have made up their minds how to make the best use of the power whose source Is the heat generated generat-ed In an atomic pile. What kind of engine will be used to chain the tremendous power concentrated con-centrated In the uranium fuel? The rocket thrust motor was tried and abandoned, said Poole. Steam turbine, tur-bine, turbo-jet and ram jet all were crossed off. THE POWER unit will be a "nuclear "nu-clear rocket" Just what a nuclear rocket might be Is top-secret Information. Infor-mation. All anyone can even guess at at this point is that It probably involves a new principle of application appli-cation of power. SQUABBLE: Yugoslavia Russia continues not only to hav great and grievous trouble with the United States and differences ol opinion with most ot the membei countries of the United Nations, but her political rift with the up-start satellite also is growing worse instead in-stead of better. THE TROUBLE originally began within the framework of the Com inform in-form (Communist Information Bureau), Bu-reau), the master organization through which Russia controls her satellites, when Marshall Tito ssid his nation would not bow to the Cominform edict ordering Yugoslavia Yugo-slavia to make itself a precise model mod-el of Sovitt Russia in all political and economic aspects. And in recent weeks the "heresy" of Tito and the central committee of the Yugoslav Communist party has become more absolute and more determined than ever. THAT holds true despite the fact that Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edward Ed-ward Kardelj has been displaying firm adherence to the position of the Russian bloc In the United Nations general assembly arguments. WALLACE: On to '52 Henry Wallace, the incorrigibly Incorrect visionary, who stumped the political experts by getting his Progressive party on the ballots of 43 states, now is working hard to keep his party alive for the 1952 campaign. In a pre-election speech in Detroit De-troit he criticized "doubters" who argue that although a new party Is needed, it shouldn't be formed until 1949. WHILE Walloce didn't name any names he obviously was referring to the United Auto Workers, headed by .Waller Reuther, who had an-nouncea an-nouncea plans to form a "genuine" third party of progressive-minded people after the election. The UAW leadership had condemned con-demned the Wallace third party as a Communist-Inspired movement and supported President Truman for re-election. IN THE waning days of the campaign cam-paign Wallace was appealing to his followers to stick with him after November 2. "I hope you are with us all the way after November 2," he told one audience, putting heavy emphasis on the word "after." "You've got to drive it home to the rank-and-file of the UAW, and all labor: 'Where do "We go after November 2?' " But wherever they were going. It didn't look like Wallace would be in a position to do much guiding. Coming Event AU the way through the now historical his-torical election campaign one thing was sure: Somebody would get to be President On that theory the-ory work was begun last month on stands In front of . the Capitol building In Washington which wlU be used for the Inauguration ceremony cere-mony next January. This odd-angle odd-angle view was taken from the Capitol dome. JAPAN: On the Spot Lieut Gen. Robert L. Eichel-berger, Eichel-berger, former military governor of occupied Japan, admitted he might have made a mistake In not leaving the Japanese a few guns for their own protection. IT BOILS down as most International Inter-national difficulties do these days to a matter of Communism and Communist influences inside the country. . As a matter ot fact said Eichel-berger, Eichel-berger, Communist pressure in Japan and the Far East in general may force the U. S. to carry oul a limited rearmament of the Japanese. Japa-nese. "I believe I went too far in disarming dis-arming the Japanese," he said 'They need a few machine gum and rifles to protect themsclvci against internal disturbances. "IF AND when the Amencar army withdraws, the Japanese wit have to be given something with which to defend themselves i strong police force or a smsl army." Communist Influence In Japan, h said, "is about the same as It li here. They are a nuisance beyond their numerical strength. But It'i always the wrong guy that gets the pistols." ANOTHER GONE: Nazi General Former German Field Marsha Walther von Brauchitsch died in thi British military hospital at Ham burg, Germany, where he was un der guard awaiting trial as a majoi war criminal The British army's announcemen of the death did not stale the csuse Von Brauchitsch. who was 07 ant had been ill tor rome time, wai scheduled to come up tor trial U Hamburg in January. |
