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Show NEWS REVIEW Showdown Near in U.N.; Grain Exports Reduced SHOWDOWN: Russia's Choice Secretary of State George Marshall Mar-shall sounded like a man who was getting a lot of things off his chest What he said in an address before the U. N. general assembly of 55 nations amounted to a call for a showdown with Russia. The Soviets, he intimated, have held to their stubborn, veto-bound course in the United Nations long enough. To make the delinquents come to time, Marshall proposed a four point plan of action to the general assembly: IHe suggested creation of a new assembly committee of 55 countries coun-tries which would operate without veto and would remain constantly in session to consider world security questions and function as a board of appeals. Potentially, the committee would be a rival, to the security council. 2 He announced that the U. S. was ready to relinquish, in all but the gravest cases, its veto privilege and implicitly challenged Russia to do likewise. 3 He blamed Russia for the U. S.-Soviet S.-Soviet deadlock in Korea and said that America would submit the case to the general assembly for action. 4 He blamed Russia for using vetoes to protect Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria from being pronounced guilty of meddling in Greece. He said the U. S. would ask the assembly to vote guilt for the three satellites and to demand that they refrain from interfering In Greece. PRICE BATTLE: Exports Cut Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson had a "Horatio at the bridge" air about him as he announced an-nounced that the government had made a drastic cut-back of grain and flour allocations for export in November. No-vember. The move generally was accounted account-ed as another noble stand against the forces which are causing domestic domes-tic food prices to spiral dizzily. This one, however, had the blessings of the grain trade as "a step In the right direction." Reducing the export allocations for November was in line with the government's surprise revision of the nation's 1947 export goal from some 4M) million bushels of grain down to 350 million. (In a significant sidelight, Anderson An-derson scoffed at the prospect of returning to rationing by pointing out that such a program pro-gram could not be put Into effect ef-fect before the need for It would be over.) Next move, It was hinted, would be an attempt by Secretary Anderson Ander-son to put through a sharp reduction of total food exports not Just grain as the only practical way of pulling pull-ing down prices. The U. S. state department, however, how-ever, committed to its "save Europe" Eu-rope" program, no doubt would object ob-ject vehemently to any such action. Atom After-Effects Although the atom bomb explosions explo-sions in Japan have caused some sterility among the people, they have not affected the soil adversely and may even have brought about an improvement in the rice crop. Dr. Shields Warren, Harvard professor, pro-fessor, recently "returned from Japan Ja-pan where he studied after-effects of the bomb, said that its effects on human beings may carry into the third generation, producing freaks. WHOSE FAULT? Taft Talks Sen. Robert Taft (Rep., Ohio), who had to crash a sign-toting picket pick-et line to get to his audience, told a Republican rally J. I in Los Angeles f- v that If President Truman had not " jumped the gun in SQlT scrapping price TCfrr controls the current lv-'' inflation spiral iiii might have been V- delayed a while A -:ff I Exactly how Taft arrived at that rather hazy conclu-Xaft conclu-Xaft sion wa not imme diately clear. The senator himself last year was denounced de-nounced by Mr. Truman for his part in writing a price control extension bill which the President branded as being worse than no controls. Mr. Truman's subsequent veto of the bill allowed price controls to expire automatically. Nailing down the first plank In what apparently is designed to be his campaign platform for the 1948 presidential nomination, Taft assailed as-sailed the administration's record on taxes and spending. The country must elect a Republican Repub-lican president next year if it Is genuinely gen-uinely interested in reducing taxes and spending, Taft observed. SPEED-UP: F orrestal In James V. Forrestal wasn't due to be sworn In as U. S. secretory of defense for another week, but Presi- ' """v" dent Truman, manl-festly manl-festly alarmed ovei Vv the trend of world f events, ordered the V. '' former secretary of 7& "C ' the navy to Jump 3yT the gun in taking I tc" j over his new Job. I Sw''.''7 Mr. Truman ob- served that in view tmmAiJi J 1 of conditions Forrestal abroad, the nation should have its secretary of defense in office and functioning. The conditions, which he did not specify, probably were the current unrest in Trieste and the U. S.-Russian stalemate in the United Nations, topped off by Secretary Sec-retary of State Marshall's challenging challeng-ing speech before the general assembly. as-sembly. Now presiding over the unlfled army, navy and air forces, Forrestal Forres-tal is the armed forces' only representative repre-sentative on the President's cabinet. |
