Show NE NEWS WS RE REVIEW VIEW I 1 S showdown near in UN at I 1 grain exports exerts F reduced ed SHOWDOWN Rus russians sias choice secretary of state george marshall sounded like a man who was getting a lot of things oft off his chest what he said in an address before the U N general assembly of 53 55 nations amounted to a call for or 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 ile suggested creation of a new I 1 ahe assembly committee of 55 countries 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 lie ile announced that the U 5 was 2 ready to relinquish in all but the gravest cas cases es its veto privilege and implicitly challenged russia to do likewise 3 ile he blamed russia for the V U S soviet deadlock in korea an and said that america would submit the case to the general assembly for action xe he blamed russia for using 4 vetoes to protect yugoslavia albania and bulgaria from belag pronounced guilty of meddling in greece graec ile 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 that the government had made a drastic cutback cut back of grain and flour allocations tor for export in november the move generally was accounted as another noble stand against the forces which aret are causing ausing domestic food prices to spiral dizzily this one however had the blessings of the grain trade os as a step in the right direction reducing the export allocations for november was in line with the governments surprise revision of the nations 1947 export goal from some million bushels of grain down to million in a significant sidelight anderson scoffed nt at the prospect of returning to rationing by pointing out that such a program could not be put into ef feet before the need for it would bo be over next move it was hinted would be an attempt by secretary ander ion don to put through a sharp reduction of total food exports not just grain as the only practical way of pulling down prices the U S state department howver however committed to its save ene ropo rope program no doubt would object vehemently to any such action A atom om aftereffects after effects although the atom bomb 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 recently returned from japan where he studied aftereffects after effects of the bomb said that its effects on human beings I 1 may carry into the third generation producing freaks WHOSE FAULT talt taft talks sen robert taft rep ohio who hadbo had to crash a sign toting picket line to get to his audience told a republican rally in los angeles 1 IZ I 1 that if president truman had not jumped the gun in scrapping price controls the current inflation s spiral might have been delayed a while longer exactly how taft arrived at that rather hazy tatt taft I 1 slon sm was not na imme ame mme clear the senator himself last year was denounced by mr truman for or his part in writing a price control extension bill which the president branded as being worse than no controls mr Tr 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 taft assailed the administrations record on taxes and spending the country must elect a republican president next year ifft if it is genuinely interested in reducing taxes and spending taft observed SPEEDUP SPEED UP F forrestal or restal lit in james V forrestal due to be sworn in ns as U S secretary of defense for another week but president truman manifestly alarmed over the trend of world events ordered the former secretary of the navy to jump the gun in taking over his job mr truman ab observed that in view of conditions forrestal a broad 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 SIlus S qian stalemate in the united nations topped off by sec rotary of state marshalls marchalls Mar challenging speech before the general as sein bly now presiding over the unified army navy addair and air forces forrestal is the armed forces only representative senta tive on th ane e presidents cabinet |