Show NE NEWS W it REVIEW ef VIEW reds assume control of czech azee h government there were six days ot of crisis iril ln czechoslovakia and then etwas all over the communists were in complete control of that nation ot of 13 roll mil lion n population the iron curtain came down with a muffled clang as president eduard denes benes accepted the resignation of 14 of his cabinet ministers after he had refused for a week to do so into power strode communist premier klement gottwald who had led his party upward from a minority status in czechoslovakia until now its members dominated every phase of the nations we iffe and were prepared to swing owing it directly into the orbit of otier soviet satellites wielding the club to keep the Czech sin in lineras line was gottwaldt good right hand vaclay minister of the int interior eilor who controls au all czechoslovakian Czechoslovak lan police forces aln r xi RR gottwald that powerful position ina in a comma dominated state was analogous to th the e mailed glove on the dicta dictators toro flat ast F for or what IV it was worth anathan and that was very little aging president genes e a hi had manni managed ged to keep at least a appearance depre sent athle government by insisting that the government be composed of members of other parties of the national front which reinstated the czechoslovak republic in 1945 1943 when phen Ithe the Germans Germ ana were being driven out put fiut it was a hollow tasteless victory meaningless lo in any practical application the new government consists of 12 communists there were wera seven before be foie tour four social democrats Democrat so two czech national socialists two catholic peoples party members one slovak democrat and two nonparty non party men jan masaryk as foreign minister andeen and gen ludwig svoboda svoboda as minister of defense def ensa bewildered czechs czecho finally knew their cherished republic had come toa to a grim end when loud speakers in prague blared this announcement into the naghi night reaction has been beaten go back to work and lot let us 0 complete our tasks on the two year plan 11 in czechoslovakian ironic chronology the surging wall of the red tide engulfed their country just 10 years after the western allies iad ad sold old the nation to littler hitler at munich in a tragically ally selfish and futile effort to avoid war and save their ow own n skins at the price of just one small central european state reaction with the balkans au all tied up with a red ribbon the world began to wonder which small nation the communist tide would engulf next some thought finland might be tho the top name on the list others wondered whether austria france and italy might not be clamped boonin soon in the communist vise there was general agreement on one fa fact 1 ct at least that the communist coup in it czechoslovakia had forged perhaps the most vital link in the russian chain intended to shackle the marshall plan in finland and italy as la in czechoslovakia oslo elections were coming up soon and the communists were out for victory finland likit like czechoslovakia oslo ovalda Is filed by a coalition government which has haa acknowledged that the country must remain on the best of terms with russia COLD CHICKEN euel Eue loil oil campaigning politicians this year may havo to eliminate a chicken in every pot from front 1 their it lists ste ot of promises because there might not be enough chickens to go around R reports from the poultry belt beli in the midwest say that the severity of the fuel oil shortage is cutting into the 1948 baby chick hatch to threaten poul poultry try and egg production this year thousands of farmers canceled chic kords for early march delivery because they get oil for their brooder stoves iowa and the northwest were suffering most from tite the situ situation atlon but it also wa was 11 bad ln in illinois and indiana th the kerosene shortage has been severe enough to cause hardship in most of the poultry producing area some poultry men were deferring chick deliveries until later dates hoping that warrner warmer weather woul ease the tight oil supply officials official 4 of one large hybrid chick in iowa claimed hatchery p they needed A six tank cars of fuel oil to get their 1048 production under way one of the roost most vociferous complaints complaint generally beang bang made among farmers was that city consumers were using up all the fuel oil HARM FEARFUL hool hoof and mouth cattle ios and sheep growers grower of the U 9 S continue to live in the shadow of abear a fear that the hoof and mouth disease which has been decimating livestock livestock in m mexico tor for many months will spread across the border and affect US U S herds at a recent session cession i in chicago a joint committee of the cattle hog and sheep raisers forwarded a plea to Secretary if of agriculture clinton anderson Anderso tf to renew efforts to eradicate cat ethe the disease among other things the stock men requested that these actions be taken renegotiate with high mexican I 1 ofal officials cl alson on plans for resuming nin g the interrupted slaughter and burial buria 1 program i immediate diate construction of a 2 fence along the ane present quarantine line about n miles south of the U S barder 3 2 build new beet beef canning plants J in th the clean states stales of northern melo mexico and continue lt to 0 rut those now operating |