Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS peace talks proposed by stassen U N forces cross parallel hi 9 h prices weaken defense plan I 1 EDIT 18 NOMI when a opinions are ar in those foli imin they are those hoi ol of western newspaper unto n 1 news new analysts anil and no not ne ceary of abl ka 1 I 1 M pa A Y 0 41 f al g 1 I 11 11 ff if 1 I YF WN g in wmma W wt 7 W 55 0 harold K E stassen president resl dent ot of university of pennsylvania as ho he announced contents of a message ho he sent to soviet generalissimo joseph stalin proposing that they confer and urging russia to stop the ho drift to war Stas seua message missag o was delivered to the dy let ein embassy bassy and a copy to the state department STASSEN A just world peace harold E stassen president of the university of pennsylvania and twice an aspirant for the republican presidential stopped stepped in where angels fear car to trend tread the former minnesota governor wrote a letter to premier stalin suggesting that they confer on on steps that need be taken to achieve a just world peace stassen was quick to pont point out that his letter was written without consultation either with president Preside tit truman or the state department that isi Is stassen had written to stalin chis ahls private capacity and the letter h had a d no official inspiration stassen declared that if his bid was successful he would have four or live five ot of this count rys top otteen leaders accompany accompany him to moscow for the conference there Is 6 a possibility that stal stan might accept teas sens on 9 proposal propof u in fact some quarters believe th tha e russians will jump at the chance if for nothing else at least for ho he op opportunity unity to pound out tho the old propaganda line that the sovie soviet Is andio us for world peace there Is little possibility however that anything constructive will come coma of such a meeting whatever Sta stalin linand and Stas seWs dele delegation gatior might agree upon would have no official standing and jn ln all probability would not coincide with Ami american rican fore foreign policy As could be expected li gesture produced political overtones immediately ono one democratic spokesman pointed out that tho the initiative ot of any such project prop erly belongs belong with the stathi department ment COSTS cut cu jet Fight fighters ets tho the howl of the housewife that prices have climbed beyond an any reasonable or sensible lev level I 1 I 1 was taken up by the air clr force which reported between april and be septem etem her ber increases weakened the forces purchasing power by nn an equivalent of F 88 86 jet fighter planes the cost increases iq in essential materials john mccone undersecretary for air told the house armed aimed services subcommittee would run about million the undersecretary under secretary cited many examples among the increases were crudo crude rubber 1280 1289 per cent aluminum 29 per cent copper per cent tin per cent plush plus signs of accompanying wage rles as another basic factor in cost estimation it 11 all al bolls down to the tact fact which the housewife has hai long known prices are climbing by leaps and bounds if the increases were hurting the armed service then perhaps something would be done to relieve the pinch on the general public rep carl vinson vanson member of the armed services committee was blunt about the situation i lets not kid ourselves con greis has a choice of seeing these P programs cut 1428 new aircraft by 1852 oncoming or coming up with hadl lional appropriations to meet these rising costs |