Show Y NEWS ANALYSIS n reject U IL N berl berlin in proposal n stalin hits three V estern powers As attempting to start a lew war by dill bill WM staff writer notel when 0 lilb yIn ln love lB are ar in abes abec s olamas elam ni iscar they are dose thoe of western IVer tern newspaper union a nw news ano dyBis and not moo e fill 0 of t ebli h newspaper nw paper 41 1 nj A IM N DIFFERENT COAL STRIKE french troops in battle array march into the villiers mine in the st etienne area of france an aa the govern ment seized strike bound coal mines throughout northern france vicious rioting and assorted civil battles preceded the govern governments menti action in taking over the mines REJECTION U N proposal russia play hall ball with the united nations on tho the settlement of the berlin dispute A six power face saving resolution for solving the crisis was presented to the U N security council and promptly batted down by tho the soviets to the surprise of no one concerned THE resolution proposed that russia lift the berlin blockade immediately that the tour four military governors of germany begin immediate negotiations to implement them moscow agreement of august SO 30 for a soviet backed four pow power 0 r controlled mark in berlin in by november 20 and that a foreign ministers council be convened within 10 days thereafter to take up other serious differences over germany Rues iaB stated objection to the resolution reao lutton was that it provided tor for the lifting of the blockade before the currency control went into effect previously the western powers bad turned down andrei ekys counter proposal for simultaneous lifting of the blockade and putting into effect the currency agreement IN REAL REALITY this point of dlf terence ference upon which the latest deadlock centered was a minor one but it served ed to illustrate the vast gap that must be closed before a meeting of minds beaw between n the easland Ea east stand and west ch be achieved achieve MOREOVER it has become increasingly crea singly clear that moscow does not even have aby any desire to lift the blockade it Js is for thern them too good a weapon with which to attempt to bludgeon the U S and the west into granting them fur ther concessions in germany including a voice in the operation of the all valuable ruhr industrial area STALIN TALKS horror in what is probably the most amazing outburst he has made since the war soviet premier josef stalin told the world that the U S great britain and france are seeking a new war through a i policy of aig aggression digression 11 the accusation despite the high level of its source amounted to nothing more than a repetition of the already stereotyped russian practice of attempting to turn tum an opponents reasoning back on him HOWEVER he added the pub lie lic forces favoring peace are too strong to permit the instigators of a new war to plunge the world again into the horrors of conflict stalin named winston churchill as the main instigator of a new war and predicted that ch church ur chill ills pup pupils Us of a aggression gg res slon would bi be rejected by th the people just as churchill has been although he did not label president truman or any other leader as s a pupil in aggression the implication was too clear to be mistaken particularly since tho the moscow radio had broadcast a prediction that mr truman would be defeated on november 2 STALIN accused the U S and britain of twice rejecting settlements of the berlin crisis W with th russia and said that debate on the berlin question in the U N security council was a display y of aggression on the part of anglo american and french ruling clr cir cl s B the british and americans the soviet premier said declared null and void an agreement reached in the kremlin conferences august 30 that would have lifted the soviet blockade and ended the crisis HE CHARGED that the western powers fear most of all to reach any agreement with the soviet union what they want Is not agreement and cooperation but talk about agreement and cooperation so as to put the blame on the U S S R by preventing agreement and to prove that cooperation Is impossible Stall ni statement obviously was issued as a high powered propaganda stroke a move the russians undoubtedly hoped would tip the berlin scales in their favor headliners Head liners str 0 4 klo k LO A CR N V L I 1 rf 14 4 sab WA 0 W IN YORK pa mrs walter sechrist made a wide eyed announcement no that tier her gas range picks up short wave transmissions made by her next door neighbor an amateur radio operator vowed it had broadcast a conversation between the neighbor ind and another operator in south america IN SALEM mass robert C carter claimed in a divorce suit that his wife had deserted him a block from the church just two minutes after they were married in 1944 IN HAGERS hagerstown TOWN mo thieves broke into the potomac edison building getaway got away with a specially equipped camera set up to take pictures of ith thieves levea breaking into the potomac c edison building IN LITTLE 1 postmaster in C parrott looked down his nosrat nose at theman the man with the gun trying to of alili hta postal receipts sneered the revolvers revolver is ii not loaded bod you know sorry sold said the crushed desperado slinking away IN wis frank Wel was forced to reassure his customers as to the fact that he still was inthe in the pop cornand soft drink business after he began making deliveries with an old hearse BLUFFING in berlin gen H H arnold wartime commander in chief calef of the U S air forces turned up in the news with a military finans mans learty hearty opinion about what to do with the Russians in berlin WHY NOT tike take a motor convoy and push it through the corridor to berlin he suggested perhaps we might have learned something from gen george pattons Pat tons technique it patton were viere running the show he would take it through russia he claimed Is attempting a tremendous bluff against the U S and the western allies but Is not ready to fight want to fight and wont fight it if someone should call her bluff WHAT would the Rui russians coif do if an armed convoy did plow through the blockade not noi much if anything was arnolds laconic estimate it would be a grave and basic error to let the communists bluff us out in the present deadlock in germany ney are not ready to fight and they do not want to fight we should curb the national tendency to be in awe of the Mus russians siahs an awe amounting almost to tear 17 TIME IME plays playa with the russians russian we have the superior power now they may have it later meantime it would be folly to leathem let them bridge bridga toe the gap by bluff alone whether ho he was right or wrong hap arnold at hod done the worrying U S public one favor by reducing the problem to hard simple terms of pure action and divorcing it from the intricate realm of diplomacy he made it appear more understandable I 1 less e sa overwhelming and less frightening general arnold atlease at least expecting a war tor tomorrow TREATY ott on the way in view ot of the existing physical al and ideological rut rift which has ba divided divide d the world into two opposing battalions it has come to seem almost most inevitable that the western bloc sooner or later would devise some kind of formal military treaty for the mutual protection of the nations concerned AND A few days before the election word began to creep out fr from om among high american sources that a military treaty was on the way the report was that drafting was scheduled to begin soon of an agreement pledging full aid to the five nation brussels alliance all lanca of western europe results of the U S election were in no way supposed to affect the plan since both major parties had committed themselves in principle to backing th the brussels alliance SUCH AN alliance supposedly will link the united states and canada in formal treaty relationships with britain france belgium holland and luxembourg from a behind the scenes standpoint this will not be a new move it Is highly probable indeed that the broad outlines of a north atlantic pact with ath some details sketched in has been in existence for some time the alliance Is expected to commit the U S and canada to 1 BUILD up air land and sea forces of the brussels powers 2 standardize equipment and training 3 CREATE a seven nation unified military strategic command under an american commander ln in chief 4 PLEDGE a guarantee of each nations territorial integrity in case of war 6 5 GIVE the north american powers the right to establish air land or sea bases in any of the five other countries U S officials expect that the treaty will be ready for ratification by the middle of 1849 1949 barring extraordinary events how congress will react to such a treaty is tor for the time being a debatable question shipbuilding navy expands increasing importance in the minds of U au S defense chiefs of underwater and air warfare including consideration ot of possible attacks across the arctic was revealed in a statement ou outlining tUning the navys postwar post war shipbuilding inz program vice adm earle earla M mills chief of the bureau of ships listed the development ot of advanced prototypes in tour four major fields as the aim of the building and conversion plan FIRST aircraft cari carriers lers capable of handling the fast heavy tong long range naval planes developed and under development since the war second high speed deep submergence submarines third antisubmarine anti submarine vessels to combat these submarines fourth ships equipped equips ad tor for polar and picket service 11 i battleships were not mentioned inthe statement nor was there any direct reference to prepa preparations preparation ratio ns against air attack over the root roof of the globe but the programs emphasis e on p polar olar ships was considered self explanatory IN THIS phase of the program two destroyer escorts orts and two submarines arin will be specially ally fitted for AT kofl shore aircraft detection one cargo ship and two floating dry docks tor for lan landing ships will be converted averted d for se service i arvice in polar waters tie the 4 aircraft carrier part of the program linc j includes ludes the construction to begin late this year or early in 1949 of the yet unnamed super carrier ot of tons designated ai as them thecia 58 RED PRICES going up america have a capitalistic monopoly on inflation russia russa a Is getting iner her share ol of that uncomfortable condition too heres here what happened in russia in august postal and telegraph rates were boosted 33 per cent train tares fares and long distance phone call rates went up in varying amounts in moscow subway fares lumped jumped 25 per cent and streetcar fares from bom 50 to per cent |