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Show MTLLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1 0. N. Says Cease Fire in Palestine; Truman Ms fllore Defense Funds; 0. S. Atom Control Flan Approved By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.; George Polk SQUABBLE: Yugoslavia Russia continues not only to have great and grievous trouble with the United States and differences oi opinion with most of the membei countries of the United Nations, bui her political rift with the rl satellite also is growing worse in-stead of better. THE TROUBLE originally began within the framework of the Comin-for- (Communist Information Bu-reau), the master organization through which Russia controls her satellites, when Marshall Tito said his nation would not bow to the Cominform edict ordering Yugo-slavia to make itself a precise mod-el of Soviet Russia in all political and economic aspects. And in recent weeks the "heresy" of Tito and the central committee of the Yugoslav Communist party has become more absolute and more determined than ever. THAT holds true despite the fact that Yugoslav Foreign Minister Ed-ward Kardelj has been displaying firm adherence to the position of the Russian bloc in the United Nations general assembly arguments. !"'-- . ' S - , CEASE FIRE: Holy Land Almost before anyone knew what was happening fierce fighting be-tween Israeli and Egyptian forces had flared into bloom in the Negev, southern Palestine desert area. ISRAELI government spokesmen said the purpose of the Israeli at-tack was to smash open the road to Jewish settlements in the Negev. Blocked transportation lines had prevented the Jews from running supply convoys to isolated settle-ments in the district. But Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting Palestine mediator for the U. N., in his report to the security coun-cil, told a different story. Blame for the eruption of fighting in the Negev, he said, was not a "question of black and white." "EACH side has soiled its hands in the grim business of trying to win a war through the instrumental-ity of a forced truce," was his ver-sion of the conflict. By the time the battle had pro- - WALLACE: On to '52 Henry Wallace, the incorrigibly incorrect visionary, who stumped the political experts by getting his Progressive party on the ballots of 43 states, now is working hard to keep his party alive for the 1952 campaign. In a speech in De-- Last May, George Polk, CBS correspondent, was taken out on Salonika bay in a boat where he was blindfolded, bound hand and foot and shot through the head. His murderers: Communists. Their motive: Simply to produce a murder, the blame for which might be pinned on the rightist Greek government in order to de-fame it abroad. Gregory Stakto-poulo- s, Communist Salonika news-paperman, confessed he had wit-nessed the slaying and implicated three other Greek Communists. DEFENSE: Big Budget ceeded savagely lor six aays me harassed U. N. security council had had enough. It commanded both Arabs and Jews to issue immedi-ate cease-fir- e orders. Earlier, Bunche had attempted .o promote a three-da- y truce in the fighting, with each side holding the positions it then was occupying. The effort fell through, however, when Israel rejected the proposal. EVEN as the security council act-ed the fighting was spreading from troit he criticized "doubters who argue that although a new party is needed, it shouldn't be formed until 1949. WHILE Wallace didn't name any names he obviously was referring to the United Auto Workers, headed by Walter Reuther, who had an-nounced plans to form a "genuine" third party of progressive-minde- d people after the election. The UAW leadership had con-demned the Wallace third party as the Negev to other fronts in the Holy Land along the Jerusalem-Te- l Aviv highway, where Trans-Jorda- n forces were grouped, and northeast of Tel Aviv in areas held by other Arab forces. Results of the security council or-der, at the outset, at least, were rlisannnintine. Each side tried to World tension had slacked off slightly, but according to President Truman's estimate on next year's defense budget the U. S. doesn't in-tend to relax its vigilance on that account. THE MILITARY budget for 1949 will be a neat 14.4 billion dollars that is, if Mr. Truman's current re- - a Communist-inspire- d movement and supported President Truman for IN THE waning days of the cam-paign Wallace was appealing to his followers to stick with him after November 2. "I hope you are with us all the way after November 2," shift the blame to the other; neither he told one audience, putting heavy appeared willing to hold the battle. Palestine truce observers in-formed the United Nations that the Israeli forces generally appeared to be the attackers in the new fighting that had developed outside the southern front in the Negev. quest doesn't get trimmed, it rep-resents an outlay about two billion dollars higher than the figure at which defense spending is running now. (It doesn't make any difference whether President Truman won or lost the election. He still was re- - emphasis on the word after. "You've got to drive it home to the rank-and-fi- of the UAW, and all labor: 'Where do "we go after November 2?' " But wherever they were going, it didn't look like Wallace would be in a position to do much guiding. Coming Event W v'"- - 5V f isSS fr:-'-' u'l 7a J CONTROL PLAN: For Atoms How to establish effective, work-- ; able control of atomic energy on an international scale is one of the rocks upon which the U.N. has al-most foundered more than once, but the situation began to look a shade or two brighter when the United Nations suddenly steeled its resistance to almost impossible Rus-sian demands on the issue. OVER the objections of the Soviet bloc, the U.N. political committee overwhelmingly endorsed the west-ern plan for atomic control as a necessary basis for eventual elimi-nation of atomic weapons. The conflict which has kept the atomic control problem deadlocked or so long is simply this: The U. S. and the West insist that an air-tig- system of international control and inspection must be es-tablished before the U. S. would feel safe in destroying its atomic weapons. The resolution which the political quired to prepare budget estimates for the congress convening next January.) The President said that his de-fense officials had wanted a budget of around 23 billion dollars for the fiscal year starting July 1, but that he had cut them back to the 14.4 billion figure. WITH RARE candor he admitted that it would take a Croesus to maintain spending as many billions as the officials wanted. His own aim, Mr. Truman said, was to get a military program the country could pay for. He added that he hoped eventu-ally to reduce military expenditures to about five to seven billion dol-lars a remarkably optimistic state-ment, coming as it did before the election when he was conceded vir-tually no chance of being able to control any kind of governmental spending after the first of the year. ATOM PLANE: Seven Years? Look up into the sky in about sev- - All the way through the now his-torical election campaign one thing was sure: Somebody would get to be President. On that the-ory work was begun last month on stands in front of the Capitol building in Washington which will be used for the inauguration cere-mm- iv npxt January. This odd- - committee adopted is generally in line with the American policy. The plenary session of the general as-sembly was expected to give it a routine final approval. Peculiarly enough, this was the first time since Bernard Baruch presented the American plan to the atomic energy commisison in June, 1946, that all of the United Nations had a chance to vote on it. Previ-ously atomic energy was discussed only in the security council and the atomic energy commission. SHORTLY prior to the U.N. ac-tion the U. S. had demanded that the world group turn the deadlocked en years and you might see an atomic-powere- d airplane scudding across the clouds. Scientists now think there is a good chance that nuclear-propelle- d aircraft will be in production by that time. AN OAK RIDGE scientist, David M. Poole, startled the public with the announce-ment that the theory of an atom-drive- n airplane has been worked out to completion and is ready to be translated by engineers into actual plans for such a plane. The nuclear scientists have thought out a way to tap the power of a mobile atomic pile, Poole said. The problems ahead are to de- - angle view was taken from the Capitol dome. JAPAN: On the Spot Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Eichel-berge-former military governor of occupied 'Japan, admitted he might have made a mistake In not leaving the Japanese a few guns for their own protection. IT BOILS down as most inter-national difficulties do these days to a matter of Communism and Communist influences inside the country. problem over to the five great pow- As a matter of fact, said Eichel-ers and Canada for direct negotia-tions. At that time Warren R. Austin, chief U. S. delegate, had told the political committee that the U.N. could go no further in its efforts to control the atom until the Soviet union agreed to "participate in the world community on a co-operative basis." HOW much good the U.N. vote of approval ' would do as long as the Russians continued to object was a vise the engine, fuselage and con-trols and to build a shield to pro-tect the plane's crew. Poole disclosed that the scien-tists have made up their minds how to make the best use of the power whose source is the heat generat-ed in an atomic pile. What kind of engine will be used to chain the tremendous power con-centrated in the uranium fuel? The rocket-thrus- t motor was tried and abandoned, said Poole. Steam tur- - berger, Communist pressure in Japan and the Far East in general may force the U. S. to carry out a limited rearmament of the Japa-nese. "I believe I went too far in dis-arming the Japanese," he said. "They need a few machine guns and rifles to protect themselves against internal disturbances. "IF AND when the Americar army withdraws, the Japanese wil' have to be given something with question that remained hanging fire. It was conceded generally that, regardless of how much satisfaction the western nations might achieve by thus overruling and snubbing Moscow, the paramount problem that of preserving the peace prob-ably had not been moved very far along the road to a solution. bine, turbo-je- t and ram jet all were crossed off. THE POWER unit will be a "nu-clear rocket." Just what a nuclear rocket might be is infor-mation. All anyone can even guess at at this point is that it probably involves a new principle of cation of power. which to defend themselves a strong police force or a small army." Communist influence in Japan, he said, "is about the same as it is here. They are a nuisance beyonc their numerical strength. But it's always the wrong guy that gets the; pistols." ANOTHER GONE: Nazi General Former German Field Marsha; Walther von Brauchitsch died in the British' military hospital at Ham burg. Germany, where he was un der guard awaiting trial as a majoi war criminal. The British army's announcemen' of the death did not state the cause Von Brauchitsch, who was 67 anc had been ill for rome time, wai scheduled to come up for trial it Hamburg in January. U. S. Presidents Respect Members of Fourth Estate By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. In this post-electi- calm which has settled over the domestic political scene, many a vest shirt, blouse, or slip in the capital conceals a palpitating heart. What about my government job after the glad (.') New Year' The regular classified civil servants haven't much to fear. They can't be fired without cause, and no matter how thorough a new admin-istration's housecleaning may be, most of the furniture lands right back where it was before, although here and there, you may at first fail to recognize an old friend in a new slipcover. Long ago most 100 per cent New8 Dealers in high places displayed the I wisdom which be the public relations secretary in the White House. The other was a man who probably won't be ' in Washington at all Dewey's veteran political adviser, Edwin Jaeckle. There was no conflict between the two, a rare situation indeed. Jaeckle supplemented Hagerty. This would seem to contradict the sharp charges of Warren Moscow, author of "Politics in the Empire State" which came out this fall. Moscow, one of New York City's top-ran- k political reporters, who also covered Albany, claims that Dewey shut down news sources dur-ing his governorship in an attempt k'it! i - - j they felt was the better part of valor and va-moosed. Others assumed new col-ors. Some who had not been too careful previous-ly to keep the right hand from knowing what the left hand was do-ing gradually be-gan to grow am-bidextrous and soon were able to Baukhage lesson on the blackboard without exposing the wedding-rin- g finger. There is however one class of permanent Washingtonians which goes on like the brook. But even individuals in this class may find the nature of their daily tasks dif-fering slightly as administrations change. I refer, of course, to the Fourth Estate which now inoludes commentators (since radio news-men as well as newspapermen are eligible to the National Press club), thus establishing at least a mini-mum standard of merit. Naturally we who cover the White House always wander what manner of man we are going to have to handle. While a new incumbent is learning the art of getting his name favorably inserted into a Wash-ington dispatch or broadcast we have a chance to learn the care and feeding of the source of news which feeds the news to os. to thwart any criticism. That he even tried to lay down a press con-ference rule that a question was "off the record," thus covering up the fact that an answer had been given not to be made public or had been refused. Moscow asserts that Dewey wanted to be the oracle, the one and only, the sole source of what should be reported. If that was true earlier in Dewey's career, the dapper New Yorker who has been widely-toute- d of late for being able to take advice and for being able to pick people who know how to advise, has had some good advice. If he should revert to methods such as Moscow describes, two things would happen: first, he would suffer; second, he would fail in his attempt, and the effects of the effort might be permanently disastrous. Some presidents have tried to conduct government by dis-turbing the "checks and bal-ances." It never works long and the freedom of the press is one of the checks a prin-- Once Dewey had a bad reputa-tion in this regard. But then, most candidates are suspect before they start, since it is taken for granted that they all are subject to the dis-ease of presidentitis which affects victims differently. Coolidge, for instance, was per-haps least afflicted with this malady that attacks the strongest individ-ual when he walks under the white-pillare- d portico of 1600 Pennsyl-vania avenue to stay for at least four years. And Coolidge was about as rich in front page material of his own making as the clam he sought to emulate. I remember a remark William Hard, now an editor of Reader's Digest, once made to me: "Cal never seemed to suffer from presidentitis" (Hard invented the word, I believe) "he is the only occupant of the- White House I know of who, when he lay down to take bis daily siesta, didn't think when he awoke that the world had gone to pieces." ciple that is part and parcel of the American concept of government. A notable example of how the very weight of the news, legitimate news, breaks through any wall, was the case of the financial conference called by President Hoover just be-fore the end of his regime 1931, to be exact. Hoover had no intention whatever of deceiving the public. He simply didn't understand that you couldn't have a gathering like that without making an adequate explanation of some kind. At any rate just a bare announcement war issued. Free Press Is Best Check The next day at the White House news conference, Hoover said he would not comment on the meeting (though the notice had appeared in the papers), and that he consid-ered it the duty of the press not to print anything which was only par-tially true, or else incomplete. Richard Oulihan of the New York No newsman, except toward the last, could complain about Franklin Roosevelt's news con-ferences. Regardless of what one might think at his views, his aews was always printable. It will be hard to produce an-other such. The heavy majority of those who traveled with Dewey on his cam-paign trips had nothing but praise. But a few of those who had ex-- perienced his press conferences, and had enjoyed or otherwise his Times, one of the most be-loved and respected correspondents who ever covered Washington, and an outstanding leader, made a typ-ically dignified, but very emphatic protest then and there. He said it was out of the question to ask the reporters not to get as complete a story as they could. It was pointed out by another n reporter that the press would have to have the story, and the reporters would have to get it, regardless of the President's wishes. press relations in earlier days were cynical. "Wait," they said, "until the honeymoon is over." I found it hard to get concrete predictions. I myself had seen a I J rVst improvement in Dewey's press I jj agons over the years since his first campaign. And I see no rea-son I why a person can't and doesn't learn. On the train, whenever he could (and that is the way most of the correspondents described it "could," not "would"), Dewey went into the press car attached The President refused at first, but the reporters insisted. Finally he agreed to give out an official state-ment after the conference. I have known other examples of shorUived gag rules. One which Secretary of the Treas-ury Morgenthau tried to estab-lish on the treasury. He issued an order that none of the treas-ury officials could talk with newsmen. He might as well have told reporters not to read the market quotations. It failed. Legitimate news continued to be reported as it always had been. to his train, chatted individually with the fellows, learned to connect names with new faces, answered I questions, and at least appeared to ' be frank and free with his "off the j record" remarks concerning Re- - publican doubts and fears, real, im-- agined, or assumed. He sometimes s took time for a game of chess "with the boys." 5 There was, however, much , less informality In the atmos- - t phere of his entourage than there was In Truman's. The I Dewey affair moved so smooth- - ly that a creak or two would have been welcome. Like the a farmer in the poem "so even " ran his course of life the neigh bors thought it odd." There was one man who made press relations on the Dewey cam-paign tram a joy well, two men. One was Jim Hagerty, trained re- - purter himself, who is expected to Franklin Roosevelt had, at one time, at least 80 per cent of the newspapers "against" him. He knew he couldn't change their edi-torial views by giving out news to their representatives. He also knew that if he tried to withhold news, the American people would be far less likely to support him. And be-cause he understood the meaning of the freedom of the press, he wouldn't have thought of trying. And he knew how to make it appear as favorable as possible. The most effective check in a democracy is not the first, second or third, but the fourth estate. An unenlightened public conceivably might elect a totally bad president and a totally bad congress which would establish a totally bad su-preme court, but unless the press is gagged, the public in a democracy cannot be democratically unen-lightened. 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The blessed event arrives at George-town Univ. Hosp. . . . The Rex Har-risons want friends to know they are more in love than anybody. . . . Ed-die Cantor's dghtr, Marilyn, and socialite thrush Hugh Shannon oi Le Perroquet are on key. ... Do the Marcus (novelist) Goodriches (Olivia DeHaviland) know that his Helen's been a secret bride since Aug? She's Mrs. H. McEldowney ol Pittsburgh's Lorgnette Set. . . . The Freddy Bartholomews should count ten hundred. . . . Bill Eythe, star ol "Lend an Ear" (due soon), and Nancy Kelly are closer than Tru-man and Oblivion. Pres. Truman's advisers are begging him to use his title of Commander-in-Chie- f and re-verse the clemency decision on Nazi butcher Use Koch and oth-ers freed by Gen. Clay. . . . Con-demnation letters to the Presi-dent (over this judicial farce) now crowd most of the White House mailboxes. The International Airport Show and the Golden Jubilee Exposition in New York City may cost the city a million bux, so anemic were the . . . New Canaan edi- - tors are checking the tip that the wealthy P. Hanson Hisses will be news. He's cousin to Alger Hiss, who isn't going- - steady anymore with the Spy Probers. . . . Scott Brady of the films and Shirley Bal-lard are Counting Stars. . . . Eve Orten is Richard Ney's new insom-nia. . . . Arthur T. Robb and News-week got unmarried. He was in its Press section. ... Do the ship lines deny advising against foreign travel after Jan. 1st? OVERSEAS TICKER: Gen. Clay and French Commander Koenig are at war on how Allied Germany should he run. . . . Mololov is expected to make a last moment Barrymore en-trance at the UN. . . . Arms are be-ing smuggled into Egypt in defiance oj the VN truce. Everyone just winks. . . Ellen Adler, beautiful dghtr of actress Stella Adler, and playwright lean Paul Sartre are a duetcetera in Paree. . . . Violinists in Paris swank tpots (such as the Lido) get $2.75 per night in U. S. money. . . . The Duke of Windsor may return to England solo to seek an official job. (Wot could 'e doooo?). . . . field Marshal von Rundstet of Hitler's army, allegedly in prisoner of war camp in Wales, ipends most of his time touring Lon-don night spots with British top brass. . . . Mayor LaGuardia's nephew, Rich-tr- d Gluck, is now in a Berlin court fight over who adopts him. When the colyum reported that Franco's Gov't sent Japan congratu-lations after the attack on Pearl Harbor that fact was questioned by some readers and listeners. Some editorialists echoed the denial. . . . "This is a canard which cannot be proven!" said one Veriwell. see page 111 ui uic uuu, Dictator." The publisher is Knopf. . . . The author is Viscount Templewood, who was Britain's wartime ambassador. . . . Page 114 jays in part: "Serrano Suner was as wrong about the results of Pearl Harbor as the Japanese Minister. He llso seemed to think that it was a decisive victory for the Axis. In any case, he ordered the staff of his Min-istry to leave cards of congratula-tion at the Japanese Legation the iay following the outrage." Jim Farley was recently quot-ed from Madrid as saying: "Yes, I've heard such things alwavs bv the left-win- g press!" . . . Leftwing or lefthook? Broadway Stardust: Critic George Tean Nathan (famous for walking jut on new shows) rejected an in-vitation to occupy a colleague's ex-l-a seat closer to the stage. ... "I iislike leaving my seat empty," he laid. "It's unfair to the manage-ment." . . . Whipping up a best-lelle- r doesn't always mean you'll ring the bells on the Hollywood cash registers. Variety reveals the top Ive fiction aces have been ignored jy the movies. Yet they are always wailing about the scarcity of expert itories. . . . Prof. Cugat's rhumbas nd sambas are graaaand, but this !an wishes he'd leave the jokes to he experts. This metropolis (New York) Is composed not merely of stone and steel: It also contains 285 farms! 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And your friends are ct: tain to welcome holiday k K Camels and Prince Albert! (At; w DEFENSE SURVEY Experts Eye U. S. Mobilization Plans Top military planners are rushing work to complete a spot-chec- k of United States mobilization require-ments by November 15. The check will disclose whether the United States over-al- l strategic defense plan makes sense and whether it can be applied readtlj. Mobilization experts intend to find out if the requirements listed by the army, navy and air force can be reconciled with one another, and if this nation has the capacity to fill the military's estimated wartime needs. i All this doesn't mean that war is j necessarily around the corner. Com-- I prehensive analyses of the strategic blueprint are routine steps in U. S. j mobilization planning. However, the spot-chec- is In line with the faster military tempo these days. |