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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . Nation Displays Flight on First Armed Forces Day; Atlantic Pact Nations Announce Defense Plans (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.) Assails Truman POLITICS: Are Both Parties Split? Observers are wondering if the Republican and Democratic parties both are going into the November election with split political fronts. The Republican trend came to light in the Oregan senatorial primary pri-mary which was won by Independent Indepen-dent voting Sen. Wayne Morse. His campaign is not likely to resemble any other Republican drives this fall. In Pennsylvania, Governor James H. Duff defeated the old guard Republicans Re-publicans in the senatorial primary. pri-mary. In many quarters the Duff and Morse victories were seen as signs that many Republican voters think the party needs to offer more than mere opposition to President Truman's Tru-man's Fair Deal. On the Democratic front, a few more cracks have been added to the split caused by the civil-rights conflict started in 1948. Southerners are still battling the program, and recently, have generally gen-erally opposed Truman's plans for more government spending. The Brannan plan has added fuel to the fire of discontent among some of the President's best western friends. With these points in mind, the September and October political speeches of both parties may prove the most interesting In years. Meanwhile, a high-ranking Republican Re-publican took another swing at the President, charging that he seeks a "rubber-stamp" congress elected in November. Said GOP national chairman Guy Gabrielson: "The 1950 issues now are clear. President Truman has asked the voters to give him a rubber-stamp congress that will approve his program of social ism." WINNIPEG: Wet but Undefeated Flood battered Winnipeg slowly returns to normal. With nearly a fifth of the city at one time under water, the citizens raised a banner proclaiming they were "wet but undefeated" on the court house and waited for the Red river to show its first drop. Before it came flood waters had reached a record high for the century. cen-tury. Some 100,000 of Winnipeg's 350,000 population were forced to evacuate and many of southern Manitoba's towns were deserted. When the river showed its first drop, flood waters were about two feet below the absolute peak at which engineers figured nearly all of Winnipeg would be waterlogged and the whole population would have to be evacuated. Even with the river back in its banks, however, observers said it would be near the last of June before be-fore the city would be back to nop mal. MRS. ROOSEVELT: Comforted Distressed Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was awarded the seventh annual Williamsburg Wil-liamsburg Settlement gold-medal award for typifying the American way of life and aiding the underprivileged. under-privileged. At the presentation dinner, former for-mer congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce called her long-time political foe the "best-loved woman in the world" and said that no woman ever had "so comforted the distressed dis-tressed or distressed the comfortable." comfort-able." "When her justly notable tolerance toler-ance and patience with the Communists Com-munists finally gave out, that day tolerance of communism in America Amer-ica ended officially. It is safe to say that her resistance to Soviet communism com-munism is a more potent factor in winning the cold war than an extra billion dollars of Marshall plan aid," she added. Something New ARMED FORCES: A Workable Team Any doubts that observers might have entertained about the success of armed forces unification in the United States was 'dispelled with the observance of the first national Armed Forces Day. For the observance, America s fighting forces across the world paraded in the mightiest show of power since World War II. The biggest show of all went on in Germany Ger-many where more than 85,000 Yanks demonstrated their readiness. readi-ness. The day's message to the world was plain: The United States is awake to the menace of Communist Commu-nist aggression and is leadying Its defenses. President Truman took the occasion occa-sion to tell the public that if congress con-gress had passed his universal military mil-itary training program five years ago "there would have been no cold war." He also invited all Americans "to take stock of the state of our readiness readi-ness to defend ourselves against aggression." And, in general, Americans were pleased and impressed with what they saw on parade. Although the forces were less in number, they seemed well trained, power-packed units that would form the backbone of new armies should the situation arise. Army, navy and air force put on a united front that was pleasing to observers who remember recent unification squabbles between the services. BOSTON: Taste of Tradition Climaxing its jubilee celebration, staid old Boston let down its hair by serving dinner to 10,000 on the Common and holding a barn dance at the Garden. Believed to be the largest meal ever served to a seated group, the guests got a taste of tradition by consuming five tons of baked beans, three tons of potato salad, and 3,500 pounds of ham. Earlier events of the jubilee were designed to call attention to the cultural, business, industrial, and recreational advantages of Boston and New England. Serving the "baked-bean supper" and all the trimmings took less than an hour, some kind of a record. rec-ord. The trimmings included. 2,000 loaves of brown bread, 12,000 individual in-dividual apple pies, 12,000 servings of cheese, and 12,000 Parker house rolls. One thousand volunteer waitresses, wait-resses, supervised by 40 home economists econ-omists and dieticians, served . the food. - UNEMPLOYMENT: Worker's Output Up According to the federal reserve board the individual worker's increased in-creased output has been one of the big factors in the unemployment picture since last summer. The board analysis of "labor market developments" point to two influences at work on the part of business management: 1. "Large profits and strong financial fi-nancial position in recent years have encouraged business to spend record amounts for new machinery and equipment of highly efficient design. 2. "Intensified competitive pressure pres-sure on management to reduce costs, partly by curtailing employ- Sen. Robert Taft is shown above speaking over a nationwide nation-wide radio network. He charged in his speech that the administration has shaken the confidence of the people and seeks to elect a "subservient" congress to vote into law policies poli-cies that would wreck the country. coun-try. DEFENSE: West United At one point in their policy making mak-ing in recent years, the Russians reasoned, and not without basis, that the western powers would never really be united. That reasoning, rea-soning, however, has received a terrific jolt. The 12 western nations, members mem-bers of the Atlantic pact, have agreed to pool their economic and military might into one vast armed force, centrally directed to resist Soviet aggression. The plan, in reality a unification move, is American inspired. It will "create a balanced collective force," which means each of the 12 nations will contribute specific units to the central western armed force and not try to maintain expensive ex-pensive over-all military establishments, estab-lishments, each self-contained in all arms. The move was seen by military men as the one means of giving the west a balanced defense force, working in harmony, and with maximum efficiency. The United States is expected to bear the greatest part of the cost, although each nation will share in proportion to its resources. The U. S. share is expected to cost more than a billion dollars this year. That the West is deadly serious and intends to have the plan in operation op-eration as soon as possible was evident evi-dent by the creation of an over-all council of deputy foreign ministers, meeting all year round, to put the plan into force. This council will have a permanent powerful chairman chair-man who, it is understood, will be an American. Some sources predicted the U. S. may require a larger air force and navy under the plan, since this country will be entirely responsible responsi-ble for atomic and other strategic bombing in case of enemy aggression. aggres-sion. DEMOCRATS: Harmony Disturbed Surface harmony prevailing among Democrats at the Jefferson jubilee celebration in Chicago was shattered by the controversial civil rights issue, which split the party in 1948. The Democrats were startled because be-cause of the unexpected source of thp dissention. ment and by utilizing those employed em-ployed more efficiently than earlier in the postwar period." . In addition the board reports there is an increased "tendency for married women to work outside out-side the home," and a similar ' trend among teen-agers. P" : FARM INCOME: I Likely to Dip ; The agriculture department pre- ! diets that the cash income of the nation's farmers will be well under 1 . 1949 totals. The department explained: ! "Prices farmers receive for their products have generally been below those of a year ago, while their costs have declined only slightly. This situation is expected to continue for the rest of the year." Cash receipts from marketings in 1949 totaled 27.5 billion dollars. Forecasters expect the 1950 total to be approximately 25 billion dollars. dol-lars. NATIONALISTS: Ready for Last Stand Observers believe the long expected ex-pected last stand of Chinese Nationalists Na-tionalists is now underway. They ! base their opinion on the fact the ! Nationalists have withdrawn from all except one of their blockading ! bases along the China coast. S Apart from Formosa and the neighboring Pescadores islands, the only territory remaining to the Nationalists appears to be Quemoy island, off Amoy. i i 11 i Most southerners who attended the Chicago meeting chose to ignore the civil rights panel. Jonathan Daniels, North Carolina national committeeman and former White house aide under both Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, did not so choose. He sat through the meeting, listening list-ening to 16 speakers demand enactment en-actment of the Truman program, and then insisted upon speaking at the conclusion. He told them flatly he could not go along with them in favor of a compulsory fair employment practice prac-tice act, and added: "You cannot have a prohibition law against discrimination dis-crimination in the south." He asserted the propaganda for the creation of a fair employment practice commission "gives a weapon to our enemies, the Dixie-crats" Dixie-crats" and makes it possible tor them "to hide behind the civil rights issue while they fight every progressive measure." Moscow Tool The independent United Electrical Electri-cal Workers union has been denounced de-nounced again as "Communist dominated." Maurice J. Tobin, secretary of labor, and Phillip Murray, president presi-dent of the CIO, made the charges in speeches at a rally of General Electric workers. The UE was expelled ex-pelled from the CIO last year on charges of having left-wing tendencies. With all the Investigations that have been under way in Washington, Rep. Usher L. Burdlck of North Dakota has come up with a new one. He asked the house rules committee com-mittee to approve a resolution to investigate of all things congress. The committee postponed post-poned action on the resolution indefinitely. EXPLOSION: Second in Generation The stunned and battered community com-munity of South Amboy, N. J., 30 miles south of New York City, tied up its wounds and, for the second time in a generation, went about the business of rebuilding. On May 19 four explosive-laden barges blew up with such force debris was splattered over a 10 to 12 block area. Twenty-six persons were dead or missing and nearly 400 were injured. |