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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Rap Truman, for Wage Muddle; Reconversion Almost Finished; New Milestone; UNO Underway Released by Western Newsoaoer Union ItUlToa-B NOTE: When opinions are expressed m these columns, ihey are tbose o ,,""l"' Lnjon , news analysts and ool ortessarflv of this newsou per. ( " ' ' 1 H1". Uni mini in mi nnnjniuanjjium i 'I' iii'ii 1 'III r : ) -4v Protesting against demobilization slow-down, G.I.s parade down Paris' Champ Elysees. Later, a "liberation committee" was established. (See: Demobilization.) LABOR UNREST: Rap Truman As the strike situation grew more aggravated, and the administration back-tracked on its original stabilization stabili-zation policy of only granting price increases if earnings failed to support sup-port wage raises, Democrats and Republicans alike in congress blasted blast-ed President Truman for lack of a clear-cut program. Declaring that Mr. Truman should have concentrated on holding pay at wartime levels and reducing prices. Senator Ellender (Dem., La.) asserted assert-ed that the policy of raising wages will inevitably lead to increased costs, with the inflationary spiral following fol-lowing crimping both domestic and foreign purchasing power here. Formerly a public member of the War Labor board, Senator Morse (Rep., Ore.) compared Mr. Truman's Tru-man's indecision with ex-President Rnfiflowolt'i. 1 : ww. iui i,ciujiit;s!i, etveirilJg that he should have originally set up an impartial arbitrator who could reach a definite conclusion on a dispute instead of fact-finding boards with only recommendatory power. Meanwhile, Majority Leader Barkley (Dem., Ky.) sought to slow up hasty senatorial consideration of anti-strike legislation. He was supported sup-ported by Senator Ferguson (Rep., Mich.) who urged even-tempered action to avoid the possibility of circumscribing cir-cumscribing traditional liberties. RECONVERSION: Ahead of Schedule With reconversion already 90 per cent complete, and with production and employment at the highest peacetime level, the U. S. is well on the way to postwar prosperity barring bar-ring future dislocations, officials of the Committee for Economic Development Devel-opment declared. : With 52 million persons at work, and only 2 million remain-' remain-' ing jobless, the nation is close to the employment goal of 53.5 million the CED set for: next September. Since economists have agreed that normally there are about 2 million who are always al-ways idle because of job changes, incapacity, etc., indications in-dications point to virtual full employment now. If strikes do not seriously crimo production, returning vets ano others oth-ers should be easily absorbed by industry in-dustry in the coming year, CED said, pointing to the huge potential market resulting from the tremendous tremen-dous accumulation of savings and pent-up needs of consumers both here and abroad. Refuting contentions of labor leaders that reconversion has resulted re-sulted in a decrease in wartime take-home pay, the CED declared figures showed payrolls and earn ings are now only slightly below the wartime peak. PEARL HARBOR: KimmeVs Side In issuing his first public statement on the Pearl Harbor catastrophe Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, naval commander at the base at the time of the surprise Jap attack December De-cember 7, 1941, charged that inadequate inade-quate information furnished by Washington prevented him from making effective preparations for defense. Reading a 25,000 word statement to the congressional committee investigating in-vestigating the Pearl Harbor debacle. deba-cle. Kimmel asserted he was misled by navy department intelligence supplied him from fragments of in tercepted Japanese messages into believing that the Nipponese would move first in the Far East. v'ital information denied him, which he said indicated hostilities at Pearl Harbor, included a decoded Jap message of October 9 instructing instruct-ing Hawaiian agents to report on ship movements in the bombing area of the base and the intercepted note of December 6 and 7 ordering the Nipponese ambassadors in Washington to formally break off relations re-lations at 1 p. m. on the day of the attack. Had the crucial note of the 6th and 7th been sent to him even five hours before the assault, Kimmel said, he could have moved his light forces out of Pearl Harbor and placed all other units in readiness for defense. TTNH Well Under . With election of a president, selection selec-tion of remaining members of the all-important security council and the naming of the economic and social so-cial committee, the United Nations organization to preserve postwai peace got well underway in its open ing session in London. Election of Paul Henrl-Spaak of Belgium as president and of Brazil, Poland, Australia, Mexico, Mex-ico, Egypt and the Netherlands to the security council to work with the Big Five, was not without with-out opposition, however. With Russia lining up against the U. S. and Britain, the Reds had proposed Trygve Lie of Norway for the presidency and sought to place Norway on the security council in a floor fight. In addition to permanent mem bership on the security council, the Big Five obtained representation on the economic and social committee whose power to work for the im provement of both trade and living standards is considered by some countries as one of the most vital tasks of UNO. As UNO studied the question of trusteeships over territories, a movement move-ment developed within the American Ameri-can delegation to assure full U. S. control over strategic Pacific islands taken from the Japs. DEMOBILIZATION: G.I.s Organize Even while U. S. generals cau tioned G.I.s against continuing demonstrations dem-onstrations against the demobiliza tion slowdown because of its effect on American prestige overseas, a G.I. "liberation committee" was established es-tablished in Paris following troop demonstrations for the purpose of uniting Yanks abroad for speedy return re-turn home. In drawing up a four-point state ment, the committee declared: "Use men for occupying only Ger many and Japan. . . . Eliminate the waste of personnel. . . . Use available avail-able replacements, including 400 000 volunteers. . . . Democraticize 'the army to encourage whatever volunteers volun-teers are necessary. . ." Underlining committee assertions that G.I.s clamoring for an acceler ation of demobilization were not quitters, Lt. Robert Eisner of Brook lyn. N. Y., stated: "We are in no way mutineers. We haven't forgot ten what we fought for, but the simple fact is we are no longer need ed in France. The same thing is true in many other countries. INDO-CHINA: Mass Starvation While French and native haggled over term for feetween tati0" f 000 M0 people of north-600.000 north-600.000 and 2.000.0OU pe v ernFTCh hi "5e " adding to the trro-rnds who perished ; recognized Viet Nam "Publ.c posing any move for the reestaD lishment of colonial rule ou willing to accept relief, the native j food by neutrals rather than by the ' further aggravating the tense sit-uation sit-uation was a flood of the Red river, which crumbled dykes and inundat ed miles of rice land. While refusing refus-ing to permit the French to repair the damage, the native leader, charged that they were responsible for the tragedy by having failed to teach the people to. attend to the dykes during their 80 years of rule in the country. ARGENTINA: Employers Strike Failing to receive modification of a government decree ordering wage increases and year-end 1 bonuses business men, industrialists and manufacturers closed shop in Argentina Argen-tina for three days, crimping the nation's day-to-day shoppers. Seeking to offset the immediate effects of the national lock-out, the regime of Gen. Edelmiro Farreil threatened to take action against establishments es-tablishments refusing to sell essential essen-tial articles, citing a wartime law against promotion of speculation. While rioting against closed establishments estab-lishments was reported in some provinces, relative calm prevailed in the capita of Buenos Aires, with shoppers crowding municipally operated op-erated markets, fruit ahd vegetable stores and the few places that heeded heed-ed orders to reopen their doors. With national elections scheduled for February 28, the government's decree for higher wages and year-end year-end bonuses was considered as an effort by the Farreil clique to point the labor vote toward Col. Juan Peron, who is seeking to bolster his position in Argentina politics by popular pop-ular election to the presidency. Haitian Chief Flees Latest political leader in the so-called banana republics ol the South to sneak out the back door while crowds rioted for his removal was President Elie Les-cot Les-cot (pictured at left) ol Haiti. Accompanying Accom-panying the 63-year-old refugee to America was his son Gerard Lescot (at right), who served as foreign minister m his government, and other member of his family. Elected to Haiti's presidency in 194 Lescot's overthrow followed near week-long week-long demonstrations started by 5 000 ? nion'S'iTd eVfftUally 'oined v about 5,000 well-armed troops after his failure fail-ure to form a coalition government embracing em-bracing radical elements. Succeeding Lescot, a three-man military junta experienced ex-perienced difficulty restoring order as mobs stormed police headquarters demanding de-manding punishment of official, who had sought to quiet the uprising In Miami, Lescot, commenting on his discomfiture, remarked that he was ousted because he would not play ball with the Communists. 4LUMINUM : Wider Competition Government efforts to break up the Aluminum Company of Ameri ca's hold on the industry parv materialised with ALCOA's relea Z of patents to the U q ,T Plants then leased to 'the R I!"" Metal company, No. 2 nowt pLt-tTo plants it operated durL thJ r and which were dentdTo UbyX' justice department on gronnJ i additional acquisition? that strengthen the Lmna'v WUld the aluminum induX". .on patents, however, it was h!em? ALCOA had widened ,n eV6d sufficiently to overcome '0n,peti" objections. vercome government By taking over the w, Creek and Jones Mills A "Ca"e formerly operated by ALrnn"1 nolds' increased it . ' Rey entire prewar m rketTtlf 'r In leasing Hurricane Creek I nolds agreed to rental? Rey from $275,000 for the firf, Tunnin& S546.000 in the fifth t year ' Mills' payments wil run"? Jnes MO in the first year n J"1 $534-the $534-the fifth. year t0 Sl.069.000 i HISTORIC FORT: Doors Closed Fort Niagara. N v h finally closed by ,hP .bei of. to an end a militarv y' b""Smg borne its present' Wh,ch has years, and whose for 219 back to a stockade Dum7 rehes the French explorer L TS J , throughout the Na,L ' French colonia "amn r Bri,is" American Revolutj 31 am't,ons, th of 1812 the for, he d a ,he W, lhP " nf'cP-.i.Inn |