Show NE NEWS WS RE REVIEW VIEW showdown near nea in UN U N gram grain E exports orts reduced I 1 SHOWDOWN dussias Rus sias choice secretary of state george marshall sounded like a man who was getting a lot of things off his chest what he said in an address before the U N general assembly of 55 nations amounted to a call tor for a showdown with russia the soviets he intimated have held to their stubborn veto bound course in the united nations long enough to make the delinquents come to time marshall proposed a tour four point plan of action to the general assembly I ahe he suggested creation of a new assembly committee of 55 countries which would operate without veto and would remain constantly in session to consider world security questions and function as a board of appeals potentially the committee would be a rival to the security council he announced that the U S was 2 ready to relinquish in all but the gravest cases its veto privilege and implicitly challenged russia to do likewise 3 he blamed russia for the U S soviet deadlock in korea and said that america would submit the case to the general assembly tor for a action he blamed russia tor for using 4 vetoes to protect yugoslavia albania and bulgaria from being pronounced guilty of meddling in greece he said the U S would ask the assembly to vote guilt for the three satellites and to demand that they retrain refrain from interfering in greece PRICE BATTLE exports cut secretary of agriculture clinton P ande anderson son had a horatio at the bridge air about him as he announced that the government had made a drastic cutback cut back of grain and flour allocations tor for export in november the move generally was accounted as another noble stand against the forces which are causing domestic food prices to spiral dizzily this ibis one however had the blessings of the grain trade as a step in the right direction reducing the export allocations for november was in line with the governments surprise revision of the nations 1947 export goal from some million bushels of grain down to million in a significant sig sidelight anderson scoffed at the prospect of 0 returning to rationing by pointing out that such a program could not be put into effect before the need for it would be over next move it was hinted would be an attempt by secretary ander ison eon to put through a sharp reduction of total food exports not just grain as the only practical way of pulling down prices the U S state department however committed to its save europe program no doubt would object vehemently to any such action F atom alom aftereffects after effects although the atom bomb explosions in japan have caused some sterility among the people they have not affected the soil adversely and may even have brought about an improvement in the rice crop dr shields warren harvard professor recently returned from japan where he studied aftereffects after effects ot of the bomb said that its effects on human beings may carry into the third zene generation ration producing freaks WHOSE FAULT taft talks sen robert tatt taft rep ohio who had to crash a sign toting picket line to get to his audience told a republican rally in los angeles that if president truman had not jumped the gun in scrapping price controls the current inflation spiral might have been delayed a while longer exactly how tatt taft arrived at that rather hazy tatt taft son sion was not immediately clear the senator himself last year was denounced by mr truman tor for his part in writing a price control extension bill which the president branded as being worse than no controls mr Tr subsequent veto of 0 the bill allowed price controls to expire automatically nailing down the first plank in what apparently is designed to be his campaign platform for the 1948 presidential nomination taft assailed the administrations record on taxes and spending the country must elect a republican president next year if it is genuinely interested in reducing taxes and spending tatt taft observed SPEEDUP SPEED UP forrestal in james V forrestal due to be sworn in as U S secretary of defense for another week but dent truman manifestly alarmed ovet over the trend of world events ordered the former secretary ol of the navy to jump the gun in taking over his new job mr truman ob served that in view of c conditions 0 in d I 1 t I 1 0 n s forrestal abroad the nation should have its secretary of defense in office and functioning the conditions which he did not specify probably were the current unrest in trieste and the U S russian stalemate in the united nations topped off by secretary of state marshalls marchalls Mar challenging speech before the general assembly now presiding over the unified army navy and air forces forrestal is the armed forces only representative senta tive on the presidents cabinet |