Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U S carries fight to Com munish As congress approves foreign aid inco me tax out becomes a reality by bv bill staff writer I 1 EDITORS NOTEs NOTE when pinions Pin fons ar r pr d f in ethcie th columns ol omni ther 0 tre those 1 I yetti n union ana anctil an itil we and nd not ally et 1 I th ahll 1 FOREIGN AM AID in motion with president Tr signature on the foreign aid bill the massive potent forces of western capitalism moved into action against russian communism tor for the beginning of a titanic long range clash ot of strength to observers in the US this interplay ot of forces had all the ingredients of an epic poem the power of good striving mightily to overcome the pow power c r of evil with the fate of a large segment of mankind depending on outcome of the struggle there was an epic quality too in the manner in which congress seemingly impelled by a strong sense ot urgency raced the bill through for final action the house approved it with a vote of to 75 after less than 15 minutes of explanation and the tha senate followed up swiftly y with a va voice ice vote two days a after passage of the measure president truman meshed the gears of the global aid program by ordering the reconstruction finance corpora corporation tion to advance e to billion dollars at once that action released US dollars reconstruction su supplies and in some cases arms to 15 european nations as well as turkey western germany trieste and china the overall aid package includes 43 billion dollars tor for the european recovery program million dollars for military assistance to greece and turkey million for china and 2 million dollars for trieste all ali of it Is aimed at areas where communists are sharpening their sword of aggression an ill starred movement in the house to include aid to franco spain in the bill was defeated before it had time to do much damage to US prestige and moral stat stature U re abroad As the aid started to move the situation abroad stacked up something like this dussias Rus sias seizure of czechoslovakia its new pact with finland and pressure on scandinavian nations the soviets arbitrary action in berlin all pointed to the tact fact that moscow was trying to bring about a showdown in europe before the european recovery plan began to work effectively ly 1 pali on OA the other hand the rapid passage as ge of of the fo foreign reign aid measure measure the proposal to return trieste to italy and the stiffening of american will in berlin seemed to indicate that the US while not forcing a show down was nevertheless willing to have it as soon as possible few persons familiar with the situation thought that a showdown with russia necessarily meant war but it did involve acceptance of a risk of war US leaders were willing to take that risk on the theory that the likelihood of a shooting war Is less now than it might be in the foreseeable future REDUCTION tax measure president Tr veto ol of the income tax reduction bill was crushingly overridden by both houses of congress to 88 83 in the house 77 to 10 in the senate and US citizens sat back to gloat over the fir first s t major tax cutting measure passe passed d in nearly 20 ye years ars in his now characteristic id rather be right than be president role mr truman had stubbornly affixed his veto to the bill protesting that it mainly would benefit persons with incomes of or more mor a encourage further inflation and sap the nations strength streng fh at a time of international danger examination of the new tax structure indicated that the president was right in his bis first contention at least that the law would be of greater benefit to persons with high incomes than to those in low lower er bra brackets c bets reason for that is that tha t 12 6 per ceni cent of is considerably less than 5 per cent of a million cuts in tax rates as provided by the new law range from per cent in the lowest brackets to 5 per cent in the top level most interesting aspect of the tax cut development was the question of w what hat motivated mr truman to veto the bill he was aware that enough members member of 1 both houses were supporting tax reduction in this election year to override his veto hence that his veto would be a gesture of futility that would place him on record as opposing the popular will mr truman must have been aware also of the strong possibility chos mad w nobody teemed seemed to t bo be mad at t anybody when gov GOT william M 51 rack of virginia and nd president truman viet met at t convocation exercises at william and miry mary college col leee williamsburg V va to receive honorary degrees decrees of doctor of laws mr truman each a aged a cordelai handshake hand shab with governor tuck vociferous leader of the southern states rebellion on n the presidents Fresl dents civil rights program that next year congress safely through the elections will boost federal income by re imposing some version ve aslon of the wartime excess profit tax in view ol of these but inescapable realities the presidents veto ot of the tax bill simply did not fit the preconceived pattern of political action in an election year rather it looked more like the deliberate driving of another nail in his bis political coffin in his veto message mr truman contended that increased defense and foreign aid measures might make I 1 it t necessary c for congress to raise taxes next year in the case of the income tax he said nearly 40 per cent of the reduction would go to individuals with net incomes in excess of who constitute less Jess than 5 per cent of all taxpayers also the president continued while national income is high every effort should be made to reduce th the size of the billion dollar public debt he was beyond doubt sincere in as objections burthey but they fell on deaf ears aars APOLOGIA from russia even as russia officially expressed regret over the unfortunate british soviet plane crash over berlin which cost 15 lives plain people all over the world began to see more clearly how although no nation Is seeking war now a war could start accidentally A pilot of a russian lighter fighter plane had buzzed a british plane carrying 14 passengers as it was landing in berlin tho transport crashed in the russian zone where the wreckage lay for 12 hours before the bodies were permitted to be moved tension in berlin eased somewhat when british officials accepted the russian apology and canceled plans to assign tighter fighter plane escorts to all air transports coming into berlin the official british account ot of the crash quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the russian tighter fighter pilot wa was s frolicking when he hit bit the big plane while the fighter pilot undoubtedly had not been ordered to harrass the british plane it was equally apparent that he be and his bis cohorts had not been forbidden to do so aside from the number of lives lost the disturbing part of the th incident is that it was in a mariner manner ol of speaking an aggressive action an overt act of deliberate provocation and it is just such incidents as that that world leaders tear fear might one day touch off the conflagration NEW START chinas cainas chiang hopelessly lost in the political and ana economic confusion ol of china gen con wong chiang kal kai shek le leader ader of the republic in one capacity or another since 1027 1927 was casting about for a new role in the tragedy of the far east afflicted externally by communist armies and internally by we the venality of black marke and corrupt gov officials chiang has been in the position of a man attempting to build a house on a pile of soggy refuse now however there was a report out that chiang had decided loquat to quit the presidency of china but there also were indications that far from going into retirement he would remain as strong man by becoming premier A spokesman for the chinas cainas governing party said that the generalissimo was wag determined to free himself from the presidency in order to lead a holy war against the increasingly powerful chinese communists according to latest reports chiang was urging that dr hu shih be elected i 1 president former ambassador io to washington hu shah now is president of peking university PALESTINE trusteeship I 1 studiously ignoring the groups and individuals who threw up their hands in horror when the U S reversed its position on partition of palestine this nation w bent ent right ahead with its avowed plan for a united nations trusteeship of the holy land disclosing some of the details of that plan warren R austin american delegate to the UN told security council members that the united states favors send sending ing forel foreign agn troops to palestine to keep order if and when that becomes necessary under the trusteeship formula unmistakably implied although not stated outright was U S willingness fr igness to send american troops to the holy land provided other nations would loin the parade also another provision was that the number of nations supplying troops be specifically limited actually there was little optimism that the fratricidal strife in palestine or the causes producing it could be effaced by the expedient of imposing A a UN trusteeship trus tee ship |