Show WEEKLY NEWS MEWS ANALYSIS anticommunist anti communist coalition crushes red opponents in italian election lewis miners fined for contempt by bill staff writer EDITORS notel NOTE when opinions are expressed la these them columns olam ni they are ro those of 0 Vc stern newspaper unions news new analysis and nd not of this newspaper piper EAST WEST in italy by the time officials finished taunting the first vote returns from italis national election there thera was wa to longer any element or of surprise n the fact that the communist anticommunist anti parties were winning two loone lo io one unusual thing ws that the antl anti cited christian democrats and social unity party had scored such a top heavy victory rhey led everywhere even in the to io called ned eed north where communists had amassed considerable strength in the industrial cities it appeared that the antl anti communists mad lad secured absolute majority in both the italian senate and chamber of deputies communist front spokesmen conceded that the election results must be considered a victory lor tor premier all e r alcide de gasperis Gas perls coalition this italian election had been the plum tor for which both the U S and soviet russia had been competing frantically for six months it was a real contest each nation had bad sent myriads alyria ds of entries 1 I think italy should be anticommunist anti communist or corn communist because each entry was wall accompanied not by box tops but by boxcars of food and machinery as we well U as other blandishments blandish ments victory of the antl communists in the election was in a manner ot of speaking a clear cut victory of benevolent capitalism over militant communism As such it could exert tremendous influence on the course ot of european history probably the principal factors deciding the outcome ot of the election were passage of 0 the european recovery program and the U S proposal to return trieste to italy further the election appeared to make an important point concerning the workings 0 of communist aggression gres sion ability ot of the communists t to takes take over a country Is greatly reduced in cases where here the red army canno cannot t casear be rought brought into position to exert pressure on the jn intended victim the red bed army was not a factor to in the italian elections it was a factor either through its immediate presence or its threatening proximity in the coups of czechoslovakia poland romania bulgaria and eastern germany it if that reasoning Is sound a disturbing conclusion is evident she should u I 1 d russia realize that soviet domination of europe cannot be accomplished without use ot of military force the next step might be to bring the th e red army into action LEWIS lost and fined all ali things considered john L lewis came away from his brush with the government in fairly good shape suffering 0 only n I 1 y relatively minor abrasions of the pocketbook for ignoring a federal order to end the soft coal strike that began march marc h 15 over a pension dispute lewis was convicted by federal judge T alan goldsborough of criminal contempt ol of court As punishment judge goldsborough imposed a fine on lewis personally and fined his united mine workers union a total of 14 million dollars it was almost a verbatim reen re en a carn en t c of f the le lewis als goldsboro goldsborough ug h drama of 1948 1946 when the judge fined lewis and the union 35 3 S million dollars for contempt this time however judge goldsborough wanted to be tough lie he wanted to give lewis a jail term b but 13 t refrained from doing so upon advice from the government chief prosecutor in the case nevertheless he deplored the governments ern ments policy of expediency which dictated that the mine chiefs pun punishment should be limited to a fine and that he should not be given abail a jail sentence because that would make m ke a martyr of him in the tee eyes ot 0 the miners it was a bad spot tor for lewis perhaps the worst of his career N not 0 t only had he be tailed failed to beat the taft hartley act and been forced to accept terms tar far short of his bis origins original I 1 demands in settlement ot of the pension dispute but he also had put his treasury 14 million dollars in the th e hole and now if the miners continued to stay away from work to in protest against the punishment the government m an t retained a powerful weapon it could wield the tatt taft hartley injunction against them still was pending HOLY LAND what now in its first positive action since ae ahe U S backed away from its stand favoring partition the tha united nations security council issued a call to both jews and arabs to stop fighting in palestine it probably was a gesture of impotence rendered even more impotent by the fact that the tha security council although it laid down specific truce directives to both factions decided against sending a UN U N commission to the scene or of trouble to check on compliance russia continuing to favor the partition plan refused to support the truce proposal but at the same time andrei gromyko soviet delegate refrained from applying dussias Rus sias big power veto and thus permitted the agreement to be concluded there was no assurance that either jewish or arab forces would agree to a united nations truce and lay down their arms wen well aware that the truce proposal had little or no significance in the pattern of the holy land tragedy U N delegates shook their heads gloomily and wondered if the united nations not yet three years old might not be a blue baby it was clear th that at the U N Is s la lack cir of elan vital in the palestine problem stemmed directly from the decline of american prestige and leadership in the world organization after having havig pushed the partition plan through the U N by the sheer weight of its apparent conviction the V U S suddenly abandoned its support of partition in order to dabble in power politics with middle east oil as the stakes instead ot of partition U S leaders advocated a temporary united nations trusteeship but they failed to indicate what kind of trusteeship or exactly how they thought it should be enforced I 1 i while the american U N delegation was playing hard to get other delegates were asking what are we here lor for unofficial explanation was that the U S was trying through secretary of state george marshall in bogota colombia to get some south american nations to offer to supply the troops that will be needed to enforce a trusteeship bingo another batch ot of atoms has been exploded on the sea girt wastes waste of atoll in the tar far western weste rn pacific in the words of the U S a tomic atomic energy commission the event marked the successful completion of an atomic weapon ll 11 there was no further description of the sixth known knoian atomic explosion in world history but as always in the cass casa of applied nuclear physics the element in t of mystery involved was at least as awesome as specific knowledge of the tha instrument might be at this stage the situation litween U 5 and russia was not unlike imme it a popular american Ameri caa game of chance Derit democracy had bad just completed a row ot of numbers on its card and in the U S announcement of a new atomic weapon kibitzers kibit around the world could hear bear a loud cry of bingol HYBRID CORN north central twelve north central states are well in advance of the south in the percentage of corn acreage planted with high yield hybrid seed according to a report by the department of agriculture the north central group has bag increased its use of hybrid seed from zero to in 1033 to 82 5 per cent of all its acreage planted last year while the south has only per cent planted to hybrid seed I 1 NEBRASKA stassen again i harold harald Ests estsan E stassen cn had husked his political corn well in nebraska voters tn in the states preferential primary typed this year as a bopra popularity poll showered their favors favo on the tha wayfaring campaigner from minnesota to in a field of soven seven republican presidential aspirants results of the nebraska balloting gave stassen 15 national convention delegates for at least the tha first ballot legally Ne braskas delegates go to the national convention by custom however th the outcome of the preferential primary Is binding on the delegates for the tha first f ir s t ballot b au 0 t stassen st a s se n now no w estimated e sil mated th that a t h he 0 w would 0 uld c command 0 m m an d at 1 least east delegates delegat cs on the first ballot in philadelphia this june As tar far as thomas E dewey was concerned tho the nebraska primary added not a cubit to his political stature ile ha ran an indifferent second to stassen and there wera vero many who predicted that this defeat closely following the complete rout of dewey forces in wisconsin virtually virtual lr eliminated the new york governor from the GOP presidential campaign arena chios sen robert taft who had the support of sen hugh butlers state stata political organization took third place although he had been expected to show considerable strength la in nebraska it was a critical blow to Us his political stock for far down the and completely out of the money were the other four contenders contender it sen arthur gen con douglas macarthur gov earl warren of california and speaker of the house joseph martin As always after a pivotal political event such as the nebraska arl roary mary innumerable experts were scurrying through their mental gymnasiums to find tills this was the consensus stassen had bad generated a lot of horsepower because of his wisconsin and nebraska victories conceivably ceiva celva bly he could sweep the GOP convention although that contingency au rac y was by no means certain y yet e t talt taft and dewey were in shoal water and heading for the rocks unless some outside force gave their c candidacies candi andi dacies a boost the question no longer was whether taft or dewey would get the n nomination 0 mi nation but whether the they y co could al d resolve their differences long enough to get to gether to stop stassen general macarthur it appeared would not get a chance to accept the nomination successor 4 V epidio quirino Quirl co vice president of the republic of the succeeded to the pro presidency s upon the death of president ent manuel mancel roxas roxas died in a clark field hospital only a short time after uttering a pledge of indestructible tible faith between the american and philippine peoples UPSWING inflation latest of president Tr truma wit re burring announcements that the nations economy is being endangered by high prices was backed up this time by department of commerce econom economists lits they found that business activity had been growing stronger stron ser in recent weeks and concluded that this increasing strength must be interpreted to in the light of the economic impact of lowered taxes the foreign aid program and aind stepped up military spending |