Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS palestine trouble heads for climax As arab to attack gives warning to russ by bill staff writer EDITORS EDI TOIlS NOTEs NOTE when opinions are re la in theme columns coln mn the they alar ar r a those of western newspaper unions news new analysts and no not necessarily ot t t ahli newspaper with a clashing of arms arm and a babble of alarmed voices events in palestine appeared to be piling up for or another minor but bloody climax in human history alis this particular crisis had its lt immediate beginning in a savage lavaga attack on an the arab city ot of jaffa by members of aval lemml jewish underground force fact that the foray against ja jaffa if a was made in defiance of orders lo 10 by y Ilag anah the regular jewish mill ti d carried no weight in the rush of incidents n cid ants that followed from Pale stines coastal plain site of the neighboring cities of jaffa arab and tel aviv jewish the focal point of the disturbances moved swiftly sw inland to the holy city 0 of f jerusalem arabs and jews hastily deployed their ori on the scene forces in preparation for what stacked up to be a battle for possession of jeru salem facing each other across a scant yards of no mans land each side had its eyes teed fixed on the strategic adamcin camp which the british were evacuating but that all I 1 it it soon became apparent that the arab league nations surrounding palestine did not lot intend to stay out of this tight light reports were current that six arab nations had decided to invade the holy land with ground sea and air forces before the british ended their mandate on may 15 the whole thing was shaping up in the form of a more or less total arab effort to crush completely the jewish intention of creating a zionist state in palestine worried united nations delegates meanwhile cast about tor for a means to prevent the inevitable carnage or at least to preserve the tha city of jerusalem france pushed its sponsorship of a heavily armed volunteer U N police corps to safeguard jerusalem hint of the makeup make up of such a force was given in the suggestion that it might include new york police volunteers but no russ russians I 1 an a this 9 protective army would number lumber from SOO to COO members while the palestine a situation it u a t I 1 0 n leaped into a frantic state of flux the united states kept discrete discreetly ty ou out t of it all in conformation to its recently adopted policy of apparent disinterest to what happens in the holy land DEF DEFIANCE LANCE tivo tico issues in a surprise speech at a dinner given by michigan chambers of commerce tor for the states congressional delegation sen arthur served notice on russia that j the united states may join westa ern europe in a military alliance against communist aggression and 0 we shall not surrender to corn com 2 eunist conspiracies in the united states thus the chief republican republic proponent of partisan bipartisan bi bl foreign policy split the tha rind on two issues which like grapefruit will come more and more to be in the public eye as this year wears on simply stated those two issues are whether the U S should line I 1 up militarily alongside the recently termed formed union of western european nations and whether the communist party should be outlawed in this country they could become decisive issues in the presidential campaign indeed harold stassen already has introduced one of them by coming out bluntly in favor of at outlawing communists communist in the U S said we are 1 suicidal I fools if we do not root out and I 1 destroy any treason at home wh which ell I 1 may dream of bringing world revolution to the united states the alie michigan senator only hinted at t a U S military alliance with western europe but his remarks hardly could be misconstrued what say Is that while the U S has no farm formal al oi oroli boffl cial role in the union of western eu tojean nations american aid and support military wise of almost inevitably Is implied whether or not this nation will grant that assurance will come to be a towering question in the tha public mind soon SKY i bo abl alg A team of air torce force and army ordnance men Is seeking better methods 04 0 hitting pinpoint pin point bemb targets from rom extremely high altitudes out of reach of mos antl aar craft guns or tighter planes is this joint johnt organization Is conducting most of its secret tests in the california desert at duroc air base its la to carry out research sear h in bombing techniques particularly ticul C arly at high altitudes OUTLOOK the dim peace gen omar N bradley army chief 0 of f staff w was as taking a dim view of the P possibilities of pence peace in tact fact he admitted to the senate armed services committee the prospect of a war Is appreciably greater now than it was three months month sago ago adding forcefully to the pattern of evidence which U S armed forces representatives have been constructing to support their requests tor for a military draft and universal training bradley said 1 I think we would be neglecting our duty it if we did not try to teu tell you that we are a little bit more afraid something will happen than we were three months ago when we were talking in terms of reserves and hs he added we are not so sure that war might not be looming in the immediate future to his testimony bradley appended this clincher we know that we are all speaking about russia there it was a responsible appraisal by the chief of 0 staff of 0 where the present talking war between russia and the U S might lead what caused general bradley to think the situation Is more critical now than it was three months ago lie he say but there Is only one apparent explanation the tide of 0 power politics has turned against russia and is moving in favor of the western democracies with ERP beginning to channel money and supplies into europe the fields most favorable to communist growth poverty hunger and dissatisfaction are starting to be reclaimed asfar As far as getting control of western europe was concerned communists saw their main chance go glimmering when they lost the italian election they have in short gone beyond the stage where they can carry out territorial acquisitions through political coups in order to expand further now russia probably would have to apply force which in this case would be the red army and that may be why general bradley thinks war Is more of a likelihood now than it was three months ago SAIAS IiER r for or atoms to expand further the constantly widening fields of atomic research a gigantic new cyclotron will be built at the university of california at a total cost of nine million dollars in announcing the tha project the atomic energy commission said the new cyclotron commonly known nom as an atom would be 20 times mard more powerful than the ton machine currently in operation at the berkeley institution david E lill lillienthal anthal chairman provided ded a hint as to the kind of long range planning fot for peace the commis commission commisse sl 6 n is visualizing when he said bald that the the new cyclotron serves noti notice ceto to the world that itis it Is the intent of the people of the united states to be preeminent pre eminent in the development of fundamental science of oil all kinds engineering already is under way on thi the huge atom splitter but it will take five years before it is completed conceived as 20 times more powerful than the most powerful cy now operating it will produce atomic bullets rang ranging ingin in force from rom six billionth billi billion onto to 10 billion volts at large M ap n A I 1 secretary commerce IV aver ell has bie been n named by president truman as ambassador at larga tor for thi recovery Iro jiro oam eam harriman resigned his cl apet post j etc C MINERS temporary let not the public be deceived by the spell of quiet that is reigning in the nations soil soft coal mines and the temporary evaporation of john L lewis from the stage As it looks now this peaceful situation a Is good only until june 30 even while the miners continue to chop coal to in the pits they make it if clear that they expect to go back back to thear fashing on that date june so 30 Is the day the present wage waga agreement I 1 between the united mino mine workers and the coal operators expires it Is possible of course that a new agreement may be reached before then but it is practically impossible to find anyone who thinks so BO after lewis tussle with federal judge T alan goldsborough in which he and the union were fined a atonal total of the miners went back to work after hearing bearing john Ls wish that they do so EO this however Is regarded as merely a temporary I 1 truce one of the reasons advanced for lewis cantankerous delay in coming to terms on the pension dispute was th atthe mine leader was eking out the work stoppage as long as po possible in order to d deplete the nations nation a coal reserves and so put himself in a better bargaining position when the contract negotiations carrm came up that he accomplished that end there Is in no gain gainsaying saying coal stocks went down almost to zero all over the country resulting in curtailment of steel production a cut in rail travel and various major and minor industrial shutdowns it Is a fact too that industry will not lot have recovered its balance i I 1 clentry by june 30 to cope adequately I 1 with whatever emergency lewis might precipitate this time FOOD PRICES z logical not that it makes it any easier to pay the grocery bill but the reasons why toad food prices price are so 0 o high are no mystery V U S has hag been channelling food a and n d res resources 0 arces into foreign countries a at t a ra rate te and volume never bea before approached also every american americ m able to digest solid food is eating 17 per cent more than he did before the war finally until just recently consumers have been spending their money on food because there was nothing much else available to buy those conclusions were reach reached edby by university of wisconsin economists after an investigation into the causes ot of current high price levels center of the whole spiral are grain prices strong exports experts of corn and wheat caused an upswing in prices on the commodity markets more expensive grains cause prices of flaur bread ham pork loin and rib roasts to go up OREGON next up after wb whirling irling breezily i through ohio to jo the thorough disgruntlement of sen robert tatt taft cam campaigning P i harold larold E stassen set get his hi political sights 0 on n the may 21 oregon primary election where he was due to joust with gov thomas E dewey tor for that states republican convention delegates in a kickoff kick off address in portland stassen refurbished his foreign and i domestic policies tor for the edification of oregon voters who will elect the 12 in member amber GOP delegation J stassen was taking his oregon campaign seriously because a larget large measure of importance was being abeln 11 attached to the election insofar as it would provide the first test of west coast opinion on republican pr presidential esi contenders contender SHORTAGE F form arm machinery behind the present shortage of 1 farm machinery in the U S lies a now all ail too fa familiar mill or story more such machinery is being produced than ever before but it enough to meet the demand waiting list for farm machinery Is phenomenally long yet per cent more tractors cream separators borsand sand and other pieces of farm equip men ment were produced in 1817 than were available in 1939 |