Show WEEKLY NEW ANALYSIS farm groups OK brannan cheica truce reque st falls in palestine GM wag e pact could set pattern by bill staff writer prid a in thess hex colnon colnman ns alier are ara th hot of when opinion are a espre i they EDITORS union new dews ani a za not t atten tily of the thi dev apper sp per western N p D APPROVED Bran brannan brancart president Tr choice of charles r F brannan to succeed clinton anderson as secretary of agriculture has received the who wholehearted ae approval of the national form farm organizations they consider the 44 yerrold year old former assistant secretary of 0 agriculture a friend of the tanner former one 0 ol 01 the bases tor for this feeling ot of harmony Is the fact that brannan and the farm organizations concur in thinking that the prewar parity law Is badly outdated such crops as soybeans f for or instance s have attained a much greater importance since the law was passed but still have no satisfactory price fixing basis other farmers II including luding cattle cattels and dairy producers claim their parity scales are out of line in this postwar period ideas developed by brannan to help remedy this situation have been largely adopted by the leading farm groups and are incorporated in bills now pending before congress unless congress congress acts by the end ot of this year the law guaranteeing an an teeing farm prices a at t go 90 per cent of the fixed parity rate will expire serving quietly as assistant secretary of agriculture for the past four years brannan has made himself the backbone of the administrations drive to enact a long ra range farm program thus the farmers think a lot 0 of f brannan because he has demonstrated that he Is looking out for their interests in a realistic levelheaded fashion president truman it it appeared had made a good choice in putting brannan at the head of the department part ment almost everybody was satisfied a and that in an election year w was as a most desirable situation for mr truman FAILURE no peace it was difficult to say who would suffer more from the arabs rejection tt of V U N truce plea for palestine the arabs themselves the jews or the united nations probably the jews came cam oft off to better advantage in the world councils of public opinion inasmuch as through their willingness to accept a truce they now can appear in the role of a nation which has been wronged and Is forced to fight a war that has been thrust willy nally upon it the arabs simply brushed aside the idea of a truce with the tha contention that they could not halt the shooting war until the state ot of israel Is abandoned and the jewish army de mobilized there never was wa any question in the minds of arab leaders about the truce it was literally unacceptable to them their position was kas stated definitively by the egyptian premier mahmoud fahmy Nok pasha who said there never will be founded a state called israel or any other name as long as the creation of that state relies upon the theft of arab land the extermination of its arab owners and the sacrifice of moral principles of its arab neighbors nevertheless the arab refus refusal 11 I 1 was a bitter blow to the U N security council it had been organized tor for the express purpose of resolving just such disputes as this one in palestine yet it could do nothing more than make a weak gesture of placation pla cation there was little doubt that the security e council had been rendered toothless and impotent on the palestine issue by the U S attitude or rather lack of attitude what position the united states would take as an individual nation with regard to the palestine war was not clear either at a conference with chaim Wetz betzmann mann israels president president truman promised that the U S would provide financial support for israel in the form of a loan of about million dollars further he hinted at the possibility that unless the arab states cease tire fire the U S might provide arms tor for the jews day after the conference however mr truman dismissed weiz manns plea for a loan as something th ing that could be handled by the export import bank an and d he completely ducked the issue of raising the embargo on arms shipments to the middle east no quarter 0 LE ON SYRIA A j mediterranean I 1 A TRANS JORDAN 03 ya EGYPT fires of war between arab and jew continues continued to burn bum in the holy land when the lie arab states refused to comply with a U N request for a truce attacking jewish forces at all points the arabs said they would not quit until the jews renounced their new state ot of israel meanwhile as victorious Ilag anah troops coops took over acre 10 lo 1 egyptian planes intensified tho the air attack on tel aviv 2 and arab troops enjoyed their greatest c st victories in ia jerusalem 3 PAY HIKE new formula when general motors corporation averted a threatened strike ot of auto production workers by offering an 11 lecent cent raise based on a cos cost t ot of living formula it probably be set t a precedent which will be followed in settling other industrial labor disputes under the agreement described as an entirely new approach to the living cost problem GM production workers get an 8 cent cost of living increase and a 3 cent pay boost based on annual industrial efficiency improvement terms provide that wages be ba adjusted up or down each three months montha to conform with fluctuations in the consumer price index of the bureau of labor statistics it appeared to be a sound plan and one that might be followed to good advantage by other industries biggest flaw in the scheme was the tact fact that general motors might have to pass the cost of living raise on to the public which step might have the eventual effect of nullifying the benefits of the raise to the workers significance of this adjustable cost of living wage formula can be seen la in a review of the rise in prices since 1940 the cost of living today Is 69 per cent higher than in 1940 using 1940 as a base year which Is what GM and the united auto workers did in arriving at their sigre agreement ement living costs now are at per cent VOICE belittling voice of america broadcasts which have never received a full measure of congressional approval sank to an even lower level lev el of disesteem because of a series of ill starred programs beamed to latin america last winter the scripts in question denounced by senators as sabotage slander and libel of the U S first attracted attention in march during house appropriation committee hearings hearing on n the voice of america in the sample script that the committee wanted to look over were tome some ill chosen remarks about wyoming stouthearted stout hearted wyoming congressmen shrieked in anguish other scripts were examined and sen romer homer capehart rep ind fin ally aired the whole thing before the senate the legislators shuddered as they heard capehart read from the scripts such excerpts as new england was wai founded by hypocrisy and texas by sin nevadas two rapin main cities compete with each other because people get married in las vegas and divorced in reno the programs were handled by the national broadcasting company under contract with the state department itene bene borgia the man who wrote the scripts was fired and alberto gandero Bor borgias glas supervisor per visor resigned for Breal dast some of the more sentimental hands around the american broad a casting companas comp anys chicago studios use like to think of don mcneill as a beautiful and vibrant symbol of the rise and snowballing success ot of ABC itself at least they both were young together and both had to fight their way up through a welter oi of opposable circumstances to find adjoining places in the sun eun am ai toastmaster ot of t h e uninhibited breakfast club program mcneill will celebrate his biane mcneill ill anniversary on june 23 with the same kind ol of capers he has been executing five days a week between 8 and 8 9 a m since 1933 despite the subterranean regard which this sophisticated generation purports purport to hold for or the more direct end and obvious types ot of humor mcneill has found that being a corn ball pays oft he works without a script and his gags are strictly off the cuff lie he once invited a herpetologist a student of reptiles and amphibians who visited the program to come into the parking lot after the broadcast and ill show you a rare specimen A windshield viper and when hen a new jersey woman told him that her husband Is a butcher and she is a corset lere he commented what an ideal arrangement rangen ran gement tent lie he fattens them up and you pull them in mcneill parlays parleys this kind of extemporaneous patter with it a feeling of genuine camaraderie for the plain people who are guests on his show to produce a 8 program that has had a nationwide cult of early morning listeners begging for more lor for 15 consecutive years |