Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS uneasy truce prevails in palest palestine ine no talks with teia russia truman says draft Mathi machinery nery set to begin work by bill staff writer 1 EDITORS EDl TOnS NOTE 1 when opinion are re expressed ipHi ej in alic these cola n they are th of we I pair ubo analysts and riot necessarily of this paper HOLD FIRE still no peace for a little while the dove of peace drifted over palestine on frayed and weary wing as arab and israeli armies were wera ob serving observing mors more or less loosely a four week truce in the tha war for possession of 0 the holy land at best the united nations super truce agreement was a fretful and uneasy affair before the four week mediation period was two days old both arabs and jews had begun charging each other with violations of 0 the pact count folks folke bernadotte Bera adotte UN truce negotiator iwas was investigating the accusations but it looked very much as though another security council cease fire order might g go 0 unloved and uno bayed actually it Is difficult to see how any synthetically imposed truce could succeed in palestine there are no basic grounds upon which a genuine interruption of hostilities could rest both sides profess military proficiency and the ability to keep on fighting and winning and more important each side la Is fanatically opposed to modifying its demands israel is determined to retain its sovereignty and to have unlimited immigration of jews into i the state the arabs are lust just as determined to erase the state of israel from the map thus there is little confidence in i the security councils truce plan and its power to effect peace and that pessimism was heightened by the knowledge that no UN edict has worked yet I 1 aside from the seriousness of the struggle for palestine itself deepest significance of the affair lay in the fact that it is raising once more the old question of whether any world peace organization of nations ever can succeed in the task it sets for itself the maintenance of peace and order on earth pressure of world opinion which Is all the UX UN security council can bring to bear lacking both military teeth and the power to bring economic sanctions against offending nations apparently is not going to be enough at least in the case of palestine one inference which may b be a drawn is that the UN will need more power of one kind or another before it can prevail against the fetish of blind militant nationalism that has hurled the world into two major major wars already in this century PRESIDENT about russia forsaking for the moment the political whiplash he has been using on CO congress n 9 ress during his western to tour ur president truman issued a major enunciation of US foreign policy bounded on oil all sides by an indictment of russian tactics in a speech at berkeley calif his address was the clearest cut answer thus far made to the recent spurious but widely publicized soviet offer to talk over russian american differences and the issues of the cold war although the soviet overture patently bad been made as a last ditch effort to derail the european recovery program and also slow down I 1 bingo 1 4 01 01 1 R g in addition to taking rapid fire pot shots at congress during Us his points west tour president truman sharpened up his target eye by blazing away at some clay pigeons on eta bis stopover at sun sim valley ida in contrast to congressmen gress in an the clay pigeons snipe back the US U S military preparedness pro gram it undoubtedly carried a great propaganda impact abroad andio and to a smaller extent inside the US president Tr berkeley peach was a creditable reply his theme was that the soviet union Is acting as an aggressor and 0 ot of world peace and he postulated the tha theory that there Is no likelihood ot of settling disputes between the two nations by negotiation otla so long as russia continues continue to wield international communism as a weapon to influence the course of 0 world events The American intent he said bald Is to deal with the east west cleavage by deeds not propaganda we shall judge the valley policy ot of every nation by whether it advances or obstructs world progress toward peace and we wish our own policy to be judged by the same standard As a measuring stick tor for th that at principle mr truman suggested that russia begin the tha demonstration ot of her good intentions if any by halting the tha perilous strife in greece and korea thus both americans and russians r know where the US stood and from this side of the ocean it looked to be as good a place as any DRAFT draff machinery peacetime selective service actually a lly had been all but a reality tor for months before president truman put his signature to the draft bill the geart gears wheels and levers ot of the draft machine needed but a flick ol of the linger to start turning out citizen soldiers forthe benefit ot of the nation so much spadework has been done that the tha office 0 of selective service ser ic e hu records estimated that it could have ve inductees on the way in 60 to SO go days after the tha law becomes effective those ls 19 to 25 year olds eligible for service can expect something like this there will be no hoopla hoop la or goldfish sh bowl drawings instead of being determined by lottery the order of induction probably will be figured out according to age groups it Is likely that 21 year olds will start the proceedings after the registration all men over 21 and under 22 would be classified those not exempt would be put into class IA as eligible tor for immediate induction whether the tha first age group selected would ba exhausted before another is caller called up had not yet been decided military authorities estimate that about two out ot of every three men in the 19 through bracket who are single and aon en veterans will have to serve erve in the arm army Y navy air fore force or marines marine either as or volunteers roughly th there e r a are about single in that age group th aba a wh whole ole business will have a familiar ring tor for americans americana who can without hall half trying remember the tha details connected with getting an army together for world war II 11 U N SITE changeable not that its an original idea but another move is reported to be getting under way quietly to switch the united nations headquarters from the U S geneva switzerland is being mentioned as the substitute site although nations supporting the idea are taking no open steps and are confining their efforts currently to laying groundwork tor for the real drive which may be expected to emerge this tall fall at the paris assembly i the whole plan might go down the drain however it if congress were to approve the 65 million dollar loan to the UN tor for building the projected skyscraper headquarters in manhattan As usual there Is a play of forces force behind the scones scenes on this question the arab states dav favor or moving the UN to europe primarily because they are bitter over the success zionist jews have had in influent ing the tha US britain originally wanted a euro site and might under certain certai rf conditions revert to that stand russia another question mark is expected to grasp the opportunity to attack the US for failure to kee keep p promises should congress fall to approve the loin loan AID CASH and politics although its funds were still in a state of confusion as a result of a combination of congressional economy am y and GOP political machinations the economic cooperation administration nevertheless managed me n to toss off the biggest b bundle of foreign relief cash so tar far paul G hoffman hoefman ECA administrator approved the assignment of for 10 european countries including trieste and china the action brought total marshall plan authorizations from available funds to countries Cou sharing in the new a approvals p were great britain the netherlands france french zone of germany austria denmark italy it aly norway greece trieste and china the assignment of almost 88 96 million dollars in foreign aid funds served to point up the squabble set off in congress when the house voted to spread the recovery funds over 13 months instead of at 12 thereby b Y producing the effect effe ct of 0 f slashing aid appropriations by one to two billion dollars while the senate restored the appropriations cut many US leaders were gravely worried about another possible significance of the house action theory was that the house by cutting ECA appropriations demonstrated that republican organization bosses are determined to tight fight and reverse if possible the line ot of forel foreign git policy represented by the marshall plan it was thought to be part of a larger plan to gain control of the republican party and to defeat the new postwar GOP leaders dewey stassen and warren by chipping chip pink away the cornerstone of the foreign policy they all profess the situation had the outward appearance of chaos but behind it lurked the business of playing election year politics while permitting the rest of the world to go hang MIDDLE INCOME 2920 any american family which could add up the wages it received in 1942 and get 2920 for toe the total had bad earned a middle income according to the way the federal reserve board has it figured out that middle income up from 1946 incidentally means that halt half of all the 42 million US families made more than that while the other half made less about 69 per cent or families had a joint income of 2000 or more last year by contrast in the mid fewer than 66 million families had incomes at that level but a dollar bought considerably sider ably more then than it does now twenty one out of each families rated incomes above in 1947 while eight of that group got more than a year however not all were in the top money of each families milles fa incomes under 1000 and another 18 earned between 1000 and 2000 but even many of the well to do were unhappy about the whole thing they felt that they were becoming worse ot off financially because of the high cost of living according to the fe federal deral reserve boards sample survey those persons who own their own business or manage somebody alses earn the most money middle income for families headed by a managerial or self employed person was next on the list were professional workers with a middle income of skilled and semiskilled semi skilled workers followed with clerks and salespeople with 2900 2000 and unskilled workers with 1800 |