Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS arabs and jews go back to war As UN trude truce fails in palestine truman Us farm price support by bill Scho enten WM staff writer COI TOIlS when ate cpr d 1 in these theae columns tb they ey are thos choie ol of western newspaper union now new an analytis tl ysis and not nol necessarily of 0 this FAILURE U N truce there was not peace but once more a sword in palestine the united nations truce had failed As the tour four week interruption of hosti hostilities hostility lit es between arabs and jews dragged somberly through its final hours c combatants omba tants on both sides were making preparations to resume warfare they had tailed failed to come to terms and that tha t failure arose out of the fact that tha t there had existed no political or social basis upon which a peace agreement could be tested rested nor were either the jews or arabs particularly eager to create one their attitude throughout the truce negotiations had been that the contest over whether the state of israel should be allowed to exist must necessarily be a hat flat win or lose battle with no middle ground solution possible count folke bernadotte UN mediator med lator in palestine had tried hard but he had had to carry out his negotiations in what ml might t be termed a spiritual vacuum be between the jews and arabs there a simply was no meeting of minds upon which he might hive have capitalized before the truce expired bernadotte had endeavored to get it extended and continue the negotiations israel had agreed to such an extension but the arab league opposed it previously during the lost last days day 3 of the truce the arabs had rejected a plan submitted by bernadotte which included an extensive revision of the now defunct UN partition scheme Berna dottes proposal would have restored the area of palestine to what it was before trans jordan was separated from it and that total area then would have b been een partitioned into independent arab and jewish states the plan as presented had bad a ring of desperation in it it must have been obvious even to bernadotte na dotte that the arabs would not accept such a scheme particularly since they had violently opposed the original UN partition idea trans boidan was especially antagonistic to the plan insisting that it would put the nation under at least partial jurisdiction of the united nations thus making it no better than a dependent state As bernadotte and his staff left palestine guns already were firing and the holy land had relapsed into a condition of war FARM BILL price support to the accompaniment of his now customary blast at the congress president truman signed into law a farm arm bill that extends present price support policies for or 15 months and establishes a long range flexible support program to begin january 1 1350 1950 signing the bill the president said 1 I wish to make it plain once again that legislation for or price supports Is only part of 0 the action this congress should have taken to meet the problems of 0 american agriculture thus he was not criticizing the farm price support bill in itself but rather giving another rerun re run to the familiar theme whereby he has been castigating casti gating congress for or doing a little when a lot more was needed congress he said failed to enact legislation to strengthen the soil conservation program it did not provide the necessary funds for or marketing research it did not act on the international wheat agreement it failed ailed he specified to meet the serious problems of rural housing health and education in the field of agriculture as in so many others most of the business of the edth congress was left led unfinished mr truman observed under the extension bill farm arm prices generally will be supported at their present levels however the support price for or cotton will drop from rom 92 to SO 00 per cent of parity the idea behind parity farm arm prices is to insure the farmer armer the same buying power compared with the rest of 0 the community that he had during a favorable adorable avo rable crop period asua usua usually the standard interval upon which parity prices are based are the live five years from rom 1909 to 1914 five other ba basic sic crops will continue to be supported at BO 90 per cent of 0 parity they are wheat corn rice peanuts and tobacco BERLIN trouble As U S planes continued to fly tons of food into beleaguered beleaguer ed berlin the east west stalemate over over germany was solidifying in a stubborn mold the russian blockade of berlin had brought the painful german issue to a head and both the soviets and the western powers were anticipating that events might begin to move very rapidly soon there were these developments the communists announced that they were drawing up a constitution for a german republic and also a two year plan to link berlin economically no with the soviet zone at the same time on the tree free side of the iron curtain german political leaders were expressing their opposition to the western powers plans for a west garman german federal government in berlin power cuts were ordered in the three western sectors of the city to save the dwindling coal stocks the action was taken despite the fact that coal shipments had begun to arrive by air key to the situation perhaps was the communist proposal tor for a new constitution the soviet spon bored german peoples congress of eastern germany announced that the document would be official in a statement the group said that germany Is an indivisible republic made up of states and that executive power stems from the people that appeared to bring soviet intentions tent ions more or less out to in the open it means that russia apparently is determined either to force the western democracies out of berlin or bludgeon them into an agreement whereby the soviets would be in virtual control of the city republican changes I 1 if although the presidency of the united states still Is far from a reality tor for gov thomas E dewey of new york the republican nominee nevertheless Is giving considerable thought to some of the problems that will face ace him if he does get elected to the office s if for instance he Is t to 0 make good his promise to sweep out IS 18 years of democratic cobwebs from the federal government these are some of the tasks he will be expected to perform replace hundreds of officials in washington and all over the nation with men of his choice who will put his policies into effect establish with congress a coordinated program of policies for all federal departments both foreign and domestic dor streamline government functions and eliminate duplications duplication in the present structure of alphabetical agencies and bureaus it will be a gigantic task policies iches that a republican president would have to establish would range through the current con conduct duct of foreign affairs domestic spending of taxpayers money federal relations with private business labor and industry housing veterans agriculture and social improvements then there will be the matter of choosing a 8 cabinet that will be geographically representative of the entire nation PRICES up again consumers price index formerly called the cost ot of living index for or mid may this year rose 8 6 percent above that for or mid april to reach a new all time high according to figures released by national industrial conference board expressed in 1923 dollars the purchasing power of 0 the dollar stood at cents centa in may mat that depre sintra se ants a drop ofa ot 6 pr per cent from april and 74 per cent from tro mJune june 1947 RAILROADS RAILROAD Ss no strike federal judge T alan goldshor i ough was vas riot not a man jostand to stand idly I 1 by and watch society disint disintegrate emte a as he termed it go ho he bissu issued d an I 1 injunction forbidding a a national rail strike the injunction was a permanent one replacing the e temporary no strike order he issued last may alter after the government govern nent had seized the railroads in the lace face ol of an impending strike stride by the three operating brotherhoods brothe justifying his action goldsborough said that if 11 he be had not issued the order the whole economic and political system of the nation would be upset although rail unions had bad protested that a perma permanent injunction was unnecessary goldsborough Goldsborou gb said they could not be permitted to adopt a process which will disintegrate society itself that held true he pointed outs out regardless of whatever merits the unions case might hold hold our political influence throughout the world would be done away with wed become a laughing stock to permit a strike ol of this kind Is something society should not be forced to tolerate but as the stalemate dragged on the disputants apparently lost some ot of their zest for the contest finally a series of conferences arranged by john R steelman P presidential res ident ial assistant resulted in i a more or less amicable settlement the unions agreed to accept a wage increase of 15 cents an hour plus some changes in operating rules chortled president truman as he called the labor and management representatives into his office you did this on your own hook and I 1 feel very good about it I 1 congratulate all of you on it CYCLES freezing people who are addicted to the theory that human existence Is defined by cycles have made a horrendous prediction this will be a world of dictators for the next years that prognostication was made in a 1 I law aw of growth of nations published h ed by the foundation tor for the study of cycles this law indicates further that after the period of dictators will come a static or frozen civilization this frozen civilization probably will be a happy one but it la is nevertheless doomed to deteriorate the end Is foreseen when younger be peoples oples eager for the loot of the world rise to give the coup de grace to the emasculated western powers who these younger peoples are Is not revealed they may be a fresh group of barbarians or near barbarians who will come sweeping down from the north or up from the south |