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Show NEWS REVIEW Urge Food Conservation; New Battle Shakes U.N. DIATETICS: Waste Less Lips that sincerely frame the words "food conservation" will not touch such sturdy edibles as meat, poultry and eggs quite so often hereafter. Charles Luckman, head of President Presi-dent Truman's citizens food committee, com-mittee, opened the widely heralded "waste less" campaign by calling on the American people to cut their consumption of those three items, thereby effecting a conservation of grain for Europe. At the same time, it was disclosed that stop-gap aid for Europe this winter may run as much as 800 million mil-lion dollars 220 million more that Mr. Truman had estimated earner. The appeal for Americans to cut down on the amount of foods requiring requir-ing grain feeding was couched in a five-point program which, if followed, fol-lowed, will eliminate the traditional race for the last chop on the platter it won't be there. Those five diatetio commandments command-ments were: 1) Buy cheaper meat cuts) 2) Don't serve too much; 3) Don't overcook meat; 4) Use leftovers; 5) Save wheat in all other possible ways. In the future was the possibility that a voluntary program of meatless meat-less days and a reduction in the size of bread ki'ilcj;jbe. rj'jt, Uitu fffttTct- ' y NEW L IGHT: Recalls Yalta In the U. N. another scarehead of possible failure and collapse of that organization arose as the U. S. and Russia plunged into a new skirmish. skirm-ish. The issue: Which nation shall succeed suc-ceed pro-Russian Poland on the security se-curity council. Poland has represented represent-ed eastern Europe and the Slav bloc for two years. Russia wants the Ukraine, which, although an integral inte-gral part of the Soviet Union, have a separate U. N. delegation. U. S. contention is that the Ukraine is not a sovereign nation, therefore does not rate a separate status. In the background of the affair was the Stalin - Roosevelt Yalta agreement which gave the Soviet Union three votes in the United Nations. Na-tions. Russia proper, the Ukraine and White Russia each has one. How the U.S.S.R. came to get three votes probably happened something like this: Both the Ukraine and White Russia, intensely intense-ly nationalistic, did not like to lose their identities by being merged with greater Russia. The Communist politburo, therefore, as a sop to their nationalism, granted the two territories a sort of nominal independence. inde-pendence. At Yalta, then, Stalin told Roosevelt Roose-velt that he wanted the Ukraine and White Russia to be represented repre-sented in the U. N. for "internal reasons.',' F.Q.R., being an old politician poli-tician and sympathetic with "internal" "inter-nal" difficulties, agreed. Thus, the stage was set for one of the most serious battles yet to develop within the United Nations. |
