OCR Text |
Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Indian Troops Invade Hyderabad, Endanger Country's Shaky Peace; Russia Confuses Crisis in Berlin I By Bill Schoentgon, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinion are expressed In these columns, they are those ot Western Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper.) The Last Mogul BIG FOUR: Or Little 11? The U. S. government's T-"lacu-lar suit against the "big four" meal packing companies Swift. Armour, Cudahy and Wilson promised to b one of the biggest anti-trust action.' since President Theodore Roosevelt said something about carrying a big stick. Filed by the justice department ir federal court in Chicago, the suit asks that the four companies b broken up into 14 separate firms. Specifically, the U. S. wants Swifl and Armour to be carved into five separate companies each and Wilson and Cudahy each to be split into twj firms. TOM CLARK, attorney general, said in a statement: "The four defendants de-fendants named in the complaint are charged with suppressing competition competi-tion in thf sale of meat and meal products." The Sherman anti-trusl law is being invoked in the action. Clark described the suit as "another "an-other in a series of cases instituted by the department of justice in furtherance fur-therance of its program to free the production and sale of food and food products from monopolistic restraints." re-straints." THE PACKERS had another story to tell, however, with "playing politics" poli-tics" as one of their key phrases. Said John Holmes, president oi Swift and company: "It is significant that the charges appear at the beginning be-ginning of this fall's political campaign. cam-paign. Apparently an attempt is being be-ing made to shift responsibility for inflationary price trends. "No one can control either livestock live-stock prices or meat prices," Holmes fumed. INFRA-RED: Frost Killer The day or night of the old fashioned fash-ioned smudge pot as the main buffer buf-fer between plants and killing frost may be nearing an end. Science has taken over to come up with a new kind of frost killer, development of which was sponsored by the American Iron and Steel institute. in-stitute. THE CONTRAPTION, known as the Plymouth infra-red lamp, is in a fair way to affect materially the nation's agricultural system, the institute in-stitute thinks. Reporting on the new device, the INVASION: Hyderabad Events in India were a far cry from the days when Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of passive diplomacy prevailed among the affairs af-fairs of that sub-continent. Indian troops, strongly supported by armored units, had invaded the princely state of Hyderabad (see map) whose Moslem ruler called the Nizam had refused to join with the other Indlpji dominions even though Hyderabad's population is predominantly Hindu. THAT WAS THE whole story. The Nizam and his small, compact Moslem Mos-lem court would not agree to follow the other Indian princely states in acceding to the Dominion of India which was established last year. The Nizam, often called the richest rich-est man in the world, and the only surviving heir of the great Mogul empire, wanted to rule an independent independ-ent hyderabad. Whether he could have succeeded In doing that, even if the dominion government had not opened hostilities hostili-ties against him, is questionable. Hyderabad is completely landlocked and has no access to the sea except by courtesy of the states surrounding surround-ing it All of its imports and exports, therefore, must pass through India. WHILE HYDERABAD might profess pro-fess its independence as a state, chances are that the economic and political conditions of actual independence inde-pendence never could be achieved. Can India's invasion of Hyderabad be justified? Not too easily, if at all. t was not a matter of sending a police force into the state to quell internal disorders. It was, apparently, apparent-ly, a deliberate act of aggression and as such should go before the U. N. security council for judgment. From a practical standpoint there was not only no need for the invasion inva-sion but there is an actual danger Sir Mir Osman All Khan, sometimes some-times called the richest man in the world, is the Nizam of Hyderabad, Hydera-bad, land-locked princely state in India which was attacked by India's dominion troops. ful solution was getting buried deeper deep-er and deeper. That all this confusion was being fostered deliberately by the Soviets was quite evident. Their purpose for so doing was more obscure. THE RUSSIANS want full control of Berlin, taking that as their immediate im-mediate objective. Ultimately they want to force American occupation troops completely out of Germany, after which Russia could take over the great German industrial potential, poten-tial, including the inestimably valuable valu-able Ruhr section. However, there might be still another an-other reason for this display of Soviet So-viet diplomatic aggression which was planned almost a year ago to erupt this fall. The Russians might be trying to harass the western nations to the point where the entire Berlin issue O MEW DELHI p INDIA ,lcw, I HYDERABAD ? J V IF 4 will be dumped in the lap of the United Nations. Once the crisis comes under U. N. jurisdiction the Russians might plan to use the inevitable in-evitable squabble as a pretext for resigning from the world organization organiza-tion and taking their satellite states with them. THE EAST-WEST split into two opposing power spheres then would be complete. Moreover, the U. N. itself probably would be reduced to total impotency jn guiding international interna-tional affairs. And the question of whether the Soviet Union is entertaining motives like these might be answered by the end of the year. For the western nations were determined that if they didn't get some satisfaction from Moscow soon they would arraign Russia before the United Nations this fall. COTTON: Lift Dat Bale With the largest cotton crop since 1937 being harvested this year, Uncle Sam is making ready to stage a comeback in the cotton buying business. institute pomiea out mat wnne iarm ers will find the lamp invaluable in saving crops during the first touches of frost, the growing season actually actual-ly may be extended as techniques for its use are developed. Dr. Arthur W. Farrell of Michigan Mich-igan State college, one of the men responsible for development of the infra-red machine, cited an example: exam-ple: "On September 2, 1946, to take one example, Michigan had a two-hour two-hour killing frost. The next frost did not occur until October 1, a month later. Had tomato and melor. growers been able to protect theii crops for about two hours on the morning of September 2, they would have had four more weeks of very favorable growing weather. As il was, they lost everything. "THE FROST dispeller, made up of sheet steel and a little ingenuity, will put an end to some of nature's nonsense." The lamp is composed of a circular cir-cular piece of stainless steel, shaped in cone-shaped steps, with an oil burner within the framework. When the burner is put into action, the steel heats until it becomes cherry-red. cherry-red. At this point, infra-red rays are thrown off, spreading over the area to be warmed, even entering the ground in their intensity. Involved. There are no linguistic or racial differences between Hyderabad's Hyder-abad's Hindus and the Hindus of adjacent ad-jacent states. The boundaries of Hyderabad are arbitrary and historical, his-torical, not dependent upon the geography ge-ography of the vicinity. INDIA MIGHT well have refrained from pushing the issue for a year or two, pending a peaceful settlement. The potential danger lies in two phases of the situation: 1. THE HYDERABAD war might prove to be the factor that will pre- Heodliners Of the 15,219,000 bales to come off the land, the cotton trade estimates that about a third will go into storage stor-age under federal loan. TWENTY -ONE MILLION people in the United States depend on cotton cot-ton for their livelihood, and the fate of the cotton crop, therefore, is not only a personal but a national concern. con-cern. The federal government is coming com-ing into the picture because cotton prices are coming down. They have reached 31.04 cents a pound, which is pretty close to the support floor of 30.74 cents. Here's what happens: WHEN THE COTTON grower hauls his crop to the warehouse he gets a receipt for it, and then he either sells the cotton at the market price or accepts the government's standing offer to lend him money on it. If he chooses to accept the loan, he is paid 30.74 cents a pound on the average the exact price depending on the kind and quality of the cotton. Then he is free, for one year, to sell the cotton for more money, provided pro-vided the price goes up. If he doesn't sell it within a year the government becomes owner of the crop. PROBABLE EFFECT of this operation oper-ation will be to keep a lot of cotton off the market this year, thus preventing pre-venting the price from dropping through the support floor. Also, it will result in the- government's ending end-ing the year with several million bales of cotton on its hands. cipitate violent conflict between Hindu and Moslem Pakistan, whose more or less peaceful relations now are strained and uneasy. 2. IT IS A BLOW to the British Commonwealth, to which both India and Pakistan still belong. With the Russians acting the way they are, any disturbance of the delicate balance bal-ance of power that still prevails in the East could bring still another catastrophe down upon the world. RUSSIANS: Fantastic Not even the most starry-eyed Pollyana could deny that the U. S.Soviet S.-Soviet fracas over Berlin was downright down-right fantastic and getting more so every day. The whole thing simply had stopped making sense, even to many of the diplomats who were embroiled in the situation. WHAT CHANCE was there for any logical kind of peace when, even while western diplomats were in Moscow attempting to work out a formula with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, the Russians in Berlin were inciting riots, kidnapping western sector policemen and firing on American planes engaged in the airlift? air-lift? One complication was being piled on top of another, with the ensuing result that any possibility of a peace- IN PAS. DEN A . . . Michael Beal, 83, (above) received a 30-day suspended sus-pended sentence for being drunk and disturbing the peace after he had propelled his wheelchair up and" down sidewalks at a furious rate oi speed, hurling invective and profanity profan-ity at all comers. IN GREAT FALLS, Mont. . . . Members Mem-bers of the Cascade county Democratic Demo-cratic central committee voiced nc objection when Ray Wise, a Republican, Repub-lican, submitted his resignation after being elected Democratic precincl committeeman. IN EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. . . . A. L. Webb cleaned out his desk, came across a letter his wife had giver him to mail 11 years ago, shuddered at the possible consequences, finali mailed the letter. BLIMP: Biggest Yet Biggest blimp the U S. navy evet ordered and the first to be contracted for since the war soon will be undei construction at the Goodyear Aircraft Air-craft corporation in Akron, Ohio the U. S. navy bureau of aeronautic: has announced. The ship will have a helium capacity capac-ity of 825.000 cubic feet and ar empty weight of about 34.000 pounds It will be 324 feet long, 71 feet wid and 92 feet high. |