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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS : South Receives Wallace Xlvih Fory; CiO Pledges to Support President; Berlin Meetings hhy End Stalemate By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are eipresttd In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) Crowd Fury i ;. i ' "-. i '. - "' gkeek crisis: Relieved Few U. S. forays into the field of international aid have been so widely condemned and excoriated as the so-called "Truman doctrine" j for economic help to Greece and j Turkey. Almost since its inception the ! "Truman doctrine" has been de- j nounced as a fraud, a farce and a flop. Much of the denunciation, however, seemed to be based on opinion rather than fact. Actually, for a long time it was almost im- possible to assess the condition of i the Greek aid program. Now the government has come out with a report to congress that j states bluntly that American mili- j tary and economic aid has removed the danger of Greece falling to i communism. j "While not all the problems in , Greece are solved, the crisis of 18 ! months ago has been averted," one official said. "The aid program in Greece is over the hump." The report, submitted by President Presi-dent Truman and covering the first ! year of American efforts to keep j Greece free, embodied virtually the first optimism anyone has expressed ex-pressed regarding the picture in Greece. So far does this optimism extend that Greece now is accepted officially of-ficially as the "bright spot" in American attempts to help other nations resist the onslaughts of communism. In Asia and other European Eu-ropean countries the anti-communist battle is not considered won. Government emphasis, of course, is on the fact that the task in Greece still is not done. Between 15,000 and 17,000 Greek guerrillas remain at large despite recent successes suc-cesses by government forces. And guerrilla action may continue for several years, depending on the amount of aid received by the rebels from Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Briefly, the official success story of the Greek effort claims that the nation's wild inflation has been resisted, re-sisted, the cost of living is dropping, drop-ping, about 1,000 miles of key roads have been reconstructed and the vital Corinth canal is open to traffic. Love in Bloom? Henry Wallace, Progressive party candidate for President, has discovered that the penalty for espousing political Ideas that differ dif-fer sharply from the majority opinion is hatred. Speaking at Greensboro. N. C, he was pelted with epgs and vegetables which probably Is just another form of freedom of expression. BERLIN: Some Talk That sound of sabers rattling in Berlin meant this time that the disputants in the fight over control of the German capital were merely laying down their swords to get together to-gether and talk about it once more. Tension lifted almost visibly when the Big Four military governors gover-nors of Germany met for the first time in more than five months to discuss a single currency for Berlin Ber-lin and the lifting of the Soviet blockade of the city. The meeting was called in the first place to implement decisions reached by the American, British and French ambassadors with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in Moscow. At least the Moscow talks had accomplished that much. Topping the list of items for discussion dis-cussion was the problem of what to do about the rival currencies in Berlin. At present both eastern and western zone marks are circulating in the city. It was understood that the conferees con-ferees in Moscow previously had agreed in principle that only the Soviet zone mark should circulate in Berlin, but that it should be under four-power control. There were still conflicting attitudes atti-tudes as to what course the Berlin parley should take, however. The Russians believed that an agreement on getting a single currency cur-rency must be worked out before any final East-West agreement on Berlin can be possible. In Washington the U. S. state department, de-partment, backed by Great Britain and France, was insisting that the Soviets must lift the Berlin blockade block-ade before any discussion of the currency problem is held. The whole situation was extremely extreme-ly complex and, actually, fey, persons per-sons outside of high official circles made any pretense of being able to understand it fully. About as far as general understanding under-standing of the subject went, It was limited to the realization that unless un-less an agreement were reached soon the tortured peace would become be-come more dangerously strained. Headliners i !V7 ; M kniiMsjiimmn' inn w . - i.,iSJas&..ii WALLACE: Pure Hate Henry Wallace claimed that his expansive love for his fellow men had not been diminished by his experiences ex-periences in the South, but it stood as a fact that the ramparts of that abiding affection must have undergone under-gone a severe test. As the Progressive party's presidential presi-dential candidate Wallace had gallantly gal-lantly penetrated into the southern states to bring them his brand of enlightenment. But the crusader was not appreciated. appre-ciated. He was received in North Carolina by hostile audiences who showered him with invective, vilification, vili-fication, eggs and tomatoes. His speeches were blanked out by boos and catcalls in Winston-Salem, Durham, Burlington, Greensboro and Charlotte, N. C. Wallace was stunned with unbelief at what was happening to him. In Burlington, where the full force of North Carolina's vituperative vitupera-tive mood was unleashed, the former for-mer vice president was not even given a chance to talk. He was unable un-able to do anything except dodge missiles and plead with the furious citizens closest to him that things like this were not supposed to happen hap-pen in the United States. It was an ugly display of bad taste that spread hysterically from town to town as Wallace's tour progressed. The egg and tomato , tossing was severely criticized by top U. S. officials, including President Presi-dent Truman who called it "highly un-American business," and said: "Mr. Wallace is entitled to say his piece the same as any other ' American." Nevertheless, in North Carolina Wallace's say was confined for the most part to protestations against the treatment he was receiving. At Greensboro, with egg shell clinging to his head, he shouted: "I don't mind being hit by eggs and tomatoes, but they would be more useful being fed to children. "The faces I have seen distorted by hatred are of people for whom I have in my heart profound compassion, com-passion, because most of them have not enough to eat." The crowd laughed at him. And as Wallace left North Carolina Caro-lina to head into Alabama and Mississippi Mis-sissippi it looked as though he might be able to use some "profound compassion" com-passion" for himself, for his racial views are opposed even more violently vi-olently in those states. BACKING: For Truman As the two major presidential candidates prepared to swing their campaigns into full career in preparation prep-aration for the November elections, some good news popped up for President Truman. The CIO officially threw its support sup-port to the Democratic ticket and pledged the organization to work for his election. That was the way the CIO had written itself on the political books this year, but the action left the organization simmering with internal inter-nal discord. Bitter protests of 12 left-wing union un-ion leaders had had to be overcome before the CIO could cast its lot with Truman and Barkley. The dissenting dis-senting unions wanted to support Wallace, and they had their way Insofar as the resolution adopted by the group was easy in its criticism of the Progressive party's candidate. candi-date. GOP nominee Thomas E. Dewey, however, was condemned as "the candidate of big business." The Dixiecrats, headed by Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were shrugged off in the resolution as a coalition of Democrats and "do-nothing "do-nothing Republicans" that has "steadfastly adhered to the philosophy philos-ophy of the National Association of Manufacturers." The pro-Truman resolution by the CIO executive board did not necessarily neces-sarily mean total support for the President, however. Philip Murray, CIO president, said that the 12 dissenting dis-senting unions are not bound by the majority decision to back Mr. Truman. Tru-man. "Any union still may exercise its right to do what it wants," he said. That meant, apparently, that the leadership of at least 12 CIO unions, numbering more than a million members, would continue to labor in behalf of Wallace, while 30 other unions with about 5.5 million members mem-bers would go to work for the Democratic Dem-ocratic party. British tongues and heartstrings are vibrating with rumors of a romantic association (that's what it is when royalty Is involved) between Princess Margaret Rose, youngest daughter of the king and queen, and the marquis of Bland-ford, Bland-ford, a fair-haired yng nobleman. noble-man. Her parents have yet to pass judgment on him, however DEATH CAME: Charles E. Hughes Regally bearded Charles Evans Hughes came within a whisker of being elected the 27th President of the United States in 1918. At that time he was a crusty, unbending, academic man, and it was probably because of that temperament tem-perament that he lost the presidential presi-dential race to Woodrow Wilson in one of the closest elections in history his-tory 277 electoral votes to 254. California's vote was the deciding factor in the final result and Hughes lost that when he incensed the California Cali-fornia governor by failing to visit him while on a tour of the state. But Charles E. Hughes was, nevertheless, nev-ertheless, as near to being a great man as most people ever get. And he mellowed with time. He was the only American ever to be appointed twice to the U. S. supreme court once in 1910 and again in 1930 when he returned to preside as chief justice. Ho was twice governor of New York, his native state, resigning the position during his second term to become a supreme court associate asso-ciate justice. In July, 1941, he retired from the supreme bench to withdraw into private life. Between that time and August of this year he made only one public appearance to attend the funeral services of Harlan Fiske Stone, another chief justice, in April, 1946. Late last month Charles Evans Hughes, 86 years old, died of congestive con-gestive heart failure. , - , IN GARLAND, TEX. ... A campaign-minded hatmaker was offering offer-ing edible candy headgear (above) for reckless election bettors who vow to eat their hats if their candidate can-didate loses. IN ROCHESTER, N. H. . . . Raymond Ray-mond Beaulieu, fined $73 in municipal munici-pal court for operating an unregistered unreg-istered automobile, sold his car to raise money to pay the fine. IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. . . . Robert H. Smith was granted a divorce when he testified that his wife, enraged because he didn't know how to dance the polka, slapped and kicked him until his weight dropped from 165 pounds to 140. |