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Show I The Observations Of Mr. Jones Secretary of State Marshall led the attack against i Communistic Russia and its satellites at the very beginning of the meetings of the. General Assembly of the United Nations, and he arraigned the Soviet Union for its course, which he charged was blocking the peace and stability of the World and which must be stopped stop-ped before it could wreck the United Nations. He asked the General Assembly to take drastic dras-tic action to end Soviet "ob-; "ob-; structionism." I The Russians came back and 1 spread all the filth and dirt that they could collect, going even .so far as to. call a member of the American delegation a "warmonger." "war-monger." There is no question but what a crisis has been reached at Flushing Meadows where fifty-Ifive fifty-Ifive member Nations are battling batt-ling with-questions that are unparalleled un-paralleled in diplomatic affairs. The eYitire American press has lined up in support of the proposals pro-posals agreed upon by the United Unit-ed States: and more than fifty Nations, with only a few, Communistic Com-munistic f satellites supporting Russia. While all may not be going well with the United Nations, it is nevertheless clear that action will be taken to deny the power of veto which Russia has used to tie up the United Nations for two years., The top organization will rid itself of these frothy obstructions, ob-structions, precipitated by the Russians, and transfer the windjammers wind-jammers to a minor committee. In short, hopes are brightening brighten-ing for the success of the Marshall Mar-shall Plan. General Marshall has, himself, carried the fight to the Russians, and before many moons the United Nations will have the Commies licked out of their boots. That's because we are 100 per cent right, and Soviets 101 per cent wrong. i The President will not be criticized criti-cized if he calls a special session of Congress on his own responsibility respon-sibility for the purposes which he has stated, "aiding France and Italy to survive this critical winter win-ter as free and independent nations." . At the present time wide differences dif-ferences in public opinion exist throughout the Nation as to what ought to be done about aid to Western Europe, and other international in-ternational affairs and problems. Inasmuch as President Truman is definitely in favor of continuing continu-ing the flow of American relief to European countries, there is no question but wnat it is up to him to decide, without waiting for he views of certain branches of the 'Congress, among whose members ' there are wide differences differ-ences of opinion upon these issues. is-sues. ! The United States Government buys a tremendous amount of grain and food products and ships it abroad to feed hungry foreigners. for-eigners. Inasmuch as the Government Govern-ment is the largest single purchaser pur-chaser of farm products it naturally nat-urally pays top prices, that keep on getting higher all the time. The guy that gets punished is the American consumer. It is very easy to second the statement state-ment that "the housewife and her Government are competitors in the Nation's food market." Everybody, except brutal Russia, Rus-sia, wants to help the stricken nations of Europe get back in their old stride and look after themselves. And a good many -of us share the positive belief that America's own housewives, especially es-pecially those with a limited family fam-ily income, should have the preference pre-ference in prices even though the Secretary of Agriculture is the modern Santa Claus for hungry foreigners. The United States didn't make this war. The United States won the European and Asiatic wars. And in the individual opinion of this Washington correspondent, our poor, and underpaid people of the United States should not be crushed under the weight of unreasonable and unfair food prices. Uncle Sam's Rural Electrification Electrifi-cation Administration has put' the okay on loans totaling 2 million mil-lion dollars to the States of Ari- zona, Florida, .Missouri, Ohio' Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma to complete construction of 1,-075 1,-075 miles of distribution lines will serve 4,693 farms and other rural establishments. Rural electrification is the greatest and most successful program pro-gram that is being pushed by the Department of Agriculture. This service is cheaper and claims to be equal or better than privately financed electrification programs carried on by the big boys in the electrical industry. |