Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSES GOP convention hands unanimous nomination Hom mation to dewey in display of harmony warren second choice on ticket EDITORS NOTE when opinions L jr expressed in these her columns they are ah those ose ot of western newspaper unions news analysts analysis and not necea rily of 0 this newspaper by BILL staff writer out of the smoke blurred rooms during the recess before the third roll call came the word it was dewey first again with the medicine men from the very beginning of the GOP convention in the swe sweltering liering confines of philadelphian Phila delphias convention hall it was a simple cas case se of dewey against the field the field was composed of taft stassen warren and macarthur plus a scattering of favorite sons despite some frenetic jockeying tor for delegates by dewey taft and stassen over the weekend week end preceding the convention the big three of the GOP started out on monday with their pre convention alignments unchanged abut S but by the time gov dwight green of illinois had finished with his keynote address monday night it was apparent that a stop dewey movement was struggling to get under way As it turned out that movement never did get beyond the struggling stage and dewey remained virtually the only one unaffected by it in retrospect the convention by that time already had assumed an inexorable course toward the dewey camp second guessers guessels gu essers maintained that the whole affair oozed along as if motivated by tome gorne fundamental and changeless law although that was not fully evident until the convention could be viewed as a finished product it if there was vas a fundamental law it was compounded from a series of heterogeneous factors facto rs political and personal first of all there was the superbly functioning dewey machine operating with almost per cent efficiency fici ency to corral votes secondly the dewey opposition was divided taft and stassen poles apart in their political philosophy within t the h e republican party could not get together stassen flatly refused a deal and taft kept waiting lor for a break that never came Cali fornias gov earl warren refused to have a hand in a stop dewey drive insisted he was running tor for the nomination and not just against dewey added to the confusion by remaining tt silent ilent noncommittal and even dis L ite te rested nomination actual climax of the convention came when sen edward martin ot of pennsylvania renounced his favorite son candidacy and threw his support backed by about halt half the members ot of pennsylvanian Pennsyl 73 delegates to dewey that started the blitzkrieg from then on it was dewey and downhill all the way As the crucial balloting began in A A i FIX IS A GOVERNOR DEWEY AND FAMILY they avant a neav tveite house humid hurnie steaming convention hall ball it became more evident that a stop dewey coalition had not jelled belled on the first roll call it was dewey taft stassen on the second ballot dewey had gone up to and taft to while stassen dropped to at that point the convention recessed for three hours a move engineered by taft stassen and other anti dewey leaders to give them time to decide whether or not to continue the tight fight when the convention reconvened for or the third roll call the stop dewey drive had changed to a nominate dewey stampede sen john bricker of ohio was the first fir S t on the rostrum to withdraw the name of his states candidate senator taft this was swiftly followed by similar withdrawals by warren stassen and macarthur on the third ballot the 1094 delegates to the convention nominated gov thomas E dewey as their unanimous choice to run as the republican candidate for president in 1948 1943 warren selection of gov earl warren of california as the Republic ian nominee for vice president came as a complete shock to almost everyone despite the fact that the choice was a logical and reasonable one warren was a surprise pick because prior to the convention he had maintained stoutly that he could not afford to take the vice presidency and would not accept the second spot it was even more a departure from the norm in that the dewey warren ticket failed to offer a grain of consolation to the old guard and isolationist wing of the party warren has strongly internationalist political views even more so than dewey and has been a consistent critic of the GOP iso initial speculation as to the vice president spot ran to rep charles halleck of indiana or sea kenneth arara irara GOVERNOR WARREN he accepted wherry of nebraska both of the conservative republican tradition but in the nightlong night long powwow pow wow that followed the dewey nomination it was warren who was chosen dewey himself averred that he had bad not influenced the choice that the party leaders had become convinced that the california governor was the best bet nevertheless dewey had had to make certain promises in order to get warren for the job the vice presidency he said no longer would be the stale flat and unprofitable post it has been he planned to make warren a full partner significance whether the GOP convention constructed its policy platform to tit fit the candidates or nominated the candidates to fit the platform is of course an impossible question nevertheless the republicans managed to do both categorically the platform is a sound forward looking one in the light of the issues both foreign and domestic to be faced strongly internationalist and I 1 bipartisan in tone it rejects the old line of isolationism tor for isolation isms iams sake and upholds the european recovery program that foreign policy stand harmonizing mon izing as it does with the previously stated convictions of dewey and warren may stand as a historic milestone in development of the republican party more than that it should go far to provide cohesion among the voting population and it put dwight eisenhower Elsen hower beyond the pale of nomination on the democratic ticket ike had said that he conceivably might run for the presidency in the event that the republicans renounced the type of foreign policy that the U S has been following the platforms farm plank calls for flexible support prices commodity loans and marketing agreements together with such other means as may be necessary and the development of sound farm arm credit CRACKDOWN i marshal tito dussias Rus rusi sias iron curtain had fact twitched apart along its yugoslavian seam to provide a glimpse of the communist stage set with the rickety scenery of dissension fear and insecurity marshal tito of yugoslavia was the central figure but remained so for only a brief instant before his soviet bosses whisked him off the boards plain fact was that tito hitherto the fair haired boy of eastern european communism had been all but purged from the communist party because he was trying to make a play tor for western capitalism actually he together with his henchmen in the yugoslav government was ousted from the all im communist information bureau which was established last year to provide greater unity for the soviet satellite states of eastern europe tito and his regime were charged with virtually everything the soviet politburo considers a crime ranging from trotskyism Trotsky ism and antl anti to ineptness and false demagogic tactics behind this official facade which the communists had bad thrown up h however however were the real reasons tor for titos eppu expulsion islon from grace As the only wartime hero of the communists the yugoslav marshal had begun to take himself too seriously hence was beginning to feel the need to express his own opinions and policies on matters political and economic stalin wanted no other boss in his sphere tito was building up a personal police army which was molesting 1 other communists including russians in belgrade also he had followed an independent foreign policy without Mos cows approval finally he committed the cardinal sin of currying favor with western capitalist diplomats with an eye to obtaining reconstruction credits tor for yugoslavia SERVICE drafting that draft which men in the 19 through 25 age group are begin kingto feel is the result of the U S armed forces drawing in their breath and preparing to expand all over the place between next tall fall and next summer the services plan on calling about draft age young men every month drafting is scheduled to start about september 22 with a strength of authorized thI zed ed by congress in the selective service bill the army has estimated that it will need between and tees to approach its authorized strength that number is in in addition to the or volunteers it so fervently hopes it will get in discussing plans tor for this second peacetime draft in LT S history army secretary kenneth royall explained that the army now has men but it wont jump to the figure immediately because funds for the fiscal year which began july 1 are not sufficient thus by july 1 1949 the size of the army will be an estimated the peacetime draft is a relatively slow functioning process certainly it cant compare with the wartime levying of manpower peak of the induction rate during the war was reached in february 1943 when men received their greetings BLOCKADE berlin dussias Rus sias freight blockade ot of berlin while a stark enough action in its own right nevertheless was a secondary manifestation ol of the same old cold war crisis arising out of the soviet bid for power in europe while american and british planes by the hundreds were flying in food to besieged berliners the tha western powers were pondering a question they had had to answer in 1938 when hitler was in power whether or not to appease long range plans of the kremlin of which the berlin blockade is just one phase call for the forcing of the western allies out of berlin this according to soviet thinking could be done by either of two means either by threats and terrorization involving the risk of war or by a tour four power negotiation which could be hoped to result in a western appeasement policy such as grew out of the ill starred munich conference of 1938 britain and the US are on a dangerous spot it if they pulled out of berlin under pressure of force applied by russia the power and influence of western democracy would be perilously weakened in europe such a weakening of prestige might be followed by a headlong rush on the part of millions of people all over the world to grab the tall tail of the soviet kite before it is ia too late any top level negotiation appears appear to be out at this stage of the game in view of the US policy as expressed by president truman and secretary of state marshall that it would be pointless to negotiate with russia until the soviets prove their desire tor for such a conference with some constructive action toward peace As the berlin situation stood it had the makings of the same kind of war scare that swept the US last spring and then faded into the background again FOREIGN AID 75 billion foreign aid measured in dollars and cents is becoming increasingly important to U S citizens and since foreign aid now is an actuality the question of how much money Is being sent to whom must be answerable to the public department of commerce has estimated that the U S will provide 75 billion dollars in aid to foreign nations during 1948 that compares with a six billion dollar annual average from the end of the war in 1945 through 1947 total tor for that period was nearly 15 billion in the current year the department says foreign grants more simply termed outright gifts will amount to more than 70 per cent of this years foreign aid as contrasted to 44 per cent in the first firs two and a halt half postwar years loans and credits granted in this period up to the beginning of 1943 totaled 10 billion dollars of which europe received 83 billion and 78 billion of that went to the 18 16 participating nations in the european recovery program russia got million dollars but that was for postwar lend lease which was stopped by congress early this year after the soviets had used million of it postwar grants up to the start of this year came to 65 billion dollars and according to commerce department part ment analysts were almost all for civilian relief and rehabilitation |