Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U S publishes german documents as anti russian propaganda blow hoover proposes foreign hid aid cut EDI EDITORS ToRIS NOTE when a f expressed la in these columns they itt are those of western newspaper union news ana analysts cysts slid not 0 cl this newspaper COLD WAR dw propaganda the celebrated cold war has been enriched by another U S propaganda strike probably the heaviest yet against russia it took the form of official state department publication of captured german foreign office records revealing the extent and nature of nazi soviet relations from 1939 to 1941 the period covered by the pact between the two nations which ended when hitler attacked the russians on june 22 1941 in the light of the U S russian wartime alliance the nazi documents published in book form tell a sordid story of secret agreements global gambling with nations for ikes kes and the feverish fetish of po 1 al expediency which gripped the minds 14 2 ds of the german and russian leaders both before and during the war high point of the hitherto secret dossier was the revelation that in 1940 adolf hitler and V M molotov of russia agreed that britain and the U S must be excluded from europe asia and africa the book told also how in 1940 stalin had offered to join the ger man italian japanese axis if hitler would give russia a free hand in finland a military base near the dardanelles Darda nelles and a dominant voice in the oil rich middle east then the documents show how hitler disdaining even to answer proposition ordered his armies to prepare to crush soviet russia in a quick campaign one of the major factors which precipitated the german attack on russia was the soviet demand for dominant control of the balkans hitler who was as aware as any man of the political economic and strategic value of the pivotal balkan area turned thumbs down on that russian desire also sum and substance of the state departments spectacular publication of the nazi documents was little abre more than an emphatic indication of an already well known tact fact that russia with aggressive consistency has been hungering for years tor for leaders leadership hip in the balkans for new preeminence pre eminence in the dardanelles Darda nelles for expansion in central asia Asla and or r a free hand in finland and poland value of the publication of these documents at this time is questionable despite the flagrantly apparent anti russian propaganda they can and will inspire state departments action obviously was aimed ing public support behind the mar shall plan soon to come up for congressional action but it also would serve to aggravate and inflame the already dangerously touchy cold war DOLLARS lordly just about the only record that britons are interested in having broken when the revived olympic games take place this summer is the one for the number of american dollars spent in england while great britaina Brit ains campaign to earn dollars in large quantities covers virtually every field from racing dogs to rolls royces it is the american tourist who is getting the lions share shade of attention at the moment harold W wilson ilson president of the british board of trade minced no words when he said with quiet desperation pe ration quite frankly we are going to discriminate between tourists who are bringing in dollars and those who are not I 1 there will be special concessions made for the people with dollars in their pockets certain hotels wilson implied will be favored with special food supplies fuel and labor for the purpose of catering to Atner Aine ican rican tourists opposition to this plan is being ex pressed expressed with some fury as a combination of the inherent british love of fair play plus a general criticism of the Labor governments policies editorialized the london daily mail As a bald exposition of the art of exploitation this wilsons Wil sons statement would be hard to beat here is the profit motive in all its blatancy expounded by a minister whose party exists to repudiate it what about visitors from other countries including the dominions are we to cold shoulder their francs lire guilders builders guil ders or pounds while we rush forward in obsequious welcome to the lordly dollar SPLITS secession election year was shaping up in great style with both democrats and republicans taking to the public walling wailing wall their fears of harmful factionalism within the party while both sides have been pointing with enamelled enamel led smiles to evidences of their parties unity democrats are worried about a possible revolt by the southern states and republicans cant quite get together on some major issues particularly meat rationing democrats ostensibly were cheered by the decision of A F whitney president of the brotherhood of railway trainmen to go along with the campaign to keep president truman in the white house whitney who underwent a change of heart after having promised unrelenting opposition to mr truman during the 1946 rail strike controversy ver sy said that gewant we want to see the party win in 1948 less prepossessing although no loyal democrat would admit it publicly was a threat of party secession from fielding L wright taking office for a full term as governor of mississippi in his inaugural address wright declared that the time had come tor for southern democrats to leave a party that continues to press congress to enact such anti southern legislation as a permanent fair employment practices commission anti lynch and anti poll tax bills and similar measures REFUSAL prediction about all the average US U S citizen knows about gen dwight D eisenhower is that he either will or will not get into the campaign for the republican presidential nomination this year but roy A roberts president of the kansas city star and leading promoter of pro eisenhower sentiment now says he definitely will not roberts prediction was that the general soon would remove himself from all consideration along those lines said roberts ill venture a guess that before june the general may take himself completely out of the political picture I 1 am sure the message will come when he lays aside his military uniform february 15 he emphasized though that he was not speaking for eisenhower Elsen hower with alt alf landon 1936 republican presidential nominee roberts had been doing most of the political drum beating for eisenhower FOREIGN AID hoover plan herbert hoover former U S president has urged congress not t to 0 commit this nation even morally to a four year european recovery program and advised a reduction of the 68 billion dollar outlay p proposed ro to carry the marshall plan through its first 15 months in the word statement which he filed with the senate foreign relations committee hoover expressed his opposition views to the administrations foreign aid plans of greater significance however was the fact that hoovers own opinions amounted to a documentary of the hoover entire right wing conservative element of thinking which rejects an internationalist foreign policy on the grounds that U S resources should be concentrated at home decrying even a moral commitment for the four year period contemplated tem plated in the state departments proposals he asserted the U S should keep itself entirely free to end our efforts without recrimination he expressed too the fear that a lavish outpouring of aid would weaken the american economy to the extent that all world recovery would be defeated the volume of exports and funds proposed in the marshall plan he opined opened might aggravate the already serious inflation draining our national resources and continuing high tax rates all of which might bring depression and thus destroy the strength of the one remaining source of aid to a world of chaos hoover recommended further that the marshall plan if it is adopted be run by a bipartisan commission and suggested that up to three billion dollars in food coal fertilizers and cotton be labeled frankly as gifts because unsecured loans will not and cannot be repaid ALPHABET ancient an american scientist prot prof W F albright of johns hopkins university claims to have dincov ered readable samples of the oldest known precursor of european and semitic alphabets in a turquoise mine in egypto biblical mount sinai area the samples were in the form of inscriptions left in the pits by ancient miners probably around 1500 B C the mine was last operated between the bilth and centuries r B C and the inscriptions are believed to be at least years older apparently the alphabet contains about 28 consonants and no vowels the inscriptions included pleas from slaves to their masters to show them mercy albright said other examples of the ancient alphabet have been discovered in jerusalem but have proved too fragmentary for complete analysis POLAR DATA the race congressional sources have reported thit that russian and american military planes have been competing at the top of the world for vital vita I 1 weather information with regular flights over the north pole the soviet nights flights apparently are made from siberia while U S planes operate from ladd field fairbanks alaska russian planes also were said to be carrying out weather data flights over alaska two members of the house foreign affairs committee rep robert chiperfield rep IU and rep bartel jonkman rep mich iri in reporting on their trip to alaska last fall declared that U S air forces planes were making a regular weekly flight of miles over the north pole in their formal reports the congressmen made no mention of soviet plane flights but from sources close to the group it was learned that the matter was discussed with wl h american officials who are stationed in alaska RUBBER BILL leaves government in legislation to establish a permanent government regulated american rubber industry with a ton annual capacity and a required annual production of at least tons a year has been introduced by rep paul shafer rep mich the bill refers throughout to the product in question as american made rubber the word synthetic as the term for factory made rubber Is not mentioned shafer chairman of a house armed services subcommittee which has studied domestic rubber needs and production facilities for almost a year said the purpose of his bill is to maintain a progressive rub ber producing industry of sufficient capacity to at all times supply civilian and military requirements the measure leaves the government in the rubber industry where it has been since it began building synthetic rubber plants tin in 1941 by the end of the war the government owned an industry that had cost million dollars BUDGET cutlery for republican congressmen with their eyes on the vineyard of president Tr 1949 budget the pruning season yas was at hand I 1 1 the joint legislative budget committee had swung into action on the billion dollar estimate in an effort to reach an agreement as soon as possible on a ceiling for government spending speaker of the house joseph martin rep mass said no early decision had been reached on how much the committee would seek to trim the presidents budget but he added that it can be substantially cut meanwhile chairman harold knutson rep minn of the house ways and means committee had stated that senate and house leaders had arrived at an informal agreement to slash the budget by three billion dollars WORRIED 6 per cent democrats are starting to worry afresh over the possibility that henry wallace might take enough votes away from them to seln swing the november presidential election to the republicans on the basis of the 1944 presidential results if 6 per cent of the voters switch from the democratic nominee to wallace in november a republican will be elected reasons why democratic bosses are fretting over wallace can be seen from a survey made of the popular vote in the 1944 election here is what could happen alf imore if wallace takes 10 per cent more democratic votes than republican votes the GOP will carry 31 states with a total of electoral college votes that would leave the democrats with 17 states and electoral votes 2 if wallace gets only 7 per cent of the votes the democrats would salvage another state new mexico a and nd raise their electoral votes to but the republicans still would win 3 if wallace wins over just 6 per cent of the voters the democrats would remain on the short end because the republicans would take 22 states and the comfortable margin of electoral votes FEAR on farms turning briefly to the field of psychology ch versatile clinton anderson secretary of agriculture offered president truman an analysis of the personality of the U S farmer his thesis that most farmers despite their current record prosperity harbor a deep seated fear of the economic future recalling the sharp agricultural recession which followed world war I 1 they are inclined to expect another depression perhaps much more serious when the present world food shortage vanishes he said increasing their concern anderson theorized is an awareness that because of technological advances their productive capacity has been increased more than a third over prewar levels therefore they die worrying about future markets for their products they do not expect the insatiable demands of wartime and early postwar years to continue indefinitely they want some assurance that markets and consumer buying power will not be allowed to decline excessively for lack of a rational economic policy anderson himself does not think a depression is in inevitable evitable i 1 I belleve believe he said that it if we continue in our present course which keeps us I 1 in ii rather than takes us out of world economy we shall find it easier to avoid a major depression and consequently ron to avoid agricultural programs of the type we found essential in the released by features feature 6 |