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U.S. Seeks to A
7,7
void Chinese War
As Warships Flee Shanghai Trap;
Reds Talk of Berlin Blockade End
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are
Western Newspaper Union’s news analy
BOUND FOR “HOT SPOT!”
expressed in these columns, they are those of .
sts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
e « e American marines wave from
the U.S.S. St. Paul as they embark for trouble spots in China. The
St. Paul, heavy cruiser, was one of the two warships leaving for
China and which carried much larger complements of marines than
normal,
The United States was showing the world that it planned no maneuvers which might create the situation for an “incident” leading to involvement in the Chinese war.
To the surprise of practically everyone, particularly the 2,500 Americans in Shanghai, the entire U. S.
fleet fled suddenly from Shanghai,
evidently having abandoned then
current plans for evacuation of
American nationals from the scene.
THE GOVERNMENT was sending some marines to Chinese troubled spots, but these were to do
only sentry duty.
United States action came despite
admittedly great provocation. The
Chinese Communists, in their triumphant surge’ across China to
Shanghai, had invaded the home
of U. S. Envoy J. Leighton Stuart
in Nanking and hinted he was to be
held in custody.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds
broadcast a demand for American
and British officials to evacuate all
their “aggressive forces’ from
China.
Already British warships had
been fired upon and it was assumed
American fleet elements had fled
Shanghai in order to ayoid any
such predicament as was. experjenced by the British vessels.
THE COMMUNIST threat to
Shanghai was_ increasing hourly
and despite Nationalist decision to
battle to the end, it appeared the
city’s plight was hopeless,
* Communist victory .in China
would put all the western nations
in a ticklish position. For, with the
Reds in control of all China, those
who opposed communism would
be helpless and hopeless in event
‘of a western-powers move to apply economic sanctions, if such a
step should be taken. If this procedure were not to be followed, the
western powers would be put in
the paradoxical position: of recognizing and trading with proponents
of an ideology with which they
were struggling in a cold war.
AUTO LABOR:
Flareup Looms
The nation’s coal mines didn’t
Present the only likely flareup in
labor-employe relations as bargaining time rolled around in various
industries. Those who were in position to know held the opinion that
it was an “uneasy peace” which
hung over the automobile industry.
‘UNION FLAREUPS had been
quelled at the Packard and Ford
motor companies and a temporary
work stoppage had halted body production at the Briggs manufacturing company’s plant.
The future of labor relations in
the industry was as confused as it
was uneasy. Recent action by manufacturers in-cutting prices of automoviles had brought accusations
from labor that the reductions were
enly ‘token’? cuts, and did not represent a fair action on the part of
the manufacturers.
However, with prices of other
commodities beginning to spiral
downward and easement of installment buying widened, it began to
appear that labor would‘be in a
vulnerable position. by the time contract-signing time rolled around.
WHILE there was little in the
Press about the intentions of dynamic Walter Reuther, head of the
United Automobile Workers’ union,
there was slight doubt that the
fiery redhead would be in there
pitching for his union members
when the time came to sit down at
the bargaining table.
Would labor attempt to overreach
itself in bargaining or would it
recognize the trend of the times
and be content to hold present
gains? That was the question whose
answer would be anxiously awaited
by the citizen who is always in the
middle in such struggles—the averBERLIN:
Reds Want Talk
_If the United States and Britain
looked with a jaundiced eye on
Russia’s -public offer to lift the Berlin blockade, it was thoroughly understandable. Too often the Soviets
have held out the olive branch or
made apparent overtures _ that
never materialized to ease the
crisis the Reds may have been developing at that time.
had virtually accepted the Russian
proposal to lift the Berlin blockade
in exchange for a four-power conference on Germany. But it was
made very plain that acceptance
was based on the condition that
Russia had no secret strings’ attached to the offer.
A U. S. state department officia)
was quoted as saying that if Moswas reported in a dispatch by Tass,
Russian news agency, the ‘“‘way appears clear for the lifting of the
blockade and a meeting of the council of foreign ministers.’’
At the same time, however, it
was learned that the Russians were
told that the United States, Britain and France do not intend to delay their plans for unifying western
Germany and creating a German
government, probably by July 15.
SOME TOP officials believed the
PRESIDENT TRUMAN RECEIVES FIRST BUDDY POPPY . President Truman is shown receiving the first Buddy Poppy of the 1949 sale
from five-year old Keitha M. Smith, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
home for widows and orphans in Eaton Rapids, Mich. She visited the
White House for the ceremony. The Buddy Poppy sale is conducted
annually by the VFW to raise funds for rehabilitation. work among
needy veterans,
HOWEVER, the western powers .
. . realization.
cow’s policy actually stands as it)
NO KLANSMEN, THEY . . . This striking view,
. seen in the United States when the Ku Klux Kla
would seem to be that of a group of klansmen
the traditional lighted cross—but nothing could
so similar to many
mn was most active,
marching along with
be further from the
fact. These paraders took part in observance of Holy Week in Madrid
and are members of the “brotherhood of silence.” About 6,000 members
took part in the solemn procession,
Russian offer’s real purpose was to
delay this action, and indicated that
if this were the case it was most
uncertain whether a real and final
agreement on the Berlin blockade
would be reached any time in the
near future.
The Russian proposal was construed as suggesting three concrete
means for reducing international .
proposal for a meeting of the coun.
cil of foreign ministers on the sub.
ject of Germany; (2) lifting the
Berlin restrictions as soon as a
meeting date was fixed for that
meeting, and (3) direct negotiations
between Premier Stalin and President Truman on basic conflicts
between the United States and the
Soviet union.
FARM PROGRAM:
Who's Confused?
The administration’s bold new
farm program was becoming so .
muddled that even its proponents .
seemed to be less than certain of .
just what its purpose is, to say
nothing of how much it will cost.
When the program was first presented, the general impression generated by its proponents was that
it was a duality of beneficence, as
it were—a device that would keep
up the price of farm products while
at the same time resulting in less
cost to the consumer.
TO CRITICS: who callously
pointed out that it would require
tax money to finance such a program and that both. farmers and
consumers would have to pay those
taxes, the plan’s advocates anSwered that such persons simply
didn’t understand the aims of the
proposal.
Then along came Agriculture
Secretary Charles F. Brannan with
a statement that indicated he didn’t
quite understand it either, or if he
did, it was a new conception. Now,
the secretary was saying, the plan
wasn’t meant as a consumer subsidy at all. No indeed, it was a
farm price support measure, aimed
at giving the farmer a “fair return’”’ on his investment and _ his
age American consumer.
SPRING COMES TO ENGLAND
Nature Gives Weird Vent to Vernal Urge
It was spring in England, and
whimsey and fantasy were all
around.
For instance, cows got a license
to kiss. A lovelorn cat set fire to
a house. A thief, no doubt actuated
by the season, stole two dozen love
birds. A swan, winging majesti“cally up the Thames in search of
a mate, plumped on a bridge at
rush hour and piled up traffic for
labor.
a mile. Everything, it seemed, was
in a tizzy.
The Denham town council gave
cows the kissing license. It ruled
that it’s all right for them to nuzzle over the fence, even if one pasture is certified tuberculosis-free
and the other isn’t.
A Mikado pheasant, which usually
lays eggs only in its native habitat
in Foroniosa, laid six eggs.
tension. These were outlined as (1) §
HAVING A “HIGH’’ TIME . . Defying equilibrium, gravity and sundry
other things which bar this sort of thing as a pastime for ordinary persons, Betty Fox, featured performer of the Barnes Brothers circus, is
shown on a tiny platform extending from a 13th floor window ‘of the
Congress hotel in Chicago. Y
Camp, Calif., was keeping his entry
in the annual frog jumping contest on ice—literally speaking. He
has to, because his frog, Lazarus,
has been frozen stiff for an estimated 1,200 years.
THIS BIRD HAS TABLE MANNERS.. ‘Most any polly ‘wants a
cracker,” but only Rebecca, a stickler for propriety, insists on a
spoon with hers. Besides being adept at the table graces—including
proper use of knife and fork—Rebec¢a can dance and is an excellent
conversationalist. Her vocabulary is referred to as “‘interesting.”’ Her
home, appropriately enough, is a restaurant called the “Chatterbox.”
prehistoric frog frozen deep in the
ice of Dana glacier in Yosemite
national park and felt confiden’ his
entry would be able to jymp.
ok
Are Eased Again
velopments were shoving Pres
dent fearcun’s demands for price
control power further and further
into the realm of absurdity.
THE FEDERAL reserve board,
after looking the situation over. decided that installment buying controls could be lowered again safely.
And this it did. It set out that on
. household appliances such as refrigerators, radios, electric washers,
etc., .the down payment would
have to be only 10 per cent of the
cost of the item, instead of the
previous 15 per cent. On automobiles, the down payment remained
at 30 per cent; but on autos and
household appliances, too, the time
of payment was extended from 21
to 24 months. i
THIS ACTION brought both commendation and criticism. That element in the federal government
which would recoup all the war
time controls for the President,
was aghast at the action, terming
it dangerous. Others who had
watched prices continue their.
downward spiral—especially
mer-+
chants who were facing a buyers’
market and difficulty in moving
goods off sales floors—saw thei
action as a boon to business.
SULLIVAN:
Quits Navy Post
There was little else that John L.;
Sullivan, secretary of the navy,
could have done but resign after
the ‘‘multi-million dollar reprimand’’ he received from Defense
Secretary Louis Johnson.
SULLIVAN, as navy chief, had
gone: ahead with plans to construct
the 65,000-ton U. S. aircraft supercarrier, the United States, despite
lack of congressional authorization
for the project. ;
It was no particular secret that
abandonment of the carrier and!
Sullivan’s resignation were all a
continuing part of the apparently
hopeless fight to unify the nation’s
armed forces. The congressional
act calling for such a.step has
never been carried out, and the
navy’s attempt to go ahead with
building the huge carrier without
any legal authority was another
example of high-handed_ service
tactics that have tended to make
unification appear impossible of
DEFENSE SECRETARY Johnson, commenting on Sullivan’s resignation, said, ‘‘I regret very. much
that my old friend and colleague
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