ilG tQQ!! A Soviet proposal for Germany was aade in ~aris today - Molotov suggating a strong centralized Geraan state. For the first time, Russian vie•• w ere aade known in the matter of what finally ie to be done with the conquered country. Molotov rejected the French contention that GeraanJ should be split up into various sections. British and American ideas have been somewhat along that line - favoring a federaiiae4, not a centralized, Germany~Molotov, however, oo■•• out for a strong centralized state - and, ■ oreover, he eaphaaized today that Geraany 1bould have 1uffioient indu1try to get along aa a modern nation. Thia contradicted notion• that Geraany should have little or no industry and be reduced to the etatus of an aaricultural country. lolotov in a mollifying aood, argued that Geraany in the future should not be kept helpless by what he called - a spirit of revenge. This new · Soviet move followed a propoaal by American Secretary of State Byrnes - a suggestion that the Big Four should start making arrangeaenta BIG FOUR - 2 right away for a 1••• peace settlement with Geraany. The Byrnes idea ia that ~reat Britain, Soviet Ruaaia, the United States and France should each appoint a special deputy to start work on an arrange ■ent for peace with Bitler•a for ■ er Reich. US SIA ___ .._. ....... ti-Am ican b la st in Soviet Russia r ache a c l imax today -- with vitrio l ic ass ults in the two to p ranking Moscow news pape rs, Izv stia and Pravda. Izvestia, of L icial organ of the oviet over·nant, hurled its thund e rs against the United States because of the Co g ressional Mandate forbidding American UIBBA supplies to be sent to any country that does not admit American Representatives and newsmen to see ho• the supplies are being used. ., ,, This applies to white Ruaaia and ........ the Ukraine, which are, like other parts of the land of the Soviets, forbidden territory, secret areas -- behind ttie"i,ron wal l ~ Izvestia charges a violation of the autonomy of UNRRA, goes on to\declare that America and Great Britain too, are using food for political purposes, trying to feed their friends and starve their enemies. The diatribe in Pravda, official organ of the e ommunis t Party, is in tthe bi tt ere st ter11s - - accusing the Americans and British Armi e s of harboring laz outfits in Germany. "The merican and Britiah Zones ha'le become the shelt r of notorious criminal hitlerite - RUSSIA - 2 --- followers," screams Pr&vda, and adds: "In these zones propaganda unfriendly to the oviet Onion is carried~ 1, quite openly and flourishes brightly under the wing ot British and American occupation authorities.• lhe Communist newspaper makes the swee ing charge that anti-Soviet conspiratirs, trying to st·r up war, are aided and abetted by the American and British Armies of occu ation. Meanwhile, in ~ermany, Ueneral McNarn~f today tried to find out wnat has happened to four Americans, who have vanished in the is Soviet Occupation Zone. General Mclarney went right to the top and conferred with the Soviet Gommander, Marshal Sokolovsky. The Americans are a I rrant Officer and his wife, who on a trip to buy a og wandered into the hussian Zone of Occupation in Berlin. And -- a Captain and a Lieutenant, who ~•2 ■i ■ ix•x* bo rded a train in the Rus ian Zone. Hitherto, when Americans have wandered into the Soviet T _ rritory, the 1'_uss ians have arrested them and sent them back. Bpt now, in the present case, RUSSIA - 3 --- the four Americans have been held for more than a week. Soviet Office ·s a mit they've b n arrested, but won't say wh1y 1 or when they'll be r leased -- and we don't know what the ed ~rmy ~omm·nder told ueneral YcNarney today. TOKYO COU CIL ________________ ...,... ______ ~- In Tokyo, anoth r row brok out today b tw ;> n n ral UacArth r's R res ntative and the Soviet Delegate on the control council out there. George Atcheson, Jr., sp aking for MacArthur, charged that Russian Lieutenant eneral Derevyanko had b en trying to put across••• some Communist propaganda -- in resenting demands in behalf of Japanese workers. Atcheson pointed out that most of the proposed measures to aid the workers bad already been put into ef ect by MacArthur. Also -- that the Soviet Delegate had circulated nis . dccument eighteen hours before the council meeting today, which is against the u•ual proceedure. Moreover -- the verbiage of the Pcroposals was larded tbicklJ with the usual line of Communist phraseology, the kind used for agitation. So, declared Atcheson, the real purpose of the boviet move was Communist propaganda. The nussian Lieqtenant General replied vigorously to all of this exc pt on one point. Be to a question raised by refused to give an answer TOIYO CO OMCIL - 2 ------- · ----- MacArthur's Representative. The question -- why is Soviet Russia so eagerly concerned with the freedoa of Japaaeae workers and unions, when Russian wrokers and unions haye no freedom at .~ A.. ATlIHSOI The l a st few d a ys••~ have brought a notable contribution to the iamense aaount written about Soviet Russia. Brooks Atkinson, Moscow ... correspondent of the Bew York Tiaes, ..._retura?ho•• ~ 7 °' ~ ~ l~~ -,publiahed three articles, giving aoae 1harp anal71ia of that perilous queation - what are the So•i•t• up to? 1111 the present bad reiationa drift eYentuall7 into .. war? Bia •t•• of tbe pr~:::: be ••■■ariaa4 'II - ~ - " l - - 2 . 2-- . . . . . Ahoatilit7 without war, peace •lthout frten4•~ p. Bia own experien~• and ob1er•atioa in Iosco• have convinced hi• that the So•ieta 4o aot waai war. The7 auffered too terribl1 in the battle of lali ~•,•any. Breok• Atkinaon ■atea point after point to•~•• how the So•i•t• ha•• backed down at one tlae or another - to avoi4 the ohanoe of aa international break- up. lo, they do not want war. But friendehi• - that•• another aatter. •rn the atteapt to eatabliah workable relation• with the governaent of the Soviet Union} he writes, •we have to abandon the faailiar concept• of ATlIISOJ - 2 friendship. Friendship, in the sense of intimate aesooiation and political coaproaiae, ie not poaaible•. Brooks Atkinson speaks with high prai1e of the friendliness of the Buasian people. If it were aerely a aatter o, the Buesian ■ a••••• international aaity would be no problea. The trouble 11•• in tbe official ideology and a&ntal •proc••••• of SoTiet Co ■■ uniaa. •The ■oat for■ idable iapediaent of aa1a,1e international relations•, writ•• the Ti••• oorreapoa4eat, •i• the baaic fact that the SoTiet union ta a 8oolalfal State deTelopin1 and expand1n& in a oapitaiiatio worl4. Aooordtng to the Coaauniat Party line•, he 1••• on,•t~• SoTiet ia not aeoure fro ■ •11reaaion, ao lon1 a1 capital countries, like th• United Sta\ea and Great Britain, also hold doainant poaitione in the l'orld•. Ant he A point• out how SoTiet writer• con1tantly pictare tie •••tern deaocraciee •• centers of raaciea - bent on the deatruction of Sooiali••· ~ AWJ4 Ideas along thia , line are 6 et and ri1id with the changleaa peraistence of coamunistdo1aa. Broota Atkinson notes ho• this totalitarian ■entalit7 affeota, for example, the world of the arts. •on the whole•, he writes, "there is no vitality in the art, in So•i•t Ruaaia.They are reactionary and aoribund under the dea4 weight of political control, and he goea on, •there ia little oppo•tunity for indiYidual enterpriae and experiaent.The coabination of idealis• and totalitarianil baa resulted in the death of new id•••,• aa7a he. And tbia kind of do1aati••• a\ tbe •••• ti ■ '-t-- fixea the SoYiet attitude towar4 the •••tera deaocraciea. lbicb lead• Breoka Atkinaoa to the follo•l- auaaary: •~11 atteapta to deal with th• SoTiet ao•ernaent inter■• of. lriendahip, are doo■e4 to failve. Although we are not ••••1•••• he adda, ••• cannot be friend• - and the • • t we can hope for 11 an ar■e4 peace in the next few 1••~••· In other words, hoatilitJ wit~oQt war, peace without friendabip. A aoabre and paradoxical prospect. ~ ~ - ~ ~ ~ ~,.~~ - ,.j,.J- (', - ,._ j - ..1..CJ • • -41¥'1'-q• ~ ~ . . . ~ """'- ~ ~~ 'f--'-n• ~~~-to~ N ~ ~ ~ Q - ~ • < - ~ • O.P.A~ to piec e s The Senate is shooting the O.P.A. bill all with amendments forbidding price restriction• on various items. T he J&est today as a vote to keep price controls off milk, butter and cbeese. Last night restrictions were forbidden on mea'it, poultry and e1ga. Also -- siailar action h ~ d been taken in the c ~ •e ot cottonseed and soy~••••• beans. lbich ■ atea a total ot three••• a ■ end ■ ents to cut down price control in the bill the Senate is considering to re•i•e the O.P.1. And there 1, ■ ore to oo ■e. Ad ■ inia,ra\lon Leaders are ad■ itting that there is•• ••1 to teep the Senate fro ■ killing price ceilings on petroleu ■ and tobacco. The question is -- what will President Ii•••• Truaan do? Be vetoed one O.P.A. bill becauae it crippled the price-fixing business, and it looka aa it the law the Senate is fixing up will slash the power ot the revived O.PA. even ■ ore. Meanwhile, pric e s centinu e to apiral upward. Livestock is still o uring into the atockJards Q.P.A. - 2 of the Uiddlewest. Today a total of nearly a hundred and sixty thousand head of cattle and hogs were received at twelve of the principal live stock centers. Yet prices increased ~- with two carloads of cattle at ~hicago setting a new high record of twenty-three dollar• per hundred pounds. Wholesale food pric A s in general were today at the highest point in twenty-six years. Thia i• reported by Dun and Bradstreet, which ahowed thirty-one food coaaodities to oe nearl~ as high as the tigare tor .!,.ineteen !!enty. Vuring the period after lorld larO'>u.. 1 •••••• ODs; the price pinnacle occurred in linet,en Nineteen, and was leas in Nineteen Twenty. So it loot ■ as if histor7 might be repeating itaelt. ,-Le rise in prices has brought about a conauaer reaction -- buyer strikes. IPR• Tork Cit1 and Philadelphia consu■er groups and abor unions haYP sponsored drives to refuse to purchase at high figures. And there are increasihg inaicdtions that labor is · to make new wage deaands to counteract the preparing increase in the coat of livin~. HILLII!!, The death of Sidney Hill ■ an raises the immediate question -- who will succe•4 hi ■. The importance of the question aeasures the influence attained by the one-ti ■ e i ■aigrant of Lithuania, who rose so high as a union leader and a director of union influence in politics -- head of the politioal action coa■ ittee of the C.I.O. The leading aurliae tonight ia ~hat Sidney Bill ■an will be succeeded by R.J. Thoaaa, Vice-President of the Auto Workers Onion -- who waa beaten for the Presidency of that labor oraanization by lalter Reuther so ■e months ago. R.¥. Tboaa1 was a close associate of Billaan'a in the P.A.C. aad baa the friendship of C.I.O. President•Philip Murray. The ~ • ~ 7 ;aae-• i1 that he will take Hillaan '• A place -- as the political ~tion .!!_O ■■ ittee prepares to - . take a atrenuoua part 1 : t ~ g r e s s i o n a l elections, Nicp •ti• J.USTIG a court in le• Yo~ntenced t Bear1 ~ Lustig, the ■ illionaire owner of. the chain of Lon1ctia■p• restaurants. Lustig, together with ■ eYeral others, ••• tried and found 1utltJ of evadin1 tbe inoo■• tax•• to the tune o f ~ ";!i•illion dollar.a. The aenteao• on tbe bt& ttae reatauraa~ ■an i•~••r• an4 a fine of a buaa4 and fifteen iboaaaad L••••r defendant• ir•• ahor.ter pri1on ter.a■ - ia the headline i:noo■• tax a••••W a Fi ■t- •Slit Ilk GOATEM!Jt! There is a new international clash -- Guatemala threatening to sever diplomatic relations with Great Britain. You'd think we were having enough global trouble, without having Guatemala cbip in with a bit of Central American disturbance. But there 1 ls an old quarPel over British Honduras. Britkin ·acquired t h c f ~ e::t: ~ ~ ~ u a t e m a l ' . a :a !.,!ghteen £itt7-.9.ine. · In return, Britain promised by treat, to build an highway -- which was never done. So Guate ■ala get back British Honduras -- witb·the British sub■ it the matter to tbe lnternational Court ot Ja ~ ~ ~ d o e a n • t . ni:t t.be Quate■al:an••P-11:: ... La now the President of that Central aakea the threat -- to break relation ■• Be put, the in featiTe ter■ s, sayina: •we cannot go on drinking champagne with an e ■ pire that retainP territory that 11 ours•. So they're not going to drink any ■ ore ■i•••••• champagne. To all this the ~ritish comment was ■ade today by a s p okesman of the forei n office. He s a i d : ~ wvery extraordinary." ABMX QBO! Our i11prov:ed peace-ti ■• aray ia goia1 ta, not onl7 for atomic ■ Oienc•, but alao for i ■prove4 coekins • better chow. Thia •IJ•■lt appreciation ol a few atlllon for•er G the cbo• and tbreateaing th• lite Tbe head f.ood ot ttie q , aarteraaat.er,•• oorpa ann . ouacea head o! the food aervice braaci explain• war, the GI'• aot thl beat of f~o4atutfa _ •• b•I liacllr i!t. waa ooatecl • . ■oi . . . u tbaf. '••. to be obaag•4', . • a ~~I~ ltie idn behg to hu•?A7[ ~c;aa9v1teab •egetablea and pi••• prepared ti7 _ real So ■aybe the G 1 1 1 of peace tiae •fl) reverse the o.14 Ar■,: custo ■ - and a:bart praiaina tile t coapaaf cooka to tile high h•a~ena. J ~~ ! ~ ARit QIU - 2 The ne• culinary artist• ot the ar.■J are ~ - ,,,p to get bet:t.er pa7~ and t h e y ~ be ao~e carefulll:7 •elected. Tbe atan4a~d• tor intelli1ence ha¥e •••• raiaecl. lla7be tou st:IM thiint it d.oeaa•t · _ taie TR ••ti c•niu• to operate a •killet in an Ar■7 oa■p~tbe of the food •ervice ~ ~ • : lltt•lntellicence ia one of the ■oat i■portant reqaire ■ent• for a 1004 cooi•. It you can tarn out, 1004 t■ ■eal, 7ou'r• brilliant. IIU : ch aay 1urpri:1e ao ■e of t.be houaew1Y.ea who h••• been operatin& a kitchen in 100d a\y.le tb••• •••• ■anr 7iear1, and neYer 1uapecte4 th••••l••• of ba•i•I a superior intellect. The Ar■J doe ■ not 1tint itael( in plaoiq a 1004 cook in high eat•••• laJb• It'• an echo of tie warti ■e ohoru1 oi G l aqua•k• that per ■ uaded the h••• of the food aervice to ■ate the follo•in1 philoapaia proaounceaent toda7: ••h•n • fellow feel• aood and 1•t• hie 1toaach full, he 1 ■ a ■ore etticient aoldier. An4, in ■J opinion•, he continues, •a cook - in the Ar■7 .... or;civilian lite - 1• the moat important ■an toda7•. AIIX caow - .3 Well, we bear a lot about ttie i ■portanoe of tbi1 and that in •••ing the world, and now•• f.lad that tie rea~ aalv.ation ia - a good coot. IU, p111 ~ r-~..-- ~