ll..QM41 prophets JJ., . - f.', ~ · 7w: 17,,'f"-7- (President Truman surprised the political today. By devoting most of bis aessage to Congress to a request for a revival of controls in the O.S.A1Tbe prediction was that bis address would deal almost entirely with help fo . r Europe, e■ergenoy aid, ancl: the Marshall Plan. The President did begin with the e ■er1enc1 appeal. He pointed out that the nature of the tree nations of the world hangs in the balance; with the future of our own economy in Jeopardy. He aaid Austria, France and Italy hive al■oet exhausted their financial resources and must be helped if they are to survive the ceaing winter without the disintegration of their political and ■K ■ eoono ■ ic eystea. He pointed out further that the peoples of those countries are in a ae dangerously •eakened condition, having suffered years of short rat ions. That they need 110 re medical supplies, and various other things urgently. As foreshadowed, Ur. Truman asked fo~ty- lBQM61 - 2 two million dollars for Austria, t10-hundred-and- twenty-seven millions for Italy, two-hundred-and- twenty-eight millions for France. And he ■ ded that more funds will also be needed to maintain our position in occupied areas. That point skiaaed over lightly; but what it amounted to was that we'll have to spend more money to maintain our armies of occupation. The President•*•• then went on to aay that he will send his Marshall Plan reco ■■ endatlone in detail later. The best way to prevent future wars, he aaid. is to work for the independence and well being of all nations. That we already have done a lot in that direction, but that our efforts have been blocked by unforeseen and unwelco ■ed obstacles. Be referred with diplomatic politeness to the obstructionist actions of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party in Western countries in the following - · words: "We have found that not all nations see ■ to share our aims or approve our methods." IBPNAJ - J Which is putting it mildly. •we regret the differences which have arisen and the criticism so loudly expressed,•he went on, •but we•• cannot afford and we do not intend to let current ditterences hamper our ettorta to cooperate in friendly fashion am help the nations who like us want freedom, peace and world atability•. In the matter of controls, here at hoae the Presi•ent today reversed himself. For only last aonth he declared positively that controls were only for a police state, not for deaooracy. Today he to the threat of inflation. Pointing to fuel, tor instance -- up thirteen percent; clothing up nineteen percent; retail foods forty percent. 11th the •erage of all cost-of-living iteaa up twenty-three percent. The housewife shopping tdr food today finding a g ■ ten dollar bill worth only seven in ter■ s of eighteen months ago. said that in the past four months the IBUNAI - 4 cost of living has risen at the rate ot sixteen percent a year ) lith •hol aale textile prices up thirty-two percent in fifteen aontha, aetala thirt,-1ix percent, building aateriala forty.two percent. What aeeaa to concern the Preaid ent atiil ■ore is the terrific increase of conaumer credit. That it credit expands still further, it giYea people ■ore money to J ■ uae in pushing up prioea. Thenfore he aaka Congress to restore credit controls; put a brake on installaent buying. Be also would restrain inflatioaary tiank credit.And he asks Congress to pa11 a law to ~••••t excessive apeculation on coaaodity exchan1ea 1uoh •• the wheat pit. He alao apoke of wanting to •courage ■ore aavinga, greater eftorta by the Treasury to sell bonds to atiaulate the aaving of ■oney instead of the spending ot it. (And then he took up the proble■ of rationing and price control. Be told the asaeabled Senators and Representatives that he wants controls IIVIAI - 5 first on basic •terials, grain, which he a7s is too precious to . e fed to l ivestock, and steel, •hioh is too a ■ az ■ scarce to be used tor*• purposes that are non-essential.)• advocate• that the govern■e■t have authority to allocate scarce co ■■oditiea and have inventory-control-powers; ■ eaning the reateDatioa of pri o r ities. Export control ahould be oootlnued an4 strengthened, aaid be. Shif11ents to be aade where they areneeded ■oat. And, ways found to prevent•• profiteering in export,. The President referred to the prophecl•• of the ■ eat expert• that there will be leas graia and leas Meat next year, thaa thia. Therefore, he aata Congreas ter a ••*•*J third group of controls. Prioe ceilings on vital co ■■odities; food, clothing, tuel rent. l awaakera lie explained that he doesn't ask the •••k••• to revive all the old-ti ■e rigors of 1, O.P.A. That price ceilings shoald not be imposed on all the ite ■ s IBQIIAI - 6 he aentioned. That they shoald not be neoeaaar, for staple articles of food and ■la■ clothing ot which there is an ample supply, nor tor mlicacies and luxuries. As he put it, be wants to•• ,ration the basic things that will help bring down the cost ot living. ~hat about wage cootrole? He aays that i t the government imposes price ceiliaga, it ■ uet have the power to prevent wage increaa•a which would ■,te it i■possible to ■aiotaio price ceilin1••) The coat of living must be brought, and held, in reaaoaable relationship to the inco ■ee of the people. ~ The President then went on to mal with ,griculture. h uAll geed, aaid he; .angrya ll incr!a&e !ll.! !l.H 21. tar• ~gqyg~f ll indgstr1 ~ when consumers, &k■■ other Ja11D~ri11 ~gco11 ■Qr! 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So, he wants ■eaaures to enable the Departaent of Agricalture to apand its conservation progra ■• R!ACTIOI ---- --- ~ to ille .PeM~ott -of\ Presiclent Tru■an '• messa~.~-....a:iH!'1~......,11-1--• i n k l i n g ~ ~ ia going / . . ~~ ~ to be• etor■ y special session.~he reaction~- W~~ remarkable, not ao much for Renublican resentment of A,4... ...,_....,... the price control suggestion, the nuaber of ~ influential i Democrats who~~ a di ■ •1•• of the return of O.P.A. ~ns..;:,tA -fJ,■,b?!:f__ !!!• 4!-alera, lite Pepper of 11orida, are for it all the •1z ••1• Bat., Senator Tho ■ as of Otlaho ■ a thinks ,he ad ■ inistration will haYe a hard job conYincing the people that the1 will e t rid of econo ■ ic control•!! they bring the ■ back now. - E•en the De ■ ocrats who did not criticize the control J••I proposal, expressed tbeasel•e• with extre ■ e cautfon, •uch as Texas To ■ Connall7,, wbo said they will r e re considerable time and attention bv congrea1 before the proble ■ s can be sol•ed. Senator Taft of Ohio ' reserved his comment• Be will ■ ate the ■ tonight in a radio speech nationwidef .;,f-t():~ ~ - But his caapaign manager, Representative ltxlataz c-"4.rence Brown, sap .+:!!ef.t the Demo era t.s ~ g o t us into I!!ACTIOI -2 ..$ this ■ esa and he doubtw whether they can get a• out of J> it. Jl•1■ e1seirtl;hbi.- Bai leek of Indiana, tiw Republican ~ floor leader, s?'4 the President ..... ■ eking use of the A world crisis to get the people in the United States to give up a large ••••ure of their freedoa. Our esperieaoe with O.P.A. be aa?r, showed us thatcontrol t■ta lead• to acarcitJ. Senator Ball of linneaota ea;t4- the••••••• contained no new• f•• for bi ■, since be read the whole progra ■ laet week in the official publication of the c.r.o. ~ In other word" the whole country ie aste4 to subJeot itself to the idea• of one group of labor uniona. In the President•• own atate, Senator Ie ■ deacribed the aeasage aa the 1aae old political bag of trict1. Bat all the lawaatera, Republican aa well aa Deaocratic, see■ to be agreed on giving Ir. Tru■ an what he aata in the way of e ■ ergency aid for Europe. " The Marshall Plan, that'• a different stiJ• Most of the■ -~-t£.,t- with caution and reserve. EtmOPE It Italy rioting pro ■ oted and led bJ Co ■■uniets, was spreading all through Lombardy, the Piedmont, and other busy industrial region, of the Penineula. The worst or the violence occurred in lilan, but the De G~speri govern■ ent ■oved thousand• of troop• and police into the city. lech p ty beadquartera an4 to overthrow the government by what be a In Paris, there was an uproarious scene at the meeting of the city council, when the brother - of Preeident of General Cbarles DeGaulle was electea •~••tld■ f that body. Pierre DeGaulle won by a two-to-one vote to the music of the ecrea ■ a of the Co ■■uniat council ■ en, who yelled insults, hooted,••••• banged on desks, and !~ROPI -2 finally walked out. The council held its ■eeting behin4 a thick wall of police, while aobile guard••en in fall battle kit stood by in reserve. Throughout ae•e~al ts of the rest of France•• rioting continued, h strikes all o••r the ,1ace, particularly at and el1ewhere, bakeries were oblige o cloee down because the ■ ill•~•, atrfke shat off 1appl7 of flour. Ele•en thouana Calais. on •trite in the coal fitlde near a chance that all hunared and digaere in tha~ area ■aJ walt oat. Once again Uncle Sam and Soviet !u1oia are in agreement at Lake Successc They have finally agreed upon the co ■ proaise of a plan for dividing up the Holy Land. iaie..J.1 ,•e~"'-f ••eh~s foreshadowed on Thur•day. It provides that the Briti1h shall evacuate August 1irat. Two ■ontha after their troop• hlve witb4ra !t~ ~ ~' Palestine Al •••eiet. et ia4epenae'!:f Jewi•~-t_..Arab. Met.ee-. The United lations will 1end a co ■■ i11ion to the lear last, a coaaiasion of tbe repreaentative1 of five nations, to plan the proce11 of ~ partitioning. Thi•~? be under the control of the Securit7 Council~ the right of Yeto~ the tt• bi1 ~ ~ ~ powers over the operation of th.\ co■■i11ion tE to be 7~ - liaited. \ ... All this was agreed at a aetting of the anecial co ■■ ittee, eonai1ting of delegate, from the United States, Soviet ~ussia, Canada and Guata ■ ala. Temporary governments will be appointed for the i ■ t• Jewish and Arab states with a provision that eventually PALESTIIE -2 ~· regi ■ es will be elected by democratic process( The city or Jerusalem itself and other holy places~ be under ,, United lations control accessible to both Jews and Araba. This coaproaise was re~orted to the General Assembly, whereupon President Aranha of Brazil ;Ji/.._ that all deba~e HaH be flnish6by Thursdayi ~ Saturday will l,e the deadline for,{ f'ines J. decision by the aaae ■bly. BoweYer, there still is a path to be travelled, poseib~ a thorny one, before all this ia acco ■ pliahfd. The co ■proaise reported by that special aub-coa■ ittee today, will have to be considered by a sub-co ■aittee of partition, consisting of nine nationa. After they're through with it, it ■ ust be referred to the full co ■aittee of the General Aaaeably, all ft• - fifty-seYen nat : ~ns. What's ■ore the Arabs have a plan which must at least be considered, a plan to erect ft Palestine into an independent state, under joint Arab and Jewish control. BOYAN INTELLECT --------~---.----- At Leland Stanford Oniversity, Doct r Robert aynard Hutchins, Chancellor of th e University of ' Chicago, said today that the human race knows too much -- so much, that we don't know how to use it. Our kno~ledge of science far exceedin our human capacity to use it for good. Doctor Hutchins referred to the ato ■ bomb saying that scientists have come along so far ·n their knowledge that we ordinary people cannot conceive of the tremendous danger inherent in atomic energy. •we have now reached the point• be says, •where bad character, or even the momen~ary carelessness of the humPn race amy lead to its extermination by the tremendou discoverie s which the human intellect has made.• And he adds that we can't stop our scientific progres and wait until be human race catd:les up with himself. As Plato warned t enty-five-hundred years a o: •The unjust man and the unjust state :ear within themselves the seeds : of their own destruction.• IY.llll Here is an ite ■ that will interest••• of my friends in Bay City, Saginaw and Flint, Michigan where I was this past weekend. They were all telling ■ e about the opening of the deer huntia1 s ason and the great exodus of bunters••••• atrea ■ iDI north tor their first trek into the •ilta■ z wlldern•••• Last night, driving bact to Detroit, • •• passed dozens of cars with deer ■ ounted on the front fenders. And now here comes the first huntia1 story for the 1eaaon: Donald lolte ot Spring Lake J•••JJ Park, Minnesota, flushed a deer and killed hia with one shot; while stooping over the aniaal, a stranger ca ■ e out of the thioket and asked olfe it he intended te claia the kill. Wolfe said be did, because he had s~t hi ■• Tht stranger then declared, the only way Wolfe w ' ould get that•• deer would be over the stranger's dead body. Whereupon he raised his rifle and t i red, •ounding ' olfe above the heart, and then fired again IUUI - 2 wounding hia a a econd tiae. So the • ay to II ake a ure ot g ettin1 a deer is to trail a ■ an who••• has sbot oae and tate it away fro ■ hi ■, even if you have to kill bi ■• !l~ll!Q Light went on this evenin in the great gold and white ball room of Buckingham Palace, official residence of the Kings and Queens of England. The first ti ■ e in eight years for tb~se crystal chandeliers to be all lit, up, the first time since the beginnin · of the Second lorld War. They were turned on for the state ball in honor of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth. lothing like this bas happened in London since the coronatioa o ling George the Sixth or the Jubilee of ling George the Fifth in Rineteen-Tbirty-five. le hear that all at one ti ■ e their dancing on the floor were five lings, seven Queens, twelve Princes of the blood royal, with twenty Princesses, plus aore than a hundred meabers of• royal and noble families, grand dukes, archdukes and just plain dukes -- including Bapsburgs, Hobenzollerns Romanoffs, and Spanish Bourbons who still thinK they have a dhance to come b ack, also Bonapartes, and memb . rs of the Bouse of Savoy, Raasau, Karageor evitcb and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In short, the cre am de la cre a of the Almanac De Gotha, re g ister of WEDDING - 2 ------- European Royalty and nobility, as well as from Burke's peerage and landed gentry. The day started with a semi~public view of tbe wedding gifts that fill five rooas of the pi.ace. From the far corners of the earth aa well as from nearby in the United Iingdom, ca~e presents:- precious jewel•• gold and silverware, painting, urniture, beautiful china, rare books, furs. From Bur ■ a a necklace of . rib pigeons blood rubies. A bachelor in the African province of Tanganyika, Dr. John Williamson, sent a pink diamond, fifty-four karats, supposed to be worth more than sixty thousand dollars. Dr. Williamson is a multi-millionaire and a legendary character. General and Mrs. Eisenhower sent a silver ash tray, thay may Cl ~ e in useful, eventually; but for the time being, the young Consort has sworn off smoking. From the Dowager Queen »ary, her grandmother, the bride received two diamond ti ras, a hue diamond stomacher, whatever th a t is, diamond bracelets, diamond and ruby br celet, a pair of bi rdseye pe rl e rrin and t o !illgltfg ___ ~_l diamond brooches. From her father and mother, she received a diamond and ruby pendant, which according to reports is worth a royal ransom anybody would ransom royalty today that is, if plus a double string of pearls the size of marbles, to say nothing of a couple ■ ore tiaras. From the newspaper accounts, those five rooms of Buckingham Palace are just a littler of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, mooches, tiaras and other Jewelry. From the Dionne Quints an autographed photo of themselves, which will burely be an ax orname~t to the bridal quarters. In short, the y~un 6 couple, according to tbe b~~t o estimates, wi start b useAeeping with gifts worth not less than two million dollars. Would that be enou~h to st rt up housekeeping Nelson