COAL h coa strik n ~ h d a o urp i e tod y. Fir t, the hite Hou e announced that Presi ent Truman h d callod the Union, meaning Jon L. Le is, to meet ith repr aentatives of the Com ani s, or a conference. The President, said the announc ment, was going to present to thi■ A a propossl for getting the m·ners back to wor in a hurry. There was no official state ent of what the proposal ■ ight be, but the inside word was that President Tru an's plan called for Lewis to agree that the •i~ers should return to the coal pits unaer a temporary arrangementa -- go back to work while negotiations continued. lould Lewis accept this? bat would be the result of the conference called at the White House? le could only wait -- or rather we didn't have to wait. Lewis jumped the gun. Immediately after the an ounce ent that the Presi ent was going to present his proposal, the Big Boss of th Union O AL --- an ounc t a h had or r th m ners b k on the job. He s cal l ·ng o th strike for a t o-week rio a tru ce , hile ne oti : t ions continue,. So, if he Pre ident · ntended to propose a temporary return to ork -- why, Le is was beating him to it. Thie seemed lik a maneuver of a characteristic Le is kind -- the Union Leader with the big voi ce and bushy eyebrows bein g famous for springing surprises. The latest is an announce ■ent about the conference at the hite House. President Truman ■ Ki ■i ~ urgw a settlement to make the strike truce permanent. ~ : ~ ~ - ~ - 0 The truce~.;:c-just in time -- with the ~ I A Q _ news today~~•si::R: . . ~an unending series of stories about the critical results of the coal shortage all over the country, the tie-up of industry and the i p~fing of things generally. Today, Former President Hoover indicated that th e coal shortage, because of the strike, -t/J threatened to cost lives of millions i n t e famine £QAL - 3 strick n nds bro d. ll r ert Boov r arriv in San Fr ncisco today ter i round-the- orld investig tion of hunger con ition ade the grimmest of stat m nts about starvation in many countri~s -- st t ments that c eon the wire at just about the same time as the news that the coal strike ha been called off for two weeks /l- s r t T op o n fi r in ti to · o e en m nts t u , in e f ect, th r posa to end t r1 i t r i lion, ev~n hun re ' n fifty illion ol rs. ut th m dm nts ere defe ted nd the e ur p sed. Th count ·s - forty-six and thirty- our The loan to Britain, h·ving been o ayed by the Senate, no goes to the House of Representatives. 0 n h 0 r i n r y r n y h o e i n r vin n ovi- r o o av · th in i B n f Ol' 1 nt in, n l OU i t o otov · n such hio th t t1e conf r n f ~ r i n ini bro of t ir pro eedin s abruptly.- T er are r v i lie i n or he orld n thi n r- eaK-up i anl r - r v · t i t is l to r C 11 b l y i · o n o ne ati ti 0 y. T b c.;, i · r em t th st n \ 0 i n o · t t . ti in E u 0 be • b r o r n h n t t n 0 i n · . 0 n l to t T 1 n i i o n, t ,. C · rr · n n ·, r , br t bot n ftm c· n pro 0 1 0 t t e r nay. Th u · e s tion ~ th t or ni r f t e i Four ahettld et in ris n erson lly t e u the matter of th tre ties , t-11.... or OU er s - .., 'Iii • La a peace conference tl'4. 0 t e Uni ... .,d tion cou d be eld. hereu on the resent m etino of the orei n inister~}athered. They r n led bot the , c - . , { ~ ~ ~ ~ peace rr· ngements ,i'1Rlit could ' t agre on any major " / \ oint - not even on the pro lem of Trieste , for a eace tre ty ~ O n it I ta ry. - J.. -, ~ y4.fi:, ~ --- edne day, we heard ho Secre ary A Byrnes ha mane another summary propos 1 - to summon the peace conference of the United Nations, anyway . The Byrnes su ge tion me&nt tha~, since the oreign inist rs couldn't agree, they should let the eneral peace conference h·ve ~ tre · ties. I\ To n try at or n ou tR- terms o otov objecte , # n th t' h t - 3 t io otov t ' · n n i ~ o t an a y r o, an till n · tions over t . ere are t chn1c ly t . r - e re oned th t i the d te ere not et no ' e 0 con er nee oou not be held until next inter - mor t an a year and h If *• fter the nd of th ar. olotov was adamant, as usual, He stated t a t the treatie ust be ran up b the major po ers. The pacts of peac must be all fixed up and ready for the peace conferenoij of the United atio s too ay - rubber stamp. Then Bevin ent red the argument. He said that olotov's attitude eant that Soviet Russia, by objectin to any point, would stop all progress, "In that event,n dee ared Bevin, "there c n be no conference". lhen he brou ht~ that ominous word - veto, the veto th t the oovi t cl im. To o otov, Bevin sai bitter . . his is n tony a veto on holding conference, but a veto n the ri bt of nations hich · ough n r t X r J th 1r V n h u ri · l n s orte ous or s. " s h"n s no t · n " B Vin ri d r · t · u , ly, "i mounts ractiQ3.lly ' to n · tio lO th or d veto 0 er. His ~n ry tone as st rtling, an the ominou i e· th t he f lun t olotov as startling too -- the char e that Soviet R1ssi · to exer ise •• a world veto pow r. s resuming The other delega es ere jarred by the flare-up. "They stiffened in their chairs", says the ne sat•,•*• dispatch from Paris. There was uic call - for adjournment. This me nt in effect - let's stop it. And so, adjourning, they arose, and alked to the door. hen on their way out, they eem to realize hat they ~~e doing - th t this djournment mi ht be permane-nt, the break-up. T ' 1e Paris news i patch puts it in thee ors: "Th seem to r l i they ne r th oor of th bi conf rence roo that it prob ly m nt confessing to the orld that F - 5 --------- --------~--- th fou bi t un b to r r n n •• t ·nt co fer nc in br 1. " he d 1 g e ' th ispatcb go n, "h sit ted, stopped t ad turne bac. They began ch tting on any t pie hich occurred to them - hile their tc2pers co led". You c n visualize the picture, the Foreign Ministers and oth rs of the delegations of 4he .IJ-lh4,ri- ~~, 9Tn-t. Brit in, Franc':, &M Soviet Russit;,~ d \ A J " t ~ ) l\turnin back and starting to talk on any rambling topic - talking aboat the eather, the horse races, the latest book, their favorite rest urant in nris - anything to take minds off the uestions of a peace conference and the menace of the Soviet veto. They returned to their pl ces, and there, having cooled off they agreed that it as time for lunch, and they adjourned all over again - deciding to go in session again later in the day. FOLLO FuRElJ!_ I ISTERS Here's the latest, the follow-up - and it rounds off the dra a in great and appropriate style. After the tenseness of the clash, there was a quick return to cool heaaed reason. Probably the Foreign Ministers were sobered by the realization ot how near they had come to the ■ oat dangerous kind of international break. So thei cooled off plenty, and started aking conceaaioas even lolotoY. Having bad lunch, they went to BeYin'• Office, and there had ao ■ e informal, heart-to-heart conversation. The result of this is a late afternoon disp tch announcing -- agree ■ ents on several points concerning a p•ce treaty with Italy. One of these points means a large concession by Molotov. It concerns Italian Colonies. Hitherto, Soviet ~ussia has been making deaands tor control over Italian Territory in North Africa -- which would give the Soviets a strategic footbo d lQL10W FOREIGN MLlSTfil!S - 2 in the Mediterranean. So what did they agree upon today -- after the dramatic flare-up. The Foreign Ministers have decided to place the Italian Colonies in Africa under the trusteeship of the United lations, this trusteeship to be administered -- by Italy. This proposal, was put £orward by French Foreign Minister Bidault, and it settles the contest for the Italian . Colonie• with a co ■ pro■ ise. The Colonies .... to be handed back to Italy -- under the aegis of the United lation1. Another point they agreed upon was a conceaaion to the Soviets -- italy to pay war reparations to Russia to the tune of a hundred aillion dollars. And there was bar ■ ony on a point concerning the trial of war cri ■ inals. So aybe the dangerous quarrel earlier in the d y had good results -- bringing the statesmen around to a startled realization of how near they had co e to a worse clash than ever between the Western Deaooracies and Soviet Russia. A cooling of tempers after a battle can often lead to an1l_oess of good sense and agree ent. ITALY I The Italian Cabinet lias accepted Bu ■ " __. -,....._.,. _____ _, Yesterday, after the abdication 4 ~ Victor E■ anue~ t-11...--hm»N., it see■ ed none too f'.. -iJQ ce tain that Bu ■bert, bis~aon, would be okayed by the present Ministry. But be ha b en, and the late t fro ■ Bo ■ e tell• or huge crowd• ot loaarcbiata ~ united inA.tren1i d oYation for the le• ting ot Italy, Bu ■bert the Seooad. Th st ti d up by a stri _ e to y,, n Ar b strike prot ting ag ·nst the proposal to dmit a h n r d thousand Jewish immi r · nts into Palest· . Threw s viol nt disturb nee at Cairo, where a huge oro d, streamin ... ~ cu..~, from t!i'e-"ID08que of,..,e'liA" ' get, i-n4,o 11'-f~ ith the police. The battle as so violent that polic men _ ushed their way into the mos u ith their sho son. And to ear shoes i n ~ mos e is, to sacrilege. a_ o am edans, att11 desecration and /\. 7-o· rG,. 41r.,.Alexandria ~ tied up~ a~d_, the tlosle a A ~ L) in Jerusalem were on strike •-1\tbe same t.hing ""-fl•~ throughout Palestine. The anti-Zionist w a l k o u t ~ ~ ~ · ~ ~ lv~le-71.~~ extended to Ind i , to Ceylon) an~ x•a •~ Peru. The mention of eru might sou d like a typographica error, but we are told that even (J{;!estJ;;;t!u.{{/--Aaerica oham _ edans today went on strike against Jewish Zionism. Yean hile,, the attempt of the rabs to enlist Soviet u aia in their ~•ki beh lf goes on. And th Soviets appear to be responding - to some extent. Tod y the ussi · n l .... -L-- . 5 ~ 1 d on u ~ .tJe1ru5Aarrive t J e rusalem, here he confirm d the st tement that tomo rro he i~s~,:it~h Arab com unists. These Arab Reds have appealed to .. l fu s ~ . ~"'£-":..,' ~""\ thi!O-~oviet ConsU~be;vin procurig llusss>~•._1,4'\ intervention against Jewish immigration in the Holy Land. Bo you l i e to be . college ~ ~ % : : : ~ m ~ a a M : ~ ~ ~ ~ a r e ~ is the story:- Be ore thew r, in Ne Y-0r ~tate alone, there ere one bun red and four thou and full time f""->L.-1,Y~ ~ - students ~• enrolled"" Now;, because of the return of veterans ho are t king advanta e of the GI bill of Rights, the number is increa;,:;;,-so rapidly that A by this fall there ill be two hundred thousand, ) nearly double the pre-war number. There just isn't room for them in the existing colleg 1The Re York State Department of Education, with the enthusiastic cooperation of Geneva 1 will be one of these,:where thousands of young , _ ~ -t;;L...-v, c... ora.~ -t;,,.._,.• vv• •-n. en ill be~ee•meM~ Plattsburg wil be another. a£f ~W'a,A:~ s a result of~thts expansion there is Bt-\ l•••A need for more college teachers. If you are -.I_ Y""' ~ ~ 6l ~ --H•-t- interes te"f. rite to Dr. llen or Dr. iller in care A of the State Education Depa tent, Albany. I am using New Yort State as an example. The same situation exists in other states. And now ou~ dynamic young radio educator, ?rof. Bugh James.