THE WEEK IN REVIEW

...The Committee approved a five per cent "across-the-board" slash in individual rates on top of the cuts previously approved...

...A large trained reserve of peace-loving citizens would never go to war or encourage war, if it could be avoided," he contended...

...A Fancied Distinction Invoking a distinction which is more fancied than real, President Truman claimed that universal military training "is not conscription...

...In no case, however, did anything emerge that approached an acceptable national formula under which workers, their take-home pay slashed by reduction of hours, overtime wages, incentive pay, bonuses, etc., could command wage regarded by organized labor as adequate to meet the increased cost of living...

...Roosevelt...

...Harry S. Knight, .Sunbury, Pa., secretary of the American Bar Association, was placed on trial in Scranton last week on charges of conspiring to misappropriate funds during the reorganization of a company...

...Count Bernadotte, vice President of the Swedish Red Cross, who figured prominently in preliminary German peace negotiations, said he was convinced Hitler was dead and that Heinrich Himmler had killed him...

...The measure is now pending in the Senate...

...1 deadline...

...Truman said...

...Also named in the conspiracy was Donald M. Johnson, district attorney of Snyder County and son of former Federal Judge Albert W. Johnson, who recently quit the bench under fire of charges of fee splitting in cases under his jurisdiction...

...They would be no closer to membership in the armed forces than if they had no training...

...Mitchell, Washington, voted in favor...

...That isn't so in our business...

...Hope that the Truman Administration would come forward with an overall national policy for dealing with the delicate issue of wages and prices faded again—for the moment, at any rate—when the White House revealed early this week that a scheduled announcement on the subject would not be made until later...

...Truman...

...Louis Post-Dispatch exposed the fact that the resolution renouncing all claim of the Federal Government- to the oil was co-drafted by W. W. Clary, a special assistant attorney general of California "whose fee is to be paid in part by oil firms with a tremendous financial stake in the legislation...

...Reorganization...

...Boys under the program he recommended, Mr...

...Until we are sure that our peace machinery is functioning adequately, we must relentlessly preserve our superiority on land and sea and in the air," Mr...

...The general reserve, he said, "would be available for rapid mobilization in time of emergency, but it would have no obligation to serve, either in this country or abroad, unless and until called to the service by an Act of Congress...

...President Truman struck at those who argue that "compulsory training violates traditional American concepts of liberty and democracy, and even that it would endanger our system of government by creating a powerful military caste...

...MVA...

...The Committee approved changes which prohibit the Chief Executive from tampering with 13 major Federal agencies, leaving 90 the President may reshuffle, and adopted a proviso that either House or Senate acting alone may, veto any change proposed by the President...

...The President recommended that each young man should enter military training "either at the age of 18 or upon his graduation from high school—whichever is later—but in any event before his 20th birthday...

...A lot of people seem to think," Wilson said, "that if you cut the week down from 48 or 45 hours to 40, you employ more people...

...Truman said, "would not be enrolled in any of the armed services...

...The President claimed that even the atomic bomb would have been useless "unless we had devoloped a strong Army, Navy, and Air force with which to beat off the attacks of our foe, and then fight our way to points within striking distance of the heart of the enemy...

...He said the purpose of the program "is just the contrary," and that it "will have just the contrary result...

...Federal reports showed that the number of strike-idle workers was cut in half during the past week, from about 450,000 to 225,000, as the Conciliation Service reached settlements in a number of disputes...

...Special rules and regulations would have to be adopted for their organizations, discipline, and welfare...

...I certainly feel," he said, "that now that the war is over, Congress, the country, and the people are entitled to a statement as to whether or not there are any further commitments to our Allies or others...

...THE WEEK IN REVIEW PRESIDENT TRUMAN showed his hand on the bitterly controversial issue of peacetime conscription this week when he went before a joint session of Congress to demand enactment of a program which would make one year of military training compulsory for the first time in the peacetime history of America...

...2. Statehood for Puerto Rico...

...C. E. Wilson, General Motors president, conceded that the workers would vote for a strike after he flatly announced that the corporation could not and would not grant any wage increase now...

...Oil...

...The nation, he said, needs a postwar military organization composed of the following elements: "FIRST—A comparatively small Army, Navy, and Marine Corps...

...The GM president said that the barrier to full production was the 40-hour week...

...In a special message to Congress last week, President Truman urged that the people of Puerto Rico have a chance now to decide their own political status and urged legislation providing for that opportunity without specifying the form it should take...

...Palestine...

...We have only certain places a man can work...

...He recommended a fiat five to eight per cent wage increase on the 45-hour work week with overtime pay thereafter, asserting that such a combination would give the worker approximately the same "take-home" pay that unions were demanding in the form of 52 hours pay for 40 hours work...

...Truman proposed legislation for "various alternatives" to be submitted to the Puerto Ricans: "1...

...Wilson said he thought the wage-price problem could not be solved in time "to avoid serious strikes...

...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., promptly demanded that the State Department disclose any other secret agreements made with other nations by Mr...

...Ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia, who is opposing Jewish aspirations in Palestine, released the text of a letter sent him by the late President Roosevelt in which the latter pledged not to act in the Palestine situation without consulting the Arabs as well as the Jews...

...We must have men trained to use these weapons...

...FAO...

...Puerto Rico...

...Meanwhile, the real showdown in the labor-management dispute drew nearer this week when employes of the huge General Motors Corporation took part in a strike vote called by the CIO's United Automobile Workers...

...British Intelligence officials disclosed this week that the investigation to determine whether Adolf Hitler is dead or alive has ended without any evidence pointing to the possibility that he is alive...

...Research, new materials, and new weapons will never, by themselves, be sufficient to withstand a powerful enemy...

...They would be civilians in training...

...President Truman urged that Congress "pass this legislation promptly—while the danger is still fresh in our minds—while we still remember how close we came to destruction four years ago—while we can vividly recall the horrors of invasion which our Allies suffered—and while we can still see all the ravages and ruin of war...

...Establishment of the first permanent body of the United Nations Organization was completed at Quebec last week When delegates from 30 nations formed the Food and Agricultural Organization dedicated to improving world farm production, raising nutritional standards, and bettering the conditions of rural populations...

...This action, if it survives Senate and conference committee votes, would provide an additional bonus of $563,000,000, largely for those in the wealthier brackets...

...The total slash was $279,000,000 more than approved by the House, $454,000,000 more than the Treasury Department's recommendation, and $629,000,000 more than the "safety" limit set by Secretary of the Treasury Vinson...

...Langer, North Dakota, and one Democrat, Sen...

...There is no way to hire 20 per cent more people and have them come in Saturday only...

...The right of the Puerto Ricans to elect their own governor with a wider measure of local self-government...

...Supporters of the plan to create a Missouri Valley Authority patterned after the TVA suffered another setback last week when the Senate Irrigation Committee voted against the proposal by 12 to 2, Democrats joining with Republicans in opposition, while one Republican, Sen...

...THIRD—A general reserve composed of all the male citizens of the United States who have received training...

...The Senate measure provides for outright repeal of the excess-profits tax on corporations, while the House version had called for a reduction of rates for a year, to be followed then by repeal...

...The year of training, he claimed, "could well be used to raise the physical standards of the nation's manpower, to lower its illiteracy rate, and to develop in your young men the ideals of responsible American citizenship...

...See Clayton Fountain's article, Page 5 of this issue...

...Showdown Draws Near Although the nation's strike situation showed "definite improvement" this week, the basic clash between management and labor, cutting deeply into the whole problem of reconversion, remains very much an unsettled problem...

...Wages could not be raised, he said, because of a restrictive Office of Price Administration automobile price formula, additional expenses which have developed in wartime, and cost of new machinery and plants...

...The Progressive will 'publish a complete interpretive analysis of the President's message in next week's issue...

...The Senate launched debate at mid-week on the revised version approved by its Finance Committee, and the measure was slated to go to a conference committee of both houses for compromise settlement of outstanding differences...

...The Senate Judiciary Committee last week whittled down the broad authority to reorganize the Federal Government requested of Congress by President Truman...

...A last-minute Finance Committee amendment provided greater relief for the higher individual brackets than had been first agreed upon...

...The Committee also voted complete tax forgiveness on service incomes of non-commissioned officers and enlisted men during the war and set up a plan under which officers could pay their taxes over a three-year period without interest charges...

...The country's most critical strike, that of 200,000 soft coal miners, was called off byTohfi L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, after the/Govern-ment's conciliation efforts had failed...

...4. A dominion form of government...

...If he works five days a week, the plant is just idle on Saturday...

...Hitler...

...Cutting Our Taxes Congress raced this week to complete action on the tax reduction program before the Nov...

...Names And Notes In The News Trial...

...The bitter battle between the state governments, notably California, and Federal authorities over the control of billions of dollars worth of oil in the nation's tidelands took a new turn last week when the St...

...The trainee, upon completion of the full year's training, would become a member of the general reserve for six years, after which he would be placed in "a secondary reserve status," under the plan urged by Mr...

...In the form in which it emerged from the Senate Finance Committee, the tax bill provides a reduction of $5,629,000,000 in Federal levies, $2,648,000,000 of which will be relief for individuals and $2,841,000,000 for business concerns...

...Conflict between the U. S. and Britain over Palestine sharpened this week as the latter showed no eagerness to yield to demands that 100,000 Jews be admitted immediately...

...The resolution was submitted to the California oil firms before it was sent to Washington, where the House adopted it with only 11 dissenting votes...

...Lewis said that the issue—the UMW's demand for the right to bargain for 40,000 supervisory mine employes^would be fought out "at a later and more appropriate time...

...Conscription, he said, is "compulsory service in the Army or Navy in time of peace or war...

...3. Complete independence...

...SECOND—A greatly strengthened National Guard and organized reserve for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps...