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ites Patent Offices ‘ Y, SEPTEMBER 20, 'TdftAssail MAGEDONIAN ee: / e . ‘ion Policies m Of Terror’ By FBI; lanned Inflation’ nator Robert A. Taft (R., olicies of the Truman Ad- .ce President charging the like “campaign of terror” t employés and the Senator - Administration's policy of -: + Taft pg lat " . By DEWEY L. FLEMING [Chief of Washington Bureau] ‘San Francisco, Sept. 19—Senator Robert A. Taft tonight closed eight days of presidential soundings in Lalifornia and headed eastward to Nevada. The climax of the visit was the Senator's :attack on what he calls the Truman Administration's policy of “planned inflation,” and the ten- dering of his own program for halt- ing runaway prices—in an address before San Francisco's Common- wealth Club. “Outstanding Proposals Outstanding among his pro- posals were: . 1, Stabilization of wages and prices at some new level, perhaps fifty or sixty per cent above the 1939 level. 2. An increase of the minimum wage from the present 40 cents an hour to “at least” 60 cents. Tells OF Oversight Actually the Senator did not give 1947 GUERRILLAS dus second-class matter . eee Batt ore Post Office ; Zone 3 < . Distortion es c > TRON BOLDER SPOKESMEN DECLARE Attacks In Area Of Major ae Towns Seen As Move To [Machinery For Security Is Called Such As To Be - Cut Communications Guerrillas in Macedonia and ‘Thrace grow bolder as attacks are made on major towns. Page 3 By PHILIP POTTER tSun Staff Correspondent] | Drama, Greece, Sept. 19-—-British and Greek military men in Mace- ‘Profitable To Potential Aggressors Only’; - Criticisms Based On Role Of Russia By PAUL W. WARD {Sun Stef Correspondent} Flushing Meadows, N.Y., Sept. 19—Implying that the donia and Thrace, admitting the|chances of world peace might be better if there were no deterioration in the security situa-United Nations, spokesmen for South Africa and Argentina tion in this narrow strip between the Aegean sea and the mountains of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, see in stepped-up guerrilla activity a move to cut the communications between Greece and Turkey. The Communist-led bandit forces, which formerly confined their op- erations to raids on commutities nestling close to the mountains, are boldly moving down into the plains for attacks on villages at the very outskirts of major towns such as Xanthi, Komotini and Alexandrou- polis, 27 Bandit Activity Increasing A British officer with the training missions which have recently been ordered to withdraw to Salonika from Alexandroupolis and Drama said today that bandit activity had been “increasing daily” in the area close to the Turkish border in Thrace. So active have the guerrillas been in the Alexandroupolis region ‘voice to his minimum wage boost that the commander of the training proposal in his address, although|¢@™P of 3,000 recruits felt it was it appeared in the advance texts of too hazardous to take them to a lthe address and already was in|point 2 miles from the city for [print in local newspapers before|2 Problem on which they were jhe “spoke. | At a press conference held im- engaged. - = Alexandroupolis is also the head- mediately alter she speech the quarters for a brigade of the Greek Senator sald it was an oversight|4/™y, one of four guarding the line that he failed to read the recom- of communications along the rail- mendation. “I must have lost my place inj border. reading my manuscript,” he ex- plained, “I now reaffirm the state- road from Salonika to the Turkish Rail Operations Slowed © Even this heavy concentration of ment made in the text. My failure{troops has not prevented heavy te read that part was purely acci-|/sabotage to the vital rai! line with dental. . When the Senator. who is chair- (Continued on Page 9, Column 3) TRUMAN DECISION. - | DUB ON EUROPE AID "* ‘{Marghall To Join In Conference 4. Over Week End :} Presdent Truman on last leg of joumey home......... Page 3 Washington, Sept. 19 (4)}—An early decision on what the Truman : Administration will do about Eu- 2{Tope’s urgent pleas for emergency amt wa: in sight tonight as the President headed into week-end .feonferences with top-level aides. There was renewed talk of a “}spectal session of Congress. Nr. Truman 1s due home from “this vacation cruise tomorrow. . Oficials of the American delega- *ition té the United Nations said in 1jRew York that Gen. George C. Marsaall, Secretary of State, woult come io Washington Sun- tay, presumably tb confer with the result that its operations have been badly slowed and curtailed. In. agreement with many of the/comes. Greek military men with whom I have talked during the trip along the frontier, the British major said he favored both the arming of vil- lagers in Macedonia ahd Thrace and ah increase in the size of the Greek army to enable it to bring More pressure against the guer- Tillas. : mo : Pointing out that much of the army is now scattered in small gar- risons, he insisted that it was not an army’s function to protect vil- lages against looting and that, in- Stead, their occupants should be armed for protection, ~ May ‘Seek More Troops - Meanwhile, Greek army men predict that the United States, which has earmarked half of the Greek aid program of $300,000,000 for the security forces, will be sub- jected to increasing pressure from the Greek general staff to boost that amount snd permit the calling up of more classes. Brig. Constantine Evangeliou. commander of the brigade op- erating in the Drama Plain. in- sists that the only alternative to the closing of Greece's northern frontiers by -United Nations or United States troops is an increase in the size af Greek forces. _ jArgentine Plan For Special ‘year campaign against the veto was| through the world, Only one of {The Steering Committee was told the world organization’s General Assembly here today that its operations are worsening the international situation. Its “debates have taken a turn where recrimination and counter-recrimination between differing parties have VETO BATTLE impossible,” Harry Lawrence, South Africa's chief delegate, said, add- ing: “There is a mafaise in the organi- zation which is spreading to our people. Surely, in such an atmos- phere little progress can be made’ in the settlement'of grave inter- national problems or in the creation of that new spirit among nations which alone can lead to the build- ing up of a better world.” - No Suggestion To Disband José Arce, Argentina’s chief dele- - gate, concurred in that judgment and added that the machinery of the organization to maintain inter- national peace and security is such at present as to be “profitable to potential aggressors only.” Neither speaker went so far as to suggest that the not quite two- year-old organization be disbanded. On the contrary, they put forward . suggestions—including an Argen- . tine proposal for a “counterveto”—, Russia And Poland Vote Alone + increase its chances of maintain-}- The steering committee passedling world peace. . the proposal on to the Assembly} Both based their criticisms of by a vote of 9 to'2. Russia and/tne organization's course to date U.N. Parley On Issue Voted Evatt backs United States propo- sal for year-round “little assem- bly” in the United Nations.Page 4 New York, Sept. 19 (4)—Russia lost the first round of the veto battle in the United Nations As- sembly tonight. Russia protested in a heated meeting of the fourteen-nation steering, committee against Assem- bly consideration of an Argentine proposal for a special United Na- tions conference on the veto. Ar- gentina and others seek to abolish the great power veto. Poland were the two against. Intia,/iargely upon the role the Soviet” ~ China and France abstained. Union has played within it and, jn This meant that the veto fight particular, on what Mr. Lawrenre definitely would ‘burst out in the/catied the “wild discourse” yester- Assembly itself and in the Politicalldgy by Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the Committee as soon as its turnixremlin’s chief delegate. ot : Kisseley Takes It Seriously J, Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet dele- Neither made even passing m gate who has cast nineteen of the tion of bis proposal that the twenty Russian vetoes recorded in prope! t the Security Council. fought stub-jeral Assembly take steps to ¢ bornly against sending the Argen-|the Soviet system of censors! tine item to the Assembly. _ [the legislatures, pulpits, press Gromyko charged that the two-l/other organs of public opin! seven delegation chiefs who a ‘|dressed the Assembly thought ff worthy of comment. The single individual who took it seriously was Kuzma V. Kisselev, chief delegate of the Soviet Union's “autonomous” Byelorussian Repub- lic, The stocky, blond physician who is Byelorussia’s Foreign Min- ister, seconded the Soviet proposal for making liable to expulsion from, the society of “peace-loving” na- tions any government that does not “suppress” what the Kremlin re- gards as “warmongering propagan- dists.” Paraphrase Of Vishinsky Talk His speech was in this and all other respects a detailed para- phrase of Mr. Vishinsky's discourse. The most violent passage of the lat- ter, it was noted today, had been repared before Gen. George G. Marshall, Secretary of State, opened in the Assembly here Wadnasdae a, naltinal affancive “hostile” to the Soviet Upon. - Arce Charges Veiled Threat He charged furthermore that “certain influential circles and peo- ples are behind the campaign. ‘ Gen. George C. Marshall, Secre- tary of State and chief United States delegate proposed Wednes- day that the United Nations liberal- ize the veto right... Gromyko did not name names but Dr. Jose Arce, of Argentina. who has asked the Assembly to ap- prove the general conference on the veto, snapped back that: Gromyko was making a veiled threat. Arce said it had been sug- gested the United States, Britain, France and China were behind the move. . T. F. Tsiang, China's delegate, spoke up to say that the time is not yet “ripe” to change the veto. More Debate Set For Monday ry ee