The Herald Tribune, like the Times ran summaries of the big news of the week in its Sunday edition. The subjects considered worthy of attention this week included:
Franco and the UN
The Iran Situation and Gromyko's return from his boycott of the Security Council Sessions
The death of the League of Nations
The Japanese elections
Truman's rebuke, as Commander in Chief, of the Navy for lobbying against the unification of the armed services
The Senate Banking Committee's 14 to 5 vote in favor of the $1.25-billion loan to Britain. The newspaper noted that Leon Blum had come to the US looking for a $4-billion loan to France, Russia wanted $1-billion and China needed credit. The International Monetary Fund could not handle all these requests
Union leaders John C. Lewis's imitation of Gromyko by walking out on the coal strike negotiations
Petrillo's featherbedding demands on the movie studios after Congress passed a law forbidding featherbedding in radio.
The new friendlier US policy toward Peron's Argentina, contingent on the fulfillment of a pledge to eliminate Nazi influence. The previous goal had been to oust Peron
The summary also paid brief attention to:
General Marshall's return to China
England's offer to ration bread, which it had not done during the war, if the US would do the same.
The extension of the draft by both houses. The later vote to suspend it, which was Page One news elsewhere, had not made this edition.
The Senate passage of a housing bill designed to build 2.7-million homes for veterans.