DOWN TO EARTH WITH POINT FOUR.

Analyses U.S. President Harry S. Truman's suggestion for a bold new program for making benefits of U.S.' scientific advances and industrial programs by extending aid to underdeveloped areas of the world. Interdepartmental battles being waged in the executive departments as to where Point Four activities are to be located and who will be in overall charge; Proposal that the activities will have to be headed up by an entirely new federal agency; Information that the widespread desire of backward countries for mass production brings up the question of large plants versus small; Suggestion that commission should be send to the region under study.