Evening star., 1942-10-18
EIGHT PAGES.
Postwar Planning Agencies
Prepare for Peace Problems
Government Groups Lay Groundwork for Gigantic
Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Job
When Hostties Come to End
By Bainbridge CriSf.

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and beyond the ugly field of battle" "
President Roosevelt told the Nation on
December 8. two days after the Jap
anese attack on Pearl Harbor. when
we resort to force, as now we must,
we are determined that this force shall
be directed toward the ultimate good
as well as against immediate evil We
Americans are not destroyers-we are
builders"
At present score OF Government
agencies and we'll over hundred pri-
vate organizations are working on prob
lens of the postwar period-the era
Of ultimate good" Religious groups,
both here and in England, have been
extremely active in discussing just
and durable peace.
The picture, as gained through in
terviews with Government officials, is
one of planning to meet the immediate
postwar problems of relief and re-
construction, demobilization of soldiers
and war workers and conversion of in
dustry, as well as long-range planning
to maintain full employment, high
national income, an expanded social
security program, development Of nat
ural resources and redevelopment and
improvement In urban and rural areas.
Special Division Set Up.
In the international field, planning
Is being carried on by the State Depart
ment, the Board of Economic Warfare, the
co-ordinator of inter- American affairs
and the international Unit of the De-
partment Of Commerce. In the spring Of
1941 special division was set up in
the State Department to make studies
and analyses of developments in for
eign affairs. A publication of the TWen-
tieth Century Fund reported that the
new division was taking the Roosevelt
Churchill Atlantic declaration as a
statement of the preliminary objectives
to be sought in the postwar world
and is studying the basic requirements
for achieving them"
Under an executive order of July
30 1941, the Economic Defense Board
now the Board of Economic Warfare
was directed to make Investigations
and advise the President on the rela-
tionship of economic defense measures
to postwar economic restriction and
on steps to be taken to protect the
trade position of the United States and
to expedite establishment of sound
peacetime International relationship
Recently created within the board, head
ed by Vice President Wallace, is a unit
for reoccupation and reconstruction,
which, it is said, will deal with economic
and relief problems in foreign areas.
The Army, TOO, is training officers for
the administration of occupied areas.
Under the Presidents reorganization
plan No. /, put into effect by an act of
Congress in July, 1889, the National Re-
sources Planning Board was established
as the planning arm of the Executive
Office of the President, assuming the
responsibilities of the National Resources
Committee and the Federal Employment
Sterilization Office.
"Our job is one of correlation said
Charles w. Eliot I'd, director of the
board.
Mr.. Eliot said every technique
lunches, dinners, conference groups and
correspondence-Was being used to keep
fully in touch with the work of other
agencies. Back in November, 1910, when
the board received its planning assign
ment from Mr.. Roosevelt, the work was
started by informal meetings with rep
resentatives of Government, labor, agri-
culture and industry taking part. Mr.
Eliot said they have been fruitful in
getting a general understanding.
Many Agencies Involved.
1.-THE work must be done by many
agencies and by the people in their own
home area thinking about their own
preblems," Mr.. Eliot added.
Placed on the wall over Mr. Eliot's
desk in his State Department Office is 6
copy of the rights and opportunities
we in the United States want for our
selves and for our children now and
when this war is over" The rights
In January, include:
The right to work; the right to fail
play adequate to command the neces-
stiles and amenities of life in exchange
for work, ideas, thrift and other socially
valuable service; the right to adequate
food, clothing, shelter and medical care
the right to security; the right to live
In a system of free enterprise; the right
to come and go, ito speak or be silent
free from the spyings of secret politica
police; the right to equality before the
law; the right to education "for work
for citizenship and for personal growth
and happiness" and the right to resi-
and to the opportunity to enjoy life anc
take part in an advancing civilization.
These rights, Mr.. Eliot observed. begir
sto spell out the Four Freedoms"