The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-07-14

Truman Committee
Seeking Aviation
Bargaining Now
BY Charles p. Stewart

MASHINGTON-ChaiImau Har.
~ ; Truman, OF the United States
senate committee on the subject
OF aviation bargaining between this
country and its partners in the
group OF United Nations Is imme d.
ately concerned with problems in
VOWED in the present world con
hict.
The Missouri solon is not I'M
mindful. however. OF the certainty
that a deal of diCkerins relatil p
Ia flying on an intercontinental
scale is bound 10 follow as suhSe.
quent peacetime Development. lie
already has assigned team OF his
fellow legislators 10 specialize on
his aspect OF the situation, with
a view rather TO the future than
the present
The Allied powers have the
strongest mutual interests In be
ing today, as accommodating as
possible toward one another. Each
wants all the help IT can get from
lis various affliates What they
need in the way of landing places
and other facilities they not only
get mighty readily, they are cordr
ally invited to ash for them. There
may he competition later on.
IA Senator Truman expresses H..
The time to obtain equitable post
war rights is now
So Senators Ralph o. Brewster
OF Maine and James VI. Mead OF
New York have been assigned 10
peek into the future and do all
available negotiating while the
prospect il 50 favorable
Where it will behooye them TO
ne particularly watchful is in Latin
America.
Swapping our products for those
OF our southern neighbors will he
big business as soon as normal
cys' restored
We can supply the bulk OF the
processed supplies that ihey VIII
continue to require They have
coolies OF raw materials that, for
climatic or geological reasons, We
are deficient in.
have. 10 their markets. and bring
ing them back 10 our processing
plants from their sources OF sup
ply 10 ourselves, will neCessitate
al least a generation OF liking. 1t
Is slow work building surface
freight carriers. We have good
network Of railroads but our neigh
bors have none al all worth men
tioning
For ourselves. we can get our
commodities down to our waters
edge and trans-ship them, landing
them in ports on THEIR waters
edges
Latin Americans cannot get the
stun inland.
Neither can they get their stun
OUT-land in our direction They
just have not got the necessary
internal ausportation
The old.fashioned remedy would
be
Build railroads
The trouble is that railroads take
too much time TO build.
At this juncture Argentina is
trying to build rail line TO Chile,
on its west coast. But his is like
trying TO link New York and San
Francisco in the 1865 or earlier.
Mexico has a railroad system.
MeKicsns will compete with US and
with our comparative air transport.
The advantage will he ours. for Ne
are away in advance OF MeXicoS
surface transportation And, as to
aviation. we will remain ahead in
definitely.
Brazil is different II has that
enormous Amazon 'interlsnd II
has developed air travel faster than
we have. We think OF Brazil as an
entirely new area. We think OF IL
as wholly primitive. II is not II
has an aviation system as good as
ours. or better The BraZilians are
our friends and they are decided
ly substantial people, with about
half our population and more than
our territory.
The Brazilians. though. need eX-
ternsl development They have the
room. inside. but It is unoccupied.
And they like Internationally so.
Back somewhere. in history. Por-
tugsl took a liking 10 the United
States and it's people are Brazil.
colonized by the Portuguese, has
remained pro-Yankee. II stays that
way. all up and down the Amazon.
II may stay that way indefinitely.
Let MS hope so.