Evening star., 1943-09-12
Joint >Trusteeship With US.
To Preserve Peace, British Aim
By Charles g. Ross.

England wants to work with the
United States after the war, and will
go to almost any lengths to do so. She
would like to see the United States and
England in the role of joint trustees
OF the peace for the transition period
Immediately following the war; these
two countries, with Russia and China,
to form the nucleus of whatever ar
rangement may be set up for the main
tenance of world peace.
Cooperation with Russia is deemed
imperative. The great mass of the
British people are deeply sympathetic
toward Russia; that fact alone would
compel governmental policy of CO.
operation. Added to this sympathy is
another powerful factor; the fear that
If way is not found by which England
and the United States can collaborate
with Russia, the Soviets and Germany
will be thrown together. With Russias
natural resources and Germanys tech
nical skill, they would make formid-
able combination.
Thus Eric Johnston, president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
just returned from a three-week series
of conferences in England with govern
mental, industrial and labor leaders,
summed up what seemed to him to be
the prevailing British thought about the
postwar world.
"As to details" Johnston said to the
writer, you get variety of opinion, but
found everywhere the keenest desire
for continued collaboration with the
United States and the feeling that Rus
sia, somehow, must be brought into the
picture"
In the light Of his observation in
England, what, Johnston was asked did
he think would be the world trend after
the war? Would it be toward or away
from governmental controls over indus
try and the individual?
Sees Free Enterprise Throttled.
He paused to consider his reply.
IT believe see after this war;" he said
carefully, "a strong tendency toward ma
ttonal direction and the throttling of
free enterprise"
Just what did he mean by national
direction?
Call it socialism, he replied.
The trend toward state socialism, he
added, was pronounced in England. He
instanced the governmental ownership
of the telephone system-and hastened
to add that ours was so much more ef-
ficient that there was no comparison.
There would be no revolution in Eng
land, he said. If state socialism should
be extended-as apparently it would be-
the English would find some other name
for it, and the growth would be slow,
evolutionary process, in keeping with the
habitual English way of effecting social
change.
There was something indigenous in the
soil of the United States, Johnston said,
that made for the indepence of the in
dividual. Opportunities that we took as
a matter of course were lacking in Eng
land. Our homestead laws. for one thing,
stimulated private enterprise. The i'm
migrant from Europe was likely to re-
act to his new environment and become
as keen as any for the preservation of
free enterprise.
Sees Little Difference.
Johnston was surprised to find in Eng
land that even the Socialist proposal to
nationalize the land--which seemed to
him the ultimate in Socialism-was dis
cussed in fairly conservative quarters
without the alarm and anger that such
program would evoke in comparable