The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-11-04


Last Thursday Senator Russell of
Georgia told the Senate what he had
observed in his recent tour around
the world. The Senator's address
pointed out many places where inn
provements were desirable, both in
our foreign policy and in our actions
in foreign countries incident to the
war
In general, the views expressed
by Senator Russell were concurred
in by the four other Senators who
accompanied him on this trip.
Heretofore, both on the floor of
the Senate and over this radio, 1
have touched on many of the matters
brought out in Senator Russell's
speech. These comments touched
upon both the need for greater eff
ficiency and coordination by all Uni
ted States Government Departments
in our contacts and dealings with
made these observations some eigh-
teen months ago in the Senate, much
improvement has taken place in our
dealings with matters in foreign
lands. For example, for long
while the Lend-Lease operations OF
this Government, the activities of
the Bureau of Economic Warfare,
the transactions of the Co-ordinator
of Latin-American affairs, various
dealings of the R. F. c. and the I'm
port and Export Bank, were all run
independently and without much CO.
ordination between these agencies.
The result was that due to a lack
of coordination we have furnished
large quantities of Lend-Lease
equipment to foreign nation
through our Lend-Lease Admins
traitor, while at the same time we
were buying at wartime prices
through the Bureau of Economic
Warfare much critical material
which we needed for our armed
forces. In short, we were giving to
the very foreign nations much
equipment while buying other
equipment from them at the same
time. Due, l believe, to the infor-
nation assembled and made known
to the Senate, and by constant re-
quests for greater coordination be-
tween these agencies of our Govern
ment, large measure of coordina-
ton has at last been effected
Some time ago President Roose-
welt placed many of these agencies
of our Government under a single
head. The appointment of this sin
gle Coordinator by the President is
a great step in the right direction
and Il am sure the new Co-ordinator
is alive to the possibilities of MAX
ing future savings which will
amount to possibly billions of dol
lars to the American taxpayers.
''The new Coordinator, Mr.. Crow
ley, man with wide business back
ground, recently appeared before
the Appropriations Committee and
expressed his intention of running
our foreign enconomic affairs hence
forth on give nd-take basis as
far as circumstances would permit
trading of this character, without
injury to the war effort.
while the five world-touring Sen
ators were in the Southwest Pacific
Country, they were astounded to
hear one member of the Cabinet of
that country make public state
ment that his country was supply
ing us with the same amount of
goods in dollars as it was receiving
from us under the Lend-Lease. ANY
one conversant with the facts knew
that this statement was both gross
ly untrue and unfair for that par
ticular country had received much
more than it was giving to us in re-
turn. The Senators called this I'M
true public statement by member
of that Cabinet to the attention of
the Prime Minister of that country.