The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-06

with them as much as many of his read
| ers. His articles serve the good purpose
| of making people Think
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER
! Copyright, 1s45. by King Feature syndicate.)
| NEW YORK.-Granting the right of the
British voter to turn down the man Who
saved them from slavery under Hitler the
people of the United States cannot be accused
Of meddling in their politics if we now tell
them that we have decided not to pay through
our own taxes, for their local version of that
brave new world of the future.
We are shipping fabricated houses to Brit
ain today which Americans could use and one
of the reasons for our shortage of food, cloth
ing and other comforts and the decline Of our
Wanted standard of living is our generously
toward the British, among others There is
not even pretense that we ever will be paid
for this material help and nobody can dis
guise the fact that it is paid for by the
American taxpayer. Thus, George Spelvln
American. who never was consulted in mat
ter of considerable importance to him, finds
himself paving taxes to the Treasury Ut
foreign nation which has just made decl-
sion to try state socialism at a Time Wnen
our own country, under President truman,
has been running out of Washington most OF
the key men who, under Franklin D. Roose-
welt, were determined to make 1t happen mere
The European war is over but it begins to
dawn on US that some people have taken it
for granted that the American worker ehall
contribute say one days pay each week or
say two day pay, if you Will, to the reoulld-
ing of Britain and Europe, shall 60 on living
in dilapidated and congested quarters SO mat
those nations may have nice little homes, ard
put up with denials of food so that they will
not 90 hungry and turn to bolshevism. few
DAYS ago, Harold Ickes, the author of CO.
lossal fraud on the people who were fright
ened and bullied into scrapping their oil heat
| ing systems and converting to coal, came out
| with the news that our people would nave
| even less coal this winter than last because
| we will have to ship six million tons TO
France.
| This conversion was great personal ex-
pense to thousands of householders and lrms
operatine plants But then. when these VIC
| TINS were committed, Ickes fell down on coal
production and delivery while those who had
stuck to oil were allowed increased supplies
! France has coal mines OF her own and she
can tap the German sources ana wares Is
close by. But the French people have taken
up loafing as a regular occupation since the
Americans drove out the Nazls and her ccal
miners always were focus OF communist IN
lection, the treachery which thwarteo produc-
ton for war; betrayed the French Armies
during the German invasion and now pre'
sumes. nevertheless, to try Petain for treason
and dictates the new line of the American
communists
A plain fact that nobody wants to admit
lis that France is lows grade nation IN all
respects sick beyond recovery from her own
vices and poisons From force OF long habit
she is playing the role of international n''l
sance. She is going communist anyway. and
whatever that may mean to the United States
in the future that is the way it is going to
be and no quantity of our coal or butter
machinery or meat Is going to make the
slightest difference.
We seem to overlook the fact that Harold
J. Laski is the chairman OF the so-called La
Dor party in English politics which has Just
elected Clement Attlee Prime Minister. Laski
is Red who likes to come to the United
States where his most affectionate cronles
are the one who calls himself David K. Niles,
a Boston radical whom Roosevelt moved into
| the White House as one of his selfless as
sstants, and Felix Frankfurter of the SUI
preme Court Like Frankfurter he is an I'M
pudent fellow with the same overbearing In
tolerance toward the institutions and faiths
that made this country. That has been OBJ
served in the conduct of many of the study
~
brought into Washington to prosecute their
betters. Now he is riding high in Britain and
we may expect him, in his pushful way, to
exploit the chance that he and his following
have schemed for over the years
| Laski and Attlee don't like the Franco GOV
eminent of Spain which, with the help of Nazi
Germany and Fascist Italy. won war
against the communists who had the help OF
Moscow. Churchill said few kind words fol
F franco on one occasion and Mrs. Roosevelt
in this country, butted in to deplore his re-
marks. The fact was, however, as Churchill
pointed out that Franco could have let Hitler
into Gibraltar and thus might have made il
impossible to pull off the American invasion
of Africa which pinched the Germans OFT
Had he done this another half million Ameri'
cans might have been killed in war. AS be-
tween a fascist Franco government and a
communist dictatorship run by Moscow, at
tended by another long spell Of butchery these
people indicate preference for the bolshevik
terror and their followers in the United States.
who will do none of the fighting have been
yelling for this version Of democracy
Our own interest in the British decision is
legitimate. Their interest in our last election
was an intrusion. We know Britain is busted
and. in common with the rest Of the world.
is looking to the Americans to continue in
definitely to send her things that We need
ourselves and help her build her brave new
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