The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26

lation ever came forth. We fail
to see how legislation on the sub
iect can be enacted now in peace
| time when the Congress and the
| administration were unwilling te
do anything about it during oul
| recent national crisis.
European Trip
Space will not permit a discus
sion of our recent trip to Europe
We would like, however, from
time to time to give some OF the
high lights. For the present we
would like to say that seven 0
the eighteen members of the
Postwar Economic Policy ane
| Planning Committee, of which we
have the honor to be chairman
visited some IA European coun.
tries. We were we'll organized
for the trip, having made arrange
ments through u military ano
state departments to e the peo-
pie whom we wanted to inter
view when we got into the sew
eral countries to be visited. We
were accompanied by represen-
tatives of the War and State De
partments, as well as the director
of our staff and a special con-
sultant. In the countries visit
ed we made a practice of first
seeing u own military and state
department officials and getting
as comprehensive a picture of the
economic situation in that coun-
try as was possible. We followed
this up with an interview of the
various governing heads of each
country visited. Since the pur-
pose of our visit was to determ-
inc primarily the economic con-
dition of each European country
and what the opportunities for
postwar trade with those eoun-
tries we're for America, we inter
viewed the leading cabinet MEM
bers of each government. This
policy was followed in England
France, Germany, Luxembourg
Belgium, Denmark, Norway
Sweden, Russia. Persia, Egypt,
Greece and Italy. Among the
outstanding men we saw and in
terviewed were Prime Minister
Atlee and all English cabinet
members, General Eisenhower,
General Clay twho- is really the
American economic authority in
Germany, the French Cabinet,
Pope Plus XII, and Generalissi-
mo Stain and his various COM
misars. We also conferred at
length with our English Ambas-
sador Winant and Russian Am
bassador Hartman, as well as
| with Secretary of State Byrnes in
London.
The trip was a most strenuous
but Informative one. We return
ed with certain definite impress
sions and recommendations,
which will be Incorporated in a
report which we are now prepar-
ing to the Congress and the coun-
try-and with a fervent prayer of
thanks to God that we r Ameri-
cans and for Americas insti-
tutions. Pending the issuance OF
our report we made a prelim-
mary report to the Speaker OF
the House, to the State Depart
ment, and to the President. We
also issued a brief press report
which has brought to u desk
hundreds of letters and common
datory editorials. We hope in
| subsequent columns to deal more
specifically with conditions which
we found in the countries WIS.,
tied. In the meantime our word
may be taken for the fact that
the whole of Europe is in a de-
plorable state. Hunger, depriva-
ton, pestilence, and the cheap
ness of human life are prevalent
in many of these var devastated
countries, and the situation over
there is most depressing. Ger
many is a monument to the fol-
ly of Hitler. One sees the devas-
tation and destruction of every
thing worthwhile there and then