Detroit evening times., 1945-08-04
WESTBROOK
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Enough

Enough
GRANTING the right Of the
VI British voters 10 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 10
pay. through our own taxes, for
their local version of that brave
new world OF the future.
We are shipping fabricated
houses 10 Britain today which
Americans could use and one OF
the reasons for our shortage Of
food, clothing and other COM
forts and the decline OF our
vaunted standard of living is
our generosity toward the Bri-
tlSh, among others.
There is not even pretenSe
that we ever will be paid for
this material help and nobody
can disguise The fact that II is
paid for by the American tax
payer.
THUS, George Spelyin. Ameri-
Il can. who never was con-
suited in a matter Of consider
able importance TO him, finds
himself paying taxes 10 the
treasury of foreign nation
which has just made a decision
TO try state socialism at a time
when our own country, under
President Truman, has been
running out of Washington most
of the key men who, under
Franklin d. Roosevelt. were
determined 70 make it happen
here.
The European war is over
but il begins TO dawn on us
that some people have taken II
for granted that the American
worker shall contribute say one
DAYS pay each week or say two
days pay, if you will, to the re-
building of Britain and Europe,
shall go on living in dilapidated
and congested quarters so that
those nations may have nice
little homes. and put up with
denialS of food so that they will
not go hungry and turn to
BolSheviSm.
A few days ago, Harold TckeS.
the author OF a colossal fraud
on the people who were fright
ened and bullied into scrapping
their oil heating systems and
converting =to-coal,- al,-came- out
with the news that our people
would have even less coal this
winter than last because we will
have TO ship 100000 tons 10
France.
THIS conversion was a great
Il personal expense 10 thou
sands of housebolders and firms
operating plants.
France has coal mines OF her
own and she can tap the Ger
man sources and Wales is close
by.
But the French people have
taken up loafing as regular
occupation since the Americans
drove out the NaziS and her
coal miners always were a focus
Of Communist infection.
A plain fact, that nobody
wants to admit, is that France
is a low-grade nation in all re-
SpectS, sick beyond recovery
from her own vices and polSonS.
She is going Communist, any
way. and whatever that may
mean 10 the United States in
the future. that is the way il
is going TO be and no quantity
of our coal or butter machinery
or meat is going 10 make the
slightest difference.
/ WE seem TO overlook the fact
w that Harold J. Laski is the
chairman Of the so-called labor
party in English politics which
has just elected Clement At
tlee prime minister.
LaSki is a Red who likes 10
come 10 the United States where
his most affectionate cronieS
are the one who calls himself
David X. Niles, a Boston radi-
cal whom Roosevelt moved into
the White House as one Of his
selflesS assistants. and Felix
Frankfurter of the Supreme
Court.
Like Frankfurter he is an i'm
pudent fellow with the same
overbearing intolerance toward
the institutions and faiths that
made this country -
That has been observed in the
conduct of many of the study
boys of the Ivy League whom
Roosevelt brought into Wash
ington TO persecute their bet
ters.
I ASK and Atlee don't like
II the Franco government Of
Spain which. with the help Of
Nazi Germany and Facist Italy,
won a war against the Com
muniStS who had the help Of
Moscow.
Churchill said few kind
words for Franco on one oCca-