Detroit evening times., 1945-07-17


TT is an open question whether the Amer
lean member of the managing board can
be controlled by the wise reservations at
tached to the bill in the House and beyond
that is the question as to whether any Amer
lean legislation can bind the management Of
the fund and the bank as whole.
If the reservations are not binding. the
Congress has given up the power over money
vested in it by the Constitution.
The Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act,
which is now law. in its new version gives 10
the President the right to make trade agree
ments lowering tariffs to what works out to
be Is per cent of the present rates This, to
all practical purposes, removes from the
Congress the right vested in it by the Consti-
tuition to make tariffs.
These three acts, taken together, vest in
the President and his appointees the complete
and untrammeled right to direct the foreign
policies of the nation, TO fix the value of our
money and to arrange foreign trade policies.
These are the principal functions of the
Congress in the formulation OF domestic poll
cies
nRESIDENT TRUMAN has not asked to
Il become a dictator, but he is about to re-
ceivs the powers of nearly absolute Dictator
ship-without the citizens realizing that he IS
receiving them
This final shift of power from the Congress
to the executive should be enough to alarm
every American, but, as matters now stand,
the President will be only a link in a chain
of dictatorship.
1t will be possible under certain conditions,
if the Nnted Nations charter and the Breton
Woods fund scheme become effective, further
to shift the power from the executive TO the
security council under the charter or TO the
governing board under the fund so that our
own executive becomes mere pawn forced to
do the bidding of alien groups or risk the
plunging of this nation into war or economic
chaos or both
Since Russia is now calling the tune,
the present arrangements can be so lockeyed
that we must dance to whatever tune Russia
chooses to plsy-or go TO war
We may be establishing domestic
dictatorship Which is subordinate to
foreign dictatorship and to an eUen
greater degree than Mussolini Was
subordinate to Hitler.
That is why the Communists, the assorted
coectivists, the P A. c. and other politically
alien groups have with limitless money or
ganized behind these measures and are fore
ing them through the Congress in the hope
that, once they are law, they can by the we'll
known process Of bureau decisions and rulings
be interpreted as instruments of collecuvlsm
TINE people. the Congress and 1t would
Il seem the President of the United States,
are being fooled by the clever representation
that these measures if they fail. will do no
harm while, if they succeed, they will oe
highly beneficial to mankind.
All of the foregoing was common know-
edge among the delegations Of the nations
assembled at San Francisco.
That is why the Latin American nations
organized themselves into a hemisphere bloc
and at critical point permitted the CONFER
ence to proceed and to save its face only on
the American pledge that the charter could
not be made TO bind this hemisphere.
Russia under cover, is now fighting TO
break that pledge
These are circumstances that the American
people ought TO know.