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Evening star., 1946-03-28
Letters to The Star
Loan to Britain and Recovery
Discussed in Questions
TO the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Is it true that we abruptly cut of
lease-lend to England and have contin-
ued it to Russia? Is it not true that our
loan to England is credit instead of cash?
do not know; Congress does. If these
things are true, why should there be
long disputation over the loan? Why
should Southern Senator, professedly
pro-English, say that he is not in favor
of the bill because he no longer wants
Uncle Sam to be Santa Claus?
Does he not recall the fact that George
Canning, statesman of England, was the
father OF the Monroe Doctrine? And
that the British Navy made possible the
early enforcement of that doctrine. by
which the United States was able to
grow. unmolested by any foreign power
having designs on South America or
Central America?
Opposition to this credit is not under
standable to one whose youth was
stepped in the King James version of
the Bible and Shakespeare, who listened
in early childhood to the stately cadence
of Milton, who later learned to love
Wordsworth and Browning, and whose
spirit was lifted into the realm of beauty
by Keats, Shelley. Francis Thompson,
and on and on--a glorious host!
But you say, "All this has nothing to
do with dollars and debts" Let us con-
slider. We may suppose our Congress-
Qen know that Britain long has been
our biggest customer. In 1888 world
trade amounted to $25,000, ,000, 900, of
which Britain's purchases were $4,500,-
100000, and of this. $4,000, 900 went to
the United States.
In order to buy war goods from abroad
England bought from her citizens their
foreign investments (mainly in the
United States) and paid for them in
pounds sterling.
But dollars were needed and England
Joined certain other nations, pooled all
the United States currency they had,
and carefully rationed the dollars in
order to buy from us. If the dollar goes
up as related to the pound, one can see
how the commonwealth will be hurt.
can goods is so impoverished by her long
fight that she cannot pay for necessary
food and the raw materials to restore
her export trade, how can the world find
an even keel? How can we keep our
men busy on farm and in factory II our
best customer is unable to buy from us?
How can the whole world recover eco
nomic health If the British common
wealth is sick?
A man OF vision realized these things
and led us into the way of wisdom by
lease-lend. His successor is following
the same path in advocating this credit.
Shall Congress do less than that which
Is needed to start the wheels of indus
try moving in England and thus
throughout the earth?
MRS. META FOLGER TOWNSEND.
Lenoir, N. c.
Evening star., 1946-03-28
Priorities for Homes

1Ile UullulIlS pTlOTlCy system I'M
posed on the construction industry
by the Civilian Production Admin
istration is drastic measure justi-
fed only by the critical nature of
the Nations housing shortage. It
Is unfortunate that new restrictions
should have to be applied in the
construction and material fields at
time when industry Is struggling
to readjust itself to postwar condi-
tions. But the widespread reports
as to the deplorable conditions
facing returning servicemen have
been SO convincingly confirmed by
data reaching Housing Administra-
tor Wyatt that emergency steps by
the Government have become in
evitable.
The stringent priority order will
halt all commercial construction
except that deemed to be monde
ferrable" and essential by regional
review committees set up by the
CPA. Projects already under way
will be permitted to carry on, but
all new undertakings will be held
up by the edict. This sweeping curb
on nonessential public and private
construction is expected to result in
a greatly increased flow of building
materials into the home building
field, now suffering from a severe
scarcity of lumber, plumbing equip
ment and other supplies. Without
these materials it will be utterly
impossible for home builders to at
tain the breath-taking goal of 2,700,-
600 new homes set by Mr.. Wyatt for
the period ending December 81, 1947.
Yet Federal housing officials declare
thft this number of homes must be
produced this year and next If vet
Grams and others are to be housed
decently and if potential social evils
of overcrowded apartments and
houses are to be averted.
Mr.. Wyatt insists that even with
the priority system in full ehect, the
material shortage will still be trou-
blesome unless an incentive is pro-
vided material producers through
Federal subsidy program. This
phase of the Wyatt attack on the
housing problem has encountered
storm of opposition at the Capitol,
as was to be expected. 1t is costly
proposal at time when there is
urgent need for less Government
spending. But Mr.. Wyatt asserts
that some pump printing is neces-
sary to stimulate production of
cheap building materials needed for
home construction. If subsidies
actually will accomplish what Mr..
Wyatt says they will, they will be a
justifable emergency investment in
the welfare of veterans, of their
families and of the community at
large,
Evening star., 1946-03-28
No Time to Gamble
By George FieIdine Eliot

Our foreign and military policies are
interlocking and interdependent
Just at present, we are going through
a period of political and Of military
transition. We are endeavoring to get
the United Nations running as the
stabilizing influence in world affairs, at
the very time when our military power
is in process of drastic change from
its wartime establishments to peace
establishments of character and size
for which we have no precedent In our
history.
These twin uncertainties bear upon
each other. If the political status of
the world were well set and without
serious friction, there would be less pres
sure to make haste in filling American
military requirements. If our military
forces were firmly organized and ready
to meet any eventuality, the political
climate of the world would be at a
lower temperature, among other reasons
because we ourselves would be less
jittery.
But with both situations in state of
f1ux, our difficulties and confusions are
vastly increased in each department by
the lack of support from the other.
Department is supporting the Secretary
Of War and the Chief of Staff in seek
ing extension of the Selective Service
Act. The need for this extension lies
in the fact that manpower is the foun-
dation of military strength, and the
assurance OF an adequate supply of man.
power is the first essential to sound
military planning.
The enactment of the Selective Serv-
ice Act was the first step in the creation
Of the Army which won the war, be-
cause no plans at all could be made
until there could be an accurate esti-
mate Of the number Of men that would
be forthcoming, and the times at which
they would become available.
In building our postwar military forces
1t is likewise necessary to know how
many men will be available, and when
they will be available in order to depart
from Improvisation and build upon the
firm rock Of certainty We do not know
yet how the volunteer system is going
to work under postwar conditions. We
have not had sufficient experience with
it, as long-range proposition, to place
full dependence in it or to learn Just
how much dependence we can afford to
place in 1t. We do not, In particular,
know whether the new pay bill provid-
ing for 20 per cent all-around increase
for the armed services will materially
step up recruiting or not-presuming
that Congress passes 1t without sub
stantial alteration, and we do not know
whether even the present rate Of vol
Evening star., 1946-03-28

alleged agreement" and insisted on
postponement until April 10 in order to
enable the agents of the U. s. S. r. in
Teheran either to coerce the present
government into submission or to ar
range for coup d'etat and establish
Tudeh party administration by the
same methods his government had used
in Azerbaijan.
The latest dispatches from Moscow
report that whatever the frame of mind
OF Prime Minister Stain may have been
last week when he indicated his con-
fidence and hope in the UNO in letter.
interview to the correspondent of the
Associated Press, he had changed in the
last few days.
This change is attributed in the re-
ports from Moscow to the Intelligence"
sent to the Kremlin by the agents who
are watching the trends of public opin-
ion" in this country.
lnefe nave been speeches from the
floor OF the Senate, and agitation in
certain voclferous quarters where the
cause OF Russia is placed ahead of the
peace of the world and the security of
the Nation.
These reports are said to be presented
to Stain as the true picture of the
sentiment in America while Mr.. Byrnes'
attitude is said to be describe- as a
temporary tempest in teapot" dictated
by minor consideration of domestic
policies which will not last if the Russian
representatives hold firm at the New
York meetings.
Editorials not only from the press we'll
known to be RuSSia'S apolopjSts h,,t
from newspapers which have been de-
nounced as "reactionary'' are being
forwarded to Moscow to show that the
most bitter antagonists of che U. S. S. r,
shy at the idea of a showdown with the
Soviets for the sake of the UNO or any
other cause except the defense of
American territory.
These reports are said to have
strengthened Stalin's advisers who are
clamorlng for action now" and to have
weakened the few advocates of close and
sincere cooperation with the newly
born United Nations ORGANIZATION.
Evening star., 1946-03-28

untary enlistmentS will be maintained
II the Selective Service Act is allowed
10 expire, thus removing one of the
incentives to volunteer. The young man
who Is going to be picked I'D by the
draft anyway and be required to serve
Tor ID months or two years. is quite
likely to enlist in order to obtain the
very considerable benefits of three-year
voluntary enlistment If the draft in
centive were removed, it would be un-
certain whether these benefits would
prove as attractive as they are now
or as they may become if the draft law
is extended.
We cannot afford such uncertainties
We do not live in a stable, ordered
world In which such risks can be taken
IN winch 1t Is safe to experiment in these
matters. We live in a tortured, mis-
erable world which is just beginning
TO recover from the most terrible war
IN history, world in which men are
STRIVING according to their lights to
establish safeguards against the re-
currence of such a holocaust, but
world in which such striving must stand
on the firm ground of order and sup
ported law.
Our military needs at the moment are
for available, well-trained units-air
groups, naval task forces, Army divisions
with their proper allotment of officers.
non n-commissioned officers and spe-
clallsts, ready for the performance of
duty wherever called upon This means
first drawing together in such units the
permanent personnel now available
II this process could be carried on
with the present and expected flow of
voluntary enlistments, that would be
the most satisfactory method of securing
the new regular establishments, and
thereafter in maintaining them at full
strength, but there are indications
that voluntary enlistment is falling off,
and uncertainty as to the future in this
respect We need the extension of the
Selective Service Act for a period of
one year. That will give us time to see
how voluntary enlistment goes, and 1t
Will gives us time to advance, in par
allel, our political spearheads into the
present areas of uncertainty.
When the year is up, perhaps we
shall find that there is sufficient DO
ltical progress to make some military
adjustments possible, and that the draft
will no longer be necessary Or perhaps
we shall have reason to be very glad in
deed that we did not dispense with it
now. What we cannot afford to do Is
to take chances in a world SO charged
with menace and world in which we
have SO overwhelming q responsibility
for the building Of better future.
(Copyright. 1e46J
Evening star., 1946-03-28
This Changing World
By Constantine Brorn

Moscow's decision to order its repre-
sentative, Ambassador Andrei Gromyko,
to walk out from the Security Council
meeting, when the majority of the men,
bers decided to hear the case of Iran
against the Soviet governments wishes,
is regarded in high diplomatic circles
as an indication that the U. S. S. r.
will brook no interference with its vital
interests" In any quarter Of the globe.
The attitude of Gromyko during the
meeting with Secretary Byrnes and
Frances representative, Ambassador
Henry Bonnet, is reported to have been
adamant. He sang the same theme
song throughout the long and heated
discussion: Either the Iranian request
Is postponed until April 10, or walk
out"
This uncompromising stand is inter-
preted to mean that the Soviet govern
willing to talk things" over and play
along with the other members of the
United Nations family, is not partic-
ularly interested in what happens to the
UNO.
Mr.. Byrnes, who believes strongly in a
lasting friendship with Russia-but not
at the price Of making mockery out of
the Security Council-took a strong
stand In the Russian-Iranian affair be-
cause he realized that any sign of weak
ness would doom the organization in
which all the peace loving nations have
placed their highest hope Of being spared
another war
4
Ever since the Council assembled in
New York last Monday the principal
delegates knew that Moscow's claim that
an agreement had been reached with
the Teheran government was an "exag-
geration." Ambassador Husseln Ala
had informed them that the conditions
set forth by Moscow were unacceptable
since they would make Iran into an
other puppet state. His government,
Ala said, was not willing to become d
Russian satellite unless the members
of the Council decided to sacrifice Iran.
Gromyko knew the details of the
Evening star., 1946-03-28

lions Of lives in both Europe and
Asia can be saved If every American
does no more than set his table for
an invisible guest" by denying him.
self twenty and twenty five per cent
of the fats and wheat he would
ordinarily consume. AS for inter-
national measures, State Depart
ment representative at the UNRRA
meeting in Atlantic City has made
it clear that great blow could be
struck against the starvation threat
If only Russia's armies would stop
living of the countries they occupy
as in Austria-by requisitioning
for themselves land needed to pro-
duce foodstuffs for the civilian
population.
But though it is only by such
voluntary and international action
that the immediate crisis can be
surmounted. the idea of rationing
cannot be dismissed entirely as far
as next years possibilities are con-
cerned. Former Governor Lehman,
UNRRA,s retiring director general,
feels that the emergency will be of
much longer duration than the next
four months. and for that reason
he wants to have foodstuffs rationed
again. In his opinion, which is
supported by special UNRRA COM
mittee. the situation would not now
be so bad as it is food commitments
made to General Clay in Germany,
for instance, might not have had
to be reduced) had the admins
tration been less hasty about lifting
controls after VI day. Six months
ago, in other words, little foresight
on the part of our own and other
governments might have resulted
in less critical conditions today.
Accordingly, although the present
crisis cannot be mitigated by lament
ing the failure to look ahead earlier,
there is this much to be said for MIR.
Lehman's counsel: If there is con-
vincing evidence that the situation
may continue to be highly critical
next year, his plea for a resumption
OF rationing ought to receive the
most earnest consideration. and it
ought to be acted upon promptly
II the facts so warrant. Neither
President Truman nor his Famine
Emergency Committee has ruled out
the possibility that such a step may
yet be found necessary. The need
for foresight in this sense is as great
as ever.
Evening star., 1946-03-28

fooling. that this was "just ma
neuver to win public support and
get the company over barrel"
From all of this, it would seem
a little silly to attempt to predict
the course Of the new UAW presi-
dent. It will be better to wait and
see, not what Mr.. Reuther says, but
what he does.
Evening star., 1946-03-28
DIR. Brown Urges Cooperation


To the Editor Of The Star:
In his address at Fulton, Mo-, Winston
Churchill emphasized the significance
Of the relation Of Canada to both
Great Britain and the United States.
Canada is free and independent, but
attached to Great Britain by the logic
OF the situation as well as by ties of
sentiment
If Great Britain is in danger, Canada
Is in danger. If Canada is in danger,
the United States is in danger. We
all are united by common interests and
mutual defense, as we quickly realized
In 1889 when we were neutral.
1t is time we ignored old grievances
and prejudices and honestly and
courageously faced the present inter-
national situation.
The outstanding fact which two
devastating wars within single genera
ton have taught us is that Great
Britain bore heroically the brunt of
terrific assaults on freedom and democ-
racy Only the British Navy, Army and
air force gave us the time to prepare
for our common defense
1t is significant to note that in both
these world wars Russia was saved
by her alliance with Great Britain and
the United States. (Nor can it be for
gotten that Russia was at first on the
side OF Hitler) The accusation that
Great Britain and the United States
have formed hostile bloc against
Russia is, therefore, all the more fam
tastic and unjust. And 1t is revolving
that any American should support so
grotesque an implication.
The truth Of the present alarming
state Of affairs is that the Soviet Union
repeatedly has demonstrated Q policy Of
having its own way in its dealings with
the smaller nations on its borders from
the Baltic to the Pacific. With the same
technique that Hitler employed, it now
is menacing Turkey
II the opposition of Great Britain, the
United States and many other nations
to the policy of the Soviet Union con-
stitutes hostile bloc, we frankly must
accept the logic of the situation. We
cannot abandon these nations in order
to appease Russia.
The tactics of Russia to confuse public
opinion in America and to separate us
from our friends are quite obvious.
The issue is not whether or no we
like the British. 1t simply is whether
we will stand together in the defense of
our common interests and the United
Nations Charter.
We should be grateful to Mr.. Churchill
the son of an American mother-for
his honest and impressive reminder of
the inescapable facts of the present
situation.
The fruits of victory are turning bitter.
The welfare of millions of people seri-
ously is menaced by famine, disease, un-
rest, hatreds and despair. Nothing
should be permitted to disturb the
harmony of our relations with the people
of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
We still are bound together in peace as
in war in the defense of freedom and
democracy for the benefit of all mankind.
PHILIP MARSHALL BROWN,
President of the Washington Branch
of the English-Speaking Union.
Evening star., 1946-03-28
Choice of Kings English

To the Editor of The Star:
When Winston Churchill said: This
is me-" he was upheld by some gram
marians, who called the form: This
is I" an affectation.
Mr.. Churchill's form may be King
Georges English, but in King James
English we have on record: "It is I; be
not afraid?" PAUL r. HEYL.
Evening star., 1946-03-28

The last California earthquake.
frantically described as a local
tremor, nevertheless Travelled 5000
miles and caused Florida chambers
OF commerce to quake with mirth.
Evening star., 1946-03-28
Times Chunoe

From the Philadelphis Evening Bulletin
Some is years ago q prophet forecast
two cars in every garage. And now there
are lot Of garages which are merely
candidates to relieve the housing short
age.
Evening star., 1946-03-28

1t isn't perfect world so long as
they still attempt to put radio COM
mercials into doggerel-and then
try to sing them.
Evening star., 1946-03-28

The new Jap constitution formally
renounces war. This Is one way Of
getting even with a war that re-
nounced the JapS.
Evening star., 1946-03-28

A girl has to be really pretty to
look well in academic cap and gown,
Evening star., 1946-03-28

There is no accounting for taste.
Some people spell cue queue"
Evening star., 1946-07-11
Newsprint Price Up,
May Increase 209o
BY the Associated prcss

MONTREAL, July 1.-THE price
of neWsprint began to jump today
and may reach point 20 per cent
higher than yesterdays rate within
the near future
The Abitibi Power & Pa per Co, one
Of Canada's three largest producers
announced an increase of $3.50 q
ton over the previous price of SGT in
New York, and other companies are
expected to follow suit.
Another increase of about 10 per
cent to bring the price to around $50
Is looked for in the near future to
cover increased labor costs. The
$3.50 increase announced by Abitibi
was said to cover only the company s
loss on the change in the value of
the Canadian dollar, effected last
Friday.
The newsprint industry, for which
Montreal is the capital, says it is
determined to avoid such a price
sky-rocketing as occurred in the
early 1920s when a peak of $l20 was
reached in the spot market. How
ever. it feels it can no longer delay
substantial increase over the regu-
lated ceilings in effect during the
war.
The way was paved with the death
of the OPA and the end of the $67
ceiling which American consumers
were permitted to pay.
Evening star., 1946-07-11

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