Evening star., 1947-06-25


experience with his Madison Square
Garden peech which had been ap-
proved ii advance by the President.
1t is becoming more clear every
day tha. neither Greece nor Turkey
lis the light approach to a solution
of the troubles that lie beyond the
Atlantic. However, President Tru-
man i sometimes a tenacious man
at 'th. wrong time. But Secretary
Marshall, before this, has driven
throtgh to his objective and I hope
thathe will do so this time.
Holds Out Only Hope.
Secretary Marshall's proposal
hobs cut the only hope to solve the
problems of Europe If Russia con-
tirues to be intransigent, or even
lie Russia, as is to be hoped. pulls
With the team instead of holding
lack. Secretary Marshall's ap-
.broach to the distressing European
question is via Western Europe. He
does not propose solution in terms
of huge ornaments and marching
men, but in terms OF rehabilita-
ton and reconstruction. Apparently
Secretary Marshall realizes that
communism cannot be held in check
by bullets. The only way to hold
back communism is by bread. And
the best bread for this purpose is
bread that is won by those who
subsist on it.
Once again, time is desperately
of the essence 1t was in the early
days of the war that England and
Russia bought time for us-time
dearly paid for by bombed cities
and by millions of slain and wracked
human bodies. But now 1t Is our
turn to pay for the necessary time
and we must pay in the full knoWl-
edge that the precious time that
we need is desperately short. And
that the time is short, and there
fore probably more expensive than
it otherwise might have been, Is at
tested by the fact that the sun has
already spent its longest day this
year in the North.
C0lQ WINTER Near.
Soon 1t will begin again to spiral
southwark. The days will grow
shorter in Western Europe as well
as in the United States and bleak
and cold winter will begin to turn
the leaves into clear yellows, browns
and bright gold.
Food must be in good supply in
Western Europe before the first frost
comes. Northern Europe will need
more than the. Gulf Stream to keep
it from freezing. 1t will require
coal. 1t desperately needed it last
winter. Western Europe needs coal,
not only for warmth but for the
necessary revival of industry and for
turning the wheels of transportation.
Only today are people beginning to
talk about the possibility of getting
enough coal out of the Ruhr to serve
at least some of the needs of West
ern Europe.
But Western Europe will need
more than bread and ccal to restore
confidence and hope. Western
Europe will need reconstruction of
its industrial life. For years, one of
the most difficult questions involving
our own economy has been our ex-
cess cotton Why not send to Europe
what we can spare, and, ii necessary.
plan on a greater acreage for next
year so that we can continue to send
cotton abroad? If we should send
cotton and other raw materials, of
which we have surplus, to Western
Europe it would help to restore the
economy that was broken into little
bits there by Hitler, whose; economic
strength was supplied by the cal
lous and ruthless cartelists Tpf
Germany.
To withhold from Western Europe
the help that we alone can give
would not only be to say that We did
not care whether the now politically