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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
Big Four Collapse Foreseen

There are two important reasons for be-
ference was foreseen in advance of the ad
journment by the ministers themselves.
One is the prompt action by Secretary
of State Marshall to unity action in the
three western occupation zones in Ger
many, with the French foreign minister,
M. George Bidault, voicing agreement with
the proposal in principle at a private din
ner in the French Embassy in London.
The other is the fact that German lead
ers within twenty-four hours of the Lon
don breakdown had met in secret to ar
range for meeting with United States and
British officials, if possible on next Satur-
day, in the hope of working out program
for joint action to restore at least this part
|of the Reich to its proper place in the
world of industry, finance, commerce and
Economics.
Certainly the western democracies may
be expected to get western Germany back
on its feet especially with aid from Ger
man leaders in that region. If it results in
a division of the Reich, as seems newt
able since Russia refuses to cooperate in
any proposal for united Germany, the
kremlin alone is responsible.
The most distressing aspect of this is
that the cold war" between Russia and
the democracies inevitably will be fought
more desperately than in the past.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
World Finances

Inc treasury gave an interesting and
highly enllghtening report the other day
1t said that private interests and refugees
IN this country own twice as much in TO-
reign investments as does the entire United
States Treasury, the meanwhile the tax
payers of this nation are being called upon
to support most Of the world while these
investors reap profits on their investments.
1t may be good thing the average Amer
lean knows nothing of finance. If he could
really understand this report his blood
might reach the boiling point.
1t brings to mind the fact that Queen
Wilhelmina, who has been supported by
American taxpayers, ownes apartment
houses in Washington and New York Re-
Gently the American taxpayers sent many
tons of wheat to her for use by the children
OF her country. She gave it to the French IN
return for choice wines and cordials.
The average American should understand
that.
Records show that the taxpayer can e1'
pect at least 20 per cent of his donatloIs
to other countries to 60 into the olach
market and graft. Even Mr.. Marshall mas
said that and maybe the American OF aver
age intelligence can understand that.
It's simple matter. Mr.. and Mrs Amerl-
ca have been classed as unenlghteneo SUCK
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1o, 1s47
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
in nroportion with its resources 10 IN
clude public terminals, tobacco stor-
age warehouses, ship repair faclh1les,
nearby sites for heavy industry ana
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
CITY auditorium large enough 10
meet needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern Nortn
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets ana
food processing, pulp wood productlon
and factories.
Emphasis on the regions recrea-
ton advantages and Improvement OF
resort accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Caroiina's -to-market and prl-
mary roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head Is
land.
Continued effort to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization OF Bluethenthal
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina's health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and in
cluding a Negro Health center.
Encouragement Of the growth OF
commercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and Count,
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
The Difficult Partnership
BY JOSEPH ALSOP

tary of State will Clayton's visit
to London last spring. He came
after the announcement Of the
Marshall plan, but before the Par
is conference Of sixteen nations.
Naturally, he received a warm
welcome. Naturally, also, he
found the British anxious o ex-
plain the pecularities of their
position, as nation which is
at once part of Europe, the bank
ing house of the sterling area,
and the political and economic
center of a huge non-European
commonwealth. If these difficult
ties had been understood by the
Americans in Paris, most of the
friction with the British at the
Paris conference could have been
eliminated.
Instead, Clayton. simply be-
cause he had been badly brief
ed, actually made matters much
worse. He brushed aside the
problems which were troubling
the sleep of every sensible mem
ber of the cabinet. He said that
in American eyes, Britain was
just one European nation among
many. And he added contempla-
lively that, really, the place
where the Marshall plan seemed
likely to do the most good was
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
GOOD MORNING
And what he greatly thought, he
nobly dared. Homer.
Safety And Christmas Trees

Since electricity replaced candles on
Christmas trees there has been marked
decrease in home fires during the holidays,
with the danger not only of heavy property
loss but the needless sacrifice of human
lives as WELL
Still the Christmas tree, beloved by
everyone since Hessian troops introduced
1t at Trenton in the Revolution, remains a
menace, if on a smaller scale than former
ly, unless precautions are taken to prevent
fire while it is lighted
Certain simple rules should be observed
both as to its position and the freedom
from holiday fixtures in its vicinity.
Here are five safety suggestions that will
further decrease the peril:
)D That trees should be solidly braced
and stationary, to avoid overturning.
(2) They should preferably be placed in
q container of water to increase fire re-
sistance.
(3) An approved-type fire extinguisher
should be near by at all times.
az Christmas tree lights should be out
before Christmas celebrants take to their
beds.
(5) The tree lights should be frequently
inspected for frayed wires and loose SOCK
cts.
While these are things that heads of fam
lilies should do in their homes, they 20
double for managers of clubs or other pub
lie gatherings, where fires could lead to
panic and wholesale loss of life.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

LONDON, - The empty and
embittered Council of Foreign
Ministers produced at least one
fortunate by product - an op-
portunity for Secretary Mar
shall and Foreign Minister Be-
vim to get to know one another
a little better. Until now, the An
glo-American postwar relation
ship has suffered from a silly
inner contradiction. Those ex-
tremely practical and unsenti-
mental men, the military staffs
of the two nations, have long ago
established t he closest strategic
partnership between America
and Britain. But there has been
so such intimate collaboratin in
the political and economic fields.
In fact, the last year has been
marked by petty but mounting
irritation, and baseless but in
creasing suspicion between the
makers of American and British
policy. Men who make policy
are fortunately or unfortunately
only too human. And when men
deal with each other at a dis
tance irritation and suspicion al
ways arise.
A good example of the kind of
thing that has made needless
trouble, is former Under Secre-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

ers by certain of the worlds superior peo-
ples And they've proven it.
Just how long Americans will tolerate
this may depend upon the level of American
intelligence. This brings to mind what Cap
tain Tony Siminoff said in Washington some
time ago.
Tony is a native of Russia. Came here
when twelve and alone. Rose to captaincy
in the American armies. Posed with Presl-
dent Truman signing bill to aid old Span
ish War vets. So he isn't just native Rus
sian.
Tony said: What do you expect Of these
Americans? Give them ball game, bottle,
a fast car and no responsibility and what
does he care, or know, what is actually hap
pening to him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

WASHINGTON - All the cur
rent fuss over the outside She
nanigans of the military brass
has brought to light a sinister
gimmick in the Navy's Holloway
plan for training reserve Off
GERS.
1t explains why the top Navy
officials are ignoring tn e 1049
vacancies which are going beg
ging in the classes at the acade'
my at Annapolis. And it makes
it possible for the tight academy
clique in the Navy to get even
greater control of that service
in the future.
This, in spite of the fact that
the Holloway plan sets out to
do just the opposite.
At the start of the war, when
the Navy suddenly had to take
on thousands of reserve officers,
it was obvious that previous re-
serve officer training programs
had been completely made
ouate. And it became almost as
obvious that there wasn't
enough varied talent among the
Annapolis graduates to supply
all the demands of modern war
fare. Fine records as executive
officers on ships, it w a S soon
discovered, didn't qualify men
to be propagandists, petroleum
engineers, production experts or
to handle the numerous other
Jobs which the Navy had to per-
form in a modern war.
This situation, at the begin
ming of the war, put an excel
lent m arine engineer, whose
previous knowledge of radio was
a keen interest in Jack Benny,
in charge of producing radio
propaganda broadcasts aimed at
the Japs.
The Navy eventually collected
an excellent array of this spe-
cial talent. But the process was
struggle, and didn't help the
war effort. And most of the high
powered specialists left the
service as soon as they could.
Recognizing that modern war
fare demands men who have
wider educational backgrounds
than Annapolis can furnish, and
approaching the n e d for a
great many reserve officers, the
Navy produced the Holloway
plan, named after Rear Adm.
James I. Holloway Jr., the man
most responsible for it's Gre
alton.
1t has been hailed by edu-
cational experts and others as
a fine thing, which should bring
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
Early Seaboard Charts

The British Admiralty is to present thir-
ty-four copper plates Of sea charts show
ing portions of the United States eastern
seaboard which were prepared by British
engineers nearly 180 years ago.
= They date back to the 177O's and form a
part of collection of two hundred in a
chart atlas known as the Atlantic Neptune.
They are in the archives of the Admiralty s
photographic department.
In friendly gesture the Lords of the
Admiralty now offer them to the country
whose territory they show.
Sixteen plates are destined for the Mas
'sachusetts Historical Society in Boston.
three for the John Carter Brown Library
Providence, four for the New York His
torical Society, New York, and two for the
American Philosophical Society, Philadel-
.phia.
The University of Michigan's William l.
Clements Library of American History, al
Ann Arbor, will receive one, another goes
to the South Carolina Historical Society a,
Charleston, S. c., and a third to the
State Dept. of Archives and History at At.
1anta, Ga.
The Florida Historical Society at ST. Au.
gustine will be invited to accept five of the
plates, and the final one is earmarked fo,
the Louisiana Historical Society at New Or
leans.
A complete set of proofs drawn from the
whole "a plates will be presented to the
Library of Congress, Washington, the New
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
They Don't Change

Now that the economic and political par
titioning of Europe is emphasized by the
failure of the Big Four conference IN Lon
don to reach agreement on reparatlons and
other problems involved in any European
peace program, it is quite worth while to
note that the devastating policies OF the
Russians today have changed little since
the bolsheviks gained their power by mur-
der and rapine.
The record is to be found in letter writ
ten on October 27 1919, by the then Sec
|retary of State, Mr.. Robert Lansing, to
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman OF
the Foreign Relations Committee, and its
enclosures. Mr.. Lansing "had the honor"
to send Mr. Lodge, he wrote, memoran-
dunn on certain aspects of the bolshevlst
movement in Russia" The memorandum
he added was prepared from original
sources by the Division of Russian Affairs
of the Department of State.
"As you will see, the statements are
based almost entirely on translations from
bolshevist newspapers. These include the
official organs of the All-Russian Central
Executive Committee of Soviets, of local
ASS~SSAS'AA
Communist Party (bolsheviks). The boil
sheviks' own statements are supplemented
by the reports of American representa-
tives.'
Having thus authenticated the informa-
ton passed on to Senator Lodge, Secre-
tary Lansing wrote:
"Since the overthrow of the autocracy
in March, 1917. the Department of State
has studied developments in Russia with
the sympathy which America has tradi-
tionally shown toward all movements for
political and social betterment The study
which has been made of the Bolshevlst
movement, some of the results OF which
are furnished herewith, show conclusively
that the purpose of the Bolsheviks is to
subvert the existing principles of govern
ment and society the world over, including
those countries in which democratic insti-
tutions are already established. They have
built up political machine which, by the
concentration of power in the hands of a
few and the ruthlessness of its methods,
suggests the Asiatic despotism of the early
Tsars. The results of their exercise of pow
er have been Generalization, civil war, and
economic collapse"
The decentralization, civil war, and eco
nomic collapse" noted by Mr.. Lansing as
then happening in Russia under Lenin and
Trotzky is tragically similar to the Rus
sian program throughout the world under
Stain and Molotov today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
Disc0rd Abroad
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN

fresh new ability into the serv-
ice. There is no question but
that Holloway put a sincere ef-
fort on the project. But just re-
Gently, the opening for abuses
of the plan have come to light.
Briefly, the plan would pay
the college tuition of young men
who qualified for the plan and
give them $50 a month while
they were in college. Actual mil
itary training would be limited
to summer cruises and a few
hours of drilling a week during
the school year.
In exchange for the tuition
and the $50 month, after they
are graduated, tn e t'ainees
serve from IS months to three
years as junior officers. And,
after that, if they want to make
the Navy a career, and if the
Navy decides to keep them, they
can get regular commissions.
The girnmick is tn e Navy's
control over how many of these
reserves will get regular COM
missions. That's where the dan
ger of abuse lies. Academy men
will get the regular promotions
and move up. And, with more
jobs in bigger Navy and with
only reserve officers to compete
with, their future becomes more
secure than it ever was. The
thousands Of reserve officers get
the mediocre assignments while
the academy boys get the
cream.
This is no idle theoretical
question. The men in the Navy,
who want to see the service get
away from the clique system,
see evidence on several sides
that the Holloway plan might be
twisted to produce a reverse ef-
feet. And every reserve officer
who served in the Navy during
the war knows the ingrained
habit of academy graduates to
help an alumnus first.
They point to the great uncon-
Germ among the brass over the
vacancies in the academy to-
day, actually caused by apathy
on the part of the nations youth.
They claim that a selfish group
of high-ranking officers is braz-
enly saying that fewer gradu-
ates from Annapolis means less
competition in the future for the
best jobs. And there is no need
TO worry about shortage of
officers, because the Holloway
plan will soon be giving them
all they need.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

York Public Library, and the American
Geographical Society, New York.
An additional 80 plates in the Atlantic
NEPTUNE series, which show parts of Nova
Scotia. Prince Edwards Island, the River
St. Lawrence and New Brunswick, have
already been presented to the Canadian
Government.
BEFORE final distribution is made on this
schedule the New Hanover County H1storl-
cal Society might appeal for at least
single plate showing the North Carolina
seaboard and, if it's plea is granted, add a
valuable exhibit to its collection of early
Americana.
Surely Charleston is no more eligible for
a plate than Wilmington
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

Italy. The British leaders have
been made o yer sensitive by
their difficulties. They were fill
ed with bitterness, considering,
as one of them put it, that "they
he'd been told to take their
places in the queue with the
other debtors."
This kind of misunderstanding
arises directly, Of course, from
the breakdown of the habit of
constant mutual consultation in
augurated by Winston Churchill
and Franklin Roosevelt long be-
fore Pearl Harbor. And this has
had infinitely worse results than
the many little episodes on both
sides, like the one described
above.
Some times serious conse-
quences have been avoided by
sheer 6 ood fortune The British
had no advance knowledge of
Secretary Marsha's Harvard
speech for example, so that
Bevins puick and intensely val
liable response to the announce
ment of thhe Marshall plan was
remarkable technical feat of
dipalomlcy. Again, the British
were unwarned of Marshal's So
called ''Ettle assembly plan for
the United Nations. The British
delegate to Lake Success,
Hector Mcneil, had to telegraph
frantically to London for in
structions. Bevin and his staff
had to consider the problem
through the night, and, in very
bad tempers, send a telegram
in the dawn. Under the circum-
stances, it is extremely surpris-
ing that the telegram instructed
Mcneil o maintain the Anglo
American front.
Nor has misfortune always
been avoided in this agile man
ner. The Middle East is quite as
important to this country as to
Britain. Yet the American dele
gate at Lake Success, Herschel
johnson, recently did much to
undermine t. e British position
in the Sudan-which is vital to
their position in the Middle East
by some rather casual re-
marks on the Anglo-Egyptian
dispute.
Again, it is essential to both
nations to sustain Iran against
Soviet pressure. Yet not long
ago the Kremlin was offered the
agreeable spectacle of the Brit
ish ambassador at Tehran urg-
ing the 1rians to adopt one
course, while his American col
league pleaded for the contrary
policy.
Finally, there is the tragic
Palestine story. This reporter
happens to believe heartily in
the detectives pursued in Pales-
tine by the American govern
ment. But one fact should now
be obvious to eyery one. By
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
Time To Wake Up
From the Whiteville News Reporter

Eastern North Carolina should
wake UP - in time. It's 1948,
tobacco and peanut acre
ages must be sharply cut, but in
creased livestock, dairying, and
poultry - provided feed for it is
produced at home - can large
ly offset the losses in these next
two crops in a few years, even
If not next year. It will take Tire
prompt and careful planning of
leading individuals, but it can
and must be done Also, more
industries, meaning better mar
kets for vegetables fruit, milk,
eggs, poultry, etc. are on the list
of the needed.
Chamber of Commerce, Farm
Bureau, All organizations, civic
clubs, and other organic atoms,
should join hands in the cam
paign for these type industries,
lac ge and small A. present. IS
per cent of North Carolina's in
dustrial production occurs west
OF Raleigh-we get the rest.
So long as Eastern Cardinals
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

economic structure IS ~ ,'rtnrs
balanced between agr.ColI' ,-o !,
and manufacturing, its il'ui'
unsafe. Nj, raro.
lina's agriculture IS SO oaoi5 I'VE.
anced between crops anu -'''
stock, it's future is unsafe orriss
So So long as its farm P0I,S,s11 fro-1
overtax its labor supply I9.t Isat
July Is to October l5 each :,'sa ySs1
and do not provide en-. en0pst =.
steady money-making #oIH s,+Irs RI
the other nine months, its l"''''
is unsafe. .. oyrep.
So long as its present Essen se;en.
tionally high tenancy ana ,4s fu.
tee landlordism prevail '''
ture is unsafe. ,r fine
All our leaders and all W, oarrpc:
neople should set out to coltSat tsst
these perilous weakness? of East.
now threaten the future 0,ia o. n'S s
ern North Carolina ND@'N o!
Nelson, in a buile'l''A Asso.
Whiteville Merchants
ciation.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

pursuing our Palestine objectives
alone; by rejecting all re-
sponsibility in Palestine; by thus
preventing any agreement WIN
the British, we have created an
appallingly dangerous SITUATION.
If we had offered to share re
responsibility with them, We
might have brought the Brush
around, in most respects, to ac'
ceptance of our views AS II IS
we are now quite likely to De
forced later on, into the rlshlea
kind of Middle Eastern inter-
vention in order to keep 'n'
Russians out.
This sort of dealing at all"
length with the British IS as UT
realistic as it is dangerous
Whether we like it or not, I n :.
British are emphatically not ]us'
one among many European na. d.
tons. They are the other grfs'
power of the non-SoViet "o'Ia'
and in this role, they are carry,
ing a burden almost oeyo""
their strength. Il,
We need the British llS' ~ ~
much as the British need US W.
der the circumstances, we can
thank our stars that Af'qss 40,
sador Lewis Douglas 10. 70.
already done much TO srnoo.a ,..
out the troubles Of the ps',, ..
and t hat these weeks IN "'-lsa III.
Marshall and Bevin have " g.n g.,
ed together, day after ICY go5t
shoulder TO shoulder, have ao''
COMPLETED the OBJ. vo,t
Copywright, 1947, New h0''
Herald Tribune
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

EARLY t1n, TREATMENT
AIDS CANCER I'm,
BY EDWIN P. JORn,>,

A Patient with hoaS' oanS,. NJ b,
not be treated until stsS tbst Can,
mas consulted a phvsio.p y,a, patient
the physician has 1rran' n' and
diagnosis. Today, nors ~+sae t.,
than ever realize the Psopl,
seeing a physician esrI,, ,J need d
Ger, but some still gt IN Can.
from the doctor beca'5ys @'ay away
a1e are afraid they viii be e4ss tois taeg
cancer can ;l is present, This '9-a I'd, that
ing II is most unsortunatss mat 'easoa'
II II, cancer me- can be discovesr.5S Slaes,
good, where's if foucs r~5e ar.
there is far less ljk5o ljkeG5-o late,
complete cure. ''','o0 Of.
Lumps which ANN.
Where on the bodv 'syaf sS any,
ways be suspected 'I.Gua a,
Dleedlng from any Of ,ti5Daosnd t5s
ns 1ngs of the body is also s,S open
a mat an immediate exsn,;a.,g S.ga
should be made. Loss s'att',.aat.oa al
Wh.ch S.: cannot be expiajns5 ny5s9'
dieting d! or other obvious as',,sa csa.l BY
IS another symptom which Nasas'', ssS.!,,
be taken as a reason for ro.a% Sroad
ting a physician. ~ V0Ncu.'
OF course, cancer in soo. !.
cations is much easier tone ia 5;, h.
methods m of diagnosis. incT5.Isa ,iv9esa
X-ray, however. mapv v',aa1S oa
even those involving the tassS' iass
nal organs, can be discovs1a', lt,,',
early enough so that trea,n,..l r,so
is thoroughly Satisfactory v''-Ta' e.,
animation must be compIeto s,s "a,
careful, =! + but today the Ian. + and
ties Tor diagnosis and It,,.' tr...
ment are SO much better 4,s.' t5s.
IN the past that great st,;s.l %.sa
have been made in The coDo"a.' r,,'u.'
of cancer. '4'VS'
Although it is extremely -,
portant for any suspicion Of c.n ,,,''
Ger to be promptly investip,ta5 ,3'
people can be so cancer con
scious' that they become NO. r,.
vous and worried all the tim,
Some go from doctor to docto,
sure that they have the djsos,,
but convinced that they are M,
being told the truth. '
This state of nervousness +,
called cancerophobia, and i
causes great suffering and nsr,
vousness. Such people should
take themselves in hand ar1
when they have been told atte,
examination that they do nt
have cancer, should make an d,
fort to forget their distress and
merely to have followup exam.
nations at such intervals as a.,
recommended by the physician.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
Antiqusted Trains

The expected slump in passen
ger fare revenue has hit the
American railroads. On the
Western roads, income from
this source was Ats per cent
lower in the first five months
of this year than in the same
period a year ago, While there
was some improvement in the
Summer months, the outlook is
not promising,