Evening star., 1952-01-19
Churchill Greefs
49 Wounded GIs
AT Union Station
Praises Service in
Koreo, Then Leaves
For New York
By Gornett D. Horner

British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill left Washington at noon
today after shaking hands with
49 American veterans wounded in ,
the Korean war and praising the
part they had played in resist
ing tyranny and aggression"
Mr.. Churchill took with him as
he left for New York promises Of
steel to meet Britain's minimum
requirements this year and left be- :
hind his agreement to appoint.
ment of an American as supreme
commander of Allied naval forces
in the Atlantic. !
The Prime Minister drove to:
Union Station half an hour ahead,
OF his train departure time toi
greet a group of wounded veter-l
ans from Walter Reed and Be-
thesda medical centers. |
The veterans, lined up in chairs
Just outside the USO Armed Serv-l
ices Lounge on the east side oil
the station, rose to shake handsl
with Mr.. Churchill as he walked
along the line.
Churchill Compliments Men.
The Prime Minister told the
group he felt privileged to shake
the hands of men who had shed
their blood in Korea and to COM
piiment them on their actions.
Among the group were these
from Washington and nearby
Maryland and Virginia:
Marine Sergt. j. T. Mccoy, 2312
Forty-f1rst street NV; Army
Sergt. Paul B. Mckenzie, so North
Bedford street. Arlington, Va.:I
Army Corpl. William j. Kadic. 4
4515 Chestnut street, Bethesda
Md; Paul Manor, Patrick Springs
Va.
Vice President Barkley stood
with Mr.. Churchill as the Prime
Minister greeted the veterans, and
bade him good-by before he
walked into the station concourse.
Will Sail Tuesday Night.
Mr.. Churchill travelled to New
York aboard a private car at
tached to the Pennsylvania Rail-
roads Senator" He plans to
stay in New York with Bernard
Baruch until he boards the liner
Queen Mary Tuesday night to sail
for home.
In a final conference with
President Truman late yesterday,
Mr.. Churchill withdrew his OBJ
jectionS, which had been based
largely on British Navy tradition,
to the plan for a United States
admiral to head the North At
lantic Treaty Organization naval
forces.
A complicated arrangement un.
der which the United States in
effect swaps steel to meet Great
Britain's minimum requirements
for aluminium and tin to help ease
shortages here also was an
at the White House.
Closer on China Policies.
Mr.. Churchill's conferences with
the President yesterday and last
week were said by both American
and British officials to have laid
the basis for much closer team
work between the two countries
In combating Communist aggres-
sion anywhere in the world.
= Probably the most significant
development was the drawing
closer together of British and
policies toward China.
It was made clear that Mr..
Churchill is ready to brush aside
Britain's formal recognition of
Communist China if the Chinese
Reds should violate a possible
truce in Korea, although he does
not believe it wise to do SO with
truce negotiations going on.
A general understanding on the
steel aluminium tin swap was
reached during the Truman
Churchill talks last week but it
took until yesterday for economic
officials of the two governments
to work out the details.
Provisions of Agreement.
The agreement provides that:
l. The United States will make
available to Britain, for purchase
in dollars, l million long tons of
steel or its equivalent in scrap
and pig iron. The American steel
industry will stand aside" to per-
NIT Britain to buy sufficient for
eign ore from various foreign
sources to make UP the balance
OF her minimum steel require
ments.
2. Britain will make available
to the United States 10000 long
tons Of Malayan tin at sl.l8 a
pound. fob. Singapore. The
British will have to buy the bulk
Of this tin at whatever price they
can get it.
3. Britain, by turning over some
Of her long-term contracts for
aluminium, will make
available to this country a total
of SIS. 100000 pounds of aluminium.
This aluminium will be replaced by
nid-1953 when the United States
expects expanded production.
Shipments Of all the materials
will be spread over the rest Of
his year.
Not Of Shortage Type.
The announcement said the
'teel to be supplied Britain will
not be in types that are in serious
'hort supply here. and that no
;ut will be required In steel allo-
;ations already made to domestic
industry for the first and second
quarters Of this year.
Oficials said they hoped the
s1.18 price agreement for tin would
1elp to break the long deadlock
With other nations over prices.
New negotiations with Bolivia and
[ndonesia. which have been de-
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