Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1945 — Page 10

“ORTOWN-". . | "The 64 Yen Question » B i gmat. GORNOIN | The Brownies HONORABLE By Anton Scherrer ANCESTORS 1°GUESS I was abouts8 years :

A old when by a curious set of cir- ' cumstances, involving Santa Claus, I found a magazine among my gifts. It was St. Nicholas. I surveyed it critically, I remember, wondering about the propriety of classifying books as Christmas presents when, all of a sudden, toward the end of the magazine—like a surprise sweetmeat at a close of a filling meal—I ran across the “Brownies.” After that life was mostly a matter of waiting for the next number of St. Nicholas to appear. The Brownies and their antics, as depicted in verse and pictures by Palmer Cox, always seemed to me the most seductive artisans in the world, the very figurines of fun who skipped over the surface of nonsense | with a deftness that made “Alice in Wonderland” look like a piker. Alice, it always struck me, lacked the impishness to play the part. Moreover, she was a girl. iE The Brownies were males—every one of themwhich had the merit of making their solemn non= sense seem like something very real to us boys. At any rate, I remember that a bound volume of St. Nicholas containing, as it “did, a dozen adventures staged by the Brownies more than made up for &

POLITICS—

R.S. V. P. By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Do you have trouble answering your mail? Do you blusfi when you enter a drawing room to see standing there Miss Josephine de Oakes to whom you owe a thank you note for having invited you to cocktails on the 13th ult.? Do you lie awake nights worrying about all those letters you have forgotten to write to your relations, doctor, dentist, grocer, butcher and landlord, thanking them for their serv= ices and, incidentally, enclosing check? . Ah! We thought so. You are just the party to .whom this Is addressed. This will help you, but definitely. You will never forget the day you read here how easy it is to get your mall answered within three days after receipt of same, banishing all your J cares. : In one easy lesson it tells here how the efficiency experts in the department of state figured out a System whereby the secretary of state could get his mail answered without forgetting. It seems that some months ago the secretary's office was having real trouble getting his mail answered. A letter would come in which the secretary himself couldn't repl} to because he didn't know the answer, or was over at the White House, or something.

When Experts Get Together

- SO THE efficiency experts got together and devised a system to remedy all this. They issued an “admins istration instruction,” the title of which was “Control of Limited Category of Communications Addressed to the Secretary of State,” which stated: “To all communications selected for control will pe stapled four serially numbered control cards (yeilow, blue, red and green) of which the original (white) is retained in the Secretary's office and on the stub of which appears the,following: “The secretary wishes an immediate acknowledgment. made of this communication if a reply cannot be sent within three days.” . “Next comes instructions on “procedure.” “One. Yellow card. Immediately on receipt of the communication in the division or office to which routed for action, the entry only on the yellow card (date received) will be completed, but firmly written so that carbon impression will be recorded on the underlying blue, red and green cards. Send the.yel« low card at once to the secretary’s office. “Two. Blue card. If it is seen by the responsible action officer that a reply cannot be sent in three days, he will prepare an acknowledgment immes diately and enter the date of the acknowledgment ong | the blue card (with carbon impression on the under« lying red and green cards), detach and send the blue day, July 25; place—St. Clair st.| oavq4 at once to the secretary's office and the ace

and Ft. Wayne ave, knowledgme " My wife had left us at the corner edgment '9 CR: i}

to buy some pastry while we made | More - Fun Than Stud Poker

an attempt to locate some fruit . CR, IN CASE you don't know, is Communications on the Alabama street side. Leav- and Records Office. 5 :

; MH eb : | h ne Sle fru same 5 5 olen py Isn't this. fascinating? More fun than stud poker§ |! pulled into a parking place in o Authors. Read on: : p | front —of the" bakery--on- the west... “Three. Red card. When the responsible action side of lie street: offitér” has-prepared an appropriate reply to-the com=§* munication he will complete the entries on the red 4 As I turned to open the door and | card: (Date answered . . .) and (Reply routedf, ia get out I found myself confronting | through , . .); detach the red card and send it ima motorcycle policeman, straddling | mediately to the secretary's office (Room 284) andj. his cycle and saying, “Now what | forward the reply with the original communication made you do a thing-like that?” to which the green card is attached to the interested §! x Surprised, I answered, “Do a thing| division or directly to CR as the case may be. like what?” “Four, Green card. The division of co-ordination “How long have you been driving and review will detach the green card after stampingQ | ia car?” he asked. ; in the (date mailed) and send the green card to the : agency. . They assume the =About 15 years,” 1 repiied. secretary's office, room 284.” . kK offices 1t may i” Do or pick | bf DILSE Var In ITMNER he | “What trick?" I asked, wondering “Approved: Harry M. Kurth it Prac mt 3 . : {| These big manufacturing cartels) what it was all about. | ), A6UNg " : [IS ness, low rent loca-|are waiting for that $45 from each| “what kind of business are you! Office of Departmental Administration.” + | ? man, woman and. child that con-|in?” sna 1i | | Every merchant, large and small, | gress just put into the world bank., “Now, pet ean. cDliet:)

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MR. SNYDER'S ON A HOT SPOT ; GQIGNS point to the ending of the Truman administrations honeymoon. Senator Mead of New York is a Roosevelt Democrat, a Truman Democrat, and a friend of James F. Byrnes, now secretary of state, and Fred M. Vinson, now secretary of the treasury. : rainy Sunday afternoon—something Alice couldn't But yesterday's report of the Mead committee—for- possibly do. merly the Truman committee—severely criticized the con- | "Where Can We Find a Few?

duct of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion in} IF I remember correctly, Palmer Cox's. Brownies the latter part of the Roosevelt administration and the | made their debut in 1883—in St. Nicholas, of course

" a0 ; | —With a story called “The Brownies’ Ride.” Its sucfirst few months of the Truman regime. Messrs. By nes oo a Bro = 1 soptma. Kis trom and Vinson were the head of OWMR through that period. | an over the country sent in letters asking “Are there The Mead committee report—in our opinion as accurate | really such little rastals as Brownies?” and “Where as it is blunt—says the OWMR has run neither war mobili- |

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can they be found?” Right then and there, Mr. Cox . : a | knew that he had his hands full—enough, anyway, to zation nor reconversion. OWMR has not developed positive | stop drawing pictures of funny little bears which, up

yolici nd programs. Instead it has been content to |to that time, had kept him busy. polic 3 = g progr ire” in conciliating the endless disputes i At first the Brownie figures were more or less alike. service only as ump : | Gradually, however, the different nationalities slipped of the government's various war agencies. As a conse- | in until finally nearly every country on earth was trv 3 aofully red for the | represented. The Irishman, I remember, appeared quence, the country -1s SO woefully unprepa [5 : — 2 . neon ir : J rst (he would); then the German; then the Chinatransition from war to peaces that should the war with | “ro dude, the prise of the collection, ‘Was One Japan end suddenly we will find ourselves in a sorry state | of the last to appear and turned up just about the economically. . . . We must get a move on or we will get ume that word entered the American language. (A : . aad : . ude, in case you youngsters have to be told, was a into real trouble. . . . Reconversion will not have progressed connotation for a man who owned more than two far enough to absorb the manpower that will suddenly be | suits of clothes.) released. Government work programs, designed to cushion Pinaily he PRA for Brownies Sssumed the b : ys au _ | proportions of a panic. Brownies appeared in Indianthe shock, will not have been established. We will prob apolis stores in the shape of dolls, crackers, pins and ably experience widespread unemployment. The OWMR, the Mead committee recommends, “should be empowered, organized and staffed so that it can take active steps to aid reconversion.”

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“1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Hoosier Forum

HOW MUCH RENT DOES OPA PAY (AT CEILING PRICES)?” By Curiosity, Indianapolis OPA gets tough with small merchants and others who break some small part of their directive by closing them up for 30 or 60 days or for the duration. OPA tells; the house owner what he or she may charge for a room they have for rent. They never take the trouble to look at the room, as to how it furnished or as to the kind ‘of people having the room to rent. They just say the location is or is not desirable to their way of thinking. Publicity releases from the overlords in the Washington bureau}, sing the praises of this overloaded

souvenir spoons. Their pictures were on handkerchiefs, neckties, carpets and wallpapers. One could even sleep under Brownie covers. And in the summer months Brownies were served as ice cream with vanilla heads, chocolate breeches and strawberry jackets, : Sometimes in the Middle Nineties when Mr. Cox had 150 stories to, his credit, Klaw & Erlanger put on a show entitled “The Brownies in Fairyland.” It was immense. All through the play, the Brownies ran into _one mishap after another trying to rescue the gorgeous Queen Titania and bring her back to Prince Florimel, At the end of the first act, for instance, all the Brownies were caught in mid-oc¢an with a. realistic storm approaching. Suddenly, a monstrous sea serpent appeared on the crest of the waves and, in the excitement, the dude fell overboard. Then a colossal sea bird swept down from above, seized the dude by the seat of the pants, and carried him to safety. The rest of the Brownies made their escape by way of a flying ship which happened to be just around the corner. Honest.

Six Hundredth Showing Is Here

The second. (and last) act was even more exciting. A Parisian novelty imported from the Folies Bergere and called the “Flying Ballet” performed in mid-air. Just when you thought there wasn’t—another thing left for them to do, they turned into birds, beetles and butterflies. A moment later, Prince Florimel found

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: 8 8 = 5 un 2 S for power, the OWMR already has plenty. As for organization and staff, it hasn't much to boast of. Mr. Byrnes took his key men with him into the state depart“ment, and Mr. Vinson took his into-the treasury. «- — The new -OWMR director, John W. Snyder, who assumed office only last week, will have to start from scratch. | He'd better hurry. If the country gets into trouble by not being ready with peacetime jobs when the war ends, it may not be Mr. Snyder's fault, but he'll get the blame. The present transportation mess, with discharged and furloughed soldiers riding across the continent in crowded day coaches, for instance, is not Mr. Snyder’s fault. He was not in office when the Office of Defense Transportation and the war department failed to plan for that emergency. But Mr. Snyder inherited the mess, and apparently is doing his best to straighten it out. So, too, with the failure of others to organize surplus property disposal, the failure to check the army and navy stocking of too large inventories, the failure to provide key reconversation industries with essential materials and manpower. Mr. Snyder is a mild-mannered man who probably would prefer to be back in St. Louis running his bank. But at the insistence of his longtime friend, President Truman, Mr. Snyder has taken on the toughest job in Washington. He hasn’t time to bury the mistakes of others. He'll have to get as tough as his job is, and crack some heads together —or end up with his own busted.

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See how easy it is to get your mail answered in three days? Just fill out four cards. (but firmly) and

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Queen Talia sad Held et Heh in Ss Sars 55.1 hanging ed ie ner [That is just the down payment. You “What are you driving at? What| attach to letter when received. Send yellow card tof, § nights in New York. In 1866, it | / > time | 4id not know that, maybe, for you has the kind of business I'm in got! Gran'maw's, blue card to the police station, red card} IT WA Joriatee Jute. Palmer Cox (in person) turned up jon hand. Can you imagine the that was drawn up at the goat-herd- of this bakery?” | Oh, just drop the green card in the garbage pail |, umph f on. He was 6 feet 2 inches tall with big force this must take to check this » conventi That sera “Oha ) A . i ; " : : : ers’ convention. at is just a scrap Oh—so that's the way you feel for the wastepaper drive and walk, don’t run, to theg§ Firecrack broad shoulders and a mournful drooping blond mus- | Dation-wide inventory? And the of paper put out as a smoke screen about it, huh?” he said in a com-| nearest psychiatric ward : ! medienns tache. Except for his nice blue eyes, there wasn't a | office space necessary to house such|is hide.the real issue—the boodle., manding voice. “Let's see your| 3 E lead role Brownies coursing through his veins. The inventories are sent to OPA meet unless there is the fetid odor clear of his cycle. name wa After the first performance of the show, a group [Inventory and Control Division, Em-|of free money in the breeze. Your| “Ok,” I answered, and shoved the she reca of Indianapolis Brownie enthusiasts threw a little pire State building, New York City.|fancy homes will be protected from door open and jumped out. I fol-| others, t party at the Denison to celebrate the event. And, of | HOw much of this huge building'invasion by your neighbors’ sons lowed him to the rear of the car arte Ban killing.” present. On that occasion Palmer Cox introduced |do they pay? I have written to a!money is gone. * You did not tell in hand. Just as y i A | y y 15s . . s I located my ] $ her as Miss Ida Brooks.. Dressed in her street couple of U. S. senators asking an congress to put off their fishing drivers license he said, “You are By Robert Taylor ] : A clothes, Miss Brooks looked even more gorgeous than {enswer to this question, but they|iri d sav v ; : : : : 4 : | p and save it. Taft and a few old enough to know better than do Ww id : : vis . 5, N ed even more gorgeou ne they ; ASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The ig { nomenal ANOTHER WARNING TO THE JAPS she did oh the stage. Everybody fell in love with her, [are too busy with getting ready for others tried to help you, but they are |a thing like that.” task of overhauling nt ws to ® out aime ; : USTRALIA S protest that the Potsdam ultimatum to | nerve enough to do something about it. He actually | Howard would know the answer. [forevermore. And they say it will did I do?” By this time I was rectly into the problem of internaJapan is too lenient may. serve useful purposes. invaded {fairlyland and carried off the gorgeous Queen 2 x » be lvaned %“o other countriés to help amazed. I didn't know what I was tional cartels It is one more notice to Tokyo that there will be nip | Tanta. Sov weeks later the two got married. | “CHARTER 18 JUST their industries. You know the kind. wanted for. Maybe -I1 would be a| And the cartel problem lies at the root of U. 8 - a 8 y - ¢ ’ : The oy | y . 5 y > nk goodness, some of my stories have a. happy 1 A SCRAP OF PAPER” jand you try to borrow some of it. martyr and make the country safe foreign policy— directed at wiping out trade barriers, ! date. Actually, however, the Japs are still fighting because | =~ Truman said to Gen. Schuyier| NOW WHAT MADE YOU |to find out out what I had done. | improving material well-being of nations. they have convinced themselves of the absurdity that they * WORLD AFFAIRS— that we had better pull out of|PC % THING LIKE THAT?” “Officer,” I replied with a tinge] The state department has been working on the can make a militaristic deal with-us. Only. last week, after | - Rumania than be kicked about ow » Job THEO, Lh Fn op d o aan ae. anki problem fo Several yemre DE aia tye .as he : ¥ | me somewhere, “ ; j i i 8 ridiculing unconditional - surrender, they put. out feelers This is a true incident and a | g held with other nations including Britain, Canada over the mike so that ‘the whole|publish it I will appreciate it. I Wife who is in the bakery BELLNg| The problem is to develep some co-operative form Now the joint American-British-Chinese -ultimatum | By Wm. Philio Simms world couldshear if they were not pate ieard of CA va oe rolls for our morning break-| i. phy which® nations, ean prevent their nationals : . . ’ + | this is the first time I ever had t : i issued from Potsdam has been rejected by the Tokyo gov- y P fighting or making whoopee, that) 5 28 © 8 ls.il YOUR wife youre wighy~| iin aking phvais agreements tg whaek up mar 0 . Ae Hip : ; WASHINGTON. . Aug. 1 ie | : ; kets, restrict production, fix prices and thus redu ernment as “unworthy of notice. The Jap premier says | Sais oor Das Ee 2 —Uncre | out of Germany, at least to keep out| I believe a citizen should be able : : . m 3} a 12 $ | 8 | : od “ §4 7 » | its terms are no better than the Cairo declaration. In-other a hia an los ih Hs [of trouble with Russia. But to pull to drive without being questioned as Sure Ws my Wien] five hack bit not John ya not | the army out of Germany would|to what business he is in, andjst Jim as 1 Stared Seeing rea, No Answer Found Yet Sr . : e : lw . “1% | leave the American billionnaires | Whether he is with his wife, . If he | e evil are you ving NO HANDY answ has t emerged fro they are waiting it out until supposed war-weariness here unless the Labor party, now in pow- | without protection, for they are, is being stopped for a traffic vie- |at? What's all this about? I have| ,.,..= (mej) rT it’s a Job for pho Unite > . : : aad : {going to build up the same indus- } : forces our government to negotiate a soft peace with them. ‘and trade policies. in Coates they built up for|have to do with it? lticket out if that’s what you intend tions. They favor creation of an international offic ‘They have missed the main point of the Potsdam surrender- | When a prostrate Europe faced reconstruction $34 4 on’ i doing.” ; mati : ' : | after world war-T the Labor policy was that loans {IL uCcl- In fact wey say that Gere You prodably Won't publish wisf ‘al " and social council of ‘the United Nations organiza or-die alternative—the time factor. Unless there is un- |" © 0 Covernments should be. thorough! is being cleaned up._faster|but friends suggested I send it to| ‘NOW. walt a minute" he came, scrutir TE rer: u le Mrougay |than any other country -right now.|The Times. | : : . J rized. Every care- should be used to find out | Time—10 p. Mh. lturn™ left on Alabama st. and pull They add the warning that unless something is Japan will be “prompt.” | what the loans were for and nations asking them q kN lover here, did_ you?” | should be required to balance their budgets. =A At last 1 started to see the light.| because of the need of many countries for foreign ex Sod : “ : : ; . change. One country, for instance, may cartelize its Labor's first prime minister, should be loaned for Side Glances = By Galbraith Officer, since when can't a Car... .i,je export to get more foreign funds; its cuse tomers will retaliate in kind.

nw a { MAYBE nothing can penetrate the thick fog of Jap stu-

came to Indianapolis and celebrated ‘its 600th. per- | submit an inventory of their stocks! were worrying about the Charter to do with my parking here in front to the fire department and the green card— guay ac! thing about him to show that he had the blood of ja force. | You know , /§ to! i roa : you can't get big boys to! drivers license’ And he jumped “I wa IN WASHINGTON— course, the gorgeous Queen Titania was among those {d0 they occupy? How much rent when the Charter fails, buts your where he had his book and pencil Then | but Dr. George Edwin Hunt was the only one with |their long vacation. Perhaps Scripps-| called isolationists. So you will pay “Do a thing like what? What preveat monopoly abuses leads di compromise peace. That should be unnecessary at this late | ending. lto liv i : 1 p pe J { g By SF Moure, Indiapsiofin 4-8 {to live in if I held out long enough | increasing international trade and productivity andi . n British ( ash the Russians. Rep. Sumner said | most peculiar one. If you see fit to Was stopping here to pick up my| and some in Latin-America. for “reasonable” terms. |the American army should be taken |eXperience myself. he et . 1e cut, and he smiled sarcastically. | pot), trade and employment. words they think they are in a good trading position, and | er in Britain, reverses its international monetary | lation what do these other items | 3 right to know and write that for business practices as ah adjunct to the economic | many ' conditional surrender “new,” the complete destruction of back quickly, “Jou didn’, lend. 15) done, the cartel evil will be intensified after the war Not a single penny, said J. Ramsay MacDonald, pidity. Maybe ‘up to the very last hour before the [In leh 0B Albuia 3 On Ft

armaments, Loans should be “very modest.” “They Wayne?

final American occupation -of obliterated Tokyo, its irresponsible officials will still be waiting for that non-existent | chance to make a deal. It is barely possible, however, that the sharp and spontaneous cry of Australian anger may |

‘help the Japs to understand that these terms are not going | | ferent from American policy as advocated by those

| who would borrow billions to give away. oi

to get softer, but very much harder. One sure result of Australia’s complaint that she was not even informed about the Potsdam decision is that the United States and’ Britain hereafter. will" be more careful | to consult her. That is only fair. - Australia has paid in blood for the right to be con-| sulted on major Pacific questions in the future. She should have a voice in the terms of settlement, as we certainly shall be dependent upon her co-operation for the enforcement of those terms and for maintaining a permanent

Pacific peace. . |

“CAN'T BE DONE” UGGEST to the army that it do anything the army hasn't already planned and pre-arranged, and the instinctive response of the military is to pull out the rule book’ and say, “It can’t be done.” ; : ‘ Such has been the army’s reaction to the request of

Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes that miners be furloughed from the army for urgent work in our coal naires. | “I am not a prestidigitator,” says old Ick. “We have

magic wands, and we cannot produce coal without coal |

0 i seem easier for an army of 8,000,000 : from its ranks, and fight while

can not come like manna “from heaven.” ‘ought not to be drawn from capital required for our own needs.” Instead they should come only {rom “free balances” created by trade.

Differs From Our Policy

ALL THIS, it is remarked here, sounds very dif-

loan to government, on requést, all over the globe. John Maynard Keynes. Up to 1024,

lion dollars at the present exchange.) That, said the leader of the laborites, was the kind of ‘careful lending the party stood for. Loans to governments, he insisted, should be strictly “for purposes of national recovery.” There 1s some anxiety in this country that the laborites might“deliberately

.| depreciate British currency to give the country | post-war-shot in the arm. .

Eager for Full Employment THE NEW British government, like all govern=ments, very much wants to provide as many jobs as possible atthe highest possible wages. To do that, it hopes to boost foreign trade by 50 per cent or more. At the same time it wants to pay as it goes—that is, balance its budget. But higher wages and higher taxes make for in= creased cost of production and that, in turn, makes it harder to sell goods in foreign markeis, One answer to the problem is a chegpened currency.. The English pound is now suc sos $

mately $4. If the exchange rate were only $3. Amer-

jcans—angd others—could buy goods “made” in: Britain” |. | 25 per. cent cheaper. Two dolla¢ pounds ‘would cut

the cost in two, And so on. "More British goods could be exported, more jobs created for British workers, an@ higher taxes would be possible.

They |

Labor | said |

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But Britjsh laborites have been opposed to such & |

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LOPE, 1945 BY NEA SERVIOL, INC. T. M. REQ. U, 8. PAT, OFF,

"Well, Miss, it was real pleasant for a while, there, but since they +" “increased the gas allowance I've got to jump up and weit © on folks five or six times a day!’

As long as I can remem- | ber cars have. I drove my car from | the curb, stopped tor Ft. Wayne| |ave., turned left and parked, going| about 10 miles an hour. 8ince when is that a crime?” i “Well, you ought to be more care- | ful,” he said smiling sheepishly. | Then suddenly he closed his book, (walked around me, jumped on his| [cycle and took off down Ft. Wayne ave. I I stood there with a lost feeling creeping over me when suddenly a man stepped over from the¥curb, “What did he slate you for?” “Nothing,” I replied, staring down the avenue at the disappearing policeman. . “The three of us were watching you all of the time,” the stranger continued, “and 1t sure had’ us puzzled. Sure couldn't see anything you did wrong.” ~ “Me either,” I answered as 1 crawled back in the car. My friends in the car were amgzed as, I and asked me what was behind such foolish actions. “Maybe a little bird will come along and tell us what, it's “all about,” I replied as I tried to get a last look at our fleeting policeman.

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DAILY" THOUGHT

When the poor and the needy seek water, ‘and there is none, and theig, tongue faileth for thirst 1 the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will pt forsake them.—Isalah 41:47. °°

of its laws.

United States. And with bananas scarce, too!

POVERTY is shunned over

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Some cfficials believe this country, with its great

productive capacity, can break up international car}

tels by itself, through enforcement of the anti-trust laws on its own citizens. The state department doesn't agree. Secretary. William L. Clayton pointed out to a senate commitiee that cartels can escape prosecution by picking a residence in a country whose laws are lax,

Cartels Can Dodge Laws

“Thus,” he said, “the efforts of a single country to control restrictive trade practices by an interna« tional combine may, in the absence of intergoverne merit co-operation; be severely handicapped.” Summing up the case for United Nations action, Mr. Clayton pointed out that the trade of every nation is affected by cartels which are beyond reach U., 8. tin and rubber imports are exe amples. : Congress approved both the Bretton Woods plan

for currency stabilization and the trade agreements

act to authorize negotiated cuts in U. S. tariffs. Pri vate cartel restrictions on foreign trade could counter

act both plans, Mr. Clayton said.

Under the plan for an international anti-cartel agreement, each country would enforce the agreement within its own jurisdiction. One proposal is for the mandatory filling with government agencies of ine formation relating to contracts and relationships af« fecting international trade.

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