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' SOMETHING FOR OUR MONEY VWARTIME demands on the resources of the United States as the arsenal of democracy have made us a “have-not” nation, so far as certain strategic materials are concerned, Charles T. Lucey points out in his dispatches from Washington, . : Our known resources of other critical materials are so limited that they would be insufficient for our needs in another great war. ; : The army-havy munitions board says that such materials should be stockpiled as “the only means of insuring | an adequate supply for a future emergency.” That makes § gense when we recall, for instance, the raw rubber predicament at the time Pearl Harbor was attacked. Most of the nations now seeking loans from us have materials we need for our future insurance. Why should they not exchange some of those materials for some of our dollars? "id v ] Russia has manganese, chromite and asbestos. The "Dutch have natural rubber, bauxite and quinine. France also has bauxite and New Caledonia, a French dependency, has nickel. The United Kingdom does not produce surpluses of the materials we need, but British dominions and colonies do, and a simple three-way exchange of credits could be arranged.

(THER suggestions have been made in connection with the present loan negotiations. Restrictive Brifish trade practices put our goods at a disadvantage in markets under British control, and removal of these barriers has been proposed. Co : Then, too, we need military and civilian air bases in various parts of the world, and the right to use them might be a fair exchange for some of our dollars. Whether materials, - trade concessions or bases, we should obtain something more substantial than more of that good ‘will which evaporates the moment we turn off the fibney spigot. However: We don't need PROF. LASKI, . If the British want Americans to be enthusiastic about giving them financial aid they might do well to hint gently to their Prof. Harold J, Laski that this would be a fine time for him to go home and stay there. " . Professor Laski, who on¢e taught at Harvard, is chairman of the British Labor party: He is now visiting the United States for the first time since 1839. He made a speech Monday night in New York before 2000 persons who had gathered to discuss the problem of the atomic bomb. The professor's ides seems to be that the bomb makes it necessary for America to scrap the free-enterprise system and adopt socialist-planned internationalism, economic, social and political. No nation-state, he said, is “fit to be trusted with the development of atomic energy.” :

: HE referred to the existing form of economy in the United States as “the direct road to serfdom.” He scorned the notion that “a society dominated by business men” could be trusted to develop atomic energy “within the framework of peace.” And he said that “only in the new world of Russia,” ‘where “the business man has ceased to count,” can science . be developed “without sacrificing the education of man and fearing the break-down of social well-being or community ‘eonsciousness.” gore : : We aren’t questioning Professor Laski's right to be a Socialist or to say what he thinks. Nor are we question- - ing Prime Minister Attlee’s assurance that Professor Laski, . when talking as an individual, doesn’t speak for the British government, WEL, We're only suggesting that the chairman of the party now in control of the British government isn’t making many Americans happy about the idea of lending or giving that government. $4 billion out of the fruits of our terrible businessman-dominated, free-enterprise system.

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~ “WORDY, WORDY, WORDY” Ee R EPUBLICAN house members drafted a party program, © to be presented to the Republican national committee meeting in Chicago, as basis for a drive to capture control - of congress in 1946, i Republican senators took a look at it last night and insisted on making some changes. Ohio's Taft, for instance, thought it too “wordy, wordy, wordy.”

combined efforts is a sorry apology for a program. It is still wordy, wordy, wordy, and most of the words are weasely. : Reading this so-called statement of aims and purposes, you find it hard to see any difference between the Republican party and the Democratic—except that the Republican party is out of power. And quite likely to stay there, if this is the best it can offer. : The Republican party needs some braihs, some md genuine issue. The issue has been laid 1h its 1ap the radicals who have so largely taken over the Democratic party. x ' : y : There is a solemn obligation to maintain the two-party system in this country. When the Democratic party deserts its liberal principles to espouse radicalism and follow the road of creeping collectivism, the choice for the Republican party seems to us clear. i i It should declare and prove itself the party of prudent, intelligent conservatism. It should defend the American

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thing far away went “whoomp™ and hit the side of the ship like : an anvil, We put down the book we'd been reading, and looked at the two sailors playing checkers.

“Ash cans” one of them ssid and missed a move. “Ash cans,” to the navy, means depth charges.

charges mean subs.

To the side, our escorts were charging about like angry terriers, pursuing themselves in angry circles to the right and left. : : One of them, a little spitfire of a net tender, tossed another ash can. The placid Pacific heaved. Another ash can tumbled off the destroyer to our left. Again the Pacific heaved. We went up on the bridge to ask the captain if we could ‘use our cameras. We met the gunnery officer, “Better tie up your jacket and get ready for a swim,” he sald. “That serious?” we asked. “Never can tell.” Permission Granted WE put our request. Could we, we asked, come up with our cameras? “Why?” the captain was blunt. That was a poser. No captain likes to have it suggested his ship might get one. So we were elaborately casual. » “Just in case,” we explained. “Outside chance, but might as well be prepared.” i i “No damned sub is going to stick its head above surface here!” he exploded. But he said we could go ahead. But no flashes. No sir, we said. . ‘The gunnery officer had a suggestion. going into the boats. They sometimes do. You can get a good shot then.” Co }

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WHAT a notion, we thought. “Bad spot,” was his parting shot. “Same trouble here last time. Subs like it.” . We were at “torpedo

This we knew for a fact. There were torpedo junctions all over the world in this war, but none better known and more genuinely respected than the narrow passage of San Island, 12 hours out of Guadalcanal. Ships going up waited for it. Ships coming out breathed easy when they were past it. Everybody talked about “it.” . “I'l lay you two to one we make it,” they said. We. got through. The escorts dropped back into position. The sub, we supposed, settled back to wait for. the next customer,

sw FOREIGN AFFAIRS—

| Red Pickets

By William P. Simms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-—The Communists are again picketing Washington. . A little history of this phenomenon, therefore, might be worth while. Before August, 1030, American Communists and fellow travelers, like most of us, were bitterly antiNasi. . ; 3 Then came the Stalin-Hitler partnership greenlighting world war II, the Molotov-Ribbentrop deal partitioning Poland and Molotov's speech blaming the war on Britain ang France. : ? ; “The imperialistic character of this war,” he said, “was obvious to anybody who wants to face realities and does not close his eyes to facts.” Overnight the party line in America changed to fit: Moscow's. President Roosevelt was accused of being & The White House and congress were

‘junction.*

“Keep Our Fleet at Home’; “Keep Our Sons Home" and 50 on. ; The Communists waged a relentless crusade against national preparedness. They advocated strikes in war

industries. Strikes, which the ‘justice department said

were Communist-fomented, closed down plants for weeks during one of the_most periods of the war, There was intense opposi lend-lease. The President, the Communists said, attempting “to plungé American youth in

the British empire.”

Dubbed if ‘War Hysteria’ ~~ ;

THE anti-Hitler fever in this country was dubbed war hysteria.” Commuriist rallies sang such songs as this: ' “Oh, Franklin Roosevelt told the people how he felt. We almost believed him when he said:

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cketed. : : Boning: “No Oonvoys”; “No A. B. F."; “Stop War”;

“UNIONS HAVE HELPED ALL THE LITTLE PEOPLE"

By M. B. Zugall, 1208 8, Randolph sf. In looking over the article by Mary O'Connell in the Forum of Nov. 23, I will have to say that she put herself up as & “rugged indi. vidualist” of the first water. Of course, that is her privilege: but, on the other hand, let us give this thing a little thought and see if she is really as mu¢h of an individualist as she seems to think she is. To be truthful, her article sounds jus like someone who went through the school of this, or some similar city and just learned what she was told to learn by the teachers—who, by the way, have a good association—and at the end of her

has her own home where she can live at nominal expense, and is of course quite well satisfied with life as she sees it from her small circle. Quite a nice thing for her, I

lady works an half<day on Saturday, and gets [about as goog wages as.the average éne in her- profession. ' Oranted; again—BUT, who is responsible for the eight-hour day and the hall holiday on Baturday? No ¢ne of course but the unions who have

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not what they should be, and that the real unionist is as sorry about it as anyone else can be; but such is true of all things. ; ‘Wherever there are people who form an association for their own good, someone tries to run it for their own personal profit; but such people are usually found out and disposed of before they can causé t060 much damage. Such is true of politics, is it not? And should we quit our American way of democracy for sake of a few ¢rooks who have t into politics and caused it to {smell to high heaven?

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drganised labor today : Sra that the national commander No doubt also this lady works ™iEht be able to speak with auI. te ei TTS hatity when he blasts forth to the usual comforts we find | the world that the American Legion today. Did they just grow there? |l# for this or that. Not by a lot—they were the re.| He probably seeks his informa sults of some other girl or boy who (tion from ones who think as he had the courage to stand up and [0008 And then comes out with the fight for such equipment for their [Statement that the legion is for use and didn't quit fighting yi|Mmilitary training. | they got it. I heartily disagrees with him and Yes, my lady, all these things|Wil say that legionnaires are no are the result of organized labor’s| More for military training than the battle for ordinary little people [Test of the citisens of this country like me-—and you—and even you|nd base my statement on con who refute them—a battle begun |'ersation with leglonnaires and long before you were born and is Others, and don't forget, there are still going on, even though you [MANY More of us than the few brass don't want to admit it. Selfishness [Nols At the top and we all east is far from dead--just look around |Our ballots, so Mr. Congressman (you. You see, this thing is bigger Deed have nd fears from merely than Just one person, even you or |Our commander, 2 I, see? Men of the legion know how ‘1 will admit with you, as well as |%00n the training of the army gets AWAY from them. Train a boy. now 404 if war comes. MAIR in five years, it must be repeated. Mind and body just don't fibtion so §00d unitus kept In trim and prec. Then why waste the taxpayers money and one year of the boys’ life {in order to satisfy the lust of the military clique of this country who TL ar yours in their hands. : President Truman 8 for #t. It broadens his power as commander. | |in-chief. ‘The army officers al want it Tv makes weir Jobe

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Life Average Less Than Year A REFORM which is not likely to be introduced is that of granting to the government the power possessed by British governments of dissolving the chamber and hating new elections when the government is defeated on a major policy. * During the years between the two wars,. the average life of successive French governments was less than one year, It is widely felt that stability of the government cannot be achieved unless the chamber's power to get rid of the government. is balanced by ‘the government's power, in certain circumstances, to. get rid of the chamber. One issue which will be sharply fought out when 40 constitution-makers appointed by the assem get down to their task is whether there shall on

the senate always tended to be a far more con-

Communists, therefore, will press strongly for a

on a basis which would ensure that its political character was more in harmony with that of the

IN POLITICS—

Reforms By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, Dee, 6.—One of the complaints about congress is that it often lags behind the times. ,. /This is riot & new complaint, but It is more apparent now because of of the times. -

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