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Seek ‘Good Will and Fair Play’ ) charges that the Atlantic Pact is “openly ag: gressive” and directed “against the Soviet Union.” It just the opposite. : ns Ne "The pending agreement would create a union of peaceloving states against acts of armed aggression. The parties to the pact “agree tha an armed attack one op more of them in Europe or North America considered an attack against them all.” If one or

. and Luxembourg. Unless Russia plans an armed attack ~~ against one or more of these, it has nothing to fesr from ~~, this agreement. Peace for free peoples is its single object. If that were what Russia wanted, the Soviets would applaud the Atlantic ~~ Pact, not condemn it. : a

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Reorganization in Danger THE Senats Committee on Executive Expenditures has

the authority recommended by the Hoover Comasked by Mr. Truman and voted two months ago by the House; the President would submit reorganization

the Each plan would lie before Congress for 60 days

al; i. = : mw. : RE THE Senate Committee proposal, by making a veto in : the House or the Senate enough to reject a presioi dential plan, would greatly increase the difficulty of saving

For although practically everybody favors reorganiza-

offend some vested official, some group of citizens, some members of Congress interested in keeping pet federal agencies undisturbed, So there's sire to be much logrolling, and any plan can be killed just twice as easily if rejection by only one branch of Congress is to be a death sentence. : The new citizens’ committee, created to-fight for adoption of the Hoover Commission's program, had better get on the job in a hurry, To oh “+ ‘Unless the Senate can be convinced that it should “reject the scheme advocated by its committees on executive -_expenditures—unless the President is given the sort of sutherity for which the House has voted—the campaign for real government reorganization won't have much chance.

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; Soviet delegates were in New York attending YY a conference for the ostensible purpose of promoting and world understanding, a professor in Moscow, B. Vil , was being compelled to confess that he had been . guilty of “cosmopolitanism” and to promise to mend his

+ Now “cosmopolitanism” is the world view. It is inter- ~ mationalism. It is trying to understand what is good in the culture and life of other nations than one's own. This is what enlightened Americans want. It is what _ the visiting Russian conferees pretended to want. But it is

of the Russian professor who made ‘of trying to be “ tan.”

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We seek to live in a world of “good will and fair play.”

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| MARSHALL PLAN . . . By William H. Newton a ees tee: | Red Gains in Europe Stopped

te FRANKFURT, Apr. ¢—The Marshall Plan

excerpts from letter westward today. elections since 1045. _ prospective teaches v1 ean, al Jae About hit Tha danger in Srtals 4 that Bociunat 1sa4prewar level, goal is to it at least ers, in ir ‘or the social y oR Rr, VE Iplercyaas work and one-fourth this year. Steel output has increased will overstep themselves in providing free social middle age, no one will thank you for your noble about one-fourth in the last year. Exports in which Britain just hasn't got the work and you won't enjoy your | 1048 wers about one-fifth more than in 1047. = money. : 5 solitary deur, is the worst matrie | ASricultural production showed a comparably Reco Job moniai alley that ever & girl can get into, | $00d guin. In many fields activity is substan. very \ “The moms and pops want our sacrifice tially ahead of a year ago and equal or even . NORWAY—next to Britain, says one Amervery much. They wouldn't do it themselves, above prewar totals. ] ican official, is doing the. recovery job most but they want you to do it.” Tourist trade will be up vastly over last nearly as we'd like to see it done. Norway, too, “More than any other thing, the teaching | Year's figures, and this will mean more Amieri- has its austerity that is more profession has sacrificed the lives of thousands | Sant Sollars. In the view of some officials, hopes severe than anyibing the U.S. stw using the a uf fn n* 4 . mesn they would like to have meat at one meal

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an all-time high. Some controls have been relixed but the British still live under a strict austerity system, doing without material comforts today to build a stronger economy tomorrow, : 4 The Labor government ‘remains strong despite the political Hability of ra and controls. It has won every one of the 23 by-

~ a week. Economic Co-operation Admin- ._ France—France has managed to maintain the present “third force” government in power 88 but has accomplished little more, The spread ..- between wages and profits; in the opinion of some American officials, is

has used a large portion of Marshall Pian ald to meet the cost of running its bureaucracy rather

"GAMBLER the Marshall Plan opportunity had in every Frenchman admits and deplores but does : | great part on the different peoples themselves nothing about. In life a ? and “upon the courage quality of their ~ Germany-—Marshall ald has almost made Or is it just.the fear you've made leadership, Western Germany a going concern.” Two major when you say you are afraid-—of life? Some, such as Britain, have used Marshall problems now are the smuggling of & large | Is life a ble? : : Plan aid as a keystone for sound, permanent volume of precision instruments out of the area, Or is it just you're wey economic y. and complaints from French and some U. 8. to take your life in hand and go-—-with life? Others, such as France and Ifaly, have used sources that we're rebuilding the German war Is dife a gamble? it more largely o- & means of ‘keaping their machine. : Or is it just because you'd rather heads above wa rod envy the fruits that others gather—trom lite? Yet even in these countries; the likelihood is Production Poor

ITALY--Power and iron-steel output are up. But some Marshall Plan supplies have rotted “unused in warehouses because of poor distribution and production methods. Marshall Plan officials want to cut down Italy’s bureaucracy which has jumped by 750,000 people since the

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asset—Marshall aid will be almost wasted.

HOUSING . . + By James Daniel Answers on Rent

+ WASHINGTON, Apr. 4—Here are some uestions a te might put to a federal remt-control official on the ant of Tent controls to June 30, 1950, and the answers. pati iow hn Jy rent be raised? : ents in favor of your landlord in areas where rent controls remains, or by free action of the law of supply and demand in areas where rent control is removed. : Q--Tell me about that “adjustment” method. :

housing expediter is now working up a formula for guaranteein landlords a fair net OPT THC y

Decontrol Plan Q-—HOW can areas be decontrolled? A~The law

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Gen. Marshall

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the Communists was doomed to failure.

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“hina’s Hopes Dim China's Hopes Dim WASHINGTON, Apr. 4—The openipg of Peiping peace talks between the Kuomintang Nationalist government and the north.

some out of these peace talks. But if agreement can be reached

to end the civil war and let the armies go home, that will be a start. In 1948, Gen. Marshall, then U. 8, am ¢ to China, told the Nationalist government that its proposed ali-out war against

¢ as a soldier, told them that their battle lines and lines of com-

munication would be too long for victory. Gen. Marshall told them that they would lose their country, His advice was disregarded, so

Time has now proved him right.

Major Disaster : Chinese situation is now a major disaster there can be no doubt. The Nationalist government's own demands thal Kai-shek account for some $100 million and that his

and sometime finance minister T. V. Soong, ac-

count for §2 billion, are mere indicators ofiwhat's wrong and how

Day, the Nationalists had five-to-one superiority forces. But in the last year the Nationalists have

over . lost nat only all of Manchuria and North China. They have lost & million men and they have lost 94 per cent of their American

expire. After that if federal rent control still exists in theif | signed by 50 other Representatives, was a good move to smoke out area, the will be their rent ceiling unless ad- | the administration make it-lay its diplomatic mahJusted by the rent administrator. Ta ii jong tiles on the table. and. nk: - QQ about the recontrol of residential hotels? time soon the President or the State Department should A—The law permits that in New York and Chicago. tome forward with a clear statement on why further aid to the Q= t Tru tly thinks the new rent-control -| Nationalist government would be futile, law is a victory for his side. What's he got to cheer about? For some reason or other, China has never been included in

the rent administrator power to sue for treble damages when a. tenant has been overcharged, plus control over evictions. it

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