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Newspaper Page Text—WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS British to Adopt id.S. Arms' U.S. Agrees to Disarmament; Scotch World Food Proposal Released by Western Newspaper Union rniTOB’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In ; E .?Um Newspaper Union, new, analyst, and not ‘fh?. V.V&V.r?* Pickets at Allis-Chalmers plant at Milwaukee, Wis., tip over work ers’ car as deputy sheriffs attempt to check act. (See LABOR.) BRITISH ARMS: Adopt U. S. Pattern Close U. S. and British relations, first fostered toward the turn of the last century with the recognition of British naval strength in the At lantic as a defensive bulwark, have been knitted even more firmly with Britain’s decision to adopt Amer ican patterns for land, air and naval weapons. Back of the move was the growing political unanimity of the two coun tries, already intimately bound by close racial, social and economic ties. Together they stand for away of life spread over the width of the globe by British enterprise and now supported by U. S. diplomatic and military might. Practically, standardization of U. S. and British weapons will permit the British to purchase arms in this country in case of a future emer gency without the need for redesign ing American productive facilities. At the same time, it will allow for the manufacture of American type weapons in such British outposts as Australia and New Zealand, where the U. S. will have ready sources of supply for Pacific operations. Ten years may be required to com plete the conversion of British arms to American standards, with rifles, cartridges, mortars, artillery and naval guns undergoing change. U. N.: In Accord The U. S. and Russia came off all even in their first swap at the United Nations assembly in New York. If any li||| thing, the U. S. got -Ml the better of the ex p|; Ip change as Delegate I PP Warren R. Austin ''-lIP of Vermont conduct ec* himself with a gentlemanly reserve that contrasted with F° re ig n Minister Molotov’s vitriol. Warren R. Molotov was the Austin ' first to speak, call ing for internation al disarmament, a report on the number of allied troops in non-en emy states, retention of the veto power of the Big Five in the security council. He bitterly attacked U. S. and British imperialists, headed by Winston Churchill, for seeking world domination. Ignoring Molotov’s political charges, Austin entered into a dis cussion of the proposals raised by the Russian: If the Russians wanted interna tional disarmament, the U. S. would gladly oblige, provided an adequate system of inspection and other safe guards would be established to guar antee fulfillment of the program. Aft er the last war, Austin recalled, the U S. accepted the principle of dis armament but remained alone in carrying it out. If the Russians desired a report on the number of Allied troops in non-enemy states, the U. S. sug gested that the check be extended to former enemy countries as well. (Such an all conclusive report would provide the world with an adequate estimate of Russian troop strength behind the iron curtain, said by Churchill to total 200 divisions.) If the Russians opposed a modi fication of the veto power at this hme, the U. S. also was against re vision of the U. N. charter. How ever, the U. S. hoped that the Big Mve could get together in the fu ture to modify the veto in the case °, Peaceful settlement of disputes, although retaining it on the question of applying force. This Boy’s No Pansy In a city of quaint characters, 1 irnrny Galvin, 13, of Washing ton, l> c., more than holds his own, A rugged, two-fisted little naan, Jimmy refuses to have his " a *r cut despite playmates’ teasing over his beautiful gold en tresses. When their ribbing j ecomes too annoying, Jimmy sla Ps them down. No sissy, Jim ; fpy likes fotoball and baseball. FAO: U. S. Backs Down Having heartily endorsed a plan of the United Nations Food and Ag riculture Organization at Copen hagen, Denmark, for distribution of food to needy countries at bargain prices, the U. S. repudiated its posi tion as an FAO commission met in Washington, D. C., to work out de tails of the project. Under the plan, FAO would have purchased food from surplus pro ducing countries out of a revolving fund contributed by member na tions. When the world price for food would have gone above a predeter mined level, then FAO would have sold its reserves to needy buyers at the lower figure. In rejecting the plan, Undersec retary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd expressed doubt that FAO could achieve its objective under present conditions. Instead, Dodd suggested that the problem of future farm surpluses and marketings could best be solved through a sys tem of international commodity ar rangements. LABOR: Militant Police were hard put to maintain order at the Allis-Chalmers tractor plant at Milwaukee, Wis., as strik ing pickets of the CIO-United Auto mobile Workers bucked a back to work movement of over 3,000 em ployees. As violence mounted, the number of returning workers was cut in half. As militant pickets turned over cars attempting to enter the plant, clashed with returning workers and hurled stones at company win dows, county and suburban police were compelled to appeal to Mil waukee authorities for reenforce ments. Over 200 of Milwaukee’s fin est were sent to the plant, but even so the enlarged police detail encountered difficulty holding the strikers in check. Allis-Chalmers remained adamant against granting UAW a closed shop as the strike entered its seventh month. While agreeing to check off union dues with workers’ permission, the company stood out against compromise on compelling em ployees to join the UAW. WORLD TRADE: Hit British Pact The U. S. state and treasury de partments joined in objecting to the recently concluded British-Argentine trade pact, with American officials feeling that provisions of the treaty violated promises Britain made in obtaining a 3.75 billion dollar loan from this country. State department objections cen tered around Britain’s agreement to purchase 83 per cent of Argentine beef the first year and 78 per cent annually thereafter. Officials de clared that such provisions as in corporated in trade pacts with Can ada, New Zealand and Australia as well as Argentina tended to restrict world trade as advocated by the U. S. The treasury protested against the clause restricting Argentina’s use of blocked sterling balances in world trade. Blocked sterling balances represent the credits owing Argen tina for goods and services provid ed Britain during the war. Britain agreed to release some of Argen tina’s sterling balances for use in world trade only if she buys more from the United Kingdom and asso ciated countries than she sells them. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA ANOTHER STRIKE WAVE WASHINGTON. Only two labor leaders have let the cat out of the bag but around Christmas the na tion will face its greatest strike wave in History. Most labor leaders are not talk ing about this before election, for fear of hurting the chances of their particular congressional candidates, j Not so John L. Lewis, head of the Mine Workers and Walter Reuther, head of the powerful CIO Auto I Workers. Despite the fact that Lewis had demanded the end of meat control end wage stabilization; despite the } fact that the AFL went on record for the end of all controls, AFL and CIO leaders held a series of secret huddles after Truman’s meat I speech to decide on a new wage j policy. Most of them agreed to soft I pedal strikes for the moment and I see what happened to the price structure. However, Lewis, who wants to be president of AFL, and Reuther, who wants to be president of the CIO, would not hold back. • * • SPANISH WAR SURPLUS As if there weren’t enough headaches in disposing of sur plus goods from this war, War Assets administration recently had to unload some ancient horse-drawn ambulances used in the Spanish-American war. The problem finally was solved by removing the wheels and painting the bodies in deli cate pastel tints. Presto the relics were converted into gay cabanas and bathing shelters for seashore resorts. They sold like hotcakes. * * * CHURCHILL FUMES Winston Churchill is getting more and more irked over reports that he is the member of the Big Three chiefly responsible for sabotaging a democratic peace. Originally, Churchill had planned to take plenty of time writing his memoirs, spinning them out in three volumes to be finished about three years hence. Now, however, friends say he wants to put out a quick short volume to answer critics. This book would deal with some of the Big Three conferences, especially Teheran. Churchill’s critics have blamed him for the spheres of influence agreed upon at Teheran, following which Russia took over most of the Balkans, while England took over Greece. Churchill’s friends, on the other hand, claim that actually he was vigorously opposed to these spheres | of influence and threw the Atlantic i charter in Roosevelt’s face. Stalin, i however, replied that Britain could have her own sphere of influence, and in the end Roosevelt cast his weight with Stalin. Whether this or Elliott Roosevelt’s version is true, remains to be seen. However, it is interesting that the Harry Hopkins inspired stories in j the Saturday Evening Post imme- j diately after Teheran dwelt heavily j ! on the fact that Roosevelt decided | to cast his lot with the Russians. If j correctly interpreted, that decision l I has now backfired. ♦ * • SHE WASN’T FROM MISSOURI Kate Smith was so excited she lost her hat and almost forgot her gloves when she called at the White House to launch the Community Chest drive and to give President Truman the orig inal copy of the Community Chest’s new march, “The Red Feather.’’ It was composed by Maj. George Howard of the army band, who accompanied her. “Gee, it’s great to be home again, Mr. President,” said Miss Smith once she got to the White House, gloves and all. “You know, I am a native Washingtonian.” “Well, I’m mighty glad to hear that,” grinned Truman. “It’s a rare occasion when you find a native Washingtonian in Washington any more. They tell me about everybody here is from Missouri.” • ♦ ♦ NAZIS ARE STILL NAZIS Col. Bernard Bernstein, ex-finan cial adviser to General Eisenhower at SHAEF, has just returned from his first tour of Germany since he ; retired from the army. Bernstein, | who strongly urged denazification of J Germany, talked with many Ger mans in Berlin after Secretary of State Byrnes’ Stuttgart speech in which he pledged a reunited Ger many. Bernstein reports that Nazis are still Nazis. • • * MERRY-GO-ROUND Credit the army with a forthright stand on post-exchange money. It is turning 22 million dollars of post exchange profits back to the treas- j ury. The fund could have been kept ' I by the army for its own uses, but Secretary Patterson ruled other wise. . . . Unless too many north j erners endorse it first, the new nov- I el, “Night Fire,” should be well re ceived in the South. The author, Ed ward Kimbrough, a Southerner, writes of the South’s dilemma over 1 ! social traditions. ! iHi t ▼ Ail |v p] rll a |WK bm v I r • ■rffin lU. S. Awaits Russian Game at Foreign Ministers’ Parley By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D, C. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Of course this dateline isn’t official, since . ing, at Flushing, Baukhage N. Y., and the headquarters of the security coun cil, miles away at Lake Success. The broadcasting booth in which I sit looks right down on the first row of delegates, the United King dom under my chin, United States next, then Uruguay, then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Senator Austin, the white-haired and digni fied head of our delegation, sits on the end seat. Foreign Minister Mo lotov, who has deputy delegate Vi shinsky on his right, the transla tor, then Ambassador Gromyko on his left, sits about in the middle of his crowd. The two groups represent clash ing ideologies, conflicting ideas. But neither wears a steel helmet or car ries a tommy gun. They are in peaceful conflict to avoid conflict. Force Reds’ Hand at Paris Even the most cynical now admit that the Paris meetings served to reveal what the Russian objective was and temporarily, at least, I Byrnes was able to block that ob jective. It was plain from the be l ~ %, JKB ; ■ - :; - : Pl% w-'+y^- |||mHL ’ ,|s* y<iy<r - r ' : ''''ss,:-. ■:>ss££ sWB9BSi^‘ r {» iTiiJi iiil^i s f W V. M. Molotov (left) and Andrei Vishinsky, Russia’s two top dip lomats, lead Soviet delegation at U. N. parley. ginning that Russia had one nega tive purpose and that was to pre vent any conclusive action regard ing the situation in Europe which she could not dictate. Chaos, if not time, fought on her side. As the negotiations continued, however, slowly out of the mists along the Volga another shape be came visible. It was the materializa tion of one phase of the divide and conquer principle. In this csse it was the open bid for German sym pathy which Russia hoped would turn the Gerrhans in the American, British and French zones away from those countries and toward Russia. Although it was Russia it self which prevented the economic unification of Germany (plus Com munistic influences in France and French fears) it was Russia which suddenly offered the grandiose plan of a unified Germany with a hint at a rectification of the eastern fron tier at the expense of Poland. This sensational suggestion burst over Europe and the conference like a thunderbolt, but thanks to the quick action of Byrnes it proved a boom erang. Byrnes knew what to shoot at and he shot. The Wallace incident which for 24 hours threatened to cut Byrnes’ support from under him fortu nately had just the opposite effect. Byrnes insisted on repudiation of Wallace by the President and got it. Then Byrnes took the stump, showed that American policy would give Germany everything that the Russian plan would give her and made it clear that the question of the eastern frontier might well be | opened with the United States sym pathetic toward a revision of the boundary to the advantage of Ger many. Thus, in a lightning flash Russia’s policy was illuminated and imme- BARBS . . . by Baukhage You can even get coffee in the press bar—if you want it. • * • When Representative Sol Bloom, member of the American delegation, was first to arrive at the U.N. as se.uoly meeting he said; “I have seven million constituents and they all want tickets—that's why I left j home early.” diately blocked. The question now remains as to what line of approach the Russians have decided upon, if any. In the meeting of the assem bly they tried to continue their obstructionist tactics. The real test will come in the for eign ministers’ conclave at New York. There is a considerable element in the United States, by no means entirely composed of convinced Communists or their more hesitant fellow-travelers, which believes with former Secretary of Commerce Wallace that the United States can pursue some middle-of-the-road pol icy and that East and West can thus move together without friction. There is no question, however, that the task that Secretary Byrnes has set out for himself admits of no ap peasement. Draw Line on Soviet Expansion There have been a long series of books by experts and others, telling just what is wrong with our foreign policy and what might have been done or might be done to improve it. William Bullitt tried in a book (already mentioned in these col umns) to show that Russia’s dreams of empire are nothing new, that the Soviets are merely taking up where the Czars left off. More recently Louis Fischer has come along with his “Great Challenge.” Edgar Ansel Mowrer, reviewing this book in the Saturday Review of Literature, says that “if Henry Wal lace had read and understood this book, he would not . . . “push a completely unrealistic policy of ap peasement of Soviet Russia.” Mow rer probably would be the last per son to claim that he was prejudiced in favor of the Soviet rule but he is certainly familiar with his sub ject and his comment is worth con sideration. As for Fischer, he laughs at the idea put forth by the Russo- j philes that all we have to do is to assure Russia of her security, re move her suspicions and fears of democracy, and then she will march shoulder to shoulder with the rest oft us. Fischer says Russia’s be havior is explained not by fear of attack but by certainty that she will not be attacked. This belief seems to be back of the American action here today. It is to be hoped that during the negotiations at Lake Suc cess, Russia’s more specific objec tives will be revealed as they were in Paris. Fischer claims that “Russia is not afraid and not sus picious for two clear reasons: The British empire is in decline and on the defensive; America rushed from victory to headlong psychological and military demobilization.’’ If that is true then it must be made very clear to the Soviets that re gardless of what we may think about the decline of the British em pire and America’s sharp reaction against military activity, there is nevertheless a line beyond which Russian expansion will not be al lowed to go. It is to be hoped that line already has been reached. The necessity, however, is to make it very clear to both the American public and the Russian government that this point has been reached. Since it is admitted that Russia can not and does not want to fight, it is not a question of war. It is expected that the pin-prick ing policy by Yugoslavia will con tinue. At this writing further ef forts to obtain control of the Dar danelles are limited to name-call ing in the Russian press. It must also be remembered that when the United States put its foot down and Russia saw that it would not pay to go farther, Tito could go into re verse. The one-time leader of the Silver shirts went from jail to a hospital. Probably to remove some alien mat ter in his head. ♦ • • Winston Churchill is suing Louis Adamic, author of “Dinner at the White House,” for libel. Apparently Winny thinks dinner is one place where a man can say a mouthful. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson n.v HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for November 17 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education: used by permission. PAUL MINISTERS TO THE THESSALONIANS LESSON TEXT—Acts 17:1-7; I Thessa lonians 1:2-8. MEMORY SELECTION—Re not weary In welldoing.—ll Thessalonians 3:13. A great city, commercially active, religious to a high degree, a military center and a harbor so fine that it is important to this day—such was the city of Thessalonica. It presented a challenge to the preachers of the gospel and, in the name of Christ, Paul accepted and won a great vic tory. In the face of persecution, bitter and persistent, the believers in this city remained faithful. The reason for that appears in our lesson. Root ed and grounded in Christ, they had brought forth the fruit of real Christian living under circumstances which were difficult and trying. Our lesson tells of both the preaching of the gospel by Paul and the living of the gospel by the Thessalonians. I. The Gospel Preached—Accept ed and Rejected (Acts 17:1-7). Paul began his long and success ful ministry in Thessalonica in the synagogue. It was to the Jews who worshiped the one true God that he came with his message about their expected Messiah Christ the Lord. Here he estab lished a strong church. What was the message which so signally succeeded in this great strategic center? Well, it was not (as some modern preachers in large cities seem to think nec essary) a series of social, politi cal, or literary discourses. Paul preached Christ. He reasoned with them and presented the Saviour (v. 3) as One who was 1. Dead for our sin. These people were like us in that they needed a solution for their sin problem. Without the death of Christ there is no salvation for any man. Only through the shedding of blood can there be remission of sin (Heb. 9:22). Paul had no part in the folly of a “bloodless gospel’’ as though there were any such gospel. 2. Raised for our justification. It was not enough that Jesus died, marvelous as that is in our sight. For many a man has died for his convictions, but none has risen from the dead. Christ could not be holden of the grave. He arose the victorious Redeemer. 3. Declared to be the Christ. He is more than a man, more than a great leader and an earnest teach er. Ho is God’s anointed One, him self divine—and our Lord. Some believed (v. 4), including many devout Greeks, and not a few af the leading women. The gospel does have life-giving power as the Holy Spirit applies it to the hearts af willing men and women. Others opposed (vv. 5, G). Note that they were “of the baser sort.” They always are, even when they appear to be cultivated and edu cated, for there is something funda mentally wrong in a life which re jects Christ. It was a serious charge they made against the Christians (v. 7), for it was treason punishable by death to have any other king but Caesar if one lived in a Roman colony. But the thing which they hated worst in these Christians was the fact that their topsy-turvy world was in danger of being set right (they put it the opposite way, v. 6), and they did not want to be made ;ight. It is interesting to note that ;hese early preachers had divine power to turn over the social order. Would that we showed more of that power in the church today! Accepting the truth is good, but ,t must go on in daily living. The Thessalonians knew that and they are models of 11. The Gospel Lived Followers ind Examples (I Thess. 1:2-8). Paul, the missionary, was a cour .eous preacher. He recognized the faithfulness of Christian brethren and did not hesitate to commend .hem. We could do more of that when we meet true and faithful be ievers. They were followers of Paul, but anly because he followed Christ (v. 5). His power was from above (v. 5), even as they also were chosen from above (v. 4). Following Christ meant affliction lo them (v. 6), but it also meant the joy of the Holy Spirit, which is entirely independent of the circum stances of life—and above them. These Thessalonian believers were examples of what it meant |lo bo Christians. Wherever Paul \ went their faith toward God was rec ognized and he did not need to ex plain or argue for his gospel. Peo ple knew the Thessalonian Chris tians, and thus they knew real Christianity. There could be no finer witness to the faith of anyone than to be able to bear testimony that it is an example—a model—to which others may look and not go astray. Do we dare to measure our Christian lives by such a standard?