_WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Internal Reform Faces Britain,
But Diplomacy to Remain Same;
Allies Give Japs Peace Terms
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With the war in the I’aeHIc In the decisive stage, map shows disposi
tion of Japanese forces throughout Asiatic theater.
GREAT BRITAIN:
Future Outlook
Though profoundly affecting Great
Britain’s internal economy, the
sweeping victory of the Laborites In
the first general election since 1935
is not expected to appreciably alter
the country's foreign policy based
on maintenance of the empire to as
sure comparatively high living
standards.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Laborite triumph represented the
ascendancy of leftism in the United
Kingdom, the fact remains that the
country is so dependent upon the
empire for raw materials and mar
kets to support its industrial struc
I.*torltrs Aider, Morrison, Bevln.
ture that retention of ties abroad,
strength on the seas and control over
vital bases undoubtedly will remain
the substance of its foreign policy.
With Laborites ruling, concessions
may be made to Leftist elements in
Europe and elsewhere, but in over
all policy, Great Britain’s historic
diplomacy will remain essentially
British.
At home, however, tradition-bound
old Britain may be in for a radical
remodeling, with the Laborites' plat
form for nationalization of Industry
tempered by the amount of private
management that will be tolerated.
Under Prime Minister Clement Att
lee, former Minister of Labor Ernest
Bevin and ex-Minister of Home Se
curity Herbert Morrison, goals of the
Laborites include:
Consolidation of all railroads,
commercial carriers on highways
and coastal shipping into one trans
portation unit under government
control; nationalization and mech
anization of all coal mines and im
provement of working conditions by
increasing production; socialization
of the iron and steel industry and
the Bank of England.
SECURITY CHARTER:
Fipht Ahead
With only a scorching address by
Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.)
marring the even temper of the de
bate, the United Nations security
charter headed for quick senate
ratification, with indications that the
big battle lies ahead when the upper
chamber will consider the power of
the U. S. delegate and the contribu
tion of armed forces.
Declaring that like President Wil
son the late Mr. Roosevelt had jeop
ardized the prospects for successful
postwar collaboration by conces
sions to the major European pow
ers, Wheeler himself foreshadowed
an impending fight over details of
U. S. participation Though he would
vote for ratification, he said, he
would do so only on the strength of
statements that the senate would
later work out operational arrange
ments.
Prior to Wheeler’s speech, Sena
tors Connally (Dem., Texas) and
Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.) advocat
ed ratification, stressing that the se
curity pact in no way affected
VET TAXES:
Servicemen have been exempted
from paying several kinds of taxes
by the action of state legislatures
convening this year, the Federation
of Tax Administrators reports.
Tax exemptions which servicemen
have been granted include those for
income, property, veterans loans
and motor vehicles. In addition, one
state has exempted estates of de
ceased servicemen from taxation
and two states have abated unpaid
taxes of persons dying in service.
U. S. sovereignty but did provide
the country with an opportunity to
exercise its self-determination for
effective international co-operation
to prevent future warfare.
PACIFIC:
Allied Term*
Trembling under the bombard
ment of Allied air and naval forces.
Japan was threatened with even
greater catastrophe by U. S., British
and Chinese chieftains unless the na
tion gave up the hopeless fight and
set about the establishment of a
peaceful and democratic rule.
The Allied answer to rampant
peace talk, the U. S., British and
Chinese declaration issued in Pots
dam where the Big Three met,
called upon the enemy to rout its
militaristic leadership, relinquish
control of conquered territory, and
submit to occupation for fulfillment
of terms. In return, political and
religious thought would be respect
ed, and Japan eventually permitted
to resume its place in foreign trade.
, Though issued from Potsdam,
Russia conspicuously refrained from
Joining in the declaration, lending
credence to reports that the Soviets
had acted as middlemen in a Jap
peace overture, expressing willing
ness to comply with major Allied
terms, but asking for exemption
from occupation of the home islands.
Even as the Allies called upon
Japan for unconditional surrender.
Admiral ‘‘Bull" Halsey’s mixed
II. S. and British aircraft carrier
force continued Its heavy attacks on
Nippon, with one great 1,200-plane
strike further battering the enemy’s
already stricken navy.
Sweeping in against minor oppo
sition, Halsey's Hellcats ripped up
30 Japanese warships in the Inland
sea, with three battleships, six air
craft carriers and five cruisers dam
aged. As a result of the attack,
the enemy reportedly has few war
ships In commission, with most of
these being cruisers and destroyers.
In addition to hammering the Jap
anese fleet units, Allied carrier pi
lots continued to whittle down en
emy air strength, and also further
disrupted coastal shipping linking
the home islands by firing cargo
vessels and small barges.
FRANCE:
Petain Accused
As the dramatic trial of Marshal
Henri Petain moved smoothly fol
lowing a stormy outburst on the
opening day over a barb by Pros
ecutor Andre Mornet that there
were too many German-minded
spectators present, none of the prin
cipal witnesses against the old sol
dier openly accused him of betray
ing his country. They charged he
failed in his duties as a Frenchman.
Nevertheless, former Premier
Paul Reynaud and Eduard Dala
dier and ex-President Albert Lebrun
rapped Petain unmercifully for ne
gotiating an armistice with the Ger
mans while an effort was made to
keep up the fight; assuming supreme
power and virtually ruling by de
cree, and acceding to Nazi requests
for manpower and material.
In testifying for the state, Dala
dier declared that France was not
as weak materially at the time of
her defeat as generally suspected,
but fell because of errors in con
ception on the part of the general
staff. Declaring the Germans were
amazed to find huge quantities of
equipment on hand, he said France
possessed 3,600 tanks at the time
of the invasion of Holland and Bel
gium to the enemy's 3.300.
Natives Go American
Time was when natives of a Pa
cific isle came around seeking food
and clothing from marines. Now
they want athletic gear, says Sgt
Red O’Donnell.
Indoctrinated In American sports
by Third division marines, they
have become enthusiastic softball
and volleyball players. Fields have
been built in several villages, na
tives playing all day Sunday and in
the late afternoons.
PRICE CONTROL:
To Stick
Despite the Impending relaxation
of price control over minor items,
firm regulation will be maintained
over principal products and services
until supply balances demand so as
to avert postwar inflation, OPAd
mlnistrator Chester Bowles de
clared.
In loosening up on price control
on minor items, OPA will take action
when the commodity or service is
not essential; continued regulation
involves difficulties out of propor
tion to the importance of the prod
uct, and no materials, facilities or
manpower will be diverted from
more necessary industries.
Because various manufacturers
will be in the market for vast quan
tities of raw materials to fill orders,
and civilian demand for essential
goods, food and many services will
far exceed supply, maintenance of
price control in the immediate post
war period will be required for curb
ing runaway prices, Bowles said.
WAR CONTRACTS:
Keep Cutting
With war production down 9 per
cent from the peak level of March,
the impact on the economy will grow
as more reductions are made on
actual work rather than on paper
commitments. By the end of the
year, munitions output is expected
to drop 32 per cent below the March
figure.
Whereas cancellations of paper
commitments comprised 31 per
cent of the cutbacks in April and
14 per cent in May, such reductions
made up only 5 per cent of the total
in June.
Reflecting cutbacks, aircraft pro
duction was down 10 per cent in
June under May; ships, including
maintenance and repair, down 5 per
cent; guns and fire control, down 13
per cent; ammunition and bombs,
down 16 per cent; combat and motor
vehicles, down 8 per cent; commu
nications and electronic equipment,
down 5 per cent, and other material
and supplies up 1 per cent.
Matador Up in Air
Unusual photo thaw* Matador 6'u/ii
tas tossed into air off of bull's head dur
ing fight in Madrid ring. Hut slightly
hurt, the dashing Canitas resumed the
duel to ultimately thrust his sword
through animal's heart and win the
mateh.
UNITED NATIONS:
Relief Requests
Having already distributed $296,
563,000 worth of relief to Greece,
Italy. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugo
slavia, China and Albania, the Unit
ed Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
administration (UNRRA) has been
asked for $700,000,000 of assistance
by Russia.
At the same time, Deputy
UNRRAdministrator Roy F, Hen
drickson revealed that trucks con
stituted the No. 1 priority for relief
shipments to facilitate the move
ment of European crops.
Under UNRRA regulations, unin
vaded nations are supposed to con
tribute both toward the relief and
administrative expenses of the proj
ect, with the invaded countries chip
ping in only for running the organi
zation. Of the $1,862,788,348 of au
thorized contributions of participat
ing nations, it was revealed, the
U. S. share amounts to $1,350,000.
000.
SUEZ TOLLS:
U. S. lialks
With U. S. troops pouring through
the Suez canal en route to the Pa
cific, and with toll payments already
mounting to over $11,000,000, the
government again pressed the Brit
ish to absorb such charges under
reverse lend-lease.
In pressing the British, American
authorities pointed out that the
U. S. defrays the cost of British
ships passing through the Panama
canal, with such payments already
past the $9,000,000 mark.
Because the lend-lease act pro
vides that a country can supply aid
from purchases with its own money,
the British say they are not obliged
to pay the canal tolls, since they
must be made in Egyptian currency.
As it is, the British declare, they
already owe Egypt large sums for
wartime purchases.
TROOP TRAINING:
An intensive training program
faces veterans returning to the Unit
ed States from Europe before they
are sent to the Pacific theater The
ground forces redeployment train
ing program includes 44 hours of
training a week, with lectuaes,
group discussions, orientation
courses and movies furnishing back
ground for the course.
Training subjects include Japa
nese tactics and technique and
identification of Japanese weapons,
uniform, insignia.
Washington Dipest;
Domestic Problems to
lest Truman's Mettle,
Harmonious Relations on Foreign Policy
Soon to Give Way to Contention Over
Difficulties of Reconversion.
By BAU
News Analyst at
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, I). C.
The political armistice in Wash
ington will end shortly after the
President’s return from Berlin. The
Big Three meeting followed so close
ly on the heels of the San Fran
cisco conference that foreign affairs
have dominated the scene almost to
the exclusion of domestic matters,
which sooner or later must test the
mettle of the new administration.
Another reason, perhaps, why
President Truman's honeymoon has
been extended is the fact that the
main issue before the country, the
United Nations charter, has been
robbed of its partisan flavor. This
is largely due to the long and ardu
ous efforts of former Secretary of
State Hull. He built up a working
understanding on foreign affairs be
tween the administration and the
congress, which resulted in the
KHAGE
d Commentator.
only a former senator, but a former
Supreme court justice. Byrnes pro
vides an understanding link with the
judicial branch as well as with the
legislative. The secretary of the
treasury, Fred Vinson, is a former
member of congress as well as an
ex-judge. Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson is not only a former
member of congress, but was head
of the house food committee, which
directed some of the most serious
criticism against the former admin
istration’s handling of the food situ
ation. This committee is now work
ing closely with the new cabinet
member.
While Secretary of Commerce
Wallace does not bring to his de
partment the close associations of
the men over whom he presided as
president of the senate, the scope
and function of his office has been
considerably reduced by the reor
Vice President Truman shortly before his elevation to the presidency
discusses politics and artillery shells with Baukhage.
whole-hearted co-operation of most
of the leaders of both parties, stur
dily supported by public opinion.
Secretary Hull was able to achieve
this harmony because of the confi
dence in which his former colleagues
held him and also because of his ex
perience as a member of the legisla
tive branch of the government.
Roosevelt could never have been as
successful in this endeavor and, be
cause he realized that fully, he left
the matter largely in Hull’s hands.
Chief Still
One of the Boys
In the first place. President Tru
man stepped directly from the up
per house to the vice presidency,
and ever since he left the legis
lative branch for the executive, he
has been acting as liaison between
the two.
Shortly before President Roose
velt's death I had occasion to in
terview the then vice president. I
talked about the forthcoming San
Francisco conference with him (as
well as the field artillery, of which
we are both alumni). He indicated
that he was holding aloof from any
public participation in the discus
i ns of international affairs but was
attempting to carry on and to com
plement the work of Secretary Hull
in promoting a sympathetic discus
sion of the Dumbarton Oaks agree
ment with members of the senate
foreign relations committee, the
house committee on foreign affairs
and others.
One of his first unorthodox acts
was to take lunch with some of his
old colleagues at the Capitol. This
was almost as if the king of England
were to attempt to enter the City of
London without first having a formal
parley with the lord mayor. But it
was a perfectly natural act on Tru
man's part—like his spontaneous re
mark to the effect that there was a
certain Chinese restaurant where he
would like to eat while he was on
the West coast. On second thought
he realized that, as President, he
couldn't do such a thing and admit
ted it with a smile.
The President’s informal visits to
the Capitol haven’t hurt him. Nor
his formal ones. After his last ap
pearance, when he delivered the
charter, he lingered so long in the
senate chamber, shaking hands and
patting backs, that an aide had to
hint gently that he wasn’t a senator
any more and must hurry back to
his work.
His cabinet appointments are
highly significant. Truman’s secre
tary of state, James Byrnes, is not
ganization of the department and so
is not a source of frictiop. In his
secretary of labor. President Tru
man has a man who was exceed
ingly popular in the senate—anoth
er judge—Lewis Schwellenbach.
Fear Influence
Of Party Bosses
Of course, when it comes to ques
tions like the poll-tax and the fair
employment practices act or any
other measure in which the race
question is involved, the old friction
arises with the southern congress
men and any Republicans they can
attract to their cause. Also, while
there are those who say that the
President is steering a course much
farther to the right than President
Roosevelt did, he nevertheless is
committed to a number of the so
called New Deal “reforms,” both be
cause of his record in the senate and
because of his natural leanings.
However, since Truman is known to
be a strong party man, it will be
easier for him to keep the southern
Democrats in line.
Of course, some of the radical
New Dealers are doing a lot of eye
brow raising behind the bushes and
a remark (perhaps written with
tongue in cheek) which appeared in
the Wall Street Journal sent shiv
ers down some spines. That news
paper, which hardly depends on
Democratic support for its circula
tion, said recently: “Not since the
short-lived administration of Warren
Harding has there been the prospect
of teamwork as exists today.”
If tiie results of the Berlin meet
ing are such that they reveal a
marked improvement in Big Three
relations and a harmonious settle
ment of some of the difficult inter
national problems, the President’s
prestige will be greatly increased.
However, by that time domestic dis
content will be crystallizing, the
honeymoon will be on the wane and
the President will nt'd all the
“teamwork" he can muster.
If the Japanese war should, by
any chance, end suddenly—before
another year—it would mean that
reconversion, threats of inflation and
unemployment and a hundred other
problems will be upon us and Presi
dent Truman will be stripped of his
protective authority as Commander
in-Chief. Then the slings and ar
rows which even Roosevelt’s ene
mies were wont to deflect to con
gress and other government agen
cies will be aimed squarely at the
man in the White House Peace will
not be too peaceful at 3200 Penn
sylvania avenue.
BARBS . . . f> y Raukhage
Under the able direction of Har
old McGrath, superintendent of the
senate radio gallery in Washington,
radio men were taken care of to the
Queen's taste. The big chains buili
excellent temporary studios at con
ference headquarters and all the
! separate stations were well taken
care of, too. Hundreds of record
I ings were made and shipped out by
' airmail.
I
Field offices of the Federal Hous
ing administration are now accept
ing from private lending institutions
applications for the insurance of
principal loans supplemented by
loans under Section 505 of the G.I.
bill. The veterans’ administration
guarantees an equity on such loans
not to exceed $2,000 where the prin
cipal loan, which must comply with
FHA regulations, is Insured by FHA.
Vitamin-Enriched
Pork Shown Feasible
Proper Feeding Will
Add Vitamins to Pork
By w. j. dryden
Research work at the Washing
ton state experiment station has
shown that it is not only possible
but entirely practical to increase the
thiamin content of pork with
selected feeds.
Sub-deficiencies of thiamin or vita
min B1 constitute the most widely
spread human nutritional ailment in
the United States. Pork is recog
nized as one of the richest sources
of thiamin among the natural and
universally consumed foods.
The experiment showed that cull
peas properly used in hog feeding
will result in pork richer in thi
amin. There is no reason to doubt
but what special markets may be
developed advertising thiamin-rich
Feed hogs enriched food.
pork. Iodine eggs, enriched bread,
enriched milk and other food prod
ucts have had special markets de
veloped along this line. At the start,
the demand may be limited to hos
pitals and others who are willing to
pay a premium for an enriched pork
product.
On a fresh basis, the ham and loin
were found to contain the highest
amounts of thiamin, followed by
shoulder, heart, liver and kidney.
The liver had the highest riboflavin,
followed by heart, ham, shoulder
and loin.
Jeeps for Farming
Will Be Available
Postwar jeep at work.
In tests conducted at state col
leges on private farms and at the
factory, the postwar jeep has been
proven superior to the military jeep
in most operations.
The new jeep will do about
anything that a light truck and a
tractor will do. It can be used for
delivery purposes, or for plowing or
other farm work, such as discing,
drilling, logging, harrowing and the
various transportation jobs found on
the average farm.
Preventing Odors and
Garlic Taste in Milk
To prevent the milk showing a
garlic or onion taste or odor, it is
necessary to follow these rules care
fully:
1. Clip the tops with a mowing
machine before grass is pasture
high.
2. Graze the pasture lightly with
young and dry stock.
3. If cows are turned on the pas
ture immediately after milking and
removed four hours before next
milking, the trouble will be largely
eliminated.
4 After bringing the cows from
the pasture, give them a light feed
ing of dry roughage.
5. Keep the cows outside the milk
ing barn until just before milking
time.
6. Cool the milk promptly after
milkihg.
Good Sheep Pastures
Make good pastures the basis of
the ration for all classes of sheep,
is the advice of sheep experts.
Healthy sheep grazing legume or
legume and grass pastures and pro
vided with salt and water need no
other feed. The pasture season
may be extended by using wheat or
rye pasture.
If legume roughages are not used,
feed liberal amounts of protein con
centrates and some extra calcium
Soybean oil meal, limestone will
prove welcome additions to fattening
lambs on corn silage diet.
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Check on your movements ia
sweeping. How many unnecessary
ones? Eliminate them. Make a
clean sweep in one spot before
moving on to the next and be sure
you get every inch within reach.
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To soften up hard, lumpy brownt
sugar, put it in a brown paper bag,
which has been sprinkled with wa
ter, and place for 10 minutes u»
a 250-degree oven.
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Lace gloves will have more body
when laundered if lightly starched .
Press carefully with a warm iron.
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To keep a picture hanging
straight, form a loop in tt>e wire
before placing it on the hook. The
picture won’t have a chance to g«*
awry very quickly.
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