Show watkins asks marshall plan be ex explained bained cites U N failure in talk before tooele thoele lions club stating that the united nations today is nothing but a pious hope a first class debating society and will be until the veto is done with united states senator arthur V watkins R utah gave a stirring speech at the tooele thoele lions club last thursday evening september at the mar vista center speaking before a group ot of 60 mem bers and their guests sen watkins went on to say we find our selves now instead of united nations a group of individual countries in complete disagreement bickering with our neighbors at every turn and in every part of the world we may meet the speech was given in con junction with united nations nation s week which was observed from september 14 to 19 and was well received by all those present the occasion was the regular meeting of the lions club that civic mind ed high principled organization of solid citizens whose president is dale james beginning his talk by praising brigham young and the pioneers for settling in utah and converting the desert into a garden the senator cited the part hard work has played in the building of character among the mormons of utah people are utah s greatest pro duct said sen watkins and utah should be proud of the peo ale lie she has sent out into the wor id d for they rank among the best there are explaining that no one knows what the marshall plan really Is senator watkins added that he be lieven the people of the united states should be told what it is no blueprint has been revealed on or L it yet he stated in fact no one seems to know what the plan actually Is As long as it is IA our ma aerial we are going to be sending over there and our money we are giving to them we should know exactly what is going to be done with it some goods had been finding their way into the hands of nations who were actually plan ning and scheming agal against ast the U S the senator revealed he ile told of large amounts of relief supplies going to nations very definitely unfriendly to us and added that this was the reason the was discontinued there was one time when the government W want ant ed to ship to russia a complete plant for the manufacturing of high octane gasoline on lend lease at this very time the united states was asking russia when she was going to pay for the 11 billon billion or more dollars worth of supplies we had already sent her russia would not even talk about it she would not even tell us where the 96 ships we let her use had gone her armies were often given priority over our own yet et she has r never lever repaid any of the aid we gave h her er nor does she in tend to this united nations is not just something that is for a few of the delegates and senators to worry a bout it Is for all of us senator watkins warned and went on to say it is a problem which affects every man woman an and d child in the country it may mean we will have to tighten up our belts to help get those countries on their feet it might in mean ean putting up with few privations and hardships and the return of rationing I 1 don t know but I 1 do know it will affetto eie everyone of us here citing the inconsistencies in the policy sen watkins referred to a statement by the advisor to sec detary of sta state t e ma marshall rs h a ll 11 t that h at n no 0 body quite k knew n ew w what h a t 0 our u r pol policy ic y was obviously bously a good friend of sen vandenburg s the senator constan constantly ti y related instances when the two had talked together on various world and domestic lems reviewing the points in the at lantic alantic charter which was written and signed by roosevelt and churchill representing their governments ern ments mr watkins made it continued on back page watkins gnp pu airs I 1 continued from front page known that the russ an govern ment had also bubser bed to the charter at a later date so that it was just as b riding for them as it was for us closing his talk with remarks on other domestic issues mr watkins proclaimed yes I 1 voted for the taft hartley labor bill and wont won t apologize to anyone for doing it I 1 am sure it will work and solve most of our labor it has already solved a lot of them and production is the result at the close of his speech the senator spent a few moments ans questions that various members wished to ask and tried to clear clar up points of new laws he said the marine corps was well provided for in the new armed forces merger bill which is a thing the members of the marine corps had worried about the solon was accompanied on his trip to tooele thoele by mrs watkins who stated she always heard her husband husbands s speeches the senator has just returned from a trip to alaska where he wag was sent to study problems lems that will face the law makers at their nett next session bob ashby son of mr and mrs cl aford ashby of delta utah and a filand kent from dita D ita spen the past weekend in atoo e vis ting 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