Show NEWS REVIEW R rough oil gh on reds e d s B byrnes tn es 0 arl overrides lewis MEMOIRS no patience james F bymes byrnes who when he was secretary of state was a veri verl table personification of patience on a monument in his dealings with russia stepped down from bis his ped estal and announced that it was time to start slugging in his published memoirs speaking frankly bymes byrnes proposed that the U S reply to rus sia s obstructionism on atomic energy and german peace treaty agreements with better and more atomic bombs and a decision to drive the red army out of germany by force if necessary exponents of the get tough with russia policy now have a sturdy champion in the former secretary of state who re 1 signed that post only last january because of ill 4 health byrnes p r e dented a 10 step course of action f tor 0 r restoring peace basis of which must be BYRNES the conclusion 0 of a satisfactory german peace treaty at the same time he con ceded that the plan of action con ceiva bly could lead to world war III if russia refused to operate cooperate first of all said bymes byrnes the U S should ask the big five to call a full dress conference of all nations on germany early in 1948 if russia refuses to participate or if she boycotts the conference the other nations should proceed with out her then comes the stinger which byrnes advocates it if russia refuses to sign the treaty and likewise re fuses to withdraw red troops from western germany other nations should ask the U N security coun cil to order her out and if russia vetoes the security council order then the U S must drive her out of germany by force however byrnes is firm in his belief that the U S probably will not have to resort to warfare he thinks russia will withdraw her troops from western germany upon completion of a peace treaty REFUGEES from soviets streams of refugees are reported to be coming through russia s iron curtain to the southeastern coast of 0 sweden reason for their flight they say is that the baltic lands where they made their homes now under con arol of the soviet union are being combed by the russians for men and women to be deported to siberia A secret transportation route out of the soviet zone manages to spirit the refugees to sweden cost for such a journey 2 german marks BELABOR lewis downed on this issue I 1 don t think the federation has a head I 1 think its neck has just grown up and haired over thus john L lewis he of the king sized eyebrows at the american federation of labor con bention in san francisco the issue to which he so lustily referred was that of whether the should vote to wipe out its 13 vice presidents of which lewis is one and despite lewis name calling and hammy mane tossing ics acs the did vote to abolish its vice presidents in a move to make the entire federation eligible to use the national labor rela eions board under the taft hartley law the aati action on which leaves only W william green president JOHN L and george LEWIS secretary treas aurer as top federation officers was wa taken in order to permit the officers to sign non communist am aff davits for federal unions which have no national officers of their own no union may have access to the facilities of the national labor relations board under the taft hart ley law unless their officers sign the affidavits lewis previously had adam adamantly antly refused to sign the non communist affidavit on the grounds that he would be making a concession to the taft hartley law much reviled by labor reparations germany pays european aid took a different turn with an announced plan by british and american military govern ments to dismantle german in du dustral and war plants in their two zones tor for reparations purpose of the move slated to U carried out as swiftly as possible is to expedite european eco economic nomi recovery most of the factories af at a metal chemical and electrical engi shipbuilding and power plants the announcement points up the problem still not fully solved of whether completely to destroy ger many a war potential by cancelling out her industrial strength or to re build the german industry for peaceful production obviously realizing the possible adverse effects which the disman aling of the plants might have upon the german people the U S and britain issued a joint statement em pha sizing that they would consider suggestions from the germans for substitution of equivalent individual plants |