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Show BEHINLm By PaULIaON ReltaMd by Wutarn Nt wipaptr Union. ATTLEE'S GOVERNMENT-WEAK GOVERNMENT-WEAK WORLD POWER WASHINGTON. Tha llmehouse slums representative in parliament rules Britain and the Empire. Its man, Clement Attlee, won control con-trol on a platform against free en-. en-. terprise. and In fa-r"' fa-r"' vor of the govern-ment govern-ment taking over fuel and power, inland in-land transport. Iron and steel manufac turing and the Bank 1 Qy of England. The 1 SyZdi wrll effects of Jkj J Britain's electoral ft fl I revolution are being confusingly fore-Clement fore-Clement Attlee cast. Continuanct of the Churchill international in-ternational policies, for instance, has been promised, yet the Attlee labor party campaigned in favor of closer collaboration with Russia than Churchill could provide. Similarly, the ensuing fear of the Socialist program throughout the world has prompted mollifying suggestions sug-gestions that the program will be long in enactment, if ever attained, although strangely the sincerity of its devotees is not questioned.' From such circumstances, anything but confusion in forecasts would be difficult dif-ficult to And. To gauge accurately the extent of the electoral revolution, revolu-tion, it will be necessary to await Attlee's steps. Statements issued since the election can safely be discounted dis-counted as Inspired for political effect. ef-fect. Only in definite action can uncertainty un-certainty be dispelled. My information suggests the commonly published guesses are more logical than sound. The only Justifiable conclusion yet apparent Is that Britain has weakened herself as a world power. A more accurate way to put It Is that ahe has publicly proclaimed her existing weakness. weak-ness. Her money was gravely shocked by the war. Without the Bretton Woods agreement It might not now have Its depreciated depreci-ated stability. Her war effort, had to be materially sustained largely from the outside (by us, Canada and Australia), she was able to sustain herself only psychologically. Her navy, which ruled the world for several generations, gen-erations, Is now a fraction of ours (one-fifth to one-eighth, whereas It was equal at the start of the war). Her army la a minor world entity as armies go In slie and equipment these days. British Foreign Trade. Her foreign trade, which furnished the only economic reason for her world position, has become a matter for her gravest postwar concern. The Bretton Woods agreement was de- ")' , signed to help re-store re-store it, but we 'Lf'fU have most of the utf Ji ships on the seas and the manufactur- yg' ing capacity, while L7X-J Russia has great raw materials and w Churchill lndustrlalambltlons. The election is likely to lead to a further culmination of these too glaring conditions. Mr. Churchill, as a world figure, was able to maintain main-tain a facial front above them, to cover them while he extemporized. This will be much more difficult for Mr. Attlee, especially In view of his program. His platform, for instance, docs not advocate more coal production, more power, sounder money or finance fi-nance by the Bank of England, greater great-er or better iron and steel and inland in-land transport. It proposes that his labor party use the people's money to buy these enterprises and operate oper-ate them, not to make them bigger and better, but to give his party followers fol-lowers a greater share of the profits of operation, in short, higher wages. Most Amerlcsn official ex-prcl ex-prcl Russia to fall on national wealth. The common fears popular popu-lar In this rountry, that Russia will overrun Europe and Asia and eventually relegate us to a second class power, are not shared by many of our government govern-ment mm In the know. They do not believe Russia ran get production, pro-duction, although she Is in a better bet-ter position to get It than a Socialist So-cialist Britain, as she has the power of compulsion over her workers. Russia never got enough produc-J tion on anything to compete with anyone before the war. Not until, Nazi Invasion brought her unity did her production become satisfactory, satisfac-tory, ond even then her backward mechanical methods prevented her from getting the full measure of effort ef-fort from her limitless manpower. It was numbers, not materials, which saved Russia, as any military man will tell you. The United States then occupies the best position economically In this new world of material produC' tion as the only wealth. |