| Show I 1 NEWS VV WS RE REVIEW VIE W rough on reds byrnes byrne s overrides lewis Lewi s MEMOIRS vo no patience james P F byrnes who when he was secretary of stats state was a veritable personification of pa pat Tence trence on a monument in his dealings with russia stepped down from his bis pedestal and announced that it was time to start slugging in his published memoirs speaking frankly byrnes proposed that the U S reply to rus hus sias obstructionism on atomic energy and german peace treaty agreements agree menta with better and more atomic bombs and a decision to drive the tha red army out of germany by force if necessary exponents odthe get tough with russia policy now have a sturdy champion in the former se secretary of state who resigned that post only last january because of ill health byrnes p r e dented a 10 step course of action I 1 0 r restoring peace basis of 13 which must be the conclusion of a satisfactory german peace treaty at the same time lie he conceded apat that the plan of action conceivably ceiva bly could lead to world war ill III if russia refused to co operate first of all said byrnes the U S should ask ash the big five to call a full dress conference of all nations on germany early in 1948 it if russia refuses to participate or it if she boycotts the conference the tha other nations should proceed without her then comes the stinger which byrnes byrne s advocates if russia refuses to sign the treaty and likewise refuses fu sesto to withdraw rid red troops from western germany other nations nat tons should ask the U N security council to order her out and if russia vetoes the security council order ord er then the tha U S must drive her out of germany by force however byrnes is 13 firm in his belief that the U S probably will not have to resort to warfare 1 ile he thinks russia will withdraw I her troops from western germany upon completion of a peace treaty REFUGEES prom from soviets streams of refugees are reported to be coming through dussias Rus sias iron curtain to the southeastern coast of sweden reason tor for their flight they say 13 that tho the baltic lands where they made their homes now under control of the soviet union ore are being combed by the russians for men and women to lie bo deported to siberia A secret transportation route out of the soviet lone manages to spirit the refugees to sweden cost for such a journey 2500 german m marks a BELABOR lewis leivis downed on this issue I 1 dont think the lie federation has a head I 1 think its neck has just grown frown up and haired over thus john L lewis he of 0 the king sized eyebrows at the american federation of labor coni con i vent bentton ionin in san francisco the I 1 issue assue to which he so lustily referred was that of whether the should voted vote to wipe out its ita 13 vice presidents of which lewis Is one and despite lewis name calling and hammy nane mane tossing histrionics thearl the did vote to abolish its haa vice presidents in a move to ma make ke the s entire federation eligible to ase use the national labor relations board under the taft hartley law the action which leaves only will william green president JOHN L and george deorge LEWIS secretary jirels aurer s top federation officers was taken in order to permit tho the officers to sign noncommunist communist non aan affidavits for federal unions which have no national officers of theli their own no union may have access to the facilities of the national labor relations board under the tatt taft hartley law unless their officers officer s sign the affidavits lewis previously had adamantly refused to 0 o sign the noncommunist communist non affidavit on ithee ithiel grounds that he would be making a concession to the tatt taft hartley law much reviled by labor 1 reparations IONS germany pays pay I 1 european aid aid took a different turn with an announced plan by Brit british and american military governments i to dip dismantle T antle german industrial dust du raal and war plants in their two zones for reparations purpose of the move slated to bi carried out is as swiftly as possible is to expedite european econ economic omle recovery most of the factories at a s metal chemical and electrical engineering shipbuilding and power plants t the announcement points up the problem still not kot fully solved of whether completely to destroy ger banys war potential by y cancelling out her industrial rial strength or to re build the german industry for peaceful production obviously realizing the possible adverse effects which the dismantling of the plants might have upon the german people the U S and britain issued a joint statement emphasizing pha sizing that they would consider suggestions from the germans for substitution of 61 equivalent individual plants 1 k |
