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Show KU XW DKW PEARSON Washington, D. C. EOOSEVELT-CHIKCHILL AGAIN Churchill's recent "powerhouse" speech before Commons didn't click with persons high up in the administration. admin-istration. Actually, it brought out the growing differences between him and the President, also his spats with Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, also the importance ol overhauling over-hauling U. S.-British political relations. rela-tions. (Administration permanent peace ideas are much nearer those announced by Eden the day after Churchill, when he went out of his way to emphasize the cooperation of smaller countries with the Big Four.) Here are some of the differences which realistic advisers inside the administration have been wanting to have straightened out with Churchill for some time: 1. American boys will never fight to protect India in the future, so it is foolish to let Churchill think that Britain and the U.S.A., through alliances al-liances with Russia, can help guarantee guar-antee the Empire. The only protection pro-tection to India must be a healthy India willing to protect herself. When FDR talked to Churchill about India two years ago, the P. M. was almost insulting. 2. The United States will insist on giving Hongkong and other former Chinese possessions back to China. When this was proposed by the President Pres-ident at Cairo, Churchill flatly refused. re-fused. 3. An alliance of big powers as proposed by Churchill cannot keep permanent peace in the world any more than the congress of Vienna, which divided up Napoleon's empire em-pire in 1815 among Russia, Austria, England and Germany. 4. President Roosavelt, so far as he has thought things out, favors a peace machinery based on coopera- , tion with small powers as well as big. He doesn't go for Churchill's Metternieh idea of balancing the world among heavily armed big powers. 5. The old British Empire ' for which Churchill fought 50 years ago in the Indian northwest border wars, and in the Sudan and the Boer wars, will never come back despite his youthful memories. And the United States can never assume the drag anchor of helping to protect that kind of an empire in the future. Finally, every time the British have been pulled into a war In the last half century, we have helped pull them out. Therefore There-fore we should have a large vote in the set-up which may make or prevent wars in the future. Some of these general ideas were hinted to Churchill during the Cairo-Teheran conferences with no very favorable reaction. It may be that in th near future they will be taken up again. FULL PAY FOR RETIRED OFFICERS Higher-ranking army and navy officers of-ficers have recently discovered a neat way of retiring on full pay instead in-stead of ordinary retirement pay, which is only two-thirds as much. They go to the hospital a month or so before they are slated to retire for age, and then are ' sometimes able to retire with disability, which gives them full pay the rest of their lives. This system is based upon the fact that congress recently changed the army-navy retirement set-up in order to aid wounded men. It was provided that a veteran might retire re-tire on full pay If disabled. However, it was the intent of congress con-gress to aid young lieutenants and lower-ranking officers who usually suffer the highest casualties in wartime war-time due to the fact that they have to be in the front lines. Apparently, congress did not realize real-ize that, when a colonel or a general reaches the retirement age of 64, it is not uncommon for him to have arthritis, gall stones or some other disability which can be discovered at any army hospital a few months before he retires. This gives him full pay for life. Another interesting angle to retirement re-tirement pay is that an officer getting get-ting retired pay cannot take another job from the government and gel paid for it, but he can take a job with a company under a cost-plus government contract. In this case, the government pays him two salaries, sal-aries, except that under the cost-plus cost-plus contract a third party hands wer the money. MAIL BAG Ex-Gov. O. Max Gardner of North Carolina Mrs. Gardner denies mj story that, when it comes to ham and hominy grits, you and Senatoi George always do the cooking. Sh ought to know. Darryl Zanuck, Hollywood Con gratulations on bringing out one o: the most important pictures of al time, "Woodrow Wilson," when i will really help us to build a new and permanent peace. Nothing coulc be more timely. Mrs. Laura Foss, Los Angeles A summary of how we paid part o: the Alaskan purchase money to Rus sia in return for her placing th Russian fleet in American waters t offset the British during the Civi war, is on Page 292 of the Work Almanac. |