Show NEWS REVIEW rough f f on reds byrnes Ovel overrides s lides lewis MEMOIRS vo no patience james F byrnes who when he was secretary of state was a veritable personification of patience on a monument in his dealings with russia stepped down from his pedestal and announced that it was time to start slugging in his published merno memoirs irs speaking frankly byrnes bymes proposed that the U S reply to rus sias obstructionism on atomic energy and german peace treaty agreements with better and more atomic bombs and a decision to drive the red army out ol 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 resigned that post only last january because of ul ill health byrnes p re r e dented a 10 step course of action tor for restoring peace basis of BYRNES which must be the conclusion of a satisfactory german peace treaty at the same time he conceded that the plan of action conceivably ceiva bly could lead to world war III it if russia refused to operate cooperate co first of all said byrnes the U S should ask the big five to call a full dress conference of all nations on germany early in 1948 it if russia refuses to participate or if she boycotts the conference the other nations should proceed without her then comes the stinger which byrnes advocates it if russia refuses to sign the treaty and likewise refuses to withdraw red troops from western germany other nations should ask the U N security council 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 ill withdraw her troops from western germany upon completion of a peace treaty REFUGEES from soviets streams of refugees are reported to be coming through dussias Rus sias iron curtain to the southeastern coast of sweden reason for their flight they say is that the baltic lands where they made their homes now under control of the soviet union are being combed by the russians tor 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 tor for such a journey 2500 german marks BELABOR leivis downed on this issue I 1 dont think the federation has a head bead 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 convention 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 histrionics the did vote to abolish its vice presidents in a move to make the entire federation eligible to use the national labor relations board under the taft hartley law ube the action which leaves only william green president JOHN L and george LEWIS secretary treasurer as top federation officers was wa taken in order to permit the officers to sign noncommunist communist non affidavits 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 bad adamantly refused to sign the noncommunist communist non 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 tum with an announced plan by Britis li and american military governments to dismantle german industrial du and war plants in their two zones for reparations purpose of the move slated to LO hi carried out as swiftly as possible is to expedite european econom economic id recovery most of the factories aft at i metal chemical and electrical engineering shipbuilding and power plants the announcement points up the problem still not fully solved of whether completely to destroy ger banys war potential by cancelling out her industrial strength or to rebuild the german industry tor 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 tor for substitution of equivalent individual plants |