| Show lm t 6 U p DR W FA am washington D 0 BANKRUPT STATUS one ot of the most important docu monts ments bearing on the postwar work soon will be issued by the british government in the form of a whitt whit paper it will be a survey of brit ains financial position and a frank admission that she is bankrupt the white paper will tell in how british investments throughout ghoul the world have been liquidated tc pay for tor the war and will come t the conclusion that if the british empire Is to continue tree free trading she must have outside help the alternative to free trade and free competition the white will say gay is a system of barter restricted strict ed trade and cartel such as ai that practiced by germany afteel the last war international cartels of course have been blasted public ly by president roosevelt and one on british corporation imperial chemical industries already has been prosecuted by the justice depart ment on a charge of conspiring with the du ponts fonts before the war to control the world production of certain chemicals according to inside word from the I 1 di diplomatic plo matic corps the publication ol of britaina Brit ains frank survey of her bank rupt bupt finall financial cial position will coincide with the secret conferences now taking place here between lord keynes and U S officials regarding the re n newal ewal of lend lease with the war in europe nearing a close and with U S forces now getting e na a greater proportion of 0 war supplies direct from the united states brit british ish wa war r needs tor for lend lease are dwindling however the british have proposed in lord keynes private conversations a new type of postwar lend lease whereby the british could resell goods to foreign countries in order t to 0 reestablish their export trade keynes proposal word leaking from the diplomatic corps Is that lord keynes now proposes a total lend lease leage allotment to great britain of I 1 ak 9 billions for 1945 of which 3 am billions could be re exported in british trade most of 0 this would be in the form of american raw materials which the british would process into finished goods and then sell the british do not propose that finished american products be given them for re export but only that they get lend leased raw materials to revive their crippled industries one proposal Is to set up a new postwar lend lease court composed of one and two americans which would decide which goods could be used for british trading purposes the tha whole plan will be submitted to congress probably before christ mas prefabricated BRIDGES one of the great but little known stories of the western front la Is the way in which army eng engineers inders got a group of bridge experts together nearly two years ahead of the european invasion and designed fabricated sections of bridges which would exactly replace specific bridges in france holland and belgium through the european underground army engineers were able to get exact measurements of the bridges which they knew would be destroyed by the retreating nazis each part was numbered and special assim assembly bly crews trained in england rehearsed the job of putting them in place when i n the invasion came these bridges traveled sp so close behind our advancing armies that they were frequently ahead of the field kitchens and on arrival at a destroyed bridge its replacement was a matter of hours HILLMAN WOULD END PAO PAC sidney hillman advertise it but during the last days of the campaign be took steps to disband his controversial political action committee the final decision will not be up to him alone for the whole thing will be threshed out at the CIO national convention in chicago but not waiting tor for the convention vent ven tion lon hillman tent sent notice to most of the members of the PAC staff that they go off the payroll before then originally PAC was set up as a perman permanent ant organization and there are several leveral schools of thought inside the CIO regarding its continuation one group including auto workers president R J thomas wan wants to to keep PAC alive alave hillman Hil linan on the other hand wants to shut up shop chop concentrate on new york politics and also get his health bade back MERRY GO ROUND C an all during the war has been a close reader of carl sand burgs lincoln and has continued his bis reading during the campaign someone who dropped into his private study one day found a copy of the book open to Lincol ns war days during the 1884 1864 campaign clellands llant lans followers accused lincoln of squandering public funds mis inana management gement of the government do de itro ying civil liberties meddling with the war and standing out for unconditional surrender |
