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Show WASHINGTON NJWS M FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER International Business "The next order of international business before the Congress should be our financial relations with the United Kingdom," President Presi-dent Truman stated last week in a message to Congress requesting that the Financial Agreement be implemented "as speedily as is consistent with careful legislative legisla-tive consideration." This Financial Agreement would provide for extending the United Kingdom a line of credit of -$3.75 billion. This amount may be drawn upon until 1951. Then the United Kingdom must begin epayment of the pricipal, plus interest. With reference to short-term purposes of the line of credit, Britain needs it to meet her expected ex-pected deficit balance of payments pay-ments in the next six years and to enable her to buy supplies of food and raw materials. In addition, ad-dition, the credit "will keep open a market for those surpluses of the United States which are customarily cus-tomarily exported to the United Kingdom." UNO The World Capital The location of the United Nations Na-tions Organization has been determined de-termined and so we might review briefly just what type of a capital cap-ital this will be. At first, the organization will be small. It will have relatively few people and no permanent buildings. Temporary headquarters headquar-ters will have to be set up in a big city where office and housing accommodations are available. Eventually, the world capital will become an imposing and important im-portant place. Staff organizations organiza-tions will grow. Buildings will be erected to house the permanent perma-nent staff and to provide meeting meet-ing places for the international conference. Thus, within a few years, the United States will have a world community within its borders. There will be several thousand workers in the various UNO branches, coming from all parts of the world. With their families, they will make a city that may number 30,000 persons who must be housed and provided with facilities. fa-cilities. Office Visitors Dr. F. S. Harris, President of the USAC, has spent some time in Washington prior to his assignment assign-ment to Near East; Mr. Carroll B. Williams, Secretary-Manager of the Box Elder Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and Darrell J. Greenwell, of the Ogden Standard-Examiner, have been here in the interest of the continued use of the 12 million mil-lion dollar Bushnell Hospital at Brigham City. Nathan J. Snapp of Logan has been stationed in Washington for sometime but has recently visited at the Capital as a civilian. Chet Olsen, Asst. Regional Re-gional Forester of Ogden, has jbeen here on oficial business. |