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Show . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . British to Adopt U.S. Arms; U.S. Agrees to Disarmament; Scotch World Food Proposal - Released by Western Newspaper Union. (KI)ITOR S NOlt: When opinions are expressed in Ihese columns, they are those ol Western Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper ) " , , - - : . Pickets at AUis-Chalmers plant at Milwaukee. Wis., tip over workers' work-ers' car as deputy sheriffs attempt to check act. (See LABOR.) BRITISH ARMS: Adopt U. S. Pattern Close U. S. and British relations, first fostered toward the turn of the last century with the recognition of British naval strength in the Atlantic At-lantic as a defensive bulwark, have been knitted even more firmly with Britain's decision to adopt American Amer-ican patterns for land, air and naval weapons. Back of the move was the growing political unanimity of the two countries, coun-tries, already intimately bound by close racial, social and economic ties. Together they stand for a way of life spread over the width of the globe by British enterprise and now supported by U. S. diplomatic and military might. Practically, standardization of U. S. and British weapons will permit the British to purchase arms in this country in case of a future emergency emer-gency without the need for redesigning redesign-ing American productive facilities. At the same time, it will allow for the manufacture of American type weapons in such British outposts as Australia and New Zealand, where the U. S. will have ready sources of supply for Pacific operations. Ten years may be required to complete com-plete the conversion of British arms to American standards, with rifles, cartridges, mortars, artillery and naval guns undergoing change. U. N.: In Accord The U. S. and Russia came off all even in their first swap at the United New York. Ii anything, any-thing, the U. S. got the better of the exchange ex-change as Delegate Warren R. Austin of Vermont conducted conduct-ed himself with a gentlemanly reserve that contrasted with Foreign Minister Molotov's vitriol. FAO: U. S. Backs Down Having heartily endorsed a plan of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Ag-riculture Organization at Copenhagen, Copen-hagen, Denmark, for distribution of food to needy countries at bargain prices, the U. S. repudiated its position posi-tion as an FAO commission met in Washington, D. C, to work out details de-tails of the project. Under the plan, FAO would have purchased food from surplus producing pro-ducing countries out of a revolving fund contributed by member nations. na-tions. When the world price for food would have gone above a predetermined predeter-mined level, then FAO would have sold its reserves to needy buyers at the lower figure. In rejecting the plan, Undersecretary Undersec-retary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd expressed doubt that FAO could achieve its objective under present conditions. Instead, Dodd suggested that the problem of future farm surpluses and marketings could best be solved through a system sys-tem of international commodity arrangements. ar-rangements. LABOR: Militant Police were hard put to maintain order at the Allis-Chalmers tractor plant at Milwaukee, Wis., as striking strik-ing pickets of the ClO-United Automobile Auto-mobile Workers bucked a back to work movement of over 3,000 employees. em-ployees. As violence mounted, the number of returning workers was cut in half. As militant pickets turned over cars attempting to enter the plant, clashed with returning workers and hurled stones at company win: dows, county and suburban police were compelled to appeal to Milwaukee Mil-waukee authorities for reenforce-ments. reenforce-ments. Over 200 of Milwaukee's finest fin-est were sent to the plant, but even so the enlarged police detail encountered difficulty holding the strikers in check. Allis-Chalmers remained adamant against granting UAW a closed shop as the strike .entered its seventh month. While agreeing to check off union dues with workers' permission, the company stood out against compromise on compelling employees em-ployees to join the UAW. WORLD TRADE : Hit British Pact The U. S. state and treasury departments de-partments joined in objecting to the recently concluded British-Argentine trade pact, with American officials feeling that provisions of the treaty violated promises Britain made in obtaining a 3.75 billion dollar loan from this country. State department objections centered cen-tered around Britain's agreement to purchase 83 per cent of Argentine beef the first year and 78 per cent annually thereafter. Officials declared de-clared that such provisions as incorporated in-corporated in trade pacts with Canada, Can-ada, New Zealand and Australia as well as Argentina tended to restrict world trade as advocated by the U. S. The treasury protested against the clause restricting Argentina's use of blocked sterling balances in world trade. Blocked sterling balances represent the credits owing Argentina Argen-tina for goods and services provid-, provid-, ed Britain during the war. Britain agreed to release some of Argentina's Argen-tina's sterling balances for use in world trade only if she buys more from the United Kingdom and associated asso-ciated countries than she sells them. Warren R. Molotov was the Austin nrst t" speak, calling call-ing for international internation-al disarmament, a report on the number of alhed troops in non-enemy states, retention of the veto power of the Big Five in the security council. He bitterly attacked U. S. and British imperialists, headed by Winston Churchill, for seeking world domination. Ignoring Molotov's political charges, Austin entered into a discussion dis-cussion of the proposals raised by the Russian: If the Russians wanted international interna-tional disarmament, the U. S. would gladly oblige, provided an adequate system of inspection and other safeguards safe-guards would be established to guarantee guar-antee fulfillment of the program. After Aft-er the last war, Austin recalled, the U. S- accepted the principle of disarmament dis-armament but remained alone in carrying it out. If the Russians desired a report on the number of Allied troops in non-enemy states, the U. S. suggested sug-gested that the check be extended to former enemy countries as well. (Such an all conclusive report would provide the world with an adequate estimate of Russian troop strength behind the iron curtain, said by Churchill to total 200 divisions.) If the Russians opposed a modification modi-fication of the veto power at this time, the U. S. also was against revision re-vision of the U. N. c'..arter. However, How-ever, the U. S. hoped that the Big Five could get together in the future fu-ture to modify the veto in the case of peaceful settlement of disputes, although retaining it on the question of applying force. This Boy's No Pansy In a city of quaint characters, Jimmy Galvin, 13, of Washington. Washing-ton. D. C, more than holds his own. A rugged, two-fisted little man, Jimmy refuses to have his hair cut despite playmates' teasing over his beautiful golden gold-en tresses. When their ribbing becomes too annoying, Jimmy slaps them down. No sissy, Jimmy Jim-my likes football and baseball. |
