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.Nome, Alaska, Monday, January 10. 1949
BRITISH RECOVERY PLAN
(British Information Services)
There is more comment on the four-year plan for
British recovery and the Labor Daily Herald is confi
dent that it will succeed with reasonable cooperation
abroad and rejects Conservative doubts as “niggling and
inspired by party animosity.” The Herald says:
“The plan gives the British people a lead on fair
shares and a sense of united effort. To the other nations
of Western Europe the plan gives a lead by which to
frame their own recovery programs and fit them into
the re-building of Europe which Marshall aid is meant
to foster.”
The Financial Times says:
“After 1952 there will have to be much withholding
of spending power in this country if the work of recov
ery is to go on without inflation. It must be done by sav
ings—forced or voluntary—and so the Government’s
monetary policy now must encourage voluntary sav
ings, those being much preferable to forced savings.”
The Manchester Guardian says:
“Not only Britain but the entire Western world has
been too optimistic about the time reconstruction would
take. In their four-year Marshall Plan the Americans
assumed that full recvoery would be near by 1952.
“Britain’s four-year plan formally admits that this
* assumption is wrong, and the West has now to think out
a realistic pattern for trading after 1952.”
The paper foresees what it calls “new apparatus for
yet another interim period before full recovery.”
Praise to the Miners
The Daily Express praised the country’s miners and
wished them good luck. If their wages are soaring be
cause of their extra efforts, the Express would like to
see miners’ wages getting higher every week, but not on
the basis of dearer coal. The paper says:
“The National Coal Board has failed to offset wage
increases by increased efficiency.”
From this it launches an attack against Governmm'
management generally.
London Hearings
The News Chronicle comments on the close of the
London hearings into allegations against Ministers and
Government servants. The paper says:
“The tribunal’s very existence affirms the transcen
dent importance the British people attach to the integ
rity of their public service.
“It is more necessary than ever to safeguard the tradi
tion of incorruptibility in these days when there is so
much Government control over industry.
“Ordinary people, reading the evidence given to the
tribunal, must have been amazed at their glimpses of
the world of business and politics, but the tribunal has
had to deal with some very tiny operations compared
with the vast daily activities of both Government and
private enterprise.”
The paper is confident the tribunal’s findings will
keep matters to their proper proportions.
Britain's Drink Trade
The Conservative Daily Mail delivers another attack
on the Government’s proposal to have state manage
ment of public houses in the new towns and regards it
as a step towards nationalization of the whole country’s
drink trade.
Berlin
The Daily Telegraph writes on the resumption of the
Kommandantura in the Western zones of Berlin. It ap
plauds what it calls this evidence of the Western Pow
er’s intent to make the administrative system work in
their occupation areas of Germany, but it warns them
not to give the Germans the impression that, because of
tL* tiT-ift ttdihJRnfikia. they have the chance to
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HOPE FOR THE BEST
play off one against the other and start again on their
frustrated journey towards military supremacy.
Soviet Trade Policy
The Times discusses changes in Soviet foreign trade
policy.
“Before the .war,” it says, “this policy was almost iso
lationist. The Russians bought only what they badly
needed and could not make at home, such as capital
equipment, but they are now greatly expanding their
trade, especially in Eastern Europe, and it would be
wrong to assume that practical advantages would not
accrue to the smaller countries as well as to Russia.”
Here the Times contrasts the Soviet methods with
those of Hitler’s Germany in the same areas. The paper
sees the Russians calculating to raise the general stand
ard of living of those countries and also the prestige and
popularity of the Soviet Union and of Communist lead
ership.
I
KEDS ATTEMPT GREEK ASSASSINATIONS
(Associated Press Newsfeatures)
The woes that go with being a Greek political leader
are being intensified by Communist terrorists who want
to put on end to their woes—and them.
Hardly a day passes that a minister doesn’t receive an
'anonymous telephone call that goes someth'ng lik' this:
“You dirty fascist reactionary. You have onlv a fc\y
days to live. We’re going to kill you. Long live Markos!”
Minister of Justice Christos Ladas had several such
calls before the Greek communists celberated May Day
with his assassination. The Greek police can’t trace the
calls because Athens has a modern dial system.
George Papandreou, who was prime minister at the
time Greece was liberated and when the revolution of,
1944 broke out, is becoming somewhat calloused to at-i
tempts and plots on his life. Already twice hand gren- j
ades have been thrown through the doors of his home.1
but he has escaped serious injury each time.
A few days ago the OPLA, Communist execution
squad, had him scheduled for assassination at the time
he would be attending the wedding of a friend. A re
pentant Communist, however, gave the plot away and
‘he police arrested six persons.
Papandreou, chief of the Republican Socialist Party
is particularly despised by the Communists because he
summoned British troops to quell the 1944 rebellion.
Guerrilla Chief Markos has nominated virtually ev
ery Greek political leader for extinction. He issues his
sentences over his radio and demands that “comrades”
in the cities carry out his orders. There is little doubt
they are trying.
“All that harms labor is treason to America,” said
Lincoln. “No line can be drawn between these two. If
any man tells you he loves America yet hates labor, he
is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts American yet
fears labor he is a fool. There is no America without la
bor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”
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Vole For President
Deadlocks Special
Session Senate
'Cont.nuod from ?age One’
•>e 1 r0 its the b; sic revenue mea
sures through the House even
though the Senate remains stnle
n»”“ed over choosing a prseidenl.
Other provisions of the income
tax measure included:
Non-Alaska workers and firms
doing business in the Territory
I would be subject to the 10 per
| cent portion of the federal income
tax directly attributable to Terri
torial operations or sources. This
would apply to shipboard workers,
for instance, whose taxes would
; oe withheld for the number of
days they spent in Territorial
ports. Employers would report
quarterly, but the individual
would life a tax statement when
he filed his federal income tax
form.
The general property tax pro
vides for first filings April 15, and
Jan. 15 thereafter. Municipalities
and school districts would be re
sponsible for collecting the tax
and half the collections would go
to them for school purposes.
The Territory would collect in
-utside areas. A flat $300 valua
tion was fixed for unpatented
unimproved mining claims and
ion-producing patented claims
where improvements were useless
through deterioration. An excep
tion was made where such ground
was used for other purposes.
There was a $200 exemption for
household furnishings.
A board of assessment of three
members from each division
would be named by the governor
for s aggered six-year terms. It
would provide, “full and true
value” assessments.
Members would draw $15 daily
plus travel expenses.
Monday, January 10. 1949
Indications were growing today
that the Democrats will switch
candidates in an effort to break
the Senate presidency stalemate
which has persisted since the spe
cial se-.ion was called to order
1 s week. *
•Tie nimes of Frank Peratrovicb
of he First and Howard Lyng of
.'Tome have been mentioned most
f ectuen !y a* possible candidates
b mi'’it be able to pull at least
the o.ic Republican vote needed to
brisk the three-c.ay deadlock.
The Republicans insist, how
'‘vor. heir ranks will stand firm
and the next move must come
from the Democrats if they want <
to break the log jam. The divis on
is eight- eight, along party lines
between Republican Charles Jones
of Nome and Democrat Victor
Rivers of Anchorage. Ten ballots
have been cast.
Why are both parties so de er
mined not to yield the presidency
to the other?
Experienced legislators expiat
ed it this way:
It’s not just honor or prestige ,
involved. The president will be in
a powerful position to de'ermine
the fate of controversial" legisla
tion during the closing days of the
special session in addition to the
general advantage of the president
being able to favor colleagues on
the floor.
In the final days of the session
there are always bills on which
House and Senate conflict. They
must go to a joint conference com
mittee of both branches. That’s
where the president has the whip
hand. Rules provide the confer-<4
ence committee must have two
members who voted for* the dead
locked bill and one who voted