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Monday, February 2, 1948
Aid Plan Charts Big Task For 16 Nations
(By Lawrence Martin)
WE COME NOW to the E. R. P.—the European Re
covery Plan.
It is Europe’s part in making the Marshall plan work.
When the Marshall plan was suggested June 5, 1947,
there seemed to be a slow fuse on it. It was more than a
week before any European statesman reacted.
Ernest Bevin, Britain’s foreign minister, had caught
on at once, however, to the tremendous possibilities.
He listened to Marshall’s June 5 speech on the radio.
Then he read the full text. He at once called in the Brit
ish cabinet.
On June 13, Bevin let off an enthusiastic hurrah
about the plan.
“It is a real attempt to create a healthy world,’’ he
said.
Next day Georges Bidault, French foreign minister,
telephoned Bevin from Paris, suggesting a huddle. The
two men met three days later.
They invited Russia into the talks. Moscow hemmed
and hawed, but finally sent Molotov, complete with ve
toes.
He raised one objection after another and finally
went home in a huff. Bevin and Bidault decided to go
ahead without Russia. v
They invited all the nations of Europe except Spain
to come in on the deal. (Spain is in the position of an
outcast. Not to be trusted or dealt with).
On July 27, representatives of sixteen nations accept
ed the invitation by sending representatives to Paris.
They drew up a plan of self help for Europe based on
maximum use of available resources. They agreed on
what, for Europe, is a revolutionary brand of interna
tional cooperation.
The sixteen nations are: Great Britain, France, Aus
tria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Swe
den, Switzerland and Turkey.
The nations that refused to come in are Russia, Fin
land, Poland, Huugary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia,
and Czechoslovakia.
The sixteen nations drew up their program, calling
it the report of the Committee on European Economic
Co-Operation—CEEC.
This report was submitted to Secretary Marshall in
Washington Sept. 22, and by Marshall to President Tru
man.
Jt pledged the sixteen nations to:
Make strong productive efforts both in industry and
agriculture.
Stabilize their money and internal finances.
Co-operate with each other at all times.
Try to figure out a way to pay their debts, chiefly
owed to us, by increasing their exports.
Those were the four main points. Getting more spe
cific, they set down eight more definite items of co-op
erative self help:
1— Restore prewar production of bread graixis, and
intensively rebuild their livestock industry.
2— Increase coal production to 584 million tons a
year, 32 million tons above 1938.
3— Expand electrical current 66 per cent above pre
war.
4— Develop oil refining to two and a half times pre
war.
5— Boost crude steel production to 55 million tons a
year, or 20 per cent above prewar.
6~rExpand inland transport, both land and water, to
carry 24 per cent more than before the war.
4)tftofe their merchant fleet*.
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8—Supply from European production most of the
capital equipment (plants, machinery, tools) needed
for these expansions.
And in order to make all the above possible, the'
agreed to tackle at once the huge problem of the value
of their money, and their many trade barriers.
Inevitability of War Basic Red Principle
(By Dorothy Thompson)
IN MINWAUKEE, HENRY WALLACE said: “Like
the Quakers and Methodists, Communists want peace.”
Seldom has a remark of more ineffable idiocy been
utttred. A basic thesis of Communism is that war, inter
national and civil, is inevitable, until the whole world is
organized in a Union of Socialist and Soviet republics.
Pacifism, reformism, “peaceful change” and leagues oi
nations are considered useless; the world can have peace
only after the “violent” overthrow, by “pitiless” means
of all non-Communist social orders.
If Wallace, asserting he is not a Communist, makes
himself the candidate of the Communists and claims he
doesn’t know what Communism really means, he is
like Neville Chamberlain who tried to make peace with
Hitler while confessing he had never read “Meir
Kampf.”
In reading Communist documents, always keep ir
mind that the word “bourgeoisie”—as made clear b\
the documents—includes all anti-Communists, Social
ists, democrats, reformists, labor unions, and all state
institutions, constitutions, parliaments, pudiciaries oi
non-Communist social orders. These are to be over
thrown “from top to bottom” and “necessarily” by ex
treme violence. This is reiterated over and over in the
platforms of the Communist International to quote:
“Unless the bourgeoise system is overthrown, the
repetition of war is inevitable. To overthrow the inter
national bourgeoise and creat an international Soviet
republic, all means will be used including force oi
arms.”
“Without revolutionary overthrow ... no talk of dis
armament or democratic reorganization of the League
of Nations will be capable of preventing war.”
“To admit the idea of a peaceful reformist passage tc
Socialism js to give proof of extreme bourgeoise obtuse
ness.”
“Only a violent defeat of the bourgeoise ... will guar
antee ... complete submission.”
“Only such a party is able to lead ... in the most piti
less, decisive last struggle.”
The conquest of political power by the proletarial
does not put an end to the struggle. ... it makes th<
struggle broad, pitiless, acute-all the groups, par
ties, leaders of the labor movement... on the side ol
reformism ... are unreliable. The struggle is such thal
at any moment it may replace the weapon of criticism
by the criticism of the weapon.”
“Parties joining the Third International must recog
ize the necessity of a complet
and absolute rupture with reform
ism.”
) “The Communist Internationa
has declared a decisive war on th
whole bourgeoise world.”
j “The proletariat must resort t
armed uprising . . . labor organ
ization will not suffice.”
“Intensified class struggle . .
turns into civil war . . . the prole
tariat must form its state organ
ization as a fighting organization.
“The Communist Internation;
. . . mercilessly exposes all form
of the doctrine of class peace.”
“Gandhism . . . pacifism . .
must be strongly combated b
Communism.”
“The Soviet state is the arme
proletariat state.”
Just like the Quakers, Mr. Wa!
lace?
Your supporters hope throug
you to obtain sufficient politic:
power to start this war again;
; the people and institutions c
America. Will you persist in you
blindness—if you really are blind
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Attorney General
Rivers Answers
Waste Charges
When asked for comments <
recently published charges th
during the last two years the Te
ritory has thrown away appro:
imately $50,000.00 on rate invest
gations, to the advantage of tl
experts, without showing any r
suits for the people of Alaska, A
torney General Ralph J. Rivers,
charge of rate hearings for tl
Territory, made the followii
statement:
“The charges are false in fa
and distorted in presentation. T
tal expenditures by the Territoi
so far are $27,844.05 and n
$50,000.00.
From November 1945 un
April 1, 1947, the Alaska Develo
ment Board spent $22,410.93
several rate matters, inclusive
; fighting the attempt by the W
Shipping Administration in N
j vember of 1945 to get Alas!
’ I freight rates boosted 100% in co
junction with immediate resum
tion of private operation by t!
steamship companies. The fig
resulted in the case being throv
out with continued governme
operation for another year and
• half. This forestalled any increa
i whatsoever until May 21, 19*
■ when the present interim subsii
plan went into effect. Had t
‘j 100% increase gone into effect f
\ 1946 and the first half of 1947,
1 would have added approximate
$12,000,000 to Alaska’s freig
bill for that period. The $22,410.
; also enabled the Developme
i Board to seek lower lightera
:1 rates in the Nome area, resulti
! thus far in a favorable report frt
the Examiner, and to also bio
an increase of terminal charges
! 1946 on Alaska cargo handled
! t Seattle from $1.63 per ship’s t
to $4.40. In the resultant heari
( the terminal rate was set at $2
: per ton, resulting in a savings
j the Alaska public thi\? far of m<
'than $1,000,000.00. These fa
belie irresponsible "Trojan Hot
j harangues to the contrary a
show that the public has gotl
• good results for its money.
"In March of 1047 $250.00 v
spent out of the Governor's Em
; gency Fund to oppose cert
1 terms of the present interim c<
tract. Since April 1st of 1047, J
', prior to which the last legislate
' appropriated $10,000.00 for the
' ■ fice of the Attorney General
handle all Territorial rate m
tars, with e mandate to the Tn
• lory's officials to use all powen