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The Suez Toll Squabble
Seven-sixteenths of the shares in the Suez
Canal company is owned by the British gov-
ernment, which invested four million pounds
in the project in 1875. Most of the remaining
stock is owned by Frenchmen, who also fur-
nish the bulk of the management. (The
French government owns no stock.) Of the
directorate, 21 are Frenchmen, one is a
Dutchman, and ten are Britishers of whom
three represent the British government.
The ships of all nations pay tolls to pass
through the canal. (Even Mussolini had to
ante up ten francs a head for the troops he
sent to the conquest of Ethiopia.)
It costs Uncle Sam about $4,000 to pass one
of his liberty ships through Suez. It costs him
20c a head for every soldier carried through,
even if they happen to be French or British
soldiers. _______________.
Uncle Sam no like. Washington argues that
tolls on American ships and American troops
should be reverse lend-leased.
The British politely point out that the ca-
nal is privately-owned and managed, just as
politely ignoring that the British government
owns 7-16ths. Washington reminds that when
British ships pass through the Panama Canal,
the fees are charged to lend-lease But. say
the British, the U. S. government owns Pana-
ma Canal. (And you own 7-16ths of Suez,
dang your stubborn hid®, Uncle Sam reminds
John Bull.) ... . .
What the outcome of the argument will be
no one can say. The fact remains that the U.
S is paying heavy tolls to get ships and men
through Suez to fight Japan, which is also
an enemy of Britain. It could also be pointed
out to the French, who own most of it and
manage it altogether, that France owes her
existence to the U. S.
But the French are hard men with a dol-
lar. and John Bull never was one to throw
his money around. .
All the same, the situation at Suez is giving
Uncle Sam a slow burn, and something will
have to be worked out before long to still the
rising tempest.
We may quit using their old canal
ing in this same gigantic enterprise number
5,579, while the U. S. Navy lost 9,023 in dead
.nd missing, plus 508 coast guardsmen and
35 marines. ,
Thus for every 10.000 soldiers embarked,
only four lost their lives at sea—a tribute to
the alertness and efficiency of merchant ma-
rine and navy.
The cost in merchant ships was appalling
—1,554 vessels of 6,277,077 tons, from out-
break of the war in Europe (Sept. 1, 1939)
to May 8, when the war ended.
It is interesting to note that far fewer ships
were lost to enemy action than to operational
hazards. Enemy action claimed 570, while
mishaps accounted for 984. However, the
greater number was made up of smaller
ships—a total of 845,621 tons for the 984 ves-
sels. as against 5,431,456 tons for the 570 sent
to the bottom by torpedoes, bombs and
mines. ,
While the end of the war in Europe eased
off the demand for emergency shipping, the
continuing war in the Pacific, with a three
times greater haul, will keep our shipyards
going day and night for some time to come
In the teamwork of war, the navy, the
coast guard and the merchant marine have
pulled their full share. America can well be
proud of their achievements, as it can be
proud of the maritime commission and the
shipyards which kept new tonnage coming
down the ways to replace losses and expand
facilities.
It Would Make Some Sense-
On the Home Front
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THIS LINE —
WAR BONDS
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, June 15-
The government is asking people
to stay off trains if they can
and spend their vacations at
home. Here are some reasons
why.
Troop movemenu—men coming
back from Europe, going on fur-
loughs, going back to camps,
ing shipped to the Pacific will
be tremendous
The government now is using
about 4,000 of the nation’s 8.000
cars, plus 1,200 specially built
troop sleepers. It's using about
5500 or the nation's 17,000 coaches.
The Office of Defense Trans-
portation says the government
may have to take more Pullman
cars and more coaches and that
undoubtedly there will be a cut
to civilian Pullman service.
ODT estimates that there will
be 20,000,000 man-moves among
troops on trains a month.
So, besides troops being moved
in organized groups on army
trains, troopa will also be crowd-
ing civilian trains, going to and
from their homes. This will mean
less room for civilians on trains.
The peak of all the troop move-
ments wUl not be reached until
late this year and probably will
continue into April of 1946.
This is how the ODT sees it:
The tightest squeeze will be
west of Chicago. Only seven lines
stretch out to the Pacific In the
East there's a network of rail
lines. ■
Besides all this, war workers
thrown out of jobs around the
country by cutbacks will be trav-
elling back home.
About 300.000 men a month
will be coming back from Europe
monthly by boat, plus 50,000 by
air.
When they reach here those
headed for the Pacific won’t go
directly to the Pacific. Each man
probably will move seven times
by train. For example:
They'll move from shipside to
disposition centers, then to 22
reception stations distributed
throughout the country then to
their homes, all in an average of
2 or 3 days.
From the reception stations
men to be discharged from fur-
ther military service will go out
of the Army, entrain home.
Men kept in the Army will go
home on furloughs using regular
trains. They will then return to
the reception centers, then to as-
sembly stations to be regroups,
then to training camps for an
average of 45 days. Then they'll
go out to “staging" areas near the
Pacific ports from which they
will sail for the war against the
Japanese. .
The government figures that
through its wartime ban on con-
ventions—to make train space for
more necessary travel—about 52
million passenger miles were saved
and 300.000 people didn't go to
conventions. _.
And remember: The freight
loads Pacific-bound will be huge,
all of which helps take up rail
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We Had The Ships
Despite the increasing deadliness of sub-
marines, long-range bombing planes and
mines, the U. S. established a proportionately
better record in hauling men to Africa and
Europe in this war than in the shorter war
of 1917-18. . .
Of the 4,453,061 soldiers carried across the
Atlantic for service in Africa and Europe, the
losses at sea totalled only 3.604.
But U. S. merchant seamen dead and miss-
Hitler Knew, All Right
It makes an interesting story, anyhow-
how Pearl Harbor caught Adolf Hitler flat-
footed, how he conferred twice on Monday
with the Japanese ambassador, who urged
him to strike; how he hemmed and hawed
until the following Thursday before going to
the reichstag with a declaration of war on
the United States.--------.—
The United Press, which floats tnis story,
says it is based on material gathered by allied
authorities from high German officers and
captured state papers. , . A
Hitler is pictured as considering war with
the U. S. inevitable, but as not expecting it
before the spring of 1942 The Jap ambassa-
dor, however, convinced him that the U. S.
navy was paralyzed, that the U S. could not
convoy troops and war goods to Europe, and
that now was the time to get his feet wet.
Hitler took the plunge only after day and
night conferences with his advisers, and be-
ing convinced that Japan could handle the
U. S. single-handedly.
Furthermore, so the story goes, there was
no liaison, no coordinated strategy, between
the Japs and Germans. Mutual aid never
went beyond the “trivial stage.
There are, however, some phony aspects
to this version that will bear watching. It
looks as if the Germans are trying to duck
any responsibility for having set the Japs
on us. If you’ll recall. Hitler’s armies were at
the gates of Moscow in December 1941. Hit-
ler himself had been screaming for days that
the great Red Army was done for. Zhukov,
the man who saved Moscow and captured
Berlin, had been forced to call in troops from
Siberia to save the soviet capital. If Hitler
was convinced that the Japs could handle
the U. S. alone, it is equally true that the
Japs were convinced Russia was done for,
and that they could safely launch their at-
tack in the Pacific.
Mutuality of interest, if not downright co-
ordination.' produced Pearl Harbor and Ger-
many’s declaration of war upon the U. S. It
Is not likely that Japan took the plunge
without an understanding with her axis part-
ner. The axis pact was designed solely for
aggression.
NERE JUST AS
ANXIOUS To
FORM HERE.
W ASHINGTON CALLING
Some Believe Japan Will Give Up
The War Today
I UNITED NATIONS
What’s Needed Is a Popular Hit
By MARQUIS CHILDS
WASHINGTON — So far as
public hopes and expectations go.
we are now in a stage of the war
with Japan comparable to the
hopeful glow that prevailed In
the summer of 1943 with respect
to Germany.
Bombing was to do the job
against the Nails New devices
had been worked out which would
permit mass bombing over the
overcast during the fall and win-
ter
Top airmen. In active direction
of the air assault on Germany,
said confidently that the Ger-
mans could not hold out through
the winter The Nazis had been
told by their propagandists that
the bombing would cease with bad
weather; they would give in as
the rain of high explosives con-
tinued.
D-Day came and the gruelling
battle for Normandy General
Eisenhower predicted the war in
Europe would end in 1944 He
thought, as he often said private-
ly, that the Germans would be
governed by reason. The German
general staff, knowing defeat
was inevitable, tried in vain to
assissinate Hitler and end the
war But the fanatics won out
and the war continued.
STORM OVER JAPAN
Now the tonnage of bombs be-
ing dropped on Japan is mount-
ing rapidly It will increase at a
fantastic rate until the volume
falling on those narrow little is-
lands far exceeds anything un-
loosed over Germany
Nor are the Japa prepared even
to the extent the Germans were,
to take this punishment Intelli-
gence reports indicate that only
a negligible part of their indus-
try has been put under ground.
Like the Germans, they waited
too long
The destruction in Japan and
in the industrial areas of the
neighboring empire will far ex-
ceed the devastation wrought in
Germany. If Germany is finished
as a modern nation—that is what
General Eisenhower said in an
interview last week— then cer-
tainly Japan's doom is at hand.
But will the Nips crack under
this mounting threat? General
Joseph W. Stilwell, old Vinegar
Joe, chief of the Army ground
forces and long familiar with the
Far East, says no. In an inter-
view on Okinawa, he said the
United States would nsed an in-
vasion force of 500,000 men and
that the war against Japan would
last at least two years more.
Moreover, he went on to say
that even after the fall of Tokyo
it may be necessary to fight a
long war against the Japs in
Manchuria and China. This last
is, to put it mildly, a grim pros-
pect. To move into the interior of
China and Manchuria would
mean a war in terms not of years,
but of decades. It would mean s
prolonged drain en our manpower
and our resources that might well
become intolerable.
Our military and diplomatic ex-
peris have been wrong more of-
ten than right on the Pacific war.
They have run the whole gamut
of predictions from, in the Pre-
Pearl Harbor phase, the assur-
ance that the Japanese were In-
ferior fighters without modern
technicians to the present pessi-
mistic phase
They can be wrong again Ah
unofficial expert who has been
right about a great many things
during the past six years pre-
dicts that the Japs will give up
this year in a recent series of
articles William R Mathews, edi-
tor of the Arizona Daily Star,
analyses the differences between
Germany and Japan and comes
out with some intere-ting con-
clusions.
Mathews points out that Hitler
was a revolutionary dictator with
all the fanatical seal of a revolu-
tionary behind him In contrast,
Japan is governed by a multiple
autocracy. That autocracy has
puffed up the empe r myth to
give itself greater than human
sanction.
“The Japanese autocracy is a
committee. Mathews wrote. "It
has the will of a committee, not of
a single man The members of a
committee, in order to make the
committhe function, must con-
stantly compromise with one an-
other. Compromise. In war too
often implies wrong decisions-
or delayed decisions "
We were treacherously attacked
by Japan. We will go on to con-
quer the Japaneae homeland no
matter how long it takes. That
la the national will But that
does not prevent us from trying
to look realistically at what la
happening behind the scene of
Japanese censorship
(Copyright 1945 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
Premier Suzuki of Japan is re-
joicing because his people "have
come to concern themselves with
the fate of the nation. He says
he, never agreed with those who
considered the Okinawa fight cli-
maetie. He, aays he. Is going to
win a great victory even if there
are no Japanese left alive to en-
joy it.
In this he can be assured of
the utmost in American co-oper-
ation.
All the Japanese have to do.
says Suzuki, is to smash the
American forces at sea, then when
they come ashore (presumably af-
ter being smashed at sea) smash
them again right there, and then
after these (presumably smashed)
forces have attained the land,
smash them again. MacArthur
and Nimitz combined could not
display a cleaner Insight into
what it will take to whip the
Americans.
Suzuki proposes to achieve vic-
tory with forces “far interior to
the enemy materially" through a
true display of Japanese mettle.
One of my associates, to whom I
speak only on Tuesdays and Fri-
days because of his propensity for
such remarks, would call that
trading mettle for metal.
Do you suppose Suzuki can be
hoping to win this war by mak-
ing us die laughing?
Seriously, it is not a good thing
to sneer at or make fun of an
enemy even when he talks this
way. It leads to overconfidence,
which already has cost us dearly
at certain points in this war.
Actually, Japanese mettle has
proved serious, and is likely to
be more so in the homeland. One
thing is certain. There is no
laughing among the boys doing
even the small-scale fighting
which has occurred so far.
Indirect Assistants
Barnacles helped the Allle»
These crustaceans collect on all
ships, but Axis vessels being
forced to remain more constant-
ly at sea, were unable to have
them removed, and a barnacle-
incrusted hull lowers a crafts
efficiency.
Drinking Room
A drinking room for the 250
royal servants at Buckingham
palace was established by Queen
Victoria to prevent their gossip
from spreading outside the pal-
ace walls Here the servants still
can buy a variety of fine wines
and liquors.
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By FETER EDSON
NEA Service Staff
Correspondent
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK.
Calif., June 15—Biggest sightsee-
ing attraction for delegates and
technical assistants at the United
Nations conference has been the
California redwood trees When
the visiting diplomats want to
get sway from
gving formulas
t W andtrusteeship
T T for a week-end.
I 3 5 they come up
arcs deorhere by the car-
load to gaze in
reverence and
awe on the old-
est living thing
in the park, a
giant sequoia
which la esti-
________mated to be 3800
EDSON years old.
The current gas is that thia
tree was planted in 1900 B. C. on
the day the Ban Francisco confer-
ence was convened
of course the conference has
been going only seven weeks but
to many of the delegates. it does
not seem a day less than 3800
years In fact, some of the wags
say that you measure the age of
* delegate and the length of time
he has been to San Francisco in
exactly the same way you meas-
ure the age of one of the big trees
—by counting the rings.
There's a circle and a wrinkle
to the bags under the eyes for
every week spent in San Fran-
cisco
still another idea la that con-
ference time should be told In the
same way they measure the age
of Mt Shasta, which was once an
active volcano erupting molten
lava all over Northern California,
or of El Capitan. Half Dome or
Clour Rest, the mile-high promon-
tories of granite which were carve
ed out by the glaciers here to the
Yosemite back to the ice age some
six million years ago
The eruptions of oratory, the
mountains of Ice cubes thst have
melted and poured out over this
landscape to the past seven weeks
have made it seem longer than
the seven days of creation
The human rights’ provisions
are definitely Neanderthal in their
concept of culture and education.
-The voting formula is highly vola-
tile and therefore early carboni-
ferous The ideas on trusteeship.
Independence and self-govern-
ment were carved whole out of the
Pleistocene. The small nations
have a feeling they have been
pushed back into the Miocene un-
der the Russian foreign policy
which is unquestionably glacial-
large masses of ice moving down
from the Polar cap to shift land
masses and boundaries about like
ao many terminal moraines.
ANYTHING TO ESCAPE
CONFERENCE
As a matter of fact It may take
s geologist to pry some of the se-
crets out of the silent rock strata
into which the committees and
commissions of this conference
have been divided. No wonder the
delegates flock to the Yosemite
to get new perspectives. Trying
to reconstruct the body and
breathe the breath of life into
the fossilised handouts of pro-
gress in drafting the United Na-
tiona charter la just too much
Though it waa announced at the
outset that the writing of the
charter might take two months
or more, only half that time had
passed before the conference news
was off the first page of the news-
papers. driven back inside by news
of new wars and rumors of wars
still to come.
Today the conference is rating
only a third or half a column in
most papers, nothing at all in
others.
NO SEX APPEAL NO GAGE
The sad truth is that nobody
seems to give a damn about peace.
Two dull, no sex appeal No zags
Phony, Phooey.
When Gen Omar Bradley do-
ing the Pocatello Polka" on
Broadway, and a Hollywood
rooster with a yen to be a hen
rate more space than a confer-
ence which is lo crests a new
world organisation that will the-
oretically maintain peace and se-
curity by ending wars, something
is wrong. .__
Maybe what the conference
needs' to a good press agent The
show is dead. Somebody will have
to pass s miracle President Tru-
mans scheduled appearance for
the final curtain may do a lot to
save the performance but the-
play needs something more than
that—new stars, new lines, bet-
ter lighting, fewer blackouts of
secrecy, less action behind the
scenes, more action on stage—II
it is to be a popular hit.
Quiz
Q— Has India’s trade with
Australia increased or decreased
during the war?
A—Increased-in textiles, at
least India now is sending Aus-
tralia 40,000,000 yards of cotton
textiles annually, compared with
1,000.000 before the war.
Q—How many lives are lost
monthly through drownings in
the United States
A—National Safety Council re-
ports 1000. beginning In May.
Q—What is the meaning of
the name Alexander?
A—It is from the Greek, and
means helper of men.”
Q—How are names picked for
U. 8 aircraft carriers?
A-They are selected from
names of islands, bays and
sounds of the United States, as
well as battles of World War II
in which the Navy has served.
Q—How have appropriations
for the U. 8 Army Air Forces
increased since 1898?
A—In 1898, $50,000 was allotted
for “aeronautic Investigation
and Inquiry." In 1944 the Army
was given $23,655,988,000 for
military aviation.
OTHMAN AT LARGE —.
Man in Blue Pants Explains All
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON June 15—(UP)
—It used to be that you even
could tell a diplomat from the
rear, by his striped pants.
But the old order passeth (and
pants wear out) and the only way
you can recognize an assistant
secretary of state today Is by his
attache case. This is a midget
valise, suitable for carrying sand-
wiches. international secrets ga-
loshes and other Items which I
will get to in a minute
So a tall citizen with a pale
mustache that curved up at the
ends strode out of the State de-
partment. He had on blue pants
(and a blue bow tie with red
squiggles), but I knew him, all
right. He was lugging a slightly
buttered, cowhide attache case
seemed heavy, too, the way he
carried it
TAILING A DIPLOMAT
He went across town and I
tailed him and next thing I knew
• he was plumping his case down
on the mahogany table of the
Senate banking and currency
committee. He turned out to be
Assistant Secretary Dean Ache-
son, whose job was to explain
the Bretton Woods monetary
agreements to the senators
Some of the old timers took a
look at him and said H-m-m-m.
the poor man's Anthony Eden
That wasn’t exactly fair; can he
help it if he’s a candy-haired
Gable?
Acheson opened the brass hasps
of his attache case and took from
it two pencils, a stack of docu-
ments, three booklets bound in
green, a black note book, and a
small box colored blue and or-
ange. He snapped the case shut,
put the box by his right hand and
began talking ed to him as though we intended
He immediately got to above to pass out $2,000,000,000 on a sil-
my head by saying the countries ver platter. Acheson fingered his
signing the agreement would be
asked to define their currencies
precisely in terms of gold. That
box and said this was not so.
did it.
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio
said it was obvious that an in-
ternational organization was go-
ing to regiment American deal-
ings in foreign exchange.'Ache-
son said it was not, either, and
soon they were arguing about
Chinese dollars, the price of olive
oil in Greece, black markets in
dollars, soldiers being cheated in
French francs, and when is
money so much waste paper?
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THE GENERAL IDEA
It was a first-class battle with
two smart fellows on opposite
sides of the fence arguing about
something that few people under
stand. Acheson’s general MM was
that if we don't get going yn the
currency stabilization fund and
an international bank, chaos will
rule the world. Taft said it look-
They both began to talk at once
and sen. Charles w. Tobey at
New Hampshire broke tn. "We
have a world that la prostrate,"
he cried. “We ere doing a big, a
By WILLIAM E. MeKENNEY
One of the largest and most
successful tournaments is the an-
nual Ohio State event held in
Cleveland While thia tournament
attracts players from a great
many different cities. It has al-
ways been most difficult to win
any of the events from Cleveland
players However, this year, moat
of the major events went to out-
of-towners or were shared with
them.
First and second place in the
Open Fair event were shared by
Clevelanders and Pittsburghers.
First place was shared by Flor-
ence Stratford of Cleveland and
Clare "Corky" Smith of Pitta-
burgh; second place went to Mrs.
Marquita Fullerton of Cleveland
and Jack Abbott of Pittaburgh.
Here is one of the hands that
helped Miss Stratford and Smith
win the championship. The open-
ing lead was won in dummy with
the ace The ace of trump waa
cashed followed by the ten spot
which Smith, in the East, won
with the king On the second
spade. Miss Stratford discarded
the eight of clubs so now Smith
cashed his queen of diamonds and
under led his ace of clubs, which
herole thing. We can’t destroy BRIDGE
faith."
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which would destroy America Six
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Barkley of Kentucky said it
might be a good idea to let Ache-
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 354, Ed. 2 Friday, June 15, 1945, newspaper, June 15, 1945; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636486/m1/6/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.