SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 282, 25 August 1944, Page 6

SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP

Planning For Lasting Peace

UNITED ACTION NEEDED (Dy Telegraph.—l’ross Assn.—Copyright.) (Received August 24, 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 23.

Welcoming Ihe 42 delegates to the Dumbarton Oaks conference to the While House, President Roosevelt said: "I hope in planning for peace we will arrive at the same good co-opera-"tion ami unity of action as we have ju carrying on the war. It. is remarkable that we have carried on the war with such great unanimity. Often it comes down to personalities. “Back in 194.1 at the time .of the Atlantic Charter I did not know Mr. Churchill at all well. I had met him once or twice,very informally during the first world war, but up there in the north Atlantic for three or four days together with onj- two ships lying close together I got to know him and he got to know me. Later, M. Molotov came here. Then during tiie following year at Teheran, Marshal Stalin and I got to know each other.”

After quoting Mr. Stimson's remark that unfortunately the young Nazis favour ideas which will be dangerous to the peace of the world as long as they have anything to say about it, the President went on: “The prisoners of 17 and 20 we are capturing now, both on the French and Soviet fronts, are even worse in Nazism than the prisoners z of 40 mid 45. Therefore, aS long as these young men have any say the peril at Nazism will always be before us.

“We must make not merely peace, but a peace that will last and in which the larger nations will work absolutely in unison in preventing war by force, but nil of us have to be friends conferring at all times and putting our cards on the table.

“I am hopeful it can be done because of the spirit shown in the past in getting together for the winning of the war. That is tl>e spirit we have learnt so well in the last few years. This close relationship between the British Empire and.the United States is something new. This great friendship between Russian and American people—that is new. Let us bang on to both friendships and by spreading that spirit throughout the world we may have a peaceful period for our grandchildren to grow up in.” , Wishing the delegates every possible success, the President added: "Your great task will not be a final task, but it at least gives us something on which to build so that we can accomplish the one thing humanity has been looking forward to for a great many hundreds of years.”

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Post-War Opportunities (Received August 24, 9.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER. August 23. _ Canada and America must play their parts in the post-war world by adopting policies based on sound principles of expanded international trade, said the United States Minister to Canada, Mr. Atherton. , _ ... He added: “The nations m the Pacific area must contribute to each other's prosperity. If a chain of overlapping and competing national economies;— each dependent on high protective tariffs and restrictive trade policies for survival—were built up along the shores of the Pacific, then our success will foe shortlived and our war efforts will 'win us neither enduring economic welfare nor enduring peace.” ( Changes Caused By War. “The war has led to industrial and scientific developments which becloud the future of American foreign trade, particularly in the Pacific area,” says the “Wall Street Journal.” It is a grim fact that many of the biggest import items of yesteryear have gone with tne winds of war. There is much worry for tin producers in Malaya, rubber J’hintors in the Indies, silk traders in China and ranchers in Australia.” Surveying the prospects of wool imports after the war, the “Journal” sajs: “Staple rayon and nylon will actively compete mid rayon makers, envisage a major market as suppliers of materials for carpets. But the greatest short-term peril to foreign wool growers is the war-created surplus in the Lmtcd States. The American Governmental Detence Supplies Corporation holds 192,000,000 lb of Australian and 5,000.0001 b. of South African wool. I«' non British Government liolds 4 <0,C00,000 lb, of wool in the United States. Atogether these stockpiles arc roiiglily equivalent to IS years’ United States pre-war wool imports.”