POST-WAR SECURITY

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1944, Page 5

POST-WAR SECURITY

-BIG THREE” ATTITUDE.

NEW YORK, September 26.

The “New York Times’s” correspondent says: The British, American and Russian Governments have decided to be satisfied for the time being with a “ninety per cent, aggreement” on aji international security organisation, and to take up the other ten per cent, in future. The delegations at Dumbarton Oaks have been unable to reach a full agreement on the procedure for voting on the executive council of the proposed League in theWase of a charge of aggression againsfepne of the permanent members, Britain, United States, Russia and China.-..F-ull agreement was reached on all other points discussed at Dumbarton Oaks, principally on the basis of an American plan providing for an international court of justice, and an executive council of eleven membersLihcluding four permanent members, with a provision that France shall Joe admitted as soon as its Government is freely elected. It is understood that discussion on the remaining ten per cent, will be continued by way of regular diplomatic channels, and eventually will be decided in a personal meeting by Mr. Churchill, Mr. Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin.

TAKING AWAY JAP. SHIPS.

WASHINGTON, September 25

Admiral Emory Land, testifying before a Congressional war economic policy committee, advocated the reduction of Japan to the status of a pastoral nation. He said: “It would do them a great deal of good to be relieved of all their naval and merchant vessels, and to be only permitted to retain coastwise trading ships, with the balance Of their fleet to be divided among the United Nations. Germany should receive the same treatment, because both Japan and Germany before the war used unfair trading practices and trickeries to delay foreign vessels in their ports. Admiral Land predicted a drastic slump in ship production in the United States after the war. He said 30 or 50 of the 80 shipyards which .were now buzzing with activity will be compelled to close down. The remainder will be used lor repair of a merchant marine “small in quantity, but high in quality.” He advocated that the United States merchantmen should carry after the war 40 or 50 per cent, of America’s own exports. It would be uneconomic to carry Americans good in American bottoms beyond certain points. Discussing the post-war fate ot the Navy he said it was urgent that the United States should dismantle after the war only their unsea worthy craft, retaining all ffi'e others for 20 years in a ship sanctuary to which the nation could turn in case of a further threat of aggression.