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Soviet Union Is Outsmarting U.S. In The Arctic

By PHIL AULT (United Press Staff Correspondent)

TN the Greenwich Village section of New York,

where trucks haul cargo down t

the Hudson River docks, stands a dreary · réd brick apartment building covered with grima. Aah cans line the sidewalk and baby carriages clutter. Its entrance,

Insido. one flight up, the eminent Arctic ex- plorer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sits among his 20,000 polar books and documents. From his. cramped quarters he watches the Soviet Union and the North American powers manoeuvre for -position fr the vast area above the Arctic Circle

where he spent a great many of his 68 years,

He sees the Soviet Union far surpassing the United States and Canada in 'developing its Arc- tic resources.

Strategically, he feels the Arctic Sea is the most important body of water on earth. The Russians, ho contends, are giving their far northern defences a broad base' through intensive colonisation. The United States and Canada are failing to do so.

WHERE, EXACTLY, ARE WE GOING?

T is about time we gave Rome serious thought to where we are going as a

people.

Within the last few weeks- this nation of ours, which led the way in the great fight to give freedom of speech and thought to all men, has an- nounced to the world, that she is to placo a big black ban on such freedom for a section of her people.

No one oven suspected of sympathy with the creed of Communism is to be allowed to do, certain kinds of work for the Government. '

by

JOHN GORDON

The popular move against the Communists-and 1 do not doubt that it is popular-could be the thin end of the wedge.

May 1 add, just" to make the record clear beyond doubt, that I am not a Communist or even a fellow-travelier?

and

I detest the creed. I hate slavery With one significant excep- and I stand for freedom. But it tion.

to ma M.P.s who are "fellow seema

unnecessary take chips off our travellers" with the Commu- dangerous to

freedom In order to fht slavery. nists within the Socialist Party There

pro simpler and wiser are not to be purged.

That, I suppose, might be dangerous for the party, and between State and party ap- parently party comes first.

Those on whom the ban will fall may not even have openly

views. professed their

An annoymous letter will be enough to settle their fate. Just as it does in Russia, Just as it once did in Germany.

An interesting, indeed a terri- fying, development.

ON THE SLOPE Other limitations

Once started on that slippery slope there is no saying where we shall stop. Next, no doubt, we shall have Roman Catholics barred from the Foreign Office, and Episcopalians refused a desk in the Scottish Office.

I do not doubt that it would be possible to raise quite, a storm in country in support of both

the

changes.

We have been moving in the direction of limiting freedom for some time.

We have seen men driven from their 1obs because they have religious objections to trade unionism, or be- cause they resented being subject to the whims of a few fellow workers more interested in pollüics than work.

methods,

What also should cornern us in addition to the loss of freedom of opinion and thought? I suggest the

new Western Union in Europe.

,

We have a boycott of British goods on the Gold Coast, and Cyprus de- manding "freedom."

Smutz is about to face his hardest task in South Africa, and no doubt his Opposition will make

great capital about being tied to a falter- ing and infrm, Britain.

Mackenzie King, a staunch friend of ours, is about to retire in Canada. We have still to see whether his successor will have elther he prestige or the inclination to carry on the "Help Britain" policy, or will turn to the United States instead.

In Australia there have been some trank comments over the dilatoriness with which we went into action over the Antarctic challenge.

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On top of all we have the New York Times, one of the most power- Britain had signed G 50-year ful newspapers in America, declar- treaty with France, Belgium. ing that the British defente of Holland, and Luxemburg, which sterling is "the greatest menace out- binds these five nations to declare side Communism." war an aggressive move is made against any one of them. A fine gesture, but a very dangerous one,

I am all for the unification of Europe. But up to, now no one has ever envisaged a United

Europe including Britain. The place of Britain has always been at the head of her own Commonwealth of free nations.

RUSSIA-U.S..... Hysteria and fear

RUSSIA DOING MORE.'

<\/E of North America are told

"WE that among our present weak-

nesses is the tremendous size of our elties and the top-heavy grouping of our Industries around a few centres," Stefansson said: "There is the samo But in the Far East, where they talk in the Moscow press and ол do not bother about British-American their radio. The difference is that controlled prices, gold is selling at they are doing more about it than we an all-time high figure of £22 an aro.

ounce.

So that it we did not accept the controlled price, but sent our vital gold to the East, our reserves would be worth nearly three times as much -about £1,500 millions instead of

£600 millions.

there "Believing that eventually

Soviet would be an attack on the from the cast and west, they began building industries centres in Siberia. "Now that they are beginning to visualise an attack from North Even across the Channel in Paris America, they have an added ten- they will pay the equivalent of £6dency move their colonisation for a golden sovereign.

north, this time on the basis of being Of course, we should not always ready to counter-attack in an nir get the top price, but we would war." certainly get much more than £8 120.

an ounce.

BURIED GOLD Raising the price

་

The explorer, born in Canada of - Icelandle parents, is the most promi- inent American protagonist of the view that the Far North is habitable. "The friendly Arctic," he calls it. His explorations of Arctic Canada, Why should we sell our last-ditch | Alaska, Greenland and Iceland since gold reserves at a low price when wo the beginning of the century have could spin them out by elsewhere?

selling stressed scientific investigation of

living conditions..

I'll tell you the answer. Bretton Woods-the agreement that hogtied us to the International Monetary Fund

PIONEERING REVIVED

is weather-beaten face beneat But a very odd situation may soon blue Nordic eyes, accustomed to abundant white hair, and his develop. America has £5,500 focusing on distances, look oddly in- vaults of Fort Knox, Kentucky. millions of gold buried deep in the congruous in his tiny office at tho end of a hallway stocked so deep through it in single line... with books that visitors must file

that there should be a world agree

There is now talk on Wall-street

ment to lift the price of gold by 25 percent.-to about £11. in Our money."

It is his belief that Russia to mak- Ing great strides in the Arctic be- -That-would-mean that-by-a-simple cause the Soviet peoples possess tho

same ploneering spirit that book entry raising the value of its Americans across the prairies

drove 100 gold in the vaults the United States years ago. The Soviet government s would be able "painlessly" to finance fostering this expansionist spirit in all the aid she will send to Europe. the Arctic because it sees the

Would that help us? Oh, no, Be-economic and military rewards. fore it was done our reserves would| have gone at the low price.

There are as many Soviet cities of -

With all that trouble, this is the moment we choose to te ourselves to Europe as a unit and riak the break-up of the Empire.

But, of course, the advocates of this 'move say it is necessary because

In the same way we are pinned 30,000 and 40,000 in the Far North of Russia. Now we turn from the Empire, aggressive. they shout.

"Russia is hostile and today to a £ which has ceased to be as we have villages of 300 and 400,”

"Russia is good international currency. upon which our strength and our bent upon war."

Stefansson said. Is that really future depend to ruined and rock-trua?

Outside the sterling area no one As an example of what the Soviets will touch it. Why? ing Europe:

Because by are doing, he cited Vorkuta, a city. . There 15 Д contrary opinion another of these international agree of 30,000 which stands 70 miles north -It-should-be-a-fundamental--and which may equally be true, that it ments the value of the £ is fixed at of the Arctic Circle and 800 miles cardinal policy with us that we alen is The United States which 1 four dollars, which no one will pay east of Murmansk in the Pechora

that for it. no treaty involving the risk of war suffering from hysteria, and unless it is similarly signed and

Russla plunges from one folly to un- accepted by our Dominions.

other not because she is aggressive ог desire war, but because she is desperate with fear.

CAP IN HAND Waiting for Amber' We dare not risk being suddenly involved in a war unless certain that we

can carry the Empire with us.

we are

If the occasion arose when wa couldn't, that means the end of the Empire and the end of Britain as a Great Power.

We have heard some of our candid new mastera express indignation that anyone should doubt their We should be asking what drove divine. mission, or dare to think us into this treaty. Is this another differently from them.

instalment of the price of the Marshall loan?

That really is the basis of the unceasing campaign against the newspapers. They are too Krank

and independent for the comfort of those gentry.

THE THIN END?

Dislike of critics Resentment of criticism can easily grow to the stage when criticism

becomes an offence, and when even suspicion of holding a contrary view becomes treason

of

A

I suggest that we should not put ourselves in a situation where we would be dragged willy-nilly into someone else's war, without having any say in the matter.

For remember we are numerically a small people compared with there two Powers. And we are an ex- hausted people.

We should have to fight the war "under orders." We should not com- mand.

Whether we won or not we would finish it ruined, and of little more Iraportance than Norway or Holland are today.

A FREE £ Finding true level

coal basin. When it

was decided to exploit the coal resources there, the Soviet, government moved in construction crews, built housing and other urban Experts whose views have been facilities and then constructed 4 Infinitely sounder through the years 100-mile railway southward to bring of crisis than the views of the out the coal... Treasury officials and bankers are, of the opinion that the wisest thing we could do is to let the £ fly free to find its true level.

ARCTIC EARTH YIELDS

mo help

feed

the.

miners, the It would fall, but probably not so

government established the Vor- Twelve far as the doubting Thomases fear. iuta agricultural station.

state farms produce vegetables and Most important of all, a free would again become Internationally dairy products for the city. Experi- acceptable currency. That is what ments have been made to develop

frost-resisting types. we need to get out of the dollar earth now is yielding rye, barley and The Arc/c noose,

potatoes during the brief but warm summer.

Would a revaluation of the £ affect our trade?

At Ukhta, an olt producing centre Twenty years ago we tied the south of Vorkuta, standing slightly to gold, as we tie it today to the below the Arctic Circle, there dollar,

similar story. This city has grown to 40,000 population and had an What happened then? Our foreign || eleven-fold increase in oil produc- trado collapsed. Unemployment|tion between 1940 and 1045. and misery spread through the land. "Vorkuta and Ukhta together equal

as we freed the the 70,000 total population in from gold recovery began

What about this Marshall loan: Are you really content as a proud We are already too much like, a Briton that your country should be tin can tied to a dog's tail. Look standing supinely, cap in hand, at what we have done to our trade waiting for this charity-accom- and commerce and Inance Jy panied by "Forever Amber," chew- treaties and agreements since the ing gum, kiddies' comics, and war ended. marbles instead

But as soon In everything we have pledged making

all. vigorous effort to build up ourselves to take second place to Empire trading economy?

America.

Why not try the same cure today Alaska, the explorer pointed out.

"In America we have lost the Take the gold position. We have dear, because of the price of the of secking now places

when our overseas markets are too plancering spirit," he said. "Instead to colonise, wo gold reserves worth £500,000,000 at in relation to the dollar?

have reversed the nineteenth cen- the official price of gold, which is

The twin crises of war and a tury trend and are migrating to controlled at about £3 128 3d. per trade slump are casting black sha- places Hko Southern California Bine ounce,

dows across the sky, and the clouds where the climate is easy... We don't Why is that the price fixed? Bo are drifting ever nearer.

have to worry about creating the the world price of gold is It is high time we planned our necessities of life for cause

ourselves. determined by what the Americans actions in our own Interests, in-Modern transportation and our high- are prepared to pay for it, which is stead of being continually the pawn

thema ly developed economy bring 35 dollars an ounce.

of others.

The state of the Empire isn't very happy at the monent. That is what happened in many We have given away Burms and lands in Europe. I suspect there we have relinquished India at the are some men in Britain who would cost of a million Indian lives. not be averse to having it happen. Guatemala

So I

contemptuously

do-

warn you, at the risk of mands British Honduras, and Chile, finding myself in the first con- with the Argentino in the back centration camp, be vigilant concern- ground, checkily raises her dag over ing your freedom.

our Antarctic possessions.

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