Clement Attlee at Socialist Propagandist

...VSIIA AND WAR BOOTY According to official Czechoslovak estimates, about one-fifth of the total Industrial capacity of the country has been dismantled and evacuated to the Soviet Union...

...As Bowles said, "this would return to dealers a larger dollar profit per ear than they had before the War, because they would not be taking losses on used csr trade-ins, the high cost of pressure selling campaigns, and the expenses ef msint a iniiig large corps of high -pi OMUI e salesmen...

...It wasn't only what he said, but how he said it, that brought home to many Congressmen Isst Tuesday the brand-new thought that the pro-gism of the British Labor Party for Britain is surprisingly enough in the best American tradition...

...In the view of close observers here, mere American workers will be hit by the price Increases in low<ost clothing thsn will benefit from Bowles' determination te hold the line on auto...

...The OPA balance last week went even further into the debit when it was announced that pries incrssses hsve been grsnted in the celling for frosen poultry, end S JO percent increase In price ceil ing» on a number of hardware products used in construction and repairs...

...Price administrator Chester bowles this week assailed the lobby tactics of the automobile dealers as "an ominous sign of the times" in rejecting the leaders' demands for an Increase la OPA auto price ceilings-Bowles might also have included the lobbying efforts of the dairy trust and the real estate sharks...

...In announcing the new auto prices this week, the OPA actually increased the profit margin of the auto dealers moi« thsn It percent in net terms, despite the' fact thst the prices ostensibly rut the fsctory allowance to dealers by 4 te" f percent...

...Clement Attlee at Socialist Propagandist By JONATHAN STOUT Washington, d. c—Clement Attlee, Socialist Prime Minister of Britsin, came closer to selling acceptance of Socialism to a predominantly conservative Congress of the United States this week then any other single individual in American history...

...When Attlee, speaking of Britain's socialisation program, said the British people did not trust industrial monopoly grown greater than the State, and could not feel easy in leaving it in the hands of private monopolists, it reminded msny of even conservative Congressmen how far they, too, are committed to trust-busting in the good old-fsshioned American style...

...In the experience of veteran Washington correspondents, nothing like these recent lobbying efforts hss ever been Seen on capitol hill...

...On the other side of the ledger OPA struck « blow at lbs lowest Income brackets by allowing a II percent Increase in the prices of low-cost clothing, principally underwear of all types far men, women and children, and shirts and pajamas for men and boys...

...Where Winston Churchill, in his two appearances before Congress, managed to epitomize the picture of the British Raj, the imperialist tradition of Queen Victoria, Cecil Rhodes, and Rudyard Kipling, the present Prime Minister—except for his Oxford accent—might have been any earnest, serious-minded, thoroughly respectable middle-class school teacher or shopkeeper from the Middle West...

...As Robert C. Albright described R In the Wathiuglon Posts "In precise, unvarnished phrsses, thst did not pretend to reach for Winston Churchill;* rolling metaphors, Attlee defined the British Labor Government for just what it is—a progressive but fsr from i adicsl movement, rooted firmly in the Msgns Chsrts tradition.'' No question about R—Clement Attlee, for all of his undramatic, nervous manner, made a deep end most favorable impression on Congress...

...This sppsrently wss done ss the regulsr routine work of Soviet troops in foreign countries, irrespective ef either friend or foe, or whether they came as conquerors or liberators...

...Where Churchill, the great orator, drew admiring bursts of applause for his really impressive phrase-making, quiet, mild-mannered Attlee drew only thin applause but a much more rapt attention and established a bond of sympathetic understanding...

...Speaking before a joint session of the House and Senate, Attlee provided a great contrast to the last Britisher who addressed such a meeting on capitol hill...