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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1949
Franco-A Doubtful Risk
The current campaign in certain periodicals which is trying to soften the American people toward Franco Spain should be resisted if we expect to retain the respect of other nations.
It is said that the United States will support a United Nations move to resume diplomatic relations with Franco in order to pave the way for Spain's entry into the Atlantic pact.
Any military advantage we might gain through such a move would certainly be nullified by the ill will and distrust it would create among our true friends. Remember—the people of France, England and the Low Countries haven't forgotten that the Spanish Civil war was the proving ground for Hitler's "Stuka" bombers.
proving grounds for this allegation.
They know that totalitarianism in one of its worst forms grips Spain. They know that 10 years after the civil war political prisoners are still stuffed in Spanish concentration camps. They know that freedom in Spain is a rare commodity and that religious minorities are denied rights.
are defined right now.
Besides all this, Dietator Franco is a doubtful risk as a military ally. Although he owed his very existence to his pals Hitler and Mussolini, he did practically nothing to aid them through the six years of World War II. Would he be any more likely to side with us in a showdown?
Just because Franco is anti-communist doesn't mean he's our friend. He's just as thoroughly anti-democratic, which in the final analysis is anti-American.
We don't like gangsterism in Russia. This doesn't mean we should ally ourselves with gangsters in Spain. —James Scott.
Supply And Demand
Those who believe that the powers of supply and demand should remain free from government regulation have had many a bitter pill to swallow in recent years. Such persons feel that supply and demand will lead to a healthy economic condition for the country if allowed their normal function.
But New Deal tactics and a world war have produced many regulations and changes in supply. President Roosevelt's New Deal brought restrictions aimed at cutting supply without affecting demand, thus raising prices and freeing the country from the depression of the early thirties.
The farm market was regulated through government payments to farmers who restricted production and government purchasing of surplus products which were then destroyed. Whether or not these practices were directly responsible for the improvement in economic conditions which followed is still debated.
With the improvement in the economic conditions of the country, many hoped that supply and demand could once again be freed of regulation. But World War II made it necessary to cut the production of civilian consumer goods to a low point. This cut built up great demands which are only now being satisfied.
As the demands for all types of products are satisfied, proponents of a free hand to supply and demand again hope for the long awaited return to their economic philosophy. But it is not to be.
Supply is again being restricted in certain fields as a measure to hold prices up and thus avoid another depression. Last year the government bought many car loads of potatoes and then destroyed them in an effort to keep the supply down and the price up. This year it is going closer to the source and buying seed potatoes to restrict planting. Potatoes, of course, are only one of many products held in check.
Government regulation of supply is here to stay, whether it be good or bad, at least as long as remnents of the New Deal remain in power Ralph Hemenway.
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