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Russians Profit Little From U. S. Radar Training
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-UP)
The Navy said Wednesday It
trained Russian officers to oper
ate radar equipped sub-chasers
that were lend-leased to Russia
. during the war.
In response to Inquiries, a Navy
official recalled that the radar
equipped sub-chasers were given
to Russia In 1944. To operate
them, Russian officers were train
ed with Americans at the sub
chaser training center In Miami,
Fla.
The Navy said also that the
cruiser Milwaukee, which was
loaned to Russia In April 1944,
had radar equipment aboard when
sent to Russia.
A Navy board which Inspected
the Milwaukee upon Its return
to the U. S. said that all of Its
radar equipment was unclassified,
which means it was no longer
considered secret or confidential.
The board's report said that at
the time of the cruiser's return
the radar equipment was not In
good condition due to obselescence
and lack of maintenance. The re
port added that boxes of spare
parts appeared to have been untouched.
Foreign Affairs Analyst Says U. $., Britain Need Better Acquaintance
By DEWITT MACKENIE
At- foreign Aiiam Analyat
These days of clashing political
ideologies have a tendency to
breed doubts and suspicions even
between old and tried interna
tional friends.
We had a rather startling indi
cation of this recently when Lord
Strabolgl, laborite member of the
Hrlllsn House ol uoras, declared
In a debate on defense that there
were American hotheads who
were talking quite glibly of using
atomic power to divert the gulf
stream if England went commu
nistic. England owes her tem
perate climate to the gulf stream
and presumably might become an
arctic country If the stream were
turned away.
Well of course, the scientists
promptly tossed this idea out the
window as nonsense. It would
take more than atomic power to
shift the gulf stream, even if
anybody wanted to shift it.
So much for that scare, but it
leaves us with the uncomfortable
thought that this is an extra
ordinary viewpoint to be held by
any citizen of an ally who has
been through two world wars
with us. England doesn't show
signs of going communistic, and
even if she did we shouldn't try
to do her in with atomic bombs.
Speaking rather louder than
words are our deeds in trying to
help Britain overcome her econ
omic crisis and get on her feet.
Not Well Enough Acquainted
But what is the basis for such
outlandish Ideas as the gulf
stream nightmare? It strikes me
that the answer is lack of ac
quaintance. Our two peoples don't
know each other as well as they
should, though from first-hand
observation of both countries for
many years I believe America
knows England better than Eng
land knows us. And I could be
wrong about that.
The British school system prior
to the second world war didn't
teach much about the United
States. American history ceased
with the , revolution. Since the
outbreak of the war some schools
have given more attention to the
United States. Unfortunately this
study has been greatly hampered
by the shortage of newsprint
which has resulted in' skeleton
newspapers. There hasn't been
room for much more than men
tion of the major events.
Movies Exaggerated
True, England has been getting
educated through America's mov
ies. A large section of the British
public has the idea that two-gun
cowboys still shoot from the hio
In the wild and woolley west.
And the ways of gangsterism are
amazing.
Naturally the reason for this
lack of acquaintance is the great
distance separating our two coun
tries, and the cost of travel. It's
comparatively easy for the Briton
to get to the continent, or for
the American to reach Canada or
Latin America, but crossing the
Atlantic is another proposition.
So we need personal contact,
and that will come in due course.
Meantime we have to fall ba:k
on present communications and
improve them. I was chatting
with an Englishman the other
day on the subject and asked him
what he thought would help solve
the problem.
He said that a return to normal 1
size newspapers in England would "
help immensely by providing
space for adequate news cover
age. The motion pictures and the
radio are vital mediums. More in
terpretive news writing and more
factual novels are needed. ,
To illustrate his argument my
friend told me about a waiter he
knows In a London restaurant.
This waiter was reading up on
America, and one of his favorite
books is the last of the Mohicans.
He thinks of America partly in
terms of this thriller of days long
gone.
It's time America and England
got acquainted.
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