Evening star., 1940-02-25

Recent moves for peace In Eu-
rope inspired the aboDe sketch by
the Pulitzer Prize ,cartoonist, RolAn
Kirby, ,oho captioned 1t "Waytarer
Reported in No Mans Land"
4 Alright: Myron c. Taylor, Pres
fdent R0osepelt's personal delegate
to the Vatican and seeker after
NEW. YORK. N. Y.-Myron G. Tay-
lor's departure for Rome as President
Roosevelts personal ambassador to Pope
Plus XII was the beginning of the
Presidents final effort to make peace in
Europe before the threatened spring Of
fensive" can loose wholesale destruc-
ton and death.
It will be Mr.. Taylor's job to find out
If peace is possible now. and If so. how.
For that task, Mr.. Taylor is an ideal
man.
To begin with, his personal philosophy
is that the United States should do
something-everything it can short Of
taking up arms-to bring peace to
Europe, instead of just expressing pious
hopes that peace will come.
A Critical Moment"
He has an almost religious sense of
mission in his present undertaking
Everything in his Quaker upbringing
rebels against needless bloodshed. He
expressed this in his parting statement
aboard ship:
This is great and critical moment
in world history and am determined
to do my utmost to assist in avoiding
further suffering"
Most of his adult life has been spent
in negotiating and making peace in
difficult, sometimes seemingly impossible,
situations.
He headed the Evian Conference on
European refugees, making success Of
what most observers thought was fore
doomed to fail. Instead of folding up
in the face Of opposing nationalist
forces, which on one hand created a
refugee flood and on the other shut the
refugees of from haven, the confer
ence resolved into permanent institu-
ton and has already found homes for
two-thirds if not three-fourtl1s Of Ger
many's men without a country"
Before that, he made peace between
the United States Steel Corp. and John
L. Lewis c. I. o. at a time when labor
and the whole steel industry were en-
gagged in bitter industrial war.
Before that, he was engaged in the
difficult diplomacy that goes with reor-
ganization of big business-in banking,
in rubber, in textiles and in steel. He
was SO outstandingly successful in this
that his aid was sought by men like
]. P. Morgan.
Reveals No Formula.
Mr.. Taylor's refusal to give any ad-
vance indication of how he intends to
operate On his peace mission in Rome
was disappointing to many. But no,
one who knows him expected him to
offer a formula. He never talks about
confidential assignments And he never
makes formulas in advance. He always
tries to approach problem free from
bias, then get the facts on all sides,
then find q solution in keeping with
all the facts.
As Ambassador to the Vatican he will
be in what is probably the best place in
Europe to get facts from all sides. The
church has It's ecclesiastical represent
atives in all lands and they are some-
times better informed than the diplo-
mats. As head of q religion embracing
all the world. the Pope is less likely to be
biased than any single leader Of state.
IN one point especially is Rome signin-
cant: Mussolini is close to the Pope.
Mussolini, IN turn, is at the Italian end
Of the Berlin Rome axis and in better
position than any other European states