Detroit evening times., 1941-12-31
War Thought:
Today Think
Of Tomorrow
Kind Of Freedoms
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BY PAUL MALLoN

WASHINGTON, Dec 81 The
W future form of the world We
are striving for, was not mem
toned publicly by MeSSrS RooNe-
Welt and Churchill
With Russia and China absent
possibly they decided TO let The
lou freedoms stand as the
broad war ann freedom Of
peech religion. from fear from
wanO without further detail.
Yet this New Years Eve CaS all
thinking citizens wiin the prin-
cIpal officials have naturally let
their thoughts drift 10 what VIII
come after victory
A United States Of Europe or
a loose federation of European
states is what most toreSee as
the main prospect Either would
no doubt be accomplished under
the guiding hand of Britain and
Russia. but with the knowledge
that the United States of Amer
ica with all It's facilities and
resources is bound 10 be the
greatest producing nation in
pcace-umc history.
Ouch a union or federation
y should find encouragement
IN "A decline of nationaliSm and
q postwar revulSion against It,.
Hitler plan 10 save Europe by
conquest has. already failed. His
conquered nations are not pro-
duCing either for him or for
themselves. He cannot get them
10 produce his way
II Is obvious, too. that tins
future union or federation must
be founded upon the CapitaliStlc
and gold systems fundamentally,
If il is 10 deal in world in
which the United States and
Britain are formidable in
fluenceS. 1t viii have TO be
provided free access 10 raw ma
terialS and frccr trade 1t must
furnish more convincing guar
antees of peace and disarma-
ment
Soaring idealistS in London
and Washington are still pratt
Hing about union now, or at
least after the war That idea
has outworn It's propaganda use
fulneSS. II was taken up solely
to promote pre-war propa-
Ganda purposes No one in au-
thorlty wants union yet.
WE FOUGHT the revolution
w TO get away from Britain
and most officials around here
think we were right in the first
place. Economically the suggest
ion never made sense. The per
capita debt of the British IS 50
much higher than that OF the
I-nItcd- STATES would merely
bc undertaking added financial
responsibilities without gain.
Closer cooperation will be
pursued 10 the fullest by Wash
lngton but union never.
THE blank spot IN the mind of
L all statesmen thinking upon
this post war subject, OF course,
is Russia. Yet the democratic
ideal may not prove. at the
end Of this war. 10 be a tar
from Russian purposes as here
toforc
The Union Of Soviet Socialist
Republics has been slipping en-
trcly away from pure COM
munlSm and approaching capi-
taliSm gradually through the
force of necessity for many
years The primary doctrince
of StalIniSm is practIcali>m.
40 doubt Stain looks ahead to-
ward added territory far more
fctchingly than to political
theories.
Around here they speak Of
warm water ports aS a fifth
freedom for Russia.
L'AR EAST prospects are not
L clear OGhand it sounds
easy 10 hand Japan over 10 the
Chinese and Russians for aSSimi-
laiion which would remove that
unhappy race But unstable
China herself is not united. In
% tcW months the Chinese would
bc fighting among themselves,
AS they were even this year,
with an aECreSSor IN their front
yard
CHINA lacks the necessary in
StnctS for lndustralizatlon IN
dla has exhibited tar more
pr0WesS in tins respect these
past few years She could we'll
hccomc tho ultimate successor
10 Japan Otherwise The Orient
might unbelievable though u
socmS lapse back 10 The point
where the japanese. M defeat.
could achieve new industrial
and political hcCemony m that
area.
GONE factor, of the distant
- peaceful future are moro
obvious Tho United States VIII
certainly have around her jon
ths hemisphere a unified family
Oi nations closer knit than be-
fore Britain viii haze both us
ComuionS and us empire These
two areas of The world Viii re-
main politically erect though
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