Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-12
It's Painfully Plain

IT HAS been painfully PLAIN Tor some time that the
/ present administration in Washington for which Under
Secretary of State Welles is a frequent spokesman,
is bent having the United States resume its World
War belligerency, which cost the American people SO
much and which they have regretted so much
Now it has been made equally plain that we are not
only expected to fight that expensive and fruitess
all over again but to go through all over again the bitter
ordeal which followed that confct-the conspiracy to
have America police the postwar world through
called League of Nations.
Mr. Weles very frankly brought this intention into
the open his recent address of dedication at the new
Norwegian embassy in Washington.
When this is over, said Mr. Weles
"Some adequate instrumentality must be found to
achieve adjustments"
THIS instrumenality, he said must be rigid form
i of international supervision and control
In order to leave any doubt to what he meant,
Mr. Welles went to say that Woodrow Wilson's con-
ception of League of Nations is what should have
supported after the last and implying is what we
should join and support after this war.
What Mr. Welles forgets or at least does not frankly
state that the American people rejected the League
of Nations because it precisely the of instru
mentality for rigid nternatonaism he oresees desr
able in the future.
The League of Nations was not Peace vehicle,
1t proposed the beligerent of American armies
and fleets not where it might be the desire or IN the
wherever they might be dispatched by an international
regime in which the United States would be dependent
unit and have minor voice
II would have been the end not only of American
democracy but of American FREEDOM for the United
States to have accepted such subservent role the
military domination of the world.
OF COURSE the American people rejected the League
~ of Nations not because of blind seishness of
here in the United States Mr. Wees bitterly says
but because of the enlightened understanding and proud
patriotism of the vast and prevailing majority OF our
people
Does Mr. Welles really believe the American people
will be any less enlightened and understanding proud
and patriotic after any future than they were after
the last war?
Let us suppose there Is another League of Nations
after this war and the United States is asked to join it.
What to be its functions and detectives?
The is palmer TO the American people than
Mr. Welles may think.
Already the British government is reported to have
assured Turkey that extension Of Russas postwar
spheres Of influence where they would infringe on Turkish
interests will be OPPOSED
Is not that the NEXT WAR IN THE MAKING?
n OES it not COMMIT any league association inter-
- national regime which will emerge from British
victory in this war to the conduct of the war?
OF Great Britain If victorious, will dominate
any socalled league evolved else there will BE
league
And whoever Joins with Great Britain in such an
enterprise will matter of and according TO
rigid forehand provision be DOMINATED BY GREAT
BRITAIN.
THOSE the fixed conditions and terms of the last
i League of Nations which unacceptable to the
American people
They will be the inevitable conditions and terms Of
any future League of Nations erected upon the same
foundations and for the same purposes.
The United States must continue and increase Its
efforts and determination to KEEP OUT OF WAR
And in the meantime Mr. Weles has made clear
the United States prepare and be ready keep
of any militant leagues alliances which may follow the
war and in which country would be the pawn Of
nternatonalsts and the spearhead in their new wars.