Evening star., 1941-07-23
Wenes Foresees
Postwar LEAGUE
To Enforce Peace
Speech at Norwegian
Legation Goes Today to
Europe by Short Waves
fTeIt OF Welles' Address on
Page As.
By BLAIR BOLLES.

an American pIan Tor pOSt-WOilQ
reconstruction and peace aSsur-
ence," calling for "an association OF
nations" powerful enough to en-
force disarmament and to insure
economic opportunity for all nations,
was broadcast today by shortwave
radio to the captive countries of
Europe. Mr.. WelleS said Americans
have a great responsibility" in
determining the future of the ma
tons now at war.
Mr.. Welles, saying it was time
for all free governments to con-
slider plans for the postwar world,
spoke late yesterday at the dedlca-
tion of the Norwegian legations
new Office wing, made necessary by
the legations expansion from 8
to 40 employees since the war began.
He stood on the wings roof, under
a Norwegian flag run up by Crown
Princess Martha of Norway.
Must Destroy Hitlerite Rule.
AS for the more immediate present,
Mr.. Welles, whose other remarks
constituted tie most sweeping state
HftIlJ vet Ildut Vi tIllS .
postwar intentions, said:
There can be no peace until the
Hitlerite government of Germany
has been finally and utterly de-
stroyed. For I am confident that
the cause of liberty and of free
dom will not go down to defeat.
The determination and courage of
free men and women everywhere
must now be exercised to the full
limit of endurance until their victory
Is won"
The message was addressed to the
world-to England and her allies,
to China, to Latin America and to
millions in Germany and Italy"
It's substance is being sent over the
ether today to the countries de-
feated by the Axis where it will
mean the most as message of hope.
News broadcasts each day are di-
fected from here to those countries
whose postwar news sources the
Axis censors.
The acting secretary, presenting
his plan inferentially in the name
of all the American Republics, fore
saw an end forever to western
hemisphere isolation from European
affairs.
Threat Must Die.
He made it plain that he con-
sidered the American 'respon-
slbility' in constructing Europe's
future had a selfish as well as an
idealistic basis when he said:
''All of us now see clearly that no
matter how great our American ca
pacity for defense may be, no mat
ter how perfect our hemisphere
system may become. our future well
fare must inevitably be contingent
upon the existence in the rest of the
world of equally peaceminded and
equally secure peoples who not only
will not, but cannot. become,
source of potential danger to us in
the New World"
In considering the failure of the
League of Nations, he remembered
that it was employed to maintain
the status quo. and he urged that
the future association of nations
take a fluid view of its duties and
responsibilities.
The NorWegians made V-day
ceremony of their dedication The
ambassadors and ministers of all
the allied and Latin American
countries here were invited 10 at
tend
mo people have met the trials of
the present time with a more
staunch courage than the people
of Norway. and their resolution has
excited the admiration Of the free
world
The Norwegian Minister, Wilhelm
Munthe de Morgenstierne, said:
In itself it is not a very remark
able thing, of course, TO build
new wing-some new Office rooms.
But when We asked you to come,
Ii was because We hoped that per-
haps you might feel as We do. that
the idea is bigger than the house,
that this is wing with wings
I'VE hope that the very fact of
our expanding. at this time, when
Norway temporarily is being occu-
pied and raped by foreign masters,
might symbolic to you, to the world,
10 the aggressors themselves, that
we defy them that we are building
for the future. that we have abund-
ant faith in victory and freedom"
Crown Princess Martha, who came
from her summer home in Massa-
chusetts for the occasion. said:
Il thank my people at home and
abroad for their faith and courage
and I pray that NorWegians every
where will always keep Norway's
name as clean and honored as it
Is today May this flag soon fly
again over my beloved land-over
Norway that is once more free and
happy and a good neighbor to the
whole world"
SeIfishneSs Seen in Failure.
Mr.. Welles described the cere-
monies as surely symbolic of the
hope and of the faith with which
We meet
He held up the League of Nations
as conceived by woodrow Wilson as
en ideal which had failed because
"of the blind selfishness" of men in
this and other countries and because
st was never enabled to operate as
Wilson had intended.
Declaring that some instrument
tality must unqueStionably be
found" to bring about such peace
full and equitable adjustments be-
tween nations as prove necessary
when the task of restoring law and
order to disastrously shaken
world" is again undertaken, Mr..
Welles added:
But whatever the mechanism
which may be devised. of two things
am unalterably convinced.
Would Control ArmamentS.
"First, that the abolition OF Offen-
stse ornaments and the limitation
and reduction of defensive arma-
ments and of the tools which make
the construction of such arma-
ments possible can only be under
taken through some rigid form of
international supervision and con-