Evening star., 1942-11-18
Long, Rough Road
Ahead, but Victory al
End, We|Ies Says
Undersecretuy Cites
Coins in Gearing U. S.
For Great War Effort
BY the Associated Press.

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By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-While
warning that hard times are still to
come, Sumner Welles says the peo-
pie of the United Nations now
have the right to look ahead, not
only with hope and with passionate
conviction but with the assurance
which high military and naval
achievement affords, to the ultimate
victory which will presage a free
world" ..,t
None Of U.S." the Undersecretary
OF State declared last night at the
closing session of the New York
Herald Tribune's 11th Forum on
current Problems, "are so optimistic
as to delude ourselves into the be-
lief that the end is in sight; or that
we have not still before us grave
obstacles, dark days, reverses and
great sacrifices yet to be undergone.
But the tremendous initial effort
OF Transforming the inertia of a de-
mocracy of 100000 of people at
peace into the driving, irresistible
energy of 10000 900 of American
citizens aroused and united in war,
has been successfully made"
Assails Second Front Critics.
Mr.. Welles assailed those who
clamored for a second front at the
time preparations were ripening for
American Intervention in North
Africa, and suggested that Amer
leans now can evaluate the clamor
at its true worth
They now realize" he said, that
the prodding of our self-appointed
pundits who were constantly de-
manding the creation Of second
front was not required, and that
the carefully thought-out plans
for the second front now in being
had long since been conceived, and
were already in process of realiza-
ton while the clamor of these
critics went on"
Explains Darlan Position.
They can now fully evaluate," !"
he continued, "the lack of vision
and of knowledge of those who de-
manded the abandonment of our
whole policy toward the French
people, at the very moment that
that policy was afforded the striking
opportunity of proving its full
worth-its full worth to the cause
for which we fight, and its full
worth in preserving the soul of
France during the darkest days she
has ever known"
Without referring directly to the
bewilderment and disappointment
voiced In Fighting French and other
quarters over the emergence of Jean
Darlan in the North African pic
ture, Mr.. Welles stressed that:
During these first days all ar
rangements which we may make
with Frenchmen in North Africa
are solely military in character, and
are undertakenrproperly-by the
American and British military
commanders"
He added:
"It is the hope of all of us that
all Frenchmen who represent or
who are part of the forces of re-
sistance to Hitler will unite as one
in the support of our military en-
deavor.
Sees Clouds Lifting.
"And so the clouds are lifting
the clouds or doubt and of dis
paragement and of lack of self
confidence. We can all see more
clearly how inevitable has now be-
come the final conquest Of the
armies of that criminal paranoiac
whom the German people were so
benighted as to acclaim as their
leader: how crushing will at long
last be the defeat which the Jap
anese hordes and their military
leaders will suffer in just retribu-
ton for the treacherous barbarlty
which they have been inf1icting
upon the world during the past IL
years"
This final and crushing defeat OF
the Axis, however, will be but the
prelude to the grueling task OF build
ing a new world based on the tour
freedoms. That task, Mr.. Welles
warned, will require more than toll
and sweat; it will call for the exer-
else Of "all Of the wisdom which men
of today have gained from the ex-
perience of the past"
Admiral Standley Speaks.
Admiral William H. Standley,
United States Ambassador to Rus
sia, said a firm belief that perma-
nently profitable, normal, peaceful
relations between the nations of the
world can be the new order, must
prevail if our civilization is to en-
dure.
The policy of national isolation
must be buried with other anti
uuated formulae. he declared.
I'VE. the United Nations. are dedi-
Gated to a policy of cooperation in
war and in peace" he said, found
ed on a basis of mutual self-sacri-
fice, and we in the United States, as
elsewhere, must realize that real
sacrifices must be made if we are to
avoid the horrors of another war.
He paid tribute to the Russian
stand against the Nazi armies, and
continued:
There are deeper reasons for Rus
sia's great success than the stubborn
and brave tenacity of the Red Army,
its proved efficiency and willingness
to die rather than to retreat. There
is the all-important self-sacrficing
devotion of every man, woman and
youth in the Soviet Union to their
Army and to the cause for which it
fights.
Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, for
mer Labor member of Parliament
said that in Britain "the so-called
leisured class has practically disap-
peared-idleness has really become
a reproach."
Prom many points of view the
leveling is upward" she said. 1T
is no longer true to say that any
considerable section of our people
does not know how the other half
lives"