Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-20
Unity Needed
For a Better
GIobaI State
Plans Being Sailed Down
. by Trend Of Events
BY PAUL MALLON

state. or a purified world In
unity. after the war. are CHR
ripping louder now-but il is
evident that more authoritative
spokesman and more tangible
facts already are sailing down
their plans.
Behind recent events, II is
obvious that the postwar world
is going to be fixed by negotia-
ton, based on conditions (eco-
nomic. financial and politicaD
prevailing at the end OF the
war, rather than by the hopes
of American idealists or Eu.
ropes democratic refugees.
For instance, Mr.. Churchill
announced he was not conduct
ing Britain's war to accomplish
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Brit
ish Empire.
A shocked answer TO the
prime minister was given-not
by any statesman of the world
who will be at the peace table,
but by one who has no official
position which would take him
there. Mr.. Willkie. The world
statesmen were silent.
CIMILARLY. the American
~ Official devotees of global
unity are making moving
speeches on the subject, but Mr..
Roosevelt. who will have the
final say, has contented himself
recently with advocating the
practical Philippine system of
estab sh ing independence
among smaller states by mu-
tually acceptable short, sure,
progressive steps over years
and decades.
Mr.. Wallace. the V. p;
Thomas Mann. the greatest liv-
ing literary artist; Archibald
MacLeish. the political poet lau-
reate. and others of that wing,
are crusading among the intel
lectuals of this country in favor
of eradicating every selfish i'm
pulse, in the future world, giving
every one in the world a quart
of milk a day, and making all
nations live hereafter in some
form of selfless. God-loving
state. yet unsystematized in
their minds.
They even promoted a new
Bill of Rights last Sunday. 1t
was issued by the national re-
sources planning board, and con-
tanned such iipspectscnlsr sug-
gestions as "the right to work,
to fair pay. to eat etc. The
New York Times played it back
on page 81. Otherwise, il was
also generally unnoticed.
IRON all this evidence, II is
l. clear Messrs. Willkie, Wal
lace, ct al. have neglected to
note the primary necessity for
success of their cause, they for
get unity is a mutual affair.
Any kind of unity, global or
otherwise, must be a genuine.
freely entered agreement by all
participating sides.
1t is plain our victorious peace
Is not going to be written by
Mr.. Wallace, or even by Mr..
Roosevelt-but at table where
Churchill. Stain, Chang Kai-
Shek and others will sit.
While Messrs. Willkie and
Wallace agitate, Mr.. Churchill
pledges himself TO maintenance
of the British Empire (including
India?) and Stalin-ah, yes,
Stain, whose democratic ideals
were lauded by Mr.. Wallace.
speaks not a word about democ-
racies. or Atlantic charters. or
Bill of Rights, or Russia's plan
for postwar.
A PPARENTLY, we've good
"A Americans are the only
nationality in the world talking
about building international
Twas, international banks, CIV
ing quart of milk a day,
"global states" world unity.
No one else is.
All Chang wanted at the New
York Herald-Tribune forum, for
instance, was the right to run
his own country. All that Queen
Wilhelmina wanted was Justice
and firmness tempered by wis
DOM"
II Mr.. Wallace, theoretically,
was able to effect the kind Of
unity he talks about, under these
circumstances, il would not be
unity, but Observation-Disclosures
can paternalism over the world,
with our money, the paternalism
in which papa pays the bills"
but does not necessarily have
the love OF the children.
THUS are the prospects for
Il postwar settling down upon
the bases of reality and fact. far
aside from the flights of fancy
OF our most audacious hopefuls.
The consultations will be be-
'-tween the United States, Brit
ain, Russia and others and the
conclusions Ito endured must be
mutually acceptable to all.
Our gifts OF quarts Of milk
will be limited by the size Of our
debt. Our bestowals OF freedom
will be limited by what the
worid WANTS and will tske