Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26
BEW-HulI
Tiff CIoaks
Basic Issue
Winner TO Draw Plans
for Postwar World
BY PAUL MALLON

iNOootfNi1 ii6llAiy idppth
the knuckles of Vice President
Wallace and his misnamed
Board of Economic Warfare
again last week and told il to
stop reaching deeper into the
prerogatives of State Secretary
Hull.
Every one outside has con-
sidered this argument an unin-
teresting technical dispute over
power. Not much public atten-
ton was drawn to il.
In my opinion, the issues in
volved constitute the second
most important story in Wash
ington and the world. Down
beneath the conflict Is authority,
1t seems 10 me, is basic funda-
mental difference of opinion as
to procedure in the postwar
world. The manner in which
these two opposing forces are
eventually aligned will deter
mine the course of the world.
THE opposing forces do not
Il yet admit that this funda-
mental conflict exists, but you
can see ii sticking out of their
respective speeches, as obvious
as the Washington Monument
and Jefferson Memorial. There
is no need to go beyond their
spoken official words to prove it.
In the first place neither side
is thinking primarily abou t
economic warfare. Mr.. Wal
lace's primary interest is to
prepare a plan for the postwar
world. A few weeks back MAY
81 he made a speech called "the
price of free world victory"
which seems to be drawing
considerable reprint publicity
because of the attention it did
not attract at the time.
In that speech, Mr.. Wallace
said a lot about liberty with
which every one agreed mo one
is against world liberty any
where in our realm, so this
point can be accepted as
unanimously adopted), and then
he illustrated his postwar pur-
poses with an anecdote as fol-
lows:
Half In fun and half Sc
riously, said the other day to
Madame Litvinoff:
1.-THE object of this war Is to
make sure that everybody I'm
the world has the privilege of
drinking a quart OF milk a
day.
"She replied:
Yes, even half n pint
THE peace must mean a bet
ter standard of living for the
common man, not merely in the
United States and England, but
also In India, Russia, China and
Latin America-not merely In
the United Nations, but also In
Germany and Italy and Japan"
TNADEQUATELY but point
Il edly this illustrates what Mr..
Wallace and the thinkers with
whom he has surrounded him.
self are driving at. His right
hand men are Milo Perkins and
Louis II. Bean.
Their tendency is to look at
the world through farmers
glasses, and to guide their
f., vision along New Deal spend
ing and social reform lines.
They want a New Deal of the
world TO come out of this war.
They talk of diet in India and
China, working hours and
needed ease in Japan and Ger
many, the necessity for indus
Trailing small and remote
nations, lot more spending by
us and lot more moral reform
ing.
THE speeches of Mr.. Hull and
u his group of associated
thinkers do not sound like that.
Around Mr.. Hull are Herbert
Feis, economic adviser; Assist
ant State Secretary Adolph
Berle; Leo Pasvolsky, special
assistant, and even Norman
Davis sits in occasionally. Theirs
seems to be the practical trade
approach in contrast to Mr..
Wallace's spending-social-reform
visionary approach.
The Hull group lays heavily
upon the Hull reciprocal trade
means Of establishing a new :
world. abolition of tariff barriers
and restriction of trade, free
access to raw materials. AS l
get II, their idea is not so much
10 remake the world, as to make
IL work.
It seems true the way Hull's
boys are thinking might cost us
considerably less money than
the way the Wallace boys want
to go about it, but the now
congealing theory is not to be
costless.
One of his men is working on
an international long-t m
credit plan in which some or
ganization like the RFC would
invest large sums of our money
in under-developed nations TO
enable them TO produce.
LSO both sides agree the
"A world expects TO depend on
us for food and clothing imme-