The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-19
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NJ. Hoover Would Avoid
Tragedy Of Versailles
Should Work or Peace
Progrsm Now
Food Shortage Vital
Immediate Problem
Boundary Question
Has Complications

Boundary Question
Has Complications
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WASHNeToS-n n b.oon-
ing fairly certain that the peace
this time VIII not b simply |.
document drawn Up in a confer
enee. signed with = flourish and
then enhalmed IN some palace Of
the nations.
We tried that kind OF static
peace the last time and IL failed.
Ine modern world Just wont be
poured into q rigid mold. II
wouldn't stay poured into TIE
treaty Of Versailles and Il won't
stay poured into anything We can
work out this time
Herbert Hoover sees that. cut
Of he experience At the Paris
peace conference. Just A our
present government sees IL.
Mr.. Hoover. In his thoughtful
and constructive Chicago speech
this week. says that II we are not
10 - the tragedy Of Versailles
repeated. we must have q new
approach 70 the whole method
and process Of peacemakinr. Re-
publican politicians who are set
ting out now 10 demsgogue about
the peace would find some far
better stuff to lean on In what
Ir. Hoover says
Moro likely the peace this time
WIN Be q flowing. ever-changinr
condition. requiring constant dis-
cussion and adjustment among
stateEmen Of various nations.
Peace VIII be q process. q method,
rather than . frozen mold Even
In the happiest Of large families.
nothing stays stIll. There are al
ways some matters 70 be settled.
and the peace-making iabors Of
the mother are never done.
No more win the next peace
ever Be completed 30 that you
can put II away and forget about
IT, The next peace viii continue
an active process IN which the
long distance telephone and the
airplane. which can bring prin-
cipa1s together on . few days.
notice. viii replace the formal
green-baize conference table that
symbolises the futile. static peace
method Of the past.
Mr.. Hoover agrees with the top
thought In this administration
that the principal United Nations
must agree IN general on some
Of the main postwar questions
before the war ends. They must
DO that IN order to be able to
move quickly and surely to deal
with the explosive chaos that viii
exist everywhere.
Mr.. Hoover mentions the short
age of food In Europe. which he
says amounts to q famine amohk
nearly 1oo. ooo. 900 people. II ID
that way nearly everywhere.
There are food riots IN some
places that you never heard Of.
Nearly every country IL having
acute inf1ation--and we win get
It here II Ne don't watch out.
The pressure 10 intense. That's
what was behind the screaming
against Leon. Henderson. There
10 pressure to shove up prices BE-
cause the shortage Of goods win
permit n.
Some q this trouble can Be
dealt with now. For instance.
tn government Of Iran II hiring
DR.. A. c. Millspaugh 10 return
~ financial adviser, ~ he was IN
the middle Juveniles when the
country was known ~ Per-
sia- Iran has severe imitation.
Food II extremely difficult to
get.
An goods are short. and allied
troops and construction crews
working on this highway into
Rus~iA are spending large sums
and strangling the currency.
There are probably large wheat
hoards that can be drawn out
row. That - one kind Of work
that can 20 on
Another n the discussion Of
boundary questions. The Polish
premier. General Sikorski. II here
and hopes for some preliminary
understanding with the chief
United Nations- Some have sug-
eested that We 60 hack to the
geographical boundaries fixed by
tn treaty Of Versailles. use them
- starting points during the ar
misfice or period Of conditional
peacs. and readjust ~ appears
advisahle later on
In theory II II an attractive
proposition In practice some OBJ
5sctions are raised which may
not - tnsurmountahle- For In
stance. II you restored Poland to
fhs treaty Of Versailles lines. the
Polish corridor would Be revived
But the Germans have driven all
the Poles out The arrangement
always was considered . breeder
e future troubie-as II certainly