Evening star., 1942-01-11
Allies Unified Command Seen
Offsetting Reverses in Far East
This Achievement Alone Would Have Justified
Churchill's Extended Conferences in
Washington, Observer Says
By FeHr Morley.

MOTIey.
ment in the sphere of international uni
flcation is found in President Roosevelt's
message delivered to the reassembled
Seventy-seventh Congress on Tuesday.
The central theme of this powerful ad-
dress was the opposition of the 26 volun-
tarily United Nations" to the forceful
and dictated unification sponsored by the
Axis powers.
From the long-range historical view.
point, the attention to the necessity Of
unif1cation paid by both sets of belliger.
ents is no less important than the diff.
ferences between the voluntary and the
dictated approach which are at present
properly to the fore.
Reconstruction Era.
Even though they are poles apart in
philosophy and methods, both the Axis
and anti-Axis combinations tacitly agree
that after the war extreme political and
economic nationalism must somehow be
tempered. And from this, even amid
the oppressive tragedy Of current events.
there springs very real hope for the era
Of reconstruction.
In his message to Congress President
Roosevelt again emphasized the neces-
sity Of positive conclusions from the bit.
ter lessons of separation and isolation
ism. Henceforth, between the United
Nations, there will be continuous gov
ernmental consultation and co-ordinated
executive action American forces will,
at eed. serve anywhere on the five con-
tinents and the seven seas.
And Mr.. Roosevelt further emphasized.
in a peroration which crystallized the
whole thought of his message, that we
of the United Nations are not making all
this sacrifice of human effort and human
lives to return to the kind of world We
had after the last World War" The
fight, he said, is 'for security and prog
ress and for peace. not only for ourselves
but for all men, not only for one genera
ton but for all generations"
If that end is attained the tire. lendous
sacrifices ahead, even If as yet only
family glimpsed by most Americans, will
not, in the long account, have been in
vain.
AS 1912 gets fully under way the great
changes brought by the year behind us
become more apparent. in spite of the
difficulty of focus which always afflicts
contemporary vision.
War Becomes World Wide.
During 194l the war, steadily and
seemingly by inevitable progression, be-
1l1, - vx-iJa
ously the bitterly ironic fact that both
sides seek the goal of greater political
| and economic unification became more
clear. But this similarity Of ultimate
| aim does not diminish-indeed it accen-
tuates-the differences in method and
philosophy which make 1t supremely i'm
portant that the democratic rather than
the dictatorial cause should triumph.
During 1941 there also came, to the
American people as a whole, the begin
ming of new and infinitely broader
conception of their collective destiny as
a great nation. In challenging the Axis
plan of unifcation, the United States
tacitly pledged itself to develop and make
effective a better program Of interna-
tional cooperation. The fact that we
failed once before to follow through on
a similar challenge serves only to make
success in the present undertaking the
more imperative.
"The will of the American people" said
President Roosevelt in his message to
Congress, is Ito make very certain that
the world will never so suffer again"
To make that will effective, the ma
tional contribution to the Allied cause
must from now on be not merely gigantic
but also continuous. 1t must be not
merely physical but also intellectual and
spiritual
Present production estimates. wholly
in the material field, are sample Of the
vast and well-co- -ordinated effort now
required from the United States. That
physical production, necessary to OUT
weigh tho Axis reserves, must be achieved.
But equally necessary, If victory is to
be real and lasting, will be a growth in
mental and spiritual stature concomitant
with the expansion Of war industries
and monetary taxation already ordered.