Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-23
International POLICING
Needed After War,
Sulzberger Says
Principle Of Moderation
Urged in DeuIins With
Post-ConfIict Problems
By the Associated Press.

va SSsIItSA tVHISuS
BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Nov. 23.-Arthur Hays
Sulzberger, president and publisher
of the New York Times, said today
that no leader of any major nation
has been able to plunge into war
OF conquest any people who had a
truly free press"
He added in his address, prepared
for delivery before the Rotary Club
of Ottawa:
mot until Hitler was able to keep
the truth from the German peo-
pie and poison their minds with his
monstrous lies, and not until Mus
solini and the Japanese war lords
were able to do likewise, were they
able to drag their people into war"
Looking toward the kind of world
there will be after the war, he said:
"An international police force is
not very popular phrase even now
in my own country, but that is what
we are going to have in one form or
another, for we must have it.
Teeth in Organization.
I'VE must have teeth in our in
ternational organization this time.
We must not follow the
principle of self determination =
to the point where we say that each
nation shall have the right to de-
termine any policy it pleases, re-
CARELESS of the consequences to the
other nations.
There must be some limitations to
national sovereignty and the sooner
we make up our minds to that the
better"
Mr.. Sulzberger warned against
what he described as three popular
fallacies" threatening a lasting
peace at the end of this war. He
named them in order as "the fallacy
of Anglo-Saxon superiority" the
fallacy that everything in our old
pre-war way of life must be changed"
and the "fallacy that nothing must
be changed"
He suggested that people must
learn the lesson of the middle truth"
and urged that they apply to their
thinking and discussion of the post
war problem the principle of mod
Grafton.
He warned, however, principles in
themselves ARE not enough to solve
the problem of maintaining the
peace after it has been won."
Machinery at Fault.
That, he said, was the first lesson
of World War I: The principles
were not at fault, but the machinery
for implementing them was. 1t
was in this connection that he said
there would be an international
police force in one form or another.
The solution of our difficulties
does not lie in the dissolution of the
British Empire any more than in
giving the United States back to the
Indians" Mr.. Sulzberger said.
But let us also be clear about
this: When Mr.. Churchill says that
Britain will hold on to its own he
owes definition of those words to
those who are his friends and who
would tread the course that I have
Indicated
The publisher said that it was
I'VE in the newspaper world who
serve as the insurance that when
this war is over the power we have
all so gladly decided over to our re-
spective administrations and fight
ing forces will be returned to the
community.
We of the press must be strong
If that is to come to passive must
be vigorous, we must be alert. But,
more than that, We must also be
responsible
Responsibility of Press.
He asked his listeners to remem-
Der that no press can be respon-
slble unless it is free. and also that
freedom does not necessarily spell
responsibility"
so, when you come in contact
with what, in your judgment, is an
irresponsible newspaper, remember
that If you seek to curb it by care
less means you run the risk of self
destruction through destroying the
responsible press
The freedom Symbolized by the
Statue of Liberty, Mr. Sulzberger
said, rested on four separate columns
freedom of speech, freedom of re-
liglon. freedom of assembly and
freedom of the press.
Liberty rests four square on all of
these columns and cannot stand on
three alone" he said. Look abroad
If you need to be convinced. When
one column falls the others follow
always, everywhere.
Democracy he defined as "a politi-
cal science for good men, and it
has succeeded or failed IN direct
proportion to the goodness of the
men who experimental with it. In
the grim days and nights TO come
we might very we'll hope that the
simpler living necessitated by the
war will also bring a renaissance of
that spirit in the continent which
gave democracy permanent home. "
Let us try to remember" he
continued, that tolerance is rot
the desired aim as against intoler-
ance, great though the improvement
is. Let us pay more than lip
service to the value that we place
on every human spirit, without re-
gard to the tongue in which that
spirit is expressed"