The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-03-05
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

complicated. Experts make the
organization Of victory seem so
complicated that they discourage
people into thinking that perhaps
such a difficult task better not
be attempted.
OF course the questions are COM
plicated. Every question that
comes before the supreme court
is complicated. But the court it.
self is a simple, broadly inspired
institution that anybody can I'M
derstand. II exists to handle COM
plicsted border line questions.
Likewise, it is precisely because
postwar affairs are so compli-
Gated that we need an organizs-
ton, such as a continuing con-
ference of the United Nations, to
deal with them.
The fact that the questions
are difficult, with much TO he
said on both sides, is exactly
the reason for having an in
ternational inst ut / on to
handle them-not reason
against IL. As President Eric
Johnston of the Z. $. Chamber
Of Commerce SAYS, tomorow's
world will he an international
world.
II you Don't have something like
United Nations organization,
you will have anarchy, with every
nation trying to chisel out its own
place Just as Premier Sikorski of
Poland is running from London
here and back and pickering with
Moscow, trying to muscle out a
safe place for Poland after the
war.
But are these issues to be fought
out by propaganda and pressure
and power politics under condi-
tons of anarchy where interna-
tional blackmail is a common
weapon? Or is not the fact that
these problems are complex, with
much justice on both sides,
strong reason for trying to place
them inside an organization with
technical facilities and deliberative
processes Suppose court cases
were fought out in political cam
paigns instead of inside the court
room?
We should remember that il
was the issue of Poland's ter
ritory that set off this war.
You can't talk about abandoning
force in this world. You can only
offer an alternative to force, as
the Shotwell commission to study
the organization of peace in its
third report.
Force, says this realistic
and practical but broad-vi-
stoned report, is unacceptable in
human affairs. 1t cannot
merely be abandoned. II must
be controlled and used.
War has been used for exploita-
ton and conquest. But it also has
been used to maintain rights. to
uphold principles on which civili-
cation advances. War has been
used as the last resort by which a
e
defend it rights, or remedy its
wrongs. These are necessary func-
tons, for which provision must be
made in any society-as the Shot
well commissions report empha-
sized. No nation can give up its
rights to make war, no matter how
stupid or costly this method may
be, until a substitute has been
provided which can serve these
purposes.
An international police force
is necessary TO restrain ag-
gressOrs. But that is not
enough. We must have
method for settling disputes,
for remedying an unjust situs-
ton and for changing an un-
satisfactory status quo.
Where do you start 4? You start
by calling the United Nations into
continuing conference-not 10 set
up those permanent institutions,
but to do emergency work on a
small scale as a provisional body
now
When the war ends. or as Allied
armies advance, the liberated ter
ritory will be in chaos. starving,
with complete political and eco
nomic disorder
The United Nations are
pledged TO restore order in the
world. That is where they
must begin-as a super-duper
Red Cross. II the United Ma
tons can't organize now to do
this, they will never organize
later 10 do anything.
Experts fill their brief cases
full Of reasons why nothing can
be done. But If President Roose-
welt said the word il would be done.
No Allied nation could stay out
not even Russia. which has signed
the United Nations declarat ton
like everybody else.