Evening star., 1943-11-04
Senate Is Urged
To Adopt Moscow Pact
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot.


| the wording of the Connally resolution
| on foreign policy be amended so as to
| embody the exact language of the Mos
cow four-poWer pact. To those Senators
| and inferentially to all Senators, the
| people of this country may we'll say:
Gentlemen, you have something there
To begin with, such an act would
| place the fundamental foreign policy
| Of the United States on a firm founda-
| ton in which the two branches of the
Government which are constitutionally
| charged with the conduct of foreign
affairs would be in full agreement. 1t
has long been apparent that the division
of authority on foreign policy between
the President and the State Depart
ment on one hand and the Senate on
the other, is adapted to modern condi-
tionS only if and when the Executive and
the Senate can work in collaboration,
both in the formulation of policy and
in its translation into concrete acts,
such as treaties and agreements.
When there exists doubt that the
Senate will confirm. by a two-thirds
ma ajority, the acts of the Executive, the
Executive is fatally weakened in at
tempting to conduct negotiations with
foreign nations. Now there is an oppOr-
tunltV for the Senate to establish
minimum basis for our foreign policy,
a cornerstone upon which structure of
international peace and security after
this war can be confidently erected
1t is important that this should be
done by the Senate adopting the exact
language of the Moscow pact, in order
that the forces of division-foreign and
domestic may have no slightest oppor-
tunity to assert that there is a differ
ence of view, that the Senate is holding
back, that the acts of the President and
Mr.. Hull will not be confirmed, and all
the rest of the Well-knoWn lines of
argument which seeks to divide us
from our Allies and to undermine the
mutual confidence upon which the unity
OF our great coalition must be founded.
Next, as my colleague Raymond Clap
per has already pointed out such an
act by the Senate would be a merited
compliment TO Secretary of State Hull
who has deserved not only compliments
but the gratitude of the American
people for generations yet to come for
his accomplishments at Moscow MI
Hull and his State Department have
been the recipients of SO many brick
bats OF recent months, that it would
seem especially fitting TO substitute
bouquets now that it is plain how we'll
the bouquets have been earned. and
were being earned all the time the
brlCkbatS were flying. For We need
not suppose that these Moscow results
are something that MI Hull dreamed
up on the plane ride-they are rather
the results OF long and careful thought,
study and planning
1t seems to me that the adoption Of
the Moscow language by the Senate
would have two further highly deslr-
sble results besides establishing con-
fdence in our foreign policy and compli-
menting a distinguished Secretary OF
State. One of these results would be
the ending OF the present controversy
at home, the Ito be or not to be" on
the SUBJECT OF American partiCipa tion
in world organization to maintain
peace after this war
We could turn from this wretched
and not always too well-lnformed dis
cuSsion, 10 constructive examination of
the means by which the desired end is
TO be accomplished. The end itself
would be decided. and decided in such
clear and unmiStakable terms that there
could be no turning back. no avoidance
OF responsibility, no misunderstanding.
Since time may be short. since the facts
OF peace, as one Allied statesman has
wittily said, May fall on us like
collapSing balcony while We are all
standing around looking up with mouths
agape, the more time We can now
devote to constructive thought as to
our responsibilities in the postwar world.
the better
Another result of the proposed Senate
action would be the STRENGTHENING of
the proposed European Advisory Coun-
Gil. and the strengthening likewise of
the American position within that BODY.
In addition to indorsing American par
tlclpatlon in postwar peace oreanlZa-
ton. the Senate would. by adopting
the wording of the Moscow pact in its
resolution. indorSe immediate American
participation in the new Three Power
Council Of London. in which other
powers such as France may Subse-
quently be invited to Join.
1t would be hard to over emphasize
the Importance of this new council
which seems likely to become the
nucleus organization for a real United
Nations council, a joint political agency
for the examination of questions of
lnter-Allied policy and the pooling of
information, and which may come to
assume much the same position as
the supreme war council of the last war
Such an interallied political agency
has long been recognized as a necessity
all the more so now when the United
Nations are on the offensive and when,
therefore, political decisions must march
hand in hand with the military ad-
NanceS which open the gates to political
opportunities.
On every count. the Senate should
adopt the language of the Moscow
pact and embodv it in a resolution con-
tail.lng no weakening clauses or emas-
culatlng additions This is the course
OF true craftsmanship: this is the op-
portunity which knocks but once: this
is the road to peace
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