The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-11
Michigan in
Washington
BY Esther Van Wagner Tufty

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, Mich, Sept. 1.-THE greatest sig
nificance of the Mackinac Republi.
can meeting is not found in its
text. But rather in the high pur.
pose and intent OF the officials froil
IS states who remembered they
were Americans, rather than Re
publicans. as they sought prom
Use Of peace abroad and security At
home.
People will differ on the value OF
this report. But no one who was
at Mackinac can honestly say II
wasn't "a good try" made in a
spirit lifted above the partisan.
No man at Mackinac was more
conscious OF the mood of the Post
war Advisory Council than the man
who wrote most OF the words OF the
international report, Arthur II. Van
denberg With notifications and
elaboration, the report is largely
the Vandenberg-White resolution
as ii was presented to the Senate
just before the summer recess.
The Grand Rapids man was
chairman OF the six council mem
bers charged with producing the
report Others were Senator War
rem r Austin. of Vermont: Gov.
ernor Dwight II. Green, OF Illinois;
Governor Edward Martin, Of Penn.
sylvania, Congresswoman Frances
p. Bolton, of Ohio; and Congress
man Charles A. Eaton. OF New Jer
sey.
When the final draft was drawn,
every member felt he was par
la.apsilrg IN monIentous hour
Sad the report aloud in that
y V0ytial voice OF his, at its best
when softened with emotion. He
was asked TO read it a second time.
Every eye was moist. And a re-
quest for the final and third read
ing was tough going, the senator
confessed When the resolution
for its adoption was brought be-
fore the entire assemblage, the
emotion was not so apparent. But
the former senator from Delaware,
John G. Townsend, Jr., took out
his handkerchief and unashamed
wiped his eyes.
Even the bitterest enemy OF the
Republican party could not criti-
CHE because the report was not
detailed or more specific IL 1t
were. revision would be necessary
every week.
The provisions are:
!. Prosecution OF the war by
united nation to conclusive victory
over ali our enemies.
2. Responsible participation hy
the United States in postwar CO.
operative organization among SOW
ereign nations to prevent military
aggression and to attain perman-
ent peace with organized justice
in a free world.
A couple of governors-Sewall oi
Maine and Baldwin OF Connecticut
made It more specific by dehn-
ing certain bandiedabout words
and phrases that mean one thing
to one person and some thing else
10 his neighbor,
Opponents OF international COOP
Grafton are apt to worry about the
dangers OF losing our soyereignty'
So. the senior senator lulled such
opposition in interpreting sover-
eighty as-"Sovereignty possesses
within itself the right to depart
with any part OF itself tnat.
in itself. is an act OF sovereignty.
Governor Baldwin interpreted
the phrase cooperative organiza-
ton" TO mean that the Republican
Marty looks forward to some KIND
of cooperation with other nations.
The organized justice" means the
COP Is committed to some kind ~
world court OF sovereign nations to
litigate disputes.
It's not so easy to determine the
significance OF the domestic re-
mort. Nor was one so conscious OF
the high purposes prompting us
formation. The worth of this re-
port can only be evaluated as com
mittess are able to find any better
specifc answers than the men in
Washington they criticize so pro-
fusely
Many were the thanks. official
and unofficial heaped upon Cover
nor Harry Kelly and Mrs. Kelly at
the close OF the Labor Day week
end council meeting. Many. too.
were the praises sung Of the beau
ties Of Michigsn's summertime
shrine. Even sung by CALIFORNIA;
governor-Earl Warren-and YOU
know how Californians are.) The
Maine Governor Sewall would only
say-"Didn't know there was any
thing as nice as this outside OF
Maine"
The governor of Michigan hopes
these DISTINGUISHED visitors will
think of Mackinac when they think
OF Michigan mot that we al
ways seem to be first in any wave
OF depression. unemployment. bank
holidays. sit-down strikes. race
riots. Also first happily. when a