The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-16
BY HENRY J. TAYLOR
NEA staff Correspondent

power in foreign affairs has
passed from Britain TO the Us.t-
ed States for this century, &C
cording TO Prime Minister An
tonic de Olivcira Salaar. Portu-
gals strong man made this state
ment 10 me in the first interview
he has given any Axis or Allied
nawspaperman since our coun-
try entered the war.
Because all European nations
are involved in the dilemmas of
the past, he thinks the future
beacon of foreign policy can
come only from the United
States.
He expects the war in Europe
to last at least another year.
The recluSe scholar statesman,
one of the century's most emf
ncnt international economists, is
seldom seen even by his country
men and rarely heard. But the
force of his intellect and the
prestige of his wisdom are pow
erfully felt throughout the
chancelleries of Europe from the
seclusion of his quiet study here.
From that study / looked at the
world through his eyes.
MANY Condolences
This is the man who is shar-
ing more condolences with each
of the belligerents than any man
alive today. This is the man
marked for a destiny in the
peace settlement.
Simply and easily, as though
he were discussing a legend in
which the play and counter-play
of broad forces made the mo-
mentary figures in the contem-
porary news seem small indeed,
DR.. Salazar described Europe in
the approaching climax of war:
"On this continent, always
motivated by fear and through
centuries never free from the
! counteractions against fear, two
immense land powers, Germany
and Russia, now stand estab-
lished in tension as Germany
and France stood in the past.
Each is bound to survive, in
some way, as Germany and
France did through their wars of
yesteryears. 49,,
ITO the other countries of Eu-
rope, therefore, the element of
fear changes very little with this
latest conflict"
In celebrating on this, the
prime minister pointed to the at
titude which he felt must arise
in France, Italy and Scandi-
naVia:
quite aside from ideologies
and in an historic manner, as
Germany is weakened and be-
comes PROSTATE, the continent
which previously feared her will
fear Russia no less"
ASIATIC INFLUENCES
Viewing the whole aspect, he
saw ASiatic influences pressing
westward from the far interior
of Europe and revolving in a
circle there TO the longtime
embodiment Of the two great
powers, Russia and Germany,
far beyond the occurrence of
peace after this war.
Accordingly" he continued.
II see the outlines of an Allan
tic system emerging in another
circle from this war, which
would readjust all previous geo.
graphical concepts and make the
Atlantic area of the future the
equivalent of the Mediterranean
of the past"
Looking through his high
windows at the stars of a lovely
night, and gesturing in a quiet
way, he went on:
THE age-long history Of this
continent is the story of the ten
sions between land-locked and
seafaring peoples"
Drawing a large circle, he in
dicated the new center of grav-
ity of the European world as
being pushed westward into a
seaboard perimeter. This shore
line Europe, Africa, Sou h
America and North America,
with England and the United
States, requires revived France
and healthy Iberian peninsula,
plus relatively unpopulated
Africa and Brazil in its geopo-
litical gravitation.
LAS throughout all time" the
scholar explained, Europeans
are in the larger sense fighting
rear-guard action against the
expanding Asiatic and Teutonic
forces at their backs.
AMERICA CENTERS
I'm the path of this pressure
the United States now enters the
whirlpool orbit directly and ir-
revocably, and becomes TO this
hemisphere as whole what
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