The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-11

Postwar Plans
TO be Discussed
in Near Future
BY Charles P. Stewart

issue the call and the converse
tion will progress In Washington
State Undersecretary Sumner
Wells mentioned all this the other
day.
(Some commentators say that
Sumner is trying to make himself
the whole thing" in the State De-
partment. but that is immaterial.
lie knows what he is talking
about, anyway. There is one
thing, though, that he cannot pos
sibly know, and that is: What
are the so-called Allies, and 9th.
ers. likely TO agree on?'D
Both military and economic
issues are at stake.
The L. s. A. and our new world
neighbors ought TO be able to
agree on them very readily, on
the basis Of presnt relations.
We and the British will get on
pretty well together. John Bull
is afraid that we will manage to
grab OF all the worlds air com
merce in connection with the dick
er, and. OF course. we Do want 10
grab it of. Still, that will not
be a very bitter controversy until
peacetime, later-if then.
We and the Chinese will get on
admirably.
We will harmonic with Finland
and the little countries, that have
been overrun by the Axis.
France and Spain will get into
line with us as soon as it is evil
dent that we are winning. Such
little neutrals as may remain. like
Turkey. will be readily sociable.
Italy. with Benito eliminated.
will not be balky. but it may not
sit in on an early postwar con-
ference.
The little countries will be o.
n through their governments In
exile"
Japan, it is conceded, will be an
outlaw as long as its military
"Samursi' survives. II may take
quite awhile. regardless OF the
main wars outcome, to eXtermin-
ate II and put it on a postwar
footing.
Russia. though. is a problem.
Joe Stain is a guessing-point.
Until Herr Hitler attacked him,
the democrscies rated him as 100
per cent pernicious.
Today they speak rather better
than we'll OF him. His own and
his mems fighting qualities are
held in the highest esteem. Joe
himself is classed as a dandy COM
mander, and, in his own peculiar
way, as a statesman. He is trust.
ed, too, for reliability. And. ex-
traordinsrily, he is described as
an amiable personality.
That is a queer. thing about an
archists. They are supposed to
spend their time dropping bombs
here and there, blowing folk up,
out OF pure cussedness. The truth
is that they represent themselves
as apostles OF purest Christliness.
| do not argue for their thesis.
Nevertheless they are not what
they are represented TO be. in
theory. Prince Kropotkin origl-
mated them, and he claimed to he
an anarchist and a Christian also.
Indeed, his version was that the
two beliefs were coincidental. He
ought to have been a middling
good authority, from the anarchis-
tic standpoint. And yet he pro.
fessed to be Christian.
But-can they do it?
Suppose they can?-with the
rest OF us?
They cannot, as TO Japan. For
business reasons, they can, with
China.
How about Germany?
Are the Germans to be wholly
disregarded in the postwar settle
ment?
No-though it would serve them
right,-unquestionably.
But as to the indefinite future?
Apparently the rest Of the world
can get along with the rest of
the world
But can it get along with Ger
many?
They can be licked but can they
be KEPT licked?
They're just like the Japanese
militarists. Killing them does not
finish them. A few survivals raise
hades.
The democracies propose peace
aims"
How are they going 10 get away
with them?
II would be very Interesting il