Detroit evening times., 1943-01-04

A Challenge
Exactly Who Are Tbey7
Vice President Asked
By GEO. ROTHwELL BROWN
WASHINGTON, Jan. when
w ~ is considered that our
and-picked wee president. Mr..
Wallace. is regarded by many
as the 1914 White House run
ner-up. II is easy 10 understand
the concer with which his
views arc received and examined
ny thoughtful people in Wash
inEton.
In his most recent address
10 his fellow countrymen. in
obvious effort 10 condition their
minds 10 new order of things,
Mr.. Wallace envisions a world
wide democracy, Of which the
guiding principles are 10 he
liberty and unity" which, he
explains, for more than $50
years have been the foundation
stones of our American democ-
racy and our American union"
T'HIS language appears 10 he
Il designed 10 convey 70 the
American mind the thought that
nothing strange 10 our own
system is contemplated for the
international New Deal Indeed,
at the outset of his address, the
vice president states his premise
in these deceptive words;
"Tbe situs tion In the world
today IL parallel snma ways
In that In the United States Just
before the adoption Of the Com
stitution, when II WAS realized
that the Articles NJ Confeders-
tion had failed and that some
stronger union was needed"
II is almost inconcelvable that
anybody who had ever looked
inside a history book could fall
into such error. For the SINGER
ity Of Mr. Wallace may not be
challenged.
OF course the situation ir-the
world today is not in the slight
est degree parallel 10 that IN
the United States in 1857.
THE total population of all the
l. 13 American colonies at the
time of the formation of the
union was considerably less. by
perhaps 100000, than that of
the single city Of Paris today.
That American population
WAS almost wholly rural and ag-
ricultural. and New York, the
largest city. had but $4,000 in
habitants, whereas the popula-
tion of Europe today has been
steadily becoming predominantly
urban since the industrial revo-
luton of the Eighteenth Cen
tury.
The American people al the
time Of the adoption Of our Con-
Stltutlon were homogeneous.
They had sprung largely from the
same mother country, and spoke
the same tongue They had won
their independence in a common
cause against a common enemy,
and had never in all their his
tory fought each other Their
political and economic interests
were identical.
The people Of Europe have
sprung from a hundred tribes
and races. They speak, even to-
day as many languages and
dialects. Far from never hav-
lng known the bitterness Of
fighting against each other.
these peoples have been at war
with one another since the time
Of Caesar, and probably since
long before.
They are naturally hostile in
politics and economies Some
are monarchies, some republics,
some dictatorships. None is a
democracy.
THE formation Of United
4 States of Europe has been
the dream Of statesmen from
Napoleon 10 BRAND, but II has
remained dream-which is no
doubt why Henry Wallace so
easily embraces il.
But our visionary vice presi-
dents fantasy goes far beyond
the confines Of a single contl-
nen', and takes in the whole
earth and all its teeming millions
Of people, black, white, red and
yellow, in this worldwide new
democracy We of The United
Nations hope 10 build" not
wlthstanding az infinltesimal
fraction Of then would know
democracy If YOU handed il 10
them on platter.
The phrase United Nations"
appears II times IN tho Shcrt
address Of Mr. Wallace referred
10 II is an ohSesSion with him.
When no uses the expression,
we NJ the United Nations" he
speaks unctlouSly almost AS
though he felt himself n be
citizen NJ some geographical
or political entity. some nun
dane. and not mere celeSt al.
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