Evening star., 1943-09-12

of fighting a treacherous foe. To-
day we all face realty and are grate-
full for the help of friends. But
tomorrow millions of us may forget
and curse Europe and Asia as the
cause of our woes. All nations
tomorrow will too easily slump
back into the selfshness which
makes peace merely an interlude to
war =.
1solationism Is the screen behind
which special privilege seeks to en-
trench its control. When I say this
I am not talking about people who
honestly believe the United States
could isolate itself from the prob
lens of the rest of the world. Ger
tain of these people whom I have
known personally have devoted their
lives to the elimination of special
privilege Senator Norris, who
fought more vigorously against spe-
cial privilege than any man of his
generation, was at one time an iso-
lationist. But men of Senator Nor
ris' insight and motivation sooner or
later realize that not only are iso-
lationism and special privilege theo-
retically the same thing but that the
men who back isolationism in the
economic world have very keen
interest in special privilege.
Places Blame for Munich.
Isolationism and special privilege
spoke with equal force to produce
the peace of Munich. Wherever iso-
lationism is being pushed most Wig
orously, there in the background can
usually be found, furnishing money
and power, monopolistic cartels.
These cartels are customarily seek
ing tariffs, quotas, subsidies or 9TH
er governmental favorS which are
the breeding ground of isolationism.
Senator Ball, who is with me on
this program here tonight, and who,
as far as I am able to discover, has
the same ideas on international mo-
nopoly as I, Is a Republican. The
difference between us is that he
thinks the forces of monopoly are
more lively to dominate the Demo-
cratic party and I am sure that the
same evil forces are in much great
forces are found, our job is to fight
publican party. Wherever these
er danger of dominating the Re-
them. Those groups which rule
over economic empires have usurped
the sovereignty of the people in in
ternational relations. We talk about
foreign policy based on reciprocal
trade treaties and on open cove
nants openly arrived at with the
advice of the Senate responsible to
the people. This is good as far as
it goes, but the facts have not
squared with the principle.
In reality, much of our economic
relationship with the rest OF the
world has been governed by small
group seeking to parcel out the re-
sources and markets of the world
so as to control production, prices,
distribution and the very life blood
of world industry. These cliques
have their own international gov
ernment by which they arrive at
private quotas. Their emissaries are
found in the foreign offices of many
of the important nations of the
world. They create their own
system of tariffs and determine who
will be given permission to produce,
to buy and to sell. When I attack
these monopolies, these creators of
secret, supergovernment, I am not
attacking business. am speaking
for business because the overwhelm-
ing majority OF businessmen as well
as practically all consumers are
forced to pay tribute to these inter-
national freebooters.
Enumerates Results.
They talk about freer trade, but
by dividing up world markets, re-
stricting production, sitting invest
ment, playing one nation against