Evening star., 1943-03-15
Senator'S Plan Called
Guaranty Of Unity
Major Eliot Urges Passage
Of Resolution Providing for
Central Allied Organization
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

oY NuJ. 1cOfge fStutHH ELlOL.
The four Senators who have prepared
! the resolution advising the creation of
! central United Nations organization
| have performed great public service.
| The names of Senators Ball, Burton
| Hatch and Hill deserve to be long re-
membered with gratitude by their fellow
| countrymen, and those countrymen will
! do we'll to begin without delay making
| their sentiments known to the remain
ing members of the Senate. The future
of our country, the welfare Of our chill
| dren may well hang on the success or
| failure of this momentous resolution.
| This historic document touches upon
! two main themes:
% The need for a central agency of
| the United Nations. supreme war
| council, if you like that name, for the
better coordination of Allied effort and
| policy in the direction of this war.
CD The even more urgent need for
such an agency to begin planning now
the steps to be taken when the war is
won.
The first is an essential instrument of
victory
The second is an essential insurance
against the loss of the fruits of victory.
The proposal of the four Senators is
no high-f1ung attempt to make blue
print of some visionary utopia. 1t is
severely practical document. 1t deals
! with the United Nations as the victors in
this war and as the inevitable inheritors
Of the responsibility for conserving the
benefits of peace. that just, charitable
and enduring peace which alone will
justify the sacrifices which the winning
of victory has demanded and will con-
tinue to demand.
1t comes at a peculiarly propitious mo-
ment. The Foreign Minister of Great
Britain is in Washington for the precise
purpose of discussing means of securing
better cooperation among the United
Nations and questions arising out of
the war" Our relations with the Soviet
Union have just become the subject of
open and frank discussion, and seem to
have benefited from the process Mean
while it has become clear-as it should
always have been clear-that Russia is
not going to defeat Germany single
handed, that the task of winning this
war must be coalition effort, both di-
rected and fought in the true spirit of
coalition for which the absolutely in
dispensable foundation must be a rock
ribbed mutual confidence amongst the
members of the coalition. That conf
dence must go down to the people; it
cannot be merely the personal confidence
existing between individual heads of
state.
Toward the establishment of such
confidence, the four Senators have taken
long step; still longer one will be
taken when the Senate has adopted their
resolution, as it is to be earnestly hoped
that it will
The peoples of the world have not for
gotten the lessons of the last peace.
They have not forgotten that the United
States Senate then refused it's indorse-
ment Of the plans and commitments of
the President, and withdrew the United
States from active participation in the
League of Nations. They have not for
gotten, either, that American foreign
policy has ever since that time, down to
the outbreak of the current war, been
weakened and restrained by this same
inability Of the Executive to make def
mite commitments in the sphere In which
| the advice and consent Of the Senate are
conStltutionally necessary.
Now 1t Is proposed that the Senate put
Itself on record in advance. Nothing
could be better designed to produce an
upsurge of confidence amongst our Allies
in our future good intentions. Nothing
could be better guarantee, in London
and Moscow and Chungking that the
people of the United States now recog-
nize that they live in a world too small
to enable them to escape responsibility
for their share in the keeping OF the
common peace.
Out Of that reborn confidence NAV
flow immense results. We may at last
have real United Nations council. The
United Nations may become a living fact
rather than distant hope, name, a
| promise without guaranty. Better or
ganization may shorten the war, save
thousands of lives, bring us the sooner
to the better world for which that Or
ganization must then lay the corner
stone.
The four Senators have done their
share. Now it is up to their colleagues
to indorse their vision and their wisdom:
more than that. it is up to every citizen
OF every State in the Union to let his
senators know, and at once, that he ex-
| poets them to tell the world that this
time America means not only to be VIC
torious in war, but to accept the re-
sponsibilities of peace and reconstruc-
ton. This we must do, if we are to hope
that our children may in their time
escape the trials and the sacrifices which
IN our time our own folly and blindness
have brought upon our Nation and the
world.
Copyright, 1943. New York Tribune, Incl
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