The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-01-07

IN outlining any plans Tor the
which millions have already perish.
ed and astronomical wealth beer
destroyed: a war which has bath
ed the globe in sweat. blood and
tears; and a war which is the sec.
ond within a single generation-ii
indeed it is not already = Thirty
Years war and merely a continual
ton of the first-such a war de-
mands that we reconsider our ma
tional and international. social
political and economic behavior.
Mr.. Wallace proposes a world
federation for purposes Of mutual
protection and mutual economic
collaboration. In this world fed
Grafton he wants to see regional
units organized. recognizing that
various regions Of the globe have
special ties and special problems.
But he only names two: The
Psn-American and the European.
He does not mention nor take into
account the great region Of the
Far East, nor the colonial prob
lem. BY implication he seems TO
consider Russia as unit, and the
British Empire as a unit.
Such a world federation OBJ
viously must have its appro-
pirate and supernatural in
illusions as 20 what such in
situations might be. There
must, for instance, be an
international supreme court.
There must be an international
police force. Presumably this
force is to be composed of the
existing and scaled down ar
mics of the United Nations.
And he has the courage to
say what must be said, that
none Of this Is possible with
out certain restrictions on ma
tional sovereignty.
The ultimate consequence would
be to create a limited world gov
eminent. but this he does not say.
Perhaps q trial balloon should not
60 so far.
/ think his speech is weak when
he considers future economic col
laboration. He sees the necessity
for the maintenance of full en-
ployment everywhere, but he seems
to depend for this on the emer-
gence of new type of enlightened
and imaginative business leader.
This is a weakness of Mr.. Wal
lace's Calvinist view of life. He
apparently thinks that if business
leaders were more good and en-
lightened. our problems would be
solved. But the moral qualities of
business men, who are like every
body else, are not the crux of the
matter.
How full employment can
be maintained without superbly
planned and executed public
works, the object of which are
not dividends but the general
welfare. is beyond me. And
such public works cannot be
undertaken by private enter
prise and private financing,
although they can be executed
by private enterprise under re-
gional and international plan
ming.
And, considering what already
has happened in Europe, 1t is i'm
possible to envisage reconstruc-
ton. except in the framework of
overall planning, with personal and
private initiative finding its outlet
inside the plan and apart from the
motive Of personal profit.
Another weakness in Mr.. Wal
lace's picture is the feebleness and
indeed contradictoriness in his
vision of what to do with our enc
mics, once they have been de-
feated.
In his regional reorganization of
the world, he obviously considers
Europe as an entity. And he is
correct in so considering IL. There
can be no solution for the problem
of any European nation, which is
not an all-European solution; and
there can be no solution for all
European economic problems which
is not an all-European solution.
But Germany and Italy, and
especially Germany, are the
crux of the European problem.
Without the collaboration of a
Germany, some any,
there can be no all-European
solution. Therefore, the prob
lem Of our enemies il our
problems. And here, IL seems
TO me. Mr.. Wallace is lacking
In vision and lacking in faith.
Or. ne is not lacking in either.
but being an administration
spokesman, is compromising be-
tween two schools Of thought. For