Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
BEHIND
The News
BY Paul
Mallon

" AShlNGiA1N, OCT. IL -
w Sparse and softly agreeable
comment in Congress on the
postwar world formula of Dunn
barton Oaks does not mean the
project is being taken lightly.
1t is being subjected to severe
study here as elsewhere. Yet
there is every present prospect
that the unfinished proposal will
be approved not only by a ma
jority but a safe two-thirds of
the Senate on the following
grounds:
The formula is based on the
League of Nations theory of
running the world. Some tech
meal changes do not alter the
basic theme that world coun-
Gil will investigate aggressors
and impose sanctions economic
and social as well as military
TO deter the pugnacious.
The language has the same
ring as the League covenant
which directed its council TO
take action deemed wise and
effectual 10 safeguard the peace
of nations" and in Article x
said:
THE members of the League
undertake to respect and pre-
serve against external agrees
sion the territorial integrity and
existing political independence
of all members Of the League -.
The assembly may from time to
time advise The cOnsidera-
ton of international conditions
whose continuance might en-
danger the peace of the world"
THIS proposal is the League
l. plus the Kellogg BRAND pact
renouncing war, the World
Court of Justice and the Dis
armament Conference with
really only one critical differ
ence. This time the United
States is to undertake leader
ship of the ail-rolled-into-one
world program along with Rus
STA and Britain particularly.
This leadership is to replace
Anglo-French leadership of the
old league in which Russia was
a trivial influence. The cast
changes but the ideal of the
play is not altered materially
and the script only pointed up.
1T IS not my purpose TO take
position on the matter, only
to report how it proposes to
work. The incomplete agree
ment is like the charter of a
club, a world club pledged 20
peace. This club is to be con-
trolled largely by an executive
committee, called "the security
council"
The composition of the COM
mittee does not suggest that
any one, either the United
States or Russia will WELD
greater influence. Five perma-
nent members are to be the big
five United Nations, but in the
voting, six more rotating men,
bers from smaller nations will
furnish the numerical majority
on whichever side they go.
The all-important details of
the voting have not been agreed
whether unanimity is necessary
for action), but as the agree
ment now stands, the COM
pleXion of the council will de-
pend on the hue of the smaller
nations chosen for the one, two
and three year terms.
This council cannot itself
wage war, but can call upon the
United Nations to wage practi-
cally anything from social isola-
ton of a nation 10 invasion.
Cost of these wars or actions
are apparently to be made by
the nations furnishing the
armies and taking the steps.
The council is to be always
ready for action, although no
provisions for housing it are
mentioned. l would think it
would be established in Wash
ington for this reason:
The League was largely a Eu-
ropean device. This is TO be a
world device. To choose some
small neutral place such as
Switzerland, or to use the old
League buildings there, would
subject it to the old unsatisfac-
tory surroundings in which it
was unsuccessful. Washington is
the natural background for its
new tone and intent.
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