Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-01-07
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Washington, D. C.
The flag is flying over the White
House again, a real symbol, no long
er a ruse de guerre. After the past
few weeks, it is a relief to know it
really means that the President is
there-not an attempt to hide his
absence from the enemy.
Already the nervous bulletins, an
nouncing the forbidden truths or the
invented canards as to the where
abouts of the Allied leaders, are for
gotten in the more instant interest
in the happenings on the battle fronts
on the home front.
Washington has had time to pom
der on Americas new leadership in
world affairs. Perhaps that toast Of
fered by Premier Stain to American
war production without which, he
said, the war could not have been
won by the Allies, brought the truth
home. America is emerging out Of
this holocaust as the worlds great
est power.
And for the first time in history,
the worlds greatest power is the
nation whose people are least pre-
pared, least experienced, least anx-
ious for world leadership. There is
a chance that we may let it 60 by de-
fault.
Washington has assayed pretty
we'll by this time the fruits Of the
Moscow conference, the Cairo con-
ference with Chang Kai-shek attend
ing; the Teheran meeting; the meet
ing with Turkeys president.
Russia's Ne.D Role
The achievement, first and fore
most, unless we read all the signs
a-wrong, is that Russia emerges in
a new role. AS Secretary Hull firm
ly believes, the fate of the world de-
ponds now on Russia and the United
States.
Until the Moscow conference with
the Teheran meeting to put its seal
upon it, Russia was still an interna-
tional enigma. She was fighting
the same enemy that we were in
Europe. But she was in no sense
an ally.
Today she is still fighting the same
enemy in Europe but is allied with
US.
Those are the main fruits of the
Moscow and Teheran conferences.
We are not a nation of diplomats.
England has the wisdom of the ages
inherited from an intimacy with the
chancelleries of Europe since the
days of Metternich. Today she has,
at the head of her government, enc
Of the greatest leaders the empire
has produced. But not even English
guile or graciousness, her vile or
her wisdom accomplished what one
lean and aged mountaineer achieved
in the Kremlin.
When Cordell Hull went to Mos
COW, he went as knight on cru
SADIE, not for personal glory. not for
gain, but because he felt that was
the duty the Lord had laid upon him.
He told himself before he went, de-
spite the timorous restraint of physi-
clans in whose care he had been,
despite the concern of the wife he
loves SO we'll, that he would 60 on
this mission if it took him by land
or sea or air to the ends Of the earth.
And when he arose at that first
meeting and addressed the represent
atives of the three powers, he said
frankly that what he was about to
propose was in the interest of his
own country. He hoped he could
show that it would be in the interest
of all.
Mr.. HulPs Terms
And he said that what he would
say would be frank and fortnight
and what he expected would be said
to him would, likewise, be frank and
fortnight, truths minted in the same
coin. And Mr.. Hull was met
squarely on the terms he laid down.
Jan Christian SHUTS, now mel
lowed perhaps with a flavor of Brit
ish diplomatic acumen, is fundamen-
tally a person who sees beyond his
own borders Che envisioned an as
sociation of nations before the
League was proposed in the last
war;. After the last of the confer
ences, he declared that no such gath
erings for the last hundred years had
been as important as these.
l do not pretend to say that Sec
rotary Hull was solely responsible
for the success of these meetings;
in fact, only time will tell how last
ing their success will be, but it is
the firm conviction of even the skep-
teal in Washington that it was the