Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-12
BEHIND
THE NEWS
ByPauI
Mallon

WASHINGTON April IL
N-The Hull major declaration
Of foreign policy sounded on
the radio like merely temper
ate hopeful persistence for the
announced American position.
q II was received As such IN
Congress and the press where
comment was favorable, but IN
similar general terms.
Those who know him were
able TO interpret the generalized
phases more specifically and
Get a much clearer picture OF
what he is up to. Somewhat
like this:
Mr.. Hull said he wants AN
international organization" BY
that. he means continuation
of the cooperative arrange
ment Of The big four and other
nations. not a league OF nations
setup as some suppose.
What he personally has IN
mind is an arrangement like
United Nations Relief and Re
hahiiitatien Admins TT ton,
with an executive council of the
major werS. and smaller
regional councils. This would
be a dellberative body can un-
official Congrcss5 which would
make recommendations for ac-
ton 10 the goveTnments-but
not act itself for the nations.
MOST people do net-know IT,
Ni but Hull never has stood
for an international police force.
This time, he said he wants
maintenance of d qu I g
forces to preserve peace,
meaning individual armies OF
separate nations, not an inter
national army, although he
seems 10 desire that these
armies be subject 10 recon-
mendations for call from the
international organization.
Also. he wants an lnterna-
tional court. remuneration oil
-wftf1S;-ff1-c-tien4oefatte- govern
mentS in Europe, elimination
of tariff and monetary barriers,
world Improvements IN labor
and nutrition. and such matters
more easily defined.
Now this is a far cry from
the Wallace administration pro-
gram t"half-way to commun--
ism. quart of milk day,
etc. or even the announce
mentS Of policy by former
tndcrSccretary of State sum.
ner Welles tan international
police force, and world order
similar in its vague new revolu-
tionized oneness TO the one I'M
Piled but likewise never defined
by Willkie).
Above all-and the main
point of difference-Hull wants
unity on whatever is done He
wants Britain, Russia and the
United States satisfied, and
their satisfaction firmly rooted
IN their self-intereStS. because
he probably realizes any super
fetal settlement will be words
that will turn out to be mean
ingleSs in eventual action.
His whole outline also sought
domestic unity and nonpartsan-
ship. as if 10 say he would be
clad TO have any one take this
up CSome Republicans in Con-
greSS favorably commented ac-
Cordngly).
THIS then is surely the Hull
i program. and IL also seems
10 be the administration pro-
gram since Welles has departed
and Wallace has started chasing
domestic "fascistS" (whom only
he and the communists can see
and neither can IDENTIFY in
stead of prescribing world
utopiaS.
MIR. Roosevelt is not so deeply
committed publicly as any OF
his servants in or out OF favor,
hat stands as far as the record
is concerned. on his four free
doms. Teheran and other unSpe-
cific declarations without vocal
interpretations.
Now De Gaulle has tried 10
stretch these facts wider by Inn
plying Hull went further than
Mr. Roosevelt and reversed the
Presidents critical attitude to-
ward the French committee OF
liberation. He did not.
The basic administration pol
ic\ has been that De Gaulle's
committee cannot be recognized
as the government OF France,
because il is not the govern
nent. Hull did not advance
that policy a whit. That De
Gaullc chose 10 interpret other
wise is another example of why
ne is so little liked IN any OF
the major capitals Of the world.
DUT whether MIR Hull Will
ID succeed IN his present cam
paign TO stop criticism by rea-
sonable arguments and enlist
unity. is truly subject 10 heavy
nnllhfs I.nffisis everywhere To-