Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-28
BEHIND
THE NEWS
BY Paul
MaIIon

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w The Democratic senator's
chlrruped choruSeS OF denuncla-
ton AT Gov. Dewey upon his de-
mand for small nations protec-
ton in the postwar world-then
suddenly they went quiet.
Tom Connatfy, thp1r- foreign
relations chairman, had said at
first that Dewey had staged a
luftwaffe attack upon the
Dumbarton conference. A few
days later he was beaming be-
nignly upon the Republicans
and saying in a Senate speech
they had been exceptionally CO.
operative on foreign policy.
The change is attributable to
State Secretary Hull. Mr.. Hull
was the first to realize-indeed
he seems still the only one now
firmly 10 inslSt-thT peace
imposed by maj orlty viii not
endure even among the United
Nations: that the opposition VIII
one day get into power mere
perhaps soon, that unity at
home as we'll as among the ma
tons of the world is essential II
anything constructive is TO
eventuate. He has been the lead
ing force for restraint IN an
emotional world debate.
DUT the matter Is constantly
- being pushed off the plane
he wants, into politics and con-
fusion. ------------------
In an involved and circuitous
collection of assertions, 1t seems
to conclude Dewey IS wrong and
small nations can only be pro-
tected through domination by
the big four powers.
The eHsted Hull assistant,
Mr.. Welles and Mr.. Hulls con-
slant kibitzer, Mr.. Lippman
(whose recommendations on in
ternational affairs have never
been followed by any govern
ment in any instance as Tar
back as my memory runs
though he sells them to the pub
lie three times a week and in
books annually)-these two, as
l say, have become hopeleSsly
involved in such technicalitleS
as the respective degree Of SOW
ereignties of Japan and Ger
many in postwar.
THESE developments take a
Il simple PROOFS ition and
stretch il to monstrous incon-
gruities. The proposition was
this, before all these stretch
men took hold of it-and it still
is this:
Dewey urged that the inter-
eStS of small nations be better
protected and suggested spe-
cific way to do it. He recon-
mended that the Dumbarton
Oaks conference keep the milf
tary world setup separate from
economic agreements. He and
Mr.. Dulles, in their conferences,
started searching for a way IN
which small nations would not
be over-ridden by the power Of
the big four, and they hit upon
this formula.
Their reasoning is rather OBJ
viouS. A small nation is a small
nation and no one proposes TO
make them all big. The mill
tary might of the world will
remain, after the war, largely
with Russia and the United
States. not with small nations,
and not even with Britain and
China. No peace can change
that.
Also Russia and the United
States will have the greatest
political power in the world.
Now Mr. Hull proposed TO
protect the small nations by
safeguarding their sovereignty.
This is largely negative guar
antee. hut powerful one 1t
would transfer the American
conception Of individuality to
the world. People in this coun-
try are not actually born equal.
as the Declaration of Independ-
ence says. but they have equal
rights in law.
HULL proposes there will be
IL no monopoly of raw mate
rial and economical and finan-
cial domination by the big
four, but Dewey says this Hull
hope is too vague indeed finan-
Cial domination already has
been limited by the Breton
Woods conference, although'the
oil agreement might possibly
develop more in line with Hull
policyD
Dewey goes farther and says
tho Hull WaV will not he effec-