The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-01-27

So many things are happening. 1t is
difficult to snOop around and make
good pick for talk that can come
only once week.
But somehow the hour of final choice
has to come and final choice has to be
made, or else this space will be taken
over by someone else.
So, the choice this week falls to
what is called the shake-up in the
State Department. That it will cure
some things is cOnsummatiOn de-
voutly to be hoped for With fingers
crossed, let's assume it tends toward
cure.
Pussy footing in our dealings with
dictator nations is one of the things
that needs a cure-and how!
Argentina and Bolivia present us
with mighty real problem and
problem that needn't have reached the
present critical stage
Bumbling around has produced what
we see in those two countries.
blCldtOISIllp uocSll pussy -lOOt W US
1t slaps our face!
One thing of which our State De-
partment stands guilty is it's failure to
understand and capitalize on the good
will of mass movements. 1t doesn't
know mass movement when it sees
boys are no better at it.
We surely have sent some naive guys
into Latin America-and some of other
varieties, too.
There may come Improvement in our
way of doing things, following the
changes in the State Department.,
which is housed in building that
looks lot like a great many of the
things that have gone on within its
walls-fOrmal cluttered to the eye
brOws with protocol, 1SSO-ish in mental
outlook and world understanding, cold
and forbidding to warm and human
impulses
There may be improvement - and
isn't it high time? Isn't it though?
Today we have a world to deal with
"A world that is changing mighty fast
and in almost every way imaginable.
Our military minds changed with
painful slowness and with many d
rusty grunt in regard to the airplane
as a fighting arm. They haven't yet
completed the change.
The State Department has been
4, IN, md
to the doings of the world ..l..s..
Aviation is one of the great forces
changing the relations between nations
and peoples and the change will con-
tinue to 90 stormng through both mill
tary and diplomatic fields for Il long
commerce and industry.
Planes now fly across the North
Pole, because that is the proper logical
route for them to go. On foot it is but
a dozen miles between Alaska and
Russia. In flying time it is scarcely
more than that between Continental
United States and the heart of Russia.
Yet it is only about % years since
DR.. Cook and Admidal Peary We're
having knock down fight as to which
"diScOvered'' the Pole!
Take look at Il map of the air
transport system of the United States
Army. 1t goes everywhere, on schedule
and continuously.
Project that transportation, greatly
improved and cheapened, in postwar
days Mister Diplomat, you've got
something new to tangle with!
There are no longer any distant
nations
There are no longer any strange
people!
And where we can get they can get
Moreover, nations that were big and
important will emerge from war weak
and small Nations that weren't SO inn
portant will be mighty important.
Russia may dominate all Europe.
China should be Il great nation, Japan
Il small one; and weak
Our State Departments change of
method hasn't come too soon! If it
really is a change and not Just Il re-
grouping of the same old faces.
America has great job to do and it
is through our State Department that
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