Evening star., 1944-06-11
Hull Parley With Senators
Aids Pre-Treaty Agreement
Secretary Discusses Plans for Peace to Seek
Understanding on Principles and Avoid
Bitter Partisan Debate Later
By Charles G.. Ross.

his desk with the Senators grouped
around him. The attendance was excel
lent and views were exchanged with the
utmost frankness.
At least seven of the Senator'S agreed
with the Moscow declaration that there
should be established "at the earliest
practicable date general international
organization, based on the principle of
the sovereign equality of all peace-loving
states and open to membership by all
such states, large and small, for the
maintenance Of international peace and
security"
La Toilette was paired against the
Connally resolution, which embraced
this declaration, on its adoption by the
Senate, by IS to 5, In November, 1943.
Agree Force Needed.
1t was agreed that such an interna-
tional organization should have force
back of it, What Senator Austin
urged-and his views are known to CO.
incide closely with those of the admin
istration-may be inferred from a
speech be made April 28 at the annual
meeting here of the Section OF Interna-
tional and Comparative Law of the
American Bar Association.
1T seems to me-" said Senator Austin
on that occasion, that minimum re-
quirement is a council, or similar body,
a judicial system and military organi-
zation which need not be more inte-
grated than through joint chiefs of
staff"
The major difference that appeared
in the conference.-the highly sig
nificant difference-had to do with
timing. The majority favored estab-
lishment of the proposed international
organization prior to the definitive
peace settlement; the minority held that
establishment should wait upon the set
tlement. The question, in other words,
was whether the organization should be
formed now (meaning as soon as pos
sible) or merely planned now.
Though they have declined to reveal
what took place in the conference with
berg have subsequently issued state
ments which show that they advocated
waiting policy. These two speak for
the group of Senators who in the past
have been labeled as "isolationist' the
group which might, in the event of dis
agreement with the administration over
peace terms, rally the one more than
one-third necessary to prevent treaty
ratification
Demands Just Peace First.
Vandenberg and La Toilette take the
position, as expressed in formal state
ment by the latter, that "the future con-
sideration of any plan worked out as
result of these conversations, the estab-
liShment of an organization and the
participation of the United States in it,
must st-depend upon the negotiation Of
just peace terms"
1t is the nub of this position that
trading advantages enjoyed by the
United States would be foreclosed by
its joining an international organiza-
ton prior to the writing of final peace
terms on European boundaries and 9TH
er contentious questions to be encount-
cred at the peace table. The rights Of
small nations in such an event, 1t is
maintained, would be jeopardized. The
position can be summed up in the con-
tention that "a good league cannot cure
a bad peace"
The majority at the Hull conferences
argued that the peace negotiations
would be facilitated and the hand of
the United States strengthened by its
active, working partnership in an in
ternational body pledged to the main
tenance of peace and security.
The question of Sovereignty" did not
worry the conferees. 1t appeared to be
the consensus that a nation lost none of
its sovereignty when it tossed some of
it, SO to speak, voluntarily into a COM
mon pot. Vandenberg's statement on
sovereignty at the Republican confer
ence at Mackinac Island last September
supplied meeting ground: Sovereignty
possesses within itself the right to part
with any portion of it by its own act
of self-determination. That, in itself, is
an act of sovereignty"
The senatorial group and Secretary
Hull were agreed that human rights"
(See PARLEY. Page C-3)