Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-19
BEHIND
THE NEWS
BY Paul
MaIlon

NJ
w Mr.. Roosevelt followed his
usual course in evolving his an
nounced blueprint for the post
war world order.
He let the Wallaces. WILKES
and Welles' fight out the issues
in public while he sat back and
said nothing. Then he worked
out a common ground formula.
discarding the ideas OF all OF
them for a skeleton scheme first
announced in public by State
Secretary Hull.
IL caused considerable grum-
bling among both Republican
and Democratic senators. Men
like Senator Ball. who wanted
an international police force
and. in fact. an internationalized
world. were disappointed, but
the ex-isolationist Senator VAN
denberg was fairly well pleased.
He whispered TO newsnen be-
hind his hand that il looked like
the President was coming
around to the Midwest position.
But il was obvious such a
scheme would pass the Senate
overwhelmingly when il comes
up, as il must, in the form OF a
treaty. 1t is in harmony with
both the Smith-Connally resolu-
ton. and the Mackinac Island
declaration of the Republicans.
To that extent unity is prob
able, but actually the formula
settles no more than the first
point at issue. The details of
how il is worked out will give
the postwar world its character.
EOR- instance. congressman
l. have concluded that in the
establishment of the Italian
government so far. we have
run third with Russia on top
there. and friends of Great
Britain in second position. Lit
tie has been said on the floor.
but this has been main topic
in the cloakrooms since the
speech Of Senator Bridges. ask
ing if Mr.. Roosevelt had lost
the initiative in Europe.
This situation unquestion-
ably is the primary reason for
the coming visit of Gen. De
Gaulle to the White House. We
also run about third in his or
ganization.
Now il is clear that IL Mr..
Roosevelt does not do better in
France than he did in Italy, we
will in reality be third in all
Europe. no matter how much
equality we seem to enjoy in
the blueprint formula pre-
scented.
So also within the formula
itself. The top council COM
posed of the United States.
Great Britain. Russia an d.
ChinaS (the names are always
used in that order) no doubt
will dominate the assembly and
seem to give control of the
world jointly to the four
great powers. The assembly of
all the nations presumably will
not meet often and may act
only in an advisory capacity.
But with Russia on top in
Europe and Britain clinging TO
her empire, our influence in
reality no doubt will be re-
stricted TO this hemisphere.
Britain and Russia always have
had more authority in the Far
East than we had, and there
is no noticeable change in that
situation yet.
THESE are the facts of life In
L the world beyond the for
mula.
But there is 10 be no super
state. and no surrender of SOW
ereignty. and all are to keep
their arms individually. Thus il
follows the same line advocated
and predicted in this column
from the beginning of the dis
cussion.
Other particular agreements
now in the negotiating mill are
hardly within sight of political
unity. In advance of the Bret
ton Woods monetary conference.
the experts of practically all the
nations have been gathered to-
gether secretly.
Harry VIII it e, director Of
monetary research in the treas
ury assembled them at Atlantic
City in an effort to get what
was described as an IAN agree
ment at the expert level in ad-
vance of the conference.
But in this instance, too, the
important thing will be the
value of gold and the dollar in
relation with other currencies.
rather than the formula devised
for future international none
tary negotiations.
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