Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-05
WORLD
IN-REVIEW
ByDavid Prescott
Barrows

60 FAR as It's CONSULTATIONS
- have been reported, the Dunn
barton Oaks conference has
given its main effort to reaching
tentative agreement between
the United States, Great Britain
and Russia as to the form of an
international organization which
will assure peace in the world
after the present war is won.
1t is manifest that all parts
of the world do not require an
internationalized security to the
same degree, or Of the same
form.
The western hemisphere. for
example, is already information
ally organized through the Pan
American union, and if Canada
were added, its membership woulc
be complete.
4 s FOR the military defense
~ of this h @ m S phi ere, the
United States need not stand
alone.
The Republic of Brazil has
entered this war as a belliger-
ent and has sent its troops to
Europe to aid in the war against
Germany.
And Canada. whose geographi-
cal position is very important by
reason of the St. Lawrence
estuary and the Puget Sound.
has demonstrated military
strength that should be counted
upon in the future.
The question is, whether, for
future security, the New World
needs the protection of a new
and greater international or
ganization.
So far as the western Pacific
is concerned. the prospects are
that the United States, with a
minimum of Allied assistance,
will break Japans military
strength and bring its arrogant
ambitions to naught.
When this is accomplished, If
adequate naval and air bases
are retained by the-United
states in the western Pacific,
our own feet and air power,
and well-equipped armies OF
China, could prevent any re-
-surgence of The menace OF
Japan.
TNiIS may seem to narrow the
L role of international coop
Grafton TO Europe. the Mediter-
ranean, and Africa
But there can be no question
that il is the bitterness of
rivalry and hostility among
Europeans that is the main
cause of world war.
Europe is the important
weakness in the stability of
world peace.
Seemingly It's future protec-
ton must have the aid and sup
port of the new world.
II can probably be demon
strated that Europe's recovery
is dependent upon strength and
spirit from outside.
II is the problem OF how TO
supply that aid and support that
forces the American people 10
consider a new attitude with re-
SpeCt 10 the future.
Outside Of the Allies them
selves, future danger in Europe
can now be limited to one coun-
try, Germany.
I COOKING at Germany par
IL ticularly, the Dumbarton
Oaks conference may be re-
garded as a preliminary 10 an
agreement 10 furnish armed
force to keep Germany militarily
impotent for a long time.
Before thiS nation commits
itself TO supply that force, it
should be known how much will
be required.
That will depend upon what is
left TO Germany itself; or how
much remains of moral and
peace-desiring spirit in the popu-
lation; and TO what degree the
regeneration of Germany from
the appalling moral injury done
by the national socialists, can be
left to the respectable element
of the German people.
If this element is found to be
so utterly destroyed so weak.
and so impractical, that il can
be trusted with little or no re-
sponSibility for the future of
Germany. then undoubtedly
long military occupation lies be-
fore the peoples of the United
Nations. 1t would be a difficult
and unwelcomed duty.
Whether il will be necessary
or not, depends not only upon
the Germans themselves, but
upon Allied policy toward them.
after the destruction of their
armies and the liquidation of the
National Socialist party.