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BvnUL MALLoN 7

WASHINGTON.-The Netherlandl
foreign minister warned that thu
small nations would not accept post
war domination by the Big Four
and State Secretary Hull replied II
300 vaporous words that all nations
would be equal in their "sov
ereignty."
This world had been wandering
around in words, stretching them
redefining them, for decade up t.
this war. Streams Of words poured
from various energetic people. VIZ
had such things as "technocracy'
to ponder.
A man wrote book about how we
deceive ourselves with words, only
he wrote It from the standpoint Of
how other people could be deceived
with words. It was Stuart Chase
the New Deal economist, and he due
out Of obscurity a new word for his
idea "semantics."
He warned his fellow radicals
against calling such things as
the taxation-insurance- spending
scheme Of the New Deal by any
right name, and I think he origi-
nally devised the philosophically
false and realistically unprov-
able phrase "s0cial security"
' which, like most other things,
we have In name only.
I am not trying to be a philoso.
pher, only to tell you the difficulty
confronting me in attempting tc
transfer to you the news behind the
news. Here Is the Dutch minister
who says he will not take domino
ton by greater powers. We al
know he always has.
ALWAYS CONTROLLED
The financial and whole economic
life of his country always depended
on the greater powers, and I NEAR
always, because history will not re.
veal an instance in which the Meth.
erlands controlled its own affairs
without outside directing influence
Mr.. Hull replied with words equal.
ly altitudinous, and just as far of
base, saying the Sovereignty" Of
Holland would be kept pure.
II these same words were
piled 10000 miles higher, the
average intelligent man in the
street would still know the Meth
erlands is small country,
Great Britain is an empire of
greater bulk and authority, that
the United States is a rich and
powerful nation, that Russia is a
rising influence which will prob
ably dominate Europe. The
words we read in the news,
therefore, merely deceive us
from the fact that we already
know, that cannot be changed.
So also with Spain, the French
Committee of Liberation, the Rus.
sian situation, or whatever else
there is in the news of either inter.
national or domestic consequence.
A columnist makes a speech in
New York to the French emigres
demanding that De Gaulle be recog.
nized as the government of France.
Is De Gaulle the government oil
France?
HE IS A POLITICIAN
He is a politician who escaped 10
London. failed at numerous bellig.
erent enterprises, fought the French
political elements we freed in North
Africa, made private alliance with
Russia, and then announces him.
self as the government Of France
Anyone can see that.
He is only French politician who
has succeeded in mastering the 9th.
er French politicians, all of them
in exile and away from their people
To recognize him as a government
would, in justice and simple com.
mon honesty, be an act Of cheating
the people of France who cannot vel
express themselves.
With Spai4.? Our people have been
deluded into believing the Spanish
civil war was a cause of democracy
against Fascism, and that Fascism
won. Anyone can see it was a wal
of Communism against Fascism,
one dictatorship against another,
neither Of which we want, all far
from democracy.
In domestic politics, we also
delude ourselves with words.
"Leftist" covers everything
from revolutionary communism
to liberal idealism, which are
opposites. Communism means
dictatorship, ruthless direction
Of the individual, while liberal
ism means freedom of the in
dividual.
The only way we are going to
solve any Of our difficulties is to gel
out OF words into facts. Pressure
groups can deceive us. but only tenn.
porarily. Truth is an obstinate, in.
evitable leveler. It will insist on
being dominant in the end, no matter
how many words are heaped upon it.
The G. I. Bill of Rights has beer
passed allowing up to So weeks with.
in two years of unemployment com.