The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-26

The three ex-secretaries are Charles Evans Hughes, Henry l.. Stimson and Frank B. Kellogg. For approximately 12 years they tried to get their chiefs in the White House and Republican lead- CTS to move just little bit toward this vital, all-important change in conducting U. s. foreign affairs.
 However, they failed - just as Senator Ball failed to get Gov. Dewey to move recently.
 This has been the basic fac- tor in foreign affairs which has hamstrung the Republican party for two decades. Certain of It's enlightened leaders - Hughes, Sitmson, Kellogg, Elihu Root batled valiantly to force a change. But they never succeed ed. More powerful leaders of the COP always swung the party back to the theory that the Senate was all-powerful; that Q group of filibustering senators sparsely populated western states should rule the thickly populated east and dominate the foreign policy of the USA.
 HUGHES AHEAD OF TIME
 This columnist was with several Republican leaders when they bats tied vigorously to overcome this provincial viewpoint of their party.
 He was in Havana at the Sixth Pan American Conference when Charles Evans Hughes startled his staid COP friends in the Sen- ate by proposing treaties of arbi- tration with Latin America, with out Senatorial approval of each arbitration decision. Hughes, how ever, was ahead of time. His plan of arbitration was not revolution ary. But when 1t got to the Senate, his Republican colleagues held 1t up interminably.
 This cOlumnist also watcehd close up while Henry L. stlm. son, secretary of State under Hoover, battled at the London Naval Conference of 1880 to put across . consultative pact.
 The proposed stimson pact was c most innocuous proposal. It merely provided that If there were danger of war the Unitde States promised to sit down with the other nations of the world and consult. There was no ohliga- ton to 90 farther.
 Looking back on what we have done lately, and on what Presi- dent Roosevelt proposed last week regarding q world council unham- pered by the Senate, the Stim- son proposal sounds juvenile. Yet when he proposed 1t in 1880, his agitated chief in the White House. MT. Hoover, actually informed a press conference that mo consul. tatlve pact has been considered at any time during the course of the London conference"
 Hoover even sent for the late Walter Strong, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, and berated him because his London corres- pondent, Paul Scott Mowrer, had cabled that Stin1Son proposed c consultative pact. Hoover said the story was absoluately false. REPUBLICAN, LEADERS
 FRIGHTENED
 Yet simultaneously in London, Secretary Stimson, not knowing that rock-ribbed leaders of the Republican party was scared stiff over even @ tiny bit of interna- tional cooperation, was holding c press conference proposing that the United States had every obligation ct least to consult when war clouds gathered.
 In the end, Hoover proved himself the boss. Consultation, plus the entire Naval Confer ence, feiI fIat.
 Later etirnsor, who clearly saw a world war coming unless the United States jumped into the breach, did his best to head off war ifl Manchuria. He realized that Japan's temporary occupa- pie know when to keep their mouths