Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-22
BEHIND
THE NEWS
BY Paul
MalIon

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21-
w George Bernard Shaw has
set forth upon the front pages
his conception of the coming
world which seems 10 be about
halfway back TO Methusalah
and halfway ahead 10 Super
man.
1t is 10 be a place where
somewhat savage ideals prevail.
Indeed he thinks that time al
ready has arrived when women
get their men like the Dana
kills" the Ethiopian tribe IN
which he says the males were
required 10 show four Scalps on
their belts before being con-
sidered for mating.
MIR. Shaw must have seen
some unusual women lately, as
those requirements do not seem
to be in effect around here.
TIIE important and disturbing
Il dream of Mr.. Shaw's future
world politica | mating has
equally great dramatic possible
ties for a play but is equally
unrealiStic. He ConjureS up q
sphere dominated apparently by
CommuniStic ideals and Cathoilc
ideals but with the Communist
ideals obviously dominant be-
cause man is to work for the
state. or at least not be guided
by any democratic theories.
This all seems to be some
what confused in Mr.. Shaw 5
mind. but essentially what he
wants. or thinks is coming, Is d
Super-world state.
The best official eyes here or
at least those sharp enough ana
close enough TO the situation 10
see everything going on inside
have failed TO discern anything
like that kind of world IN
immediate prospect. There Will
be no super state in the coming
peace. You may be sure OF that.
The resistance here 10 the
merging of sovereignties Is evil
dent in state department poll
icies. and really has not been
brought up seriously since Mr..
Wallace tried out the same
vague idea so unSucceSstully IN
some speeches a year or two
back advocating a peace that
would take us halfway to Com
muniSt and bring communism
halfway TO us. The trend of the
Dumbarton Oaks agreement
completely discards this old and
highly imaginative theory.
A LSO Mr.. Shaw does not seem
"A TO have read Mr.. RooSevelt's
campaign speeches, pledging
himself TO free enterprise and
the Democratic system, which
has done about as well in this
war as any other. since ii IS
supplying the world and produce
ing the wherewithal Of victory.
Russia clearly could not have
won without our help.
The philoSophic Mr.. Shaw evil
IDENTIFY is looking at the matter
the way most Communists and
radicals seem TO see it without
recognizing the superior job
democracy has done and can do.
But Mr.. Shaw has presented
at least a, correct diScernment
of the forces evident behind the
news of current international
developments. He speaks of both
Catholicism and communism in
the philoSophic sense that
. Christian idealism springs from
the Bible as the opposing Com
muniSt ideal springs from Marx.
He has merely overlooked the
fact that the Bible, in its philo-
sophie essence, also represents
the democratic ideal of the in
dividuality of the human soul,
of the personal being of a man.
and 1t is not compatible with
his enSlavement 10 the state
as in fact, Marx himself recog-
nized in his Characterization Of
all religion as dope for the
minds of the people.
These two ideals are just as
far apart as the Savagery Shaw
mentioned in relation to mating
as he calls IT. and marriage as
the b b ! @ conceiVes il to be.
You cannot compromise them IN
Statecraft any more than IN the
social relationship between men
and women.
HITLER. who borrowed most
IL of his faSciSm from Com
muniStic theories, also conceived
marriage 10 be a relationship
10 be encouraged primarily in
the interest of the state.
Christianity conceives mar