Evening star., 1944-10-22


at all, our representative must be
endowed in advance by the peo-
pie themselves, by constitutional
means through their representa-
tives in the Congress, with au-
thority to act.
If we do not catch the inter-
national felon when we have our
hands on him, If we let him get
away with his loot because the
Town Council has not passed an
ordinance authorizing his arrest,
then we are not doing our share to
prevent another world war. The
people of the Nation want their
Government to act, and not
merely to talk, whenever and
wherever there is q threat to
world peace.
We cannot attain our great OBJ
jectives by ourselves. Never
again, after cooperating with
other nations in a World War
to save our way of life, can we
wash our hands of maintaining
the peace for which we fought.
Dumbarton Oaks Conference.
The Dumbarton Oaks Confer
ence did not spring up overnight.
1t was called by Secretary Hull
and me after years of thought,
discussion, preparation and con-
sultation with our Allies. Our
State Department did a splendid
job in preparing for the confer
ence and leading it to a success
full termination. 1t was another
chapter in the long process of
cooperation with other peace
loving notwithstanding with
the Atlantic Charter Conference,
and continuing through confer
ences at Casablanca, Moscow,
Cairo, Teheran, Quebec and
Washington.
1t is my profound conviction
that the American people as a
whole have a very real under
standing of these things.
The American people know
that Cordell Hull and / are
thoroughly conversant with the
Constitution of the United States
and know that we cannot COM
NIT this Nation to any secret
treaties or any secret guarantees
which are in violation OF that
Constitution.
After my return from Teheran,
I stated officially that no secret
commitments had been made.
The issue then is between my
veracity and the continuing as
sertions of those who have no
responsibility in the foreign field
or, perhaps I should say, field
foreign to them.
Peoples Collaboration Vital.
The peace structure which we
are building must depend on
foundations that go deep into
the soil of mems faith and mems
hearts-otherwise it is worthless.
Only the unflagging will of men
can preserve it.
No President of the United
States can make the American
contribution to preserve the
peace without the constant, alert
and conscious collaboration of
the American people.
Only the determination of the
people to use the machinery gives
worth to the machinery.
We believe that the American
people have already made up
their minds on this great issue;
and this administration has been
able to press forward confidently
with its plans.
The very fact that We are now
at work on the organization of
the peace proves that the great
nations are committed to trust
in each other. Put this PROPOSE
ton any way you will, it is
bound to come out the same way;
we either work with the other
great nations, or we might some
day have to fight them.
Have Achieved That Relationship.
The kind of world order which
we the peace loving nations
must achieve, must depend es-
sentially on friendly human rela-
tions, on acquaintance, on toll
erance, on unassailable sincerity
and good will and good faith.
We have achieved that relation
ship to a remarkable degree in
our dealings with our allies in
this war-as the events OF the
war have proved.
1t is a new thing In human
history for Allies to work to-
gether, as we have done - so
closely, so harmoniously and ef-
fectively in the fighting OF a war,
and-at the same time-in the
building of the peace.
If we fail to maintain that re-
lationship in the peace-if we
fail to expand it and strengthen
it-then there will be no lasting
peace.
AS for Germany, that tragic
nation which has sown the wind
and is now reaping the whirl-
wind-we and our Allies are en-
tirely agreed that we shall not
bargain with the Nazi conspira-
tors, or leave them a shred of
control-open or secret-of the
instruments of government.
. We shall not leave them a sim
gle element of military power
or of potential military power.
Instinct for Truth.
But I should be false to the very
foundations of my religious and
political convictions, if I should
ever relinquish the hope - and
even the faith-that in all peo-
Piles, without exception, there
live some instinct for truth, some
attraction toward justice, and
some passion for peace-buried
as they may be in the German
case under a brutal regime.
We bring no charge against
the German race, as such,' for
we cannot believe that God has
eternally condemned any race OF
humanity. For we know in our
own land how many good men
and women of German ancestry