Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-23

BEHIND
THE News
BY Paul
MaI|on,

MaI|on,
WASHINGTON, Aug 23-No
private telephone or back
office appendages were involved
IN the Hull-Dewey front page
Jockcying on world peace.
The participants spoke all
they had To say in headlines.
But the refined politics, the SUBJ
Tie parry and thrust were neg
iected IN the reports. although
these established Dewey in a
new International Character
and will be of inestimable i'm
portance IN the campaign.
The administrators campaign
policy has been to play Dewey
TO the public as barefoot
boy IN international affairs with
OUT experience or ability for
leadership To tear down this
conception has probably been
the the most difficult technical
task OF the Republican lead
erShlp because, by common
understanding without any
agreement whatsoever partisan
discussion OF war or peace has
somehow been made taboo.
\ I THE same time. Mr..
Roosevelt has been using
war and peace developments as
ms justification for the fourth
term In fact this has been his
whole campaign thus far
Some months ago | wrote that
he intended 10 go TO Europe 10
campaign from the peace table.
but | understand now he NAV
20 10 China first
Perhaps, the Russians NAV
not have desired 10 talk definite
postwar political arrangements
At The top man level. at this
tune. Possibly, our conquest of
The NazlS may not have moved
d. fast a. expected In either
event, tins current Dumbarton
oaks conference of ambassadors
and underSecretarles NAV not
be over when the European war
Is over. and MI. Roosevelt
might have 10 talk TO Churchill
alone IN Europe, rather than
have a biz conference before
election.
THE Dew q y developments
L fairly We'll broke INTO tins
general line Of Roo>cyclt's cam
palgn II happened tins way.
The Russian plan for an inter
national air force under a world
organization heStrred Dewey 10
speak out against domination Of
inc world by the Big Four
nations 20 tho detrlmcnt of the
smaller ones
, Iha> n SuWeci closer %
liull'S heart than 10 ChurchilTS
or Stains and Hun may have
secretly welcomed this help
from an unexpected source But
he handled the matter IN ac-
CordanCc with the admlnistra-
ton campaign. strategy. retort-
ing that Dewey did not know
Wh3t he was talking about.
SsgGeStlng that. If Dewey came
down here he would see there
was nothing secret IN the con.
ference
TNIIS was supposed 70 shut
L Dewey up but he accepted
an initiation which was not
seriously int or even
formally offered and hc came
forward 70 flint with an infcr.-
nation, advisor of recognized
experience equal OF beyond that
Of Mr Hull longer anyway.
He demanded that tho Big Four
keep thor armies out Of The
world economics and submitted
the first concrete proposal for
postwar action that went be-
meath the surface OF Generah-
ties
George Foster Dulles his
mentor wrote The peace pro-
gram for the Federal Council
Of Churches and the American
Bar Association. two elements
which could Just about elect
Dewey in tins ChurCh-ColnC.
middle class nation. If the race
were close.
FURTHERMORE. Dewey put
L his shoes on and demanded
Observation-Disclosures OF the Rhur
Valley something specific and
far beyond the general agree
lng.to-agree expected from the
Dumbarion Oaks meeting.
lie could even haze gone
further and proposed that the
proceeds OF the coal mines, the
iron mills and the great lumber
forests IN that Ruhr source Of
German power be used 10 re-
hablltate the postwar world.
instead Of our money OK
cluslvely
What more equal or farer
Justice could be prescribed than
that the area. formerly run by
an international syndicate OF
French Belgian and German
business men until Hitler stole
II from them. restore, with IFS
TcSOgrCcS, The damage Hitler
has done
NILLkIE has acted like p