Evening star., 1945-05-31
La Toilette Hits
Allied Policy.
On Freed Areas
Issues Warning
Against Farley.
Decisions by Big q
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

A warning that hope for estab-
fishing world peace at San Fran.
cisco may be destroyed by Allied
handling of liberated areas was
sounded in the Senate today by
Senator La Toilette, Progressive,
of Wisconsin.
He called on delegates at the
United Nations Conference mot to
be stampeded into accepting the
judgment" of Big Three or Big
Four.
Although he criticized sharply the
policies of Russia toward liberated
countries in Europe and British
pronouncements regarding its CO.
lonial possessions, the Wisconsin
Progressive said he was doing so to
urge the Allies to avoid the mis-
takes made at the close of the World
War.
Il hope even at this late date
that the delegates to the United
Nations Conference will not be
stampeded into accepting the judg-
ment of the Big Three or the Big
-Four as conclusive, but will redouble
their efforts to draft a charter
which will strengthen the hope for
genuine international cooperation
by removing at least some of the
more fragrant weaknesses of the
original plan as amended at Yalta,"
Senator La Toilette said.
Dumbarton Plan Criticized.
The fundamental need is for 4
lar more democratic organization
one that will be responsive to the
peoples of the world rather than
to the power politics demands of a
lew dominating powers. In its pres
ent form the Dumbarton Oaks plan
strikes me as a gilded facade for the
old-style military alliance built ex-
ciusively On force or the threat of
force. In other words, it is the type
OF alliance which great European
powers have employed all through
history without ever preventing a
war"
| The La Toilette speech, several
hours long, was one Of the first and
most outspoken reactions to what
has been done thus far in planning
the future of the world.
Senator La Toilette said he does
not minimize the Importance, of the
San Francisco Conference, but
warned his colleagues that the actual
peace settlements to be made later
on will be far more important in
preventing future war than>the tech
nlcal machinery being formulated on
the West Coast.
Any enduring peace must ulti-
mately depend on the decisions as
to what finally happens in Poland.
Italy, Greece, Burma, Malay, the
Philippines and with other areas lib
Grated from the yoke of Axis tyran-
n.y. he continued 1T also depends
upon what is done with conquered
Germany and Japan"
Recalls IA Points.
Senator La Toilette asserted that
Woodrow Wilson's IA points were
destroyed after the last war by
secret treaties made between the
Allies, and went on:
We have much to learn from
the tragic drama of Versailles in
1888, when the leaders of the
victorious nations, then led by a
Big -Four, wrote the peace settle
ment which exploded scarcely 20
years later in the present war. =.
Unless We learn greater wisdom
from this disastrous experience we
shall repeat in our own time some
OF their most perilous mistakes"
Senator La Toilette charged that
Americas first big mistake both in
the last conflict and in this war
was its failure to use its tremen-
dous bargaining power to obtain a
public agreement from the Allies
on just peace terms at the outset.
Thus far we have been travelling
a road which almost step by step
parallels the tragic road we took
after the First World War;" Senator
La Toilette declared. Unless we
change our direction soon we shall
find that our fantastic expenditure
OF men, money and materials has
bought us only short and uneasy
truce-not the enduring peace we
seek"
He said that for time high hopes
were aroused by the Atlantic Char
ter. Later, he said, I'VE were in
formed that this agreement so wide
ly publicized as a solemn, signed
covenant was only a news release
scribbled on pieces of paper"
Ian P.IInnn pork