Detroit evening times., 1945-07-28
GEORGE IT,.
BROWN -
Political
Parade

WASHINGTON july PA
W blunt old sea dog, in his
new role as L. s. senator, IN a
speech packed with sound
Americanism and homely Wis
dom, told the Senate that ths
time has come in the interna-
tIonal field for America to use
what is left OF her bargaining
power and TO stop trying to
carry so much Of the burdens Of r
the world.
With equal force and blunt
ness. Senator Thomas c. Hart
OF Connecticut, a retired ad-
miral Of the navy, declared that
British naval aid IN the north-
west Pacific had come too late.
after Adm. NlmitZ had already
beaten the japanese. and pos
SeSSed sea power without
Britain sufficient TO finish the
Job.
Not IN a very long tune has a
voice Of such authority As SEN
ator Harts spoken with such
plainnesS.
4 FTER announcing that he
would vote 10 ratlfy the San
Francisco Charter, he got right
down 10 PLAIN truths and brass
taCkS.
The record OF the 4. =. gov
ernment in the use of bargain
ing power in its international
relations" he said frankly,
does not constitute history ~
which we can he altogether
proud"
He referred 10 the leases for
certain western Atlantic bases
obtained from Britain IN eN-
change for 30 dcStroyerS. but
added that though the leases
run for 90 years they cannot
be used for commercial purposes
after the war
The leases do not provide"
he said. that our air CommerCe
can utilize the flying fields
which have been built At the
expenditure OF United states
money.
"NE STILL have some bar
w gaining power left. and wv
my humble opinion II should be
used.
1t seems adv isable that now,
or IN the early future, We Of the
I nited states hack off. take
stock of the probable situation
as 10 the war still Ia come, and
re-e,timate our own interns-
tionai obligations.
We cannot expect that the
Japanese war now lies any
where near a. prominently In
the minds of our allies a. n lies
with III.
We are carry ing on most OF
the war against the Japanese
and II looks ss II we shall con-
tinue To do 10. The main bur
den will rest on III.
we stand considerably de-
pleted In our basic national
strength and power compared
to what II was two years ago.
III the Pacific war continues for
years, A. IL may. the end of u
viii see us most seriously de-
pleted.
SE. MANY months ago, the
British navy had brought
amphibious power into action
from the Indian Ocean and thus
driven into and through the
Netherlands East Indies, an
extremely effective contribution
10 the Pacific war would have
resulted.
I'm such cases, the British
'p'N'N
ing their shortest route to the
northwest Pacific, which II the
vital thcater Of war. and their
own supply line for nearly all
purposes would have been
direct.
The main point of II all
would have been the easy avail
ability Of the arabian and
Persian oil fields whirh now
contain the worlds greatest
+, known reserve Of petroleum.
Better still, such a campaign
might conceiyably have opened
the Sumatra oil fields,' the best
I'm the Netherlands East Indies,
That would have enabled the
Dutch 10 make a really effec-
tive contribution 10 the war;
hut even without Dutch oil our
own forces could have received
part Of their fuel over the
shorter route 10 the Arabtas
fields"