Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13

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TT WAS a stroke of political cleverness
Il to separate the world security charter
from the peace settlement
After the last great war the Covenant
of the League of Nations was interviewer
with the Treaty of Versailles. Objection
to various clauses of that treaty helped
to swing American public opinion against
the acceptance of the League
This time the charter was drawn up
before the terms of the peace settlement
were definitely known. And it was drawn
up in such terms as to insure a very low
common denominator of agreement be-
tween the signatory powers and also be-
tween various sections of American pub
lie opinion.
TO BE SURE THIS LOW COMMON
DENOMINATOR, AS WAS SHOWN IN
THE PRECEDING ARTICLE. COM
PLETELY DESTROYS THE VALUE OF
THE WORLD SECURITY ORGANIZA-
TION AS AN AUTOMATIC INSTRU-
MENT FOR PRESERVING PEACE.
But, since no great power gave up the
right to take any action, however agrees
sive, without mourning the liability Of be-
ing proceeded against as an aggressor,
no great power finds it worthwhile to re-
main outside the new organization.
4 MEXICAN internationalists endorse
"A the charter because of their some
what naive belief that any organization
of powers, even if the only teeth it pos
sesses are false teeth, is guaranty
against war.
The opposition of most American ma
tionalsts to the charter has been luke
warm or noneXStent because American
sovereignty is not diminished except
possibly in the matter of delegation of
power to the American representative in
the security council.
Yet it will be difficult, if not mpos-
sble, to enforce a policy of permanent
"nonfraternization' between the world
security organization and the peace set
tlement. These two products Of the war
are certain to impinge on each other more
and more with the passing of time
One cannot but sense a contradiction
in a recent statement by DR.. Stephen p.
Duggan, director Of the Institute Of Inter
national Education, as reported in the
New York Times:
Russia and Britain are engaged at
this very moment in imperialistic power
politics. The activities of Britain i'm Bel
GUM. Italy and Greece have been repre-
hensible, and Russias activities in Iran
and the countries on the western border
even more reprehensible.
But the delegates of the 30 United
Nations at San Francisco are not there
to solve such problems They are there
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order than the League of Nations. to
establish Justice throughout the world, to
provide for the common defense of all
nations and to promote the general wei
fare of all mankind"
Now it is a little difficult to under
stand how two powers which, according
to Dr. Duggan are carrying out imperial
istc power politics" and "reprehensibe
activities" can simultaneously be helping
Ito est blish justice throughout the
world and ito promote the general well
fare Of all mankind
1T Is an unpleasant but unmistakable
fact that the actual provisions of the
peace settlement, so far as they have been
indicated, bear no relation to the official
war aims of the United Nations, as stated
in the Atlantic Charter The first two
clauses of the charter read as follows:
Their countries seek no aggrandize-
ment, territorial or other.
"They desire to see no territorial
changes that do not accord with the freely
expressed wishes of the peoples con-
cerned."
1t is matter Of record that the Soviet
Union has already annexed, without the
slightest consideration for 1.-The freely eX-
pressed wishes of the peoples concerned"
wide belt of territory in eastern Europe
including the former independent repub-
lies of Latvia, Lithuania and Estona,