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US. State Dept. Seeks TO
Bring Diplomacy, in Open
Assistant Secretary MacLesh Resolved to
inform People of United Nations DECKER
ings; Plans to Develop Public Interest.
BY BAUKHAGE
Ne1Us Analyst and Commentator.

| There will be other forms of pub.
licity through the press and radio
and movie picture projecting the
story of the United Nations some 20
years into the future. showing how
it is hoped that the organization will
fit into the world of tomorrow.
Communications
Broaden Interest
By the time the San Francisco
meeting begins its deliberations
| it would be fair to assume that the
general public will have heard
enough about its purpose to have
considerable curiosity concerning
what goes on at the negotiations In
other words, it will become must"
news and press and radio will ham,
mer loudly on any doors that are
closed too long. Mr.. MacLeish's
theories will have an excellent op-
portunity for very thorough test.
II the doors don't open he will be
decidedly on the spot.
The reason he insists on this bold,
frontal attack on the "open COW
enants" problem is because he be-
lieves the world is confronted with
condition and not a theory.
Modern electrical communica-
tion," he says, "has in fact created
the Parliament of Man about which
Tennyson dreamed"
1T is possible to dislike the Par
Lament of man." he explains.
There are those who do dislike it
who would like to return to the old
system of foreign relations conduct
ed exclusively through the chancel-
leries in secret codes. But it is i'm
possible to ignore that the Parlia-
ment of Man is now convened in
continuous session, thanks to public
channels of communications, without
rules of order, limitations of de-
bate, or privileges of the house and
those who refuse to take account of
its proceedings may wake and find
that those proceedings have taken
no account of them"
OF course, the press has been
fighting to achieve just such kind of
free news sources as MacLeish is
talking about. They almost had to
push back bayonets to get within
shouting distance of the information
al food conference at Hot Springs
which produced UNRRA; they have
fought and occasionally won, for a
slackening of the censorship on war
news. But l attended a luncheon
not long ago when MacLeish out
lined his theories and l saw more
than one mouth 60 down in cynical
doubt of his possible success.
He is aware of this feeling. aware
OF the pressure of tradition and of
habit, but he intends to go ahead
And one thing that gives him more
aid and comfort than anything else
is the widespread and happy admis-
sion that the report on the Yalta
conference was so much more frank
and detailed than anybody had
dared hope.
Perhaps MacLeishs neck is not
out too far. after all
One of the greatest difficulties
which any governmental institution
meets in deciding on a course of
action which doesn't have to be sub
mitted to an actual vote either of
the people or of congress. is an abil-
ity to judge public opinion FREE
quently, the tendency is "when m
doubt leave out"
The army pursued that policy in
regard to the acceptance of Negro
nurses for a long time Finally, eli
Their by force of necessity or good
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