Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-06-15
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SAN FRANCISCO. - The tumult
and the shouting dies, the captains
and the kings depart, still stands
Thine ancient sacrifice - an humble
and a contrite heart. SO said
Kipling in describing the end of a
war ('far-called our navies melt
away.") AS l review this chapter of
current history here at San Fran
cisco where the world security or
ganization is lin the making, am
impressed with one thing: what has
already been achieved containing
merit and the seeds of hope for
peaceful world has been achieved
by the sacrifice offered by the hum
BILE and contrite hearts.
That sounds somewhat idealistic
perhaps but let me explain.
think it is not an exaggeration
to say that compromise is the key
stone of harmony whether it is
question of interpersonal, inter-
party, interstate or international re-
lations. And what is compromise
but sacrifice?
Applied to the United Nations con-
ference on International organiza-
ton, sacrifice of national aspira-
ton, and compromise which meant
yielding actual selfish advantage of
the moment in the hope of gaining
potential advantage for the general
good, have at least given evidence
of good will. Good will, supplemented
by popular endorsement, means
practical progress toward peace.
Peace More
Natural Than War
You may have read a very trench
ant article by Emery Reeves, au-
thority and writer on international
affairs in the current Mercury
magazine, which confutes the argu-
ment that since war is part of
human nature, it can never be pre-
vented. Mr.. Reeves goes about his
task of disproving this convent bro
mide of the pessimist in highly sci
entific manner.
"Why," he asks, ibid cities once
wage war against each other and
why. do they no longer fight each
other with weapons today?
"Why, at certain times did great
landowner barons war with each
other and why have they ceased
the practice?
'Why did the various churches
plunge their adherents into armed
warfare and why today, are they
able to worship side by side with
out shooting each other? Why did
Scotland and England, the author
continues, and other parts of what
are now single nations, once fight
and now live together peacefully?
Reeves points out that these and
other groups, presumably because it
was the nature of the beast to once
consider it natural to decide their
differences with tooth, claw, pow
der and shot, or bow and arrow and
yet that kind of legal murder no
longer exists and would horrify mod
ern man.
This is his answer to these
provocative questions:
WARS between these social units
cease to exist the moment SOW
ereign power is transferred to a
larger or higher unit
That is worth bordering.
Yield Sovereignty
To Higher Community
The sovereign power of the cities
yielded to the power of the nation;
England and Scotland yielded their
separate sovereignty to the sover-
eighty of the British crown. This &C.
Cured as a part of the due process
of civilization which began when
the individual cave man agreed
to abide by the rules of the tribe,
the tribe submitted to the will of
the community and SO on until the
process produced the United States.
Here is vast area occupying
huge sector of great continent,
which, after a bloody war where
state rights versus federal author
ity was the issue, became a unified
whole. Hates, rivalries, competition,
| religious and economic difference
continue Gas a part of human ma
ture) but internecine strife is un-
thinkable.
Where's the rub, then? Just, "sov-
ereignty" which is a fighting word,
still today. The United States is will
ing, anxious to participate in the
United Nations organization - the
people have given that mandate to