Evening star., 1945-05-20
New Attitude Is Held Vital
If Farley Is to Be a Success
Many Wars Which Followed World War Cited
as Indicating Present Dangers Unless Friendly
Cooperation by All Occurs
BY Constantine Brofe,a

AV ~ OWStU1
"The San Francisco Conference must
not and cannot fail" one of the high
est ofdcials who had an important hand
IN the preliminary work at Dumbarton
Oaks and at Yalta Said to this reporter.
But under close questioning he admitted
that unless there is complete change
Of attitude on the part of our Allies in
the west, the most we can expect is the
drafting and reporting out of the con-
ference of set of rules and regulations
of good behavior for all those concerned.
which the propaganda agencies will de-
scribe as millennium"
We have all learned that treaties and
agreements are not worth the paper
they are written on, unless the signato-
ries actually mean to honor their sigma
lures. During the last war we had
slogan that the American people fought
that war to end all wars. There were
treaties and agreements galore. But
during the 20 years between the signing
of the Versailles Treaty and the inva-
sion of Poland by Hitler's hordes, there
were more minor and major conflicts
than at any other period in the history
of the world
There was the Russo-Polish War in
1919 and the Greek Turkish War be-
tween 1920 and 1928. These were fol-
lowed by minor bloody revolutions such
as that in Bulgaria and the French war
against -El-Krim in the Riff. Then
we had the Russo-Japanese "skirmish"
in 1928, followed by the first "Manchu-
rian incident" in 1881 As sideshow in
between there was the Chaco dispute"
in South America which brought about
costly military conflict between Bolivia
and Paraguay.
Mussolini Steps Out.
In 1885 Mussolini became imperial
minded and attacked the helpless Ethi-
opians, while in 1886 the Spanish Civil
War, called by all observers "the labo-
ratory for the Second World War" broke
out.
In 1887 Japan started on the con-
quistadorial path with an attack against
China, while Hitler was defying the
world by the occupation of Czecho-
slavakia and Austria. Finally the most
feared and at the same time expected
Second World War broke out in Sep
tember, 1899.
All these armed conflicts and bloody
wars took place right under the nose of
the League of Nations, which was the
brain child of the practical idealist,
President Woodrow Wilson, and which
was described in glowing terms by all its
members as an organization to settle by
peaceful means all disputes before the
nations involved adopted the strong
method to settle their troubles. There
was nothing wrong fundamentally with
the League Of Nations except that all
the nations which had the power and
the means to enforce its lofty doctrines
did not deem 1t 1T to do so. They be-
heved that under certain circumstances
the contract they had so solemnly signed
should be sacrificed to the higher In
terests" Of their respective states.
Peace Treaties Signed In 1929.
On and above that international peace
machinery the world was given the
Kellogg BRAND pact which every civil
lied nations raced to sign in Paris in
1929. By that agreement all the sigma
tories solemnly renounced war as an
instrument of national policy. There
were numerous disarmament and limi-
tation-of arms conferences at Geneva in
which the American Government took
a prominent role. They amounted to
nothing-except, possibly, further in
crease in the armament race. The only
nation which took realistic point of
view on these Geneva confabs was At
ghanistan, which sent a delegation to
League headquarters to buy some of
the arms they had heard that the great
western powers were about to discard.
The American people and their elect
ed leaders are now firmly convinced
that after the disastrous consequences
of the Second War War, which has re-
suited in the complete destruction OF
the German Empire and has brought
the fighting nations in Europe un-
dreamed of material and moral devasta-
ton, the world should have learned that
wars do not pay. It is with this thought
in mind that we have sent our delega-
ton to San Francisco with instructions
to leave no stone unturned to bring
about a real peace organization regard
less of what price we may have to pay
But the reports from the Golden Gate
Conference are far from encouraging
The delegates of the "peace-loving ma
tions" have done their best to put into
a definite shape some agreements which
will look all right but the effect OF
which is questionable so long as their
leaders back in Europe still want to
consider them as pious wishes because
power politics have not been eliminated
from the diplomatic game
History Out.
Regardless of how solemn treaties
may be when diplomats put their sigma
lures to them, they are of no conse-
quence unless the nations themselves
believe in them.
The history of the treaties and agree
ments between the major nations which
have the power to put teeth" into any
agreement at San Francisco is not q
pretty one.
In August, 1941, four months before
Pearl Hadbor, President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill got togethe,
and drafted set of rules and regula.
tions ito guide the world after the Axi.
WAS DESTROYED The Atlantic Charter
in spite of the doubts OF inveterats
skeptics brought up in the study oi
the history of E,Irone formed the iflea