Detroit evening times., 1945-12-19
BEHIND
The NEWS
BY Paul.
MaIIon

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is
w The written promises OF
peace are unfulhllcd.
The ycarninCS of the people
for a world unified IN a demo-
cratic. freedom loving organl-
zation 10 keep the peace IN our
time have been put into treaties
and implemented with ma
Chmcry We have the Atlantic
Charter. Ca>ablanca, Quebec,
fetta, PutSdarU agreements and
a United Nations organization.
But We do not have peace.
The words Are not being actl-
waited The machinery Is not
working Revolutions are con-
tinuinC the killing around the
world There is free talk of a
third world war for the future.
II takes two TO make peace,
only one 20 make war The
private word Of friends Of
State Secretary ByrneS is that
he went 10 Moscow for final
effort 10 get Russia 10 CO.
operate with the United Nations
ideal
IFNLESS Molotov appears at
u the first l'NO assembly
meeting in London Jan. land
works comparatively there
tho world viii know Moscow
has rejected our way for the
postwar world
A crisis which viii bring in
eNltahle future events Of grave
world consequence has reached
it's underlying apex behind this
trip. "a goSSip-rumOr among
congressman is that Mr. ByrneS
VIII be replaced if his mission
proves unsatisfactory. VIII c h
may or may not be trueD
Now how did we get this
way If We are TO eNtrlCate
ourselves and the world from
its dilemma We must clear our
eyeS-and look ohieetiNelv and
realistically at the facts. not as
We would like 10 have them but
aS they are.
You can start with the pas
SiOnate desire Of this nation for
an end Of the killing Mothers
are outraged that their sons are
not home from the foreign war
for this Christmas.
Cons abroad are inclined TO
u think army miSmanagement
is somehow TO blame for their
prediCameHt They thought all
we had 10 do was TO win this
war. stamp out Fascist aggres-
Stuf- and-ll1ure- -MuuId-hc-peaE
Our war propaganda was eN-
CluSlvcly framed that way II
was good war propaganda. but
it was not realistic.
We really knew what these
other nations represented, their
ideals and ambitions hut We
pretended we did not We pre-
tended victory IN the field
would bring victory for our ear
nest hopes for the peace
Our people have not yet
reached the realization of this
condition among our allies:
they want 10 blame some one
because their hopes have not
been fulfilled.
We got this way further
more. because of the manner in
which We came into the war.
1t was rather unrealiSuc
basis. Mr. Roo>evelts working
theory quite plainly chung to
the belief that the people had
10 be led up, drawn reluctantly
10 what was their war duty.
The truth was there was no
way we could possibly have re-
NAMED out Of the war Per-
Sonally I believe the Roosevelt
tactics may have delayed our
entry.
The basic fact of the matter
was that Hitler and Japan IN
tended to conquer the world.
We were in the world. We
could not escape war.
INSTEAD of teaching our peo-
i pie these basic fundamentals,
We went into propaganda
about world freedoms, lndlvid-
ual liberty for all people, fair
trade. free skies things that
never existed before. and about
which our allies had their own
ideas.
II was Mr.. Churchill who first
stopped this free-runnlng line
OF war propaganda by announc-
ing ne had not become prime
minister 70 preside over dis
membCrmcnt of the British En-
plre.
Now let us look AT this thing
plainly and honestly. There has
been no evidence in events that
Britain and Russia truly wanted
the same thing out of this war
that We did.