Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-27
PRESIDENT STRIKES KEY
NOTE FOR PEACE CHARTER


President Truman in his address. as the
International Peace Conference closed at
San Francisco. forcefully and in grave
words, pointed the way for the United
Nations to follow if there is to be
wholehearted, earnest world effort to
enforce the Forthcoming instrument for
peace.
Perhaps most forceful and fortnight
was his appeal to the delegates of the
fifty nations who had labored so hard
and so we'll to give the world the first
great global charter to prevent war. The
President admonished them to return to
their respective capitals and there work
as diligently and as effectively to obtain
speedy ratification as they had labored
to bring about the compact itself.
There was nothing of grandiloquence
or the dramatic in the appeal. The ma
tion's chief was as emphatic as he was
frank in giving the views of America as
its chief executive. He pointed to the
creeping shadow of chaos in 'war-torn
Europe; he told of the terribly unsettled
conditions the world over and warned in
no uncertain words that Nazism and
Fascism readily can return to life and
become menace. We must act, and act
now, were his ringing words.
Along this line he did not hesitate to
disclose that even now the foes of world
peace are at work trying to destroy the
unity of the United Nations and, further,
he did not mince words to advise that
some headway in this nefarious action is
being made even as the peace charter
comes into being.
AS head of the most powerful and in
fluential government in the world, the
President spoke with authority. There
were no yelled statements, no evasion.
There was nothing of the mailed fist,
only one of the millions of people who
want peace and no more wars.
Frankness marked the Presidents ac-
acknowledgement of probable mistakes and
weak points in the charter. To have
taken any other tack, however, would
have been without sound reasoning. But
Aafter these possibilities, again admon-
Aned and appealed to the UNCIO en-
Nys not to delay ratification in hopes of
making the pact all-perfect. He asked
that the charter be given life at the earl
lest possible moment, and let time and
reason mend the errors.
Again, the President pointed the way
because his words were tantamount to a
pledge that the United States, as one of
the Big Five, would be diligent in bring
ing about necessary changes or in cor
recting errors in this draft of the char
ter
Also there was something of a chal-
lenge in the words spoken at that epochal
moment The world delegates were told
that the charter will be presented to the
senate almost at once Next Monday is
the day designated for that move. And
furthermore, they were told that ratifi-
cation may be expected shortly after it
reaches the floor of the ratifying body.
This meant that if the United States,
whose stake in world peace probably is
the greatest of all the major powers, is
willing and ready to put the charter into
effect, then there should be no quibbling
or hesitancy among the rest of the sig
natory nations And how right the Presi
dent was when, and if, he meant it as
challenge.
This nation cannot condone the sense
less and almost criminal political bicker
ings and quarrels and that so long have
marked the conduct of foreign govern
situations that have contributed
and led to war.
In essence, the President said: The
charter may not fill the bill for world
tranquility; but most certainly without
it the world will be headed for another
war