Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

DeTR, lney lOTmeu themselves INTO a DlOCh.
The members of the Arab League, led by
Egypt, were seeking escape from European
domination, while Australia and New Zealand
were intent on preventing the conference from
taking any steps that would interfere with
keeping their countries white.
YNHE Latin American leadership counted
l. noses and found that they could control
or, if necessary, break up the conference.
ThereHpen began negotiations 10 the end
of so changing the wording OF the Dumbarton
Oaks draft as to admit the functioning of a
hemisphere pact within the main organization
and quite independently of it without seeming
TO be independent.
That was fought by Molotov. He and Sen
ator Vandenberg had many sharp tits. In
the end the senator accepted Molotov ver-
sion as being actually stronger than the one
he had been advocating.
The whole question was apparently set
tied and the Colombian delegate later made a
statement giving his views.
But both the American and the Latin
American delegates relied for ultimate inter
probation on the exercise by the United States
of it's veto power to forestall any attack.
They found the veto could work both
ways!
Molotov went home Some weeks later
came the dramatic moment.
TTNOWARD the end of a routine meeting of
Il the commission with the Colombian dele
gate in the chair, the Russian ambassador
started a harangue TO the effect that Russia
was not to be held as consenting TO the uni
lateral Interpretation of the clause which the
Colombian delegate had made some weeks be-
fore and that Russia reserved the right 10
different Interpretation.
That gave Senator Nandenberg his mo-
ment.
He sailed into the Russian delegate.
He said that, since the Russians had
affirmed the right to a unilateral interpreta-
ton, he would take the opportunity TO give
the position of the United States.
He sketched the conditions of peace on the
American continent as an object lesson for
all mankind and In perOratiOn declared that
not only did the United States intend to pre-
serve the conditions in this hemisphere free
from any outside interference, but that In 80
days a treaty would be signed by all the
Americas binding themselves to preserve
American peace in the American way.
AS Major VANDENBERG SAT
DOWN, THE LATIN-AMERICANS FORGOT
THEIR DIGNITY AND BURST INTO WILD
WELLS AND CHEERS.
The Colombian chairman raped for order
and, when he had got it, he said
II wish TO associate myself with the noble
statements Of the senator from Michigan"
And with that he slammed down his gavel
adjournng the meeting.
THAT was the one real accomplishment Of
Il the conference
If our country keeps its pledge, We shall
be on the way to a hemisphere solidarity
which will keep the peace and promote we'll
being L-
We shall be on our way 10 realizing
Thomas Jefferson's dream which he phrased
81 hope Ito see) cordial determination
among all the American nations, and -.
their coalescing in an American system of
policy totally Independent of and unconnected
with that of Europe. The day is not distant
when we may formally require meridian of
partition through the ocean which separates
the two hemispheres on the hither side of
which no European gun shall ever be heard,
nor an American on the other. hope no
American patriot will ever lose sight of the
essential policy of interdicting in the seas and
territories of both Americas the ferocious and
sanguinary contests of Europe
q" Our first and fundamental maxim
should be, never TO entangIe ourselves in the
brols of Europe. Our second, never to suf-
fer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic
affairs"