Evening star., 1945-01-15
Wheeler Urges
Nations
Council.
Senator Launches
Bitter Attack on
Power Politics
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator wheeler, Democrat, or
Montana, launching a bitter at
tack on power politics" which
he charged Great Britain and
Russia are playing with the ac-
quiesence of the United States,
proposed today in the Senate the
immediate establishment of a
United Nations political council
to deal with territorial questions
in Europe.
He proposed, too, creation OF a
general federation of European
nations as the only feasible means
for continued peace in Europe and
the world
Senator Wheeler addressed the
Senate after bipartisan support de-
veloped over the week end for a
proposal by Chairman Connally OF
the Foreign Relations Committee
for the United Nations to set up a
provisional council to handle po-
itical questions. This council
would operate while agreements on
a world security organization were
being ratified
Both of Senator Wheelers pro-
posals are il line with a resolution
he introduced on the opening day
of the present Congress. This res
olution laid down six points as the
peace aims of the United States. all
intended to uphold the principles of
the Atlantic Charter.
Assails Surrender" Policy.
The Montana Senator reiterated
his demand that the United la
tions abandon their demand for
unconditional surrender" so far
as Germany is concerned, and sub
stitute some kind of peace terms.
He charged again that this stand
was costing thousands of American
lives.
Senator Wheeler documented his
address with quotations from Pres
ident Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill, Premier Stain and many
other world figures.
In all CT these statements, he said,
Britain, Russia and the United
States repeatedly asserted the prln-
ciples which were written into the
Atlantic Charter. He insisted,
however, that these principles row
are being abandoned. 1t is a far
cry from these principles to Dunn
barton Oaks. he said
"One by one" said Senator
Wheeler, these three great powers
have repudiated these principles
with what has amounted to ris-
ing stream of exceptions, rese1va-
tions and reversals of policy, until
today, after many long months of
preparation, discussion and delib-
Grafton, they have turned up before
the world with the Dumbarton Oaks
proposal"
Assails Dumbarton Proposals.
He said that both in spirit and
in letter the Dumbarton Oaks pro-
posals, as they now stand, emascu-
late the good neighbor policy and
override the principle of sovereign
equality of all nations. They offer
in place of genuinely international
society of nations grim, military
alliance, he said.
He charged the plan destroys the
very concept of neutrality, approv-
ing as cardinal principle the use
of brute force under threat of
coercion without requiring that the
Security Council shall first resort
to peaceful methods when dealing
with threat of aggression. The
structure of the proposed security
organization is deliberately divorced
from the nature of the peace which
it is expected to enforce and cleverly
disguised by the deliberate omission
of any mention of the Atlantic
Charter by referring to new
United Nations charter that is to
be formulated in the future, Senator
Wheeler asserted
"As these proposals now stand"
he continued, they constitute Moth
ing more nor less than a plan to
underwrite tyranny, The Treaty
of Versailles at least tried to guar
antee' the integrity of independent
states. But these proposals are pri-
marlly designed to maintain
status quo in which~our conquered
enemies will constitute the main
concern of every policy, agreement,
and act on the part of self-appoint-
ed policemen.
In support of this assertion, he
quoted from Mr.. Churchills speech
of May "a, 1914, in which the Brit
ish Prime Minister said: I'VE in
tend to set up world order and
organization equipped with all the
necessary attributes of power to pre-
vent future wars or the planning
of them in advance by restless and
vicious nations"
IF We are to be frank about the
situation now confronting u.s." Sen
ator Wheeler said, "the present
trend in power politics would COM
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