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CdAOoI uot oIAy WIFI lCS AllleS puC
also with its own faithful people,"
UniIateral Actions Cited.
A partial text of Mr.. Vandenberg's
speech follows:
I hesitate, even now, to say these
things, because great American
illusion seems to have been built up
Willingly or otherWise-that we, in
the United States, dare not publicly
discuss these subjects lest we con-
tribute to international dissention
and thus encourage the very thing
we all need to cure. But I frankly
confess that do not know why we
must be the only silent partner in
this grand alliance. There seems
to be no fear OF disunity, no hesita-
ton in Moscow, when Moscow wants
to assert unilateral war and peace
aims which collide with ours. There
seems to be no fear OF disunity, no
hesitation in London, when Mr..
Churchill proceeds upon his unilat-
eral way to make decisions often re-
pugnant to our ideas and our ideals.
Perhaps our Allies will plead that
their actions are not unilateral;
that our President, as Bevin said,
has initiated" this or that at one
of the famous Big Three confer
ences; that our President, as
Churchill said, has been kept con-
stantly aware of everything that
has happened; in other words, that
by our silence We have acquieseed.
But that hypothesis would only
make bad matter worse. 1t would
be the final indictment OF our
silence-the final obituary for open
covenants. We, of course, accept
no conception that our contribution
to unity must be silence, while
others say and do what they please
and that our only role in this global
tragedy is to fight and die and pay,
and that unity for us shall only
be the unity which Jonah enjoyed
when he was swallowed by the
whale.
Il hasten to say that any such
1ntolerable conception as this would
be angrily repudiated by every
American-from the President down
to the last citizen among us. 1t has
not been and is not true. Yet it can
not be denied that our Government
has not spoken QUITO our own
people or to our Allies-in any such
specific fashion as have the others.
Confusion Threat to Unity.
TT cannot be denied that citizens.
IN increasing numbers, are crying
What are we fighting for?' 1t can
not be denied that our silence-at
least our public and official silence
has multiplied confusion at home
and abroad. It cannot be denied
that this confusion threatens our
unity-yes, Mr.. President, and al
ready hangs like cloud over Dunn
barton Oaks. So I venture to re-
peat, with all the earnestneSs at my
command, that new rule of honest
candor in Westinghouse a substi-
tute for mystifying silence or for
classical generalities-honest candor
on the high plane Of great ideals
is the greatest contribution we can
make to the realities OF unity at
this moment when enlightened
civilization is our common stake.
Let's not mistake the meaning of
unity Unity does not require uni
versal and peremptory agreement
about everything. 1t does not de-
mand a meeting of all minds now in
respect to all the minutia of a post
war world which will take years to
stabilize. The President is wholly
right in pleading for tolerance upon
this score and to warn that we must
not expect what he calls perfection
ism over night. Here in the Senate
We do not have perpetual agree
ment' between the two sides OF the
aisle; but we have never failed to
have basic unity when crisis calls.
The unity I discuss is the overall
tie which must continue to bind the
United Nations together in respect
to paramount fundamentals. We
had it once in the original spirit of
the Atlantic Charter. And we must
get it back again, before it Is too
late.
Quotes Churchill.
When Mr.. Churchill spoke in
British Parliament last December
Is, defending his own current course
in Greece and Mr. Stains proposed
PoA tAtAoil VA OIdllu, Sdlu.
There is no doubt that when
the time comes the United States
will make its own pronouncement
upon these matters, bearing in
mind, as it will, the practical aspects
which these matters assume and
also how much failure on the part
OF the three greatest powers to work
together would damage all our
hopes for the future structure Of q
world government which, whatever
else 1t might fail to do, will at any
rate be equipped with all powers
necessary tc prevent outbreak of
future war
II do not like one of the implica-
tions in this quotation. It seems to
say that unless we acquiesce in
these self serving unilateral ar
rangementS now being made by
great European powers, we shall be
the scapegoat to be made respons-
lble for the next war I would re-
spond categorically to any such
abortive thesis by saying that, re-
gardless of the future structure of
world government" an unjust
peace built upon the age-old fric-
tions Of international power poll
tics, is the most fatal of all threats
which "our hopes for the future"
can possibly confront.
But that is not the reason use
the quotation at this point. OF even
greater Importance is the other i'm
plication-namely, that the United
States has not spoken, that her off,
cial attitude is not dependably re-
corded and that until she does
speak the world cannot find its
bearings. There is no doubt says
Mr.. Churchill, that when the time
comes the United States will make
its own pronouncement When the
time comes! Mr.. President is it not
here right now?
Ideals Remain Unchanged.
"If it is what shall we say that