The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-18
By Dre1O Pearson

crowds. hilarious crowds happy crowds. Military Police forced to retreat behind White House gates. -. The dark and gloomy State Department. Majestic, stately White House.
 radio blaring forth: 'Hirohito broadcasts to peoples We declared war on America and Britain out of our sincere desire to ensure Japans sepres- ervation and the stabiizaton of East Asa 1t being far from our thought either to infringe upon the sovereignty of other nations to embark upon ter- ritorial aggrandizement'" Sounds different from Hirohtos speech right after Pearl Harbor. But what a job for our military governors! what lop TOT our State Department! .f. How can we reach down to the very roots of Japanese psychology? There are some good people in Japan. Some of the mora fearless spent the war in jail They opposed the war lords Some followed the war lords into battle because that was their religion their whole training They knew no better. How can we change that?
 How can we undo that trainings "il a,,rae we Moves words from the last war still ringing: we have heard men say when we were living that some the foe struck have watched you giving and seen you move the mountains with one toucn."
 Little children in the crowds along the avenue. . Some carried in the arms of soldiers and sailors.
 Sleepy children, not interested, not knowing what the shouting is all about :. . May you never know! May you never have to go off to war! May your fathers never have to sit waiting, hoping, not com- blaming, just anxious weary from hoping, but still hoping . . Missing In Action" Sailors kissing pretty g1rLS. MlulOuS O1 eyeS-UcScSCAAAS, AAAi- ploring-reaching out to to Jimmy Byrnes, immacu- late, spotess Jimmy Byrnes, following him as he goes to London. We have seen men move moun- tains in war, will he move mountains in peace? A fine man, able man, but he has only two weeks before he goes to London, two weeks in which to get fresh life and blood into the dark and gloomy State Department % Will he leave behind the old gang who were fooled by Hrohito's soothing syrup before Pearl Harbor? Will he be fascinated by the charming gentlemen who failed to see the sig nificance of Franco? Will he pump in fresh blood from men who fought the war, who won the war, who suffered in fox-holes? Will he get transfusions from those who understand the Sermon on the Mount?
 Sailors kissing pretty girls, strange girls Telephone books and ticker tape. The Sermon on the Mount! What would happen if we tried it in our foreign relations? Hitherto other nations have been only too glad to watch another nation try it out. But when we've tried it with Latin American nations it's usually worked. We've made them pretty good neighbors. And if don't get along with each other in this day of atomic bombs, we're fin- ished anyway, so afford to be revolutionary. We can afford to try what no one has ever really dared try since the days of Christ. If We fail now. If Jimmy Byrnes fails in London, in the State Department in Japan. A million pairs of eyes watching him. million pairs of hands are stretched out to help him. ." And while you deck our graves you shall not know how many scornful legions pass you by" When the foe struck we have watched you giving, and seen you move the mountains with one touch" Short days ago, we lived, felt dawn and sunset glow" What be done we know. But have no fear If you fail now we shall not see nor hear"
 "The tumult and the shouting dies, the captains and the kings depart. ;. great war is won greater opportunity lies ahead