Evening star., 1945-08-09

iunbo of cap and gown that uni
versities consider essential wnen
they confer honorary degrees. Fol
on this occasion the one-time un-
successful local haberdasher was be-
ing made an honorary doctor OF
laws by the University OF Kansas
City.
This is the bomb dropped by
new doctor of laws: .u thar.
Unless We the world. There
VIII be no We must learn. 1t is to
is one most distasteful thing for us
q learn it, and that is that 1t Is
ABSOLUTELY necessary for the great
est republic that the sun ever has
shope upon to live with the world
as a whole, and not by iteif. i am
ANXIOUS to bring home to you that
.Ae world is no longer county size,
no>lonper state size, d longer ma
ton size. 1t is one w6ld, as Willkie
said."
'It VIII be>just p easy for nations
to get Aong in a republic OF the
world as'it is fr US to get along in
the Republic 4 the United States"
Cause 4dttIe Comment.
Made tiat eaysin the heart of
Americas Isolation -helt, the Presi-
dents statement mus4 have seemed
little more than a high-sounding
sep.rality to his listeners and it
csised scarcely ripple of comment
sasewhere. Read now, in the con-
sciouspess that the speaker was car
rying locked within him the secret
he has just given the world-the
secret of the atomic bomb-the tre-
mendous implication of the state
ment can be understood.
The President must have been
going through the mental and emo
tional turmoil experienced this week
by the rest Of us. He was possessed
of knowledge almost too terrifying
to endure, the knowledge that man
can now destroy almost overnight
the world in which God placed him.
He was not possessed of the secret,
IL there is one, of how man Is to
prevent himself from doing Just
that. He had only newly strength
ened faith that the way Of preven-
tion was being found.
The President had come directly
from San Francisco where the
trainers of a new World Charter
were completing their work. The
basis Of this Charter was the worlds
desire that never again should any
nation, great or small, have the
power to initiate war against an
other, the desire that nations from
this time forever shall be compelled
to live in peace. The President
found in the document to which the
worlds governments were pledging
themselves, the beginnings, at least,
Of security against another war in
our time. These beginnings are the
measures whereby the nations p1o-
tect themselves against one another.
But he seems to have found more.
He seems to have found the begin
nings of the measures whereby the
nations will bind themselves to-
gether, In acceptance of the fact
that this is truly one world.
Nationalism Dead.
So he could speak with some con-
fidence a philosophy he expected
his neighborS to find most distaste-
full" his belief that the day OF the
nationalism we have known is dead
and a different day is being born.
In q section that has clung more
than any other to the
conviction that "there always have
been wars and there always will be-"
he could say that this conviction
must be abandoned.
He could now be certain that when
the destructive power of the nfwcst
war weapon becomes understood it
will be clear to even the lneanest
mind that unless the world l.uts an
end to war, war will put an end to
the world. And he could Suggest
that "the greatest republic the sun
ever has shone upon" must lead the
way-the way to world government.
II this is true Interpretation OF
what President Truman was saying
in return for his classic cap end