Evening star., 1945-07-24
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helped frame the Charter, that all
the questions of the specific duties
and powers of our delegate will be
spelled out in supplementary agree
ments and that these agreements
will come back to the Senate for
ratification.
Majority Leader Barkley, opening
today's debate, told the Senate that
this newest organization for peace
will succeed "if the peoples of the
world will that it shall"
The Kentucky Senator said the
longing for peace among the peo-
Piles of the earth has come down
through the centuries. He listed a
long series of efforts In the past to
bring to the world eternal peace. "
rs the effort worth trying
again?" he demanded. Shall we
falter now because of past failures?
Shall we let slip through our An
gers this new opportunity to rise
from the ashes of our previous de-
spaHs and build a structure like
that which we are now presented,
build upon the rock of our expert
ences, our sacrifices and our hopes,
and upon the rock of hard practical
common sense, even though 1t may
be tinged here and there with opti-
mism, sentiment and emotion? ~
Effort Worth Renewing. So
The effort is worth renewing. I
prefer the philosophy of Woodrow
Wilson, William Howard Taft,
Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root.
William Jennings Bryan, Nicholas
Murray Butler, and of Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, to that
of the congregation of cynics who
sit, as they have always sat. in the
seats of the scornful and the un-
believing.
Senator Hill, Democrat, of Ala
bama, described the Charter as "a
great adventure, a great challenge,
a great opportunity to strive to pre-
serve the peace and to promote the
advancement of human progress
throughout the world"
He said the American people are
Overwhelmingly In favor of ratifi-
cation and added:
II believe the American people
understand the choice they have
made because the present support
for the Charter has grown directly
out of the experience OF living for
the past decade in a world in which
tyranny and aggression swept over
one individual nation after another,
until there was a united and deter
mined effort to put an end to that
tyranny and aggression"
Would Shock Nation.
Failure of the Senate to ratify the
Charter would shock the entire Ma
ton, he said.
The Alabama Senator said the
United States has no differences
with other nations which can be
settled better outside the frame
work of an international organiza-
ton than within.
There was every indication, as the
debate continued, that vote would
be reached in the next few days,
barring unexpected developments.
There remained also the possibility
that President Truman might report
to the Senate on the Potsdam Big
Three meeting. Even If the Senate
ratifies the Charter this week, it
cannot adjourn until August under
terms of resolution passed by both
houses last week.
If Mr.. Truman returns before that
time, he might make personal re-
port to the Senators, even though
House members already have gone
home.
Connally Opened Debate.
Chairman Connally of the Foreign
Relations Committee and Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of Michi-
gan, both members of the American
delegation which helped to draft the
Charter at San Francisco, started
the debate. Senator Connally urged
prompt ratification by an over
whelming vote, as an indication to
the other members of the United
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solidly supporting the new peace
league.
Senator Vandenberg replied to
attacks made on the Charter In
some metropolitan newspapers
which described 1t as embodying
'Roosevelt's dream of postwar
superstate," and as destroying parts
of the Constitution. The editorial
closed with that is apparently
okay with vandenberg and his Coz
horts."
"That is totally unjustif1ed and
unwarranted," he said. II deny
every factual word of 1t. If the
United Nations Charter embodies
Roosevelt's dream of a superstate
then Roosevelt is guiltless OF dream
ing of a superstate. No superstate Is
avep renotolv y,r0vided in the Char