The midland journal., 1945-10-19
POOR PROGRESS OF
PERMANENT PEACE
BY j. f.. Jones

washington, ~. u, OCtODe1 1o--
IKE biggest headache in internation-
al affairs relates to the breakup of
the recent London conference. Rus
sia has a Government that is basical-
y antagonistic in pricniples to Amer
lean ideas and ideals.
Washington officials, including the
Congress, are standing back of Sec
cretary of State Byrnes and John
Foster Dulles, the Republican advis-
er at London, who was brought into
he picture at Dumbarton Oaks, by
Governor Dewey of New York
The whole questions seems to re-
solve down to the fact that the Uni
ed States stood by it's basic princi-
ples Apparently what the United
States was opposing at the London
meeting was a peace fixed up to di-
vide the world into blocs, or spheres
If influence.
When Secretary Byrnes returned
20 Washington and appeared before
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, he laid his cards on the table
md made a clear statement concern
ng foreign affairs in Europe and ia
)an, and he included parts of our
own Latin America.
A long time ago the United States
declared that it was not seeking for
eign territory or advantages from
my part of the world. Premier Stain
- ,rc;o Lo Nv,
L statement that his country had all
he land it wanted. He should have
oeen satisfied then, and now, be-
cause Russia has tEe largest area of
any country in the world, in fact one
sixth of the earth's land surface
Nevertheless, Russia has persistently
interfered with our plans for peace
most recently by objecting to
France and China participating in
the London Conference. Previous to
the London conference Molotov had
made a rough house at the San Fran
cisco Conference.
Whatever happens, for good or
evil, there is satisfaction in the atti-
IuuC VI IAS aulCl 1OF Cl AllCllL III
it's efforts to establish and build up
a world organization that would
truly represent "The United Ma
tions." At every turn in the proceed
ings the Russians have attempted to
impose the policies and formula of
heir Communistic government upon
us. The United States cannot sub
scribe to that sort of settlement,
because it represents nothing that is
even equal to the League of Nations.
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Let's Be Practical On Security
Policies of future national security
,hould not be determined by emo
ions and wishful thinking. The pre-
servation of our liberties and our in
dependence demand practical action,
geared to realism and not to Utopias.
No one would have been foolhardy
enough to suggest that the plans for
D-Day in Europe should have been
subject to any nationwide referen-
lum or poll. Those plans were the
business of our military experts, and
their business only.
The suggestion that nationwide
poll be conducted on peace-time mill
tary training is equally impractical.
Any popular vote would be on an
emotional basis. This is a subject
that demands expert knowledg and
practical approach. To inject emo
tionalism into the consideration of
our future national defense policy is
to court national disaster.
The grim fact remains, all world
.harters and league of nations, not
withstanding, that in this century of
man force is likely to remain the fin
al arbiter in human affairs. Tkis will
be particularly true in the future be-
cause scientific advances will make
possible lightning war World War
II developments have put cruel and
necessary emphasis on preparedness.
Our military experts and the real
istic war veterans comprising the
American Legion are agreed that
some form of peace time universal
military training is absolutely essen
tial to Americas future security.
Let's be practical for once, and
string along with the men who know
war and the danger of it's recurrence
rather than with dreamy-eyed vision
aries. To be sure military training is
a burdensome matter. But it's cost
and complications are incomparably
less than losing tke next war and our
liberties and everything that we hold
dear in life.
An able analyst in Washington
.ays that the White House is "shying
away from positive leadership" and
he adds: That's different from the
Roosevelt method. 1t works best
when troubles tend to solve them
selves, when difficulty will straight
en- out and not be aggravated if ig-