Detroit evening times., 1945-09-28
PAUL
NlALLON
Behind
The News
WASHINGTON Sept. 27.-

Inc lO1dl| SECT WI blllNidlo
who have been developing a
theory that peace can he oh
tanned only by giving things TO
Russia and Britain and making
them happy. is now in medita-
tive silence, momentarily at
least.
Mr.. Truman quieted the cab
met dispute about giving the
atomic bomb to Russia by per-
sonally assuming responsibility
for a future decision.
He also carefully Tended off
the ton of brickbats already in
full flight toward the skull Of
Commerce Secretary Wallace
by saying Mr.. Wallace had not
insisted" upon the gift, but he
did not say Wallace had not ad-
vocated such a course.
My well-chaired informants
say this means Russia does not
get the bomb, at least not now,
and not ever for sheer appease-
ment purposes.
Why should she? What justi-
fies such a gift?
To what use does she propose
to put the bomb, certainly not
to bring the Four Freedoms 10
the Balkans, Poland and Fin
land or anywhere.
Indeed, not TO promote any
Truman international policies
or purposes expressed at the
London Council of Ministers.
All our ideas were firmly
turned down by Molotov accord
ing to reports the same day al
the cabinet meeting. What good
use could she thus possibly
make of the bomb7
OUT more, | suspect the whole
- school of Wallace thought
OF peace by appeasement is
breaking up More officials here
think we ought TO get some
thing in return for giving They
want TO make appeasement
sound, by making it two-sided
They would like 10 see us win
some points somewhere before
doling out the money as well as
the bomb.
The dickering over the money
for Britain has taken a half
right-turn in this direction.
Lords Keynes and Halifax
came in for their billions with
out INTEREST," with hats upended
ready TO carry it away.
Unfortunately they had left
at home all their experts or
empire preference tariffs dis.
eliminating against us, and sucF
related trade matters which
might afford us an opportunity
to get something.
Will Clayton, head of our dele
CATION, said no business could bt
talked without these men. Sc
these experts are now on then
way from London. while Keynes
is holding luncheons and Hall
fax is otherwise propagandizinf
in favor of Britain getting the
money without giving anything
interest, repayment guaran
tees or trade concessions.
incidentally Britain'S h s
friends are-telling Halifax -tht
propaganda is the worst tht
willy British have ever presented
in this country. running now A!
il does to fearful stories abou
war widows and orphans as !
this advance were a charity 4
them rather than financing TO
socialism,
THE glaring flaw in th'
theory of appeasement as
method of keeping the peace Il
that we have no guarantees ye
establishing the good will ol
worthineS Of those 10 b'
appeased. Indeed. quite the
opposite, our position is beinl
kicked around by both RussiS
and Britain (See Laski speeches
and Pravda articles.)
This week Pravda, for eX
ample, developed the same baslt
argument on the Mediterranean
used by MuSsollni, in precisely
the same words:
"Not a single geography boOl
says the Mediterranean Is q
British sea"
The League of Nations ap
peased MuSSolini with Ethiopia
etc, but il did not prove an ef
fective way of preserving peace
any more than greater appease
ment worked later with Hitler
He appeased himself up from
nothing TO strength enough tC
try to lick us.
WE ALSO tried exactly the
w same kind of appeasement
toward Japan. sending her OF
and scrap iron 10 make her
happy 1t did not work.
Never has the blind and
simple distribution of largeSse
10 nations ever caused them to
be either happy or friendly.
Peace cannot be Soundly es-
tablished that way. To endure
il must have the backing Of mu-
tual desire for IL and he
grounded in Joint interest which
can come ONLY through lust and