Evening star., 1945-11-15

important thing to know is whether
or not President Roosevelt was some
how guilty of carelessness or incom.
petence or worse in the matter o1
Pearl Harbor and, If he was, how tt
use that fact against President Tru.
man and the party Of which he i!
the head.
Others are obsessed with the ques.
ton Of who won the war, the Army
or the Navy or the air force; still
others with the merits Of unified
department OF defense-and offense
AS opposed to the present separate
Departments of War and Navy to say
nothing of a new independent de-
partment of aerial warfare now try
ing so hard to be born.
And still others, including some OF
the same eminent citizens, see only
the need for training all our young
men to kill and be killed in the next
war, which they visualize as wal
remarkably like the last two, regard
less of the newly released force that
has rendered nearly all known
weapons well-nigh obsolete.
Some Sense Significance.
And then there are some people
who seem to sense the significance
of the new wonder that science has
wrought. Three of them, we are
compelled to. hope, are the Prime
Ministers of Great Britain and Can
ada, and the President of the United
States. The prime ministers have
been in Washington discussing with
the President the problem which the
worlds scientists left in their laps
We will know in due time the
level on which this all-important
discussion has been held. There
were two possible levels. One was
that of short-sighted self interest
or what some might consider self
interest. This would deal with ways
and means of keeping the secret
Of the bombs manufacture from al
other countries, while using oul
momentary advantage in that re.
spect to win the kind of agreements
we desire with other countries con.
cerning territorial boundaries ane
the like. The other level would bt
that of the new world that Is com.
ing into being, the world Of tht
United Nations.
Nothing ever was clearer as Worlc
War II, with all its horrors, pro.
gressed, than that we could no
survive any more such wars. 81
the Allied governments, under pres.
sure of the Allied peoples, met tt
make the beginnings of a new worlc
order in which war would have nj
part. So deeply rooted is the habit
Of war, however, that we were pre-.
pared to be satisfied for the time
being with nothing more than be.
ginnings toward something differ.
ent; as matters progressed at Sar
Francisco we said that a great ster
was being taken and that 1t wa.
too much to expect that perfection
could be achieved quickly.
UNO Less Than Enough.
Then the new bombs came ou
Of the laboratory and in their very
first tests demonstrated that wa,
as we had known it was being
superseded by war infinitely NOR
horrible. BY so doing the bomb
demonstrated also that the new
United Nations Organization, a
planned, was less than enough.
1t may be that Messrs. sAttlee
King and Truman have discussed
only what England, Canada ant
the United States can do about tn
bomb. But they will offer the worl.
more hope If it develops that the,
have discussed how, and how quick
ly, something can be done abou
the United Nations.
This country is ready to go
great deal further than it went a
San Francisco. II evidence is need
ed of the fact, it is found in tn
speeches Of two young Minnesot'
statesmen. Senator Ball and forme
Governor. Naval Capt. Stasser
Elections in recent years indicat