Detroit evening times., 1945-04-13

WHAT world issues will be considered and perhaps
w settled at the United Nations conference inter
national organization which will open at San Francisco on
April 25? What subjects will be taboo?
The invitations to participating nations said the
conference will meet for single purpose the establish
ment, during wartime, of permanent international
organization.
These invitations-ssued in the name of the United
States Great Britain, Russia and Characterized two
aims Of this international organizations ID the mainte
nance of peace by force necessary and 2 the sou
ton of those worldwide economic and social problems
that sometimes lead to war.
state department document dated Feb l. says
this international organization will be set up independ-
emily OF any peace conference.
The establishment of world peace organization on
the hand and the writing of peace terms on the
other will be the subjects of two separate conferences
and two separate documents.
Thus none of the terms of peace concluding this war
the agenda of the San Francisco conference
E purpose of the San Francisco conference is to pre-
l. vent another war, not settle this
1t must be remembered. however that the action of
the San Francisco conference is not final United States
must be approved by the Senate and the
ernments parliamentary bodies of other nations must
ratfy conference decisions before they effective
Delegates the San Francisco conference will have
as their starting point an outline OF proposed inter-
national organization This is the outline drawn up at
Dumbarton Oaks last autumn by the four major powers
France excuded-and added to at 9alta by the Big
Three-the United States, Great Britain and Russia.
The state department describes these Dumbarton
Oaks proposals as recommendations and again as "a
On it's face that language means that the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals something that frozen rigid
arbitrary but something that will serve basis from
which delegates to San Francisco start in writing
world charter.
All of the subjects opened by the Dumbarton Oaks
proposals. and all subjects Immediately related to those
proposals, will be proper matters for discussion. debate
and decision during the Sap Francisco conference.
CINCE the scope of the conference is confined to the
- subjects mentioned by the inviting nations all other
subjects presumably barred.
Thus the conference will not consider such questions
the future boundaries of ROmana, Hungary Bulgaria
and other Axis satellites
1t will define the boundaries of Poland, which
settled by the Big Three at Yata.
1t will not prescribe form of government for these
and other nations Overrun by
will not appOrtiOn mandates resulting from this
reappOrOn mandates decided upon at Versailles
after the last war.
1t will not discuss reparatiOns duration of the
patton of Germany and kindred punitive measures.
These all questions for settlement at the peace
conference conferences concluding this settle
ment pecemeal by the winning nations in such
they see fit
Qualifying this Washington political writers have
predicted that of these subjects must inevitably
before the San Francisco conference if only OBJ
que fashion They it is not possible to write charter
for enduring peace without taking the
of peace that will conclude this
What, then, will be the principal and certain ques-
tions before the San Francisco conference? For the
it is necessary to examine the Dumbarton Oaks
proposals
(TO BE COntinued)