The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-05-07


have al hand today the ready
made blierrints of the many
peace programs evolved by lead
ers and statesmen during the
long war years just ended.
The number Of outlines, agen-
das. declarations apd plans that
cropped up in the Allied nations
VAS legion. bat the ones out
lined below seemed to receive
the widest atlenSion soae cvok-
elk adverse criticism.
ATLANTIC cHAnTER.
One of the first and most au-
thoritative was the Atlantic
Charter drawn UP by President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Winston Churchill in 1871 and
later backed by the United Ma
tons. II called for the coopera-
ton of all peoples to preserve
peace. the right of small nations
10 freedom from aggression and
governments of their own choice,
the abandonment of force, the
acceg To all the raw materials.
Other plans supported the prime
eiple of cooperation, differed on
methods.
MOSCOW PACT
The formation of a four-Lower
organization to keep the peace
was proposed Nov. /, 1913, in
MOSCOW at the conference of the
United States, Great Britain,
Russia and China. Peace lovins
states, large and small, could be-
come members, and pending
formal organization, the four
rowers agreed to consult with
one another and with other
United Nations, to maintain Sc
curity.
WALLACE. HOOVER:
Vice Presidet Wallace urged
fo:cihie and permanent disarm-
ing of aagressnrs. discarding of
imperialism and creation of open
world markets,
Former President Herbert
Hoover asked : world institution
Ia keen peace, pfged cooling
off period after tie armistiee to
prevent unjust rcace terms.
RELIGIOUS PLANS,
Pope Plus XII asked that JUS
tice and charity be the postwar
guideposts, that ''fraternal col
laboration" replace force. An
other proposal was the key
principles of peace" enunciated
jointly by leaders of Protestants,
Catholics and Jews in the Unit
ed States. This program empha-
sized the Importance of moral
law, the rights of minorities and
under-privileged peoples, and
the need of international coop
grafton.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE:
Prime Minister Churchill UNI
folded on March 81, 1913, the
hfbad outlines of Council com-
rosed of representatives of the
lated Nations at the outset, but
later 10 include Germany and
oilers. II would include a high
court to adjust disputes, be
hacked by an international
AIMED force, which the League
a Nations never had.
WORLD POLITICAL
ASsocTATIoN:
England's Minister of Home
Security, Herbert Morrison,
plunked for a World Political As
soriation which would exercise
iniernational control over cur
rfncy, commerce and commodi-
Is OF BALTIC:
Alfred Bilmanias, Latvia's min
izier to the United States, came
forward in March, 1913, with a
plan for a United States OF the
Baltic. composed of all countries
bordering on that strategic sea.
This doVe-tailed into Churchliis
council plan, which called for
unions Of small states.
WORLD FEDERATION:
Count Edward Raczynski, for
eign minister for the Polish gov
ernment-in-exile, has proposed 2
World Federation in which small
states would participate with the
great powers of the United
States, China, Russia and Great
Britain.
FEDERATION OF EUROPE:
General Wladyslaw Slkorskl'
TIE late Polish prime minister
endsioned a Federation OF En-
rope with Poland and Czeehe,
sIovakia dominant in a Central
European bloc. He wanted an ia