Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-06
Allied Agreenenfeo Now !! |
Urged BY vandenbero
10 End Uncertainty
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Feb. 6.-Some OF
the United Nations will con-
|tinue to 60 their way" says Sen
ator vandenberg, Republican, OF
Michigan, unless and until they
know that they can depend upon
America to Join effectively in
keeping Germany and Japan
demilitarized."
In what was described - the
second chapter" of . foreign policy
address In the Senate last month,
Senator Vandenberg told = Variety
Club audience here last night he
would continue to urge. that Amer
lea Sign up now with all her major
allies to join in a hard-and-fast
treaty"
Fear Of future Axis aggression, he
said, has been responsible "for much
of the resurgent movements toward
alliances and toward the old power
politics which has been the worlds
prime curse" Among the "disuni-
flying steps" taken by Allied nations
he listed the partitioning Of Poland,
the Anglo-Soviet agreement Of lo42,
the Soviet Czechoslovak agreement
Of 1913 and the Franco-Soviet treaty
OF 1874.
Unity Vital to Peace.
Asserting that unity Is equally -
indispensable for peace as for bat
tie, Michigan's senior Senator said
TT is our responsibility to see to It
that II this unity-for-peace disin-
tegrates, 1t is not our America which
shall be held at fault when the
books of history are balanced"
Terming the substitution of JUS
tice for force" as the genius Of
Dumbarton Oaks" Senator vanden-
berg said the question Of presiden-
tial authority to use the armed
forces in keeping the Axis demili-
tarized was largely academic.
Following is a partial text Of the
Senator's speech:
!. America must win this war as
swiftly and conclusively Is possi-
BILE. and no Interruptions to the
supply lines which sustain our in
trepid soldier SONS can be tolerated
for . single, bloody instant.
2. America must seek . peace
which justifies this sacrifice and
martyrdom. which searches for
justice as q substitute for force
and which plans . free world for
free men.
I'VE have relative unity in this
fraternity of battle. We sometimes
drift dangerously away from a kin
dred but equally indispensable fra
ternity for peace. It Is our respon-
sibility to see to 1t that II this
unity-for-peace disintegrates, 1t IL
not our America which shall be
held at fault when the books Of
history are balanced.
Silence Confuses Allies.
"1n my view, we cannot serve this
solemn function by further silence
in respect to our attitudes. That
silence confuses our Allies. It often
provides them with the reason
which they plead to justify uni
lateral decisions which collide with
our ideals. It may dangerously In
vite the conclusion that our silence
gives our own consent by default.
It even confuses our own people
who frequently cry out in anguish
for the definition of our aims. It
Is time for us to say what We will
do. It Is time for us to say what
we win not do.
And it is time to start the doing.
"As basis for our thinking, let
me lay down q few fundamentals.
The first Is the recognition Of q
physical fact. Since Pearl Harbor,
the ghastly countenance Of war has
become more sinister than ever
before in the Nightmares Of the
human race. The awful science Of
mass murder has made more prog
ress-what a word!-in three cruel
years than in all the centuries since
time began. And this new science
Is only In its lethal infancy.
Contemplate the robot bomb In
its maturity! Contemplate the re-
f1nements Of "jet propulsion" when
it still further reduces this FORE
shortened world to an intimate
neighborhood! Contemplate . war
of pushbuttons in which human
flesh and blood are at the mercy Of
mechanical disaster! need not
labor the point. This war, God
knows. is bad enough.
To Americas Interest,
But World War No. 3 will open
new laboratories Of death too hor-
rible to contemplate. I propose to
do everything within my power 10