Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-06-15
Cooperation for Peace
Based on Compromise
Nations Must Yield Some Sovereignty to Lend
Helping Hand Against Threats to
World Security.
BY BAUKHAGE
Ne,us Analyst and Commentator.

If she will not, it is largely mat
ter of Ignorance as to what that
sacrifice involves. And who makes
the sacrifice? The people them
selves or some abstraction known as
the government"
At this point let me quote that
other student of international rela-
tons, who, it is true, does not raise
his sight to the point of world fedora
ton but who has urged it on
more limited basis.
I refer to Clarence STREET who has
long campaigned for federal union
of the north Atlantic democracies.
He says that the only loss of sover-
eighty involved is the subordination
of the ruling bodies to the ruling
body of the union, that a citizen still
has the right of franchise and all
the rest of his rights.
Does the citizen of Richmond, Va,
who, after the secession of the south
ern states owed his allegiance to the
Confederacy, enjoy any less rights
today when the seat of his federal
government is the capital of all the
United States. Is the Scotsman in
Edinburgh deprived of any privi-
leges which he held when he was
subject of chieftain, laird or Scottish
king? On the contrary.
u. S. Learns to
Glue and Take
The American representative who
sits in the assembly or is chosen to
the council of the proposed United
Nations organization is no less the
servant of John @. Citizen of Bing-
vile than the man he elects.
In proportion to their size, there
are no less rivalries between San
Francisco and Los Angeles than
there are between any two nations
of the earth. But cities and states
of our federal union would no more
think of attempting armed warfare
with each other than any decent
law-abiding citizen would think of
shooting up his neighbor to get his
radio, his wife or his parking privi-
leges. We are that civilized. We &C.
cept the sacrifice of sovereignty of
our home state to sovereignty under
the United States.
When we advance to the point
where we can sacrifice the degree
of sovereignty of our nation neces-
sary in order to guarantee world
order we will be civilized enough
to be sure that our sons won't run
the chance of killing and being
killed as part of spectacle of
mass murder which even the hor-
rors of this war will pale.
The San Francisco conference
can present blue print of the ma
chinery for peace. Only civilization
itself can implement it.
1t is easier to understand things
we can see and touch than ideas.
Brooks Harding was born in
i Nebraska and grew up with the
normal nationalism of a boy who
had never seen a foreign flag flying
anywhere. He served in the last
war in the artillery, later became
interested in aviation. He had a
small aircraft factory, and then a
small leather factory in New York
state.
He watched the League of Nations
rise and fall. He saw the United
Nations start. He became convinced
that unless there was some out
ward symbol, some outward appeal
which would stir the imagination
and the emotions of the people, the
second attempt at world harmony
would fail as did the first.
And SO he literally left all he had
with the sole purpose of making
his contribution in the form of a
United Nations flag.
That flag has not been officially
adopted but it flew in Washington
and it flew in San Francisco - a
plain white field with four vertical
red bars symbolizing, he says, VIC
tory, equality, unity and freedom.
It is sponsored by the United Ma
tons Honor Flag committee sup
ported by such contributions which
he could make or which he could
solicit in travels about the coun-
try.
He hopes for its official sanction.
He feels that this banner may
some day become the rallying in
sigma for the people of all peace
loving nations, who without slacken-
ing their loyalty to their own coun-
try will respect and support the
forces for international good will