Detroit evening times., 1945-07-06
PAUL
N1ALLON
behind
The News

WASHINGTON, July 5-Be-
w mind the two great publl-
CiZed events of foreign affairs
the submission of the charter
for the new world and the ad-
Vent OF James +. ByTneS as state
secretary the mills of history
are grinding new and greater
PerteRts.
Mr.. ByrneS is a casny dealer
Up 10 now our foreign policy
methods have not been sensa-
tionally bountiful. Some doubt
is evident in many quarters that
we have learned how 10 deal
evenly with the Russians. We
have won little excepting the
charter and, of course, 1t aims
to protect the status quo in Rus
sia, as firmly as elsewhere.
II is thus as much IN her IN
tereSt as Of any other nation,
Otherwise our viewpoint has
not won out too many times
not in the matter of Poland,
-Latsia,= EsthaHia,= Etthdania,
Turkey, the Middle East. deeia-
ration OF war on Japan, and so
! on down the problem list.
NOW we are going TO Berlin
for the next conference. We
haze been unable to bring Stain
halfway in the geographical
matter of meeting places or in
any other consideration. Our
dealing with the Soviet is clearly
not Yet on a successful plane.
Another way of putting it
and the administration no doubt
would put II this way-we have
sacrificed everything else in dl-
plomacy in order 10 get the
charter Now we have it, we
must start making other mat.
terS add up better.
This is where Mr.. Byrnes
comes in. These are the con-
sideratlonS behind his appoint
ment Foreign affairs is the
one subject, his spectacular
career has not closely touched.
He is not, therefore, especially
pXperienced-but he has seldom
been traded down in any line.
SlmuitaneouStY.- -Mr-Truman,
in an eXtemporaneous speech at
Kansas City projected a line
for the charter far beyond lis
text although no one seemed 10
notice II He said the world is
no longer county, state or
national size but is one world.
as Willkie said. He went on:
"It will he just as easy for
nations to get along in a repub-
lie Of the world as IL IL for YOU
To get along in the republic Of
the United States"
LIE AR G L ED there Is no
H reason why the world can
not settle disputes by sending
them TO the world court, Just as
Kansas and Colorado settle
water diSpute--not by calling
out the national guard-but by
submitting 10 arbitration.
This, Of course. is not the pro-
jeCted line of the charter but
something entirely different.
The charter provides for call
ing out The guard CarmIeS) Of
every nation 10 suppress an
aggressor, and legal disputes
are TO go before the world
court, the little issues which
rarely make war;. The poit-
cal issues, which do cause wars,
are to he handled by the
security council.
The basis Of the charter is
not one republic of the world.
but the protection of the
national integrity of every
nation in it, The whole Roose-
welt peace formula does this.
The Breton Woods part pro-
tects the ideas of separate
moneys as San Francisco safe
guards separate political indi-
vidualties.
The Truman eXtemporaneous
pronoun ment therefore
sounded shocking. but. as l say,
no one here fell out of his chair,
and as far as my normal read
ing went, no one even observed
he had said anything unusual.
nOES the President intend TO
~ lead the charter into such a
world? My first guess would be
he was merely expressing at
Kansas City pious but remote
hope No doubt he would like
10 see that kind OF a world, as
all Of us would
But ! suspect he recognizes
he will not live 10 see II. In the
Senate for contrast, he pre-
senied the document as realistic
and founded on the status Of the
victory.
Meanwhile, the Willkie people
may have thus been brought TO
look on the charter most favor
ably So also the WiIsonians
and RooSeveltiteS Indeed. the
great distinction Of the charter
is that II represents triumph
for domestic political unity on