Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-05-25
Washington Dis:
People Deciding Factor
Of Security Conference
Heed of Public Will to Build Effective Barrier
Against Future Wars Marks DeIbera-
tions From Past ParIeys.
By BAUKHAGE
Ne,Us analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, d. C.

WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
CONFERENCE HEADQUAR-
TIERS, SAN FRANCISCO.-The ex-
tent to which deliberations of the
United Nations conference on inter-
national organization will be sue
cess can now be readily predicted.
All we need is master-mathema-
tician who will solve for 1.-THE
unknown.
The proposition is simple: let m
equal one molotov, equal one stet-
tinius, equal one eden. The equa-
ton reads:
m over plus equals
Solve for x, the unknown power
of the will of the people.
We have certain amount Of cor
ollary data to help US.
In 1915 there was a meeting called
the Congress of Vienna. 1t was fab
ulously attended by kings, princes,
a car and an emperor as well as
the ministers and diplomats who ran
Europe at the time. 1t convened for
very definite purposes, including the
checking for all time certain dam
gerous tendencies which were be-
ginning to make themselves felt.
One matter which had really brought
about the conference was the defeat
of Napoleon Bonaparte. Unfortu-
nately there was a sudden reap
pearance of that gentleman, who
broke his bonds of servitude at Elba,
to play a short but fearsome return
engagement.
This threat of the return of an
upstart dictator who managed to
provide himself with a crown based
on no more divine right than was
supplied by his legions caused the
congress its filters but didn't inter-
fere with the frolicsome tenor of its
ways.
1t had been decade of headaches
for crowned heads. There was the
French revolution, quashed by that
time, it is true, but dangerous
threat to the ermine. There was
the strange government which would
have no traffic with kings at all
which seemed to be prospecting
across the seas in the wilds of Amer
lea. And then this highly irreverent
attitude toward the divine right of
kings.
1t was all very important to the
delegates at Vienna but like the SOL
der on guard here at the conference
building in San Francisco it was
confusing, so they let George do it.
Thousands of Souls
Traded at Congress
And so at Vienna with all the pro-
tocol and Difference in the world,
Talleyrand took over. He let the
congress dance. He ran it, divid-
ed up the spoils; traded so many
thousand "souls" for so many thou
sand others, for thus he referred
to the various sections of Europe's
population he was playing with. He
called them souls but he didn't even
consider them human beings with
human rights. They had nothing
to say about it and they said it,
silently.
A year less than a century later
there arose another war-lord who
had forgotten nothing and learned
nothing concerning European dicta-
torships. One of the best jobs of
wrecking civilization up to that time
was achieved by Kaiser Wilhelm
and the world had to get together
again to see what could be done
about it again. They met in Paris in
1919.
This time the twilight of the kings
had become so thick that scepters
were decidedly out, but considerable
change had taken place in the in
tervening century. At the Congress
of Vienna there was not a single
constitutional government, except
that of Britain, represented. There
was no freedom of the press, and
no public opinion. At Paris the AL
lied press was hardly free of it's war
time censorship but managed to stir
up considerable excitement-andt the
government-controlled French pa.
pers made plenty OF trouble for
Wilson. The people were conscious
of their desires but still not entirely
vocal. The conference was soon
tossed from the delegates to smaller
and smaller groups and finally
reached 1.-THE Big Three" Wilson,
Lloyd George and Clemenceau, and
the greatest Of these as negotiator.
was Clemenceau. He had more op-
position than Talleyrand, perhaps,
but he certainly was no less sue
cessful.
Then came the 20-year interlude