Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
The New Opportunity at San francisco:
Parley AbandOnS
BIG 3 World Rule
BY SAMUEL CROWTHER
ARTICLE 1

AkTICIE
GAN FRANCISCO, May AFTER two weeks of cease
seats with all the incident scurryng from place to place
of the delegates tired and tempers are not all
that they ought to be-
Some of the foreign delegates are calling the confer
ence "a soap bubble in vacuum" and more than few
of them would like to the show break up-provided
would fail in such way as to give satisfactory story
is true that on the surface of things, nothing of
the slightest consequence has happened The surface and
the words rolling around on it seldom mean much in
international conferences and, in this they
nothing at ALL
But great deal has happened
MOST of it has happened within the American deega
v1 tion-which has now displaced Russia as the enigma
of the conference. Specifically this:
THE fantastic Hollywood version of peace and post
i in which this conference met is out.
-The world welfare state by big Three" is out
C-The Dumbarton Oaks plan for "peace" by force
regardless of truth honor and justice is nearly
1-The servie appeasement of Russia is end The
stand is being gently taken that, although
MUST ALSO LEARN TO GET ALONG WITH US.
And also there are signs coming from Washington
that this country will not assume binding obligation to
finance and to fight all future and also finance
the repair of the damage done by these wars
INDICATIONS of new American foreign policy are
i evident, but this is not to say that anything worth
while for peace is coming out of San Francisco
1t is likely that meaningless Dumbarton Oaks plan
actual peace terms have been written and then it will
either be forgotten or revived and made into something
\ NYTHING, however, that marks change from the
original broad plan which this conference called
to confirm is step forward in the direction of human
liberty and human dignity
For while this conference was ostensiby called to
form organization for future security that security
was really to be obtained by continuing the
world to the wisdom of the Big ThreeWho at that time
were Stalin Churchill and Roosevelt
1t was oneword scheme as far the United States
was co9cerned it was guaranty of nonnterference by
others IN far the Sovets were concerned and a
chance for rebuilding the empire as far Britain
concerned.
headed up to the security council which consisted
of the Soviet the United States and Great Brtan-the
Big Three-wlth other members scenery
The general assembly to be established as forum
where the smaller nations might let off steam with the
world court a harmless adjunct.
The really important subdivision was the one of which
we heard least-the economic and social council Into
this flowed the Breton Woods money and trade planning
scheme the United Nations food and agriculture organi
zation, which hoped to be kind of worldwide AAA and
the international Labor Organization which Sidney Hill
man, Sir Walter Ctrne and flock of Russian and other
Communists got up in London, few months ago and
which is meeting in Oakland and will meet later
in Paris.
THE immense scheme herded the whole world as one
big family into the Big Three.3That is whv there
mas been such intense pressure for Dumbaon Oaks with
anna maximum OF noise about peace and minimum of noise
about what was on the cards
That plan for master minding is out-athough there
will be official burial.
is out for several but principally for these
three:
1-President Truman believes that being President of
the United States is full time job and holds honor
enough for any He does not want to be one of
three lord high commissars of the universe
s-Senator Vandenberg has brought measure Of com.
- mon sense and reality into an American delegation
that had been instructed to capture the moonbeams
C-The Latin-American delegations with one or two
= exceptions, refused to have anything to do with
plan that would freeze them in their present status of
raw material producers and continue their dependency on
Europe and the United States
In short the air is clearer than it was
positions under other
presidents. Can &uCuD VyUI,US w