The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-26


ganization that in time may start
to begin to commence to do some
of the things misinformed people
believe are going to be done now.
Specifically, delegates from the 46
nations will write Charter. That's
all.
This Charter will be like the ar
ticles of incorporation for an. inter-
national big business. The business
which the corporation will carry on
when it gets going will be the bus
mess of preventing future wars.
In writing the Charter, the San
Francisco Conference will be guided
by the rough suggestions drafted at
Dumbarton Oaks last fall, but those
proposals will be completely rewrit-
ten, subtracted from and added to
by amendments and revisions.
THE TUMULT AND
THE SHOUTING MAY DIE
This will be a long and involved
process. Mny people on the outside
may become impatient and lose in
terest. After the great fanfare of
publicity over the opening sessions,
the San Francisco Conference will
become middling dull. Many lobby
lists and pleaderS for special causes
may give it up as a hopeless job and
go home, particularly if their ex-
pense money runs low.
If the war folds in Europe If
things in Washington start popping
under President Truman if domes-
tic issues get hotter than this nebu-
lous international stuff, lot of the
press and radio people will be order
ed back where they came from, and
a dog watch will be set up to see
whether the San Francisco Confer
ence lives or dies.
At about that time the Confer
ence will be settling down to it's
long hard grind in half hundred
or more committees, each given the
job of studying one particular ques-
ton or drafting one particular sec
ton. They will be fighting COM
mas, Semicolons, clauses and reserv-
atoms all over the place.
If a few nice fights can be stirred
up over giving Soviet Russia three
votes, or if some delegation takes a
walk, that will help keep the in
terest alive. But don't count on it
above all don't give up hope and
damn the diplomatic dodoes to
eternal oblivion.
What Is important about San
Francisco is what comes out at the
end, not what goes in at the be-
ginning. Don't lose sight of the big
objective.
THREE HITS WILL
WIN THE GAME
If at the end of one or two or even
three months the San Francisco
can put it down as success. Those
three things are:
/. Create an organization which
will deal with future threats to
world peace and so stop wars by
removing their causes before they
happen.
2. Make provision for gearing a
World Court into this machinery so
that when nations do get into argu-
ments they can settle their disputes
by international law instead of by
force of arms.
3. Establish a formula for inter-
national machinery which will see
that the dependent, colonial areas
Of the world are governed with JUS
tice and not exploited or held in
subsection.
Don't look to San Francisco for
the solution of any disputes con-
nected with World War II. San
Francisco won't settle what will be
done with Germany or Japan, won't
fiXe the boundaries of Poland, won't
free India, won't decide what to do
with war criminals, won't settle
Francisco Francois Spanish omelet
and won't make Chang Kai-shek
cooperate with the Communists.
Some of those things will be set
tied when the terms of peace are
dictated. Others may become legiti-
mate business for the United Ma
tions Organization after it is set up.
But as far as San Francisco is con-
cerned, forget 'em