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AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES
FOR F.D.R. PEACE PLAN
By PAUL MALLON

4TuIildu called III privately most OF
the American delegation to this
world conference soon after he took
Office (several days before the an
nounced conference.)
He told them they had their in
structions from Mr.. Roosevelt and
he did not wish to change those
instructions in any particular. His
words implied that while he could
not 60 with them, he would hold
them responsible for following ev-
cry detail of the Roosevelt plan.
The plan, of course, has not been
made public, any more than was
this Truman warning, but it can be
outlined upon the highest living au-
thority as running along this follow
ing line:
We must not fail to establish
. the Dumbartofi League of the
: United Nations, no matter what
its defects, or the limitations
placed upon our program. We
must do this because our first.
duty is to do everything pos
sible to see that war cannot
happen again. The next war
would destroy civilization.
No matter what we think the best
answer to peace is, we must come
out of this meeting with a final for
mula for international relationships.
To do this we must give and take,
but essentially we must make a be-
ginning toward peace.
WE CANNOT FAIL
We have taken two or three big
initial steps (Atlantic charter, Dunn
barton, Livadia) and we are now
ready for the next. We must sue
coed in this one. We cannot afford
to fail. We cannot stick it out for
perfection. We must make some
start, whatever it is.
This is the explanation behind all
recent Roosevelt Truman inter-
national policy developments as well
as the official background tone and
guide for the conference.
In my opinion, there was a time
few weeks back when the late Mr..
Roosevelt and his State Secretary
Stettinius may have had their doubts
about going ahead. Their inability
to gain their most important
detectives for small nations and full
democratic freedoms universally
may well have disappointed them,
and at that time there was a chance
this conference might have been
called off.
Evidently they decided in favor of
the above outlined course, and
since then after direct request, Brit
ain changed its mind and sent it's
Foreign Minister Eden and Stain
changed and sent the equally rank
ing Molotov.
This conference, in accord
ance with these detectives, is to
be thrown wide open. It is to
be free forum for airing the
causes Of the little people pri-
marily. Officially, Mr.. Stettinius
has been saying 1t will last four
or five weeks, but is more likely
to last a couple of months.
Discussion of everything is to be
allowed. Every nation will be in
vited to say all it wishes. The
/ Dumbarton Oaks setup is to be
thrown literally upon the table,
as If to say to all:
Here it is; 60 to it."
Any hope that such a program
can be concluded in four or five
weeks is therefore, concededly OPP
tirnistic.
In the end, if there are mot too
many changes" in the Dumbarton
proposal, the conference will be
Judged by this government to have
been a success - 7
ALTERNATIVE TO PLAN
Now some authorities may well
differ with these fundamental con-
illusions of the government. The
alternative to Dumbarton Oaks is
not necessarily chaos or another
world war. Rather it is bi-lateral
agreements or hemisphere defense
or spheres of influence maintained
by individual understandings and
alliances and substitute courses for
peace.
These do not necessarily re-
quire wars, or make them any
more likely, than weak or inn
practical formula for a league,
containing, as this one does, the
right Of big nations to veto any
interference with their own wars
and no disarmament.
It is unreasonable to say that UNI
less any specific course is followed
there will be another world war, or,
as the emotional extremist Mr..
Wallace, to contend that anyone who
Is against his tariff views is "ad-
vocating another world war;"
Russia's excuse for at first de-
Gliding to send an inferior ranking
diplomat to this world conference
was never made public, but it was
passed privately and officially to
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Stettinius.
The Kremlin pointed out to them
that Molotov was not only the for
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