The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-04-27
An Organization With
Responsibility, Power
Envisioned by Planners
By JOHN E. JONES

Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Out of the Yalta conference OF
the Big Three came the electrify-
ing news that San Francisco had
been selected for the coming United
Nations conference 1--WE have
agreed" they said, shat a confer
ence of United Nations should be
called to meet at San Francisco in
the United States on April Is,
1945, to prepare the charter of such
an organization, along the line pro-
posed in the informal conversations
at Dumbarton Oaks"
Official announcement came to
San Francisco's Mayor Lapham
from Acting Secretary of State
Joseph c. Grew with the further adj
vice that Representatives of the
department of state will get in touch
with you in a day or so with regard
to necessary arrangements for the
conference"
And so San Francisco, most
western of our American cities,
founded in 1776, the same year as
our Declaration of Independence,
becomes the focal point of mems
hopes from all parts of the world
for enduring peace. San Francisco,
the Golden Gate of the '49ers, be-
comes now the new Golden Gateway
to future security for all mankind.
If you take map of the world
and draw lines from Russia to South
Africa, from Egypt to China, from
Central Europe to India, from the
Philippines to the Scandinavia,
from Greenland to Australia, and
from Canada to New Zealand, all
of these lines will cross or converge
at San Francisco. So San Francisco
becomes the world peace center.
mo World War ILL.,
Indicative of the Importance of
this meeting are some of the state
ments made by statesmen and
pressmen. Veteran newsnan Mark
Sullivan: ''The greatest present
need of the world is to see that
there shall be no World War III.
This is the beginning of everything
and the objective of everything"
1t. Cmdr. Harold Stassen, dele
gate: 81 hope that San Francisco
may mean for the world of to-
morrow what Constitution hall at
Philadelphia meant for the United
States of America"
Anthony Eden, foreign secretary of
the British empire: "This may be
the worlds last chance to create an
effective peace organization COM
bining responsibility with power"
Attendance at the meeting bears
out this Importance. Forty-four
nations from all continents of the
earth are represented. 1t has been
estimated that delegates and their
attendants, secretaries, advisers
experts on all matters of government
total some 1900 persons. News
gatherers-press and radio-number
upwards of 1000. San Francisco is
host to from $500 to 5000 persons.
Our state department has had rep
resentatives in San Francisco since
March preparing for the big meet
ing, which taxes every facility of
the coast city. Hotels, which have
already been full to overlooking for
the last two years or more, have
to take care of several thousand
more. The department Of state has
reserved $500 rooms in the larger
hotels, taking over entirely several
of the largest. The San Francisco
chamber of commerce has advised
people not directly connected with
the conference to stay away from
the city during April and May.
No one knows how long the con-
ference will remain in session. First
plans were for approximately four
weeks. It may last eight weeks or
longer, for big job has to be done.
East meets West, and all of the diff