Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-05-18
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Washington, d. C.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.-There
is something significant, I believe,
in the fact that this world confer
ence which hopes to plot happier
course for the future of the world
is being held at the Golden Gate.
I can't help contrasting the atmos-
phere with that which enveloped the
gathering on the banks of the Seine
rs years ago, which also covered.
think there is much more hope
for success for this gathering
than there was for the Paris con-
ference two decades ago, although
most of us who crowded into it's
opening session on the Quai d'Orsay
in Paris on sunny January day in
1919, were well supplied with hope,
too.
think the meeting place was well
chosen and if the agenda becomes
unfinished business, it might well
be concluded on the same spot where
the clean fog sweeps in from the
Pacific whose wide waters unite the
east and the west.
There still fingers on CALIFORNIA;
shores the memory of it's multifold
historical national contacts. It was
here in "Drake's Bay" that the ia
nous English explorer is said to
have stopped to repair his ship. l
say was brakes bay for later, Ger
memo, the Spaniard, on voyage
from Manila in 1895, was ship
wrecked in the same body of wa
ter and gave it its present name of
San Francisco bay. The Franciscan
missionaries built missions a mule
days journey apart from southern
to northern California. The sword
followed the cross and Portola's
Spanish soldiers fought their way
ur to what is still called the Prae-
sidio, the very year the American
nation was born.
Less definite are the records of the
cars explorers but the Russian
river" just north of here remains
a flowing memento of their early
visits.
Less distinguished Chinese and
Japanese came and raised their
problems; great settlements of Hin
dus remain in the state and colonies
of Swiss and Italians toll among
vineyards reproducing the products
of their homelands.
Seek to Build
On Firm Ground
AS l write these lines two things
appear as near certainties as GER
tainties exist in this Kaleidoscope
world. The United Nations are sin
cere in the hope of erecting some
sort of structure which, if it is hui
manly possible to do so, can pro-
vide place for the shelter, care
and feeding of the dove of peace
A shodowy and almost paradoxical
corollary of this statement is the
frank acknowledgment that prob
ably one desideratum primum omi-
mum of only one of the great powers
Is the international organization it.
self. What Russia and Britain want,
first of all, is an inner citadel grid
ed by strong mutually protective al
iiances. The rest of the structure
Is, for them, largely window dress
ing. Nevertheless, to obtain cooper
alton among the strong few, they
are willing to include the weaker
many.
The second thing which I think
even at this juncture can be pre-
dicted is that no matter how har-
monious the building of this new
temple of hope may be, the final edi-
hce will be constructed on such a
broad foundation and with such wide
portals, that it will not confine its
tenants to any very strict restraint
of action. There will be plenty of
room to turn around in it, in case
some of the occupants feel they
don't want to go in exactly the same
direction as their fellows. This is
not cynical conclusion-it is SIM
ply the result of a practical desire
not to put anything in the way of
getting something started. The
American delegation realizes that.
An agreement on major questions
which could be decided following the
meeting of Stettinius. Molotov and
Eden was announced by the delega-
ton before we left Washington,
which meant that Senator Vanden-
berg was satisfied that the wording
Of the final agreement which the
Americans would accept contained
enough elasticity to provide an "es-
cape clause" This assures the sem
ate and the American people that