Detroit evening times., 1945-07-14
PART Ill

PART Ill
CAN FRANCISCO has enhanced not
- diminished; the need for an independent
American foreign policy.
THE PROCEEDINGS AT THIS CON
FERENCE SHOULD DISPEL FOREVER A
PATHETIC ILLUSION THAT HAS WARPED
THE THINKING OF MANY AMERICANS
ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
This illusion is that America is selfish,
grasping and narrowly "isolationist," while
foreign countries especially our chief as
socaes in the present war, are altruislc,
unsefsh and enthusiastically cooperative,
Closely associated with this illusion is what
might be described as an American guilt com
pick, vague belief that the United States is
To blame for everything that went wrong
between the two wars and that the United
States must be wrong and the other country
right in any international dispute that may
arise.
1t is difficult to see how this illusion can
survive the obvious unwillingness of any large
power at San Francisco to forego the smallest
iota of sovereignty, or the spectacle of the
American delegation constantly bucking Soviet
opposition in efforts TO write a little more
liberalism and a little more respect for the
right of free discussion into the charter.
WHAT has emerged from San Francisco
w is not a new world order CO.
operative system based on law and equity,
with any kind of impartial enforcement
machinery.
1t is rather an extremely loose association
of great powers which are deeply divided
among themselves.
For proof of this proposition one need
only look at the violent quarrels and disputes
which took place while the conference was in
session.
One member of the Big Five, Great Brit
ain, slapped down weaker member, France
in Syria.
Anglo-American forces came to the brink
of collision with the troops of the Com
munist Marshal Tito, Stain satellite, over
the issue of Trieste.
The arrest of the 16 Polish underground
leaders who, according to reliable informa
ton, had been encouraged to reveal them
selves to the Soviet authorities for negota-
ton by the American and British govern
ments cast a cloud over the San Francisco
proceedings. A new dose of Anglo American
appeasement has temporarily reduced the
tension over Poland.
WE HAVE witnessed the Illuminating
w spectacle of MikoaIczyk and two other
London Poles entering a so-called Polish gov
ernment Of national unity at the very time
when men who had been closely associated
with Mikoa jczyk, who were the leaders of
the Polish patriotic underground, were being
glVenLanE- sentences prison. -----
Obviously Mikolajczyk Stanczyk and
Grabski, the three London Poles are enter
ing the slightly reorganized Polish regime
with pistols almost literally pointed at he
backs of their heads. If they should ever
prove recalcltrant they could be arrested and
plausibly charged with the same offenscs that
brought prison sentences to their colleagues.
The spectacle Is, or should be, humiliating
10 Americans because our government.
through Harry Hopkins connived at ,his
sordid arrangement. which carries the Yata
Munich a stage further. And il may safely
be predicted that appeasemeni IN this Polish
question will be as ineffective as Il is immoral
HAVING GOT WHAT HE WANTS IN
POLAND, STAIN Is TURNING HIS At
TENTION TO OTHER FIELDS OF E\PAN-
SION.
1t is significant that the Soviet official
radio responded TO the conclusion of the San
Francisco agreement with bullying attacks
on Sweden and Turkey. There is reason TO
believe that the Dardanelles may become an
even more explosive issue than Trieste
60 AN independent American foreign
~ policy. conceived IN terms of American
interests, Is more imperative than ever after
San Francisco has created such superficial