The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-19
BoiIIie Says War Danger Is Recedinq
 Expresses Views
 Of European Tour
 To Swedish Group

be receding, Hugh Ballle, PreSloenC of the United Press, said last night in an address to the Swedish American Society.
 Baillie and Mrs. Baillie were honor guests at dinner given by Count F'olke Bernadotte, President of the Swedish-American Society and Chairman of the Swedish Red Cross. Baillie's speech was made at the conclusion of two months spent travelling through most parts of Europe.
 Europe is still full of rumots of wars and frictionS and pressureS, but the situation is qiueting down as compared to what it was when I started this trip two months age" !" Baillie said. "As the delegates gather in New York for the Gen. eral Assembly of the United Ma tions and the meeting of the For eign Ministers, I believe they can survey a calmer scene over here in Europe. The danger of real war is, in my observation, receding. That is the situation as it looks today. But there will probably be many an- other war of nerves"
 Reports His Observations
 Stressing that he was not appear ing in the role of a forecaster but as an impartial newspaper core spondent observer, Baillie said:
 ITO qualify myself as a witness should tell you where I have been and what have seen. I have been in Nuremberg where I saw the new International Criminal Code being worked out in the Court of Inter- national Justice. heard the last speeches of the defendants. talk ! ed to the prosecutors; to General McNarney, in command of Amer ican troops in Frankfurt; to Gen. eral Clay, head of the American Military Government in Berlin; and to others who were in charge, in- cluding MT. Murphy, our diplomatic representative
 q have seen the weird skeleton ruins of Berlin, Frankfurt, Wies- baden, Wurtzburger, Stuttgart anc other German cities. In Stuttgart heard Secretary Byrnes outline the American program for the fu- ture of Germany In Paris talked of the record to MT. Byrnes to Senators Vandenberg and Con- nally and other Americans in- volved in the making of the peace In London met people who were presumably on the inside. have talked with diplomats and others in responsible positions in Sweden Denmark and Finland.
 My trip to Finland was just con- cluded this morning and in the course of it I had conversations of the record, must stress agair with the president, MT. PasSikiv and with Marshall Mannerhein who is known best in the States fol his stand against the Russians il 1889 and 1940 and for the Manner. helm line"
 Danger of War Receding
 Summing up his observations o1 all these conversations and travels Baillie declared: The impression derived from all this is that while we may and probably shall have more crises, more tensions, more outrages of one kind and another even more ultimatums, the danger of actual war is receding. Int hope of the Germans that tht Allies will fall out among them. selves in serious way is growing more dim"
 Discussing the question most ire quently asked him, the UP. Presi. dent said, Since coming over or this visit have been asked many times about the foreign policy o. the United States in view of tht elections next month.
 Well, of course, I would not at. tempt to foretell the course of oul foreign policy any more than would attempt to foreteu the course of events in Europe. But I think i is reasonably safe bet that oul foreign policy will not be changed by the elections. The American people want peace. Not peace a anJ price-but peace. We must re. member that Senator Vandenberg wh, participated in the Paris Con. ference, was representative of tht opposition party in Congress. Sen. ator Connally was a representative of the party in power. Thus, we art striving for unity.
 And I have been told many time! on this trip that it is the feeling o. many Europeans, including man! in Germany, that the American Army of Occupation is a stabilizin& influence arS that they don't wan to see it depart. Well, it is the pol icy of Presient Truman to keep thu Army there as long as there is an! need for an Army of Occupation. w heard Secretary Byrnes say at Stutt gart that the Army was going tt stay. He said that to quiet rumor that were going around German. ar,. other parts of Europe.
 Truman Called For LOOsing BOml
 And when President Truman makes up his mind to do thing he is very determined individual It was he, and he alone, who de cided to loose the atomic bomb or the Japanese, one of the mos momentous decisions that any hu. man being ever was called upon tt make-to start atomic warfare"
 Comparing today's situation witf that before the war, Baillie de clared:
 Tn the years prior to 1889 ant the outbreak of the second worlc war, I made many trips to- Europe In those days you could feel th' war fever in the air. Government: were belligerent and bellicose. Peo- pie in many countries reflected thiS same feeling. can say today tha I have found no truly warlike spirit among people anywhere. And there is no nation in Europe which might be suspected from it's conduct O. having aggressive designs which l | in shane t0 launch A war But th(