The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-24
bv Drezc Pearson

Foreign Relations Committee together with Senator George of Georgia, supposed to be great follower of Woodrow Wilson, had urged h1m not to propose passage of the World Court resolution. In addition two Republicans, Vandenberg of Michigan, who has been preaching international cooperation from the housetops and Austin of Vermont selected by Pres ident Truman practice international cooperation as U S. delegate to the United Nations, also asked Thomas to lay off,
 The Utah Senator actually had sent to the press gallery copies of the speech he intended to deliver urging full U. S. cooperation with the World Court But with the Senate leaders against him. he told his COP. colleague from Oregon that he would have to withdraw his speech.
 Republican Morse. however, determined to go ahead anyway. At this point Connally Vandenberg Austin Barkley and George came to him privately and begged Morse to sidetrack his resolution Bark ley the only one who said he was for World Court cooperation, but said it was bad time to debate it. The others said they thought 1t was nlS- take to adopt the resolution at all
 Don't you remember" replied Morse That at San Francisco the United Nations adopted a resolu ton that all its members should accept the obiga- tory jurisdiction of the World Court?
 "The United States concurred in that resolu- tion," he continued. And Senators Connally and Vandenberg present. Now what are we going to do-walk out on our obligations? Are we going to put ourselves in the position as the Russians whom criticize?
 q can see the isolatonist ghosts of 1920 stalking the floor of the United States Senate today, Morse told his colleagues. "-the ghosts which Sabotaged world peace after the last And for one think the American public is entitled to know who they are"
 Morse stuck to his point and won out. His luon was finally passed, though only after Senator Mihkin of Colorado, Republican isolahonist, had attached cripplng amendment by which the U s. Government the right to exempt large bloc of disputes from submission to the World Court.
 NOTE-One of the best speeches against this amendment made by Senator Pepper of Florida Most other Democrats, however out the princi pies of Woodrow Wilson and voted with COP. so- latonist Mikin
 Kindly elder statesman Bernie Baruch has made a private proposition to the State Department that he be allowed to read its cables from diplomatic posts throughout the world These gold mine or information for which any businessman banker would give his eye-teeth.
 MT Baruch informed Herschel Johnson, acting head of the American delegation 10 the United Ma tions that as head of the atomic committee, he not getting enough diplomatic information; that the Russian delegation at the United Nations much better informed
 Baruch promised, little naively that if he given the daily intelligence summary Of world affairs, he would only show them his two invest ment-ba1lker assistants, Ferd Ebersadt and Lehman brothers John Hancock, sometimes called the bare foot boys of Wall Street.
 NOTE - The State Departments secret
 cables only by the President of the
 United States and the ten top executives in the
 department