Evening star., 1946-03-06

(right). Listening attentively tx
dent Truman.
respects they would be directed by
the world organization. This might
/ be started on modest scale and
grow as confidence grew. I wished
| to see this done after the First World
War and trust it may be done forth
with.
Would Keep Bomb Secret.
] 1t would nevertheless be wrong
and imprudent to entrust the secret
knowledge or experience of the
atomic bomb, which the United
States, Great Britain and Canada
now share, to the world organiza-
ton while it is still in its infancy.
1t would be criminal madness to
cast it adrift in this still agitated
and ununited world No one in any
country has slept less well in their
beds because this knowledge and the
method and the raw materials to
apply it are at present largely re-
tanned in American hands.
I do not believe we should all
have slept so soundly had the posi-
tions been reversed and some Com
munist or neo-FasciSt state monopo-
lized, for the time being, these dread
agencies. The fear of them alone
might easily have been used to en-
force totalitarian systems upon the
free democratic world with conse-
quences appalling to human imagi-
nation. God has willed that this
shall not be, and we have at least a
breathing space before this peril
has to be encountered, and even
then, if no effort is spared, we should
still possess so formidable a superb
ority as to impose effective deter
rents upon its employment or threat
of employment by others. Ulti-
mately, when the essential brother
hood of man is truly embodied and
expressed in a world organization,
these powers may be confided to it.
I now come to the second danger
which threatens the cottage home
and ordinary people, namely tyr
amy. We cannot be blind to the
fact that the liberties enjoyed by
individual citizens throughout the
British Empire are not valid in
considerable number of countries,
some Of which are very powerful. In
these states control is enforced
upon the common people by various
kinds of all-embracing police gov
ernments, to degree which is over
whelming and contrary to every
principle of democracy.
DictatOrs Assailed.
The power of the state is exercised
without restraint. either by dictators
or by compact oligarchies operating
through a privileged party and a
political police. 1t is not our duty
at this time, when difficulties are
so numerous, to interfere forcibly in
the internal affairs of countries
whom we have not conquered in war,
but We must never cease to pro-
claim in fearless tones the great
principles of freedom and the rights
of man, which are the joint inherit
ance of the English-speaking world
and which, through Magma Carta,
the Bill of Rights, the habeas cor
pus, trial by jury and the English
common law find their most famous
expression in the Declaration of In
dependence.
All this means that the people of
any country have the right and
should have the power by constitu-
tional action, by free, unfettered
elections, with secret ballot, to
choose or change the character or
form of government under which
they dwell, that freedom of speech
and thought should reign, that
courts of justice independent of the
executive, unbiased by any party,
should administer laws which have
received the broad assent of large
maJoritles, or are consecrated by
time and custom.
Here are the title deeds of free
dom, which should lie in every cot
tage home. Here is the message of
the British and American peoples
to mankind. Let us preach what
we practice and practice what we
preach.
Two Dangers Cited.
1 have now stated the two great
dangers which menace the homes
OF the people. have not yet spoken
OF poverty and privation which are
in many cases the prevailing anx-
iety. But if the dangers of war and
tyranny are removed, there is no
doubt that science and co-opera-
ton can bring in the next few
years-certainly in the next few
decades-to the world newly taught
IN the hard school of war. an ex-
pansion of material well-being be-
yond anything that has vet oc-
CURED in human experience. Now
at this sad, breathless moment, we
are plunged in the hunger and
distress which are the aftermath
OF our stupendous struggle; but this
VIII pass and may pass quickly,
and there is nc reason except human
folly or subhuman crime which
should deny to all the nations the
inauguration and enjoyment of an
age of plenty.
l have often used words which
l learned so years ago from a great
lrlsh-American orator, Mr.. Bourke
Cochran, There is enough for all
The earth is a generous mother.
she will provide in plentiful album
dance food for all her children if
they will but cultivate her soil in
justice and in peace" So far we
are evidently in full agreement.
Now, while still pursuing the
method of realizing our overall
strategic concept, I come to the
crux of what 1 have travelled here
to say. Neither the sure prevention
of war nor the continuous rise of
world organization will be gained
without what I have called the
fraternal association of the Eng
disappearing peoples. This means
a special relationship between the
British Commonwealth and En-
pire and the United States.
This is no time for generalities.
4 will venture to be precise. Fra.