Evening star., 1946-07-07
0st-W0rld War [ Drive
Against u. S. Re-enacted
Aid Given Other Countries in Winning Conflict
and Meeting Food Crisis Fails to Stem
Flood of Imperialism Charges
By Constantine Br0wn

powers. America remained in name the
second largest naval power, while in fact
it had become the third Earlier Presi-
dent Wilson had agreed for the sake OF
peace and harmony to permit Japan TO
take over the German islands in the
Pacific, the Marshalls the Carolines and
the Marianas, which the Japanese pro-
ceeded to fortify in preparation for
war against us.
Between 1919 and 1889 we carried the
torch of peace without anybody sincerely
following us. We gave up positive de-
fensive assets for the sake of an ideal.
We led the world to disarmament not by
words, but by example. Our action cost
us many casualties in this war, but no.
body can blame our leaders. II cannot
be said that they did not try.
Drive on Atomic Bomb.
The large-scale shooting of the Second
World War is over. We emerged with
another powerful weapon-the atomic
bomb. The refusal of our Government
to share the secret of its manufacture
and to destroy the limited supply OF
available missiles has brought charges
from Russia and her many sympathlzers
in this country that we are following
| policy of intimidation. Speeches have
been made on the floor of the Senate
and the House and on many public
platforms solemnly warning the Amer
ican people that the refusal to share the
bomb with all the other nations would
! eventually prove the undoing of America.
! Finally, last month, the United Ma
| tions was informed of a constructive
| program presented by the elder states
| man, Bernard Baruch. 1t suggested in
| simple terms that we make beginning
| toward the creation of an international
/ authority 1t provided that as soon as
/ this authority was set up 1t should own
and control the raw materials which go
| into the making of this mighty explo-
! sive. But it demanded that the inter-
national body should have the authority
to make effective Investigations so that
| no nation would break the rules. The
plan aimed at placing the sensational
discovery to the service of humanity by
applying it for civilian uses and not for
destruction.
Would Keep Secret.
OF course. the Baruch plan provided
! that the United States keep the secret
of the manufacture of the bomb and
the existing stockpile until the authority
baoop IN operate effectively
Russia's U. N. representative, Andrei
Gromyko, had his own ideas He de-
manded that as a gesture Of good will
this country destroy the available bombs
and impart the secret of the know-how
to all nations But the enforcement OF
control-one of the most important
parts of the Baruch plan-should be
left to individual states. That is to say.
America should give away the secret OF
the bomb and at the same time trust the
other governments with controlling the
manufacture of the atomic power.
An international commission or body
would thus be barred from lnvestlgat-
ing reports that Russia, for instance.
was manufacturing destructive missiles
"
some more deadly type which might be
discovered in the future.
Truth About United States Withheld.
We snapped powerful battleshlps for
blue-prints after the First World War.
We have so far refused to give away
the atomic bomb as a mere gesture of
good will
MI rafl, Of hc hs1NnT n
ment has been taken once more AS
definite proof of American imperialism
and has been communicated to the rest
of the world by spoken and printed
word.
Few if any American publications
ever reach the peoples behind the iron
curtain The American short-wave
broadcasts are seldom listened to by the
same people. There are few radios in
Europe and Asia and it would be a
risky thing for any citizen of the
present totalitarian states to listen to
anything that does not have the official
stamp of the government The govern
ment- owned and controlled press pub
fishes only such items of news as the
propaganda Office permits And it is
rare when a good word about the
United States appears in the news
papers in countries east of the Rhine
In the eyes of 19oOOO,OOO Russians and
some 13O,00000O satellites, to say
nothing of sizable number of Chinese.
who live in areas occupied by the
Yenan forces, the American Govern
periahsm which must be destroyed to
permit the other peoples TO the world
to live under the blessings of Soviet
totalitarianism.