Evening star., 1946-09-11
Letters to The Star
Mr.. Byrnes' Stuttgart Speech
Interpreted and Approved


Abraham Lincoln, the most realistic of
humanitarians. said: Il believe this
Government cannot permanently en-
dure half slave and half free" At
Stuttgart a distinguished son Of
sovereign state that futilely rebelled
against this logic reafnrmed its i'm
mutable truth In respect to the United
Nations organization. In no uncertain
terms Secretary Byrnes reminded trou-
bled mankind that our United Nations
organization cannot endure, econom-
ically or politically, half slave and half
free, and that this inviolate truth must
apply even to our undeserving enemies.
For the discerning. here is timely ap-
plication Of the ultimate in wisdom: Al
man may not serve two masters.
This courageous reaffirmation of the
Potsdam agreements, of which the
communistic dictatorship Of Russia was
solemn guarantor, probably will
arouse the ire of two protesting groups
those who will continue to want the
ton in punishment and revenge and
those who believe that there should be
no limit to the repudiation of our own
principles In appeasing the inordinate
demands Of predatory Communism for
world dominion. One wants peace en-
forced with sadism; the other wants
peace at the price of spiritual enslave-
ment of the many by the cynical few.
Secretary Byrnes wisely has afiirmed
that criminal Germany best can pay
her incalculable debt to her ravaged
victims only by resuming maximal pro-
duction and equitable distribution of
vitality needed consumer goods. 1t must
be obvious that a shackled, knouted,
dismembered Germany never can ex-
plate her economic vandalism by the
forced production Of the essentials of
life she SO wantonly destroyed or con-
fiscated. Unless she promptly is re-
stored to productive economic health,
she remains a parasitic liability
But in his sane insistence that even
outlawed Germany eventually may as
pire to an honorable restoration as a
free sovereign nation, Secretary Byrnes
has exposed the essence of the issue
which divides mankind into two irrec-
oncilable ideologies.
The issue is not Russia versus the
war-weary nations of the earth who in
sist upon peace within the framework
of the solemn covenant of the Atlantic
Charter. The real issue is the funda-
mental antagonism between two con-
trary concepts Of human dignity and
security -dictatorial communism ver-
sus freedom-lo loving democracy. Why
should the ruthless conniving totali-
tartan dictatorship of communism yield
to a despised and shackled enemy that
which she dare not permit her own
regimented and intimidated multitudes
to enjoy?
picious Communist dictatorship that
its own survival as the ruler OF the
enslaved many by the ruthless and
cynical few is dependent on vigilant
suppression and disbursement of the
liberating forces Of truth and the en-
nobling belief in moral order predi-
Gated on faith in Gods justice as ex-
emplified by the golden rule. Only by
resisting truth with the iron curtain,
only by continuing to enjoin criticism
and dissent with the purge and only by
coercing obedience and sychophancy
with persecution, sabotage and fear
may predatory communism survive.
The hope Secretary Byrnes has Of
fered Germany is an assured promise
of the inalienable dignity of human
freedom even to the enslaved, slowly
awakening heroic multitudes of Russia
herself. Predatory communism stands
in fear of history's inevitable judgment.
Our United Nations Organization may
not permanently endure half slave and
half free. Neither may it survive and
serve two masters.
THOMAS E. MATTINGLY, M. D.
NEGLECT of Children Deplored
To the Editor of The Star
The immediate fundamental need in
this controversy between the Board of
Public Welfare and the Commissioners
is to make decision now. Surveys are
costly both in time and money and We
have been making them for years with
little to show in the progress of admin
istering childrens institutions under
the Board of Public Welfare. They, up
to recently, have been administered
along with the penal institutions!
There have been voluminous reports
on this subject; therefore the facts have
been well publicized, so that no one who
is interested In this important field
should be ignorant.
1t is modification to those Of US
who are interested and particularly
those who are District of Columbia ma
tives, that our city is regarded as max
ing little progress in its plans for the
proper care of neglected and otherwise
unfortunate boys and girls.
The responsibility for this program
primarily should be with the Commits
sioners who necessarily are jealous for
the reputation of the Nations Capital.
Nothing can be more tragic to gen.
Grafton than to have failed its chill
dren-"the hope Of the world"
D. G. NATIVE.
Tactics (A) and OBJ Resented
To the Editor OF The Star:
Practically every paper Cor maga-
zine) I've looked at during the past 10
days has had a SKETCH cartoon or
cooked-up picture Of some youngster
heading for his first day in school.
I rise to protest two aspects of these
little features:
(A) The Child inevitably is portrayed