The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-05
THE WATERBURY DEMOCRAT WATERBURY CONN., MONDAY AUGUST 1o46
Merry y-G0-Round

PARIS. Aug. 5-(By Wireless)-Its hot in the galleries of the Palace of Luxembourg. In the top gallery sit hundreds of newsmen-Chlnese, Slamese' Creek Indian, New zealanders, watching man speak far below. Newsrnen from all over the world watching the peace It's their peace. Whats done here will affect their countries from Bauchstan to Iceland from Saskatchewan to Samoa and they are watching.
 Far below, under the klieg lights, sits Jimmy I3vrnes-natient polite Jimmy Byrnes-never leaving his seat never failing to listen man speaks into the microphone. He's interpreting Molotov in French Another man speaks He's interpreting Mootov in English It takes hours. When, you wonder will diplomacy ever become modernized? Fifteen years ago the Pan-American Union adopted earphones and simultaneous translation. Delegates could DICK up an earphone and get speech translated slmul- taneously in English French Spanish, Portuguese with no waste of time. But the Frencn oont go in for modernization Diplomacy is just the same-lt hasn't been changed since 1915. The Vienna Con- ference when the Great Powers divided up Europe and brought more wars.
 Paris today is depressingly the same. We invent modern methods of warfare. Rockets that may reach the moon atomic bombs than sink naves germs that can destroy civilizations but the weapons of neace never keep pace with the weapons of war
 nor do the diplomats who wield the. weapons of peace The same crowd which failed to head off the last war is here agan-even some of the same crowd which sat in at the last Paris Peace Conference. Look at their faces Poker faces. No llfe no hf no passion for the peace they are negotiating oored faces preOccupled faces, DOfeQ Wltn IHe eHoleSs translations. Bored with the whole boredom Of diplomacy Not man among them who lost an arm or leg who knows what it is to suffer on the bat tlefield. These are the men who are writing the peace.
 Jimmy Byrnes is not bored. Polite, patient, pre- else Jimmy Byrnes sits on the front roW-perhaps he is too polite, too patient You reel hke shoutlng down at Jimmy. You wish you had telephone to reach him there, way down below. You wish you could tell him.
 That was great speech you made the other day. Jimmy but finish it. Tell them the rest Of the story Tell them only that the United States lsn t going to remain isolated but that we're going to raise hell with anyone who blocks our path to peace Tell them that millions of Americans fed up with all this frittering that millions of Americans mean bus- ness and will back you up in anything you do. Tell it to 'em, Jimmy"
 But Jimmy seems far away. Around the Senate Chamber of the Palace of Luxembourg are great, gold ornaments. Woodwork carved in ornate shapes, heavily encrusted with gold remnants of the lush days of the de Medlels II the French had only been smart If they had only painted out the gold and substituted white crosses! Then perhaps the bored diplomats sitting below would remember . white crosses from Guadalcanal and Stalingrad from Saerno and New Guinea, from Tobruk and the Rapido from Normandy and Aachen. |. Close your eyes and you can see them thou