Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-01
Text OF Secretary Bynes' Speech Warning Russians
BY the Associated Pres.

~ BY the Asseeioted Pres.
Following is the tert of the
address OF Secretary of State
Byrnes last night in New York
before the Overseas Press Club:
We are beginning to realize tina
the war is over. 1t is good to hav
sons, husbands and fathers hom
again. 1t is good to open a news
paper without fear of finding IL
the casualty lists the name of on
near and dear to us.
But this is not wholly a time o
celebration and rejoicing. AS fami
lies in their homes on the farm
and in the cities settle back from
the dinner table to hear the boy
tell of Normandy and Two Jima
there is an unspoken question il
every mind. The question is wha
we can do to make certain that
there will never be another war.
During the war our goal was clear
Our goal was victory. The problem,
of industrial and military mobiliza.
ton, it is true, were problems Of
the first magnitude. Production
bottlenecks often seemed unbreak.
able, transportation difficulties anG
manpower shortages insurmount-
able. On the fighting front, the
combined land, sea and air opera
lions were heartbreaking in COM
plexity.
United by Common Goal.
These were hard tasks. Yet we
were able to apply a yardstick to
each proposal by asking simple
question: "Will it help to win the
WARP" The common goal OF victory
served to unite us and to give pur-
pose and direction to our efforts.
Now that we have come into
calmer waters, our relief and graft
tude are mixed with uncertainty,
Our goal now is permanent peace
and surely we seek it even more
anxiously than we sought victory.
The difficulty is that the path to
permanent peace is not so easy to
see and to follow as was the path
to victory.
When an issue is presented. we
ask, will it help to win the peace?'
When the answer is slow to come
or does not come at all, we grow
uneasy and apprehensive.
While We may be in doubt about
many things, there are certain basic
propositions on which we are clear.
One Is that just and lasting
peace is not the inevitable result of
victory. Rather, victory has given
us the opportunity to build such a
peace. And our lives depend upon
whether we make the most of this
opportunity.
All Bound Together.
Another thing of which we are
certain is that we Americans alone
cannot determine whether the world
will live in peace or perish in war,
Peace depends quite as much upon
others as it does upon us. No ma
tion Is the complete master of it's
fate. We are all bound together for
better or for worse.
Because we know this, we have
pinned our hopes to the banner of
the United Nations. And we are
not content simply to take our place
in that organization. We realize
that although the dreams of the
world are lodged in it, the United
Nations will fail unless its members
give it life by their confidence and
by their determination to make it
work in concrete cases and in every
day affairs.
And so wish to talk to you about
the first meetings of the United
Nations. What has been said in
these meetings had been said as
plainly and bluntly as anything
have heard said by responsible
statesmen in any private confer
ence.
These first meetings were intend
ed only to establish the various pro-
grams OF the United Nations. But
so pressing were some of the prob
aems presented to the Security
Council that they had to be dealt
with before there was a chance for
the council to adopt even provision
81 rules of procedure.
Clashes of Interest.
All was not calm and peaceful at
the meetings in London. There was
esfort to use the United Nations to
xlvance selfish national aims. But
the Clash Of national interests and
purposes which were reflected in the
debates in London was very much
like the clash of local and special
interests which are reflected in our
national and State legislatures
We may deprecate some of these
clashes of interest. But when they
exist, it is better that they should be
publicF revealed. If these conflicts
of interest did not appear in the
forums of the United Nations, these
forums would be detached from real
1ty and in the long run turn out to
be Elrposeless and futile.
A most significant precedent was
established when the Security Coun-
Gil finished its discussions of the
complaint of the Syrian and Leban-
csc governments requesting the
withdrawal of French and British
troops from their territories.
The Council did not take formal
action because of difference among
the permanent members as to the
form of the resolution. But no one
questioned the general proposition
that no state has the right to main-
tain its troops on the territory of
another independent state without
its consent, nor the application of
this proposition to the pending case.
Off to a Good Start.
The particular form of resolution
to this general effect, which was
presented by the United States rep
resentative, Mr.. ,Stettinius, was sup
ported by most of the members of
the Council. 1t failed of acceptance,
however, because the Soviet Union
vetoed it on the ground that it was
not definite enough.
But the British and French pov-