The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-25
By Drese' Pearson

The trouble, in my opinion is that during war allies are bound together in common danger. Then, the minute war is over they start forgetting those common ties They start hagslng over the spells of war
 But the man who saw most clearly the need Of arranging the peace while the war was on was thrown out of the Administration in the very middle of the war with his job barely started Tn my opinion this will go down in history as one of Franklin RooseVelts greatest mistakes-a mistake to be paid for by your children and mine.
 Sumner Welles the man Roosevelt fired as un- der Secretary of state, believed in the lawyers adage Collect your fee while your clients tears are hot"
 He had begun while the Russians were panting for help ct staiingrad and while the British were still in their bomb-proof shelters, to prepare the peace treaties which were to follow the war Weles called in experts asked them to work out founda- ton for the United Nations. He had gone over Huls head direct to Roosevelt and got permission to iron out the controversies of peace while the war was still on.
 Then personal ealousy--which so often turns the tide of history-cut the ground from under Welles work. His chief MT, Hull, made him personal issue told Roosevelt that either he or Welles must go Roosevelt chose to keep the man with the greatest political power in the Senate
 Immediately the plug was pulled on all Welles work, the months went by before Hull pieKeo up the pieces Those were crucial months During them, Stalingrad was turned from defeat into victory. The British no longer were worried about atvaek' The clients tears he'd dried The Tee was now some
 
 The only fee the great majority of the Amer ican people wanted was @ permanent peace, and we have been haggling over 1t ever since,
 The fault ls not that of Jimmy ByrnOs. He picked up the ball late and is doing the best he can, The fault is in the delay the procrastinating, the lack of vision in preparing for peace when the iron was hot What so few people realize is that peace is harder lob than war Wars mistakes are glossed over or forgiven in the passion of conflict The mis- takes of peace sometimes are not so apparent. They do not cost lives or lose battles-immedately. But their price is heavier in the end.
 The start of the war found us unprepared ana off guard at Pearl Harbor That error has been the talk of the nation ever since Months of Congressional debate and Investigation have been spent trying to fix the blame ~
 This, realize, iS not the kind of a letter one should write the mother of newborn baby But I feel strongly that the mothers of America would rather face these problems now. And wonder also if 1t would not be better to admit our failure frankly and openly instead of glossing 1t over and pretend ing that we have won something that we haven't
 am certain that the mothers Of Russia-ano their sons-are just as anxious to avoid war as we, and have little realization where their rulers are taking them. Our problem is to make them realize, to make them know that there are no nasie differ ences between them and the great mass Of the American people When we can get that idea across, when we can get to know the Russian people, then the power to make war will be taken out ot the hands of few men, and wars will be no more,
 Your brother
 DREW