The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-01
Bv DresO Pearson

CordeI Hull sailing for Montevideo wanted to continue dlcking. After arriving, HUI callca on the Argentine and Chilean Foreign Ministers later informed American colleagues that Argentine SaaVe- dra Lamas and chilean Miguel Crucnaga agEeea with him that the right to intervene by force must be preserved. He said they even promised 70 speak in favor of the American position, after which he Hull, would rise and support the Argentine and Chilean Foreign Ministers
 Other U. s. delegates could hardly believe tnelr ears For Latin championship of the right of armed intervention meant political suicide They went to the session, however and listened Lhe Argentine Foreign Minister rose spoke briefly againsS nEelven tion It could be tolerated, he said. Delegates noticed that Cordeu Hull suddenly bent over anu began hastily scribblng on pad of paper Next came the Chilean Foreign Minister. ne aiso salo ' was time to outlaw the right of any nation to iana troops on the soil of another. This was just the opposite of what Mir Hull expected Finally HUH rose and delivered the new speech he nao Deen sc.DDl.s "a speech backing up Argentina Chile, placing tne LISA on record against armed intervenClon That was partly how the Good Neghbor policy was born. Sumner Welles did the rest
 New York 1946-TOday Russia, fuming against the United Nations is in the same boat as the u5A before the Pan-American Union Instead o NaCara- gva it's Iran . But there is one essential differ ence In 20 years the UIS.A moved Tar aneaa in international morality-due to the power oI pup lie opinion The American people its press ano pupR were continually pushing their, government. The opposite is true in Russia. The Russlap people know little about Iran, little about the UNO. con ference have to take what their government sises
  showed that most of them thought Churchill was an American We have to make allowances for Rus sia because in she is new natlon-Sensltlxe and suspicious But until the Russian people run tneH government until penetrate the Soviet iron cur tain and get to know the Russian people, we Iace tne dismal prospect of turmoil and misunderstandmg Tor many years to come.
 Probably it was pure accident, but Harold Ickes negns his new career as newspaper columnist on the same day he is needed most in his old job as Coal Administrator And good columnist that he IS pound to be, probably most people would prefer Ickes at the helm in this coal dispute rather than yielding g pen three times week.
 As a colunnist Ickes should tell the inside story of how he outsmarted John L. Lewis during the last coal strike and made him call it off However, since he probably won't tell it. this competitor will
 During Lewiss illegal walk-out over organiMng foremen last fall Ickes pulled his trump card. The government-owned Big Inch and Little Inch pipe lines no longer needed to carry oil to the East Coast so Ickes threatened to convert them to natura gas
 Natural gas is the thing which John r. Lewis dreads most It makes him see things unoer the peo Piped up from Texas where much of 1t goes to waste gas can be sold in the big Eastern industrial centerS at a rate which would put many coal mines out oi business Furthermore, Texas gas operators figure that in five to ten years atomic energy will Jeopar- dize their investment and they are anxious 10 sell their gas now
 With this trump card plus the fact that the miners themselves didn't want to strike, Ickes Dul- dozed Lewis into calling the strike off
 Today the two government pipelines are filled with salt water, and Mir Ickes, instead of battling with John L. Lewis is brandishng pen