Evening star., 1947-07-15

night. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
Text of Morsf
SALT LAKE CITY, July 15.-
The tert OF Secretary OF State
MarshalPs address before the
National Governors Conference
state dinner" here last night
tollotDs.:
I have welcomed the opportunity
to meet with you gentlemen again
but not the obligation to make q
formal public statement. During
the war years it was possible for me
to talk of the record and also to
discuss matters in a rather definite
manner. always felt that you not
only gave me your confidence, but
that the Army derived very def
mite benefit from the more intimate
knowledge of its problems that I felt
free to communicate to you. I ex-
press again my appreciation of the
support you gave me in those diff
cult days and the meticulous man
ner in which you respected my con-
f1dence
! I little thought in my last meet
| ing with some Of you, I believe at
Mackinac Island, that I would re-
turn again in a totally different
capacity and with problems and re-
sponsibilities that are in some re-
spects much more difficult than
those that were mine during the
war. 1t is unnecessary to tell you
gentlemen that re-establishing the
peace has its difficulties, or that it
is necessary that 1 be very careful
in what I say publicly and when I
say it. If it had been practicable for
me to talk to you off the record and
in great confidence, there is much
that would like to discuss with you.
However, / must confine myself to
the necessities of the time and the
occasion.
Public Needs Understanding.
In accepting my new responsible
ties it is probably fortunate, though
| it did not seem 50 at the time. that
I had little opportunity to go into
all of the details concerned with the
critical negotiations, discussions and
Iactions in which was soon to par
| ticipate. Probably. If I had had q
full realization of the enornity of
the task and its requirements, I
would have suffered considerably in
morale AS it is, I have reason to
be really very grateful for the gen.
erous support which has been given
me and the sympathetic under
standing with which my various
efforts have been regarded.
will say right now that the
greatest problem I feel We have to
deal with is in bringing the Ameri-
can public to general understand
ing of the conditions involved at
home and abroad which influence
all negotiations and therefore all
efforts to re-establish the peace and
prosperity of the world. Prejudiced
points of view are, of course, objec-
tionable in all such matters, but ii
is very hard to avoid a degree OF
prejudice under real provocation
and particularly when one IS remote
from the scene of the difficulties
Also it is very difficult to reduce
the problems to simplicity of state
ment that is understandable to oul
citizens generally. I can judge this
I think rather accurately by my owr
difficulties when I first took up the
burdens of preparation for the
meeting in Moscow. That expert.
ence, incidentally, has guided my
language to a considerable extent
In the various public statements
have had to make. State papers ane
state pronouncements must bt
couched in diplomatic, at least dig.
nified phraseology, and unless ont
is master of the English language
such as Mr.. Churchill for example
it is very difficult to combine these
requirements with the urgent ne.
cessity of making impressively cleal
to the ordinary citizen the matters
under discussion.
Turning Point in Relations.
These gatherings Of the executive
heads of the states on which oul
Government Is founded are emphatic
reminders of the function Of the
states in our political life Thai
function has a very special signifi-
canoe today when one considers the
present world problems.
Thinking back on the develop
ments of our Federal union: On tht
doubts and difficulties which pre-
ceded the final union of the colonies
on the remarkable productive effort
which followed on the solution OF
the early difficulties, and on che
high degree to which the States have
continued to maintain their own in.
dividual personality and institutions
Americans should have a keen anC
sympathetic understanding for the
efforts now under way in Europe tt
overcome the limitations of nationa
barriers in the approach to solu.
ton for common economic problems
And his understanding will strongly
. influence, in fact will determine, thu
decisions which this country will b,
called upon to take with relation tt
the outcome of those discussions.
There is no blinking the fact tha'
this country now stands at turn.
ling point in its relations to 1t!
traditional friends among the ma.
, tions of the Old World. Either i
must finish the task of assisting
|, these countries to adjust themselve!
to the changed demands of new
: age, or it must reconcile itself II
seeing them move In direction!
which are consistent neithea Will
their own traditions nor with thos,
! of this country. In this latter case
the United States would be faces
with radical alteration of its owl
|, position In the world. I ask you tt
consider most carefully the implica'
ttior, of Sl,ch n develoDnent for tht