The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-03

to our people a wholesome Sellse of well-being.
 Theodore Roosevelt was nation- alist. He was of the very earth of America. His outlook on life was l American, from his New York or igin to his early manhood in the open plains of the west. His Rough Riders" were more typical of Amer ican dancing than the best organized division of an army. And while he was regarded as peace President and won Nobel Prize for his peaceful endeavors, he placed his country before all else and said so. He may have reflected the mood of his times, but Teddy as he was lovingly called, was no reflector; his nature was to push ahead.
 Theodore Roosevelt had the ad- vantage of having in his Cabinet two of the last of our great Se- cretaries of State, John Hay and Elihu Root. With the possible eX- ception of Charles E. Hughes Ill the Harding and Coolidge Admin istrations, subsequent Presidents were weakly served by their Se- cretaries of State, and in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administra- ton that office degenerated into q repository of Presidential whim in expertly serviced.
 Peace movements in the early ] years of the Twentieth Century were designed principally for the establishment of international law as binding upon all countries and for some type of juridical determ- ination of the problems arising among nations. The Hague Fri bunal was well regarded among nations. In Europe, there was a balance of power which held until the Agadir Affair 191D when it appeared as though the rising pow CT of Germany might explode into war. The Nobel Peace Prizes stimu- lated interest in peace and there were many organizations among the people that fostered various con- cepts for better relations among nations.
 However, peace movements did not lessen nationaliStic sentiments and although many European coun- tries maintained in the United i States hands -the-seas" or ganizations none of them accom- plished more than long speeches on important occasions. The British were influential in the State De- partment but enjoyed no mass fol- lowing and were not as favored as the French or the Germans; the latter, particularly in the mid dle west. Americans of Irish origin were, of course, especially anti l British.
 It was not until t1e advent of World War I that the concept of a more or less "one world appeared in public opinion. The League to l Enforce Peace, presided over by William Howard Taft, was un- doubtedly a forerunner of the ideas of Woodrow Wilson for a League of Nations, a parliament of states. Woodrow Wilson was an intense nationalist, who, while he sought world body to curb war and the l processes that lead to war, so l thoroughly believed in the right of the people to govern themselves within the terms of their own na- ticnal traditions that ile made that the central concept of his Four teen Points which gave World War I its goal and he actually helped to found group of strongly na- tionalistic republics in Europe.
 Wilson's excesses kept this coun- try out of the League of Nations and laid the foundation for World i War II. It was in that war that 1 the United States departed alto- gether from traditional national ism So complicated did our world partnership become that it led to the vicious and damaging decis- ions at Teheran and Yalta, decis- ions secretly arrived at, defying public opinion which was beguiied 1 by actual falsehoods. World War II was conducted to minimize na- tionalism, even to minimize the importance of the United States as nation. So general was this at titude that was relayed to our troops by our government In the United Nations, it was hoped that nationalism would be dissolved.