Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
NO TIME TO LOSE

In recent issue OF 1He FREEMAN entlt-
led "What Treaties Can Lead To-" Editor
Henry Hazlitt discusses, with the aid of
Clarence ManiOn former Dean Of the Notre
Dame Law School and Frank E. Holman,
Past President of the American Bar AsSOci-
alton, just how our u. N. membership can
destroy the Constitution unless we move
quickly to prevent gevernment-by-treaty
The editorial quotes an address of Mr..
Manion in which he says: To-day the
Bill of Rights is seriously threatened with
complete destruction, not by a military con-
quest . :, but through the processes of a
Well-managed deception upon the people of
this country engineered by enemies of Am
erican freedom and American independence.
Through the influence of our star-gazers
we are being urged to believe that since the
world is not ready or willing to adopt our
Bill of Rights we should adopt another which
the rest of the world will accept.
1--WE are urged to do this in the interest
OF world unity and through the mechanism
of multilateral international treaties. If any
such treaties violate our time-honored Bill
of Rights or any other provision of our prec-
iOus Constitution, then to that extent our
Constitution and our Bill of Rights is re-
pealed, Much of our Constitution has al
ready been superseded this way, and the
remainder of it is scheduled for repeal by
the Senatorial ratification of a score of trea-
ties now in process of preparation and sub
mission
Specifically, Mr.. Manion refers to "the
so-cailed Genocide Pact, and the U. N. Cove
nant on Civil and Political Rights.
Mr.. HOlman's remarks, also quoted from
an address, point out how, under the Cove
nant President may declare state of
emergency, suspend freedom Of speech and
close up all the newspapers. The u. N, Dec
laration on Human Rights, says Mr.. Hol-
man, needs only to be put in treaty form and
ratified by the Senate to transform the
government of the U. S. from Republic to
a sOcialistic state %"
1t is Mr.. HaZlitt'S conclusion that Z"
no proposed amendment to the Constitution
has ever been more urgent than the Bricker
Amendment, which would make it clear be-
yond debate that treaties can not impair or
supersede our Constitutional rights"
think?
HOW DID WE GET INTO THIS?
Perhaps we should accept the jaunty at
titude Of Britain's Minister of State at the
United Nations, Selwyn Lloyd, and 'just get
on with the arrangements for the Korean
peace conference at a COmmunist-stacked
table.
Andrei Vishinsky, the Russian represen-
tatiVe, has asked the participation of Burma,
India, Poland, Sweden, the Soviet Union, the
United States, Britain, France, Communist
China, North Korea and South Korea.
u. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge,
Jr., who rejects India as a nOn-participant
in the war and would accept Russia only
as a member of the Communist side, stOutly
champions Article go Of the armistice which
calls for "a political conference of both
Sides"
But Britain's Mr.. Lloyd, who still wants
Russia and India in the conference, said,
Don't let's take this too tragically or seri-
Ously. Let's just get on. The world wants
from us speedy action-not protracted de-
bate"
But Americans, who had just learned that
the preliminary" total of u. S. casualties in
Korea stands at 142,277, of whom 25,604
we're killed in action and S,529 are still re-
ported missing, are not likely to appreciate
or endorse Mr.. LlOyd's viewpoint nor
to understand just how and why Mr.. Vishin-
sky is having so much to say about how the
conference is to be rugged.
To say that the u. N. in its palatial quar-
ters in New York is abusing our hospitality
would be the understatement of all time.
&S9O&S
COMMODORE PERRY'S RAILROAD
One century ago Commodore Perry of
the United States Navy arrived at Japan
with the mission Of negotiating a CONNER
cial treaty with that empire. With him, it
has recently been revealed, went minia-
ture railroad, something like the ones now
round in amusement parks, which he pre-
sented to Japan's rulers. And this little
railroad played a significant role in the
treaty negotiations. For Perry used it as
an outstanding example Of progressive AM
erican enterprise, and to demonstrate to the
Japanese the advantages Of trading with the
United States.
It was natural that Perry should have
done this. At the time, the railroads were
spreading out to and beyond The Mississippi,