Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN "I Am the Law" Stalin ONE of oar eminent political bossed, Frank Hague, of Jersey City, has acquired the appropriate nickname, "I am the law." At...
...2. Will you oppose any reservations to United...
...And he hst also struck the "I am the law" pose by ths attitude which he has taken toward the Dumbarton Oaks scheme of world security...
...A highly sensitive concern over Washington's reaction...
...The only nations that will be ia a position ta conduct large-acale war with any prospect ef eucress after the end, of the present straggle are the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States...
...This is all the more true because one looks in vain through the tentative outline of- the Dumbarton Oaks achenie Tor any rules of law,"morals and equity, for any automatic definition of aggression, for any guaranty of the independence and territorial integrity of the member stales in the world organization...
...In order to see what is wrong with such an approach it is only necessary to consider how impossible it would be for livrstia or Pravda to publish an article munched in corresponding terms: "The need for kidglove handling of relations with the United States...
...The future of world peace dtpends in large part on American and British cooperation with Russis...
...At aa illustration of thia eitly and endig nines appeasement payrhology, I cite a few phrases that recently appeared ia an AP dispatch from Washington: "The need for kidglove handling of Russian relations...
...But they can only bt tolerable if there is a strict insistence on equality and reciprocity...
...No special organization for this purpose was necessary...
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...21, we will beojia • series ef fear articles by Lionello Venturl...
...It ia to be hoped that the hard lessons of experience will bary the absurd theory thst the height ef wiadom ia oar policy toward tke Soviet Union ia to do everything Stella wants, say nothing that could possibly give the least of ease—and trust that Stalin's bettor nature will assert itself...
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...Tht appeasement attitude it a mere invitation to more and mart aggrtttion...
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...The last thing the Soviet Government wants, or will accept, if ent may judge from ita actions, it any iaternatiettal organization able and •wflbng to impose tht) slightest surb on its expansionist ambitions During the very weeks when the delegstes at Dumbarton Oaks orere working on the blueprint of an organization supposedly based on "the principle of the sovereign equality of peace-loving states," the Soviet Government was making a bloody and cynical mockery of this principle in relation to...
...If every great power in the future "world security organization" is to place itself above the law ths value of the whole organisation is certainly exposed to serious question...
...The Soviet holdout was on the obviously fair proposition that no nation shoald sit in judgment in its own case...
...It is a soothing but very deceptive euphemism to say that ninety per cent agreement was reached at thit conference...
...noted Italia* exile, former professor at the University ef Florence, widely known historian ef art ond culture He will write OR the present political titration m bit native land, an Italian col tare la this crisis, aad on Reave under the Nazis Alto In next week's Hsve: What Is a Liberal...
...2. Will you agree to be judged, aa well aa to jadgt others, by aa agreed rode of international law and equity...
...It was the concensus of opinion among other participants in the conference that a great power, if accused of aggression, should leave the decision to the members of the council...
...and limitation af armamrntt, aet forth ia the Atlantic Charter...
...As it is unthinkable that any government would stigmatise itself as an aggressor, however flagrantly it might have played that role, this right of veto, if admitted, would bring the world back to the position of 1913, when every government asaumed the right to make war whenever it taw fit, Far it ia obviously net from a defeated and disarmed Germany and Japan that any serious threst ta peace fat likely te arise—unless, indeed, one of the victorious sowers finds aa interest...
...Dumbarton Oaks, where progress was clearly blocked not by American isolationists, but by the "above the* law" attitude of a foreign dictator is only one of teveral developments that place the actual titustion in truer perspective...
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...in rearming 'either Germany, ar Japan, or both...
...Some sincere friends of peace in America have constructed a bogeymen, labelled American isolationism, and proceeded on the assumption that, if this bogeyman could only be eliminated, the world would eaaily and promptly be organized along tht lines of justice and cooperation...
...a debate between Milton Keavits mn4 Lewis Momford aa The Iff at ta Lynch...
...From an instrument of non-aggression it would be transformed into a screen for unlimited aggression, if committed by one of the charter members...
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...At a dictator Joseph Stalin it a boss with power multiplied to infinity...
...But the full story of the cynical arresting and killing by the Soviet political police of active members of the Polish under, ground forces that fought bravely against the Germans during the Soviet advance into Poland trill slock whatever moral sensibility American public opinion msy retain, when it is generally known...
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...States entry into such United Nations - Organization, which would weaken the power of the Organisation to act to maintain peace and stop aggression T 3. Should the vote of the United States representative on the United Nations Security Council commit an agreed upon quota of our military forces to action ordered by the Council to maintain peace without requiring further congressional approval T I WOULD substitute, at far more relevant to the organisation ef genuine peace the following three questions, which would have to be put to Stalin and Churchill, as well as to Roostttelt and Dewey: 1. Will yoa do everything in your power te assure that the peace conforms to the ideals ef self-determination af peoples, equelity af economic opportunity among nation...
...The future of world peace depends in large part aa Russian cooperation with tke United States and Great Britain...
...In view of these hard but unmistakable facts, I have a feeling that Senator Ball, of Minnesota, hat been harking up the wrong tree with his three questions, addressed to both Presidential candidates: 1. Will you...
...The setting up of a stooge regime in the form of the sadly misnamed Polish Council of Liberation wat bad enough...
...A highly senaltivc concern aver Moscow's reactions...
...For the point on which every government but the Soviet was out of step it of cardinal importance for the successful functioning of sny plan for maintaining international law, equity and peace...
...The Soviet delegation interposed an uncompromising No...
...support the earliest possible formation of the United Nations Security Organization and United States entry therein before any final peace settlements are made either in Europe or Asia...
...The future historia n may find this an important point to remember when responsibility for some future act of international aggression is under discussion...
...Diplomatic relationship with an "I am the law" dictatorship can never be easy...
...S. Will yoa cooperate in writing into the peace settlement aa many precise delnitions ef aggression as possible, and consent to take immediate action against a power that transgresaee these delnitions...
...Even before the establishment of the League of Nations a group of great powers in agreement could always stop a war among small powers...
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...The American and British representative* in the Dumbarton Oaks conference expressed willingness for their governments to sit out in case a charge of aggression against them should be presented to the council...
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...To scctpt the Soviet claim that a large power accused of aggression should solemnly vote s* to whether it was guilty or not would be to rob the new security organisation of all moral authority in advance...
...TAX PLAN..................................Albert MaJaai i UK OPE AN MINORITIES AND THI FUTURE...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 43
