Capital Comment

...JjP"**y, diplomatic circles deduced from the »>·, S*y vote decision of tiki American delegation that Salin may be disappointed if he is counting on Amoram) support...

...Roosevelt saay I?tsve that be earn then shrug hi* shoulders help pkV »»d aay: "Tee see hew it is, Joe...

...Before the moving stream of human development such seeming-security melts away...

...San Francisco and the Future JAMES B. RESTON writes in The New York Time» of April 8: "Observers here feel thst unless both the delegates at San Francisco and the people keep their minds constantly on the general problem of keeping the coslition together . . . they may get lost in the technicalities of subsidiary problems or waste their energies on false goals...

...Various tchtmea are being luggetted for making the composition of tho Security Council as well as Assembly mor* representative of peoples and of region...

...By I960 the .mighty flats of our Big Three may suffer a similar fate...

...This was made dear to haplesa Uranfeii who tried to get hotel reservation* here thia teak, only to discover that the State Department had teebUd up practically every reservation in*town...

...It is taken for granted that cohesion or four or Ave great military powers can insure the future peace...

...What happened at Vienna at the beginning of one century and at Versailles at the beginning of another prove* that an alliance of victors is not enough...

...Evan laraay Barurh'a bench in Lafayette Park wa» turning *»*m eVernight' reservations...

...policy by a simple Mjoritv vote...

...The •faJrVaa tiMgttlen at San Francisco can, and jmeakiy will, refee* by a majority vote to support issjm's demami for three vote...

...The demand for readjustment, will not down...

...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Only Americans Take Parley Seriously WASHINGTON,D.C.—The Sea Frenciaro Con-W ferenee moved Into Washington this week as a preliminary to the cross-country trek to it» hud destination...

...It Is fortunate' that there la some possibility of raising these vital iaiuei before the historie aftltlg at San Francisco take* place...

...This well summarise* what seems to have been the central purpose of Washington's United Nation* policy for many months...

...By 1830 the world of 1815 seemed ancient history...

...It is not diffi-J» •nder the circumstances, to prophesy that Joe HP*"* t° lik* it And that doesn't augur "good'' "•me San Francisco Conference...

...And the most cynical in tfctir attitudes are the British, French and Rusaiana...

...The mora nearly the plans for the General International Organisation tor* respond to human need*, the bettor will be the chance of preserving the pane...

...This announcement by Secretary of kata St.-n inius came after the announcement last week ist the united States will not ask for three votes for S. »ut will stand by Roosevelt's promise to support ti demand* for three votes for Russia...

...There's I can de about it Sorry, old man...

...put it in reverse, the tnft«f shocking hnprteAon »* $t<- tmount of cynicism towards the San Fr*nci$co Conference encountered among the deleg?tei /rem the ether nationi, big end k'ttia...

...Mere cessation of hostilities seems enough...

...There teems to, l»e a supreme driving purpose to preserve the unity of war...

...After a horrible war people yearn for peace—any sort of peace...

...TWmf wp be deviling an organisation for a world which han boon aet up for them by the victorious great powert...

...The Dumbarton Oaks propoaala and the Teheran-Yalta agreements are exclusively (dated at aetting up powerful forces to maintain the etatu* quo...

...It 1* still possible that out of this congreaa of forty nation* may come a charter of justice which, Ilk* the Constitution of the United State*, may grow along with the expanding need* and hope* of men and may time guarantee—so far ? soch a thing can ho guaranteed—an era of pone* and goodwill...

...Many delegat**, have expressed the view that the International Court of Justie* should be placed mach higher in authority than wa* contemplated at Dumbarton Oak...

...The deleg?tei assembled at San Francisco will have no concern with tfa* peace term...

...The rigidly guarded framework begins to crack—and sooner than on* would think men begin to ye»rn for war rather tana for peace...

...The Presi-*·* ·»» »· much as aald publicly that he mad* several JS**** deals at Yalta...

...The most optimistic are the America ?», ? -wat announced H?tt the American delegation will make all Medelons respecting U.S.A...

...And 9*ftV«U may think he can do this and still retain ?riendahlp ami good will •1« la a totalitarian dictator and therefore a kind of animal, a fact which Roosevelt and JgNf his advisers Und to keep on forgetting, Dic-Jfpi don't understand—and never have—this business " M»K thwarted in their will by such silly, demo-21·« '«''<»yncracies as majority votes...

...He made them, he said, as '***·' te bo paid for obtaining an International <>'K*niiation—the fulfillment of the Wllsonian Thmeier*, Roosevelt most obtain such a result J**" 'rancisro because it's the only thing he brought 3**·» Y?tm *» Jerttty the betrayal of our Polish *2Jv*ur Yugoelav all lee, our Baltic alllea...

...Emphasis It on speed and power—not on justie** En-cepting in the title of the very ehort chapter on the International Court of Juetice, the word luetic* doe* pot occur in the official tent of the Dumbarton O?jte Cenjerenee...

...And the prime objective of their labor* will be to keep that world in a mold already determined...

...No wonder there is alarm in some Washington circle* •t the obvious purpose of delegates from many different lends to break out from the rigid limit* that have boon set for them...

...Great allied powers st the moment of victory are interested in setting up a world according to their own taste and establishing the most solid-looking military guarantees of its permanence...

...To secure the continuation of this combination, then, no sacrifice is too great...

...Iheene meaty kernel of importance which appears to |tV*msiging from this hectic week is the growing: iaprtation that what will happen at San Francisco ? eaty the preliminary round at best The impression made on the perambulating newa-atser men culling opinions amonit the delegatea' >» Pet only the Americans are taking a completely •jrWu...

...wh» the united States Is so deadly serious 7**_*»a San Francisco Conference...

...The whole organisation of the United Nations federation is designed to secure quick and effective execution of the «rill of the combined groat powers...

...What all of this add* np to I* that a peace that U not ba**d on justice and which does not provide for readjustments corresponding to n*w need* can lay no claim to permsnance...

...The majority vote decision paves the «ay tar the possibility of the repudiation of Reoae-*** Promise of support JiMe etan a nice example of hew differently 0»J*»cr.tie and totalitarian minds operate...

...And, above nil, many voices are raised ai-ainst being forced to accept without discussion or possibility of change all of the unilateral arrangements which have been mad* and which may be made when the final peace terms are drawn...

...Most men seem willing to suffer any wrong, to endure any injustice, if only the gun* will stop for a while and the torpedo** give us a breathing space of quiet But after a period of such peac«, injustice begin to gall, the deep human yearning for jostle*, for •quality of opportunity, for self-determination, begins to assert itself...

...Tat least cynical are the Chinese...

...tutude towards the Ssii Francisco Conference...

...By 1933 all the powerful restraints aet up under ?he leadership of Clemenceau and Lloyd George were carried down in the flood of new powers let loose in the world...

...The rebellion take* the form of three separate sorts of proposals...

...Present* Roosevelt with a dilemma...

...But ao such instrument can be devised In an atOMSphers ef <eerclon and repression...

...But that's also ?"r «aiost nobody elae is...