Success of Frisco Parley in Jeopardy

STOUT, JONATHAN

Success of Frisco Parley in Jeopardy By JONATHAN STOUT SAN FRANCISCO—From the time we boarded the special correspondent* train in New York, 1 have heard almost nothing elae but "Russia" and...

...Why not...
...The fact which gives the surest basis for optimism is that so many responsible persons In far-separated parts of the world have reached similar conclusions...
...Provision to revise territorial and political • rrsngeeseats eatablished at the end ef the war...
...Success of Frisco Parley in Jeopardy By JONATHAN STOUT SAN FRANCISCO—From the time we boarded the special correspondent* train in New York, 1 have heard almost nothing elae but "Russia" and "Pola...
...He said he had not yet seen earthing to lighten, but a great deal to deepen, his Stesimiem as to toy really effective postwar peace or-pautatlon...
...It was as if, at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania had placed themselves in control of the United States Senate and told the other states to wait in line and take whatever was handed out to them...
...Already tha suggestion is being voiced in American farters that a strong stand will have to be taken with *· Kassians...
...This is the meaning of the top-heavy voting system proposed for the Security Council...
...7—Arresting of the present dangeroaa tendency ef the Btf Throe t* neck security...
...by unilateral, and net threegh cooperative, means...
...They were basic...
...Spokesmen of the Netherlands, Mexico, Great Britain and China, within a few bears of one another, made criticisms and offered suggestion* which closely paralleled those outlined in The New Leader...
...la that the story you've written ?" I asked ? , no," ha replied, "1 don't dare write that story...
...What was prepared at Dumbarton Oaks and Teheran and Yalta seemed to us not good enough...
...3—Kraasas it and cultursl fonadatie**, aa wall as Military ana politics I. ia the postwar international stractare...
...t> Bat there are some signs of revolt...
...The security conftrenca has a number of other «realem* to solve, bat my 1,800 journalistic confreres ?art and the hundreds of delegate* from the far coram of the earth regard "Ruasia" and 'Poland" as the aytfrantllli which will tall whether this greatest of eft peace conferences has succeeded or failed...
...t Inclusion la the charter ef the world ergani /alien of s statement ef the beak liberties ef all men, froupw and Ration...
...II is apparent that Russia would not be surprised by *** we attitude...
...The Big Three have power, but we need power in the service of law, power devoted to the service of humanity...
...As we go to press, the papers and radio broadcasts are filled with statements by men end women who are members of the delegation* gathered for the opening of the conference...
...It is impossible hers even to summarise these declarations...
...The unusual sobriety of all killed the few half-hearted attempts to revive the ancient art of filling an inside •traigat...
...Most of them ?Wae from the South American delegations...
...3—The right ef colonial countries i« political a ltd economic self-determination within the framework of the general international organisation...
...No other result could be expected from a scheme of international, organization which includea no bill of human rights...
...On three occasions within the first two days after we arrived 1 heard with amazement delegates make the an...
...I »in sure it is an accurate report to say that the Ruisiana have seriously miscalculated tha Anglo-Saxon ?espec?for fair play...
...As the conference opened, the Liberal Party of New York placed in the hands of members of the 42 nongovernmental organisations who will advise tka United States delegation a statement in which it propeesd seven basic tests for the world structure which la to be devised: ? Compatibility of the rights of the great powers with the independence and security ef the »maller and weaker countries...
...There are rumors *jM|e Poli,h Issue is settled, end that nothing ia ?* ain't talking...
...As tha delegates of the 49 nations come together, there is evidence that a lot of thinking haa been don* since the announcement* came down from Yalta...
...One reason is that most of the correspoildents have arrived here feeling pretty impatient with the subject and its causative factors...
...For them *a part of < lhapultepec is the symbol of peace org?ni-•etwa on tha democratic basis...
...but that if they don't the "Jpeantsg nations of the world are prepared to go ••»o' without than...
...that thay are welcome w «·· in ? that basis...
...The world wait* for the aaauranc* that in the union now to be fashioned, the might of marching man and machines, if it is to be used, will fee used far right purpose...
...Uniformly thay faar *at San Francisco will wipe out Chapultepec...
...This is the significance of the absence of provision for any court which could perform the service for which we look to our federal Supreme Court...
...The impatience is directed chiefly at Russia...
...Kven those correspondents who had sot taken a position before on the Polish question have now reached a closed-mind decision on the fact that the Rumiana will not even abide by the Yalta agreement...
...Among them are most of the distinguished men and women who are meet conspicuously known as advocates of international cooperation...
...It seemed to us that the entire outline proposed for the new security system was nothing more nor less than a scheme to give a few super-power state* rontrol of the world...
...A writer of a nationally known ayndicated column was mam plain spoken...
...Tee paw of the Russian bear weighs heavily on the conference And like a ghost at a wedding- the specter af faiand haunts it...
...This is true n»i only of the correspondents here, but also of a great many of tha delegates...
...The Might of the future seemed to bear heavily on them...
...But—despite our conviction that the Dumbarton Oaka plan includes fatal defects—we still believe that thia is a great day...
...optimistic atatements about the future of the conference, and than, in private, and off the record, have lad them tell ma that they were hoping against hope that Iba conference would not lay an egg...
...It has boon suggested that tha Russians ·· informed that the World Security Organisation is **i*g farmed on an ethical basis...
...Theee are not cynics, hang-bark boys or defeatists...
...It is equally accurate to report that sever have I seen so great a gap between what people ara saying and what they are thinking...
...Our objections were not little matters of detail or of taste on which compromise could be essily reached...
...And without faith of men In its determination to serve the right, no league or federation or alliance of powers can endure...
...flar three days and four nights on the train, my feile» cer res pendente talked about nothing else...
...Excepting for the means of facilitating international investment, trade and fiscal control deviaed at Bretten Woods, the whole apparatus thus far devised by the United Nations seemed to ua ? o fall abort of the standard set by the League of Nations...
...This situation would be the upshot of adopting a plan which contains no mention of justice or any provision for ths production of a code of law...
...Many of the world's leading statesmen, numerous important organisations, representatives of widely separated countries have onpraeabd themselves...
...i—Provi*!** far progressive disarmament...
...They have gona too far thia time...
...tna in doing ao have, overnight, lost a good deal of the goodwill and admiration won for them by the exploits of the Red Army...
...Because," he answered, "the people don't •sat to hear that story...
...The people so desperately 9Mt to hear that the San Francisco conference haa aateeeded that I cannot tell them how badly things have •axaa...
...bett motte for this conference ia "Believe noth-"* *rt you hear, only half of what yen see...
...It summarises, we now know, the opinions and hopes of men in South America, Asia Mid Europe...
...thus far been offered...
...A irenciaco is rifa with rumors of all sorts, and j* Ffpe Botel which has been taken over by the g|Jl the center of most of them...
...She has prepared herself for it with * wries ef 20-year pacts...
...This brief and formal capitulation well expresses the desire of mankind for something better than has...
...They went to the roots of the business...
...Nevertheless, it remains the line in the minds of many hers that may sober ?· Betsians and garb their complete unreasonableness...
...San Francisco Must Not Fail UP to this point The New Leader has been among the skeptics...

Vol. 28 • April 1945 • No. 17


 
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