Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WlitlSM HENRY CHAMBERLIN More Woshinglon Ticker Washington, i». c—it »* remarkable how much in the way of news and views one can gather in the course of a comparatively...
...There are remaining now fewer than lOW.tlOO in Poland, about 100,1100 iu the oart of Grrmany occupied bv the Allies and about 25,000 in France and Belgium...
...Out of 7..i<)0,000 of Jewish people in prewar Europe from .r»,tHK),000 to 6,000,000 have been destroyed...
...Direct violent action by the Soviet Union bt f>v its satellite Yugoslav and Bulgarian regimes against either wFeW& tw Greece would be a deathblow-to the United Nations and would prpvoke an international crisis ol a very sriinos cbajiuter...
...There is no doubt that most of the homeless sufferers could be accornmodatcd in Palestine...
...Hide, rich, only partly developed lauds ia the United Stales, Russia, Australia...
...One of our ablest, most conscientious and hardworking Senators put forward a suggestion in a talk with me which deserves wide consideration and discussion...
...Tommy is by no means the onlv individual who has browsed in this lush pasture...
...Ihe nations of the w011,1 turned a deaf car to the cries of anguish which arose front inside Germany...
...much by objective needs of A met ic.an foreign policy ss by a desire, to preserve the coalition with the...
...At the same time M..lot.»» intimated somewhat less <!• Iinilel) that a change in the reginte of the Straits, possibly involving Soviet basest would be desirable...
...This might be done by appointing days when the President, the Secretary of State irtd other Cabinet oftcials, or competent spokesmen for them, would sit in the Senate and House, present the case ffir bills which thev consider important and answer question* from members of t ixigress...
...Ihe fart that there the doors count*be opened to them quick...
...So many- international relationship* are involved that it-is clearly a matter for internatiohal responsibility...
...Hie Palestinian problem, like so many others, n> quircs international cooperation...
...atei 1Ucre ate several powerful mountain streams in the Caucasus, the Aragva, the TerA, the Rion...
...Their years of sto^d isolation or of obsequious appeasement made manv of them accessories to the Mood) crime...
...Kut the value 0/ these conferences, according to the Senators who set in on them was very limited, because the scope of discussion was limited and Hull was apt to evade a pointed question with a plstitude...
...One also hears rumors, difficult in the nature of the case to prove cm disprove, that outside interference of a potent character tended to hush up and minimize the case which the fbi had huilt up in coaneetiou with the disappearance of secret documents ia Slate Department files last spring...
...The people of the United State* are unwilling to receive a few hundred Jewish refugees whom we have in our barracks up ai Oswego, N. V, yet thr President requests the British Government to provide homes for hundreds of thousands in little Palestine...
...It cannot be denied, moreover, that there is something over frantic and suspect about the Arab argument against further admissions...
...Turkey is standing firmly by the status quo...
...Some months ago the Soviet Government, after snnouncing the termination of its pact of non-aggression and neutrdky with Turkey, suggested that it would be nice jf Turkey would cede to the Soviet Union the Kirs snd Ardahan regions of Asiatic Turkey...
...larist iiilliieoce on Soviet foreign policy is in- teasing, A Mow ow bioadr«»l to the effect thai a huge hydras' electric power station'ia lo be built in the < .m< a'sua, without further details, has aroused a certain ainous*, of guessing as to where such a plant could I...
...Secretary Hull held occasionsl conference- with members of the Senate Foreign Aflfsirs Committee...
...Hut we have1 reached «Hir present disgraceful irapaa.se partly because of the ov er emphasis on Palestine...
...Millions of men in other lands think they have perforated their whole duty when they denounce the British for their inaction...
...A great obtocle to democratic control of foreign affailrs, in thin Senator's judgment, is the absence of any regular liaison between the executive and legislative branches of the government...
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...Add to this the fairly widespread Impression that certain Administration appointments and moves in the field of foreign |w»liry are dictated not si...
...The Arab nations which control the Near East have nothing to fear...
...because of rumors tbsl StahVa pup on the ceins of power is relaxing and that imli...
...We hare given the world the impression that this is the only way est and that responsibility for blocking it rests exclusively with the British...
...Britain's proposal to> turn it over to the UNO is greatly to- bee credit...
...A familiar totalitai iau war of nerves against Turkey and against Greece lias been going on in the Soy it pf.«s...
...Theso people—fewer than ,100,000—poor, stateless, homeless, are knocking in vain ai the doors of the world...
...The President's flat statement that "we shall refuse to recognize any government imposed upon any nation Itv the force of anv foreign power" has aroused de...
...The responsibility for thr plight of these displaced ttanderers is international...
...Son»e American diplomats believe iliat noa...
...One trend in national affairs which gives thought!ol observers sonic cause for concern is the (trowing irn-portam r of personal influence in nstional affairs, and the temptations to abuse this innWnce either for consideration* of profit or for ideological motives At administration becomes more complex, 3* foreign policy takes on glohcgirdling proportions, strategically placed individuals, who in many cases are appointed, not erected, are in 1 position to influence decision* of great importance, A recent scries ef articles in Ihe Saturday Evening Post, recounting in great detail the amazing doings of Thomas Corcoran (Tolnmy the Cork* indicates how real or assumed influence in government circles can yield handsome cash dividends...
...What fat lacking thus- far hi any siates-manlike approach to thin problem...
...An Edltaclal— t The Jews on the Doorstep of the World g.sHE civilized world, which did not prevent the I murder of millions of I 'European' Jews, most not shirk the duly of saving the remnant...
...Many S»viet Moslems are of the dissident S'liite sect and are groomed for work in predominantly or lurgelv Shiile countries like Iran and Iraq...
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...President Truman'si letter lo Prime Minister Attlee was well-intentioned, but it is a perfect example of the narrow and limited Way in Which we have been seeking a solution...
...s •JEASONED diplomatic observers arc keeping eyes focused on that bone of contention, which nearly provoked a general European war in 187?, the disposition of the Dardanelles...
...Tito's army, eslimulcd at 400,000 to fiOOOtfl and certainly unexplained by any visible thecal to Yugoslavia, rs another element in the war of nenes against Greece, as are Bulgarian revisionist dera*n<.s...
...Unless and until some such system is inliodiiced, the [t/c-eot irritating game of Mind Man's Bufl will go on, with CongresV nflerMU-lng calledoa to vote for lulls h itlioiil adequate background information...
...Hnl Palestine it a small part af m hig world There aie ?ienl...
...LoiiHiioiiist-uillncii...
...They -failed to take adequate measures to stop the spread of Nazi domination over Europe...
...According to the Senator, President Truman did not discuss the momentous (and meetly very bad) decisions of Potsdam with any of bis former colleagues on the Hill before he went to Germany, hi the absence of regular informative contact with the executive departments Congress can sometimes oppose and protest, but can seldom guide and shape foreign policy in constructive fashion...
...Brazil—lefties could quickly altsorb the fete hundred* of thousand* of homeless victim* of Hitler, President 1 rumen might far heller hate made his plea to the American Congress rather than to Clement 'Attlee If '* • rraele matter were viesveit as it should he.—as an international responsibility—the American people could tW persuaded In do their part...
...If, instead of 500,000 Jews there are 600,000 or 700,000 in Palestine, it is ridiculous to suppose that any nation will lie injured ot any balance of power altered...
...Some observers believe the 5oviel_lcuJrcs v, ill be too astute to risk, such action fhlicrs are less »urr...
...rer-ogiritioa is a pretty weak reed a* a form of pressure and ia even disadvantageous insofar a it deprives its of embassies which caw be used as listening posts...
...rd American Labor Party in New York, and it is evident that we haven't altogether mastered the art of running our huge administrative machine as a government of, by and for the people...
...One remedy for this unfortunate state of affairs would be to adapt the excellent Kriitsli parliamentary question system to oar form of government...
...c—it »* remarkable how much in the way of news and views one can gather in the course of a comparatively short visit to what radio announcers like to call "the nation's capital...
...This curiously short-sighted view furnishes a psychological alibi for all of the nea-British world...
...v and thai they would be received by understanding and sympathetic friends make this Palestinian solution a popular one...
...Dnl is is debatable whether any of these rivers possesses sufficient volume to make feasible such a grandiose project, . . . A feature of the new religious policy in Russis is to -end out Moslems from the Csucasus an.I Central Asia in the guise of pious pilgrims to holy places of the Moslem faith with definite propaganda assign, pi -ot...
...i was unable to compress all my material into last tvwek • column, and am therefore giving "Washington Ticker" another week's run...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
