Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN World Government THE growing realization mi the gum and terrible poeataeliliee of the atomic bomb has stjaoulsted widespread u.lnrsl ia) the...
...The President's excursion into semantics at the end of his message may well furnish amusement to fuluie generations and to readers in other countries...
...The bollownes* of the United Nations constitution has been repeatedly pointed* out in this column and in other departments of The New Leader...
...But if world government is logical, it is a logical impossibility in this year 1945, and for many years to come, if nations haggled so fiercely over the mildest provisions for international discussion and debate at San Francisco, what reasonable prospect is there that these same nations would miraculously unite in the tremendous leap toward world government...
...It is fpr everybody—even for the last poor child in the, city slums or in the mountain coves of Tennessee or Arkansas—but don't let anyone apply to it the accursed,word socialized...
...It is common for such persons to lake for granted that in this free-enterprise world of ours all we have to do is to let things take their course—and life, including health— will rapidly improve...
...itf . ,1V A&ove all^ffi was, J reerjoju* of speech...
...a world where'there were'universal common standards of'political democracy snd civil and' personallib^j-Jy, wline coloniali-m hsd given way to self-government for many joeoples in \-i.i...
...It is a recog* nition of the power of words...
...Alexander Rendrick...
...The mining with, the position of the American colonies after fhe' Revolution is superficially impressive...
...interest, space and distance against s imibB *of the fahguigfcj similar New World* back-: i mi ml, recent' straggle Against foreign rule, Which nations', in the worldf toiluv...
...Aa Idetewieil— The Right to Good Health PBESIDENT TRUMAN'S message on health is a simple and realistic document and it should get quirk action...
...Wa^imgton despat...
...This is nothing to csll forth die smug smile of complscency...
...The record of our failure ia the field of medical care je put down in plain terms...
...Citizens who can endure the troubles of others with admirable fortitude are accustomed to view with pride our advancing living standards and the improvements in care for the welfare of our people...
...The President can do little more than recommend...
...To call for world govrenment without the realization of these essential prerequisites is to talk to the wind...
...2) (nihil, health services and inqlfrnaj, fnu fihrra ogre t>*,«M;riA> *^-#rt*'ed- H'd SSPJ/^J^afife-pjfi-trd nie^ical researc^^ (4) through \he jt^.ufc» of social sM-ujsUy reserves all the people must' have th/,nnme*\^\\hk su.^servk-efimivftorkeh^Mt be insured against loss of wages when sickness strikes...
...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN World Government THE growing realization mi the gum and terrible poeataeliliee of the atomic bomb has stjaoulsted widespread u.lnrsl ia) the possibility of cetah lishing sosae form of world gasrswasneas as the only rflo-iivr issfliaje to war...
...Of course there were Barriers of local jealousy, conflicting1 im lui.mii...
...but Is fundamentally false and misleading...
...fhe people of this country can have effective and evenly distributed health care if they want it enough to demand it...
...h to #oj| of October 20...
...The horror of snch killing*, unknown graves and long fruitless searching (or missing loved ones hangs u—inanely over the land.'*' It...
...For such easy and egocentric optimists the President has a calm but cutting answer...
...Action is ttp to Congress...
...World .government can be the culmination of a shies of' 'condition*] htony 6\ which are not even remotely realized on thepresent international ferine...
...Neither league nor alliance, neither balance of power nor uehalaane of power has proved-effective in keeping Ibe peace...
...Advocates of a federal union'of the colonies could plead their cause everywhere.'Mow far would an advocate of worfd government getif he should raise his voice in the Soviet Uuioh, or in other totalitarian parts'of the world...
...It could conceivably be set up in...
...We have 60,000 physicisns and tens of thousands of nurses being demobilized from the armed services...
...Approximately 40,000,000 citizens of the United States live in communities lacking full time local health service...
...Just fiow h should intervene the message sets down in"detail.' .There, must be: (1) doctors and hospitals enough ifi each region Jo, fcserve,>the, needs .of the people...
...a step backward, not a step forwsrd, from the League of Nations...
...where freedom of travel and intercourse had created a genuinely international mentality, where some solution had b^en, found for acute problems ,of population pressure, where differences in standards of living between nations had been alleviated by science, industrialization and an sbandoiiment of exploiting economic policies...
...A group of men and women interested ia world peace, JssrfctHag political and industrial leaders, publicist*, journalists, service men, icssntjy gathered at Dublin, New Hampshire, to dis-•w thia fJsl/ftt' . Hat majorit j of those present sigaii a resolution recomrnending the laissBsnisn for the Coiled Nation, <hg.niz.lion of world federal government with l«murd hot definite ami liwssjslt powers to prevent former Supreme Court Justice- Owen Roberts and tlie early apostle of "union now'' among the demor-rariea, Osvessce Streil, rommitaes) taeniae Ives to the following proposition: -We think thai OtoMm.....Illlj Wttk effort a to attain a world fistiial cavern ^^jj^^^PB^^jy^ sForWsitBsij ? SMCs^sFSsf BasstOwi a* a ai*f toward the projected world sjovI» terms of pure logic there is a strong case for world government...
...We sll want good health and medical care for all our people, in all sections of our country...
...Bui gar a has neither parliament aor i iMssliliilioii and all laws emanate from or must he approved by this domiaaiit political machine, which is responsible to rfjvrWwi v T* ^ _ , smmWB*s^KJo • » • "Furthermore, Ihilprlan Cosamunisss are heavily armed, while all other Balgsriaae are disarmed, The Bulgarian mlhia, which Is exclusively in the hands of the Q.i.aasisti, is nzastet ua^sry-vltUge ami ^afasy-alfcantratiea camps saw-isMttstahied for pulslieal eppaarnti, and any Bidgprfaa citisesi at any time may be aeasil and sent to Mie%3pftsnpe in utter disregard of the courts—and kept there a* long as the Communist Party wishes...
...We can't get it without federal action...
...There is not a single city in Bulgaria or many villages where itixens have not' been tortured or killed by irresponsible elements ion-' netted with the regime...
...in will go back to prosperous regions which offer the greatest rewards...
...If that organization has any teeth they are definitely false teeth...
...the basic fallacy, in Wendell Willies "one world4*" phrase is its incorrect assumption th« c.i-.v communication means automatically meeting of niiiids ori free and equal terms...
...That means that the Federal Government must step in...
...If we allow nature to take its course, the msjority «if lb...
...It is probably true that so long OS ihr principle oi national sovrrcigntv is maintss*swd there can be BO infallible remedy against war...
...At our recent rate of progress it would 'alee more than a hundred years to cover the country " >ik decent health facilities...
...The provisions looking toward a constructive health program ie in the works...
...Meanwhile some of the mere immediate and pressing dangers of the atomic bomb rould be relieved by a close working understanding among free nstions and a hold progrsm of arms limitation, which should be proposed at the earliest possible ¦sssisal, with the combined weight of these nations behind it • * * The Tretb Aenet I algae l«r "BuLCAJUA is dominated bv a amgle party ma-chine which u above the state, im independent of state organs, practically controls the state administration, and ia ia a^JMsMaa to take any sttaaam it wishaa...
...He has outlined in clear and simple language cominoiisense measures which are exactly in line with Americau tradition.' And then, at the end, be feels obliged to explsin over and over again that all of this is not socialized medicine The care with which he undertakes this disclaimer is a tribute to the propaganda of the American Medical Association...
...All that we need ia sosacient public pressure behind tliem...
...H. Marhham in a despatch from Sofia in The I kristimn Science Monitor of October 6. • • • • "It is only realistic to look at the Balkan, now *"d 'CmlW th*1 WtUl 'h,n8e8 n,,dr lhr,• Under Soviet occupation iofluess^ SUWa jpiodejpsd s kind of raw democrat y Hl,^%ad> h habdst not sq.ie.e wUb OW refined and sophisticated ehwocracy, provided for the peoples of that much troubled region a vastly broader and more pmcfirsble bssis of exist-nice than ever before...
...The American Medical Association will fight this program—will the liberal and labor forces mobilize sul-cienl support to put it through Congress...
...And Congressmen will a< I in the long run—as the voters want them to act...
...On balance the United Nations organisation, in its present form, is...
...They cannot be assigned," says ihe President, "they must be attracted...
...implement it was introduced and so cleverly managed tfiattn both houses it waV*senf'W cVmnutte^ giVe il prrftnjjj asrd favorable attention...
...Actually human barriers to unfettered exchange of ideas have rfsen^as barriers of spsce and distance have been lowered...
...We have "thirty-one counties . . . each with more than s thousand inhabitants, in which there is not a single practicing physician...
...5imulfa*neonsly with the message a series of bills designed „lo...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 47
