WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By William Benry Chamberlin The Meaning of the Atlantic Pact THE SIGNING OF THE ATLANTIC PACT will always be remembered as an important milestone in American history....
...based on continuous and effective self-help and" mutual aid, and as affect its ^national securtiy...
...PERFECT MODELS The sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr...
...The avowed purpose of these appropriations was the containment of.direct and indirect communist aggression in those countries...
...And Europe, of course, includes the oppressed countries behind the Iron curtain...
...education, health, conservation of resources...
...The country is under an enormous burden of expense which it...
...to get the proper kind of training, they are incapacitated to that extent in contributing to their country's production...
...soriable person i would- have anticipated...
...More than two years ago President Truman asked Congress for appropriations for military *and economic aid to Greece and for milfta'ry aid to Turkey...
...With fear and trembling, Congressmen see the possibility of a new tax increase...
...from that body in 1939 for unprovoked and unjustified, aggression against Finland...
...examples of this pressure are the incitation from without of a savage, civil war in Greece, the political subjugation and economic exploitation of the countries behind the iron curtain...
...Every day that the "Columbia River jremains uncontrolled, electric power is running to waste.''If young men' arid .women fail...
...ON THE BASIS OF THIS RESOLUTION...
...A credit to the species and, of course, to old John D. And when it's an official of the local CIO Who says they are—I'm telling you...
...were acclaimed as perfect models of what a rich man's son should be, in a luncheon speech by Louts Hollander, the state president of the CIO...
...It was expelled...
...So it is only logical to extend to Western Europe those special assurances of aid against aggression which have long held good for the countries south of the Rio Grande...
...No doubt there can be savings without sacrificing public interest...
...On March 17, 1948, spurred by the latest demonstration of communist aggression — the overthrow of the democratic regime in Czechoslovakia — Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg concluded a fiftyyear mutual defense treaty, assuring each other military assistance in the event of an armed attack...
...Naturally there are many who are inclined to fall into line behind Senator Byrd arid raise the *cry for economy...
...Conspicuous...
...Over the years it will help to increase national wealth production...
...For the first time since the French "alliance of revolutionary times the United States has entered into what amounts to a defensive alliance with a group of European powers...
...When the President proposes reforms in health, housing, education, conservation of resources, he is ask...
...By the time the stage of signature was reached Norway, Denmark, Italy and Portugal had joined the group...
...They are the very models of what millionaires should be...
...Postponing prudent investment is the most profligate sort of waste...
...Ex-President Hoover's commission holds out the promise of cutting two billions from our budget by reforming the structure of the executive department...
...It was obvious from the experience of the last two wars and from the ever increasing range of modern weapons of mass destruction that the' United States would neVer acquiesce in the domination of the European continent by a single aggressive and hostile power...
...Soon after this signiflcant^step Secretary of State Marshall, speaking at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, outlined the general idea of ERP, the scheme under which the United States is underwriting on a'large scale the economic recovery -Mnon-communist Europe...
...Investment in health will bring about a positive saving...
...The Atlantic Pact and the measures of concerted self-defense which preceded it were acts not of aggression, but of elementary self-defense on the part of the western world and its natural leader, the United States...
...There is small • .wonder that some members of the House and Senate should be smitten-with fears...
...An elementary condition of admitting the Soviet Union to membership in the UN should have been renunciation of all the spoils acquired by the infamous Stalin-Hitler deal of August, 1939...
...Americans who object that the Atlantic Pact' and other measures of anti-communist consolidation in the West are inconsistent with the...
...It must be really sol Richard Armour...
...But the Soviet Union was allowed to keep its spoilsEastern Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, parts of FinlahoV-and at the same time to enter the community of "peace-loving" nations...
...The Soviet Union, far from being-sated, has been reaching'out for more and more territorial and political gains in all parts of the world...
...What Congressmen seldom seem to consider is the difference between an expenditure and an investment...
...Every month that this sort of investment is postponed, prevents for that length of time reaping of the benefits...
...The Atlantic Pact makes war less probable,not more probable, because dictatorships are inclined-to attack isolated weakness, not combined strength...
...On any rational calculation it would be far more serious and dangerous, from the standpoint of our national interest, to have communist governments, backed by SovieJ armies, in Germany and France than to have such governments in Argentina and Chile...
...This treaty in-many respects has served as a model for the Atlantic Pact...
...He calls'for, billions for housing...
...THE SOVIET UNION JOINED the League of Nations in 1934...
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...THE ATLANTIC PACT grows naturally out of afseries of developments" in the foreign policy of the United States and of the governments of Western Europe...
...Behind the Atlantic Pact was an evolutionary process extending over several years...
...The United States on June 11, 1948, passed a resolution, introduced by Senator Vandenberg, recommending that the United States be associated with "such regional and other, collective .defense arrangements as are...
...In the President's message on health insurance occurs this sentence: "The real coat to society Is the unnecessary human sufferings and the yearly loss of hundreds of millions of productive working days...
...America's political and military frontier has been advanced to the fjords of Norway, to the Rhine, to the Giulian Alps...
...the blockade of Western:, Berlin, the large-scale strikes and sabotage' carried out on orders from Moscow in France and Italy, the paralysis of" the'-UN • through indiscriminate use of the veto, the flouting of UN decisions on Greece and Korea...
...Money invested is in an entirely different category from money spent...
...The result, has been exactly what any rea...
...This was no sudden or reckless decision...
...It is noteworthy that the Atlantic Pact, the Truman Doctrine and ERPj in its exact present form, would most probably never have come into existence if it had not been for the ttn* remitting aggressive pressure of the Soviet*' regime...
...1 \- . Ait EditorialGovernment "Spending" THIS WEEK CONGRESS comes face to face with the Truman program...
...United Nations overlook the very important point that the United Nations was rendered impotent from the very beginning by the admission of a state which was committed by its Whole philosophy of politics and economics to" imperialism, autarchy and international noncooperation...
...The Atlantic Pact deserves the support of friends of freedom on both sides of the Atlantic...
...ing Congress to invest In ways to increase our productivity so that we« may be better able to > bear this burden...
...the American Government in July, 1948, began to negotiate a common defense i accord with Great Britain, France, Canada and the Benelux countries...
...But the legislators have hardly stampeded to put this sort of reform into practice, What is talked of— andtserlously-~U rmtt^ thet 4e#r^jEreeze the President's program of reforms...
...It is not a sword pointed at the heart of Russia, but a shield, behind which Europe may hope to recover...
...In addition to the expenditures for European relief,' for implementing the Atlantic Pact and for other costs of our international policy, the President is asking for great sums to finance domestic reforms...
...cannot escape...
...The;iUnited StatesmS^thW^l^Wi^l a treaty of mutual aid and defense with twenty La tin-American countries at Rio de Janeiro...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 18
