F.D.R'S 'GREAT DESIGN'
Villard, Oswald Garrison
F.D.R's 'Great Design' By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD IDOUBT if the Saturday Evening Post has ever published two more important articles than those called "What Really Happened at Teheran," by Forrest...
...Davis actually quotes a word used by Mr...
...It is, in Mr...
...Incredible as it seems, the President accepted these words on their face value, "accepting the assurance with gratification," and at once voicing "his belief in the Marshal's good intentions...
...But in view of these statements of Mr...
...Roosevelt confirms the story that Mr...
...Roosevelt is therefore against any control by international authority of the air, sea, or land forces of the three great victorious powers...
...Churchill was at swords' points with Stalin from the beginning to the end of the conference, and that there were sharp passages between them...
...The advocates of a revival of the old League of Nations or the establishment of a new one must be tearing their hair, for the President is definitely opposed to anything like a new organization with a fixed headquarters, such as Geneva...
...There is no suggestion whatever as to what should be done to weld Europe into an economic whole, nor is there any appeal for a United States of Europe with all tariff barriers removed...
...I thought at the Paris Peace Conference as I watched him at work that Woodrow Wilson was quite unfitted to handle the making over of Europe...
...It is here that Mr...
...Wilson's memory...
...Roosevelt...
...Any man who thinks that the world can be permanently ruled by three such dissimilar powers as England, the United States, and Russia in cahoots, and that we can play alona: indefinitely with the Communism of Josef Stalin, is surely destined to the rudest kind of an awakening...
...Roosevelt will swallow anything...
...It is an open secret that, if they were not directly inspired by the White House, they were based upon conversations between Mr...
...Compared To Wilson He even lectured to Stalin on the Good Neighbor policy...
...Roosevelt's own explanation of why he appeased the Russian dictator in working for what he called his "great design...
...Appeased' Stalin The shape of the world to which Mr...
...Since Mr...
...We are to hold a number of bases forever, such as Iceland, Greenland, arid other strategic places which might be, used against us by some foe in the future...
...Many people, after perusing this inside view of what is in the President's mind, will find it difficult to maintain that he is indispensable to this country, and that no one else can conduct our international relations with succ9ss in the making of the peace...
...Davis I almost feel that I ought to apologize to Mr...
...The Wall Street Journal reported that the Washington newspaper world was certain of this and whether by accident or otherwise, at one point Mr...
...Roosevelt quoted as having given a single thought to the economic future of the world or even of Europe...
...Roosevelt's ingenuousness, trustfulness, and readiness to turn his back upon the grim facts of Stalin's history and his recent actions...
...Why F.D.R...
...With Brazil we are to hold a base on the African coast, presumably Dakar...
...The most important revelation is, however, Mr...
...Equally striking are the omissions...
...I wish that these Forrest Davis articles might have the widest possible circulation, and if I were the head of the Republican National Committee I would see that concise summaries oF at least the second article were circulated by the millions of copies...
...Davis quotes the President, attributing to him the statement that at this stage of international development anything else is "nonsense...
...Davis, together with Ernest K. Lindley, wrote the official white book about our getting into the war, which only could have been written with Mr...
...That is, of course, in keeping with the President's ignorance of economic matters, and his inability to interest himself in them until they are forced upon him by advisors or by circumstances...
...Davis puts it: "The policing of the peace and the maintenance of world order in any foreseeable future should as he (the President) sees it, be accomplished by the military forces of the great Powers . . . carrying out instructions from the United Nations under their own commanders and flags...
...I cannot in this brief outline give the whole picture of Mr...
...Thus, in neither article is Mr...
...The articles contain astounding revelations and confirmations of much that has been rumored in Washington...
...Well, after this one can believe that Mr...
...But because of the "touchiness" of this proposal it was "examined with less freedom" at Teheran—because Stalin was taking part in the conference and he naturally would not have consented to a plebiscite in Poland, Finland, or the Baltic States...
...He wants to extend the mandate principle so as to create a trusteeship of backward lands, and he also believes in the plebiscite formula for determining the sovereignty of lands or parts of countries in dispute...
...Davis' words, the President's "tough-minded determination to enroll the Soviet Union as a sincere and willing collaborator in postwar settlements," for which end he exerted himself to understand Stalin's point of view, to meet his mind, and to prove to him F.D.R.'s own good faith...
...F.D.R's 'Great Design' By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD IDOUBT if the Saturday Evening Post has ever published two more important articles than those called "What Really Happened at Teheran," by Forrest Davis which appeared in the issues of May 18 and 20...
...In reply Stalin "volunteered a sweeping declaration of his desire to conciliate his neighbors, saying flatly that he had no desire to own Europe...
...Roosevelt's assistance, this is obviously another trial balloon Sent up by the President to see what will be the public reaction to this statement of what actually happened at Teheran...
...Davis and Mr...
...Roosevelt...
...Roosevelt looks forward does, however, emerge very clearly, and it is this: The globe is to be dominated by the armed forces of the United States, Russia, iand England...
...As Mr...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 24
