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Show BEHINDia By- Paul Mallon jj-' Released by Western Newspaper Union. WASHINGTON. The Netherlands foreign minister warned that the small nations would not accept postwar post-war domination by the Big Four, and State Secretary Hull replied in 800 vaporous words that all nations would be equal in their "sovereignty." "sov-ereignty." w This world had been wandering around in words, stretching them, ' redefining them, for a decade up to this war. Streams of words poured from various energetic people. We had such things as "technocracy" to ponder. A man wrote a book about how we deceive ourselves with words, -only he wrote it from the standpoint of how other people could be deceived with words. It was Stuart Chase, the New Deal economist, and he dug out of obscurity a new word for his idea "semantics." He warned his fellow radicals against calling such things as the taxation-insurance-spending scheme of the New Deal by any right name, and I think he originally origi-nally devised the philosophically false and realistically unprovable unprov-able phrase "social security," which, like most other things, we have In name only. I am not trying to be a philosopher, philoso-pher, only to tell you the difficulty confronting me in attempting to ' transfer to you the news behind the news. Here Is the Dutch minister who says he will not take domination domina-tion by greater powers. We all know he always has. ALWAYS CONTROLLED The nnarc-.r and whole economic life of his country always depended on the greater powers, and I mean always, because history will not reveal re-veal an instance in which the Netherlands Neth-erlands controlled its own affairs without outside directing influence. Mr. Hull replied with words equally equal-ly altitudinous, and just as far off base, saying the "sovereignty" o Holland would be kept pure. If these same words were piled 10,000 miles higher, the average intelligent man in the street would still know the Netherlands Neth-erlands is a small country, Great Britain is an empire of greater bulk and authority, that the United States is a rich and powerful nation, that Russia is a rising influence which will probably prob-ably dominate Europe. The words we read in the news, therefore, merely deceive us from the fact that we already know, that cannot be changed. So also with Spain, the French Committee of Liberation, the Russian Rus-sian situation, or whatever else there is in the news of either international inter-national or domestic consequence. A columnist makes a speech in New York to the French emigres demanding that De Gaulle be recognized recog-nized as the government of France. Is De Gaulle the government of France? HE IS A POLITICIAN He is a politician who escaped to London, failed at numerous belligerent bellig-erent enterprises, fought the French political elements we freed in North Africa, made a private alliance with Russia, and then announces himself him-self as the government of France. Anyone can see that. He is only a French politician who has succeeded in mastering the other oth-er French politicians, all of them in exile and away from their people. To recognize him as a government would, in justice and simple common com-mon honesty, be an act of cheating the people of France who cannot yet express themselves. With Spain? Our people have been deluded into believing the Spanish civil war was a cause of democracy against Fascism, and that Fascism won. Anyone can see it was a war of Communism against Fascism, one dictatorship against another, neither of which we want, all far from democracy. In domestic politics, we als delude ourselves with words. "Leftist" covers everything from revolutionary communisn; to liberal idealism, which are opposites. Communism means dictatorship, ruthless direction of the individual, while liberalism liberal-ism means freedom of the individual. in-dividual. The only way we are going to solve any of our difficulties is to get out of words into facts. Pressure groups can deceive us, but only temporarily. tem-porarily. Truth is an obstinate, inevitable in-evitable leveler. It will insist on being dominant in the end, no matter how many words are heaped upon it. The G. I. Bill of Rights has been passed allowing up to 52 weeks within with-in two years of unemployment compensation com-pensation at $20 a week, so that veterans could lay around for that length of time, although, of course, the problem is to get people back to work. Only if the nation is working and producing can it hope to survive, because, after all the talk about gold, inflation, wage-hours, etc., work is the only constructive economic econ-omic factor which can generate a successful country. |