Show wider vista of U b policy hinted nation may be embarking on major Teace Peace fare effort by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington it was a sizzling day in the capital the town moved slowly like a lazy setter stretching and hunting the shade even the trees were half asleep the air pushed hard against your brow and cheeks the asphalt yielded to one s footfalls like brown grasses in a trodden field but we had to attend the regular press and radio conference of the sec see detary of state nature languished but we knew the dispatch room was spluttering and sparking in sharp shudders with the news of an shed world america we sensed but didn dian t understand quite how was em barking on a colossal undertaking we walked down the air cooled corridors of this new state depart ment bu iding which in wartime housed the brass hats of the high command for those borki working ng tor for peace it is a little depressing to pass those stark murals dep acting war at its worst or best which is probably the same thing we were still interested in the im of the statements on for eign policy each statement pulled a little wider the i i curtain on the theater t h e a t e which was neither a theater of war nor a theater of peace again and again the ques eions came in i like darts et ef forts to pierce what we all felt was a screen concealing vistas much wider than baukhage the formal state meats ments had yet revealed was there a greater plan lying behind this program for aid to stricken countries the program outlined by secretary marshall at harvard the question was asked although we knew that even if the secretary had a vision wider than ours he could not reveal it yet H s answer frank enough under the circumstances and not un expect ed was that if there was some fur ther plan behind the one already revealed piecemeal he was not go ing to talk about it he ile did repeal that russia was not outside the pale of amer lea ica s rehabilitation efforts in theory at least this was sur to some who had stud led president truman s mar shall s and ben cohens s most recent statements and yet not so surprising as we recalled the nature of other talks not pub lie lic which bad had hinted at larger things Is this a real effort to achieve a fair understanding with russia is the diplomatic word words I 1 am wondering whether those un spoken words of the secretary of state could possibly describe the im of america s task the task which is envisioned in the plans which secretary marshall would not talk about I 1 say this because I 1 have learned a new word which it seems to me might bear within it a vital a hopeful concept like Haupt hauptmann marin in the sunken bell when he said tearl all the gladness all the sorrow of the world sparkles within it think of the dynamic quality of other words fame riches fair play charity honorl this new word of mine which marshall might have used had he known it is peace fare it was used in a paragraph ot of a letter to the editor in the new york times the writer was A M wartime chief of the apsy ch branch of the dutch war ministry and a member of the inter allied psychological study group in england this is the paragraph in those wartime days when the success or failure of the war was at stake psychologists and calista cla ca lists in allied fields mobil zed ev ery weapon at their command to wage psychological warfare why cannot we now when the p peace bace is at stake mobilize as caff carefully y for psychology psycho log cal peace fare all right there you have it peace fare not simply psycho logical peace fare now but econom ie lc and political and moral peace fare that is what I 1 am hoping and praying the unspoken plan of secre tary hull will embody A hard long expensive campaign but one launched not against any body but for everybody a campaign to stop war to save humanity I 1 say everybody because mar shall pointed out that he envisioned russia as a part of this plan for the economic rehabilitation of eu rope without this economic re hab I 1 tation there can be no re habil tation of the body politic or the body and soul moral it must be a campaign to ban ish fear fear of the atomic bomb which we vie possess for the moment fear ot of the far more terrible weapons of destruction that any madman might put to use it is a campaign to banish the hate bred by fear A campaign to nourish the body so that bodily things may be forgotten and man may pursue his sp r destiny to ward freedom toward decency to ward a world where the major ef fort is dedication to the common good nothing like this has ever been attempted before nations have loaned money for the purpose ot of earning a neat dividend or to wring some political advantage from an impecunious or bankrupt government many fair promises and high sounding ideals have been written into covenants signed only to be broken when opportunism die dic bated a reverse english but here is something new and different something rather bright and idealistic has been added what we hope is an honest effort to wage peace fare to the malice of the few in the spirit of charity to ward all it may be all eyewash I 1 know I 1 ve seen a lot of castles fall but my feeling is that if we get out of the scoffer scoffers s seat for a moment it if we drop the cynic pose and put peace fare into the national lary we may make it wi work |