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Show - Wider Vista of U . S . Policy Hinted HintedI I Nation May Be EmbarkingOn EmbarkjngOn Embarkjng On Major 'Peacefare Peacefare ' ' Effort EffortBy By BAUIHAGBNews BAUKHAGE BAUI\HAGB BAUI HAGB BAUKHAGENews \ : News Analyst Analysl , * mJ nd Commentator Commenlillo CommentatorWASHINGTON , . WASHINGTON WASHINGTONIt -It It - It was a sizzling day in the capital The Thetown Thetown town moved slowly like a lazy setter stretching and huntIng huntIngthe huntingthe the shade Even the trees were half asleep The air pushed pushedhard pushedhard hard against agamst your brow and cheeks The asphalt yielded toonp's to toone's one's ones onp's onps ' footfalls footfal1s like brown glasses in a trodden fieldBut field fieldBut But we had to attend the regular press and radio conference of the sec secrctary secrotary rctary of state Nature languished langwshed but0 but \ wa \\0 0 knew the dispatch room was wasspluttenng wasspluttering spluttenng and sparking sparkmg in sharp shudders with Wlth the news of an anguished anguishedorld anguishedworld \\orld orld \ America we senssd sensed ( but didn dldn t understand quite how ) was em embrkmg cm- cm cmi brkmg , on - _ a - colossal i .i i . undertaking undertakug o We walked down the air atr cOOlea cOOleacorridors corridors of ot this new state depart departmcnt department mcnt building bulldmg which m wartlme wartlmehoused wartimehoused housed tl tI e brass hats of ot the hIgh hIghcommand highcommand command For those working workmg for torpeace pcace it il is a little llttle depress ng to topass topass pass those stark murals depicting depictingv depictingwar v . ar at its worst-or worst or worst - or best which IS ISprobably isprobably probably the same thmgWe thing thmg thingWe We I ' , were ere shlllnterested still interested in the 1m 1mplicatlons 1mplications plicatlons of ot the statements statcments on lor for fort = - w . eign elgn policy Each EachIAj Eachstatement IAj ! . { statement pulled pulIed ' . " ; a little wider the t ' " e ecurhIn $ I Istatement I curt-un curt un curhIn - on the ' " " , 'I I ' S the theater ate r which ' " 4 " 4was was neither a atheater atheater theater ol ot war warnor \ nor a theater of ofpeace ofpeace peace Again Agam and andagam andagain agam the quest ques questons tons ons came in inlike inlit-o inlit o like - darts Et Ef torts forts to pierce piercewhat piercwhat what we all felt feltwas feltwas was a screen screenconcea1lng screenconcealing concea1lng vistasBau1.ha"e vistas vistasnt Bau1.ha"e Bau1.hae Bau1hae Bau1.ha"emuch thanBaiAhare nt . . , , , . " much wider than the formal state statements ments had ; yet revealedWas revealed revealedWas Was there a greater plan lyingbehind lying lyingbehind behind this tlus program for aid to tostncken tostricken stncken countries - the program programouthned programoutlined outhned by Secretary Marshall at atHarvard atHarvard Harvard ' ' ' The quest on was asked askedalthough askedalthough although we knew that even it If the thesecretary thesecretary secretary had a vision wider Wlder than thanours thanours ours he could not reveal It-yet It yet ItyetH it - yet yetH H s answer frank enough under underthe underthe the circumstances and not unexpected unepected une-pect une pect " - ed was that it If there v . was as some fur further Curther ther plan beh nd the one already alreadyrevealed alreadyrevealed revealed p ecemeal he was not go goIng going Ing to talk about it itHe He did reveal that Russia was wasnot wasnot not outside the pale of Amer Ameriea Anierica iea s rehabilitation rehablhtatlon efforts - in intheory intheory theory at least This \ was as sur surpriSlDg surprising priSlDg to some who bad had "tud tud "tudled " studled led President presldcnt Truman s liar liarshall ! Marshall shall sand s and Ben Bcn Cohen s most mostrecent mostrecent recent statements and } ) et e1 not notso notso so surprising surprlsmg as we recalled the thenature thenature nature of other talks not pub pub- public public - lic which had hinted hmted at larger largerthIngs largertilings largertilingsIs thIngs Is this a real effort to achieve a afair afair fair understand ng with Russia Russia7Rapproachement ' ( Rapproachement n IS the dlplomatlc dlplomatlcword diplomaticword word ) Words WordsI I am wondering wondermg whether those un unspoken unspoken spoken words of the secretary ot otsta ofstate sta te could possibly describe the 1m 1mmenslty immensity menslty of America s task the task taskwhich taskwhich which is envisioned to in the plans planswluch planswhich wluch Secretary Marshall 'would would 'wouldnot ' "wouldnot wouldnot " not talk about aboutI I say this because I have learned learneda a new word which wluch it seems to tome t tme me might bear within Wlthm it a VItal vitala , , a hopeful concept Like Hauptmann Hauptmannin Hauptmannill ill ' The 'The Sunken Bell when be he said said'Tear saidTear 'Tear Tear ' I ' All the gladness all the thesorrow thesorrow sorrow of ot the world sparkles sparkleswithin Wlthm ItThmk it itThink Think Thmk of ot the dynamic quality ot otother otother other words Fame Fame-Rlches-Fau Fame Rlches Fau FameRlchesFauPlayChantyHonorl - Riches - FairPlay Play-Chanty-Honorl Play Chanty Honorl - Charity - Honor ! . + This ne nettword 'word word * ' of nunc Dune ( which whichlJar whichMar-ihall whichMar ihall l\Jar l Jar \ ball < ; - might have used had hadhc hadhe hc known It ) is peacefare peacefareIt It was used m a paragraph of iletter 'I I ' 'I'letter 'letter letter ' to the editor in the New NewYork NewYork York Times The writer was A M MMeerloo MMeerloo Meerloo wartime chief of the psy psychologlcal psychological chologlcal branch of the Dutch war warmlmstry warministry mlmstry and a member of the mter mterAll interAll All ed psychological study group in inEngland toEngland England This is the paragraph paragraphIn In those ( wartime ) days when whenthe whenthe the success or failure of the war warwas warwas was at a1 stake psychologists and spe specalists speciaUsts calists ! in ID allied fields mobilized ev every evcry ery weapon at their command to towage towage wage psychological warfare Why Whycannot Whycannot cannot we nowhen now \ when \\hen hen the peace is isat Isat at stake mobilize as care carefully u11y for forpsychological forpsychological psychological peacefare ? All right there you have It- It - It .nnnafira nnnafira . Not Mnt simply cfTTinlv nsycho psycho logical peacefare now but econom economic economic ic and political pol1tlcal and moral peace peacefare peacefare fare That is 15 what I am hoping and andpraymg andpraying praymg the unspoken plan of S"cre Scre S"cretary S " cretary tary Hull will W1ll embody embodyA A hard long expensive expenSlve campaign campaignBut campaignBut But one launched not agamst any anybody anybody body but for everybody a campaignto campaign to stop war to save humanity humaruty humanityI humarutyI I say everybody because Mar Marshall Marshall shall pointed out that he envIsioned envIsionedRussia envisionedRussia Russia as a part of this plan for forthe torthe the economic rehabilitation of Eu Europe Europe rope Without this economic re rehabllitat rebabilitat habllitat on there can be no re rehab rebab hab Iitation htabon of the body politic polltlc or the thebody thebody body ( and soul ) moralIt moral moralIt It must be a campaign to banIsh ban banIsh Ish fear-fear fear fear - fear of the atomiC atomiCbomb atomicbomb bomb which we possess for the themomcnt themoment momcnt fear of the far more moreterrible moreterrible terrible weapons eapons of destruction destructionthat destructionthat that any madman might put to touse touse touseIt useIt use It is a campaign to banish bamsh the thehate thehate hate bred by tear fear A campaign to tonourish tonourish nourish the body so that bodily bodilythmgs bodilythings thmgs may be forgotten and man manmay manmay may pursue his sp r tual destiny destmy , to toward toward ward freedom toward decency to toward toward ward a world where the major et etfort etfort fort is dedication to the common commongood commongood commongoodNothing good goodNothmg Nothing Nothmg like 1lke this has ever been beenattempted beenattempted attempted before Nations have haveloaned haveloaned loaned money tor the purpose ot otearrung ofearning earrung a neat dividend dlVldend or to wrmg wrmgsome wringsome some political advantage from trom an anunpecunlOus animpecunious unpecunlOus princeling prmcellng or bankrupt bankruptgovernment bankruptgovernment government Many fair promises promisesand promisesand and h gh sound ng ideals have been beenwritten : v . ntten into mto covenants signed only to tobe tobe be broken when opportunism dlc dlctated dietated tated a reverse EnglshBut English Englsh EnglishBut ! But here is something somethmg new and anddifferent anddifferent different Something Somethmg rather bright brightand brightand and idealistic has been added whatwe what whatwe we hope is an honest effort to wage wagepeacetare wagepeacetare peacetare to outroot the malice of ofthe ofthe the few to in the spirit of chdnty charity to toward toward ward alLIt alL alLIt It may be all eyewash I know knowI I ve seen a lot of castles tall fall But Butmy Butmy my feeling feelmg is that It we get out ot otthe ofthe the scoffer s seat for a moment momentit momentit it we drop the cynic pose and put putpeacefare putpeacefare peacefare into the national vocabu vocabulary vocabulary lary we may make it work .L L . |