Show o s S I 1 N e eti ti This Year Finds a oriel arid Still Without Peace By Dy BAUKHAGE I Ih IL r News t Analyst Atul and Commentator r Ca WASHINGTON lve Ive Ive I've been looking over ver old Christmas to i Christmas 1945 The message I sent you that Christmas came from amidst the rubble ruin of shattered where 1 J experienced the saddest addest I the e pay nay season eason of my memory It was Wal spent with the ugly symbols man inana Inhumanity to man all about me the bitter negation of our 1 tours lour teachings I In uniform the uniform of II combatant In-combatant W combatant correspondent but butI buton 10 on I felt unhappy in it though I had dreamed of wear wear- tog Ing ng what we caned called t olive drab in 1918 1018 once again My assimilated rank was waa unde served Young I men had bad fought v survived or fallen finishing a job lob that tb t I and my generation genera to tion In hi necked high j S blouses and wrapped leggings legging had only started 1 pt A AGE On that day s 1945 I wrote fib q I was as homesick as any cant jj soldier In 10 a lonel lonely out out- ott ost with the threat of battle bout him I pictured my own tI m my wife and the I there about the happy tree my wa tinseled packages unopened e nd my empty hands reaching nt ut for them vainly over the jl ceans too wide to span I looked that cold rt p day I saw not war but some some- 5 I g more tragically eloquent eloquent- ed cramped souls In hi pinched e lea Ie i hurrying amidst the wrecks wreck's wreck wreck- s 's e of ot a city which had seen the of art and handicraft Inne In hi a ne and end canvas and parchment Ich had enriched the world for tunes JI low what ow 1945 what is Bt al of the trial of Nazi war crim crim- I. I at t was my Christmas Christmas The second one In hi seven years en one could really talk about ace on earth without shamed d downcast eyes That's what I IJ J ote ite in hi this column then and 1 lent nt at on 1 While armies struggled who Quid could think of the message to toe the e shepherds from the angels angel's chorus promising peace on earth for ifor or all men mea of good will here There was Indeed much to be for and much to be hope hope- I about on Christmas 1046 1948 en came Christmas came Christmas 1947 I was far away from fields Bed ed with snow No bright red of e holly berry Instead the burn- burn I hibiscus and beyond It the feath feath- tops of the Royal palms The day started not With the eak of shoes over oyer the frozen snow snowa a I wind which checked mid vein e circling race of UIe life blood blood to the alJ face but with the soft p pot of water against the prow of oure our tie e boat which lulled me to lazy We sUpped slipped along the river and to the inlet High above coursed Boca oc of graceful never lighting an war en frigate birds To see seem em emo m to so far Inland said my nature nature- a companion meant a rough can n These tireless creatures it eras em ns prefer to bunt hunt In hi the ocean less eat ess the white caps are breaking i wildly Out sweeps a hawk fish In fa close suit uit an In eagle who prefers a red ed meal to one he ha must work for e a hawk flab darts ahead holding a dinner In his bill The eagle weeps pi down but the kingfisher Its and turns sharply The big tuber omber must make a wide circle tore lore It jt can change Its direction i the straight course he gains but butau au aes again at each turn This goes coes on until finally the I lie eagle discus disgusted ted gives elves up the Chase i se and the kingfisher fades I fat b meal In mouth to a tiny spot ls La the sky Th The men war come COble back high above us even event It t this with their sev sev- ell Ca o to eight toot wing spread There Is la poetry of motion They e are gone cone and my eyes ees drop to 0 the rashes rushes A tranquil water turkey We Wt slow down and pull In toward the shore close to an Island swamp its edges laced thick with mangroves man groves those mysterious plants planta whose grim brown fingers clutch deep into the water as if U they sought ought some invisible and ghoulish enemy in the depth of the water Low tide leaves them skeleton bare The sun and part of the sky is overcast but I Ithe the rest is robins' robins egg b blue ue and the i water about It is tinted lilac Wac I Trout begin to bite And the snook We are very busy for a while Then the fish begin to elude I Ime me so I take up the camera A stub stub- stubborn stubborn I born crane lures us on but always I manages to hide behind the mangroves mangroves man man- groves out of focus One more cast castl A fine fat trout trout and and its it's time Ume to togo togo togo go In We push bak bask through the twi twi- light Into the truck and we bounce back to a gay little tree with the familiar decorations on its branches I branches which never knew tho the I kiss of a snowflake although the spot where I cut the pine tree the day before a sandy flat fiat shone as white in the sunlight as a snowbank in Maine A photograph could fool i you People Await Peace on Earth My My thoughts weren't on the news that Christmas a year ago but as asI asI asI I look back over what David Wills who was broadcasting in hi my place said I read this line Une The collapse of the London conference of foreign ministers Is a tangible result of the mistrust mistrust mis- mis trust pervading the world broadcast Wills for the conference conference con con- ference adjourned without having having haying hav hay ing taken those essential and decisive steps along the road of peace for which the people of the earth are waiting in an ao The aftermath of that collapse is s still with us us and the path which the nations have trod since has led us to an uncertain peace at best On Christmas eve a year ago the i pope delivering his annual message message mes mes- sage from the Vatican spoke of a Europe shivering and feverish from economic difficulties and social social so so- social cial chaos He talked about thelie the thelie lie he said lie The deliberate I sadly had become an established weapon of international relations The lie of garbled word or fact part and parcel of cf the modern technique technique tech tech- in inthe the art of forming public opinion or controlling It and of makIng making mak make ing it serve the political ends of those bent on winning at any cost COlt the battle of Ideologies That was a too not Christ Christmas mas for all an the world despite my seI selfish sh pleasures and perhaps yours too but If lf the past year has not greatly changed that picture it has changed it a little for the better I has given riven ns us some satisfaction tion lion to know that one Idealistic concept has bas materialized We have successfully prevented the spread of the powers against which the Christian world has been struggling nr The Marshall 1 plan so ao far tar has been a success Between last Christmas and this we saw Russia's cold war offensive stopped topped Stopped at the Adriatic stopped topped along the Seine stopped inthe inthe in inthe the low countries Within that time the theory of an economic campaign moved from an idea to a blueprint to the active and effective European cooperation administration an effi el- efficient business organization headed b by an art efficient businessman Paul Hoffman HolTman That is ts Americas America's Christmas gift elft to humanity 7 i A w icY a r l Tw true Tw of or u the e worlds world's architects architect tar for peace President Truman an and aDd J lee rda of ot In tA the launching wry State SUte Marshall were the lb chief figures C Jr of ot the Marshall pia plan pUa a i to aid Europe and curtail curial 1 It WM wao Americas America's Christmas rUt gut lf U te the w World In ID 1818 uta |