Show PAUL MALLON air age speeds diplomacy T THE HE flying diplomacy of state secretary marshall Is bringing an sort ot of one world statesmanship to foreign affairs A military mind generally believes a straight line is the shortest distance between two points whereas a diplomat customarily starts off on a tack tacit to the left or right and indeed may back up to fill all marshall thus Is revising the old byrnes roosevelt formulas not so much in policy but completely in tactics ills primary technique la Is to count less on the he transoceanic telephone radio and cable to our ambassadors in important cases he dispatches a personal emissary by air to greece paris rome or china to meet the diplomatic demands of an antomo i era cra it Is all being done rather quietly for instance when the paris conference of needy nations started planning to demand 29 billion dollars from the U S in four years the state department did not issue statements make speeches speech ds or get the ambassador on the phone the marshall policy worker george kennan was sent over quietly by air and he got american officials into a conference and worked the publicity on our viewpoint from there letting the europeans know firsthand first hand the problem of the administration to wring money and concessions from the republican congress and the primary necessity of self help by europe |