Show Wider Vista of U. U uS u.S. S. S Policy Hinted I Nation May Be Embarking On Major Effort By BAUKHAGE News Neti'S Analyst and lid Commentate ll WASHINGTON It It was a sizzling day in the capital The town moved moed 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 toone's toone's toone's ones one's footfalls like brown grasses in a trodden field But we had to attend the regular press and radio conference of the secretary secretary sec see of state Nature languished but we wc knew the dispatch room was spluttering and sparking in sharp shudders with the news of an anguished world America we sens sensed d but t didn't understand quite how was cm- cm barking on a colossal undertaking We walked down the cooled air-cooled corridors of this new state department department department depart depart- ment building which in wartime housed the brass hats of the high command For those working for peace it Is a little Utile depressing to pass those stark murals depicting war at its worst worst worst-or or best which is probably the same thing We were still Interested in the implications Implications Im tin- of the statements on forI foreign foreign for- for eign policy Each c i statement e oe p pulled I wider the jie 1 a little t i curtain on the thc h the theater ate r which was was neither a theater of war nor a theater of oZ t peace Again and r again the questions ques qUeS- Jp came In like darts Ef Efforts MW forts to pierce what we all felt l was a screen concealing vistas much wider than Baukhage f the formal statements statements state state- 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 it the secretary had a vision wider than ours ours he could not reveal it it yet His answer frank enough under the circumstances and not unexpected ed was that If there was some further further fur fur- ther plan behind the one already revealed piecemeal he was not going go ing to talk about it He Hc did reveal that Russia was wasI I not outside the pale of Americas America's Americas America's Amer Amer- ica's leas rehabilitation efforts in theory at least This was surprising surprising surprising sur sur- to some who had bad studied studied stud stud- President Truman's Marshall's Marshalls Marshalls Marshall's Mar Mar- shall's and Ben Cohens Cohen's most moct recent statements and yet et not so surprising as we recalled the nature of or other talks not public public public pub pub- lic which had hinted at larger things Is this a real effort to achieve a fair understanding with Russia is the diplomatic word Words I 1 I am wondering whether those unspoken un unspoken unspoken un- un spoken words of the secretary of state could possibly describe the immensity im tin- of Americas America's task the task which is envisioned in the plans which Secretary Marshall would not talk about I say this because I have learned a new word which it seems torae to tome tome me rae might bear within it a vital a hopeful concept Like Hauptmann in The Sunken Bell when he said Tearl Tear All the gladness all the sorrow orrow of the world sparkles within it Think of the dynamic quality of other words Fame Riches Fame Riches Fair FairPlay Play Play Honor Charity Honor A. A H- H This new word of or mine which Marshall might have used had bad he be known It is It was used in a paragraph of aletter a aletter aletter letter to the editor in the thc New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Times The TIle writer was A. A M M. wartime chief of the psychological psychological branch of the Dutch war ministry and a member of the Inter- 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 specialists specialists specialists in allied fields mobilized every every ev ev- ery cry weapon at their command to towage towage towage wage psychological warfare Why cannot we now when the peace is at stake mobilize as carefully for psychological All AU right there you have it it- it Not simply psychological psychological psychological psycho logical now but economic econom econom- ic and political and moral peace- peace fare That is what I am hoping and praying the unspoken plan of Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- Secretary tary Hull will embody A hard long expensive campaign But one launched not against Anybody anybody Any any- ny- ny body but for everybody a campaign to stop war to save humanity I say everybody because Marshall Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall pointed out that he hc envisioned Russia as a part of this plan for forthe forthe forthe I the economic rehabilitation of Eu Eu- rope Without this economic rehabilitation rehabilitation rehabilitation re re- re- re habilitation there can be no rehabilitation rehabilitation re re- re- re habilitation of the bod body bodt politic or the body and soul moral It must be a campaign to banIsh banish banish ban ban- ish fear fear fear-fear fear of the atomic bomb which we possess for the moment fear of or the far Car more terrible weapons of destruction that any madman aught 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 spiritual destiny toward toward toward to to- ward freedom toward decency toward toward to to- ward a world where the major effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort is dedication to the common good Nothing like this has bas ever been attempted before Nations have loaned money for the purpose 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 tobe tobe toe be e broken when opportunism dictated dictated dic die 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 to the malice of the few in the spirit of charity toward toward toward to to- ward all It may be all aU eyewash I know Ive I've seen a lot of castles fall But my feeling is that if il we get out of the he scoffers scoffer's seat for a moment il if i we drop the cynic pose and put into the national vocabulary vocabulary lary we may make it work a |