Show NEWS fl 1 tl THE S N B By AUL LON Released by Western Newspaper Union TRUSTEE OR OWNERSHIP OF ISLANDS DEBATED WASHINGTON We cannot have prosperity in the United States if the rest of the world is sunk in depression and poverty said State Secretary to the Chicago council on foreign relations He advocated advocated advocated ad ad- among other things an American trusteeship for Pacific is is- is lands The very same night and at almost almost almost al al- al- al most the same hour in New York the Carnegie peace endowment dinner dinner dinner din din- ner heard Admiral King and other influential speakers say quoting quotin precisely from news accounts World security depends UI H American security and world prosperity depends upon American Ameri Ameri- can prosperity He advocated that we keep bases in the Pacific in line linc with making our own security first This direct conflict of viewpoint was advertised as a cleavage in the cabinet between the war navy-war departments departments departments de de- de- de and state but behind it was the new movement running through the whole government for fora a change of front i Altruism is facing a gradually I opening opposition The theory that if we first save others we may save ourselves is hitting up against the doctrine that if we first save ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves we can keen keep others safe Bases Back to Allies This new theory particularly on the point of bases first developed in the services many months ago The men who went into those islands islands islands is is- is- is lands in the Pa Pacific have seen British British British Brit- Brit ish I French and Australian administrators administrators administrators admin admin- move in to take civilian control as soon as the firing ce ceased sed or in some cases the civilian administrators administrators admin admin- actually went in with the troops and exercised civilian control Airports our men conquered and so vital to the future security of the world became the civil property of ot those nations which owned them be- be for the war A check of the islands in the far Pacific under army control shows none outside the Philippines definitely definite definite- ly established as postwar bases for us We Ve still have use of them for military operations but the property property property prop prop- erty of our Allies remains theirs They have given us nothing These islands are of little value economically economically economically econom econom- so there is no particular reason reason rea rea- rea son why any nation should covet them except as bases New Guinea has officially been placed under Australian and Dutch administrators Bougainville Bougainville Bougainville ville has been taken over by the Australians who incidentally murmured in the press against doing it on the ground that the Japs held heW it so long they had created civilian difficulties In the navy navy area of the central Pacific the British administration is supposed to have gone back in most places but the navy refuses strangely strange strange- ly enough to give out the facts of ot the situation saying We Ve cannot speak for the British Whatever that means i Mandates l Embarrassing The service people who have fought through these campaigns know these situations Although they are not generally known or observed by our public from such beginnings beginnings beginnings begin begin- I think has sprung the position position position tion which Admiral King is' is now openly pressing If II a vote were taken upon Stet Stet- tinius or King in the senate today to today to- to today day King would win overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelm overwhelm- at least upon the single issue of whether we should own those bases which are essential to our postwar cause of a peaceful world A superficial canvass shows little sympathy for mandates or trusteeships which might prove insecure or orem em embarrassing Even Foreign Relations Chairman Connally an administration man thinks we should have New Caledonia which was French However he has not gone so far yet as to permit hearings for the McKellar resolution which would take practically all the islands we are ying including including including ing the Japs Average senate opinion strikes es firmly to the line that ve should have as many bases as we need for our own security and thus for world security Also as all these nations all all our friends owe friends owe us more money th than n they can repay in cash or goods it appears a bargain for bases might not be out of line Thus a more enlightened and practical practical practical visioning future-visioning theory of world peace is fast gaining ground Mr vIr has done a superior superior superior supe supe- job of propagandizing congress on the new world bank and fund Some lobbyists objective in this matter appraise it as the best ever They say he got the advertising advertising advertising advertis advertis- ing geniuses of the country to counsel counsel counsel coun coun- sel him on the side Thus his Bretton Woods financial agreements have virtually become patriotically blessed and politically sacrosanct Anyone who is against them is against peace Anyone who wants to amend them is probably a Fascist or at least a banker 1 |