Show NEWS y Released hy by Western Newspaper AI ALL L SMALL NATIONS MUST 1 BE GIVEN VOICE WASHINGTON The The The Democratic senators chirruped choruses of d d. d s at Governor Dewey upon upon h his s demand for small nations' nations Protection pro Pro- in the postwar world world then then suddenly they went quiet Tom Connally their foreign relations rela rela- chairman had said at first that Dewey had staged a attack attack at at- tack upon the Dumbarton confer J ence A few days later he was beaming benignly upon the Republicans and saying in a sena senate te speech they had been exceptionally coop on foreign policy The change is attributable to State Stat Secretary Hull Hun Mr Hull was the first to realize realize indeed indeed he seems th the only one now firmly to insist that insist that a peace imposed by a majority will not endure even among the United I Nations that the opposition will on one on day get into power here perhaps soon that unity at home as well vell as 1 among the nations of the world i is essential if anything constructive is I to eventuate He has been the leading lead lead- ing force for restraint in an emotion emotion- I al world debate KEEP ON HIGH PLANE But the matter is constantly being pushed off the plane he wants into politics and confusion Comes now flow I the Foreign Policy association for instance thinking to defend hir him l' l against Dewey In an involved and circuitous collection of assertions it seems I to conclude Dewey is wrong and anti small nations can only be protected pro i through domination by I Ithe the big four powers 1 Furthermore two columnists 1 who are supposed to be outstanding outstanding out out- J standing international experts ha have ve enter entered d a radio debate which whirls the whole issue into vortex The ousted Hull assistant Mr Welles and Mr Hulls Hull's constant kibitzer Mr Lippmann whose recommendations recommendations recommendations rec rec- rec- rec on international affairs af fairs have never been followed by any government in any instance as asfar asfar asfar far back as my memory runs though he sells them to the public three times a week and in books annually these two as I say have become hopelessly involved in such tech technicalities l cali ties as the respective degree of sovereignties of Japan and Germany in postwar These developments take a simpIe simpie sim sim- pie proposition and stretch it to monstrous monstrous monstrous mon mon- incongruities The proposition tion before all these took hold of it was and still is this I PROTECTION OF SMALL I Dewey urged that the interests of small nations be better protected I I and suggested a specific way to do it Lt He recommended that the Dumbarton Dumbarton Dum Dum- barton barten Oaks conference keep the I military world setup separate from fromI I I economic agreements He and Mr I I Dulles in their conferences started I searching for a way in which small nations would not be ridden over-ridden by byI bythe I the power of the Big Four and they hit upon this formula I Their reasoning is rather ob oh- A small nation is a small nation and and no one proposes to tomake tomake tomake make them all big The military might of the world will remain after the war largely with Russia Russia Rus Bus sia and the United States not with small nations and not Dot even with Britain and China No peace can ean change that Also Russia and the United States will have the greatest political power pow pow- er in the world This is a fact of geography industry raw materials manpower It cannot be altered by bythe bythe the peace either Now Mr Hull proposed to prot protect ct the small nations by safeguarding their sovereignty This is largely a negative guarantee but a powerful one It would transfer the Ameri Amen American American can conception of individuality to the world No private telephone or back back- back of f f- f fice flee appendages were involved 11 in inthe the Hull Dewey front page jockeying jockeying jockeying jockey jockey- I ing on world peace The participants spoke all they had to say in headlines headlines head head- lines but the refined politics the subtle parry and thrust were neglected neglected neg neg- in the reports although these established Dewey in a new international international inter inter- I national character and will be of inestimable importance in the cam i I The administrations administration's campal campaign policy has been to play Dewey to the public as a barefoot boy in I in j terna affairs without experience exPerience I ence or ability for leadership To tear lear down this conception has been beena I a most difficult technical task |