Show NEWS BE BEHIN hi by PAHL MALLON ar released by western newspaper union nion RUSSIAN DELEGATES snow SHOW AMIABLE WORLD RELATIONS SAN FRANCISCO definite and positive assertions as to what this conference and the world will W ill do are being flung rather freely around A commonly popular one in the news is that the conference as one exceptionally able writer has put it has proceeded to the point where a new era is assured behind th this is line of current thought running through the news and comment is the idea that the russians have been brought around to acceptance of democratic methods they gave in on the argentine question and molotov afterward called on state secretary and made certain other molotov BIolo tov tures creating a new amiable and friendly spirit it is thus true enough that the attitude with which mr molotov if not russia herself came into this conference is being altered but down deep inside everyone here knows peace and the settlement of world problems will be a long process the mil benium is nowhere here yet visible to my eyes the precise degree of 0 progress that has been made is that russia has shown a willingness to cooperate and that this has put the delegates naturally in a better frame of mind now is this new spirit can be carried forward to the application of all problems then the new era will truly have arrived but to keep a proper perspective of the actual condition it must be reported that the problems still remain au all of them many grave deep problems of every economic financial and political nature what has been done here so far has been merely to get an agreement on the organization of the conference therefore it should be plain future hopes here can not be based on the receptivity of this governments attitude toward athe russian attitude toward ward democratic processes action taken slowly the questions I 1 hear asked by men here who have given earnest thought to the matter all run down to that single focal proposition it took this world peace meeting exactly a week to get down to the business of naming its committees and commissions to do the actual work for which it was assembled during that week the loud speakers of the opera house recorded speeches from all the interested parties arid and the organizational disputes of the major powers the speeches set forth largely the pleas of the small powers for mutual respect of nations recognition of human values principles of justice not far from the line which b NT mr truman laid down at the outset in his appeal for simple justice I 1 would say that as far as words are concerned most of the nations are not far apart but some of them were not represented in all these expressions it may be reported also that the smaller nations will win concessions in the dumbarton formula the extent and nature of which win will be ironed out by bargaining and this represents progress also behind all these developments however the nations were sounding each other out from their experiences perien ces they have a more complete knowledge of just how much each one wants to that extent great progress has been made but it would be safer to report progress here not victory the nine point program of dumbarton oaks amendments adopted by the american delegation represented quite a personal victory for senator it yas was the michigan republican who first demanded the main points such as inclusion of the word and ideal of justice through the charter and opportunity for future peaceful P change of the world setup as well as the charter other forces prescribed what seemed in general to m ree e to be basic changes of theory theor y from dumbarton oaks along the same lines such as specific inclusion of the atlantic charter ideals return to international law world court safeguarding human rights etc from a political standpoint the doctrines of international low law and world court have a republican origin while the atlantic charter and human rights lines were developed by mr roosevelt the improvements devised by americans here therefore represent a genuine compromise and a d exhibit what I 1 think is an outstanding development of this meeting namely a return to a spirit of cooperation among american political interests which is so vitally essential most of th the e in inside voting in the delegation has been unanimous |