Show test of sentiment for world operation cooperation co faith in in ideal Nece essary to continue work of allied relief agency after reports of early difficulties by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service 1616 eye street NW washington D C the forces in washington battling or world operation cooperation co are finding he ac going tough it is hard to get people to have faith in collective security when they witness such aings as the breakdown of the tor for sign ministers conference in london dussias Rus sias reluctance anoe to operate cooperate co in die far east advisory commission argentinas Argen tinas espousal of the ways of the he dictators at times it seems as hough internationally speaking democracy were approaching the winter of its sorest discontent it is unfortunate that in the midst it f this period of suspicion and anai ty ity a yes and no vote has to be aken on a mitter matter that may mean ue life or death and tp that extent or to hundreds of or or peace thousands hou sands of people in europe I 1 re refer r to the million dollar appropriation pria tion for which has been winding a precarious way through angress on gress by the time these lines appear that hat appropriation which congress previously authorized may have seen deen granted there has never been much doubt as to its final approval but the danger lies in the effect of proposed reservations this appropriation bill is considered a bellwether bell wether it if it goes through unencumbered it may mean that other measures affecting dur relations with other nations are eairly safe and that such isolationism as exists in the country and therefore in congress is less lesi than lne ane third of the whole it is true that there have been loud and emphatic demands that such knowledge as we possess con berning the atom and its potentiality be kept strictly to ourselves even though scientists say it cannot be less than common knowledge even the know how to turn it to military or commercial use within a few years but I 1 believe that if you will submit to careful analysis the expressed sentiment of congress an this subject it would reveal a lineup line up which takes little consideration of any international aspects of the use of atomic energy in other words the viewpoints so far expressed have differed as to whether this new force has been looked at as something to sell at home and the question has been whether it be produced under state control or by private enterprise the question of nationalizing internationalizing inter the bomb has remained in the domain of theory A look at the arguments for and against and the reaction to them gives us a much clearer picture of tendencies isolationist or otherwise of the arguer U S support rs h vital when a congressman casts his vote aye or no on the bin bill to appropriate the money for he is not simply virtually voting aye or no on whether we help feed starving europe if he votes no and the noes have it there will be no true all contributing nations put in the same proportion of their national income I 1 per cent but it so happens that I 1 per cent of the national income of the united states is nearly three quarters of the entire sum contributed your voter knows this and he cant help realizing the is symbolic of american participation in any world organization without this count rys advice consent and support no world organization can exist and likewise with american support no nation can afford not to go along another thing that the congressional voter knows when he votes on that it is far from perfect he knows that the personnel the efficiency the standing of the organization have improved tremendously in the last few months since it has been able to get the personnel it required which it get before because of the manpower and brainpower brain power shortage due to the war but he knows it is still hampered by its polyglot nature and he has to have faith enough in its purpose to make him feel that the risk of failure is worth taking because like any international organization is baby it can easily become nob odys baby each nation has been only too ready to criticize it always excluding their own representatives functions of course has sufferer greatly from a poor press because the task it faced was well nigh impossible in wartime the bad news therefore alced the good news as tar far as reports of progress on the part of the active contributing countries were concerned from the passive recipient countries naturally there were plenty of complaints these sins of omission were ballyhooed ballyhoo ed the other side of the story was not it was the sad and familiar tale of priorities a story many a business man can tell even when had money in hand for food required although some of the contributing members are very slow the united states still was a little less than half of its allot ment and authorization it was impossible to get the combined food board which decided who got what to allot an any to until the armed forces the domestic market th the lend lease and the liberated countries who had ad money to buy got theirs and even if the food was available frequently there were no ships in which to transport it that situation has changed food is now being delivered to europe by christmas it will be moving at the rate of half a million tons a month but the memory of past deficiencies lingers and doubt as to io future performance could easily be used as an excuse to defeat the measure unless one is really convinced that job is so important it must succeed and there we get down to the nub of the whole argument for to agree with the thesis that objective is desirable is to agree that the good of one is the good of all and the good of the other fellow is the good of the us us standing for the united states it is easy to show that millions in europe will starve this winter unless they get food from outside their own borders it is easy to prove that in those countries which are concern the ones which were ip in evaded and which cannot pay for food starvation will lead to disease riots revolt and death and we know that under such conditions nations turn to totalitarianism and when that fails to chaos we also know that unless we help tide these people over we cannot expect to sell them our surpluses because you cant do business with a graveyard nevertheless the isolationist would respond what of it lets stay in our own backyard therefore the voter weighing past errors with its future potentialities will vote fox for it only if he still believes that world operation cooperation co is something worth taking a risk for so becomes a test of how well this belief is standing the test of misunderstandings and disappointments point ments on the diplomatic front which we have faced in the past weeks we hear a great deal about the difficulty of understanding the japanese mind and many people have their fears as to how we are going to get along in the years ahead during which we will occupy the country and attempt a of japanese thinking as well as economic life recently 1 I had a long conversation with an officer who had interviewed some of the more intelligent japanese officers captured in in the philippines just before the surrender several remarks of one of these men illustrated the difficulty of reaching the enemy mind my friend asked the prisoner what did you think of our propaganda it made us laugh the jap replied be specific my friend said well you sent us leaflets saying surrender come over to our lines and receive plenty of hot food and cold water we laughed at that we had plenty of cold water in the mountains in what we wanted was hot water water to a jap meant in this case a bath they bathe in very hot water that was what they wanted and get to the americans water means after the heat of battle first a drink |