Show dispelling T THE II 11 FOG by charles michelson that mid oe ocean a conference on ference between the president of the united st tes and the premier of great britain will be an historical channel buoy through the duration of the war many things that may come to pass will be attributed to what transpired on the american cruiser agusta and on the british battles battleship hip prince of wales though none but the two principals in the momentous will know just what was said until that time in the probable far distant future when a white book will attempt to recount the story even then there will be two versions not necessarily cessa rily contradictory for their certainly can be no stenographic record of which passed between the two great figures when they sat alone and planned a future for the world they must have told each other each from his own point of view what should be done what could be done and what steps were necessary to accomplish the first enterprise the destruction 0 of f the bandit system that aims at world subjection to the will of a bazl tyranny doubtless we will hear in the immediate in future circumstantial reports of these intimate conversations although nobody but the actual participants knows anything 0 more than is revealed by the program signed by n L toos T oos velt and winston S churchill that program is the simplest recital possible of the elements that insure a permanent peace its terms are almost axiomatic disclaiming agaran diz ement territorial or otherwise asserting the right of all countries to choose their own form of government ern ment access on equal terms to the world raw material markets by all nations victor or vanquished sheal freedom of the seas disarmament of aggressor nations pending the os es of a general system of international security e etc tc hal ha another league of nations exclaim the isolationists what difference does it make what they call the expedient that is to bring and maintain peace that would definitely prevent the advent of another hitler twenty years hence bent on world conquest and the imposition of the rule of force now for the columnists guesses we did not have to wait eve even n for the hypothetical stories pur purporting purports ng to give us the hidden details right off the bat one of the leading isola zionists announced that it is a corn fitment that goes far beyond the constitutional powers of the president and one that no other president in our history even presumed to assume now how does senator walsh k know now what commitments if any were made by the pir president esi to premier churchill woodrow wilson announced his fourteen points and congress rejected the versailles treaty and wf we made our individual peace with germa germany y A good many people think today that congress blundered two decades ago but that is is another field of speculation we did not go into the league of nations and now find ourselves confronted by a greater menace than we faced in 1917 whether we would be any better off if we had taken the other tack in an guess the wil son points were at a statement of the aims of america the program outlined the other day was the utterance of the chief of the declared enemies of the nazis in addition to our own presumably ill the conversa conversations eions at sea roamed all over the field of con voys japan russia ships oil free france franc e dakar and vichy where we would be the most efficient it we went into the war where most useful if we stayed out of the war everything in fact from bomb sights to butterfat butter fat that had anything to do with the situation thit brought these two of nations together on the atlantic else why the presence of the military and economic experts of both countries what may have been urged conceivably churchill urged that we shorten the war by jumping in speedily when has any embattled nation failed to seek allies we gained our independence by getting louis XVI to join us which he did did not inot bethule of tiny any interest in in En glands revolting colonies but because it was a flank attack on his enemy our president could have made no commitment on that subject for only congress can declare war if there ever is such a declaration it will not ue oe because of winston Chur chills arguments any more than it was british propaganda that hypnotized us in 1917 fond corid as the isolationists are of making that charge we went in then because the kaisers keisers Kai sers forces sank our ships and tried to bribe mexico 0 o with an offer to give her our western border states to poin her in in a war against us so this time even should we take the plunge ultimately it will be only because we deem that necessary for our own safety this is not the first time that a british cabinet chief and an ameri can president have conferred ramsay mcdonald and herbert I hoover sat on a log on the rapidan and talked things over I 1 have forgotten if I 1 ever knew what that was about but the earth did not trem bel as a result doubtless president oo sevelt now knows just what are the conditions of the british forces and the depth dofher resources and whatever the british have been able to learn of hinlers Hit lers plans probably he even knows the secret of herr hesss flying to scotland perhaps premier churchill now ilias has a clear idea of what whai he may expect from this county all told whatever developed at the dramatic ses inions aboard ship is is to the advantage of both nations buttons on young childrens clothes should be large enough for the child to grasp easily and to push or pull them through the buttonholes buttons about an inch in diameter are satisfactory probate and guardianship notices consult clerk of district court ox or respective signers for further information |