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Show Nbvs f- THE NESg Br Pai'lMali.on,'' licltM.Hfd lv UYalrrn NfW'hpnerr IMilou. lil'SSlAN dki.mga n:s snow AMlAIll V. WOltl.l) ISOLATIONS SAN FKANC1SCO. llellnlle nnd positive nsseillons ns to what thlo conference nnd the world will do sra being Hung rather freely ni'oimd. A commonly popular one In tha news ts that the conference as ono, exceptionally able writer has put It has proceeded to the point where a new era Is assured. Hehmd this line of current thought running through the news and comment com-ment Is the iden i -w"Tl ,hi,t thc iu,ssln,ia i "I hnve been brought - around to nccept-i nccept-i X; nnce of democratic ,X methods. Tliey gave I J 'f " I In on the Argentine - ;--s - Question and Molo- : tov afterward called ; , on State Secretary , Ls.4vi5i.s Stettinlus nnd made i Molotov ccrinin other ges- turcs crcaving a new amiable nnd friendly spirit. It Is thus true enough that the attitude atti-tude with which Mr. Molotov, if not Russia herself, came Into this conference, con-ference, ts being altered. But down deep Inside everyone every-one here knows peace nnd the ! settlement of world problems i will be a long process. The mil-lenium mil-lenium Is nowhere here yet visible visi-ble to my eyes. The precise degree de-gree of 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 car-ried 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, if must be reported that the problems prob-lems still remain all of them many grave, deep problems of every economic, financial and poli-tical poli-tical 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 government's attitude toward Russia, but upon the receptivity of the Russian attitude toward democratic demo-cratic processes. Action Taken Slowly. The questions I 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 speak-ers of the opera house recorded speeches from all the interested parties and the organizational disputes dis-putes of the major powers. The speeches set forth largely large-ly the pleas of the small powers for "mutual respect of na-1 na-1 tions," "recognition of human values," "Principles of justice" 1 not far from the line wrhich 1 Mr. Truman laid down at the 1 outset In his appeal for "simple ' justice." I would say that as ' far as words are concerned most ' of the nations are not far apart, but some of them were not rep-' rep-' resented in all these expressions. expres-sions. It may be reported, also, that the smaller nations will win conces-' conces-' sions in the Dumbarton formula, ' the extent and nature of which will ! be ironed out by bargaining and ' this represents progress also. Behind all these developments ' however, the nations were sound-' sound-' ing each other out. From their ex-1 ex-1 periences they have a more com-1 com-1 plete knowledge of just how much 1 each one wants. To that extent, great progress has been made. But it would be safer . to report progress here not victory, s The nine point program of Dum-s Dum-s barton Oaks amendments adopted s by the American delegation repre-y repre-y sented quite a personal victory for - Senator Vandenberg. It was the .- Michigan Republican who first e demanded the main points such as i. inclusion of the word and ideal of - "Justice" through the charter and I- opportunity for future peaceful change of the world setup as well as the charter. Other forces pre- scribed what seemed in general to me to be basic changes of theory from Dumbarton Oaks along the same lines such as specific inclusion of the Atlantic charter ideals, return re-turn to international law, world court, safeguarding human rights, etc. From a political standpoint the doctrines of international law and world court have a Republican origin, ori-gin, while the Atlantic charter and human rights lines were developed by Mr. Roosevelt. The improvements improve-ments devised by Americans here therefore represent a genuine compromise com-promise and exhibit what I think is an outstanding development of this meeting, namely a return to a spirit of cooperation among American Ameri-can political interests which is so vitally essential. Most of the inside in-side voting in the delegation has been unanimous. |