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Show People Deciding Factor Of Security Conference Heed of Public Wili to Build Effective Barrier Might Not Have Died in Vain Against Future Wars Marks Delibera tions From Past Parleys. Exit Silver Lining By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator, Service, Union Trust Building, ' Washington, D. C. CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS, SAN FRANCISCO. The extent to which deliberations of the United Nations conference on international organization will be a success can now be readily predicted. All we need is a the who will solve for x WNU and the tempo of the world increased so that it provided another world war which called for another international gathering within 26 years; came San Francisco, another Big Three and the growing but still the unknown x, the power of the people. Molotov Lives Up To His Name unknown. The proposition is simple: let m First, to evaluate the m in our equation, it is necessary to take a equal one molotov, s equal one e equal one eden. The equa- look which goes back to Paris 1919 and even reveals faint images of tion reads: master-mathematici- an stet-tiniu- s, m over s plus e equals x Solve for x, the unknown power of the will of the people. We have a certain amount of corollary data to help us. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied commander, inspects the many German horror concentration camps at Gothis, Germany, ongressmen and press were shown prison conditions. ie of First Ladies of the White House In 1815 there was a meeting called the Congress of Vienna. It was fabulously attended by kings, princes, a czar and an emperor as well as the ministers and diplomats who ran Europe at the time. It convened for very definite purposes, including the checking for all time certain dangerous tendencies which were beginning to make themselves felt. One matter which had really brought about the conference was the defeat Capt. Walter Sanford of Nashville of Napoleon Bonaparte. Unfortuturns anxious eyes to the pouring nately there was a sudden reapheavens, hoping for either the Japs pearance of that gentleman, who or the rain to stop as he sweats broke his bonds of servitude at Elba, out a Nip air raid in water-fille- d to play a short but fearsome return bomb shelter in the Philippines. He engagement. is a member of the air force. This threat of the return of an upstart dictator who managed to provide himself with a crown based on no more divine right than was supplied by his legions caused the its jitters but didnt inter1 congress fere with the frolicsome tenor of its . s ways. of headaches a decade It had been for crowned heads. There was the French revolution, quashed by that time,' it is true, but a dangerous threat to the ermine. There was the strange government which would have no traffic with kings at all which seemed to be prospering across the seas in the wilds of America. And then this highly irreverent attitude toward the divine right of kings. It was all very important to the delegates at Vienna but like the soldier on guard here at the conference building in San Francisco it was confusing, so they let George do it. Thousands of Souls? Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National committee who has been named to succeed Frank C. Walker, who resigned as postmaster general effective July 1. Hannegan will remain as chairman of the Democratic national committee. Casualty of War stiU living. widows of former Presidents of the United States areand her new House White Mrs. Truman, present first lady of the Mrs. SilSon Center: Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Woodrow Lower: Roosevelt. Theodore Mrs. nd), alvin Coolidge, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Tmarst" Mussolini and Mistress Slain Traded at Congress And so at Vienna with all the protocol and deference in the world, Talleyrand took over. He let the congress .dance. He ran it, divided up the spoils; traded so many thousand souls for so many thousand others, for thus he referred to the various sections of Europes population he was playing with. He called them souls but he didnt even consider them human beings with human rights. They' had nothing to say about it and they said it, silently. A year less than a century later who there arose another war-lor- d had forgotten nothing and learned nothing concerning European dictatorships. One of the best jobs of wrecking civilization up to that time was achieved by Kaiser Wilhelm and the world had to get together again to see what could be done about it again. They met in Paris in 1919. This time the twilight of the kings had become so thick that scepters were decidedly out, but considerable change had taken place in the intervening century. At the Congress of Vienna there was not a single constitutional government, except that of Britain, represented. There was no freedom of the press, and no public opinion. At Paris the Allied press was hardly free of its wartime censorship but managed to stir up considerable excitement and the French papers made plenty of trouble for government-controlle- d The people were conscious of their desires but still not entirely vocal. The conference was soon tossed from the delegates to smaller and smaller groups and finally Her fatherland may be torn to reached The Big Three Wilson, shreds by Allied armies, her home Lloyd George and Clemenceau, and may be amongst those leveled by the greatest of these as a negotiator, the tide of war, but all that means was Clemenceau. He had more oplittle to this German child who tries position than Talleyrand, perhaps, to comfort her scalped doll in a Leipbut he certainly was no less suczig street. Liberated labor slaves cessful. interlude are shown in background. Then came the Wilson. of I The body of Benito Mussolini, one tune dictat( mu in lie on the sidewalk i distress, Clara Petacci, we . dumped by partisans who executed them. J here they 20-ye- ar Vienna, 1815. There is no question that m (standing for Molotov) was the conference at San Francisco in the early period, at least, but there was a vast difference between his operations and those of Clemenceau. Clemenceau could and did unloose a bag of traditiorial diplomatic tricks on Lloyd George and Wilson and soon proved that his gallic hands were quicker than two eyes. pairs of anglo-saxo- n Clemenceau wanted security for France and elimination of Germany as a competitor in world industry. Molotov wants security for Russia, elimination of any danger of political competition from the capitalistic countries. But he wears no gloves, kid pr otherwise. This, perhaps, is not because he, personally, is inept in the amenities of diplomatic relations, but rather because he is under orders, with no latitude of compromise whatever unless Stalin grants it. And Russia, an outlaw among nations after the Bolshevik revolution, has only begun to take its first faltering steps beyond the pale of its own prejudices and preoccupations. And the bear steps furtively, blinded by suspicion, hypersensitive because of past doubts and fears. By the second day of the conference Molotov had deeply grieved the Latin Americans. When the suave and persuasive Ezequil Padilla, Mexican foreign minister, in urging the election of Secretary Stettinius as president of the conference remarked that it was merely following diplomatic procedure and courtesy to elect the representative of the country playing host to the conference, Molotov is said to have replied that he hoped no one was trying to give him lessons in diplomatic procedure and as for courtesy this was not a tea party. Molotov is the commissars It is an old communist custom to take pseudonyms, e.g. Stalin, man of steel. Molotov means hammer. And that is what the benevolent-lookin- g gentleman from Moscow wields, not the rapier of the diplomatist. Thus, when he controlled the conference, he did it as a man swinging a hammer might the rest had to get out of the way. But hammer swinging is not always successful. The rapier wielders in the case I mentioned quickly circumvented the issue of the conference presidency by obtaining an agreement that there would be four presidedents as the hammer-swingmanded but their powers would all be delegated to Mr. Stettinius to conduct the business of the conference. Todays Talleyrand has much to learn in the school of soft gloves. And so we come to the delta, the strength of the spirit of the people. As I write these lines within the building where the committee meetings take place, the fate of the conference has not been settled but I am assuming it is about to conclude, having achieved its job which was. merely to complete a blue-prifor world organization. Its later effects cannot yet be assayed. But I can say at this point with absolute assurance that if the blue-priis not produced the peoples of the various representatives will figuratively fall upon their delegates and tear them limb from limb. If the blueprint is produced and if the organization operates effectively and successfully the credit goes to the demos, the absent voters at San Francisco, who had no vote at Vienna and didntlcnow how to use what they had at Paris. And so the task of our mathematician becomes the task of the metaphysicist. He must discover the power of the spirit of the people. white-glove- d, well-justifi- ed nom-de-guer- er nt nt t re. |