Show V people deciding fador factor A of security conference Con ferene heed of public will wili to build effective barrier against future wars marks deliberations from past parleys 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 master mathe lathema ma bician who will solve for x the unknown the proposition is simple let m equal one mo molotov Iotov s equal one e equal one eden the equation reads 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 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 us tendencies which were beginning ing to make themselves felt ane one matter which had really brought about the conference was the defeat of napoleon bonaparte unfortunately there was a sudden reappearance pe arance of that gentleman who broke his bonds of servitude at elba to play a short but fearsome return engagement 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 congress its jitters but interfere with the frolicsome tenor of its ways it had been a decade of headaches 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 king s 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 t the he soldier on guard here at the conference building in san francisco it was confusing so they let george do it thousands of souls soule 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 Eu ropes population lation he was playing with H he e called them souls but he even consider them human bei beings with human rights they chev had nothing to say about it and they said it silently A year less than a century later there arose another war lord who had forgotten nothing and learned nothing concerning european dictatorships tor tors worships ships bips one of the best jobs of wrecking civilization up to that time was achieved by kaiser wilhelm and the world had to get boget together her again to see what could be done about it again they met in paris in 1919 this time the twilight h t of the kings had become so thick thic k that scepters were decidedly out but considerable change had taken place in the intervening ter 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 lie ad press was hardly free of its wartime censorship but managed to stir up considerable excitement and the governa government ent can controlled strolled trolled french papers made plenty of trouble for wilson 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 reached the big three wilson lloyd george and clemenceau an and the greatest of these as a negotiator was clemenceau he had more opposition than talleyrand TaIl eyrand perhaps but he certainly was no less successful cess ful then came the 20 year interlude 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 first to evaluate the in in our equation it is necessary to take a look which goes back to paris 1919 and even reveals faint images of vienna 1815 there is no question that m S standing for molotov was the conference at san francisco in the early period at least but there was a vast difference between bet his operations and those of clemenceau clemenceau could and did unloose a bag of traditional diplomatic tricks on lloyd george and wilson and soon proved that his white gloved gallic hands were quicker than two pairs of anglo saxon eyes 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 ta countries but he wears no gloves kid or 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 per sensitive because of well justified 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 the election of secretary 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 commissary commis sars nom deguerre de guerre it is an old communist custom to take pseudonyms eg stalin man of steel molotov means hammer and that is what the benevolent looking 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 cess ful the rapier wielders in the case I 1 mentioned quickly circumvented the issue of the conference presidency by obtaining an agreement that there would be four presidents as the hammer swinger demanded but their powers would all be delegated to mr to conduct the business of the conference 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 A As s I 1 write these lines within the building where the committee meetings take place the fate of the conference has not been settled but I 1 am assuming it is about to conclude having achieved its job which wal wai merely to complete a blueprint blue print for w world orld organization its later effects cannot yet be assayed but I 1 can say at this point with absolute assurance that if the blue blueprint print is not produced the peoples people s of the various r representatives will figuratively fall upon their delegates and tear them limb from limb if the blueprint is produced and if the organization operates es effectively and successfully cess fully the credit goes to the demos the absent voters at san francisco who had no vote at vienna and know how to use what they had at paris and so the task of our mathematician becomes the task of the he must discover the power of the spirit of the people |