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Show Behinl Released by Western Newspaper Union. ALL SMALL NATIONS MUST BE GIVEN VOICE WASHINGTON. The Democratic senators chirruped choruses of denunciation de-nunciation at Governor Dewey upon; his demand for small nations' protection pro-tection in the postwar world then suddenly they went quiet. Tom Connally, their foreign relations rela-tions chairman, had said at first that Dewey had staged a luftwaffe at-j tack upon the Dumbarton confer-1 ence. A few days later he was, beaming benignly upon the Repub- licans, and saying in a senate speech they had been exceptionally coop-j erative on foreign policy. j The change is attributable to State J Secretary Hull. Mr. Hull was the first to realize indeed he seems the only one now firmly to insist that a peace imposed by a majority will not endure even among the United Nations; that the opposition will one day get into power here, perhaps soon; that unity at home as well as among the nations of the world is essential if anything constructive is to eventuate. He has been the lead- lng force for restraint in an emotion-1 al world debate. KEEP ON IIIGII PLANE But the matter is constantly being pushed off the plane he wants, into politics and confusion. Comes now! the Foreign Policy association, for instance, thinking to defend him against Dewey. In an involved and circuitous collection of assertions, it seems to conclude Dewey is wrong and small nations can only be protected pro-tected through domination by the big four powers. Furthermore, two columnists who are supposed to be outstanding out-standing international experts, have entered a radio debate which whirls the whole issue I Into vortex. The ousted Hull assistant, Mr. Welles, and Mr. Hull's constant kibitzer, Mr. Lippmann (whose rec-! rec-! ommendations on international af-j af-j fairs have never been followed by I any government in any instance as ' far back as my memory runs though I he sells them to the public three times a week and in books annually) I these two, as I say, have become ! hopelessly involved in such technicalities techni-calities as the respective degree of sovereignties of Japan and, Ger many in postwar. These developments take a simple sim-ple proposition and stretch it to monstrous mon-strous incongruities. The proposition, proposi-tion, before ' all these stretchmen took hold of it, was and still is this: PROTECTION OF SMALL Dewey urged that the interests of small nations be better protected and suggested a specific way to do it. He recommended that the Dumbarton Dum-barton Oaks conference keep the military world setup separate from economic agreements. He and Mr. Dulles, in their conferences, started searching for a way in which small nations would not be over-ridden by the power of the Big Four, and they hit upon this formula. Their reasoning is rather obvious. ob-vious. A small nation is a small nation and no one proposes to make them all big. The military might of the world will remain, after the war, largely with Russia Rus-sia and the United States, not with small nations, and not even with Britain and China. No peace can change that. Also Russia and the United State9 will have the greatest political power pow-er in the world. This is a fact ot geography, industry, raw materials, manpower. It cannot be altered by the peace either. Now Mr. Hull proposed to protect the small nations by safeguarding their sovereignty. This is largely a negative guarantee, but a powerful one. It would transfer the American Ameri-can conception of individuality to the world. No private telephone or back-office appendages were involved in the Hull-Dewey front page jockeying jockey-ing on world peace. The participants spoke all they had to say in head lines, but the refined politics, the subtle parry and thrust, were neglected neg-lected In the reports, although these established Dewey in a new international inter-national character and will be of inestimable importance in the campaign. cam-paign. The administration's campaign policy has been to play Dewey to the public as a barefoot boy In international in-ternational affairs, without experience experi-ence or ability for leadership. To tear down this conception has been a most difficult technical task. Hull proposes there will be no monopoly mo-nopoly of raw material and economic econom-ic and financial domination by the Big Four, but Dewey says this Hull hope is too -vague (indeed financial domination already has been hinted by the Breton Woods conference, although the oil agreement might possihly develop more in line with Hull policy). Dewey goes farther and says the Hull way will not be effective, that a more certain way to accomplish Ihe result is to keep the arrangements arrange-ments for world security seDarate. |