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Show News fix Behine BypAULMALLON ' Released by Western Newspaper Union. WASHINGTON. The Netherlands foreign minister warned that the small nations would not accept postwar post-war domination by the Big Four, and State Secretary Hull replied in 800 vaporous words that all nations would be equal in their "sov- ( ereignty." This world had been wandering around in words, stretching them, redefining them, for a decade up to this war. Streams of words poured from various energetic people. We had such things as "technocracy" , to ponder. 1 A man wrote a book about how we deceive ourselves with words, only he wrote it from the standpoint of how other people could be deceived with words. It was Stuart Chase, the New Deal economist, and he dug ; out of obscurity a new word for his j idea "semantics." He arncd his fellow radicals against calling such things as the taxation-insurance-spending scheme of the New Deal by any right name, and I think he originally origi-nally dcv;.sed the philosophically false and realistically unprovable unprov-able phrase "social security," which, like most other things, we have in name only. I am not trying to be a philosopher, philoso-pher, only to tell you the difficulty confronting me in attempting to i transfer to you the news behind the ', news. Here is the Dutch minister ; who says he will not take domina- ; tion by greater powers. We all know ; he always has. j ALWAYS CONTROLLED I The financial and whole economic . life of his country always depended on the greater powers, and I mean always, because history will not reveal re-veal an instance in which the Netherlands Neth-erlands controlled its own affairs without outside directing influence. Mr. Hull replied with words equally equal-ly altitudinous. and just as far ofl 1 base, saying the "sovereignty" o' Holland would be kept pure. If these same words were piled 10,000 miles higher, the average intelligent man In the street would still know the Neth- erlands is a small country, . Great Britain is an empire of greater bulk and authority, that the United States is a rich and powerful nation, that Russia is a rising influence which will prob- : ably dominate Europe. The words we read in the news, , therefore, merely deceive us from the Tact that we already know, that cannot be changed. So also with Spain, the French Committee of Liberation, the Russian Rus-sian situation, or whatever else there is in the news of either international inter-national or domestic consequence. A columnist makes a speech in , New York to the French emigres demanding that De Gaulle be recognized recog-nized as the government of France. Is De Gaulle the government of Franre-' HE IS A POLITICIAN J He is a politician who escaped to I London, failed at numerous bellig-I bellig-I erent enterprises, fought the French I political elements we freed in North I Africa, made a private alliance with I Russia, and then announces him-I him-I self as the government of France. I Anyone can see that. I He is only a French politician who I tos succeeded in mastering the oth-I oth-I r French politicians, all of them J in exile and away from their people. I To recognize him as a government I would, in justice and simple com-j com-j rnon honesty, be an act of cheating the people of France who cannot yet I express thpmselves. I With Spain? Our people have been I deluded into believing the Spanish I civil war was a cause of democracy I against Fascism, and that Fascism I 'on. Anyone can see it was a wai I f Communism against Fascism s one dictatorship against another , j neither of which we want, all fa from democracy. I In domestic politics, we also delude ourselves with words. I "Leftist" covers everything I from revolutionary communism l to liberal idealism, which are l Pposites. Communism means dictatorship, ruthless direction of the individual, while liberal-, liberal-, Ism means freedom of the In-j4 In-j4 dividual. I I The only way we are going to' I I Solv any of our difficulties is to get II ut of words Into facts. Pressure II Poups can deceive us, but only tem- ) Porarily. Truth is an obstinate, in- I ' evjtable leveler. It will insist on t eing dominant in the end, no matter tM "ow many words are heaped upon it. r m i '1 e G- 13111 of Rights has been LJ Passed allowing up to 52 weeks with- i two years of unemployment com- Penaation at $20 a week, so that j veterans could lay around for that 5 ngth of time, although, of course. we problem is to get people' back & ' work. Only if the nation is working and JrodueinR can it hope to survive, , itf PeuUSe" af,cr ;iU the talk about i jld- Inflation, wage-hours, etc., r is Ihe only constructive econ 1 mic factor which enn generate M succtisful country. |
