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Show News fix BehindM theNews- By PaulEIallon J" Released by Western Newspaper Union. ONLY PLEASANT ANGLES DISCUSSED BY HULL WASHINGTON. Since Moscow. Mr. Hull has mentioned only the pleasant things in agreement. Senators Sen-ators had planned to call him into a closed meeting of the foreign relations rela-tions committee to ask the important impor-tant questions in their minds, not in a spirit of criticism but in pure in-quisitiveness. in-quisitiveness. Mr. Hull adroitly smothered this Inclination by getting himself invited to address the joint open session of both houses, where no questions would be in order. This blurred outline of the peace and the new world may be maintained main-tained only a short time, perhaps less than a few weeks, before some additional details are offered. But not until the agreement is applied in action in specific cases is there likely to be a determination on the questions now far from the attention of the public, but naturally agitating all insiders including the negotiators such matters are the relative influence in-fluence of Anglo-American democracy democ-racy and socialist-collectivism in Finland, Germany, Poland, the Balkans Bal-kans and even in France, Italy, indeed in-deed in China, and throughout the rest of the world in trade and policing. po-licing. Mr. Hull is not trying to be coy in avoiding these matters, and thus keeping them from the public eye. I have reason to believe he has set himself a goal beyond the expectations expecta-tions of freer-flowing international spouters today. He wants unity on foreign policy in this country, a unity which would remove it from the field of politics. It is all right for us to argue among ourselves about domestic issues, is-sues, but we should face the world as one people. If we cannot establish estab-lish peace at home, how can we aspire to establishing world peace. Conversely if the Stalin-Churchill- Roosevelt meeting (promised by London dispatches) results in a partisan par-tisan alignment or lets Europe fall into realms of struggle between such elements as democrats, communists, commu-nists, church and all the familiar conflicting ideological elements, large groups in this country will start protesting the Moscow agreement agree-ment and they may become within a short time more unpopular than the Munich agreement which was also erroneously thought at the time to mean peace. People have been cheering the Moscow agreements for one reason only. They showed a hope of democracy, democ-racy, empire and socialist-collectivism to live in the world peaceably together. In that hope this nation is unanimous. The development seemed less important to some of us, because we expected nothing else. Of course the three great postwar post-war powers should live in agreement. Any other course would be stupid, is unthinkable. The question bigger than that one, is what kind of an agreement, what kind of a world? Mr. Hull has brought us to this cross-roads, but the deciding factor of the road we will travel, and whether we will go in sensible unity as we should and must, is yet to be determined. WAR'S END SOONER IF HITLER TRIES GAS Hitler said the United States was too far away but he could lay his hands on someone near and make them suffer for United Nations deeds against him. He could only have meant England, because he has not only let go of the tail of the Russian Bear but is running for dear life with his hands fully occupied. This threat lent superficial credence cre-dence to a suspicion that has become world-wide, that Der Fuehrer is preparing pre-paring a last gasp, do-or-die invasion inva-sion of Britain, based on the use ol gas. Mr. Churchill, in his last speech, seemed to warn his people to be alert for some such attack. Everyone here hopes Hitler tries it, the sooner the better. It would bring an abrupt termination of the war. The threat of gas does not have the horrors for military men that have been transmitted to the general public by the adventure magazines. Despite all the isolated instances discussed back and forth, it probably prob-ably has not been used in this war except on one occasion by the Japs in China. Smoke shells and bombs have been used but not gas. Oui enemies have not avoided it for humane hu-mane reasons, but because the physical phys-ical limitations on its use (bulkiness, weather) prevent it from bringing decisive results. Thousands of planes would be necessary to wipe out a small city under perfect conditions. Invasion Impossible. For any invasion of England, Hitler Hit-ler must have an air force capable of meeting and beating what we have there. He cannot muster such a force, so he cannot successfully invade, with or without gas. Just remember this in any talk about gas: The way it can be most effectively used is by spray or bomt from airplanes. We have both the planes and the gas to make' such use extremely practicable if anyone opens up the subject. The chanct that it will be used is therefore more remote than ever before. |