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Show My Opinion ..." r U. S., World's Future Discussed By Local Business Leader (Editor's Note: Former State Senator Grant W. Midgley is a well-known Sugar House businessman and civic leader. A student stu-dent of government and political science, Mr. Midgley became interested in the organization, The Ajtlantic Union Corrimittee, when he read Clarence Streit's book, "Union Now," a little over a year ago. Since then Mr. Midgley has been very active in the organization organiza-tion and is now serving as the local chapter president. The Atlantic Union Committee Is headed nationally by Hon. Owen J. Roberts, former Justice of the Supreme Court. Former Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson and Will L. Clayton, former for-mer Undersecretary of State are vice presidents. The Bulletin has been interested in the subject of federal union for some time. Several weeks ago we asked Mr. Midgley to write a guest editorial on the Atlantic Union Committee. We suggested the present Korean crisis and the ever-present threat of other crises to follow as thl focal point of his article. What does the Atlantic Union Committee propose to do to help us solve this terrible prospect we face of fighting war after war?) By GRANT W. MIDGLEY At this moment, when war in Korea has wakened us, at least partially, to the danger of our military position; is it not time to consider, not only what must be done in the immediate case, but also the basic causes of our situation. It is the fashion to blame Secretary Acheson, Secretary Johnson, and President Truman for GRANT W. MIDGLEY ... C S. must unite failing to foresee the Korean attack and prepare fbr it. Certainly Cer-tainly they did not foresee it; certainly it would be much more convenient had they done so. But is there not a basic weakness weak-ness in a policy that depends for effectiveness upon crystal gazing? An ability to foresee the future would be a great asset in any profession, including that of statesmanship, but we are far from wise to depend upon it. And ilet us realize that had we been prepared for aggression aggres-sion in Korea, it almost certainly certain-ly would not have come there. In addition to our unprepar-edness, unprepar-edness, our task has been made harder by the inability of the United Nations to speedily tally any substantial force to our aid, and by the inability, or unwill-ingless, unwill-ingless, or our democratic allies to do so. It is merely another instance of our shortsightedness shortsighted-ness that we placed reliance for our security in leagues and treaties between sovereign pow-Continued pow-Continued on page 7 the hard road ahead of us. What it will do is to remove the ineffective method we are now using to work with the people of the other free nations and replace it with an effective, permanent arrangement. We must realize, as the founders, of our government did before us, that we cannot retain complete com-plete national sovereignty and at the same time enjoy the benefits of union. We must make the choice. " - governmental props, could ac-I ac-I complish the same result through the ordinary course of business. A common currency will end .once and for all the monetary chaos afflicting Europe. Eu-rope. And such a Union, by reducing the enormous present coat of maintaining the democ racies' defense establishments, offers the only real hope of substantially sub-stantially reducing taxes in the foreseeable future. It is expected that the Union will be a member of the United Nations, and will strengthen that harassed organization. Forefathers' Plan And in adopting such a federal fed-eral government we would be doing merely what the United States has done before so successfully. suc-cessfully. This is the same plan that transformed thirteen divided, di-vided, weak, struggling states into a respected nation that could, within a few years after its birth, teli the grasping na-tions na-tions of Europe to keep their hands off the New World. The establishment of the Union will by no means remove the threat ctf war or eliminate U. S. FUTURE? . . . "In My Opinion" Continued from Page 1 ers, when a careful reading of our own history, as well as that of other. nations, will show that euch arrangements may not be depended upon in crises. THE REAL PERIL The real peril of our present situation does not lie in Korea, but in what may follow. At best, (barring a Russian collapse) col-lapse) we may expect to continue con-tinue the "cold war," during which with increasing military budgets, rising debts, mounting taxes, and great inflationary pressures on the economy, we await the next blow of the enemy. ene-my. The worst will be all-out-war, or a long, expensive enner-vating enner-vating fight to defend our allies al-lies against the millions of people at the disposal of Russia. . The Russian attack is not against America alone, but is equally aimed at every nation of Europe that shares our ideals of ifreedom and self-government. To destroy Stalin without destroying ourselves in the process will require the extreme ex-treme effort of all these nations. If we are to escape the obvious ob-vious consequences of our pres- tween self government and tyranny. ty-ranny. No one argues against the NEED for unity among these nations. We have sent them billions: have negotiated treaties with them endlessly; are committed to defend them against any aggressor; are soon to send more billions to build and equip their armies. Yet, with all this, we remain separate sepa-rate sovereignties, each maintaining main-taining separate defense forces, each dealing with other governments govern-ments as the immediate requirements require-ments of national policy rather rath-er than the common defense of freedom dictates. THE PROPOSAL What is here proposed is that we abandon the present treaty arrangements between the Atlantic democracies and ourselves, and, in place of them, establish a GOVERNMENT with power to make and enforce en-force laws providing for the common defense. This means a great Union, stretching from the Mediterranean to Australia, with one department of state, one department of defense, one army, one navy, one air force. We will include ten or fifteen nations which are advanced enx course, iei us realize mai, whatever changes in established establish-ed procedures are required, whatever prerogatives of states and politicians must be scrapped, scrap-ped, our task is to establish a political, economic, and military arrangement that will make it impossible for the free nations to be assaulted and conquered one by one, that will place on the citizens of these nations equal responsibility and equal burdens in the common defense effort, that will face the enemy with the full man power and industrial power of Europe and America; in short, unify the democratic effort! "Divide et impera (divide and command) must be the motto of every nation na-tion that either hates or fears us." Hamilton. THE BASIC FLAW The basic flaw in our foreign policy has been our failure to organize ourselves upon a truly solid basis with those who are our friends in the struggle be- economicauiy ana experienced in self-government. We will govern the Union with a constitution, consti-tution, modelled upon that of the United States, with a legislature, legis-lature, an executive, and a judiciary. ju-diciary. The constitution of the Union will vest the government with certain limited powers, among the most important of which will be that of defending the Union, conducting all relations rela-tions with other nations, establishing estab-lishing a common currency. The individual citizens of the member nations will be protected pro-tected by the same constitutional constitution-al guarantees of proper trials, (freedom of speech, press, and religion as they now enjoy. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, all matters of purely national concern will continue to be governed by the individual individ-ual nations. ADVANTAGES The advantages of a single government respecting defense must be obvious. No longer will we attempt to unify, uuuugn agreements, national armies; nationail commands, and national war plans. Men will go into the army of the Union not that ot any nation; they will be assigned units and rank regardless of nationality; they will use uniform equipment, receive re-ceive the same pay. and fight to defend any part of the Union exactly as a soldier from Utah fights to defend the United States. War plans can be greatly simplified, and fortifications, fortifi-cations, bases, war industries, and atomic plants located strategically stra-tegically over a great area. Great economic improvement improve-ment may be expected to extend throughout the whole area, benefitting ben-efitting the citizens of all the member nations. The United I States, instead cf trying to hoi- j ster the economy ot Europe by |