BEFORE WAR ENDS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 276, 18 August 1944, Page 4

BEFORE WAR ENDS

World Organization Treaty Forecast

MR. DEWEY DISTURBED By I oiear-ipli I'ress Assn < u|>, riguu (Received. August 17,11.55 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August. 17. The chairman of the Foreign Rela- , tions Committee of the Senate, Senator Connally, in an interview revealed that the forthcoming talks on post-war security would be followed within a fortnight by “real „ conferences on a higher level.” He predicted that a treaty providing for a world organization would be achieved by the autumn. “We aim to have a League of Nations, or whatever you want to call it, before the end of the war,” he, said. Governor Dewey is deeply disturbed by reports concerning the, forthcoming conference on world security at Dumbarton Oaks, which he says indicates would subject the nations of the world, great and small, permanently to the coercive power of the four nations holding this conference. Governor Dewey declared : “The problem of future peace has two aspects.. Germany and Japan must be conclusively defeated and rendered powerless to renew tyranny and. attack, “Their defeat will be achieved primarily by the united power of Britain, Russia, China, and the. United States. To ensure peace, these four allies, must maintain their present unity and close military co-operation after the war. This responsibility to keep Germany and Japan disarmed should be shared with the liberated peoples, but it cannot be immediately delegated to a new and untried world-wide organization.

“In organizing peace among the rest of the world after the difficult post-war •period, a very different attitude must ba taken. There appears in some of these proposals to be the cynical intention that the four great Allied Powers shall continue permanently to dominate the world by force and through individual agreements as to spheres of influence. “I hope and pray no such reactionary purpose will be allowed to dominate the conference, or else the peace of the world will again be destroyed. “Such a rank form of imperialism would be -rejected by the American people. Americans believe in the equality and the rights of small nations and minorities. We believe in the essential equality and dignity of the individual wherever • he lives. We are fighting this war for these very principles. They must not be lost in a cynical peace whereby four Powers dominate the earth by force. We must not sink into an abyss of power politics. We must rise to a uew high level of co-operation and joint effort among the respected sovereign nations, based on freedom, equality and justice.” . It is stated that the Russian Ambassador in London has communicated, to the Foreign Oflice a memorandum giving the Soviet’s broad views on the proposed world organization for security. The main principles of the document are identical with the Notes already exchanged between Britain, the United States and the Soviet. A full examination of the memorandum has not been completed, but it is known that the Soviet favours wider-spread responsibility among ail nations, large and small, for the maintenance of peace. Governor Dewey, when handing his statement to the Press, said: ‘‘lf we get off on the wrong foot of cynical power politics, we will have lost the war before we have won it,” says the “New York Times.” Mr. Dewey added: “You may state that this represents the attitude of the Republican Party. The paper says it is dear that Mr. Dewey conferred by telephone with Republican leaders in Washington who would have power in the Senate to block any peace treaty or world organization embodying the provisions Mr. Dewey assailed, even if Mr. Dewey is not President when the matter arises.