WORLD COERCION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 277, 19 August 1944, Page 6

WORLD COERCION

Mr. Hull Answers Mr. Dewey’s Fears NOT CONTEMPLATED (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received August 18, 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 17. “Governor Dewey can rest assured the fears he expressed yesterday are utterly and completely unfounded. No arrangement such as Governor Dewey described, involving the military alliance of the four major nations permanently to coerce the rest of the world, is contemplated or has ever been contemplated by this Government, or. as fay as we know, by any other Government,” said Mr. Cordell Hull. Mr. Hull recalled that in the Moscow declaration the four nations advocated a general international organization based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving nations and open to membership for all such states, large or small, for the maintenance of peace and security. Mr. Hull pointed out that the Dumbarton Oaks meeting for the purpose of discussion among the four signatories of the Moscow declaration of the most desirable methods for establishing the kind of organization envisaged by the Moscow declaration. Mr. Hull further stressed that the conference is. preliminary to similar discussions and an early conference among all the United Nations and other peaceloving countries, large and small. Any reports to the contrary were without foundation. Mr. Hull said the course of American participation in peace talks must not be allowed to fall apart through domestic or political controversies. The whole bottom could drop out of plans for peace if that happened. Mr. Hull said he would welcome a .conference with Governor Dewey, and any others “who come solely in a non-nartisan spirit and with a will to offer any feasible eo-operation entirely free from personal and political partisanship.”