POST-WAR IMPERIALISM

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1944, Page 5

POST-WAR IMPERIALISM

AMERICAN WARNING Against “Big Four” Domination 4 .(Rec. 8.0.) NEW YORK, August 17. Governor Dewey, of New York State, Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency, is deeply disturbed by the reports concerning the forthcoming Dumbarton Oaks conference of Allied representatives regarding post-war world control. He says that the reports indicate this conference "would subject the nations ui the world, great and small, permanently to the coercive power of the four nations that are holding this conference. , Governor Dewey declared: The problem of future peace has two aspects. Germany and Japan' must conclusively be defeated, and.be 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, immediately oe delegated to any new, untried, worldwide organisation. In organising peace among the rest of the world, after the difficult post-war period, a very different attitude must be taken. There .appears, in, some of these proposals, to be a cynical intention that the four great Allied Powers shall continue, permanently, to dominate the world by force, and through their i individual agreements as to spheres !of influence. I hope and pray that no such reactionary purpose will be ■ allowed to dominate this 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 equality and in. the rights ot the small nations and of the 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 would dominate the earth by force. We must not sink into the abyss of power politics. We must rise to a new hign level of co-operation and joint ettort among respected sovereign nations, based on freedom, equality and justice?’ Governor Dewey, when handing his statement to the press, said: “If we get off on the wrong foot of cynical power politics, we will have lost the war before we have won it,” says tne “New York Times.” Governor Dewey added: “You may state that this represents the attitude of the Republican Party.” ~T „ The “New York Times says: It

is clear Governor Dewey has conferred by telephone with the Republican Party leaders in Washington, wno would have the power in the Senate to block any peace treaty or any world organisation embodying the provisions Governor Dewey has assailed, even it Governor Dewey is not President when the matter arises. HUSTLE FOR A NEW LEAGUE (Rec. 11.40) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Senator Tom Connally, in an interview, repealed that the forthcoming post-war security talks would be followed within a fortnight . by “real conferences on a higher level.” He predicted that a treaty providing for a world organisation would be achieved by the autumn, saying: “We aim to have a League of Nationjj. or whatever you want to call it, before the end of the war.”