WORLD POLICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25364, 23 October 1943, Page 5

WORLD POLICE

POST-WAR PROPOSAL. A TEMPORARY EXPEDIENT (Rec. 1 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct, 22. The plan for post-war world police which is reported to have been discussed at the Quebec Conference was first outlined by the Washington Star. The plan projects through the era between the end of hostilities and a written peace, and the continuance of the present working arrangement between the British and American navies. This would be done by carrying on the joint military directorate known as the combined chiefs of staff. Moreover, Russia would be included if and when she wishes, and China when able to assist, while subjugated nations would be admitted as they gained their freedom and sovereignty. Officials who have been considering this “ready-made wdrld-wide sea and air policy” view it as merely a temporary expedient measure calling neither for a treaty nor for a formal alliance. They propose that the world police should simply bridge the difficult and dangerous time, probably years, between the collapse of the Axis and an effective world security order. For example, Russia should be permitted to police the Baltic and Asiatic reaches, while Japan could be turned over to Chinese forces if and when China is able to occupy Japan and guard contiguous sea areas. Meanwhile, however the British and American navies, with the air arms, would carry the load by continuing the existing division of oceanic spheres. Under the present combined control they can use each other’s bases and Singapore as a demarcation line between the Pacific and Indian patrols. In the absence of enemy sea and air forces this policing would be easy and effective.