“WE MUST THINK IN TERMS OF A TOTAL WORLD.” SAYS DEWEY

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 June 1949, Page 5

“WE MUST THINK IN TERMS OF A TOTAL WORLD.” SAYS DEWEY

NEW YORK, June 20 (Recd. Bpm). —The tasks ahead of the democratic world demanded closer relationship, greater give and take, and greaterinterdependence between the people of the live still free Continents——Western Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australia, said Sir Thomas E. Dewey, titular head of the Republican Party, today. Mr. Dewey declared: “Separate nations, ranging in population from four million to forty-five million, cannot successfully meet modern economic conditions; they cannot meet the external threat of a colossus that stretches from the Elbe to the Pacific Ocean for the first time since Genghis Khan. It is imperative we think in terms of a total world, and not in terms of one corner, or one segment of it.” Mr. Dewey reaffirmed his support for economic and military aid to Europe, but asserted, "It is time we lifted our sights and viewed the world as a whole. We have concentrated on Europe while Asia has been going under and the Communists have been busy working on Africa. "We have thought too long that if we could keep Europe free we could keep a free world. That is not true. If we fail to keep Europe free we will probably fail to keep our own freedom, but if we do save Europe the. struggle is not won by any means.” Mr. Dewey added: “This is a world struggle and it is time we thought of it in true perspective.” He could not see why the Politburo “should be stupid enough to change from a cold war to a shooting war,” for they had won more in the last four years of uneasy peace than any nation had ever won by war.

“They believe, by the continued use of native traitors, they will gain Indo-China, Siam, Malaya, and . ultimately all Asia,” he said. “That would leave a pretty skinny free world with the slimmest chance ot surviving against either a cold war’ or a hot war.”