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Monday, April 23, 1945
EYES ON FRISCO
PE ACk CONFERENCE
The. eyes of the world
are today being focussed
on San* Francisco, where
Wednesday will begin the
greatest conclave of na
tions ever gathered -- for
good.
Much is expected to be
accomplished toward the
future peace and prosper
ity of the 'world, although
few of the present prob
lems will confront the as
sembly. The main reason
for the meeting is to make
future aggression impossi
ble, and to make possible
the settling of differences
between nations, and mak
ing a better world in which
to live.
Forty-two or more na
tions have been invited to
the conference in order
that a complete picture of
the world and its people
can be obtained, and such
differences of opinion, and
international ideas can be
exchanged and discussed.
Actually the conference
is meant to lay the founda
tion for a permanent, last
ing peace, and to make
way for the development
of world education, so that
the people of all nations
will know their neighbors
around the world, and be
able to understand and
show consideration for
their differences of opin
ion, without recourse to
war.
The San Francisco con
ference will set up the ma
chinery whereby all na
tions, great or small, will
be able to get themselves
heard in the event of inter
national difficulties as in
the courts of democratic
countries.
The smaller nations
have, up to *the present
time, been at the mercy,
and will of the greater
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neighboring nations.
We sincerely hope that
the peoples of the earth
have suffered sufficiently
!the hardships of war to
grasp the meaning of
peace, and to be able to
consider the other nations’
rights to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.
In other words the dele
gates of the peoples of the
earth are gathering today,
in order to prevent wars
and the resultant suffering
of tomorrow.
The conference of San
! Francisco, which is sched
uled for'Wednesday, April
25th, in just two days, will
be another step in the right
direction, following in the
wake of the Bretton Woods
meeting, which in. turn
succeeded the “Big Three”
arrangements at Dumbar
ton Oaks. , ■>
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' These three steps are the
outcome of previous meet
ings by the late President
Roosevelt, E n g land’s
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, and Premier of
Russia, Josef Stalin.
The Security Confer
ence will form such a
peacetime tribunal as can
handle all international
situations which arise out
of differences between na
tions.
The conference will be
gin laying the foundation
for the future tribunals of
nations, and peaceful rela
tionships among the peo
ples of the world.
Large Army Of
Occupation May
Be Necessary
W
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By WES GALLAGHER
MAGDEBURG, April 20—(/P)—
A far greater army of occupation
may be necessary in Germany
than was originally planned in
view of the problems experienced
to date. Even with the vast num
ber of troops now in Germany the
} job of administering the territory
I is more difficult than was expec
ted.
Germany is now a festering
sore in the heart of Europe, hous
! ing mass misery unheard of in
modern history.
Twelve years of Nazism and
l brutality are bearing cancerous
fruit and there are not nearly
enough military government
teams here. Millions of released
slave laborers and prisoners of
war consider life worth nothing.
People and dying everywhere and
there are thousands of wanderers.
Tibet is the highest country in
the world, with table land! rising
16,000 feet above the aea. * .
Alt PRESENT
Navy Announces
New Torpedo
WASHINGTON, April 20— VP)
^ —The existence of a new top se
| cret “chemical torpedo” in the
! Navy’s arsenal came to light as its
! existence was officially disclosed.
i
Further details of the torpedo
were withheld.
LOOKING
AHEAD
•v GEORGE 1 RENSON
k PntfdsmtxXtHtiHf College
SMtcf, JrkMtuu
GRATITUDE
The average American’s most
1 vivid impression of the Orient was
j acquired in less than an hour and
came to him free with a bowl of
j chicken chow-mein. This is no
discredit to the average American.
He can’t help it if Asia is myste
rious. It is only an accident that
we know a great deal more about
Europe. Our ancestors came from
that way, so we heard about it.
It is high time now however for
every soul in the United States,
who loves his happy home and
peaceful surroundings, to learn
more of the character of our
straw-colored allies beyond the
Pacific. We owe our national saf
ety to them. If it were not for
their native honesty we would be
held in a nut-cracker between
Germany and Japan at this hour,
if we were yet able to right at all.
We Admire Britain
Americans are a tender-hearted
folk. We sympathize with other
peoples and half-way try to un
derstand them, but we don’t usu
ally admire them very much. We
felt sorry for the Poles when the
Nazis took them in J8 days. Our
hearts went out ot the Norwegi
ans because they didn’t last three
weeks. We wept with our British
relatives over Dunkirk, but we did
more. We admired the Br’tish.
Late in 1937 the city of Nan
king, China, fell to the Japanese.
Far away over the sea, strategists
thought that was about the end.
If China had folded up the next
day, few people would have
blamed her. We Americans would
have turned the spigot in our
sympathy tank again and drawn
out a generous sprinkling of tears
for dear old China, and then tried
to forget it. But forgetting it
would have been impossible.
Must Admire China
If China had fallen in 1937, four
years before the Pearl Harbor
raid, any child can guess why we
Americans would still be remem
bering it. But China did not fall.
It would not be amiss for devout
people to give thanks at the table
three times <Cday that. China/tfrti
not X{*ll..If China bed fallen. Japan
could <hdve' tariffed Hifsik tm Vhc
t.% .
: unguarded side; right through
Manchuria; surely would have
, done so.
Back in those early months of
the present war when the Ger
mans were all but knocking at the
doors of Moscow, our big old
globe, as now arranged, was com
ing unglued. If Japan could have
drawn close enough to attack Rus
sia from behind, the Germans
would have marched into Mos
| cow. Then, with no Russia to an
: noy him, Hitler would have parch-*
| ed London to a cindre.
Thanks To China
China stayed in and fought, so
London remains. China stood the
gaff, so we still have San Fran
cisco. China could take privation
and punishment; her share and
ours too. As a consequnece no
bomb has struck an American
city. Moreover China’s young men *
have made their fight as nearly
bare-fisted as any army, large or
small, taking part in this war on
either side.
In recent weks there have been *
frequnt criticisms of China; of
Chinse fortitude, of China’s dis
unity,' of Chiang Kai-Shek’s gen
eralship. Let me close with the
admonition: Criticism of China in
America ,today, true or. false, has
<XQe purpose and one only. It is to
V' ' i- J
W&Lk'up unity among our allifes.
i r hope to survive
kjr. np'r^hsr.rmeans. Don!*.* listen
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