MAJOR ALLIED POWERS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 19, 18 October 1943, Page 5

MAJOR ALLIED POWERS

Mr. Sumner Welles Favours Alliance NEW YORK, October 17. Mr. Sumner Welles in his first speech since his resignation as Assistant Secretary of State, advocated a temporary alliance with Britain, Russia and China to keep the peace in the transition period while a permanent world organization was being established. “Unless agreement is reached soon on basic principles any hope for a ’ stable post-war world must be all but illusory,” said Mr. Welles. . .. He added that this executive council should be established for setthug immediate problems both temporary and permanent. This organization should include a regional organization like a Pan American group of republics for the maintenance of local regional peace. Mr. Welles asserted that the new world order should l>e based on great moral principles—the freedoms of religion, speech and information and that no nation has the inherent unlimited right to govern the subject peoples. He urged that the President and Congress boldly assume leadership and adopt a definite policy. “Surely it is time the nation was told our major objectives.” Praising Mr. Roosevelt t'e said that no American was more qualified to shape our foreign policy.