Wairarapa Times-Age TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1943. POST-WAR CO-OPERATION.
ALTHOUGH it would be foolishly optimistic to believe that the world will move easily and quickly into an era of general international co-operation when totalitarian gangsterdom has been overthrown, there are, on the whole, encouraging indications that purposeful and well-supported efforts will be made to that end. One of the best reasons for believing that at least the minimum and basic essentials of international organisation may be achieved in the years following this war is that m the United States isolationism is being rejected more and more decisively by members of nearly all parties, and certainly by those of both the great national parties—the Democrats and the Republicans. Clear-cut agreement on many details of post-war policy probably is as far from having been reached in the United States as in most other countries, but as against the conditions that existed until the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, when American isolationists were a numerous and powerful group, there has been a dramatic and a heartening transformation. It is perhaps not too much to hope that in the United States the determination of post-war international policy is in process of being lifted out of the party arena. Many outstanding Republicans certainly will approve what is most. essential in the suggested outline of post-war policy made public by President Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, and particularly his contention that, while full provision should be made for the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations, aggression should be met and dealt with by the combined power of the rest of the world. Some Republicans, indeed, may be prepared to go a good deal further than Mr Hull in his ideas regarding the post-wai treatment of both political and economic affairs of international scope. Whether President Roosevelt will be nominated for a fourth terms, and whether, in that event, he will be elected, are open questions. It seems reasonably assured, however, that if Mr Roosevelt retires, or is displaced in next year’s election, his successor will be committed broadly to the international policy and aims with which Mr Roosevelt’s name will be associated in history. With its elements of acute contention over domestic questions, advocacy of and opposition to a fourth term for Mr Roosevelt. and party manoeuvring over these and other issues, the pattern of current United States politics is exceedingly complicated, but the weight of national opinion unmistakably is aligning itself in support of the policy affirmed in a resolution passed unanimously not long ago by the Foreign Affairs .Committee of the American House of Representatives for submission to Congress—a resolution advocating “the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace” and “participation by the United States therein.”
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