Wanted: A Plan for Peace

Chiang Kai-shek last week made his most important pronouncement on postwar policy. The Generalissimo recommended :

"First, this war should not be concluded in a 'negotiated peace.' . . .

"Secondly, the future peace should be a peace seeking the emancipation of entire mankind. . . .

"Thirdly, the United Nations should set up at the earliest possible moment a joint machinery for the winning of the peace as well as for the efficient prosecution of the war. . . .

"Fourthly, to safeguard international justice and collective security, and to insure the successful functioning of democratic governments after the war, there must be a postwar world organization with the solid backing of an international force. . . ."

Eight Points. The most specific statement of postwar aims to come from Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt is the two-year-old Atlantic Charter, which calls for: 1) no Anglo-American aggrandizement; 2) self-determination of national boundaries; 3) self-determination of governments; 4) free trade; 5) international social security; 6) freedom from want and fear; 7) freedom of the seas; 8) outlawing of force.

Seven Points. Clearest statement from Joseph Stalin is his outline, made last November, of a "program of action of the Anglo-Russian-American coalition": 1) "abolition of racial exclusiveness; 2) equality of nations and integrity of their territories; 3) liberation of enslaved nations and the restoration of their sovereign rights; 4) the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes; 5) economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare; 6) restoration of democratic liberties; 7) destruction of the Hitlerite regime."

Statesman Chiang's words were a sharp reminder that now more than ever, since they are winning the war, the United Nations need to get together, add up their points and make a plan for winning the peace.

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