Lone Voice

The verdict of failure in London was all but unanimous. The conclusion that the U.S. might as well readjust her international ways and thinking to a world of bloc v. bloc was all too easy to accept. Even those who hoped only that the infant United Nations Organization might bridge the gap for a while seemed to be whistling in a bitter wind.

There was one strongly dissenting voice. John Foster Dulles, the Republican Party's prophet of internationalism, had been the chief adviser to the U.S. delegation at the San Francisco conference, and he had similarly served Secretary Byrnes in London. Last week Lawyer Dulles returned to Manhattan, and said:

"Let us be calm and be mature. We have made not a bad, but a good, beginning. That beginning has not created difficulties. It has merely revealed difficulties of long standing, which war has obscured. It is healthy that we now know the facts. Furthermore, we have at the beginning shown that we stand firm for basic principles. That is of transcendent importance.

"We are emerging from six years of war, during which morality and principle have increasingly been put aside in favor of military expediency. The war has now ended, and with that ending, principle and morality must be re-established in the world. The U.S. ought to take a lead in that. We are the only great nation whose people have not been drained, physically and spiritually. It devolves upon us to give leadership in restoring principle as a guide to conduct. If we do not do that, the world will not be worth living in. Indeed, it probably will be a world in which human beings cannot live. For we now know that this planet will, like others, become uninhabitable unless men subject their physical power to the restraints of moral law."

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