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Even a Shakespeare-or a Norman Corwin-might shrink from the task of putting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Bernard Baruch and Harry Hopkins into a room together and making them converse on Plato, Thomas Jefferson, tariffs and Joseph Stalin. But Columnist ("We, the People") Jay Franklin has done precisely that...
Vandenberg held up Bernard Baruch's atomic control plan as an example of U.S. willingness to disarm. Said the Senator: "The price [continuous international inspection and control] is simply continuous protection against treachery. But it is a fixed price . . . and the price must be paid...
Though good neighbors and better friends, Secretary of State Byrnes and Elder Statesman Baruch had differed over emphasis on abolition of the veto in atomic matters. Baruch had insisted that it must be abolished; Jimmy Byrnes did not think it was all-important. Now Warren Austin would execute the policy, taking his cue from Byrnes...
...those who must carry on where he left off, and write a binding treaty, Baruch declared: "A way has been found and pointed out to control atomic energy for peace and prevent its use for war. The way is marked by buoys and lighthouses showing clearly the dangers and how to avoid them. . . . The treaty . . . must contain all, not parts of the program. Otherwise mankind will be deluded into a false sense of security. The dangers are great, but the way is clear if man but wills...
...whole world is watching us, amazed at the exhibition of a giant who cannot pull himself together even to take care of his own needs." Like the pangs of conscience during a hangover, these words of wise old Bernard Baruch in mid-1946 were perhaps overfraught with a sense of guilt. But at the time they seemed fully warranted...