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Franklin Roosevelt has thus far avoided the first of Wilson's errors. He has bided his time, has left the debate to others: Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Republican Harold E. Stassen, Republican Wendell Willkie. (One great difference between 1919 and 1943 is the number of men, of varying domestic views, who see eye to eye about the problems of the peace to come...
America's discussion and debate, its hopes and cynicisms about the post-war world, moved last week to a new plane. From Minnesota's Governor Harold Edward Stassen, a young (35), realistic United Nations statesman, came the most specific program yet laid down for world cooperation...
Said Governor Stassen, at a meeting of the Foreign Policy Association in Minneapolis...
World Chairman. Out of Governor Stassen's world parliament would arise a world council, its chairman selected by the parliament, its seven members then chosen by the chairman with approval of parliament. With a legislative body and an executive branch, the Government of the United Nations could then get to work on a world program which Governor Stassen had previously proposed (TIME, June 15) -including disarmament of Axis nations, a United Nations court and military force, administration of international airports and sea lanes, programs to increase world literacy and world trade. ("Only in this way can those countries with...
...Stassen proposal marked a milestone in post-war thinking chiefly because it got down to concrete cases. The great debate on the post-war world had begun only last May, with Vice President Henry Wallace's speech on the "century of the common man." Since then statesmen of both parties had moved step-by-step, speech-by-speech, toward what looked increasingly like a common objective. Still to be heard from was Franklin Roosevelt, carefully staying out of the debate himself, biding his time and avoiding commitments...