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that organization will be. The neutral powers — and ultimately the defeated nations — will be allowed to join and accept the constitution drawn up by the victors.
President Harry S. Truman will not attend the Conference; but may ad' dress it by radio — to carry through the international policies of President Roosevelt not only because of a sense of obligation, but because of a sense of conviction that they were right. It is felt that he will be able to command unusual support on Capitol Hill for this policy.
The work of the Conference will be done by the secretaries of state or min' isters of foreign affairs and the delegates appointed to accompany them. Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, and Chiang Kai-Shek are not expected to be present. The top-ranking figures will be men of the caliber of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Vyacheslav Molotov, Maxim Litvinov, T. V. Soong, and others. Men will predominate although a few countries may follow the example of the United States and send a woman delegate. Generally the meetings may be closed to the public, although the plenary sessions at the opening and close of
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the Conference may admit special guests by ticket.
Once the San Francisco Conference has completed its work, the foundations will be laid for greater international collaboration and for transferring the solution of international problems from the procedure of personal negotiation between three or four individuals to one of general discussion by the representatives of all the countries in the United Nations. The major powers still will direct the course of events, but forty other nations will have a voice in the decisions.
From the American point of view, this meeting is timely for it calls for the perpetuation of the cooperation that developed in the course of the war. The group of obstructionist American Senators who might have tried to spike participation in an international organization will not find the same wave of reaction now that could set in after the war.
Failure by our Senate to ratify the results of the San Francisco Conference would seriously hinder collaboration in war as well as in peace. It would immediately loose a wave of endeavor on the part of the major nations to strengthen their own spheres of influence and dominate increasing world areas. That would create foundations for the next world war while this one was still being fought.
Therefore, the San Francisco Conference will produce positive results and the Senate of the United States will ratify them. Under duress of war, America will have decided to carry on for peace. Our leaders who have successfully brought their negotiations to