Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Willkie s Wrong Message to a Wrong Address WKNDKI.l. WILLKIE haw chonen a moment when the military advance of the K.-.I Army to the frontiers of...
...Been the antsemely mint suggestion »ff nenjntislliin bresurht all hell loeue...
...that the Knlok prvbtssn kt an internal affair of tb* Soviet Hasan ia which Mr...
...Polish sources recently reported that thf brutal NazL governor of 'subjugated Poland, Hans Frank, had approached the Polish underground leaders with a proposal for cooperation against the impending Soviet invasion...
...whole population...
...And all h< needs to do is to implement his own repeated voluu tary pledgee to respect the terrlharial integrity e his Western neighbors and hie more recent asso ciation with the ideals of the Atlantic Charter...
...Marshal Smuts has plain...
...people, full of platitudes, and devoted to the untenable proposition that what is un IKM-tani at the moment is not whether Stalin will shew respect for his own promises ami foi the.principles of the Atlantic Charter, which lie has' formally accepted, but whether Americans trust Stalin enough...
...and White Kuaaiana in Poland, to say nothing of th Poles, desire outright annexation to the Soviet Union It is not true that Eastern Poland and the Belli ' States and parts of Finland are necessary to Sovie strategic security...
...result of the admissioi of the right of any large paper to unite any tent tory it might think, it needed;for resmins of security Nor was the Soviet...
...Willkie's bead...
...The issue involved in the disposition of Easier Poland and the Baltic region is crystal clear, as sou as a few confusing propagandist falsehoods air dii posed of...
...He tinaOy arrives at this astonishing conclusion: "There is only one way by which we can hope to gain acceptance for our ideas in Russian famvgm policy, nod nbmt in to saejard Jtenvnn «s an equal, wfth whom we desire to work in life...
...it was the inaautina <rf the last tasae that, brought the wrath of "I'rarda...
...i.il sharpness to...
...Anyway, unlimitei land grabbing would be the...
...A declaration that Soviet future operations in Poland and the Baltic States would tie purely military in character, and not calculated to stake out a claim for territorial annexations, would be of immense moral value to the Soviet cause and would also have insured practical benefits in the attitude of the local population after the war has been definitely carried beyond the Soviet territorial frontier...
...here Mr...
...The Kansiaa Commanist paper's strong rebuhe to Wilkie either indicates that il was greenly misin formed off WIRaie'n article or that the prehlem in no touchy and the Kunnian attitude so arrogant that it could nlap down so brunquely a man who claimed to he their f rJend WantaVn article was hailed here on Tuesday by the < omnaenist Daily Worker, which said: "All anti fascist* will weVreaae WendeU WfflMe's article in the Somtay naagaziae of the New York Times far its high appreciation of (be Teheran conference and of ffriendship for Mr Soviet ally Okte explanation of "Pravea'a" attach in that Trhrran nettled the border rbunts and that Russia wan granted her demands...
...It in time tag...
...Stalin, if we may i» >..•*«• the testimony of "One World," is an admirer and fi lend of Mr...
...As Chamberlin points out and as "Pravda" strikingly confirms...
...It would be a great feat of imaginative statesman ship for stalio, in the very moment of military victory, to renounce arbitrary annexationist intentions in regard to Poland and the Baltic States, to give a specific promise to withdraw Soviet troops behind the 1939 frontier after Germany had been finally defeated and to leave to free and impartial plebiscites any changes that the peoples of bunt, in Europe might desire in their former boundaries...
...4 , • A MORE federal form of state structure, assuruii cultural autonomy and political self-govern men to Ukrainians and White Russians in the region where they are the majority, would be a desirabl development in the post-war Polish state...
...election...
...The proposal was contemptuously rejected- But the position of genuine Polish patriots, as distiiiguuhed from the phony "Union of Polish Patriots" in Moscow, is painful and difficult to the last degree...
...ROLAND'S underground reOeU weold welcome with ¦ jubilation and with intensified effort to overthrow the hated Nazi tyranny by sabotage and guerrilla warfare any United Nations army that would bring liberation In their country...
...a wrong mesaage to the wrong address...
...Willkie wss making the appeal about distrust and suspicion to the wrong party...
...said ZaaUragy...
...given the *¦* slightest sign of not regarding Russia as an equal...
...of Communist totalitarianism on one side ami leactionary eouutei revolution on the other, uuring the years of revolution and civil war...
...That man is Stalin...
...Willkie derived ths idea that Russia i not being treated as an equal...
...It h comparable with that of the demo natic Russian uitelligetitaia, caught- between -the fatal...
...Hut with what eathnaiaam ran the Pale* greet the army of a government that has avowedly annsnauiid Ha intention to annas a good half of Peiead, that has given strong ha clean— of prsponiag to net up a stooge government of its •inn making in the other half, that may he expected •o repeat the rrae...
...la ternas of what Willkie said, the attack was iacomprehesndbte...
...White Russians (in the racial, not politics sense), I. loo .out...
...In this rounirj an unofficial but quite effective censorship of out spokeuly critical books about Stalin and his legim has been In force for more than two years In „ least one important government ugency it is mi possible for a pronounced opponent of Stalin's brain of totalitarianism to get employment...
...Willkie must not mnddks," "I'mvans" writer insisted that plebiscite* held in the Ranniaa-held areaa of 19M (the Baltic states and Kantern Poland gave Kansk* a 99 per rent afarmativr answer...
...But it ii doubtful whether the majority of the Ukrainian...
...It woe Churchill and Roosevelt who went to meet Stalin in what is practically a Russian mili lory protectorate, not Stalin who came to any Brituv or American rendesvoua...
...Instead, he has chosen, in at) article published iu the New York Times Sunday magazine, to send an entirely un needed message to the Americar...
...Had Mr...
...Union in any unty eeonomirall: bandit apped by lite niiiepejuleiire of the small Balti States, which were eager to cultivate trade relation and to stimulate transit business with Russia fo the sake of their own interests...
...The precise ftgurea for the ter ritor which the Soviet Union seised at the time of th...
...policy of maim arrests and depor t aliens that marked the Irot two years of the Stalin-Hitler partition of Poland...
...were Inal...
...Jews, l.loe.OOO...
...It is not true, for instance, that the w called < in ion Line, which was coneetvesl aa a temps rary demarcation hhe, net no a geeneennwt frontier is the eats tern ethtaagrapMr boundary of Poland TTv population between the Curaon Line snd the Polixl frontier of 1939 is very mixed, with the Poles as ttv largest single group, although a minority in th...
...oadcrntaad...
...or ambitious Republicans" stirring rap nnti Kansiaa feeling, "it would he unite natural for Mm In the fare of sweh s tar a of assari to cooperate en oar part, to take whatever massarts might seem acre unary ha order to entahiish Kneaian national aeenrity on a unilateral basis ' The assail* of tho ¦altar states and the Potinh hereWn, neat th* KipahMtaa Under, moid he settleeV by pisiafaj uigngteHsn Hat dsppite the favorable tape to Hans if...
...The Soviet Union lived in pcac for twenty years Without this territory...
...Union's prestige and to the causa of intemotions peace and justice...
...In fart, the article was entitled "Don't Stir in-tin.i of Hawass" WilleJe charged that sonar political elements were "preparing to lake nelBaa politic.I advantage" of aay move Rawnia might make...
...DUT who in any responsible position has...
...Throughout his article, Hr...
...Russians, 139,000 smaller groups, 600,040...
...This aeems to me a rather strange positioi for a man to take who has always tried to mak Americans morally conscious of global iasuea <An an] •vent, there ia nma emus mass nam assert that possi Wlity and render a genuine service to the Sovie...
...Stalin-Hitler Pact are: Poles, 6,260,000...
...Willkie chosen to address a message, urging this last consideration, to has friend and admirer in Moscow, he would have performed an admirable interna tional public service...
...atensed WHUuW of "maddyiag the waters of Soviet Aaseriraa relatiean...
...Willkie displays a good deal of agility in dodging the very important moral issue involved in whether the frontiers of Eastern Europe are to be settled by free expression of popular will or by preponderance of military force...
...suggesting that a rare opportunity bud presented itself to prove to the whole world the sincerity of the Soviet Government's respect for its own international obligations and for the "self-determination" and "no territorial aggrandizement" clauses of the Atlantic Charter...
...It was at tacked and overrun by Oenanny offer it had takei this supposed "security zone...
...MOSCOW lOMISHf 11 Munrow tanned a political bombshell into the American political situation this week when "Pravda" ran a aigncd attach on Wendell V* illkir for bin article in the Wan day Ttsaea of January Z. The article, toy I nth-g Soviet pottttrai writer ghsvhl Xaatavshy...
...intimated that Kngland foresees a post-war pvsitio not superior but inferior to Russia's...
...In the far of such typical developments, one can only...
...He eteted that certain Repahtiraa groups were hnping to turn aay territorial demands asade by Stalin aguiant MooaevoH...
...WILLKIE haw chonen a moment when the military advance of the K.-.I Army to the frontiers of l'olati<l and the Haitir Slates is {toning lie i|ueKtion of the future fate of those countries with -|.e...
...Mtatta, wrote Winkle, in well informed about Asnsritan pellths and when he neon "reactionary Ormorratf...
...The fact that Willkie rained the isnuen sf ler (he conferences wss interpreted as an anti-Soviet move It in interesting that William Henry Chamberlin's column, written before "Pravda's" attack, chides Willkie for hit lack of realism in thinking that Hnasia would be ho gentle about the whole problem of the Baltic and other border claims...
...Willkie The latter might have capitalized «>u this aenti merit I ly sending ••" • •peri or private message to the Soviet dietator...
...Urkramianx 4,600,000...
...Willkie professes to be shooked at the idc that the American attitude toward Stalin's terri i>.i iaI grabs might become an issue in an America...
...All opinion in America had con ntmed Wilttue's article aa bring estremcly pro Soviet...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 2
