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...The suggestion that Stalin, by this move, hoped to multiply Soviet voting power at the peace conference seems a'tittle far-fetched...

...The Pope is denounced ss pro-Fascist because he did not protest against the Italian attack on France...

...locol Nationalism Is) USSR IT may reconcile unsophisticsted public opinion sbroad to what is actually Soviet annexation...

...The heaped up horrsra thst have followed have not sufficed to eras* tan memory of those three black days...

...niveraary during...

...Expansion—Mot Decentralisation DERHAPS the msnner in which this change, which on paper would seem extremely important, was accepted by the Supreme Soviet is as significant as the change itself...

...It may render Soviet rule, in the first stages, more palatable to non-Russian peoples who possess different political, economic and cultural traditions...

...They were shelled by six-inch guns...

...But another valuable check on centralized absolute power would be the development of more local nationalism and more genuinely autonomous institutions of government...

...Goethe Hof, The one they called Matteetti...

...They will roll on till Austria ia free and Viennese workers can build sgain and live again free from fear of attack...

...Stalin and Molotov are shrewd, realistic statesmen, capable of learning from experience and from their own mistakes...

...The "Molotov Cocktail" is a feat of Soviet military ingenuity in the form of an incendiary bbmb, widely used in the invasion of Finland in 1939-1940...

...All ever the world men knew about these hoaaes...

...Izvet-iim could feel a comfortable assurance that no inquiring reader would write a letter to the editor and ask what was the date of the Soviet protest against this attack, which took place when economic collaboration between the Soviet and Nasi regimes wss in full swing...

...They most probably recognize that, while it may be an easy matter for the Red Army, after the German collapse, to seize a great amount of territory in eastern and southeastern Europe, the absorption of this territory will present very formidsble political difficulties...

...Local nationalism is a reality in the non-Ruasian parts of the Soviet Union...

...When you da not bad Id To mnke one maa rich, yen can give people Hght and air, Yea can have room to turn round—reoaa sfter the day-Ton ran have books and clean water and healthy sleep, A plsre for children to grow in...

...Such ststes msy well be permitted, at least in the immediste future, to retain substantial local autonomy and non-totalitarian forms of government and economic orgsnization—provided that they toe the Moscow line in importsnt matters of foreign policy...

...The explosions of death in the courtyards of those workers' houses ars still echoing round the world...

...Divorced from its totalitarian accompaniment, it would be excellent for the Balkans and for other mixed racial areas in Europe...

...So long as this remains Intact, paper concessions, however generous these may seem, will be largely meaningless...

...AN EDITORIAL - Anniversary of Fighting Austrians WE have celebrated more than one sad tenth aa...

...Poland has been treated ss s colonisl vssssl state...

...It would not be surprising to see Finlsnd, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslsvis (if it rises at all in its old form), perhaps even Hungary and Austria, given this intermediate status between genuine national independence and all-out Sovietization...

...In less than four hours of debate, including the forty-three minute opening address by Mr...

...The Soviet' dictator knows ¦ that the more fundamental iasues will not be solved by voting, although by this method he msy hope to increase Russis's influence in some of the subsidiary commissions snd orgsnizations...

...The acid test in connection with the implementation of the military and diplomatic autonomy of the associated Soviet Republics will tie the scrapping, or the substantial relaxation, of the centralized one-party system of rule...

...There wss the ostentatious slapping dowh of the would-be friendly Mr...

...The Soviet legislator has been well trained in the idea that his principal function is to put up his hand when instructed to do sp...

...Willkie...

...It will take more than a paper cjsange in the Soviet Constitution to create in the Soviet Union the remotest similarity to the state of affairs prevailing in the British Commonwealth of Nations, where only the other day the Prime Minister of Canada registered a polite but firm disagreement with proposals contained in a speech by Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador to the United States...

...and all the rest...

...They were little cities bailt by people for people...

...It is safe to say' that this idea does not seem the least bit funny to the peoples of Greece snd Bulgaria...

...What makes the Soviet Union a potential danger to world peace and stability is the terrific concentration of absolute power in Moscow...

...Molotov, both chambers approved the constitutional changes by a show of hands without having the full text read to them...

...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Mo/ofov's Diplomatic Cocktail AS the Soviet armies are increasingly successful on *" the eastern front diplomatic bo nbshells of Moscow origin have been exploding more and more frequently...

...Irvestta, not to be outdone by Pravda, has gone shout against the Pope, perhsps hoping to win the sympathy of the Ku Klus Klan in the United States...

...Ia a sense, this was this beginning of ths wsr...

...I quote from the New York Timet account from Moscow, which, of course, passed the censorship...

...Great storks of mane tone, bailt by people far people...

...Hence a looser, more flexible constitutional set-up, sasuring, on psper, sutonomy in such importsnt fields as military organization and foreign relations may serve several purposes...

...From that time on it wss certain that Fascism could not ramaJs within ths boundsries of Italy or Nazism maid* «| Ormany The nature and accomplishments of the asm attacked and the brutality of the aasault sent a shudder throughout the civilised world...

...Within the laat few weeks one can list half s doxen such bombshells...

...But among all these signs of Soviet diplomatic activity, significant and disconcerting as some of these sre, the most permanently important ia probably Molotov's proclamation of a new constitutional regime, under which the sixteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union are to maintain national armies and independent representation in foreign affairs...

...There wss the calculated inault of Pravda's suggestion that Great Britain was engaged in separate peace negotiations— a rather sorry sequel to the officially proclaimed harmony of Teheran...

...The only satisfactory antidote would be the honest implementation of political, personal and civil liberties...

...It was during the three days following February it, 1934, that the little Austrisn clerical fascist did his dirty work and so prepared the way for Hitler...

...My own guess would be that the immediate purpose of thit gesture in the direction of wider national autonomy ie expansionism abroad, rather than decentralization at home...

...The industrious hatchet-man, David Zaslavsky, recently put on an exhibition, just about as funny as thj proverbial crutch, of splitting his sides at the idea that the Greek and Bulgarian Communist parties had reached an agreement for dominating the Balkans...

...The federal idea is excellent for a country of many peoples snd rsces like the Soviet Union...

...who "twill their houses for peace and the sure future": The hoasea were tsll snd la...

...Our own Stephen Vincent Benet wrote sbout the nwa who "believed in peace and elections...

...It will certainly be strong in the Baltic States, provided their population eacape wholesale decimation and transportation to the interior of Russia...

...l*i as remember Karl Mars H«t...

...Italian's behest turned his guns on bis fellow .cituuunv The Heimwehr was commanded by Prince Starheav berg, now posing ss s friend of Austrian democracy...

...snd Stalin has assumed (he right both to drew the Polish frontier snd to dictste the composition of the Polish Government without consultation with Grest Britsin snd the United States...

...They had copiea of the proposal in their desks, but they waived the reading of it...

...the past two years, but the saddest of all—and the most inspiring of all—ia that of the massacre of the Vienna Socialists by Dollfuss...

...When this system begins to crack a happier day will dawn for Russia, and for the whole world...

...Even the small Baltic States were not too catty to digest, si the revolts sgsinst Soviet rule immediately sfter the Germsn invssion in Lithuania snd Estonia showed...

...Dollfuss feared being beaten and taken over »y Hitler...

...While the new ayatem will probably be a pretty thin hypocritical screen for outright annexation in those regions thst Stalin has marked for permanent absorption, it may be more or less genuinely applied in countries which the Soviet dictator has listed on his future map of Europe as satellite buffer states...

...While one cannot take too seriously the immediate decentralizing effect of the decision, it may have a healthy long-range effect in this direction...

...And there are incendiary, as well as constructive possibilities in hia more recent constitutional-diplomatic "cocktail...

...Not to make one man rich...

...I should imagine it is strongest in Ukrsinis, in Georgia, and in Armenia...

...So he teamed up with Mussolini and at the...