Capital Comment
STOUT, JONATHAN
Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Americans Reject "Deal" Over Italian Treaty Wr-er r ASHINGTON, D. C—The openin of the annuel three-day convention of the Mazzini Society ' " in New York...
...New Leader a great deal Its news is helpful and editorial polic...
...Britain's policy on the other hand, is a series of defensive moves aimed to protect its life-line by clicking Russia's aggressive moves in the Mediterranean...
...Nothing could more sharply point, up the fact that the continent is actually divided and that powers on the two sides of the dividing line have opposing purposes...
...plausibly argued that we must buy continued military cooperation by sacrificing the very objectives for which the wsr was professedly being fought...
...One Europe...
...The old continent was toin to pieces in such a way that an economic confe back was impossible...
...Hut Kurope is now deeper down in destruction than in 1919...
...It was at San Francisco that it finally became apparent that British policy towards Italy was a reflex of Russia's policy towards Italy—which has varied from time to time as its hopes for Communist control of Italy waxed snd waned...
...The allied leaders met at Teheran, Valta and Potsdam...
...To them a "Russia hater" is anybody who does not relish the fact that these countries sre being "liberated" into the hand* of imported Stalin Quislings— who immediately establish another totalitarian regime under slightly changed slogans...
...A "Russia hater" is anybody who be-' lieves in the Atlantic Charter, in which the Allies declared that: "First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other...
...Arthur Krock wrote another Times column against subsidizing British Socialism...
...The constituent parts of the Austro-Huugaiian Knipiie were liberated from their ancient tyranny...
...Rut we are God's soldiers...
...As long as there was a possibility that Hal...
...Yet at the same time the shrunken Germany, into which these refugees are being dumped, is to be denied certain industries and severely limited in others...
...But Churchill's actione, particularly in his Balkan policy, paved the way for exactly that...
...During all previous international conflicts, military operations monopolized Hie attention of rulers until the last gun was Hied...
...For Italy is the key to the Mediterranean...
...An Italy within the Russian orbit is one thing...
...It would be idle to contend that the achievement ef both these objective* hss not been "made more ditticult by sesas...
...And what Russia is still playing for is control of the Mediterranean...
...Now that expression is dead...
...The fact was that it had not depended on Allied •rms alone, but had contributed ils own efforts to the everthrow of the tyrant who had usurped his power and had dragged an unwilling and unhappy people into 'war...
...Only when our succeeding generations have been taught how to use this new energy should such a thing be released on this world...
...We are grateful that this invention was discovered by the Allies instead of by 'the Germans, but it look a wsr to bring it to its conclusion...
...A 'Russia hater' is also any...
...refreshingly frank...
...Democracy is struggling to revive in the regions from which it seemed most effectively banned...
...The task is so enormous that even a faltering step in the right direction wttl be hailed as a victory...
...There will be no "deal" thai i.H inconsistent with democracy—real democracy, not...
...Free communication and free discussion will, eventually, spell the downfall of dictatorship anywhere...
...Germany, even within ils 1937 borders was a densely populated country...
...Jonathan Stout> Russia was not even willing to discuss the subject...
...To this the British agreed...
...It was Matteo Matteotti, son of Gia-como Matteotti, Socialist, murdered by blackshirte in 1924, who killed Mussolini, John Mecklin reports from Rome to I'M...
...But this time we had reason to hope for something belter...
...Fritz Schaeffer, the monarchist Minister-President of Bavaria, installed in power by Americans, offered his resignations when Americans ousted a lot of th* Nazis he appointed to office...
...Kurope consists of moie than twenty sovereign stales, but economically and culturally its peoples have always been interdependent...
...Also, it was felt that it would be appropriate to give recognition te the fact that by that time the new democratic Italy had alrtady been fighting for 19 months on the snle of the United Nations and had spent its blood and the lives of its sons in a gallant effort to retrieve its honor...
...What can this lead to, except the creation of a gigantic economic slum in the he*it ef Europe...
...No one can sincerely believe, after looking through the pages of history, that this new invention will only be used for the best interests of the masses of people that All this world...
...To them a "Russia hater" is anybody who does not approve Stalin's imperialist policy of swallowing the three Baltic states, the most industrialised part of Finland, half of Poland including territories such as Eastern Galicla and Lwow, which never in history belonged to Russia, threatening Turkey and Persia if they do not submit, and virtually annexing Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Finland, and the rest of Poland by establishing them as subservient vsssal states or colonies under the rule of imposed Russified Quislings who will take their orders from Moscow...
...It is another example of an invention promoted by war, and to he used for war...
...Some three million people of German cultural origin, the Sudeten Get maim, are threatened with s similar fate because of the ruthless expulsion progrsm of the Czech Government...
...TRENDS • "Guarded accounts of what has happened have filtered through, but it is not impossible that tragedy on a prodigious scale is imposing itself behind the iron curtain which at present divides Kurope in twain...
...In western Kurope the situation is not quite as bad — or is not bad in the same way...
...The one great thing that can be doije at once is to put Italy back'on her feet...
...Foreign Ministers Conference improvement was regarded as an attack on Russia...
...That, has been its long-time policy...
...Their joint insistence finally wrung from the unwilling Stalin the agreement that paved the way for the London conference which began this week...
...Some of the derision st Potsdam seem deliberately designed not only to make impossible any revival of democratic civilized life in Germany and Austria, tint also to hold back indefinitely any recovery of Kurope front the pit of physical misery and cultural prostration into which it has been hurled by savage and relentless war...
...It is impossible to have a normal and healthy Km ope without Orman participation, Ky dividing Germany into three separate parts and so destroying her capacity to produce either for peace or war we are impoverishing the entire continent...
...The story behind dynamite and its eventual use, the invention of gunpowder by the Chinese, harmlessly used at first, but soon an implement of destruction...
...The disintegration of human nature has been as great as the disintegrating power of the atomic bomb...
...gigafftic bombing of thickly populated areas, ami breakdown of essential means of communication...
...The resultant misery and failure were so great that Mussolinis and Hitlers were bound to appear...
...Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned...
...And the method of dealing with Cermauy devised at Potsdam added enormously to the difficulty...
...But the inventors and users of the...
...But, though recognized as a co-belligerent, and although there had been an exchange of ambassadors between Italy and the United States and Britain, a technicality barred the way to extending Italy an hjvitation to San Francisco...
...The Bible tells us about Noah and the Ark, and whst led up to the destruction of the world at thst time...
...It seems doubtful whether American public opinion will long t>e sattaned with a state of affau* in *,,„,, the Honet occupation authorities do the looting «IMj tbe uprooting of people, while the relief Job is left to America...
...FRANK POLICY From MILO HI ? ES To the Editor: I enjoy...
...If, after a period of free speech, there are in Poland and the Kalkan states the free elections which were promised, the ? teal wall will begin to crumble and it will be possible to envision the reconstruction of the continent as a whole...
...set of internal and external policy of present-day Russia...
...Many felt no inconsistency would he involved in thus giving encouragement to the new democratic Italy while at the same lime continuing to mete out punishment to the Fascist war criminals...
...Since the Labor victory in Britain, democrat ie forces have taken on new confidence in Franc*, and the other liberated lands...
...Does it not seem that we are rapidly approaching such a period again...
...Versailles established new borders and aet up new limits lo (he life giving exchange...
...The Council of Ministers goes about its labors under a tremendous handicap, but there are signs which furnish some basis for hope...
...There is excellent reason for remarking on this coincidence...
...Your work is muck needed end should be better rewarded, more broadly circulsted...
...When several nations which had contributed little or nothing to the war effort came in, and particularly after Argentine was invited to join the United Nations Organization at San Francisco, ? great many Americans felt that it would lie both timely and appropriate to invite Italy to lake a place St the conference...
...Furthermore, what proof have we that this weapon won't be used against other nations...
...Whstever one may think of the phrase One World, there ia a good deal ef reality la the conception...
...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Americans Reject "Deal" Over Italian Treaty Wr-er r ASHINGTON, D. C—The openin of the annuel three-day convention of the Mazzini Society ' " in New York coincide* -with the opening tein weck of negotiation* in London by the foreign Minister* of the Big Five United Nations for a formal peace treaty between them and Italy...
...As independent joummHtU begin to gene...
...This is the pathetic epitome of...
...1 on the agenda, he served blunt notice on Molotov that the United Stales h»H abandoned its former weak foreign" policy...
...Two principal objectives of our foreign policy in Europe »hould be the creation of tolerable conditions of economic reconstruction in Central Europe and the sabstltution of democracy for totalitarianism in eastern snd aoutheaatern Kurope...
...And because Britain's policy was primarily defensive, it wai forced to play a cagey game...
...They're trying to trade * peace treaty for .Italy against a fr» hand in eastern Europe...
...After all, not every liberated nation could say as much for itself...
...What is being done to Kurope now is worse in every way...
...The Balkan nations were relieved from Iba thieat of (iet man domination and penetration...
...Don't worry," the Marshal j* reported to have replied, "the Americans will come in and give you more than we are taking away...
...But politically, there were gains...
...These regime* are by no mesn* so strong as has sometimes bees represented...
...That, in turn, explains Britain's reversal of Churchill's policy in th* Balkans...
...Even America's history contains Some pages of territorial expansions and wars that we are not proud of...
...The Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors gathered in London "give the impression of driving in the dark toward head-on collisions...
...A restored snd productive Italy is equally essential lo s general revival...
...After the last war the «0,000,000 people of Poland were set free...
...Here we have a perfect example of the depths human nature has dropped to...
...Which needed a large industry, along with shipping and foreign trade, in order to furnish livelihood to its people...
...the same freedom from fear of sudden arrest in th* middle of the night and being sent for slave labor in the Arctic regions of Siberia, or liquidated without trial, with no information ever reaching the victim's family...
...Various editorialists have already begun to comment on the great thing thst will be accomplished with this new discovery, A little pill as big as s pea would be enough to enable the Queen Mary to travel to Europe and bark...
...There is now a strong, an irresistible esse for throwing all our political, economic snd diplomatic power behind th* purpose of achieving the type of peace settlement that will deserve to endure...
...All reports agree that President Truman has his heart specially set on the re-establishment of a free press and free communication clear across Kurope to the Russian border...
...At the very least, the Atlantic Charter should have been publicly burned and repudiated as part of this complete denial of the right of self-determination...
...Churchill made phrases about not presiding over the dissolution of the British Empire...
...of the ill-omened derision* in which we acquiesced at Teheran, Yalta and Pots-dam But it is never too lite to recognize an error, to make a fresh stsrt...
...Knutson (Rep., Minn...
...The same happened to Penicillin...
...At present the hstreds are still too new, too much a part of our memories, to have such a weapon in such an era...
...The (ieneral proposed a close French and British union as the mainspring of an effort to reconstruct western Kurope as a whole...
...What ran he laid of a settlement that deprives Poland of historic Polish cities like Leon n"rf Hi'iio and gives Poland solidly German towns like Hrcslait and Stettin...
...The Soviet-appointed Austrian Chancellor, Dr...
...Both economically and socially, Italy hat always played a great part in European life...
...American and British action with regard to Bulgaria and Rumania has given encouragement to democratic forces in these lands, and there ate indications of rebirth of political opposition to the dictatorships...
...Mattete connected with the administration of (iermany are not to lie taken up at this session...
...It ran no longer Im...
...Vast numbers of Cermans, at least eight, to nine million, have been or are being indiscriminately expelled from regions which have been arbitrarily .assigned to Poland...
...9 Rep...
...Versailles...
...What a bauier Ibis division presents was strikingly illustrated by (he response to (ieneral de liaulle's recent suggestions looking toward Kuropean recovery...
...It it slso typical of the kind of world we live in that close to two billion dollars could be spent on this horrifying weapon, whereas ws can all remem tier that when our late President in his first term asked for a sum of money considerably less than the sum expended on this weapon, a terrific howl was raised in Congress and by other enlightened bodies in our country, on the grounds that we were creating a form of dole, that we were removing initiative from the individualistic American, and were giving too much power to the President, All this ranting took place because 14,000,000 people were unemployed and in desperate need of shelter and food, just enough to keep them in the barest of necessities...
...The Communists violated the agreement...
...What, the Council of Ministers ran do toward rehabilitation is limited...
...That is, Ihe mere suggestion that democratic nations should work together for their common Letters " It Has Come" From HARRY WECHSLER, P.H.D...
...If the British and American delegations in London, supported by the French and the Chinese, insist on the carrying out of the promises made at Yalta, we may be able to pierce the wall that divides Kurope...
...asserted in Congress that Americans would be "saps" to finance British Socialism...
...Whatever the policies of Great Britain and America may be, the interest ot Russia is first in their mind, and the...
...In western Kurope, though the economic situation is desperate, there are important sij?ns of political revival...
...16, 1945...
...And there should be no relaxation: in the policy te which both America and Greet Britain seem happily committed of refusing recognition to totalitarian Satellite regimes in Kastern Europe...
...Some of the contradictions involved in the Potsdam vivisection are almost incredible...
...ai2» ' 'pd down by a long series of agreements and actions which they can do little to revise and most of which are bad...
...So, in summation, it can be said that we have created a weapon capable of destroying our civilization...
...The Norwegian Labor Party has Nuddenly ended its short lived honeymoon with the Norwegian t'ommunists, «nh whom they recently concluded a unity pact...
...If Italians are now encouraged, by a just treaty of peart, to make a rapid come-back, the effect on Kurope tl a whole will be great...
...The Russian methods of control—including indiscriminate and arbitrary looting—have roused widespread opposition in Germany, Poland, Austria and other areas...
...Soviet prestige, highest at the time when tbe Red Army was driving back the Nazi invaders, has fall** as a result of the Soviet military practice of living off occupied countries like a swarm of locusts...
...I he' lip-service perversion of that, word (as observed by British labor Party Chairman Harold Leski) which i' consistently practiced by ('nnimUSfl*» I lie world over...
...How much ran be salvage* from the wreckage of Potsdam and the preeetnng conference ia doubtful Hut we should at least try to rreate at the earliest possible moment untied administratura for Germany and Austria, to keep the deportation* within the narrowest possible bounds, I» fir tbe earlient possible date for the termination of foreign military orrupatien...
...Kut we would commit an equally grave mistake and dereliction of duty it we did not use our power to promote liberstion and the processes of peaceful recovery in Kurope, to obtain the honoring of international obligations that have been freely entered into by all the United Nation...
...To them a "Russia hater" is anybody who does not approve Stalin's "liquidation" of the remnants of the Socialists and^liberals whom the Nazis had no time to exterminate during their rule of the countries, now "liberated" by the Red armies...
...And thst explains Russia's interest in Spain, its current aggressions against Turkey over control of the Dardanelles, and its lieferest in helping its puppet Tito in Yugoslavia pull Trieste and the Istrisi chestnut out of the fire for Moscow...
...According to these "liberal" writers and editors, a "Russia hater" is anybody who expresses the slightest criticism of Stalin's internal totalitarian poiiey of totsl suppression of civil liberties and liquidation of all those who attempt even the slightest theoretical opposition...
...Prin-??hfJ opposition came from Russia...
...After Versailles, there was more liheity and democracy than before...
...We would prove thst we combine the strength of s giant with the mind of a child...
...Only secondary JWeeHien came from the British...
...Cooda and ideas flowed freely bask and forth across national boundaries...
...The British awoke to that fact too late...
...Before America entered the war, the title "America Flrster" was justly is disrepute because many pro-Nazis and other followes of totalitarian ideas wer« hiding behind the slogan "America First...
...To the Editor: The press ot the world has Masoned tbe story of the greatest discovery and tragedy of all time...
...He is right in stressing this basic principle of democratic life...
...no group of scientists in peacetime could ever have created it...
...For what is under way in London this week 1« in large measure the result of parallel efforts at San Francisco recently by the Mazzini Society, headed by James Battistoni, and the Italian-American Labor Council, headed by Luigi Antonini...
...Nevertheless, as PI U they used the excuse that they were still technically at war with Italy until a peace treaty was maiejll« signed, Italy could not lie invited to join *e United Nations Organization at San Francisco Without causing all kinds of diplomatic ruptures at a delicate and critical period...
...Wt'itsfon Churchill in the House of Commons, Aug...
...And that, in turn, is the real uieuninl behind Mplotov's present e?orts in Lot-don to link the Balkan question with <A« Italian...
...An Italy within the Anglo-American orbit is another thing...
...Is it not possible that ancient civilisations existed long before, of which we have no written record, and these civilizations reached scientific heights similar to ours ami under like conditions destroyed themselves ? The fact that this weapon was used against an enemy, the Japanese, does not rule out the fact that the great masses of humans that people the world are usually innocent of the machinations of the politicians and industrialists, and no one ran deny that there are milliona of innocents even in Japan...
...When the delegales met at Veisailles after Woild War I, I hey were lied down by seilet, treaties...
...The speed with which Japan surrendered was certainly attributable at least ninety percent to the tremendous growth of American striking power, with its culmination in thst awe-inspiring implement of destruction, the atomic homh...
...The excuses which were put forward for the lamentable series of compromises and repudiations of the Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam no longer possess Irre slightest validity...
...nothing has been done to give the slightest assurance of genuine international cooperation, anywhere...
...An Editorial— Cooncil Ministers Face FormidableTask THE world has failed to reap good results of the new snd presumably better techniques which were devised for the handling of Allied affans dining the war...
...Now it i'sup to the Allied powers to remove this weapon from our midst until such a time as peace on earth and good will toward all men is established, and when intolerance, bigotry, and the isms have been removed from the face of the earth...
...O.NE of the most infamous expression* , used by the Stalinists—party members or not—is the term "Russia hater...
...Criticisms of his Fascial slate me minie nn orders from I he "Masonic super-Stale," Franco declared...
...Now with the Council of Foreign Ministers ill session in London the world wakes to the realization that "not one of these hopes has been realized...
...Hut we have kept Italy for many months hanging unhappily in an economic and political limbo...
...New blood will tiefis to flow in the exhausted body of European trade...
...Herbert L. Matthews comments in the NY Times...
...And the ideas thus far advanced looking toward rehabilitation do not even come up to the standard set at...
...every conflict of national interest and of ideology that existed then still exists...
...From Assistant Secretary of State James Clement Dunn came the proposal that efforts be concentrated on signing a peace treaty with Italy as quickly as possible...
...And that explains why Prim* Minister Atlee so strongly bscked Secretary Byrnes' stand on the totalitarian elections in Bulgaria and Rumania...
...These "liberals" amply deserve a new medal from Stalin entitled "For Ratt* Firetere...
...This would suggest pouring water into a sieve...
...It was a technicality I hat Was fully utilized by two of the nations most deeply fctolved in the game of power politics which was Afing played at San Francisco...
...Third, they respect the right of »11 peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live...
...We are "Russia haters" because *« would want to see the Russian people enjoy the same freedom of speech and expression and organization as we have in America and England...
...The discovery was fruitless until a war started...
...The war in both its phases is over...
...Look al llu- contrasting picture which eastern Kurope presents in 19-IB...
...At Potsdam, Secretary Byrnes and President Trumen kept the promise of the United States...
...Karl Renner, had protested to Tolbukhin about the wholesale Soviet looting of Austrian industrial equipment...
...AH the Allies, including America, may be criticized and attacked, but word of criticism of Stalin's acta may go unchallenged...
...Franco's position in Spain will be made more difficult Democratic forces all over the continent will be encouraged...
...and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of the,n - A "Russia hater" is consequently !<, them, anybody who believes in the Four Freedoms proclaimed by Roosevelt, the first of which is: "Freedom of speech snd expression everywhere in the world"-snd the fourth: "Freedom from fe»r everywhere in the world...
...We would make a grave mistske and invite ultimate retribution if we should abuse our power for purposes of conquest, oppression and exploitation...
...Since the conferences at Teheran and Yalta, at which the official communiques declared sweeping agreements were reached, it is apparent that the Big Three have not settled, permanently, one single major problem...
...f we fail to do this, we shsll deserve the reputstion whichi according to Nathaniel PelTer, we already possess in the minds of many Kuropeans...
...mankind's progress from war to wai...
...Willi all this conferring and planning we were justified in assuming that differences would lie compromised, that conflicts would lie ironed out, that some sort of work able plan would be produced that would guarantee future peace and make it possible for the tumbled areas of ? u rope and Asia to reconstruct their political and economic institutions with the least possible loss of time...
...And lack of approval is denounced as "endangering our victory" and "helping the Nazis...
...When Secretary Byrnes made th* curt announcement immediately on hit arrival in London that Italy was No...
...The inside story goes back to the San Francisco Conference...
...Ambassador Spruille Rradrn declared that the USA will not revert to a policy of appeasement toward the I'eron dictatorship in Argentina, though the regime is relaxing its tyranny somen hat in an effort to win favor...
...This whole gnat region—willi 120,000,000 inhabitant!- lies nndei the control of (be Russian dictator...
...In fait, many thought this the logical course to follow...
...So did the British...
...This Idea of constructive collaboration of Kuropean democratic nations was instantly greeted by the French Communists with a storm of abuse...
...Russian delegates at the London conference are demanding a rmval base on the Red Sea and participation in the administration of Italy's colonies under an international trusteeship...
...His "thesis on a western bloc appears to sanction the division of Kurope into two zones," says one Communist paper...
...Kor centuries German production has played an important part in the life of Kurope...
...One ran no more deliberately destroy a great prod act i re saerhsaism like prewar tier-as any and expect neighboring European countries te remain unscathed than one could biet out all American fact erica between Pittsburgh and Chicago and expect the rest ef America to fed no Americans should not imagine that they will be unaffected by brutal and stupid "peace-making" in Kurope...
...Ther* is every indication that there are still liberal and democratic forces in eastern and southeastern Kuros* that will be galvanized into action if Washington and London show that they mean business in calling for honest implementation of the United Nations' pledges of "free, unfettered elections" in lands freed from Kasi tyranny...
...The New York Central Railroad is experimenting with atomic energy in a locomotive...
...The men now meeting in I,ondo...
...Other Republican reactionaries joined in opposing loans to Britain...
...body who doesn't consider such a state of affairs as an enviable ideal to t» imitated in this country...
...Coal and oil that would have been brought to the top of the earth by thousands of people to whom this work is their only mesne of produce income for their daily needs...
...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Our Stakes in Europe THK conference of Foreign Ministers in London offers an excellent opportunity for the inaugu-rstion of a new, firm, vigorous American foreign policy...
...With the exception of Italy, the various nations are politically free, bul I be destruction left in the- wake of wai is so terrible, lh* difficulties in the way of economic recovery are so great, that the way back to a normal way of life will be bard and long...
...Among other things they went to the police to accuse some of the anti-t'ommunist leaders of the Labor I'arly of being war criminals • The Stnate Finance Committee rejected Truman's proposal for a Federal guarantee of unemployment compensation up to $25 weekly for 26 weeks...
...Part of the fruit of those efforts emerged into view this week when Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, promptly on hie arrival in London Tuesday, made the blunt and determined announcement that a peace treaty with Italy is the first topic on the agenda of the Big Five meeting, and when a further authoritative statement came from American sources in London that the United States would demand that Italy's colonies ? uf IH Wg of the Him Wort« War be left imrter Italian control...
...sight go Communist, Britain » as not ready to make commitments...
...There is warning significance in a remark attributed to Marshal Tolbukhin, Soviet commander In Austria, by Edgar Snow...
...Bounds miraculous—but what about the hundreds of thousands of tons of coal or oil needed normally...
...The United States delegation is doing the right thing by insisting that this matter be placed first on th* agenda...
...The men gathered in London are the general staff of our effort at reconstruction, previous conferences hart handed on to them a world very much awry, and Jhejr are asked to set it straight...
...feel that the foreign policy of the American government should be shaped in accordance with the dictates of the Kremlin...
...Till'', territorial changes imposed «ioth on Poland and on Germany are fantastic in their injustice and unreality...
...pression "Russia hater" are those w host sole idea is to justify Md glorify ever...
...The Ways and Means Committee voted for early action to extend relief from high taxes to business...
...Those two nations were Russia and Britain...
...America is also the one large power with productive reserves which make it a prospective source of relief and of reconstruction aid to foreign countries...
...it was through the efforts of the Mar.zini Society ?1 th* Italian-American Labor Council, al this point, t the United States delegation at San Francisco •eaVun.M of Britain and Russia a ressonable com •remise in the situation...
...Irate the iron wall» of censorship, we get reports */ extensive internal discontent in Poland, 1 iignslavis, Hnlgaria, Humania...
...From the British there finally came a reasonable compromise...
...What Russia is aiming lor " a "deal...
...Under the projected new frontier in the Kast, (iermany is to lose about a fourth of its agri-cult mal land...
...It is now generally recognized that one of the roots of World War II was what Versailles did to Km ope...
...At Dumbarton Oaks, Kietlnu Woods Mini .San Francisco our delegates sat in conference and (hailed the form of the world after (lie war...
...Peaceful purposes were not enough to have warranted the outlay of money and material...
...That power is now at its peak...
...At present in our country we have a democratic form of government and a very Charitable people, but this can change...
...ThK most tragic fact of all is His: the previous conferences at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam have be quealhed to Ihe Loudon Council of Ministers a continent divided into two zones...
...Then the diplomats would meet at Vienna or Versailles or elsewhere and a so called peace treaty would lie diawn up which contained within it the guarantees of another and bigger and lietler war later on...
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