It Has Come
D., HARRY WECHSLER, P.H.
Letters " It Has Come" From HARRY WECHSLER, P.H.D. To the Editor: The press ot the world has Masoned tbe story of the greatest discovery and tragedy of all time. No one can sincerely believe,...
...feel that the foreign policy of the American government should be shaped in accordance with the dictates of the Kremlin...
...A 'Russia hater' is also any...
...9 Rep...
...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...
...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...
...Herbert L. Matthews comments in the NY Times...
...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...
...refreshingly frank...
...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...
...Your work is muck needed end should be better rewarded, more broadly circulsted...
...And that explains why Prim* Minister Atlee so strongly bscked Secretary Byrnes' stand on the totalitarian elections in Bulgaria and Rumania...
...body who doesn't consider such a state of affairs as an enviable ideal to t» imitated in this country...
...Does it not seem that we are rapidly approaching such a period again...
...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...
...Even America's history contains Some pages of territorial expansions and wars that we are not proud of...
...The Communists violated the agreement...
...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...
...An Italy within the Anglo-American orbit is another thing...
...Churchill made phrases about not presiding over the dissolution of the British Empire...
...The New York Central Railroad is experimenting with atomic energy in a locomotive...
...At present in our country we have a democratic form of government and a very Charitable people, but this can change...
...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...
...An Italy within the Russian orbit is one thing...
...For Italy is the key to the Mediterranean...
...Other Republican reactionaries joined in opposing loans to Britain...
...At present the hstreds are still too new, too much a part of our memories, to have such a weapon in such an era...
...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...
...Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned...
...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...
...But Churchill's actione, particularly in his Balkan policy, paved the way for exactly that...
...When Secretary Byrnes made th* curt announcement immediately on hit arrival in London that Italy was No...
...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...
...These "liberals" amply deserve a new medal from Stalin entitled "For Ratt* Firetere...
...Bounds miraculous—but what about the hundreds of thousands of tons of coal or oil needed normally...
...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...
...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...
...What Russia is aiming lor " a "deal...
...There will be no "deal" thai i.H inconsistent with democracy—real democracy, not...
...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...
...sight go Communist, Britain » as not ready to make commitments...
...So, in summation, it can be said that we have created a weapon capable of destroying our civilization...
...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...
...1 on the agenda, he served blunt notice on Molotov that the United Stales h»H abandoned its former weak foreign" policy...
...Knutson (Rep., Minn...
...At Potsdam, Secretary Byrnes and President Trumen kept the promise of the United States...
...O.NE of the most infamous expression* , used by the Stalinists—party members or not—is the term "Russia hater...
...set of internal and external policy of present-day Russia...
...New Leader a great deal Its news is helpful and editorial polic...
...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...
...pression "Russia hater" are those w host sole idea is to justify Md glorify ever...
...no group of scientists in peacetime could ever have created it...
...The Norwegian Labor Party has Nuddenly ended its short lived honeymoon with the Norwegian t'ommunists, «nh whom they recently concluded a unity pact...
...That, has been its long-time policy...
...Third, they respect the right of »11 peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live...
...Wt'itsfon Churchill in the House of Commons, Aug...
...Now that expression is dead...
...The discovery was fruitless until a war started...
...Rut we are God's soldiers...
...Arthur Krock wrote another Times column against subsidizing British Socialism...
...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...
...Jonathan Stout> Russia was not even willing to discuss the subject...
...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...
...16, 1945...
...every conflict of national interest and of ideology that existed then still exists...
...AH the Allies, including America, may be criticized and attacked, but word of criticism of Stalin's acta may go unchallenged...
...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...
...The British awoke to that fact too late...
...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...
...Only when our succeeding generations have been taught how to use this new energy should such a thing be released on this world...
...The disintegration of human nature has been as great as the disintegrating power of the atomic bomb...
...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...
...The Ways and Means Committee voted for early action to extend relief from high taxes to business...
...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...
...Their joint insistence finally wrung from the unwilling Stalin the agreement that paved the way for the London conference which began this week...
...nothing has been done to give the slightest assurance of genuine international cooperation, anywhere...
...But the inventors and users of the...
...Whatever the policies of Great Britain and America may be, the interest ot Russia is first in their mind, and the...
...So did the British...
...Furthermore, what proof have we that this weapon won't be used against other nations...
...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...
...Criticisms of his Fascial slate me minie nn orders from I he "Masonic super-Stale," Franco declared...
...And lack of approval is denounced as "endangering our victory" and "helping the Nazis...
...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...
...That, in turn, explains Britain's reversal of Churchill's policy in th* Balkans...
...The Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors gathered in London "give the impression of driving in the dark toward head-on collisions...
...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...
...It is another example of an invention promoted by war, and to he used for war...
...The Bible tells us about Noah and the Ark, and whst led up to the destruction of the world at thst time...
...The same happened to Penicillin...
...From the British there finally came a reasonable compromise...
...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...
...Here we have a perfect example of the depths human nature has dropped to...
...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...
...They're trying to trade * peace treaty for .Italy against a fr» hand in eastern Europe...
...Peaceful purposes were not enough to have warranted the outlay of money and material...
...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...
...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...
...To this the British agreed...
...asserted in Congress that Americans would be "saps" to finance British Socialism...
...As long as there was a possibility that Hal...
...And because Britain's policy was primarily defensive, it wai forced to play a cagey game...
...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...
...FRANK POLICY From MILO HI ? ES To the Editor: I enjoy...
...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...
...And what Russia is still playing for is control of the Mediterranean...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 37
