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...Now they are finding out., ln« stead of unity they face division...

...pended between two worlds, two systems of lift and thought, two faiths...

...And not only that...

...tied in with the philosophy which motivated it...

...an eastern bloc dominated by Russia and a western one dominated by the United States and Britain...

...The sharp pictures of inimical moves were re...

...With regard to every point that came up, Molotov took a position that seemed deliberately designed to antagonize the delegations of other countries...

...So it is frankly admitted on all sides that the conference ends in failure...

...Diplomatic interpretation here, therefore, regarded Russia's financial demands on Italy as s blackmail and holdup really aimed at the United States...

...he has written for Communist public* tions («:« Setr, etc...

...The general tendencies and forecasts of the ultimate results were indicated in some form of, other in almost every issue of this paper...

...Liston M. Oak described the martyrdom of Poland scene by scene...

...And yet—when our delegates meet to write the peace they find that there is no peace...

...American diplomats in London are finally Convinced that the appetite and lust for power •f Stalinist Russia are insatiable...

...On March 17,1945, Eugene Lyons wrote in * New leader article: "Though mankind is for tat most part unconscious of the fact, it is fa...

...Solomon Schwartz, David Dallin, U. Denicke and Boris Nicolaievskjr...

...Actually, it represents the creation of another agency of the Soviet Foreign Office...

...Everywhere is heard the frantic cry that this must not happen again...

...At least l«$6o,000 persons have been killed...

...J'HK present tragic moment of revelation is far too solemn to lie used for idle boasting...

...They say rHat they have freedom of the press...

...told the story of the absorption of the Baltic .slate.-*, of Russian expansion in Asia and elsewhere...

...Truth-telling should be the routine business of a paper like this...

...The depth of the dividing gulf is proved by the fact that the dweller* on the two aides speak different languages...

...wrote: "A peace settlement much worse thai that of Versailles may well be in the making, Over a large area of Europe peoples will ap* parently be handed about . . . like cattle, witfca out the slightest regard for the first three determination clauses of Atlantic Charter...

...Shortly thereafter look for the public raising of the question: "Did America pour out its blood and treasure merely to create a Russian Empire ?" At London Stalinism was revealed in its bare bones as the great enemy of world democracy and international cooperation for peace...

...It is something basic...

...There was a war on and the people were not supposed to know what was going on...

...haa been a featured speaker at Communist meetings, including the Tenth Congress eg the French Communist Party last .Tuns...

...We didn't hide things and apologize...

...Where else would Italy get $600,000,-000...

...It will be composed of Jouhaux, Frachon, Gatier, Mommous-seau, Raynaud and Saillant, all secretaries of the committee...

...i ween these two worlds have been outlined, in numerous analyses produced for our readers by Sidney Hook, John Dewey, Max Eastman...

...The reasons fig Stalin's satisfaction were described in detail from time to time by a long and varied list of writers...

...that their one dominating passion is the Carving oi*t of an empire and world domination...

...Perhaps in time even thi "liberal" journals will let their readers in (hi the secrets that everyone knows...

...Secretary of State Byrnes probably will have returned from London...

...The experience of Roosevelt at Yalta and of Truman at jtotsdam have demonstrated that Stalin's .word jfcas good as Hitler's—and for the same rea-¦I...

...6 announced: "The National Confederal Committee of the CGT (French Federation of Labor) at its meeting of Sept...

...The political orientation of three is uncertain, Cavalier, Raseta and Gondy...

...In that report he will be whistliiiR in the wind (and he knows it) because he will plead for continued hope in the eventual success of the United Nations Organization and the Big Five parleys...

...The French capital was the scene this week of the opening sessions of a so-called world trade union conference...

...It was supposed to be a peace conference, but the only purpose that it has served is to reveal the outline of the struggle for power...

...for members of the executive committee, Jouhaux and Frachon...

...Russell...

...Alert and intelligent interpreters of the scene have given their readers an exact account of what it is and what it means...

...And it Is not the sort of difference about details that can be compromised...

...The sad feature of the situation is that letting some of the people know things which they have a right to know—which tHey need to know—has given The New Leader S place of distinction among American journals...

...In the meantime, Stalin is putting on another farce in Paris...

...As one leaf3 through issues of The New Les for Wpaaf^fwo years, however, he, qan point by point, move by move, the outline, the present sad situation taking form, were telling the true story each week as fa* we could uncover it at the time...

...openly said now—announced as if it were a n#w discovery—that the world is divided into two blocs...

...The divergences be...

...That Russisn demand hooks up with their demand of $700,000,000 from UNRRA, which the United States gives every evidence of balking at...

...Russia demanded spoils...

...Each event, each speech, each confer...

...Only the remaining two (Peteers and Souchaud) are known to le non-Communists...

...If the American press and radio had done a better job, both the American people and their governmental agencies would now be better prepared to adjust themselves to the situation which we face...

...When the American delegation left for London, Secretary Byrnes ^ad no intention of espousing any plan to despoil stricken Italy of |w historic colonies or lay any other onerous burden on her...

...Thus, four of the six rep-resentativee of the Confederal Bureau are Communists or will vote for measures proposed by the Communists...

...On January 1,1944, that genial but unfooled philosopher, llendrik Willem Van Loon wrote in these pages of a candid-camera shot of the three leaders sitting in conference at Teheran: "Uncle Joe Joe is sitting there with the face of the cat who has just eaten the canary and a derisive expression of 'we ain't sayin' nothin...

...Timet of September 25: "The powers are at last face to face with the great question of whether Europe and the world are going to be divided into two blocs...

...Here we are, then...

...But The New Leader cannot make better use of the'Occasion thati by'commenting on its own policy during the painful unfolding of events during these past years and by pointing g mj for the benefit of Its contemporaries and, facially, Kg critics...

...We interpreted it accurately as we went along...

...A fifth, Saillant, proposed for the all-important post of secretary-general, has not only sponsored several Communist creations (Polish Committee of National Liberation, France-USSR Society, etc...

...Tournemaine of the Railway Workers Union, Arrachard of the Building Workers Union, Croizat of the Metal Workers Union, HenafT of the Psris region, Peteers of Mem t beet-Moselle, Molin of Bouche-dir Rhone, Gondy of Loire-Inferieure, Sourhaud of Vienne, Marouf of Afrique-du-Nord, Ka-seta of Madagascar, and Marie Ixmise Cavalier and Lucienne Castelloux...

...The American view was that the new democratic Italian government should be encouraged in every way and that Italy should be helped to Ind her feet...

...If these sound like strong words 1 can only •dd that it is impossible to exaggerate the deterioration of relations between the United States and Russia, a.s well as between Britain an" Russia...

...Leon Dennett gave us the facls about the progressive domination of the Balkan nations...

...For your information: Out of six representatives of the CGT, three (Mon-mousseau, Frachon and Raynaud) are long-standing members of the Communist Party, and a fourth (Saillant) has recently collaborated with the Communists—his wife is a member of the Communist Party...

...No Italian cabinet can assume the responsibility of accepting such terms, and survive in offce...

...Of the nine men listed above, four ar* among the most important members *f the French Communist Party (Monmous-sesu, Raynaud, Henaff, and Frejeswn...

...Hut, despite polite and diplomatic language, he win leave no doubt in the minds of analytical listeners that Russia torpedoed the London conference—apparently with cold and calculated deliberation...

...fTo our readers the Lea, revelations come as no surprise...

...Whatever fhe subject that was taken up, the Russians belligerently took one sideband the British *nd Americans, regretfully, often hesitantly, were forced to take the other...

...The atomic bomb has struck terror to men's souls...

...It is a conflict about principles like that which divided the Hitler and Mussolini governments from the rest of the world...

...But nothing got American diplomats quite so mad as Russia's demand for a cash indemnity of $600,000,000 from Italy...

...Remus rejected any suggestion of compromise...

...A seventh (Marouf) is widely regarded as a Communist...

...The fact that at all these meetings every discussion of political problems led to exactly the same sort of differences that are now blowing the London conference akyhigh was carefully concealed...

...Thus a majority of the nine men listed above, and particularly a majority of those stated for key positions In the new world trade union federation are Communists or ere creatures of ths Communists...

...for members of the general committee, Mon mousseau, Raynaud and Gazicr...

...It is...

...Shortly after his arrival, Byrnes will piake a radio report to the nation...

...Primarily responsible Are two main causes: 1. A preoccupation with domestic problems arising tin of ike war's end...

...We welcome late-comers to the ranks <>t" forte* right journalism, even those who give the fact* when they burst in our faces and cannot b> longer concealed...

...It is displayed for all men to view on the stage of the London Conference...

...Diplomatic analysis in Washington takes for granted that the Russians realized this and that their attempt to impose crushing peace terms on Italy were for the purpose of overthrowing the Italian Government...

...How could it remain in office when Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria which had remained allies of Hitler to the end received better peace terms than Italy...

...It is commonly remarked now that when we and the Russians use ths word democracy we mean quite different things...

...In addition, out of 12 regional representatives on the delegation, six sr* known to be Communists of long standing (Hournemaine, Arrachard, Croizat, Henaff, Molino, Castelloux...

...Europe and a large part of Asia have been laid waste...

...We know that In no sense of the term have they anything of the sorfT This difference in language goes back to a basic difference in philosophy, in values, in objective*, in ideas about the ends for which power should be used...

...for alternate members of the general committee, Henaff, Bothereau and Buisson...

...Norman Angel...

...nce, each demand, each unilateral move was...

...J« London, Byrnes's switch to the proposal •hat Italy's colonies be placed under international trusteeship was a desperate effort to find to honest solution of conflicting viewpoints...

...Kven the most conventional and complacent among the correspondents have set down some of its features...

...She wants colonies and bases in the Mediterranean...

...Two Worlds Collide at Conference DURING the past few days the tragedy of our divided world has broken through all disguises and concealments...

...For instance, the French elections this week in which th* French people repudiated the Communists and gave the Socialists an overwhelming majority, and the French Socialist rejection of unity proposals of the Communists, served in timely fashion to rip the false-face off the French delegation to the Paris conference, to wit: The French Communist sheet L'Hu-manite on Sept...

...5 announced that this "committee "has appointed the delegation entrusted with representing the CGT at the World Trade Union Conference 'of Paris...

...More than a yekr ago William Henry Chamber...

...Every child knows that Italy's present desperate economic plight is so profound she probably would have trouble gathering $600, much less $600,-000,000...

...Herbert L. Matthews reports in The...

...We are far from boasting of having told some part of the truth about these great events...

...produced here one by one...

...Editorially The Times remarks: . . this inter-Allied disagreement will come as a shock to many...

...and Bertram...

...With regard to Italian colonies and the Italian treaty, the control of European waterways, the character of the governments in Bulgaria and Hungary (here was no progress made...

...I.Humamt* in the same issue also it-ported that the Confederal Bureau "ratified proposals for the following candidates for the leading organisations ef the World Trade Union Federation: For secretary-general, Saillant...

...We have fought the greatest war of history...

...The fact that it does come as a surprise is a revelation of the failure of our agencies of information...

...After the conferences at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam we were handed bland and patently false announcements that there was perfect agreement among the Big Three and that all was well...

...2. Disillusionment wild inlrrnational good-will projects as a result of the dismal failure of the London foreign ministers conference' By the time you read I his...

...Italy's foreign minister said in London that J*J government would not sign such a peace t^ty...

...Writing from San Francisco on May 26, 1945, Leon Dennen and Jonathan Stout daeuribed the behind-the-scenes conflict there which exactly* foreshadowed what has come out into the open in London...

...Raphael Abramovitch and others ana* lyzed the Teheran and Yalta conferences honestly and correctly, as events have proved...