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...There have been terrible and tragic fsmines in Chine and India, in the Soviet Union, Snd in some European countries which suffered most acutely under Nazi occupation and the ravages of war...

...Apart from the occupation of tier, many (and this should be wound up as quickly as possible) there should be unconditional, all-out withdrawal of foreign troops from all European countries, Soviet troops from Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania and other East European countries, and British troops from Italy and Greece...

...the.atomic bomb is an important factor in brining to preserve some kind of balsnre of power between the world of liberty snd the world of totalitai ianism...

...That would be n race in...

...Greece has (Veen kept out of the conference and denied such elementary justice as ths return of the Dodecanese Islands because tho present Greek Government does not tske orders from Moscow...

...Britain' Slid (siiada could safely extend the knowledge of this momentous secret, there should be a complete revision of llie present United Nations constitution wfn'ch, obviously, would not and could not stop any major war...

...There has been .no visible progress toward realizing the pious assurances of democracy in Eastern Europe which were made nt Yalta and Potsdam...

...There ia no use dodging whst is now plain: a serious cleavage haa developed between Russia and the Western democracies...

...It might have possessed some faint coloration of truth fifty or a hundred years ago, when protective social legislation was very little developed...

...Tbe above I lie-law status of the great powers should be scrapped and aggression should he precisely defined end made liable to immediate punitive sanctions...

...Sharing of tho secret, of the atomic bomb should be the last, not the first step in the building of such *n organization...

...The course ef events at the London conference of Foreign Ministers should be sn enlightening warning to those simple souls who believe that this it all one world and that unity is the foremost characteristic of the United Nations...

...any international organization in the world today strong enough, to carry such a load of responsibility...

...the direction of international suicide...

...In the modern world it would certainly lie difficult to show thst an v American, except in the rarest freak and accident esses, met death from starvation...

...It will also win endorsement in some circles where fuzzy idealism blots out accurate understanding of the real world in which we are living...

...It might be suggested, however, that any American who seriously believes in "freedom to starve" should try his fortune almost anywhere in the world, rather than in America...

...If is interesting to recall the jealous care with which the Boriel tfoion guarded much fee* important military tenets of it* own from allies in the war who whei e Supplying U with billions of dollars worth of munition* **»/' supplies...

...Any democratic statesman would incur grave responsibility in throwing away this advantage...

...The very reasonable and impartial American proposals for the Italian pears settlement have been blocked by Soviet delegstes...

...THE proper disposition of th* atomic bomb secret has become a major issue in American foreign policy and a Number One debating subject for American public opinion...

...As insurance against "freedom lo *tarve" a prudent person would be well advised to take individual liberty and political democracy against ang kind of totalitarianism anywhere anytime...

...This •martslerk phrase about individual freedom, as practiced in this and other non-totalitarian countries, being equivalent to 'freedom to starve," is'notjoriginal...

...Every meeting hss bee* one ef s bafling inability to get together...

...At the, present time, distasteful ss the thought may he, the .ssaret of...

...When these conditions have been put into effect, and not before, there will be a reasonable case for sharing the atomic bomb secret with other powers, without endangering essential American security...

...The sending of troops across international borders by individual countries should be stigmatized as a crime, punishable by international law...

...But the control of the atomic bomb must be considered Within the framework of a much larger concept of world peace and security...

...But the Start-in matters of scientific research >* often.of decisive importance, both in perfecting a new weapon and in devising protective measures against it...

...Th* 8ovi*t Government has put forward a demand for the former Italian colony ef Tripolitania—a demand which serves no conceivable purpose except to create a potential threat to British lines of communication in the Mediterranean, To give away the most formidable military aecret of modern time* to a country with such a manifest record 'Of unlimited aggressive expansionism and conspicuous non-cooperation would be an act of fatuous weakness bordering en cretinism...

...Victor Bernstein in pm...

...Listen to Herbert Mstthews, one of our ablest and most experienced foreign correspondents, summing up the negative balance-sheet of 'be conference: •"The Council *f Foreign Ministers is approaching the close of its Irst conferenc* amid intense gloom and disappointment...

...N<> one in bis right mind wants to see » •world race for tlie development of bigger and better atomic bombs...

...Sand* SineplicJfos Deportment "As a whole, we Americana believe In five freedoms rather than fear—tbe fifth being th* freedom to starve...

...SpEAK for yourself, Victor...

...To be tare, it is plsusibly argued that a country with Russia's industrial and scientific resources will learn how to make the,atomic bomb within a few years anyw,ay...

...The suggestion, sttributed to Secretary of Commerce Wallace in a recent New York Timet despatch, subsequently denied, that the atomic bomb secret should be given to the Sovief Union, will doubtless win the enthusiastic endorsement of Stalin » J"*Tth Column clique in this country...

...I ran think of single Ukrainian provinces, such as Poltava, where more people, ss I know from personal investigation, died of outright hunger in the political famine of 1932-3.1 than have died from this cause in the United States during the past century...

...A world convention for limitation of armaments, with abolition of conscription everywhere snd mutual inspection of military preparations of the leading powei », ¦hould be adopted...

...Even then statistics of population movement would not suggest thst American conditions were terrible, as compared with those of Europe...

...But ft is so silly that it ought to b* spiked at every repetition...

...If there is a genuine desire to create an «.'¦ ¦o>-.|.heie m which the United Stales...

...Molotov haa dominated the conference, and Molotov a attitude has been uncompromisingly obstructionist...

...Hut it is u-e-Icms to fool ourselvex with the delusion that there i...

...International control of this terrible weapon is an attractive preposition in theory...

...There is definitely no such case in the kind of world which is reflected in th* course oof the I.ondon conference...