Crisis in International Relations

...The Turkish 'problem' has not yet been solved in spite of the efforts of the American and British governments to get some expression of opinion from the Soviet representatives during the Potsdam and London conferences...

...Whatever the technicalities, the equities of the case seem to fix re* Bponsibility on the Soviet authorities...

...Apparently , it was never the Russian intention to compromise...

...2) the good faith of the Soviet Union under international pledges to respect Iran's sovereignty and independence...

...There seemed a fateful coincidence about the way in which the double-trouble hit the capita' and scattered headaches from aM end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other...

...This week United States policy towards Russia once more appeared to take a shift in the direction of realism...

...Perhaps the strange and conflicting rumors about Stalin's health are thus explained...

...This movement aims at detaching that prosperous portion of the country, bordering Russia, from Teheran, and placing it under the control of Moscow...

...Crisis in International Relations Stalin Stalls for Time While Persisting in Aggression By Jonathan Stout WASHINGTON, D. C—The dove of peace appeared a homeless bird in Washington this week— IJH domestically and internationally...

...4) the validity of the United Nations Organization...

...diplomatic observers here surmised that, like Marshal Zhukov's diplomatic illness which cancelled his visit to the United States, Soviet sources themselves probably were responsible for spreading a rumor to back up Stalin's alibi for being unable to meet with Truman and Attlee...

...So patent a violation of the rights of a charter member of the United Nations would likewise put in question the intrinsic value of that organization...

...And the exceedingly well-informed r'onstantine Brown, in his column last Tuesday, said: jl...

...Russian acquisition of Northern Iran, open or disguised, would be a challenge to Britain which might precipitate" a major diplomatic crisis throughout the Near and Middle East...

...3) Anglo-Soviet relations...

...And for the tint time in many weeks the State Department this week failed to blow any ¦cap bubbles of irridescent l>ut false hopes for world cooperation based on appeasement...

...Here is an issue which no peaceloving power can evade or overlook...

...The bromo-seltzer epidemic was ¦bout equally distributed between admin-Utration leaders trying to work out terms and techniques of peaceful cooperation between labor and management, and administration diplomats caight in the blitz of a new wave of Communist aggressions over more than half of the globe...

...The President was asked at •» press conference when such a meet-«Hf would take place...

...For tkt first time in many month* there was frtnk diplomatic admission of the fact I hit all our effort' to woo the Russians into cooperating with the United Nations for world peace have failed to product any tangible results...

...Following the President's press conference, the question was raised whether Undersecretary Acheson had seen these "ports before accepting the invitation of *** Communist mass meeting in New York...

...The President made it plain at his areas conference that even the most optimistic friends of world peace in official circles can no longer go on kidding the American public about Russian re-•ponses to American overtures for cooperation...

...If that was the purpose of the rumors and the alibi, it is now worn threadbare as indicated by opinion in official circles...

...One outward indication of this was the editorial last Tuesday in the authoritative W'aa/it'nyton Star, which said:: "The insurrection which has broken out in the northwestern province of Azerbaijan is far more than a local matter...

...for the first three days of this week At tension mounted perceptibly and swiftly around the White House as it shook under the double shock of the domestic labor crisis in General Mators, and the international shock of the new Soviet aggressions against the sovereignty of Iran, piled on top of the Soviet-inspired aggressions against the sovereignty of China, and the Communist-created political crisis in France...

...President Truman moved in blunt terms at his press conference this week to bring American policy with respect to the Soviet Union into line with his Navy Day address...

...In military quarters the establishment of Russia in Northern Iran is considered as having a great strategic importance...

...Failing to obtain complete concession on every point, the Russians evidently developed their own alternative plans which are now coming to fruition in China, Iran, Palestine, France, and elsewhere...

...Stalin needed an alibi for not meeting his wartime partners which would not at the same time be two brusque an affront to Truman and Attlee...

...That caused a number of faces in the State Department to flush a rosy red...

...Mainly this was due to the manner in which the White House this week picked up the diplomatic ball from the fumbling fingers of some of the State Department advisors on Russian policy...

...At least four mature issues are involved...

...He replied bluntly shortly that It would not take place, "•?tog the Impression that It was Stalin who had declined to meet with Truman and Attlee...

...CvER since the failure of the London Conference of Foreign Ministers it has tan reported that President Truman **¦ hoping to arrange another meeting tawsen himselfj Prime Minister Attlee »n'' Stalin...

...Whatever the truth of this may be' official circles are coming around to the view that in previous meetings of the Big Three the Russians had in mind only two thoughts: either to gain their full demands or to stall for time...

...A part of this area borders Turkey...

...The most disturbing news received in Washington over the week-end was from Northern Iran, where the Soviet-sponsored and 'democratic' party formerly known as the Tudeh, the Persian Communist Party, finally started its 'separatist' movement...

...Military and political observers fear that the Russians, after the Iranian question has been settled in their own way, will deliver an ultimatum to Turkey to comply with Moscow's request—or else...

...The President did not go as far as diplomatic sources close to the White House did in describing the large number of diplomatic dispatches received 'mm American representatives abroad tot the past month all telling the same •toy — of direct and indirect Soviet tawing Soviet-inspired civil wars, of taaches of world peace, of open or tawing Russian aid to rebels in China, Ir»n and elsewhere...

...These are: (1) the sovereign integrity and independence of Iran...

...Among the, reddest was that ef Undersecretary of State Dean Ache-son who only last week found time to accept the invitation of the communist National Council of American-Soviet Friendship to a mass meeting in New Ysrk City where he blew a number of these irridescent soap bubbles which this week were punctured anew by Soviet sggrstions in Iran...