Soviet Russia Wants an Impotent UNO
Soviet Russia Wants an Impotent UNO WHEN Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko walked out of the UNO Security Council because the other delegates decided to hear the grievances of Iran and refuted to...
...Prance, Britain, China and the United States have all suffered defeats at previous sessions of the UNO...
...FDR's Cabinet discussed but rejected the idea that the USA should strike first, because public opinion was not prepared tor war...
...But peace will be preserved— for a while...
...But unfortunately the old League was not even that...
...The Peron dictatorship nationaliied all banks in Argentina...
...This and Gromylio'M attempt to paralyze the UNO prove that Moscow does not want an effective world government but an impotent replica of the League of Nations, in which even discussion of conflicts can . be vetoed...
...The OZNA forced Mihailovitca'a so* and daaghter to denounce their father...
...Having gained most of what they demanded, and since further aggression would mean taking the risk of war, the Russians beat a partial and temporary retreat...
...ROOSEVELT HAD DECIDED ON WAR with Japan nine days before the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor, if Japan attacked British Malaya, former Secretary of War Stimson revealed...
...MORE PATIENCE THAN FIRMNESS...
...The Soviet prosecutor blocked thi* move...
...it will probably force the father to denounce himself...
...Byrnes was completely right in declaring that if Iran were denied a hearing now, before it is too lata, "all confidence in the Security Council will disappear...
...Appeajement now may postpone war, but it will make war inevitable 6, 10, or IB years hence...
...Byrnes said thai any nation, large or small, should havi the right to appeal at any time to th« Security Council—not when it is too late...
...The same need is felt in Germany, and despite t lot of talk, vary little has bean done te give Austrian and German children books on history and other subjects that will inculcate the ideas of democracy...
...the world will know who it responsible if the UNO fail* to solve the Iranian or any other dispute...
...After three months of "questioning" by the OZNA aided by the NKVD, you and I would confess too...
...Stalin's statement that all nation* want peace was praised by Ouervator* Romano a* "Christian...
...These Soviet agencies claim ownership of all key industries and firms by "purchases" from the Japanese...
...He hoped "patience and firmness" will avert war...
...UNRRA CONDEMNS SOVIET LAND GRABS...
...Other danger spots are Turkey, Iran and Manchuria, said Byrnes...
...It not, the siren hat sounded and ws are warned of Impending war...
...The demand of the British Communists for affiliation with the Labor Party is endorsed by 170 trade union leaders, including not only such staunch -pro-Communists as A. L. Horner, Will Lawther, and Jack Tanner, but non-Communist left wingers as well a* pseudo-liberal trade unionists corresponding to Sidney Hillman in the USA...
...Northern Irah will be "independent"—I.e...
...Those who defend the Soviet position are no better than those who defended Fascist Italy's conquest of Ethiopia or Na*J Germany's aggression...
...Urging extension of the draft, Byrnes and American chiefs of staff told the Senate Military Affairs Committee last week that there was immediate danger of war, and that the hot spot is Trieste, according to Joseph end Stewart Alsop in the NY Herald Tribune...
...Previously, the Soviet delegates had proposed that the UNO adopt rules t« prevent any nation from accusing one of the Big Five of aggression, making the Big Five sacrosanct...
...The United States delegates to the UNRRA meeting in Atlantic City charged the Russian Rod Army in Austria with seizing 125,000 acres, enough to feed 250,000 for one year...
...Soviet Russia Wants an Impotent UNO WHEN Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko walked out of the UNO Security Council because the other delegates decided to hear the grievances of Iran and refuted to postpone the hearings until April 10, he demonstrated dramatically the unbridgabie gulf between democratic and totalitarian procedures...
...It is impossible to imagine" a more clear-cut case—except perhaps Poland...
...C. Tyler Wood of the State Department said that it' the Red Army practice of living off the land of the countries it occupies is not checked, the UNR.RA must refuse to pour into those countries disproportionate quantities of food at the expense of other peoples...
...The . decisions made in the next few days will make history...
...Belgrade report* that Mihailovitrk will be questioned for three months...
...Woodrow Wilson once said that even if the League of Nations turned out to be merely a debating society, it would be a gain to bring disputes between nations out in the open, with a frank discussion of the issues involved...
...In Hamburg, in the British tone, there have been 13 food riots since rations were cut from 1,600 to 1,000 calories...
...The UNO officials have learned the American practice of "feather-bedding.'* They have to-pay one crew of AFL cameramen to do nothing while another crew belonging to another AFL unioa does the work...
...This was anent the Soviet refusal to attend sessions' of the UNO at which the Iranian prob-is discussed—an effort to extend the veto to even procedural questions...
...cannot expect decisive aid if they resist Retreat would have meant—an< the danger is not past—that Stalii would be confirmed in his conviction thai Britain and the USA dare not resist Bolshevik-Russian expansion...
...History records no precedent for the open Indictment of Soviet Russia by Bevin and Byrnes, or for Vishinsky's counter-indictment of British "imperialism...
...Ghavam will become as much a prisoner of the Kremlin as is Eriuard Benes...
...RIOTS IN GERMANY due to hunger are feared by Gen...
...It ia the issue of whether any one member ef the UNO is to have the right to keep the organisation from functioning under the Charter...
...There is a jurisdictional fight between the two unions...
...Mac-Arthur halted repatriation of Northern Koreans from Japsn until Russia reopens traffic into their zone...
...only the totalitarian* demand constant and continual victories...
...It boils down to this: the USSR broke a treaty in which she agreed to evacuate Iran by March 2; the Red Army, the NKVD, and the Comintern have actively interfered in Iranian internal affairs in a way calculated to reduce that country, or at least a part of it, to a satellite...
...Iran denied Stalin's statement that a new agreement had been reached with the Soviets...
...The world has had too much of diplomatic secrecy...
...They did not walk out like a temperamental operatic primadonna...
...dependent upon Moscow—and the Teheran Government will be remodeled along lines demanded by the Tudeh (Communist) Party...
...Russia retains a firm grip on the Manchurian economy, A. T. Steele reports to the NY Herald-Tribune...
...And in these two weeks Soviet Russii would reach a "settlement" with ar Iranian Government willing to purchase peace at any price...
...As James Kenton of the NY Time* puts it, 'The issue...
...The defense attorney for Rudolf Hess tried to introduce into the Nuremberg trials proof that the price paid by Hitler tot the Molotov-Rfcbentrop Pact was to give Russia Eastern Poland, the Haltir States, and a fret hand in Finland...
...Even if the UNO '« a caricature of a world parliament, at least we have had real issues and conflicts openly debated...
...But the war of nerves goes on...
...Another great opportunity lost...
...If eo, I predict that he will "confess...
...BRITAIN RENOUNCED its mandate over Trans-Jordan and signed a treaty creating another sovereign state in the Middle East • • * FRANCISCO LARGO CABALLERO issued a deathbed testament supporting the Spanish Government-in-exile in Paris...
...The Russian troops are gone [from Mukden], but Soviet banks, trading agencies and technical experts are taking up where the army left off...
...Having advanced a mile, Soviet Russia can afford to retreat an inch...
...If the UNO il not a tribunal, it is a forum...
...is not primarily the Iranian ease today...
...A better term^ is Machiavellian...
...Byrnes stated that Anglo-American policy is to satisfy "legitimate" Soviet demands in Iran, including oil concessions, which will not undermine Iranian independence...
...This is the showdown...
...Joseph McNarney who ordered extra vigilance of hit troops against "potentially dangerous groups," particularly young people, as further cuts in the subsistence rations were made, te 1,300 calorie...
...The Austrian Ministry of Education appealed to the USA for textbook* for schools for the reeducation of Austrian children whoae mind* have bees poisoned by Nazi propaganda...
...MISCELLANY • The British Labor Party faces the tame threat as Socialist parties throughout Europe...
...The reference ir te The New Republic, which, R is rumored, . maj merge with The Nation...
...e • The US Government is studying th* advisability of dispersing war industrieM and placing them underground...
...On the same day two were killed and many injured in Messina, Sicily, when the unemployed sacked the UNRRA warehouse...
...Perhaps a faltering step toward "Open covenants openly arrived at" hat been taken...
...If peace could be secured by platitudes, assurances, proclamations of adherence to fine principle*, there would h» no war danger, now or in the future...
...All disputes were discussed in dosed sessions and the world heard only polite echoes of behind-the-scenes debates...
...Why does a postponement of only two weeks mean so much 1 Because weakness on the part of the democratic powers on this issue would serve notice to all the small nations threatened by Soviet aggression that they cannot trust us...
...It seems certain that as a result of the war scare the draft will be extended, and peacetime conscription finally adopted...
...Evidently the agreement is between Stalin, the Red Army, and the Iranian Communists...
...Even if all Red Army troops are withdrawn from Iran and Manchuria, Stalin will have won another victory...
...A NY Daily New* columnist report*: "One of the local 'liberal' publications is so deeply in the red (no pun intended) that it may be merged with stronger affiliates...
...If Russia attempts to seise Kara and Ardahan and the Dardanelles Turkey will fight, and Britain will come to her rescue...
...The UNO can force Russia to retreat, but if it does not, democracy is Ioat...
...And if compromise of principles, af peasement, and capitulation were tbf road to peace, we would be near thai destination...
...THE UNO ALARM CLOCK...
...Unrest ia increasing, the general stated . . . Os March 22 there wen S3 workers in one factory in Hamburg who eoUapeed ol starvation...
...In democratic parliaments and procedures politicians are used to defeats...
...There one British and one American division confront 12 of Tito's divisions and 30 Soviet divisions in Hungary...
...The UNRRA delegates condemned by a vote of 25 to 0 the practice of occupying armies seizing land, the Russians and their satellites abstaining...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 13
