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...that French and Italian Communists would fight for France and Italy against the Soviet revolutionary mother...

...Japan" was very near its military last gasp at the time of the Yalta conference...

...The President's words had no touch of blasphemy...

...That the Soviet Union would be an aggressor was, of course, unthinkable...

...These veteran Communists last week made public and official what has been the most open secret of the generation: their Communist parties would cooperate to the fullest with a Russian army that was "pursuing an aggressor...

...see is that of a dialogue between the U.S...

...He even inUmatejS to 1*/Qim4l& (ffl p. 140 of the hooky that UNRRA ftjprt sbetfl be withdrawn- from the Polish.DFs» so aaV starve them into reluming to Pofauid...

...And what was the value of affirming the Atlantic Charter in a document that wa« a direct denial of the principle of selfdetejmination since it sanctioned the transfer, without a plebiscite, of almost half of Poland to the Soviet Union and of large stretches of ethnic German territory to Poland...

...Presidential Profanity THE PUBLIC REACTION to President Truman's outburst against Drew Pearson throws an interesting sidelight on the American character—or, possibly, on human character...

...land, they proclaimed, was equally unthinkable...

...For, from Washington, Jackson and Lincoln on down, the national leaders whom they have taken to their hearts are the men who proved their humanity by an occasional vigorous turn of verbiage...

...For Czechoslovakia read Poland...

...PSYCHOLOGISTS have affirmed, and presumably are in a position to prove, that persons who occasionally indulge in violent language are less likely to commit suicide than those ifcho maintain a srnooth;and rneJUpw...

...But it was friendly, allied nations which had borne the burden of the struggle with us that were offered up as offerings on the altar of appeasement at Yalta...

...Swing starts out rather encouragingly by admittingly that Yalta has become a byword for failure, folly or treason...

...its cities were being destroyed by bombing without serious opposition...

...It may be protested, of course, that this does dishonor to our little b/otb*rs,, the iriendty and useful creatures usually ranked, by us, somewhat below ourselves...

...EDITORIALS— Their Masters Voice FOR THREE YEARS the Soviet Union and her apologists, at home and abroad, have wailed about the American "imperialist threat" of the atom bomb...

...Sif ariceaf AsfMissieas A BOOK that has received less critical attention than it calls for is Ira A. Hirschmann's "The Embers Still Burn...

...TheB reaction to President Truman's moment oil warm speech would seem to show that we arJr still running according to form...

...exterior...

...But this method of denunciation has been in vogue from the beginning of human speech.** Our low estimate of some fellow human js regularly expressed by classifying him as a snake, a skunk or an ass...

...Now, there is nothing irreverent or blasphemous about the President's words...

...He was merely classifying a newspaper man whom he dislikes as a member of the animal kingdom...

...The analogy is one hundred percent perfect, apart from the fact that Poland, because of its war suffering and sacrifices, had a far stronger moral claim to the Wholehearted support of the western powers...

...The surprise expressed in Western quarters' bears the mark of incredible naivety...

...The Com* munists' statement that Russia comes flrsjj should be greeted in about the same way as...

...for example, a statement from the NAM saying it doesn't like unions- .' .-1 The purpose of the first open admission that Communists are not "patriots" is open to specu-c lation...

...Carving up of enemy nations is a familiar, although not a happy feature of wartime conferences...

...After trying to whitewash the memory of Harry Hopkins, surely one of the most ignorant and poorly qualified men who seriously influenced important international decisions, in The Atlantic Monthly, he endeavors to rehabilitate the disgraceful Yalta conference in a recent issue of The New York Times Magazine...

...At any rate, the New Jersey clergyman who suddenly went linguistically wild about this matter was completely on the wrong track...

...He has no new faets to reveal and the condemnation which the plain course of historical events has pronounced on the spirit and methods of Yalta is so overwhelming that efforts at apology only make the record look worse, if that be possible...

...s IT 18 SURPRISING that Raymond Gram Swing, who has often posed as a champion of high standards of international morality, should show himself utterly blind to the fundamental immoraiity of Yalta...

...Hirschmann and others who tfa«gg>t like kicfl whom ho names and identifJBf...

...But the message was clear enough, in the words of Maurice Thorez, Palmiro Togliatti, Harry Pollitt and Otto Grolewohl...

...Simon and Schuster, $3.00...

...The Chinese Communists would never have acquired this secure base of their power, if Russian troops had not overrun the area, blocked the movement of Chinese nationalist forces through Dairen and turned over great stocks of captured Japanese arms to the Communists...

...Possibly the people of this country have some ancient knowledge of this state of affairs...

...Its naval power had been destroyed...

...pai on Htfim tm&aure repatriation campaigitf which mafl well have sent jnftjgy thousands od...

...Pojes arj9 other refugees tto& hsjoind the Iron curtaiiff to oppression, arrsjrt and etaoatttjration camptl Hirschmann's batik makes viv*By dear sotjtci things which I had suspected about LaOuardiaW guidance of the UNRRA when I viettecl Europfl in 1946V It should be carefully studied, as affl example of attitudes fo avoid, by thoshsMio torn responsible for present DP relief f^ograma...

...Now there was nothing in the record either of Tsarist Russia or of Stalin's Russia to suggest that Russian domination of Maneuria would be any better for China than Japanese domination of that area...

...Then he sets out to tell us "what really happened" there...

...The general value of Swing's Apologia Pro Yalta may be measured by the two following sentences: "The Russians were pushed into a corner to agree to supplant the Lublin regime in Poland with a government of national unity...

...About the only explanation we can...

...It Is said, too, that those who use strong words are less likely to yield to strong liquor or to invade the strong-boxes of banks...

...Even worse was the treatment of Poland, which was in many respects an ironical repetition of the Munich Agreement of 1938...

...Neither Premier Stalin nor Foreign Minister Molotov nor the irascible Vishinsky delivered it...

...The turning over of Manchuria to Stalin at "Yalta was the starting point for the appalling debacle of American.policy in China today...

...The concessions to Stalin in TBtett$huria were made not only without conisufttng Cne Chlftese' government, but "w-Wkont even informing the Chinese government...

...For Chamberlain and Daladier read Roosevelt and Churchill...

...And they fncurred in a ringing American-drafted resotfdK iWWrmfng the Atlantic Chatter in a declaration of policy ffcr liberated countries in Europe...

...Calling a man an S.O.B., that is, a dog, may be thought to be placing him on a comparatively elevated level...

...an«| Russia: ^ The United States, 1945: We have an atom* bomb, the deadliest weapon yet invented.- - - 9 The Soviet Union, after a three-year pause:' Ah, yes, but we have a fifth column which may be far, far deadlier...

...Last week Russia gave her answer to the atom bomb...

...One wishes that Raymond Gram Swing could be pushed into a corner and called on to explain how Poland's fate was improved in the slightest degree by adding to the Soviet puppet regime a few individuals who had no power and who were subsequently obliged to flee for their Jives...

...For Hitler read Stalin...

...Editors mayfj recall another moment when Captain Harrys] S. Truman, caught with his company in a how spot during World War I, stated that he woukw shoot any soldier who failed to stick it out—M only he didnt use the word "soldier...

...Not that the ideology of the work calls wnkh'jO)^ose 'cjotiimunin^ " sejei, etc, * A * 51 • ,:*nt what lend* * iiillim jitifiwiW MtMsfti ¦iijlgl te^ft* to**, which is astoundinglyItm* || fjpm* of it| admissions, Js thatch* author yl a high position in UNRRA tfr^^Xf|SKiard|J And M expresses a positively poiMnoui hatrgsa for sOl DP's (and they are the majority) wjj|| waae poUticai jrffugfis from comjpJirdst mm ranny...