STETTINIUS IN BLUNDERLAND

...Surely these elementary historical facts should be familiar to intelligent Americans, even if they are terra incognita to an ex-Secretary of State...

...Simultaneously . .. The Cotton State...

...Ritter have indicated one way—quick and, decisive action at the rbots...

...Its framers (Lord Curzonjactually had little to do with it) specifically reserved for future determination Poland's claims to territory east of the line...

...The Soviet Union consented that France should have a zone of occupation in Germany...

...Stettinius, among many other factual blunders, repeats the error that the so-called Curzon Line was "an attempt to define Poland's eastern frontier...

...hooded hooligans...

...what the western -powers * gave up at Yalta...

...who have recently given Alabama a minor reign of white terror...

...I'Characteristic of Stettinius was his behavior at the Dumbarton Oaks conference...

...Lajt week, (see "Those Political, Jitters") we promised to name sorne specific ways in which communism and "fascism" can be effectively combated without impairing civil liberty...

...His apologetics will not alter one iota of history's judgment on Yalta:\The' most disgraceful defeat in America's diplomatic history.= An Editorial— Crimson and Blue saw eye-to" eye on one non-sporting event Jast week when Harvard's President Conant and Yale's President Seymour both warned the Un-American Activities Committee to keep hands off their textbooks...

...But this did not involve any diminution of the territory marked out for Soviet occupation...

...has signed his name to a book designed to prove that the decisions of the Yalta Conference were a brilliant victory for the western powers...

...this experiment in personal diplomacy...

...The agreements reached among President Roosevelt...

...western diplomacy that matches the immorality Of carving-tip Polish territory and settling the' future _ composition of the Polish government without even consulting any representative of) the Polish people...

...It was nothing of the kind, only a provisional demarcation line...

...Stettinius argues that Stalin got little or nothing at Yalta which his armies had not taken .or could not take...

...enerj£ ^^^onght-to clean up *Slan nests once, and for all...

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...The moral of the events we have recounted'is that they ':^^,[^y^'il^'^:!'^ Prove Courage Pays...

...Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin were, on the whole, a diplomatic triumph for the United Stales and Great Britain...

...And Mob Violence ^ . . gained a. point "when St...

...Why, the Soviet Union withdrew its request that the United States and Great Britain agree at Yalta to invite the Ukraine and White Russia td San Francisco...

...Stettinius was continually muffing his lines at the San Francisco conference which Ushered in the United Nations...

...We laud Governor Folsom's swift action, but we have no illusions about Dixie law enforcement procedures, and we still think Attorney...

...Stettinius pa|£a^ fluence procured his appointment, by calling this, eminence prise of the Roosevelt Administration "a most invaluable adviser" with'an "enviable record of public service...

...This was the fatal, beginning of the whole Chinese tragedy, because it gave the Chinese communists a secure base in Manchuria from which to organize their conquest of the rest of China:' * * * WHAT WERE THE "VICTORIES" AT YALTA, so proudly chronicled by Stettinius...

...According to that apostle of ^'proletarian" morality, the Wallaceite National Guardian (June 27), Robeson is reported to have said: "I have the greatest contempt for the .''press...

...We' might remind the Maypr .that last year St/Louis Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter abolished segre...

...So Stet...

...It is impossible to point to even one serious practical gain...

...sad Yalta chapter on appeasement not been written...

...A Press by Any Other Name According to the "capitalist" press, without exception," Paul Robeson was said to have told newspapermen who turned out en masse to his son's wedding last-week: I have ihe'gre&test Contempt for the democratic press...

...where defense of opr rights is .concerned...

...But if there had been any .pumpkin papers^Jalta Stettinius would have been the last person to know...

...Summing up the conclusions of the book in a recent issue of Lookmagazine, Stettinius pronounces the following judgment: "The record of the Yalta conference . greater concessions to the United States and Great Britain than it won from them...

...Louis', Mayor Joseph M. Darst, yielding to hoodlums, 'rescinded a 4-hour-old»order permitting Negroes to use municipal swimming pools...

...whose motto is, "We Dare Defend Our Rights," hastened through its legislature a bill unmasking the...

...After this breathtaking statement, we may expect books "proving" that the Germans won the battle of Stalingrad and that Eisenhower wW^riveh into* the sea^v/heh he invaded* Normandy, It is easy to compile an impressive list of...

...tinius, the faithful disciple, went about shouting "Hi, Alec" and "Hiya," Andrei' at the painfully shocked and socially correct Sir Alexander Cadogan and the sullen and bored Andrei Gromyko...

...It required al whole battery] of discreet prompters to prevent the head of the United States delegation from making his country ridiculous.,by;his inability to grasp tho points at issue"and to take consistent positions...

...There has' been only one transaction in the history of...

...As for Alger Hiss, he "acted honorably and patriotically in the performance of his duties...

...tSskTof consolidating its grip on Poland Would have been infinitely more difficult had the...

...Especially significant was the Conant statement that Harvard is adult enough to know what its students want to read, since shortly before Dr...

...As for the verbal promises of "free, unfettered elections in Poland" and respect for democratic rights in other East European countries, these would have been appraised in advance as worthless by anyone familiar with the Soviet, record in occupied countries...

...His qualifications for this high, and responsible post were a shock of imposing white hair, a gift for enunciating banal platitudes, and a giadhand manner that would have gone over well at a meeting of some fraternal organization, but was of littje help in* the desperately serious business with which he was obliged to deal...

...The other "victories" gained at Stalin's expense were similarlyinconsequential, or soon proved to be no victories at all...

...gation in that city's Catholic institutions and no depredations have since followed Cowld it be the priest commands, greater respect than the politician...

...Folsom and...

...His' innocent ignorance, really passes understanding...

...Americans like Conant, Seymour...

...Conant had helped formulate the National Education,Association's vigorous and well-measured attack on communism in pur schools...

...It is doubtful whether international amity or the constitution of the United Nations benefited from...

...It was the bartering away of basic Chinese political and economic rights, in Manchuria to purchase Soviet intervention" in the war against Japan...

...Civil liberties lost' one (scoring two hits out of three tries for the week—not bad...

...The ineptness of Stettinius is shown anew by the fact :that,.hp...

...IT IS ONE OF THE MINOR TRAGEDIES of the late war that during the last months of the struggle, when big and imaginative decisions were urgently required, American diplomacy was in the hands of a man who, in the words of one'of his "colleagues, "didn't know the Ukraine from a musical instrument...

...But this ignores the tremendous moral importance of not acquiescing in unwarranted annexations and the imposition of puppet governments...

...All pretense of abiding by the Atlantic Charter was sacrificed at Yalta when the eleven million people- living east of the so-called Curzon Line were handed over to Soviet rule without any pretense of a.plebiscite...

...And this transaction also took place at Yalta...

...Is this a case of the "unkepf press keeping out,what the "kept" press kept in...

...Roosevelt had convinced him that charm and cordial personal relations were all-important ingredients in successful dimomacv...