Evening star., 1942-09-18
ENJOYS in Exile:
Lithuanian Minister Looks
To Freedom of Homeland
Povilos Zodeikis, Veteran of Russian
Army, Hos Fought Both Reds and Nozis
BY CATHERINE HAMBLEY.

/ A scientist once said, "Finstein is
! correct as far as he goes,"
/ Povilas Zadeikis, Lithuanian Min
/ lister to the United States, applies
/ the saying to the Atlantic Charter.
4 Though too early for predictions,
/ Mr.. Zadeikis wishes that the charter
was more developed concerning ter
ritorial ggrandizement" His i'm
| patience is justified on recalling the
perilous perch of his little Baltic
country under Russian domination
from June, 1910. to the following
summer end now under German
rule. He waits and watches some
what helplessly and with doubt,
naturally turning for succor to the
postwar world
Ee claims that Europe must fall
into her natural mold. plans are
nice" but he insists that men will
fight to be masters of their native
| land and that unless you deport
them they will unalterably strive for
their sovereignty, so you might as
we'll respect their will--implying, of
course, his fears of a postwar state
of Lithuania subject to Moscow. He
pointedly addresses the Soviet Am
basSador in America as the author
of the book Against Aggression"
People Must Decide.
AS most diplomats in the Capital
he. generally speaking, does advocate
world federation backed by some
form of compulsion, either economic
or physical to be assumed by the
members of the league against the
hayward, with a central organization
representing all nations.
He stresses that the decisions must
spring from the people and be by
their consent if the effect is to last.
A universal conception should be in
stilled by proper educational sys-
tenn into the minds of the young to
support and develop the broad poll
cies of such a union.
When he looks at the existing
state of affairs, he adds half jocu
larly and half bitterly that women
as rulers would be an improvement
on men.
To him the war is like an arith-
metic problem, the answer to which
only military men can solve and on
which they alone can pass judg-
ment. Mr. Zadeikis has been a
soldier long enough to realize this.
In 1912 he was drafted by the Rus
sian government, Lithuania then
being Czarist province, for his
military training after having
studied chemistry at the Imperial
University Of ST. Petersburg.
His ambition to be a chemist has
been continually frustrated, He
was released from his training in
1913 and in 1914 remembers his
wonderment on hearing of the
assassination of the Archduke of
Austria.
For four years he fought the Ger
mans. The Brest-Litovsk treaty
between Germany and the newly es-
tablished Bolshevik regime did not
end his days in the service of Mars
The Poles were edging enviously
north. Czarist troops, who had
escaped the revolution, banded to-
gether in Prussia.
War Continued.
The armistice between the Allied
and Central Powers had legalized
the defeat of the Reich but Ger
man soldiers, still armed from the
eastern front, looked about for their
second chance. Donning CZarist
uniforms and altering their names,
they organized under Gen. Won
Holtz and turned their eyes north
ward to the shores of the Baltic at
the same time as the Poles and
Slavic forces of the old regime.
The Poles hoped to reinforce the
former union between Lthuania
and Poland. the White Russian
sought foothold to gain revenge
on the Communist and the Prus-
sian was eager for starting point
to fulfill his dream of acquiring
"lebenSraum" IN the sparsely settled
steppes, for nature hates a vac
uum."
After helping drive back these !
aspirants and being a member of |