Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24
Peace Table viii Need Superman
Eight Governments Exile Present Claims

A problem which will exact super
| human craftsmanship after the war and
which can be solved only by agreement
among the United States, the United
Kingdom and the Soviet Union is posed
by the existence of eight governments
in exile" and 10 free movements" the
topmost of which is the Provisional
Fighting French National Committee,
under the presidency of Gen. Charles
de Gaulle.
The governments in exile, which prefer
to be known as legal governments
abroad" are Belgium Czechoslovakia,
Greece, Luxembourg, The Netherlands,
Norway, Poland and Yugoslavia. In ad-
dition to the Fighting French, there are
committees of free" Albanians, AUS
TRANS, Basques, Catalonians, Danes,
Hungarians, Italians, Koreans and Ru
manians A committee of free" Ger
mans is also in the making
Crown Princess Juliana of Holland
lives in Ottawa, and gave birth to her
third daughter last Tuesday. The child
was the first member of a European
royal family to be born in North Amer
lea.
All of the legal governments abroad
have headquarters in London except
Luxembourg, smallest of the eight,
which has its seat at Toronto. The con-
stitutional and hereditary monarch,
Grand Duchess Charlotte, is Canadian
resident.
Line Clearly Drawn.
The line between the two categories
of refugee administrations is clearly
drawn. The governments in exile are all
legitimate. That is to say, they were
either in lawful power at the outbreak
of the war or were instituted by statu-
tory procedure. All have been recognized
formally by Great Britain and the
United States, and each maintains an
embassy or legation in Washington. To
all, save Luxembourg, the State Depart
ment has accredited diplomat.
Rivalling Pooh-Bah in multiplicity of
Offices, Anthony j. Drexel Biddle is AM
bassador Extraordinary and Plenipo-
tiary to Belgium, Poland, Norway, the
Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Yugo-
slavia and Greece.
The free movements" on the other
hand, were put coldly in their place by
State Department announcement of De-
cember 10, 1941, as follows: THE de-
partment has taken cognizance of the
existence of a number of committees
representing free movements; but has
not extended any sort of recognition to
them, formal or informal" Even Gen
de Gaulle, who has lease-lend military
relations with the American Govern
ment, has never been countenanced Dip
lomatically. This honor, until the in
vasion of French North Africa, was re-
served for Marshal Petain.
But both sorts of nationless regimes
join in one fervent anticipation. The
governments in exile fully expect to be
re-established in the rule of their several
lands by the victorious democracies.
while many free movement leaders anx-
iously hope to be thus installed. Both
rely on their services and devotion to the
United Nations The governments in
exile flourish the added plea of legiti-
macy, which they regard as self-suffl-
cient.
Realism May Rule.
Students of global phenomena are
beginning to wonder however, whether
realistic and practical considerations will
not determine the reconstruction of the
world, rather than sentimental loyalties
and punctilious legalisms. Such observ-
ers agree that the contribution of the
governments in exile to the cause of
freedom has been invaluable. In the
Atlantic Charter of August a. 194l,