Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-22

Grated and it WILL NOT APPLY to boundary
disputes" oly.-ll
-A AS reported by the New York Times
"The provisions would be applicable to all lib
Grated territory, Mr. Hull said, BUT 1T WOULD
HAVE TO BE KNOWN WHAT THE LIB
GRATED TERRITORY WAS"
And an Associated Press dispatch contributed
thus further to the general establishment:
"WASHING TON, Nov. Secretary Hulls
remarks today abou, the disposition of European
boundary issues LEFT UNANSWERED such
questions the ultimate status of the Baltic states
of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania well as Fin
land in relation to Russia"
Nov, Finland and Poland and Run1ania
Y tries in eastern Europe with which SOVIET
RUSSIA has boundary disputes to which the
Italian formula of self government WILL NOT
APPLY until the disputes Settled
AS for Latvia, Estona and Lithuanian although
they were made free nations after the First World
War and are now occupied by GERMAN TROOPS
what hope have they of liberation under the Mos
cow pact?
None whatever for Stain himself had warned
months before the Moscow conference, that those
countries must be regarded integraly part of
Soviet Russia that liberation for them CANNOT
BE DISCUSSED.
And, as Secretary Hull confirmed in his second
press conference this question WAS NOT discussed
at the Moscow conference.
On the one hand Secretary Hull says that gov
ernmenta sef-determinaton of the liberated peo-
piles will not be applied to half of Poland and to part
of Finland, and to all of the Baltic states until their
territorial future is determined.
On the other hand, Soviet Russia says that ques-
ton has already been determined-by SOVIET
RUSSIA: and the Moscow pact itself UPHOLDS
SOVIET RUSSIA.
For, as Secretary Hull also explained since his
return, interim" governments after the will be
administered in the liberated countries BY
WHICHEVER ARMY OCCUPIES THEM; and
THE RED ARMY is the ONLY Allied army that
occupy these areas in eastern Europe.
M OREOVER, any plebscte in any liberated
4VA country will be supervised BY THE ARMY
OF OCCUPATION, that plebscites in the terri
tories which Russia Claims even if held would be
held IN THE PRESENCE OF BOLSHEVIK
TROOPS.
1t is plainly evident that Poland Finland Lithu-
ania Latvia Estonia probably Czecho- Slovakia and
maybe others, have been ABANDONED to Russia
by formula which says that no self determine
ton will be extended to them until their territorial
future is determined, since that will be when
RUSSIA has taken armed possession of them, and
practically incorporated their territory in Russia,
and says take them away If you can'-which would
necessarily mean ANOTHER WAR.
The Washington spokesman of the Polish gov
ernment-in-exile and other foreign representatives
have been fully disillusioned regarding the Moscow
pact
Notwithstanding the Atlantic Charter they say Soviet
Russia will make good her territorial preensons fact
they say the coveted territories have ALREADY been in
corporated" with Russia in Soviet textbooks.
And certainly the -four freedoms" freedom of utter
freedom of religion freedom from want and freedom
from earwill not those territories when the Nazs
depart and the Red army returns.
1t Soviet Russia's wanton aggression that put
Finland into this accidental and unwilling ally Of
Germany.