The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

Hull long has been anti-Rus- sian. Welles has long argued that we must work with Russia even though we don't agree with her theology - if we are to win the peace.
 Hull climaxed his anti-Russian attitude by placing in charge of his peace-planning group, Leo Pasvolsky, a bitter anti-Soviet.
 You don't hear much about
 Pasvolsky around Washington,
 but he happens to be one of
 MT. Hull's closest advisers. Born
 in Russia, Pasvolsky was the
 last secretary to Kerensky's Am
 bassador Boris Bakmeteff. Pas
 volsky formerly edited the Rus
 sian Review in New York, later
 a daily Russian paper called
 Russkoye Sloco, which was anti
 Soviet, and after various re-
 search studies, became adviser
 to MT. Hull.
 When Pasvolsky's plans for a new world begged down, Welles automatically maneuvered so that the President appointed a larg- CT peace planning group, includ- ing John Hopkins Professor Isiash Bowman.
 But the basic difference be- tween Hull and Welles in deal ing with Russia has continued. And that is why it may be futile for Weles to undertake a mis- sion to Moscow with Foreign Min ister Eden. For any plan he works out with the Russians would all most certainly meet with vigor- ous opposition from Hull the min- ute Welles got home.
 RUSSIAN PROBLEMS
 Here are the chief problems
 Here are the chief problems which will have to be threshed out with Stalin by whoever goes to Russia:
 l. A 2nd Front. This was pub licly pledged at Casablanca, and the Russians blame Churchill be- cause the pledge has not been kept. They think Roosevelt want ed the 2nd front, but that Chur- chill insisted that it be undertak- en largely by American troops.
 2. The large number of British troops in Palestine, Mesopotamia and the Near East. The Rus sians think this is to block them from getting a warm water route through the Gulf of Persia. They say that If the British can spare these troops for the Near East, why can't they spare them for a 2nd Front.
 3.-The British have occupied Teheran, the capital of Iran, il- legally, say the Russians. The Russians meanwhile have occu- pied two northern provinces of Iran.
 4. The Russians suspect that the British want to keep them another winter so the Red Army will be bled white and will not worry the Allies in the post war policin gof Europe or in fix ing its boundaries. The Russ sians remember all too well the Cliveden Sets proposal to ma neuver Stalin and Hitler into bleeding each other.
 But most important overall problem. is Russian suspicion that Britain is still playing old fashioned power politics as she did 100 years back. Whereas she once played Germany off against France, it is now suspected that she wants to play Russia off against the United States. This may not be true, but it will be one of the toughest things to erase from the Russian mind.
 NOTE: Chief report that wor- ries diplomatic circles is that Ger. many has given Stalir. a promise of the old Russian boundaries before 1914. This is far more than the Allies have talked about giving her - and Stalin knows it. CAPITAL CHAFF
 George Bakmeteff, last Czarist ambassador to Washington once was asked what relation he was to Kerensky'S Ambassador Boris