Evening star., 1943-10-14
Allies Cooperation
Necessary for Peace
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot.


statement as to the Italian declaration
of war against Germany. The second
is the editorial in Pravda which ex-
pressly denounces the idea of Russia
either stopping her armies at her old
frontier or engaging in race for Berlin.
This writer has felt for long time
that every political and military fact
(as opposed to rumor and report) pointed
in the direction of full Russian CO.
operation with Britain and America,
both in the prosecution of the war and
the maintenance of peace in the world
after victory is won.
1t must be recognized by all men and
women of good will that this is the
vital question of the hour: The achieve
ment of a permanent unity among the
present Allied powers, so that, when the
common enemy has been defeated, the
United Nations shall not break up--as
has almost every other alliance in his
tory-but shall continue to remain united
in policy and purpose in order that the
terrible sacrifices of the war shall not
have been made in vain.
This will not be accomplished by
beautiful blueprints manufactured now
in the quiet Of a map-hung study. 1t
will be accomplished only by the un-
spectacular, but very practical, step-by
step method. In essence, the corner
stones of such an edifice of peace are
% an Anglo-American understanding,
perpetuated by functional processes
rather than by any beribboned docu-
ments, and resting securely on the
foundation of mutual self-interest and
common ideals; 20 an understanding
between this Anglo-American unity and
the Russians, resting, likewise, on
basis of mutual self-interest, common
necessity for preserving peace.
When this war is over, no nation will
need long period of peace more than
the Soviet Union. No nation will need
more an opportunity to devote as great
part of its resources as possible to
the tasks of internal reconstruction,
which means devoting as small a part
of those resources as security permits
to the necessities of national defense.
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raw material resources or the territory
of other nations, for in these respects
the national territory of Russia pro-
vides all that could be desired. The
Russians, therefore, by every count, will
be nation ardently desiring peace
They are. moreover, a practical and
realistic folk. They know that peace
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that in all history the peace of any
community has been successfully pre-
served only by the use Of force in the
hands of the law-abiding majority
or of a single tyrant. They know that
the peace Of the world community must
be preserved in the same way
They have just fought a long and
bloody war against the idea of the
peace of the world being preserved by
single tyrant. They are we'll aware
that they cannot take over the Job
Of keeping that peace alone. Even if
their rulers entertained ideas of eventual
world conquest-and of that there is
no proof whatever-it is not in this
generation, or even in the next, that
Russia will be prepared for such an
attempt
Therefore, as practical men desiring
peace, the leaders of Russia must come
to the inevitable conclusion that they
can nave the peace they so urgently
need only by cooperating with others
of like interests and like intentions in
order to maintain that peace by unified
and If necessary, forcible action against
any who may hereafter seek to break it.
So considered, the Russian policy cam
not be one Of combining with lesser
European states against the Anglo
American group, which will possess the
command Of all the seas of the world,
and the vast bulk of the worlds long
range air power.
That would be the path to new war,
and new war is the last thing the
Russians want. Their policy must be one
OF close cooperation with the rulers of
the sea, whose amphibious striking
power is ample to maintain the peace
of the Americas, Western and Southern
Europe, Africa, South and East Asia
and the islands of the Pacific.
The Russians, controlling the great
heartland of the Eurasian continent,
need not fear the sea powers, nor can
they have anything to gain by taking
hostile attitude toward them. On the
other hand, they have much to gain
by cooperation: First of ALL an assured
peace, and second. aid in their task of
reconstruction from Anglo-American
shipping and heavy industry
We shall do well to reflect on these
matters as the momentous conference
Of foreign ministers draws near. Our
country. too, needs peace: our people,
too, desire to build again rather than to
destroy. Our children, too, must have
an assured future beneath the protec-
ton of a sword that is the weapon of
considered justice rather than of inter-
national anarchy.
The United Nations must remain
united in peace as they are united to-
day in war: and the mainstay of that
unity must be a mutual confidence and
mutual appreciation of a common
interest between the three great powers
of the coalition-Great Britain, the
Soviet Union and the United States.
That is why it is so heartening to
hear those powers speak with a single
voice. May that voice speak more fire.
quently, and ever to greater purpose.
(Copsrght 1943, New York Tribune, Inc)