Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-09
Grave Peace Problem
Seen Spot|iqthed by
Wa||ace's Warninq
AIIied-Soviet Accord
To Prevent New War
Held No Easy Task
BY WADE WERNER.

Associated Press.
One Of the knottler problems con-
fronting United Nations peacemak-
ers was brought into sharp focus to-
day by Vice President WalIace's
warning that a third world war ap-
pears inevitable unless a "satisfac-
tory understanding is reached be-
| tween the Western democracies and
Russia.
The subject has been matter of
| concern in Official and diplomatic
quarters here for some time, but
until Nh Wallace brought it into the
open in his radio address yesterday,
the tendency was to avoid calling
public attention to it.
Lack Of satisfactory understand
! ing nevertheless was becoming appar-
ent through the controversy between
the Polish government-in-e exile and
! Moscow over POland'S eastern border,
and in pointed Soviet reminders that
! not onlT BesSarabia but Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania are considered
integral parts of the Soviet Union.
| Double Cross" Discussed.
/ In his address at Delaware, Ohio,
the Vice President said a third
world war was likely in case we
! double cross Russia" Now Premier
! Joseph Stain and his associates do
/ not hide their conviction that Rus.
/ STA was doubled crossed in the World
/ War, in which she lost Finland,
Est0nia, LatVia, Lithuania, Bessa-
I rabla, part Of White Russia and
! part of the Ukraine.
| In 1899 she recovered White Rus
! STA and Ukranian areas from Po-
/ land. in 1910 took Bessarabia back
/ from Rumania and incorporated
/ Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into
| the Soviet Union. while part of Fin
! land came back into the union
| through Incorporation into the
Flnno-Karelian Soviet Socialist
Republic
ANY satisfactory understanding"
with Russia. therefore, some stu
dents of Eastern European problems
point out, must take into account
/ the Soviet point of view that what
Russia regained in 1894 was ter
/ utory she lost unjustly as a vic
tor in the World War.
Civil Wars Effect Recalled.
However, such an understanding
also could not ignore the fact that
/ the new states created out of Rus
STA s western fringe after the World
| War were the result of a great civil
war which the Soviet regime won in
all other parts of the vast realm,
but lost along its western edges
1 Finland, EStonia, Latvia and Lith-
uania all had Soviet regimes for a
/ while, but in each case the Red
troops were driven out and bOur-
geols parliamentary republics estab-
/ liShed which the still weak Soviet
I Russian power found it necessary
/ to recognize, one by one, as indie
I pendent states.
/ The end Of the long armistice"
between the two World Wars also
was, in a sense, the end of a Tong
/ armlStlCe' in the Russian civil war.
Marching westward in September.
! AHDtf tilN iI'Sl al III tltI IlOI llibItIN
| occupy territory; it opened the way
for establishment of Soviet regimes
where the previous attempts to eS-
! tabLSh them, years ago. had failed
When Red troops appeared again
in EStOnia, LatVia and Lithuania
the burgeolS parliamentary regimes
vanished and Soviet governments
appeared.
Before the German invasion Of
1941 wiped out all these gains the
Soviet Socialist republics of Estonia. |
LatVIa and Llthuanla had been Off
cially admitted to the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics and are
listed now in The Soviet constitution
as constituent republics of the u. S. /
s. r. Other occupied areas were
similarly incorporated.
Constitution Cited.
When the Germans are driven out /
again, is the civil war to be re-
opened once more to determine
whether The former bourgeois or the
former Soviet regimes shall be re-
established? viii the victorious
Soviet Union be asked to amend it's
constitution SO as to eliminate the
new Soviet Socialist republics from
the constitutional list? Article F.
XVIII Of the constitution says:
The territory of a union republic .
may not be altered without its con-
sent"
These are some of the questions
confronting statesmen who must /
seek satisfactory understand |
ing between the Western de-
mocracles and Russia They indi- /
cate it Will be no easy task Never
tneleSs the United States Govern |
ment already has announced its in /.
tentlOn to press for United Nations .
conferences on postwar problems .
now. without waiting for the end of .
the wal on the theory that the /
longer knotty problems are post /
poned the knottler they are likely /