Evening star., 1943-03-28
Britain's Aims
Lasting Tie With Soviet
Held Peace Solution
By Felir Morley.

Churchill last Sunday, is one of the
most notable of his many great speeches,
compose almost a world in ourselves"
The same can be said of the enormous
mass of Soviet Russia, stretching from
the Pacific across all Northern Asia and
still, after nearly two years of German
assault, maintaining its grip on those
important Atlantic tributaries, the Baltic
and Black Seas.
The same can be said of the United
States, territorially smaller but far more
lntegrated than either the British En-
pire or Russia; better situated than
either for the exercise of seapower in the
two great oceans; more favorably located
for the control of adjacent tropical areas
which in the New World need not be
annexed as colonies to be commercially
and politically dependent
Only to China, among the Big Four in
the United Nations, is it impossible to
apply Mr.. Churchill's significant express
sion For all its huge area and un-
counted population China is not in our
day, world in itself. Far from assert
ing itself as a great power China has
only lately begun to resist penetration
and subjugation by more aggressive en-
pires. The day when China may again
dominate other peoples is still, happily
for its distinctive culture, far distant.
So Winston Churchill did not name
China, but only Britain, Russia and the
United States, in his definition Of ''the
three great victorious powers" which have
the strength to determine the character
of the postwar world.
the British Premier is still appropri-
ately cautious in his discussion of "the
fruits of victory which have vet to be
Won."
At the time of the landing in North
Africa, we may recall. Mr.. Churchill
warned that this was merely the end
OF the beginning" and not the beginning
OF the end" Even if the resolute Rom
mel should this spring be swept from
lunlsla and even if the Russians con-
tlnue to do rather more than hold their
own, the end of the war in Europe. let
alone in ASIA will be anything but an
immediate probability.
A new note OF restrained assurance is
nonetheless perceptible in what the
Prime Minister now says. He has always
oeen confident. He has always antlci-
pated eventual victory. But now for the
hrst time he sees sufficient progress to
warrant restrained discussion of the
shape of things to come when the guns
are stilled.
Last Sundays broadcast was. as is
M.
a realistic and fortnight address The
English people are fortunate in having as
thelr chief executive one who will not
indulge in making promises without re-
gard to whether they can be performed
Or not" Much OF the speech, moreover.
was concerned with domestic issues
winch, While interesting enough, are not
OF vital international concern.
AS to British policy in world affairs.
however, the Prime Minister was suf1-
GENTLY precise to carry the developing
and vltally important discussion of war
obJectives stage further.
Seeks Pre-war Status Quo.
There is no mystery about Britain's
war aims as revealed in this and previous
speeches by Winston Churchill What is
sought, at least in the first instance, is a
general restoration of the pre-war status
quo, modified as may seem desirable in
the long-range interest of the victors.
The British Empire in the Far East is
to be re-estabished and incidentally that
OF the Netherlands. Germany and also
Japan are to be placed in position, pre-
| Sumably under semi permanent external
control, where they can never again at
tempt aggression. And eventually fed
Grated Europe, on the details of which
Mr. Churchill is inevitably vague, is ex-
| pected to lay basis for the restoration
| OF civilized life in that shattered and
| partially ruined continent
In this anticipation there is nothing in
any way novel. Mr.. Churchill and other
British statesmen have several times be-
fore this outlined the general picture as
| here BADLY but accurately summarized.
| What was new in the Prime Minister'S
| broadcast last Sunday was his frank ad-
mission that the British objectives can
not be either achieved or maintained
without the continuous assistance Of
both Russia and the United States.
Only with the cordial and concerted
agreement and direct participation of
these two nations will the glory of Eu-
rope rise again.
And this, with special appeal for the
cooperation of Russia in Britain's post
war policy, is precisely what was argued
in the now famous London Times ed-
torial of March 10, too hastily written
! of in this country as not representing
the official viewpoint of the British gov
ernment
Permanent Alliance Sought.
Great Britains primary war objective
pire-"almost world in itself-without
which the little island off the northwest
coast OF Europe must sink to the politi-
cal status of another Denmark But to
maintain the British Empire, the
mother country must henceforth be
securely guaranteed against possible
overthrow by any European power Brit
ain is now as preoccupied with security
as was France after the last war, and
naturally so.
To provide this security the tradi-
tional but shattered balance of power
policy must in some manner be replaced.
The essence of this policy, which at one
time or another has brought England
into war with every important European
power, was that no single nation could
be allowed to dominate the European
continent. The European nations must
be balanced in strength one group