Evening star., 1943-04-04
Lack Of United Foreign Policy
Cramps Allied Postwar Plans
y. S. Seeks Nothing but Program to Guarantee
Peace, but Associates May Want
Material Benefits
Bv Constantine Byown

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Nations is now definitely harmonized,
but their political aims are not
The powerful anti-Axis coalition is de-
termined to throw Immediately the major
weight of its enormous force of man.
power and machines against the Euro
pean branch of the enemy.
Every one in Washington, London and
Moscow realizes that this will be a
gigantic task which will cost us many
lives. The question of how long it will
take the Allies to do this job depends
largely on how quickly the German
morale can be cracked.
If it, holds, in spite of bombings, train
loads of manned and crippled and the
relative lack of commodities, the Job may
not be finished before 1945 or 1896
Military observers who do not indulge
in Wishful thinking believe the Nazis will
not be deprived of military supplies of
all kinds for a number of years Even
the oil situation, on which many OBJ
servers have pinned their hopes for
collapse of the Nazi military machine, is
not such as to justify these hopes any
longer.
The morale" angle, however, cannot
be easily gauged. At present, in spite of
the existence Of anti-Hitler centers in
some parts of the Reich, there is nothing
to prove that the German people are
lowers overheard and sue for peace The
fact that he has placed military opera
tions in the hands of tried and popular
generals has checked growing resent
ment among his military minded people.
Confidence in Military.
From all accounts Germans are willing
to tighten their belts, seek shelter when
the Allied planes pour thousands of ions
of bombs on the Nazi centers and stand
the gaff. The German people are said
to have confidence that their expert
enced military men somehow will get
them out of the hole and they are willing
to stand by them, for the time being, at
least.
But in spite of this picture and the
heavy toll and the many difficulties lead
ing to the destruction of Hitler and his
gang, there is not a single leading mill
tary leader in any of the Allied countries
who doubts for a fraction of a second
that we can do the job.
A unified Allied command, as we had
in the last war, is not possible. The
Russians, for the time being at least,
must follow independently their own
strategy while the American and the
. British generals are following their own
The time may come, however, when a
complete coordination of operations
may become necessary. But until we
have set foot on the European mainland,
such unity is not required.
While military operations now can be
successfully conducted without the right
necessarily knowing what the left is
doing, the political and diplomatic
strategy must be syncfronized and CO.
ordinated and each partner must know
exactly what the others intend to do
after the enemy has been defeated.
There are three major partners and
a host of smaller ones forming the loose
bloc which is known as the United Ma
tlollS. oOoll dlbel lllS OIllleu cIdteS Was
forced into the war by the japanese at
tack on Pearl Harbor, an attempt to
synchronize diplomatic and political &C
tivities was made when member coun-
tries of the United Nations signed the
Atlantic Charter, vaguely -worded
document expressing theories and ideals.
Russian Stand Studied.
In justice to the Charter and its au-
thors, it was not possible to draft any
thing more specific when we consider
that it was created before this country
became an active belligerent.
Nevertheless much was written and
said about the Charters lofty ideals.