The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-06
Moscow Dateline
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people exercising supreme powe1
through representation.
Stain. in his November 6, 1912,
summary of Allied aims, men,
toned restoration of democratic
liberties. His constitution was
modelled after democracy in its
purest form. 1t provides, in arti-
Gle 80, The Supreme organ of
state power of the U.S.S.R. is the
Supreme Council of the US. R.
which should exercise exclusive
Legislative power and oversee the
actions of the executive body, the
council OF peoples commissars.
The deputies to the Supreme So
Wet, by article 1884, are elected
by the electors on the basis of
universal, equal, and direct suf-
frage by secret ballot That is
democracy.
There is a catch in the consti-
tuition, however, in article 1876,
granting citizens the right of form
ing public organizations, and for
the most active and politically con-
scious citizens from the ranks of
the working class and other strata
of the toilers, of uniting in the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union (Bolsheviks). which is the
vanguard of the toilers in their
struggle to strengthen and develop
the socialist system and which
represents the leading nucleus of
all organizations of the toilers,
both public and state In other
words, above all the democratic
system is placed comparatively
small body of men (about 5000, 900
out of the total pre-war population
of 1873, 900, 000), whose power is I'M
limited Their leader is Stain.
That is autocracy.
To say that postwar Russia will
be socialistic, atheistic, and au-
tocratic, does not mean that she
will be static. Out of so fireman
dous a struggle. some change must
come. No nation underwent a
greater upheaval than Russia aft
er the first World War. But then
she was defeated, dissatisfied
power, her structure shattered
After this war she should be vic
torious and satisfied, her struc-
ture stronger than ever. In an
tlcipation of that, one great change
may already be foreseen-a more
benevolent regime.
This regime has started to grow
mellow with age after Is years
of existence. 1t has been well sat
isfied with it's servants on the
front and in the rear during two
years of war. 1t is showing its
benevolence in many ways, some
small, almost intangible, but all
significant. The days of purges,
for example, have ended.
With this kind of postwar Rus
STA will it be possible to cooper
ate? The answer is that it may
be difficult, but it can-and must
be done, if the Allies are to win
the peace as well as the war.
In the field of immediate post
war problems, no insurmountable
differences are to be foreseen.
Russia, in fact, as t h nation
fought best, has been surprisingly
mild in its advance demands,
much milder than some of the
states, which fought for a few
days, then fled abroad to demand
the dismemherment of Germany.
Summarizing on November 6,
1912, what he considers the pro-
gram Of action of the Anglo~So-
viet-American coalition St n
listed: abolition of racial exclu-
siveness; equality of nations and
integrity of their territories; lib
GRAFTON of the enslaved nations
and the restoration of their SOW
ereign rights; the right of every
nation to manage it's affairs in its
own way; economic aid to nations
that have suffered and assistance
IN establishing their material wei
fare; restoration of democratic
liberties; destruction Of the Hitler
regime" None of those principles
should cause any trouble around
the conference table.
On both sides there must be a
desire for confidence and the I'M
derstanding and there can be. I
am reminded Of the story of the
officers of the United States sup
ply mission who put up Christ
mas tree in their quarters, the
former home of the German mil
itary attache on Khlebny Pereou-
lok, and invited in % of the neigh.
borhood children. One Of them
was eight-year-old Valodia, whose
father was away at the front. Va
lodia, being Russian, accepted a
glass of wine. but to drink it he
had first to propose toast.
Climbing up on chair, he stood,
raised his glass and said:
To Soviet-American friendship.
His own people, and the Amer