The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-09

munists than Japs. Churchill and Stalin unable to reach agree ment over Polish future. 1. Hon. duran revolt reported. . Army of- ficers dust Guatemalan president. :. Fl Salvador president resigns. .. Italy recognized.
 All such news of the past month reveals an acute case of interna- tiunal jitters, the American presi- dential election being-to foreign eyes-just another symptom of the same.
 Note that this rash of foreign news, while it has an indirect rela- tion to the war, is largely in the field of international politics and that 1t is concerned with jockeying for postwar position.
 So important has all this spot news become, however, that 1t crowds its way onto the front page in spite of Philippine invasion and a national election in the United States.
 THE NEWSPAPER READERS JOB
 But evaluation comes later, as the scene in each situation unfolds and the proper background is shifted into place to give the action its proper relationship to what has gene before. Here the job of the newspaper reader becomes import ant in correctly appraising what is serious, what is trivial, what IS transitory.
 The temptation to make crisis out of every little international thing, when it happens, is great. The experts on foreign affairs particu- Iarly like to make mountains out of bean hills, But recall how many of these inflated obstacles have been punctured by nothing sharper than the point of Father Times scythe.
 A few months ago, for instance, the major powers were reported as falling apart because Soviet Russia. without consulting anybody, recog- nized the Badoglio government in Italy. What difference does that make today?
 Russias withdrawal from the h. ternational Aviation Conference can probably be put in the same kettle. It doesn't doom the conference. On the contrary, Russia may be the loser.
 A bad situation in China can't be shrugged off quite so easily. Never theless, the war against Japan is going to be won whether General Stilwell or somebody else is in com- mand. And whatever the relations between Chiang and the Chinese Communists, it cannot be forgotten that Chiang has not made peace with the Japs in seven years of back-to-the-wan struggle. H o W much American interference IS called for in mess O. this kind? A THOUGHT FOR THE
 ANTI-FRANCO SCREAMERS
 The fellow-travelers who went all- out in their vocal support of Repub- lican Spain and can't forget that Franco gave them licking are be- ginning to scream that since Franco is now cut off from Germany, here is the big chance for American in- reference to drive the Spanish dic- tator frcn power. Such an attitude ignores completely the fact that 1t took less effort to keep Spain as a technical neutral than it would have taken to support Franco if Franco had broken with Germany.
 Revolutions 1n Central America have always been a dime dozen. The Argentine impasse is something else again. But the step that Ar gentina has just taken in asking that its foreign relations be con- sidered by a conference Of Pan American foreign ministers is in complete accord with the proposals drafted at Dumbarton Oaks for a United Nations organization to maintain peace and security and settle the worlds international dis putes by peaceful negotiation.
 All these involved foreign situa- ticns on the front pages today point towards the need of United Ma tions organization to resolve them. There may be revolution sin France, Italy, Spain or China. As long as the question concerns only the in- ternal politics of a country, it is mo- body else,S business. As soon as there is a threat to the peace of the world, that becomes everylbody's business.