Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-10
RUSS BORDER NATIONS
TAKE TURN TO LEFT"

An eminent authority on political
trends and patterns in the Orient, as well
as IN Europe. in a recent summary Of
what is to happen after the war, and
indeed, what is happening now bears out
rising opinion that Europe may be
divided between state socialism and capi-
talism.
These views are based for the moment
on the apparent voluntary swing to the
left by the nations bordering on Russia
and which, in the future must harmonic
with the Russian Soviet Communistic be-
liefs and practices.
Whether western Europe. including
the British Isles, will join the leftists is
not clear except for the accepted trend
in England, which decidedly is toward
communism or state socialism. Either
means a swing away from the capital
ism beliefs.
Economists and others who have been
in England incidentally or gone there
for the purpose of study, corroborate the
trend to the left. In fact it is agreed by
Britons that at least something like 10
per cent of industry never will be return
ed to private ownership and will be ad-
ministered by the government. among
those who found this to be true is Eric
Johnston. president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
There is no hesitancy on the part OF
n number of visitors to London and by
British leaders to declare outright that
Britain will be more communlstlc than
Russia as soon as the war call for CO.
besiveness is ended. In fact many doubt
that Churchill, if he remains conserva-
tive could be reelected if he should call
the election at this moment. And all
certify that he will have no chance at
all after the war in the election he has
pledged himself to call. Nor will his
extreme stand as an internahonallst
make up for the loss.
II thus is argued that Europe may not
he divided after all. The scandinavian
countries readily could relabel their pol
icies to make them fit into the scheme
of an all-left Europe, France necessarily
must follow the main trend, at least Ior
n number of years after the war as She
could not stand alone either as right
ist or leftlst. -.
Russia has laid the ground for the left
su;ng among the small nations from the
Raltic to the Bosphorus, either through
DISPLAY of the force that could be MAN.
tanned or through preponderance OF argu-
ment. or by establishing a friendly 1eei-
ing and a feeling of obligation and ad-
miration for the liberation OF these ma
tions from NaZi control. The interests
of Western Germany lie closer to Russia
than even to the fatherland or the ma
tions to the west And this presents
another possible slice of territory headed
for the left side.
There is this outstanding point IN the
progress of the trend and in the actual
formulation of a program-nownere Is
there a single thing that does not point
to wanting and retaining the perfect
friendship and cooperative economic
goodwill of the United States. inns very
thing was emphasized months ago DV
Johnston when he was in Russia month
meeting with the directing lndustrlahsts
and with Stain himself.
Johnston told them, in effect and much
TO their CONSERVATION and approval, as
we'll. that the United States has no IN
terest in, or desire to shape the polltlcal
policies of any nation, groups OF nations
or entente He told them all that Is
wanted is a great flow of trade between
this country and their countries. And
apparently the forming program has
taken that view and goes ahead.
Now, it remains for our own foreign
nolicv directors to look to economic pro
grams and to see that there is no med
ding in ideals or attempt TO force our
form of government on these about-to-be-
reborn nations. To accomplish this there
will have to be change in personnel, at
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