Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-25
By "Whitey" Bauer

lOudN lllC ROWSAO VI
the world are engaged in the
greatest game of politics that
has ever been conceived by any
man or group of men.
While the infantry, air and
naval forces of the world sacri-
flee their lives daily for the
preservation of the so-called
principles of Democracy, the
diplomats and politicians spend
their time making pawns of the
liberated countries and their
peoples.
Despite the fact that the best
way to handle the situations
prevalent in the freed countries
has not been found, allied mill
tarists who would feather their
own future political bed con-
tinue on the sordid road to i'll
will. These leaders are procur-
ing for themselves and the peo-
pies they represent a reputa-
ton of underhandedness and
distrust that will in the post
war world of international
transaction cause the smaller
countries to look upon us with
feeling of fear and suspicion.
Soviet Autonomy
The most evident of these
attempts are those made by
Soviet Russia. The giving of
autonomy to the 16 Russian re-
publics seems only to have been
done for the purpose of gaining
more votes in the peace con-
ference, and for the purpose of
partitioning Poland (despite the
fact that Stain said he had no
imperialistic intentions in this
war;.
Regardless what we Ameri-
cans think of the eventual peace,
we must remember this fact
concerning forming of p e C e
plans and the dictation of terms
to the defeated ais powers. The
political and economic interest
of the money interests in the
two capitalistic countries and
the same interests of the state
in the two other major allies
will demand satisfaction, each
in their own particular way.
Postwar Plans
England will demand the pre-
servation of her imperialistic
high handedness in countries
such as India and Egypt, with
the hope of extending that i'm
perialism to other smaller coun-
tries which have been liberated
from axis domination.
The United States will at
tempt to continue her exploita-
ton of the natural resources of
other countries besides the other
Americas.
Russia will definitely renew
its international revolution and
attempt to gain control of more
European countries for the pur-
pose of furthering this revolu-
ton.
China, because of her limited
political and economic power
will be forced to take a back
seat to the other major powers.
Hers will necessarily be pass
i've participation in the peace
plan of the allies, and as long
as she does not tread on the
toes of the three other. major
powers she will be given a rea-
Sonable amount of authority in
the far east, probably with the
promise of military help in the
event that it may be necessary.
Thus we see that the war
aims of the allied powers are
based upon a definite fear in
each of these countries. England
fears that her imperialistic hold
on her colonies may be leopard
lied, This country fears that the
attempted economic strangle
hold that her capital interest
have on smaller countries may
be broken. Russia fears that the
furtherance Of her international
revolution will be stopped un-
less she gains sufficient hold on
the educational and political
divisions of the states about her.
These fears are the primary
reasons for the political game Of
chess that has been going on
since the beginning of the war.
The diplomats of all the allied
powers are playing their cards
close to their vests, each hop
ing that one of the others will