The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-13
Ry PAIL MALLON


what has been made public in Mos
COW, London and Washington re
Gently upon the postwar program.
and you will have an understanding
Of the situation which repudiates
most Of the oratory on the subject.
now filling the American ether with
such a din as to exclude any solid
fact.
Mr.. Churchill returned from
Moscow announcing to commons
no agreement had been reached
on the Balkans or Poland with
Stain. but q working arrange
ment had been perfected for
Moscow-London coopera alton dur
Ing the remainder OF the war.
His words indicated. and indeed
all official announcements confirm,
that Russia maintains the upper
hand In Poland, Romania. Bulgaria.
Jugoslavia and perhaps Hungary
while the British have kept II In
Greece.
Churchill said agreement would be
impossible until he could get Roose-
Welt together with Stain. and they
have met only once. at Teheran. al
most exactly a year ago. where the
results were about the same-name.
ly a military agreement for war
and a complete delay Of political
agreements.
RUSSIA NOT AGREED
Since then Russia declined To
agree on the new league OF nations
formula at Dumbarton Oaks, main
tanning 1t wanted unanimity required
Of the Big Four powers to act
against any future aggressor. or she
Tor us) could veto any war moves
against aggressors involving her or
US even though all the other nations
wished to act.
At that time Churchill hoped q
new agreement at the undersecre-
tary level would be made immedi.
ately. but 1t has not been forth.
coming.
Now Moscow announces through
her newspapers she will not send
delegates to the international civil
ian aviation conference at Chicago,
because the fascist nations" OF
Spain. Portugal and Switzerland
have been invited
We have all tried to assume
that the objections continuously
advanced by Moscow only relate
80 details" but the only actus;
postwar agreement reached Of
any Importance has been the
Breton Woods financial ar
rangement, which may be only
partly confirmed (the exchange
arrangement will be ratified II
the rate Of the dollar Is properly
fixed but the Morgenthau bank
will have tough congressional
sledding.)
II Russia does not enter a civilian
aviation arrangement for the new
air world, she will remain an iso
lationist nation which no one is per
mitted to fly over without specis
arrangements. the same as before
the war. when her isolationism en-
abled her to conceal from Hitler ano
us the size of her military establish
ment.
Without considering the right Oh
wrong OF Russia's positions so far
developed, does not our own oratory
sound fully silly?
STAIN HAS RESISTED
Stain would have answered al
negatively. Indeed he already has
by his actions. He has resisted
agreement before the end of the war
is obviously against acceptance Of
the league without the reservation
his associates demanded al Dunn.
barton, and is clearly not letting any
agent get the power of sending hi,
army anywhere in postwar.
Now no one wants TO let these
disagreements get beyond re-
demption, although Moscow Is
plainly less sklttish than we
about the possibilities of any dis
agreements helping the Ger
mans because they announce
theirs to the press. However.
as Churchill puts 1t, the Nazis'
"most important hope Is that
division will arise among the
three great powers"
In truth. the Nazis are only liqui
dating both themselves and theiI