Evening star., 1944-05-21

Of postwar Europe already has been de-
cided. The revamping of the map OF
Europe will follow strictly the strategic
lines required by the Soviet Republics
and Great Britain. America, the most
important contributor to the forthcom-
ing defeat of Germany, has no terri
torial claims on any Of the European
countries. In order to make certain the
victory over the Nazis, our policy-fram-
ers have agreed to the political requests
Of our two major associates.
Numerous conferences will be sched-
uled within the next few months and
the public will be led to believe that
important matters are being discussed,
whereas, in fact, these matters were
settled at the Moscow and Teheran con-
ferences.
A vast propaganda campaign will be
launched to impress on the people of
the United States the necessity of main
tanning large police force in Europe
and induce them to take major share
in supplying that strife-ridden conti-
nent with necessities of life, which would
prevent violent outbursts and disorders
after the Germans are defeated.
The remaking of the map of Europe
will not follow the traditional pattern of
setting up spheres of influences. Russia.
for instance, has devised new means of
Incorporating states of strategic impor-
tance into the Soviet by iberalizing its
constitution. The Soviet constitution was
changed last February to permit any
number of border states to join the
great Eastern Federation.
New Governments Planned.
New governments will be set up in all
the countries extending as far south as
Yugoslavia. They will be established
while the Russian armies which have
liberated them are still occupying those
territories. There is little doubt that
the plebiscites held under the friendly
eye of the Russian soldiers will be in
keeping with the desires of the Moscow
government. The peoples of these coun-
tries, who have suffered intensely dur
ing five years of Nazi occupation, will
at first be glad to accept any form of
government provided food and the
other necessities of life begin to flow in
literally.
In the west, where the British inf1u-
ence will be dominant, a confederation
on the pattern suggested last November
by Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts,
the Prime Minister of South Africa, is
likely to be born. This confederation
will be more voluntary than the one
in the East. Britain does not wish to
dominate physically any Of the people
Of Europe. She will be content with
the formation Of group OF nations
which would give at least q semblance
Of maintaining balance of power on
the continent.
The United States Government is said
In well informed quarters to have agreed
in principal to his formula. Many Of
President Roosevelt's closest advisers
realize that such peace based on mil
itary and strategic necessities might
mean only an armistice. They know
that history repeats itself and that
after number of months or years at
respite the nations which have insisted
for centuries on their national inde-
pendence will start reacting. This re-
action will take the shape of easily
suppressed rebellion, at first, followed
by more important revolutions. Ulti-
mately only an extraordinary combina-
ton of circumstances will avert another
major upset" in Europe
Worried by Peace Rumors.
The reason the administration has
agreed to this palliative lis that mill
tarily we were confronted with a situa-
tion which could have jeopardized the
victory in Europe.
Last summer the White House and
the State Department were seriously
concerned over the rumors of a sepa-
rate peace between Germany and Rus
sia. How well founded these rumors
were is difficult to ascertain. But they
must have had some basis; otherwise
our military and political leaders would
not have been so concerned.
Moscow was reported to have pre-
sented us with the choice of yielding
to her plans for a reconstruction OF
Russia on gigantic basis, extending as
far south as Yugoslavia, or of facing
the German armies alone.
The Moscow conference established
the general outline of this policy. The
Teheran conference was necessary not
only to map our summer operations but
also to confirm through the heads OF
state of the United States and Britain
the decisions adopted by the foreign
secretaries in Moscow.
The various steps taken by Moscow
and the British and American govern.
ments after the Teheran conference
such as the changing of the Russian
constitution, the Endorsement of Mar.
shal Tito, Soviet-sponsored Yugosla,
Partisan leader, by the Allies at the ex.
pense of Gen. Draja Mihailovich, were
mere straws in the wind. They showed
those who had an inkling of what hae
happened at Moscow and Teheran thai
their suspicious had been fully justified
Once in a while Moscow played lont
hand as in the case of the recognition
OF Marshal Badoglio's government. Tit
Russians failed to inform the Allies o.
this step which they believed justified
IN order to consolidate their position ir
the Mediterranean. Badoglio and hi.
followers were disguised with the lacl
OF uniformity in the policy of the Brit.
ish and American authorities and ir
their indecisions as to what to do with
Italy after the Germans had been ex
PEELED. Russia offered a solution
Badoglio reached out and grabbed i
although he had to compromise with hi