Evening star., 1944-12-10

There is civil war in Greece-a con-
fict between the Royal government sup
ported by the British troops OF liberia
tion and the Communist guerrillas. sup
ported by. their ideals possibly and by
some material help from Russia
There is witchhunt against the col
laborationists in Yugoslavia. In that
country the word collaborationist is not
applied to those who have helped the
Germans, but those who supported the
nationalist anti-German movement di-
rected by Gen. Draja Mihailovich. Col
laborationists are all those who refuse
to recognize the Moscow sponsored
Marshal Tito.
There is latent and little reported
civil war in France and Belgium. The
Polish underground in Western Poland
is getting ready to fight for the inde-
pendence and sovereignty OF their coun-
try if the Allies maintain their policy
Of placing them under the rule of the
Soviet-created Lublin government The
effective military occupation oc Romania
and Bulgaria has not brought forth any
major disturbance.
In the new concentration camps I'll
over the territory of these countries
there are more individuals "unfriendly'
to the governments chosen by the Soviet
military command than there are Nazi
sympathizers. The heavy curtain of
censorship prevents news regarding the
thousands who are being executed as
"collaborationists" from reaching the
outside world.
United States Newsmen Barred.
The Russian-appointed governments
have adopted policy of declaring all
those who are not supporting them as
enemies of the country and "collabora-
tionists" who are either hanged, shot or
placed behind barbed wire In order to
do this and avoid criticism, American
newspapermen have been barred from
Bulgaria and Romania.
Moreover, within 48 hours after the
Russian armies entered Sofia, number
of American officials who had been
rushed to the Bulgarian capital as soon
as the government sent a mission to
Cairo to offer its surrender were loaded
in trucks and dumped across the border
In Turkey Little was known about this
act of our Russian ally. But the Turk
ish press had complete accounts of the
incident" with pictures of the Amer
leans who had been unceremoniously
expelled from Bulgaria.
The present military operations in
Central, Southeastern, Eastern and
Northern Europe have political char
acter. Only on the Western Front are
the American armies, supported by Brit
ish and French, fighting purely mill
tary war with no other objective in mind
but the defeat of Germany.
AS things stand in Europe today it is
obvious, however, that our greatest mill
tary weapon should be our peace aims.
The troubles we are witnessing in all the
liberated countries have all political
origin. They can be Strengthened out
only by strong appeal to the liberated
peoples that their past sufferings have
not been in vain and that all their aims
and hopes viii be answered equitably by
the most powerful nation of all the Al
lies, the United States.
No Concrete Plan.
No concrete peace plan has been for
mulated by the major Allies since the
drafting and the signing of the Atlantic
Charter. 1t thus appears that in the
absence of any other constructive plan
for the political rehabilitation of the
world-without which economic and So
cial rehabilitation cannot be thought of
this document should be pushed in the
foreground once again.
Although the Atlantic Charter was the
creation Of the United States and Great
Britain and was not intended for the
Asiatic continent, it was the Chinese
delegate at the Dumbarton Oaks Con-
ference, Ambassador Wellington Keo,
who suggested repeatedly that the Char
ter should either form the preamble or be
incorporated in the document dealing
with the future peace organization of the
world.
The Ambassadors request fell on deaf
ears. The Charter has not been officially
repudiated by its parents, but it has
become very bad taste to mention it at
any serious conversation concerning the
reorganization of the postwar world.
Whether because of orders from above
or because of the realization that the
document is no longer to the liking of
the major Allied governments, the over
seas propaganda services of the owl are
refraining from mentioning it in their
broadcasts to foreign nations.
Yet 1t appears to most unbiased OBJ
servers that even today, unless the war
aims of the United States have greatly
shifted in the last three years, the At
lantic Charter continues to be the only
basis on which some semblance of order
can be obtained in Europe after the
fghting overseas.
Allies Far Apart.
There is only nominal cohesion and
cooperation among the Allied govern
ments. In fact, they are far apart. In
Southeastern and Northern Europe the
victorious Russian armies not only have
brought with them the new Communistic
ideals but also have successfully estab-
lshed the new Communist capitalism
which ultimately will make Russia the
foremost nation in Europe.
After the collapse of Finnish resist
ance the U. S. s. r. lquidated the
foreign holdings in the Petsamo nickel
mines. The international Nickel Co., in
which British interests had very large
stake, was nationalized and the foreign
stockholders were paid 10000 900 for
holdings OF far greater value. When the
foreign ofice was approached and urged