Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Russian IntentiOnSin Danubia
To Affect Britain Profoundly
London, With No Permanent Foe Hopes for Strong
Federation to Keep Power in Europe
More Evenly Divided
Br FeIir M0rIer.

E-crd Oh the political implications of
tie discussions.
In his Christmas eve broadcast. how
ever, the President promised report to
the Congress lin about two weeks
time or around January 7. And he
simultaneously made it clear that the
Teheran conference was by no means
entirely devoted to military considers
tons. The triumvirate, said Mr.. Roose-
welt, discussed international relation.
ships from the point of view of big,
broad detectives, rather than details"
And he added that, on the basis of
these discussions, II do not think any
insoluble differences will arise among
Russia Great Britain and the United
States
II would. indeed, he tragic if this est.
mate proved incorrect. The elimination
OF alier2nccs among the big three"
Allies is an essential prerequisite to the
establishment CT postwar order having
any OF the characteristics of stability.
But it would be folly to deny either that
important differences exist in the out.
look of Russia, Great Britain and the
United States, or that significant con-
cessions will somewhere have to be made
to reconcile them
At Teheran it does not seem To haye
been Stain who was conciliatory.
The treatment to be accorded a defeat-
ed Germany was clearly not the out.
standing issue at Teheran. On this point
President Roosevelt could say. speaking
for both Churchill and Stain in his
Christmas eve broadcast, that: The
United Nations have no intention to en-
slave the German people" Actually a
more complicated and pressing problem
| than the future Of Germany is the DO
ntlcal adjustment of that huge belt Of
territory to its east and south which
Germany at present dominates.
AS to its plans for a large part of this
terrltory-much of Finland, the Baltic
states, Eastern Poland, Northern Buko-
VIVA and Observation-Disclosures has for
months now made no secret. In this
area the Russian frontier agreed to by
Germany in 1889 is to be reconstructed,
with such notifications as may seem
appropriate to Stains military advisers
Puppet governments for these future
Soviet republics already exist in skele-
tented form, and will undoubtedly be-
ready to take over as soon as the Rus.
sian armies can achieve the necessary
advances
Want Buffer Federation.
1t is in Southeastern Europe, in the
Danubian Basin to which M. Sorel re-
ferred In his lectures of so years ago,
that there has been more uncertainty as
to Russian ambitions. Here it has been
both the British and the. American hope
that an economically well-integrated
and politically stable federation might
be established, simultaneously blocking
both Germany and Russia from access
TO the Mediterranean, thereby restoring
that balance which the Austro- Hun
garian Empire once afforded and for
which British diplomacy will surely con-
tinue to make valiant effort.
The hope of stemming the westward
+ advance of Russian influence is, how
ever. becoming progressively more faint.
AS far back as the Moscow conference,
October 10 to 80, the Soviet delegation
came out fatty against theoretically
planned groupings" of small countries
and made plain Russia's absolute reiec-
ton of all attempts to revive a policy
OF Gordon sanitaire. under any guise
whatsoever, against the u S. S. R."
Accommodating evidence indicates that
at the Teheran conference the Russian
claim to special interest in Southeastern
Europe was voiced even more sssertiyely.
ny Stain himself, and that Winston
churchill was compelled reluctantly to
accept the Russian rulers viewpoint.
Nothing more, for instance, is now
heard OF the projected invasion of tina
Balkans, for which the British long ar.
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