The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-12-28

Nobody knows what Mr.. Winston
Churchill may say or do between the
writing of these lines and the day
when you read them.
But, as of NOW, Mr.. Churchill is
pretty much in the dog house. Not
only is he in the American dog house,
but there is a lot of willingness to
provide similar housing for him
among his own countrymen.
This is too bad, definitely.
1t is not easy to turn critic on
man who has shown the dogged and
brainy resistance shown by Britain's
No. l Man.
But let's not forget that whatever
goes for Mr.. Churchill in this present
hour goes twice for Mr.. Joseph Stain.
If Churchill has turned back to
power politics, Uncle Joe never even
got started away from that idea.
And it didn't take the Polish situa-
tion to show where Mr.. Stain has
been standing.
We can afford now to take look
ahead to the peace. Our military lead
ers will go forward together.
But much of what THEY win is
going to be lost if our political lead
ers don't stick together and keep
eyes on the goal of freedom and
world safety.
That there never has been a true
unity among the Big Four seems now
true.
Mr.. Churchill pumped for the Four
Freedoms in an hour dark for Britain.
The Four Freedoms probably looked
like life raft. But Mr. Roosevelt
meant them to be a permanent ship
of peace.
Britain has charted a domestic
course of progress and regard for the
common man after the war. But if
Mr.. Churchill states the British posi-
tion it is NOT one of progress in
world affairs. That comes pretty close
to being tragic.
No, not that; it surpasses the
tragic.
In the Polish situation Churchill
and Stain agree that the unhappy
Poles shall lose a slice of country on
the one hand, tot be recompensed on
the other.
THAT is power politics.
What has been happening in Greece
is likewise power politics.
But long before that Russia began
playing power politics in carving out
and setting up whole array of
buffers under soviet domination.
That means that if an enemy comes
from that direction, the buffers get
hit first! That is the mission of !
buffers, in the long run.
And now comes France, not yet
entirely freed from the conqueror's
armies, to write a pact of mutual
assistance with the soviets.
France did it's full share to gum
up Woodrow Wilson's peace and now
it starts on the road to repeat per-
formance.
Gen. de Gaulle, not elected to any
thing, signs for France, military
alliance.
1t isn't a world. united for peace; it
is de Gaulle and Stain united for
defense.
Perhaps out Of a worlds repug-
nance to such goings on will come a
surging demand to world leaders to
get back on the track.
If we go forward with new set Of
alliances, enemies to these alliances
will grow up, partly out of the hates
of this war, partly out of new greeds
and hates.
And then will come war that will
make this one look like medieval
jousting match.
vi, w and V-3 will give way to
some fantastic and hellish V-25, or
maybe V-50.
Surely we cannot make the policies
Of the British Empire, or of Soviet
Russia.
But we can let them know good q
and strongly that we don't like and =
will not join a revival of power poll
les. America wants to pass beyond
some international gangland into an
ordered era where the little nation,
ike the little man, stands equal be-
or the law, safe in just rights, with
swift punishment for marauders,
arge or small. Meanwhile, we simply
ave tn win this uar CMW