The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-12
Observations
Stain Has Good
Reason For His
Cautious Action
BY Helen Esssry

JOG IL StON ms H'HlllH' Hl
among the shrewd thinkers in the
town.
Why shouldn't the Soviet pre-
mier be canny and cautious? Even
coy, II he wants to be? How does
he know who will be running Bri-
tain or the United States within a
fe; months time?
Wouldn't Stain be exceedingly
stupid il he failed to realize that
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston
Churchill may not be the hardy
perennials some people think they
are?
And if they are not the hardy
perennials and are succeeded by
new and relatively strange person
alities. who will look after the
p sian interests among the Unit
ed Nations except josef Stain?
On whom can stain depend except
on Stain and his own countrymen?
Naturally Stain must know
that at the present time he has no
stable government in either Br'-
tain or the United States 10 deal
with. Naturally continue the
shrewd thinkers, he IS slow 10 con
fde his present and future plans
10 leaders who may have lost all
governmental power years before
the war IS ended.
Uncle Joe may we'll be mystcr-
ious. in the opinion OF stable
number OF Washington prophets.
His whole country may well be
mysterious.
wouldn't the United States be
mysterious in her dealings with
Russia II she knew that Stain
mi,h be down and out by Janu-
airy. 1915?
The next presidential election
day in the United states may bring
q complete upset in the govern
ment OF this country and the con
duct of the war. To the rest OF the
world, the domestic and foreign
policy of the United states and the
sentiment Of It's people are there
fore not 10 be counted on. As
major uncertainty, nobody really
knows whether or not Mr.. RooSe-
welt will run again Perhaps Mr..
Roosevelt doesn't know himself
II he does run, will he be elect
cd? II he is elected, what kind
Of Congress will he have TO rely
on? Republican House surely.
Mud = Senate so divided politically
that it will be little inspiration or
aid 10 a president.
II Mr.. Roosevelt does run for
the fourth term and is defeated,
who will succeed him? II is pos
sible the country may put an isola-
zionist in the White House. Re-
ports from Chicago prove that
strong isolationist sentiment still
exists in the powerful Middle West.
When the casualty lists from
that long anticipated invasion come
in TO bereayed families, how can
anyone NOT say that hundreds OF
7usands OF voters may not ask,
why are we sending our hne
Young men TO be killed abroad?
Let's get them home. Let Europe
finish the war II began
or course, Uncle Joe has consid-
cred these and a thousand other
uncertainties. Likewise he has
considered the future OF winston
Churchill. Would Foreign Minister
Anthony Eden or Labor Leader
] wins, his possible successors. be
ready 10 cooperate with Russia
in her war and postwar aims?
Stain wonders about this riddle.
The Soviet leader must have on
his mind, also, as he drives Rus
sia across the continent, the pic
lure OF Woodrow Wilson after the
last war-a repudiated woodrow
Wilson, turned down and out by
his own people. Ia II likely. ask
the shrewd thinkers. that Stain
trusts the popularity OF Roosevelt
or any president TO survive this
war and the bleak days OF recon
Ftruction? This il a country that
likes to tear down its idols.
So. ask realistic thinkers, who
should csnny Uncle Joe show bis
hand in this international poker
game until he knows who will be
sitting in with him this time next
year?
This is the maddest poker game
ever played in the history OF the
world. The bets have been raised
above human comprehension. Mil
lions OF lives and the lives ~
many nations are in the pot. And
directors and ounces are Wild.
Stain may be bluflng a little.
But he knows that he personally.
holds a better hand now, before
the draw, than either the American
president or the British prime
minister. He knows that he will
be the boss OF his own country six
months from now. This is his ace
in the hole.
Both Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr..
Churchill may find they've missed
out on the inside royal straight
flush they were hoping TO I'LL But
he. Uncle Joe. is set 70 lay down
four aces. Or maybe 1--WE. For as
said, this is a poker game. And
ounces and dictators are wild.
No wonder Uncle Joe is playing
his cards close 10 his chest.