Detroit evening times., 1945-04-12
BEHIND
News
By Paul
MaIlon

WASHINGTON, April IL
W The government directed
Russian press has added at
tacks upon Senator Vandenberg
observation-disclosures
their literary assaults upon the
Vatican and Pundit Lippman.
The battering of Hoover
started in the Daily Worker
and was picked up by Pravda
in Moscow few days later
without much alteration of the
language. Vandenberg got his
simultaneously on MoScews own
original initiative.
All these men did was 10 adj
vocate methods of implement
ing the administration position
in favor of recognition of the
rights of small nations, pledging
the new world order to JUS
tice," and Hoover, in addition,
pleaded for regional divisions of
world authority-which is eX-
actly what the British may de-
sire for Europe TO stop creeping
Russian power.
THE concentration of Russian
u press artillery upon certain
American or democratic au-
thefities has Jeff every one here
hit bewildered. What do the
Russians want?
T heSe objectives of Red
rhetorical shelling all favor
Yalta and its purposes, or at
any rate the initial Roosevelt
position of the Atlantic Charter,
four freedoms, IA points, etc.
What is Stain up to 2------------z--
The common inner explana-
~tion here is that Nose
primarily wants 10 scratch
RooseVelt's back at any and all
opportunities The men chosen
are r pu b lie an s, and while
Democrats. could have been
chosen who occupy the same
position. the Moscow govern
ment might have reased the
White House by setting upon
them.
That is not enough of an
answer. Stain also promised
at Yalta to let some of the Lon
don or other Poles not under
his control into the new Polish
government, but ignored his
promise as soon as he got home
and is elevating his men ex-
clusively in Poland as in Bull
garia and Romania where the
same circumstances prevail
LIE SUBSC CRIBED TO the
IL Roosevelt peace aims, then
sent an ambassador to the San
Francisco conference, and in
other ways betrayed a lack Of
interest in carrying them out.
What is this game all about?
Is Stain trying TO break up
the Roosevelt plan while pro-
Tossing to be for it?
An inside check of those best
able to know or guess (the top
authorities) furnishes a satis-
factory answer At Livadia
Stain is supposed TO have re-
peated again and again that it
does not matter what kind of
world order is set up, the big
nations are going to run it any
way. Repeatedly he displayed
taccording TO my information)
lack of interest in side
schemes TO protect the rights
of smaller nations, as if these
were fictitious.
A IL HIS subsequent acts tie
"A in with that unannounced
basic sentiment, his treatment
of the Balkans, of Central
Europe and of the San Fran
cisco conference which is the
first assemblage of the small
nations.
Then. he is genuinely not op-
posed 10 a world order or the
Yalta results. He is not trying
10 sabotage the peace effort.
his concept of the world order,
however. is that it should serve
the interests of the larger ma
tions. He is therefore not
interested in the four freedoms.
the Atlantic Charter and the
original Roosevelt principles es-
tablished for this war.
This. / think, is the funda-
mental cleavage between Rus
sian and American diplomacy.
We have, for instance, carefully
built up the theory of individu-
ality of nations in our Latin--
American policy, while playing
the role of big brother there.
We have been the good neigh
bor although the bigges
neighbor.
CTALIN does not work that
~ way, docs not believe that
way, will not follow that way,
regardless of San Francisco,
Roosevelt or any one or any
thing. His advocacy of a veto
right for the big five nationals
against the small Cor other big
nations) was in line with this.
His demand of 16 votes (tak-
ing three) in the assembly
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