Evening star., 1945-04-08
Stain Plays Old Game
70 Upset Big 3 Deals
Observer Sees Roosevelt Dis.
appointed by Russian Leader
By OUen L. Scott.

By O1Uen L. Scott.
President Roosevelt now knows what
1t is like to have his leg pulled by an
expert. In the first terms Of his ad-
minstration, the President frequently
was reported by those who dealt with
him to appear to promise one thing
only to end up by doing the reverse.
Mr.. Roosevelt of late has been enjoy
ing much the same experience himself,
on the receiving end. On two occasions
he had made long and strenuous trips to
meet with Russia's Josef Stain. Each
time he came away with what he her
aided as momentouS agreements that
opened the way to stable world. Yet
hardly had the President returned to
Washington after Teheran and then
after Yalta before what he thought were
agreements turned out to be something
very different. What Roosevelt thought
Stain promised and what Stain
thought he promised were two very diff
ferent things
There is not great deal to indicate
how the President is enjoying his expe-
rience. The probability is, however,
that his reaction to leg pulling is not
far different from that of businessmen
and others who earlier went through
the mill at the White House.
President Roosevelt has had an idea
that the world, both during war and
after war, could be run by three or four
big shots. The big shots would hold the
power and crack the whip when neces-
sary to keep all of the little shots in
line, This was to be big power alli-
ance, sometimes very different and
something much more practical than the
old League of Nations. 1t would be
much more simple for these few big
shots to meet first one place and then
another place to decide the fate of little
nations and to make the rules for run
ming the world.
The first meeting of big shots oc-
CURED at Teheran more than a wear
ago. Just before that meeting, two of
the main Characteristic. Roosevelt and
Winston Churchill-met with Chang
ka1-shek at Cairo because Marshal
Stain did not want to meet with
Chang, who was fighting Japan. This
was bit strange since both the United
States and Britain were fighting Japan,
too, and he was talking with their lead
ers. At any rate the promises of mill
tarv aid made to Chang had to be can
celed by wire after the separate meeting
with Stain.
1t wasn't long after the Teheran
meeting before things began to 60 from
bad to worse in the Roosevelt -Stalin-
Churchill relations. Churchill got the
British tangled up in Greece ana Italy.
British and Russian interests were
crossing purposes in Yugoslavia. Rus
sla made separate deal with France.
Trouble threatened in Poland. Plans
for new world organiza ton, built
around a big power alliance, were in
trouble due to Russian insistence upon
immunity from any action adversely al
fectlng one OF the big-shot powers
This situation was so tangled that
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stain met
again, with Mr.. Roosevelt travelling all
the way to Russia itself to fix things I'D.
Once more the three rulers of the
three great powers made their deals.
some OF them secret, and laid down their
decisions on how the world should be
run. They gave Marshal Stain almost
everything he asked for Yet hardly had
Mr. Roosevelt returned to the United
States to tell how the three big-shot
powers were to run things before their
deals were in trouble.
Each big shot had promised that he
would run things in his neighborhood
only after conferTing with the two other
Dig shots. Russia got the slice of Poland
she wanted and almost everything else
asked for, except that she was to permit
Poland to have government with
broader base. Almost immediately Stain
imposed a new government on Pumania
without telling his colleagues about it
! first. He baked. through his puppet
government in Poland. at the names
submitted by the United States and
Britain for membership in that gov
ernment to broaden its base He insisted
upon representation of his Polish gov
ernment at the San Francisco meeting to
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built around big-power alliance.
Mr.. Roosevelt and his aides seem to
have been caught badly off base by
what is happening. They had thought
that 1t would be very simple for three
or four men, representing the big pow
erS, to get together and arrange things
for all the world. This was going to be
something quite different from the de-
batting society of the old League of Ma
! tlons The big shots would meet person.
| ally under the new arrangements and
make their deals and all would be well.
II would differ from the idea of real
collective security
1t seems. however, that Marshal Stain
is not impressed by Mr.. Roosevelts SIM
pie idea. In fact. there are many signs
that Stain believes in a policy of in
tense nationalism and of isolation for
Russia after this war He is insisting
upon building buffer states between
himself and his Western neighbors. He
is extremely wary of any agreement
that would limit Russia's freedom OF
action in her sphere in Eastern Europe
and maybe in the Middle East
Roosevelt and Churchill have sought
by many concessions to gain Russian
confidence and to win Stain to their
viewpoint. Evidence to date suggests
that all of their concessions have failed
to gain the Stain confidence, with Rus
sla heading toward policy of relative
isolation after the war, comparable TO