The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-08

 United States.
 In other words, Eden has com pletely reversed the previous role of President Roosevelt, who up until his death had acted ac the mediator between Churchill and Stalin.
 The Churchill-Stalin rivalry was not merely personal. It was historic It was based not only on the fact that Churchill just aftc: the last war, urged the sending of Allied troops into Russia to help the White Russian generals overthrow the embryo BolsiieviE regime, but that he flirted with the Cliveden Set which T. 1859 advocated war between Russia aNd Germany while England sat on the side lines.
 This was the basis for the personal suspicion between him and Stalin. But historically, Churchill was carrying out a cenutry- old British policy of iso- lating Russia. For 100 years, the country with the greatest land mass in the world. Russia, had been kept without warm water seaport by Britain, the country with the greatest navy Tn the world.
 That rivalry was the re ,son t,l O o whereby the British, working through Japan, helped to stop Russia from getting Manchuria and warm-Water port on the Pacific.
 That rivalry was behind Bti- tdin's sphere of influence in Per sia (noW Tram to prevent Rus sian use of the Gulf of Persia. That rivalry was also the cause of the Crimean War in which the British fleet and British troop, actually landed on the sane spot where Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt later held their Y9.ta Conference and Waged bloody battle to percent the Czar from coming down to the DardeCcl-aS and getting an outlet thro lsh the Mediterranean
 Finally this 1OO-year old Russo-British rivalry was be- hind Britain's taking LatvIa, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland away from Russia after the last war 10 block her Oa,iet to the Baltic Sea.
 ROOSEVELT SAT IN MIDDLE
 That rivalry continued durins the Teheran- -Yalta Conferences, with Stalin and Churchill both trading against each other and Franklin Roosevelt sitting in the middle.
 At Tehecan the argument was over second front through the Balkans which Churchill rav. ored, or through France, which stain favored. Churchill Wanteo the Allied Armies to get into the Balkans-Russia. $ sphere of iu- fluencc and thereby keep tEc Russians out t1e didn't want AL lied Armies :uining factories ana alientating the population of westren Europe-which was to be Britains sphere of influence.
 In the enc Roosevelt tipped the scales in favor of Stalin- toward second front through France.
 Once at Teheran. Churchill trying to poke little fun at Stalin, said: Marshal, have noticed that whenever anyone comes into contact with you they become slightly pink" To which Stalin replied: And MT. Prime Minister, any good doctor will tell you that pink is the h'althi- est of all cOlors." . And Roosevelt, wanting to pour oil on the troubled waters, said Gentlemen, let me remind you that there is nothing more beau tiful than all the colOrs of the rainbow"
 But at the end, as Churchill bade farewell to Stalin, there was still tension between chem.
 Well, goodbye. Marshal" said the Prime Minister. "I'll see you in Berlin"
 "Yes," shot back Stalin, q in tank and you in q Pullman ear.
 STETTINIUS LOSES OUT
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