The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-02-22
. COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

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This column cannot join in what
seems to be the largely unthinking
chorus of approval of the decisions of
the Yalta conference of the "Big
Three" 1t believes that bad, if not
terrible, mistakes were made at Yalta
and presents here some opinions ex-
pressed by Socialist party spokesmen
as worthy of study and consideration.
The Socialists are not the only ones
who are criticizing the Yalta pro-
gram. Some commentators who are
nowise sympathetic to the Socialists
are expressing similar or somewhat
similar views. 1t is probable their
point of view will gain strength as
the nation and world has chance for
further consideration of what was
proposed by Messrs. Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stain.
Yalta will "tend to make more
speedy and certain the arrival of the
next war;" is the alarming Indictment
of the Socialist party, expressed in
statement by Prof. Maynard C.
Krueger of the University of Chicago
and Harry Fleischman of New York,
the party's national secretary.
"The most decisive failure of the
Yalta conference was its refusal to
take even the first step toward end
ing the war" the Socialist spokesmen
said. "It offers no hope that demo-
cratic German revolt against Nazism
would be met with sympathy on the
part of the Allies. Instead the Big
Three repeat the bankrupt slogan Of
unconditional surrender, which has
already heightened the war;
"Only men with a touching faith in
the ignorance of the public" added
Kruger and Fleischman, "could at
the same time agree to one-sided
Russian annexation of third of Po-
land and reaffirm their belief in the
Atlantic Charter which condemns
territorial changes that do not ac-
cord with the freely expressed wishes
of the peoples concerned"
Tile Socialists insisted that the
Yalta decisions were "a program for
World War ILL.," and warned that |
while Sustained protest from liberty
loving people everywhere" would be
needed to change it, the alternative
would be "misery and war for years
to come"
On the matter of the fifth partition
Of Poland and the terms for German
surrender, Kruger and Fleischman
said:
"The Crimea conferees have an
nounced that the Lublin Provisional
Government is to be 'reorganized' by
adding to it 'other Polish democratic
leaders, What degree of independ-
ence the resulting government will
nave can be seen from the fact that
It will be formed in Moscow and OPP
crate under the supervision of the
Red Army and the GPU. Nor does it
seem likely that the free and unfet-
,ered elections which it will hold
lnder these circumstances will mean
any more than the free and unfet-
,ered elections held in the Soviet
Union itself.
"The Powers also pledge them
selves to consult the other United
Nations and provisional authorities Of
,ther governments in Europe when
matters of direct interest to them are
lnder consideration Was it because
heir boundaries and future govern
nent were not of direct interest to
hem that the Poles were not con-
suited at Teheran and Yalta?
"The conferees announce that the
surrender terms will
lot be made known until the final de-
eat of Germany. Perhaps the clue to
his strange silence can be found in
he fact that, while stating that they
ave agreed on the enforcement of {
he terms to be imposed, they no
where claim to have agreed on the
erms themselves" &