Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
FACTS ABOUT THE
YALTA VOTING
FORMULA GIVEN

Observation-Disclosures damned
Reds got away with murder at Yaltal
The Communists want to veto any pos
sible action against Russia!
Those are typical reactions of the tory
Reds got away with murder at Yaltal
so-called Yalta voting formula up to
March G..
But suppose we all take a deep breath
and think a minute. What's all the
hollering about?
The peaceful and prosperous world for
which everybody on IL side is now fight
ing depends wholly upon the present
unity Of the United Nations being ear
ried over into the peace period. Every
body accepts that as a fact.
Yet a very great deal of careless talk
is being reported in the daily papers
and on the air. Some of it is based on
sheer ignorance and another large part
is firmly intrenched in a desire TO smear
the Soviet Union.
All of its boils down to a statement
that the Soviet Union has insisted upon
holding a veto power over any consider
alton Of using the force Of the world
security organization against Soviet ag-
erosion.
AS to that simplified expression of the
situation two points can be made here:
l.. That Yalta voting formula is not
set down as an exclusively Soviet veto
power. 1t also enables the u. S., Britain,
France or China, ais equal members of
the permanent security council, to veto
any combined action naming them indi-
vidually or collectively as aggressors sub
ject to being halted by the force of the
world organization.
2. Whenever the new world security
organization reaches the point at which
one Of the big five is spearheading ag-
gression, the hope of world peace has
already collapsed. World War II could
be under way amid the thunder Of
bombs before the vote could be tailed.
Neither of these two points have been
UNDERSIGNED in the scripps Howard,
Hearst or Patterson M Cormiek papers,
much less even mentioned there. The
whole problem has been given to the u.
S. public framed in an anti-Soviet set
ting. That's the only way our big dailies
and big radio chains wish to present it.
That is part of the so-called freedom Of
the press" which is essentially the free
dom to lie and misrepresent facts.
The will to keep the peace by negotia-
ton and tolerance through mutual, in
@ternational understanding is the key to
the problem.
Some Of the very statesmen who are
now yelling bloody murder about this
Yalta voting formula would be the first
to pound the war drums if a landing Of
u. S. Marines in n Of the banana re-
publics of Central America brought about
the naming OF the U. S. as an aggressor,
These citizens would have American
blood and money expended for the right
of the United Fruit Co. to rule the po-
litical destinies of some of smaller
neighbors to the south.
As viewed from this corner there is
simply no hope for world peace unless
all of the key powers Ghe ones that will
have to enforce it, can function in com
plete unity.
That, of course, is not a too highly
idealistic statement-but it is definitely
a realistic one. And it has been repeat
edly demonstrated both here at home
and in foreign affairs that intellectual
idealistic approaches fall short of the
mark simply because they don't consider
the fact that realism and not idealism is
in the saddle today.
Nobody has realized that realism rules
any more than President Roosevelt. He
has based his policies on the realistic
approach, at getting his program through
by dealing with the %actualities of a stu
alton rather than some cloudy dream.
Roosevelt wants to achieve the goal Of
so million jobs for Americans at home.
without world peace that goal cannot
be attained. That is why the Roosevelt
administration is now pounding away at
U. S. acceptance OF the Yalta decisions,
at Dumbarton oaks and the Breton
Woods agreements. They are all links
in the chain-the chain Of world re-
alism-that will lead to the future Sc
ourity of the world, to full production
and iobs for everybody And that is