Evening star., 1945-10-28

overall strategy which was summed up
in the words, 1--WE must defeat the en-
emy." No one saw clearly at that time
whether our effort would be directed
first to Europe or to the Pacific. Even
tually, when the American manpower
and industrial resources were fully
modified, we saw our way clear and
crushed our enemies.
The winning of the war now appears
to have been much easier than winning
the peace.
The overall diplomatic strategy Of
make every conceivable effort and shirk
no sacrifice in order to prevent the CO.
lapse of the United Nations Organiza-
ton. There are policy trainers in Wash
ington who become red with anger when
they hear generals and admirals speak
of our security" and insist that it must
not be jeopardiZed They answer that
Americas security depends entirely on
the success of the UNO and any at
tempt on our part to think in selfish"
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ternational cooperation.
UNO Called Only Key.
The administration, and particularly
the State Department, has embarked on
heretofore unheard-of high-pressure
propaganda to emphasize to the people
that the UNO is the only key to the SAL
vation of the world and that the very
existence of this country might become
endangered if We failed to make this
new League of Nations into an active
living organization.
Like the now-dismantled Geneva
structure, and like the Kellogg BRAND
pact outlawing war the UNO has all the
elements of procuring lasting peace If
all the members of the organization are
at least rs per cent sincere in their en-
deavor and if they don't place selfish
national interests above "global" in
tereSts.
There is no question that the Govern
ment and people of the United States
are eager to live up to all provisions of
the Charter drafted at San Francisco
But that is not enough to make the
United Nations Organization a real in
strument of peace. The other major
powers must have the same keen inter-
est that it shall not fail.
The success of this peace organiza.
ton, like that of others which have
been offered to the people OF the worlt
after bloody wars, depends, however
not on fine words and the expression O.
lofty sentiments, but on cold facts ant
actions. And it is these actions which
lead so many to fear that the UNO il
just another charter of wishful thinking
like the one drafted by President Roose.
velt and Prime Minister Churchill
aboard the British battleship Prince O
Wales in August, 1941.
Concerned Over Russia.
The few realistic thinkers in the ad
ministration now admit that the Sovie
governments actions are such that W,
must look with good deal of concern
to the future of the San Francisco char
ter. The fundamental principle in an,
international organization is the full ant
earnest cooperation among the mem
berS which are forming it.
Because of the valiant fight of the Re,
armies, it was considered tantamount t,
defeatism during the war to criticiz
Moscow's land-grabbing aims and it
determination to subjugate nations ia
beyond Russias borders.
Under this cloak of silence, the yer
able Russian leaders were able to obtail
wide political concessions from Presi
dent Roosevelt and Prime Ministe
Churchill. The Krenlin had very per
suasive method Of winning diplomati
victories over America and Britain
intimated that Russia was tired fightin
the war of the Allies and could get ex
cellent terms from Germany.
These facts were seldom revealed be
cause they smacked of Herr Goebbel
propaganda" At Teheran the Russia
fight to chop up Poland and extend he
borders through friendly government
to the Elbe River was granted in ex
change for the formal promise of Pre-
mier Stain that he would continue a
unrelentless war against the Nazis.
At Yalta the concessions to the Soviet
extended further. 1t was agreed that tn
Russian zone of influence would exten
to the Balkans and Central Europe, an
the line of demarcation of the advanc
OF the Western Allies into Germany wa
decided in accordance with the Russia
desire to expand to the Elbe River.
Charter Principals Abandoned.
All the principals for a better worl
contained in the Atlantic Charter wer
thrown overheard.
Despite the drastic censorship whic
exists today in all areas occupied by tn
Russian armies, stories are freuuent]
received which give an unbelievable pit
ture of reigns of terror in those 'lit
Grated countries" In Poland there
now civil war, brought about by til
tyranny OF the Red armies of occups
ton and its subservient governmer
which was created in Moscow and i'm
| posed by the Kremlin not only on til
Polish people but also on the America
and British governments.
The reports from our diplomatic rer
resentatives in Warsaw, who have on
a limited vision" because of travel dill
ficulties. paint gruesome picture /
the suffering Of the Polish people at tt
hands Of their liberators. There are il
discriminate killings, unwarranted al
rests followed by deportations to Siberi
and other portions of the U. S. s. r. Q
the Chinese Russian border; concentrs
tion camps have been revived and tf
number of individuals placed benin
charged barbed wire is even larger tina