The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-03

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 This was what Harry Hopkins was limiting aL when, in his Rome interview, he said the American people wanted an idealistic Dca'e and the triumph of democracies in the liberated countries.
 What Roosevelt has in stOrc for Churchill Is first, demand that the British quit meddling in politics of liberated countries Greece, Italy, and Belgium; second, he will demand that an Allied commission be established in each liberated country {" guide the new liberated govern ments, and that this Allied Com mission report to $ conference of B.: Four Foreign Ministers approximately every three months.
 The Big Four Foreign Ministers would establish permanent head quarters in Europe, probably in Paris. And the Foreign Minis ter of France would be added to the Big Three Russia, Britain and the U. s. Al, thus making up the Big Four.
 This was what Harry Hopkins meant when he said in Rome that the political structure of Europe could not wait until the war was over.
 F. ID. K. WATCHED
 WOODROW WILSON
 Inside fact Is that the President has gone thruogh an important change of policy regarding Eu- ropes political problems during the past two years. At Casa blanca in January, 1943, he gave Churchill pledge that the Bri- tish could have military direction of all operations in the Mediter- ranean, following which Churchill went to Turkey and informed the Turks that the British had been given the Mediterranean as their sphere of operation and that the Turks would have to do business with London.
 Churchills implication was that the Turks would have to do blIsi- ness with the British politically and economically, as well as on military matters. They went far beyond what Roosevelt thought he promised at CaSablanca, and privately he hit the ceiling. How ever, the President apparently did nothing at the time to cor rect Churchill, Tor the latter con- tinued to have his way in the Mediterranean.
 All U. s. messages to the Bal kans had to clear through British codes, while U. s. officers going to the Balkans had to travel in British ships or planes. If they didn't like certain U. s. officers who opposed the Greek king. these officers didn't get to Greece.
 At Teheran also, the Presi- dent seemed more interested In
 the Pacific than in Mediter- ranean problems. He let Chur-
 chill and StaIin dicker over
 their respective spheres of in- fluence in the Balkans; Russia
 taking Rumania, Bulgaria and Eastern JugOsIavia aS It's sphere; Britain getting the right to in- fluence Greece and the Adriatic
 coast of JugOsIavia.
 The Presidents thinking up to that time seemed to follow the line that his old chief, Woodrow Wilson, got into trouble by try ing to iron out the detailed prob- lens. So he evinccd more inter est in the islands of the Pacific, the possibility of an American naval base in French Indo-China and close cooperation between Australia, New Zealand and the U. s. A.
 White House advisers say that
 It was the shooting of Greek civilians by British tanks, plus
 Churchills rebuff tO Count SfOrxa In Rome, plus the sur rounding of the Belgian Parlia- Inent with British tanks, which caused the President to reverse
 hls policy. During the Greek