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was first to arrive, followed by Stettinius, Eden and Soong.
 Soong's arrival occasioned con- ment among the spectators, for it is reported throughout conference circles that the Chinese have de- cided to stand with the U. s. dele gation on all important issues. Soong was one of those addressing the full-dress session of the Con- ference later today. The starting program speech making led through Molotov and Eden to all chief dele gates.
 The handling of the three-vote controversy is viewed with deep interest by conference delegates who are looking for a clue as to how long this historic meeting may last. There is evidence that, under big-power pressure to minimize controversy, issues which threaten ed to keep the delegates here for more than month are fast fading away
 Molotov failed to show up last night at cocktail party given by IStettinius to the delegation chiefs, according to reports among U. s. officials. Whether the Soviet dip- lomat's absence has any political c inn tC n Af
 ation.
 Molotov notified the delegation chiefs yesterday that the three vote proposal would be presented at today's meeting. The specific proposal is for the Ukrainian White Russian and Soviet republics all to get conference seats. thereby becoming charter members of the Assembly.
 Top developments today included a report that Molotov has received a reply from Stalin to Molotov's report on his talks with Stettinius and Eden on the Big Three deadlock over Poland. Stalin's reply apparently was not communicated to either Stettinius or Eden.
 The sponsoring powers have agreed on Conference Executive Committee of delegates of II ma tions. There is speculation that these Il may form the membership of the proposed organizations all powerful Security Council. The Il consists of the Councils five per
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TRUMAN GETS
 UNDiS(L05ED 5TAL|N NOTE
Issues Before San Fran eiseo Conference Be-
 Iieyed Concerned

WASHINGTON, April 26-Soviet Charge d'Affaires Nikolai Novikov called today at the State Depart ment with a diplomatic communi- cation on which Acting Secretary of State Joseph c. Grew conferred immediately with President Tru- man.
 Circumstances suggested tha t Stalin had sent a message to the President concerning Big Three is- sues up for action at San Fran cisco.
 When Novikov left the State De- partment, after two minutes in Crews office, he said merely, Tt is a pity I can say nothing"
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manent members the United States, Britain, Russia. China and France-plus six smaller nations. Iran, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.
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(Continued from Page One) between the executive and legisla- tive branches
 Once was when President Wilson couldn't get the Senate to back him on the Versailles treaty and the League of Nations. The other was when President Hoover was stumped by an opposition Congress in put ting over legislation to correct con- ditions growinng out of the depres- sion.
 This doesn't mean that all other Presidents have had clear sailing with the Congresses. About 40 per cent of our Congresses have been at odds with the elected executives but out-and-out rebellion has been rare. There always are vetoes and overriding of vetoes, but generally these are matters of political ex- pediency in which both branches feel their purposes well served and are willing to let it go at that.
 It is at those other times, rare though they may be, that Senator Fulbright feels Senate, House and President should step down and take their argument to the voters
 No Capitol Hill observers here think the Senator's proposals will get any serious consideration when it comes down to streamlining Con- gress, but the fact that it has been put forward at all is worth noting. Even more revolutionary measures eventually have found their way into the statutes. tTomorrow: More Congressiona1 Re-
 form Ideas)
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The Burma Road was tentatively surveyed more than 100 years ago, but was not opened until 1889.
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THREE VOTES FOR 50vIETS
 APPEAR SURE

tConttnued from Page One,
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other nation to veto persons or parties
within countries, except those upon
which all the Allies agreed-namely
Fascists or Nazis. The creation by such
means of political satellites is also a
form of ggrandizement-as We have
learned from one Adolf Hitler.
Aggrandizement can also be exercised
by structures preventing states from i'm
proving their status and welfare by free
and nonviolent political acts, such as
federation. To compel small states to
remain helpless and dependent through
European atomization is to aggrandize
power to unified great European states.
To SOW eternal seeds of dissord among
smaller European states by border
changes calculated to create eternal
enmities is to open all Europe to per-
petual Intervention by great powers
seeking to extend their dominion.
And in none of this could the United
States have hand, even If she wanted
to-which God knows, this great union
of states, does not.
Therefore, the interests of the United
States lie in the creation of free and
independent Europe, no part of which is
the sphere" of either the Soviet Union
or Great Britain, but all of which can
be integrated with the Soviet Union,
Great Britain, and ourselves, in world
organization for mutual peace, pros
perity. and security.
The United States can stand for this
in good conscience, not only toward the
European peoples, but toward Britain
and the Soviet Union, too. A free and
independent Europe, able to reform its
institutions without pressure from any
of the great Allies, will be infinitely
safer for all of us.
\ y
Therefore, Mr.. President be strong.
We shall stand by you, with renewed
loyalty, every time you fight for prin-
ciples. Let us but know you intend to
carry the banner for European freedom,
for common sense, for the long view
with malice toward none, and We will
give you the National Service Act. and
we will give you universal military
training, in the high confidence that
American power will be used on behalf
of the peoples, and through their rebirth
for better, saner, safer world.
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
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Production and Employment
By David Laurence
From the GLASGOW Herald.


All the political parties in Britain are
agreed about the necessity for main
tanning full employment after the war.
Their differences arise over the means
by which this end should be achieved.
recent debate at the Trade Union
Congress on postwar reconstruction was
dominated by the theme of public own
ership as prerequisite for full employ
ment and maximum production, and
during the debate the delegates declared
themselves in favor of 40-hour week
In industry and two weeks holiday with
pay. 1t may be that at the necessary
level OF production industry generally
can afford the cost of fewer working
hours and longer holidays. But there is
no evidence that the TUG is prepared
to assume its substantial share of the
responsibilities that a policy of maxi
mum production postulates. There is
not yet sufficient experience of state
control in Britain for all the virtues and
all the defects of the policy to be fully
understood. Those who have given OBJ
jective consideration to the questions of
public and private ownership are for the
most part empiricists, agreed that there
is sphere for both and that only trial
and error can determine where the line
between the two should be drawn.
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On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

I have said that the Presidents dec
laration of Europe for European people
was not only idealism, but keen political
realism, motivated both by Democratic
principles and by American self-interest.
The first principle of the Atlantic,
Charter states: Their countries (the
Allies seek no aggrandizement, terri
torial or other" the second says-"They
desire no territorial changes that do not
accord with the expressed wishes of the
people concerned" and the third-"They
respect the right Of all peoples to choose
the form of government under which
they Will live :. and wish to see SOW
ereign rights restored to those forcibly
deprived of them"
The United States is not European
power. We are not like the Soviet
Union, vast state and army, perma-
nently on the European mainland. We
are not, like Great Britain, an island
separated from Europe by mere canal,
nor do We hold African colonies in i'm
portant positions on the Mediterranean
We cannot, therefore, compete with
Britain or Russia for an extension of
power Or influence in Europe. Any
territorial aggrandizements, directly or
indirectly, on the part of either of the
large European Allies upon Europe will
modify their power in relation to each
other, ana to ourselves.
If victory means a distribution of
spoils. the United States will be the
loser. The eventual result would be not
an isolationist America, but an isolated
America, or an America compelled, out
of sheer necessity, to choose sides again
in another war
The United States is, therefore, COM
PEELED to stick to principles preventing
aggrandizement, out of simple self
interest.
1t takes all the first three points of
the Atlantic Charter as defense against
varieties OF. aggrandizement.
Territorial changes through frontier
adjustments unilaterally made by one
power, are form of aggrandizement.
The imposition of servile governments
upon peoples is an infringement of
sovereignty which is de facto, If not de
jure, aggrandizement.
The sovereign right Of people to choose
the form of government under which
they live, precludes the right of any
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The Russian attacks toward East
Prussia are regarded as demonstrations
with large forces. The Russian general
staff reached the conclusion some time
ago that breakthrough In East Prus-
sia could be so costly that such an op-
Grafton. must not be attempted. The
Red armies probed these Notifications
last fall when several incursions with
strong units were made. They failed
and the Russians feel that their armies
might meet with serious reverses if they
followed the strategy adopted in 1914
by the Czarist armies, which managed
to penetrate as far as the Masurian
Lakes, and then suffered a spectacular
defeat.
The effect of the Reds offensive will
not be felt Immediately on the western
front. Had it come last November
when Gen. Eisenhower was still in
position to strike extensively at the
enemy with great power, the chances
are that the war would now be in its
last lap. Nevertheless, the Allied high
command is thankful that the Russians
have started their drive even as late as
now. Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters
had become seriously concerned lest the
Germans pulled some of their strategic
reserves from the east to bolster Won
Rundstedt's forces in the west before
we have had time to reorganize.
The Germans. who have developed
remarkable technique in the transfer
OF their troops within the Reich, could
have delivered even more unpleasant
blows than in the Ardennes. But if the
Russians have really started their win
ter offensive-and whether they have or
not will be apparent within the next
few days-the chances of Won Rund-
stedt receiving reinforcements and war
material from the hitherto dormant"
eastern front will be eliminated.
For reasons which will become known
only in the distant future, the Russians
delayed their offensive too long to end
the war in Europe at time agreed on
at Teheran. Much emphasis was placed
at Teheran on the synchronization of
the moves of the armies in the east and
the west.
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This Changing World
By Constantine Brown

The American and British general
staff welcome the new Russian winter
offensive, despite the fact that it is two
months late.
According to information received
here so far, the principal Russian attack
across the Vistula River, about 100 miles
south OF Warsaw, Is expected to be the
most fruitful Of all. The other opera
tons OF the Red armies, particularly in
East Prussia, are considered diversion
ary and intended to hem in as many
German strategic reserves as possible
The Russians are concentrating their
main effort on the area west of Bara-
now, because 1t is the strongest bridge
head they were able to establish last
summer and the Germans cannot flank
it with counte{offensive. Military OBJ
servers in Washington believe that if
the offensive is being undertaken with
the same Russian energy and power
demonstrated in the last two years, the
German forces will be compelled to
withdraw to the borders of the Reich.
For the time being it Is difficult to de-
termine how strong the Russian attack
has been, and whether 1t is intended to
divert strong German force advancing
toward Budapest in the hope of saving
the Hungarian capital or whether it is
the much hoped for general winter Of
fensive. In any event. it is highly well
come in all Allied military quarters
since the Germans will be compelled to
slow down their operations on the west
ern front where Marshal Won Runstedt
may strike in new sectors with the re-
serves he still has on hand.
X X
The Germans are not likely to COM
NIT themselves heavily against the Rus
slams in Poland. If the Red attacks
launched last week are the beginning
of great offensive the Nazis are ex-
pected to fight strong rearguard actions
in Poland while the bulk of their. forces
will be withdrawn behind strong forti-
flcations in Silesia. 1t was from this
line that the Germans stars I'd their
drive against Poland in 1899 and it is
known that its defenses have been fur
ther strengthened in the last two years.
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Mr.. ConnuIIy's PIon

The most interesting aspect of
Senator Connally's proposal for an
interim United Nations Council con-
Germs its possible presentation as an
administration counter-move to Sen
ator Vandenberg's suggestion for an
immediate agreement among the
principal Allies to insure the perma-
nent disarmament of the Axis
powers.
AS chairman of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, Senator Connally
Is presumed to be the Presidents
spokesman in the Senate. His i'm
mediate reaction to the Vandenberg
proposal was notable principally for
its restraint. And then, after con-
ferring with the President last week,
Senator Connally appealed to his
colleagues to refrain from foreign
policy discussion until after the
Presidents meeting with Mr..
Churchill and Marshal Stain.
In discussing his proposal, Senator
Connally did not say why he had
ignored the request he had made of
his fellow Senators, but that might
easily be explained by the fact that
no one was paying much attention
to 1t anyhow. In any event, the
important question is not whether
the foreign relations chairman has
abandoned his own appeal for a
moratorium on debate, but whether
he has done so at the suggestion of
the President.
If the latter be the case it could
easily mean that the Vandenberg
proposal, although widely acclaimed
in this country, has not been IA
vorably received by the administra-
tion. And, assuming this to be cor
rect, the only reasonable inference
is that the administration wants
nothing done at this time, for it
seems quite evident that little, if
anything, could be accomplished
through the interim council sug-
gested by Senator Connally.
Even if such an agency were estab-
lished, it would have no authority
to enforce any decision. 1t might
advise and consult, but it is very
difficult to believe that it could exer-
else any constructive influence in a
situation such as that prevailing in
Poland, for example. The Russians,
on their own statement, are seeking
security against revival of German
militarism. If that is what they
want, if the fear of another German
aggression is the real explanation of
the disturbing political develop
ments in Europe, the plan put for
ward by Senator Vandenberg has a
great deal to commend it. BY the
same token, the Connally proposal
has all the earmarks of what mill
tary men would call a delaying
action.
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Prospects for Allied Unity
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

The prospects for continued Allied
political and military unity seem brighter
than they did a few weeks ago. This is
very largely due to the sudden realiza-
tion of the dangers to that unity in
herent in the existing lack of proper
means for continuous consultation, and
in the idea that all political decisions
can safely be put off until the end of
the war.
We have had a rude shock to our
complacency. We have been rather
sharply reminded that the signing of
documents or the acceptance of general
principles does not guarantee the future
unless the all-important details are sub
sequently and continuously attended to.
We are now in the period of reaction
from the rash of Indignant protests
which arose on both sides of the Atlantic
as a result of events brought about by
sheer lack of united policy and united
political machinery. There seems a
fair prospect that something construc-
tive will be done about 1t.
Perhaps the most hopeful sign, the
most considerable definite contribution
toward this essential end, was made by
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of
Michigan, in his appeal for treaty by
which the United States would assume
clearly and permanently its share of
responsibility for the maintenance of
German and Japanese disarmament.
This war is being fought to prevent Ger
man and japanese domination of the
world; it will be fought in vain if its
results are but a temporary check to
the ambitions of those nations.
Security against German and Japa-
nese resurgence is uppermost in the
minds of the neighbors Of those coun-
tries; and it is not to be wondered at
if they take such measures as may
seem necessary to them for their secur-
ity against such resurgence, In the alb
sence OF any definite assurance that
the United States will be prepared for
timely, effective action at the first sign
of danger, rather than after the danger
has become again a terrible reality.
r.
It is to this perfectly natural anxiety
that Senator Vandenberg addresses his
suggestion for treaty between the
United States and it's principal allies in
this war treaty which, on ratification,
would stand as the pledge of the Amer
lean people that they will be ready at
all times to do their full share in guar
anteeing the security of their neighbors
in the world community, and their own,
against any attempt At comeback by
Germany or Japan
Given such assurance, the world can
breathe more easily. There need there
after be less haste to take unilateral
decisions; greater willingness to con-
suit and to consider differing views
points. The construction of the edifice
OF international security foreshadowed
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in the Dumbarton Oaks proposals can
thereafter proceed calmly and carefully,
rather than under the pressures of fear
born of uncertainty as to the future.
Nor will the foundations of that
structure be continually undermined by
acts, arising from fear and uncertainty,
which are divergent from the principles
which the major powers have all ac-
cepted, principles which must in the
end govern the common policy of any
community of nations if that commu-
nifty is to endure
The chorus of praise from thoughtful
men in every section of the country
which has greeted Senator Vanden-
berg's speech is sufficient indication
of the mood of the American people;
it is therefore to be hoped that the
Senator's admirable and timely sug-
gestion may be translated into accom-
plished fact without delay Proposals
from this Government for the conclu-
sion of such treaty need not take very
long to formulate.
1t Is fortunate that the suggestion
came at moment when Messrs. Roose-
welt, Churchill and Stain are about to
meet. This meeting may well be the
occasion for hammering the details of
the proposed treaty into shape as well
as for discussions of other questions
affecting future Allied unity of action,
and the preparations for the great
United Nations meeting to consider the
Dumbarton Oaks proposals.
*H
Thus the immediate future seems to
hold considerable promise of improve
ment, perhaps permanent improvement,
in the vitally important matter of con-
tinued Allied unity of purpose and ef-
fort, both to win this war and to reap
and conserve the fruits of victory.
This improvement may well include:
/. The big Three" meeting to deter
mine the course of general policy on
the part Of the great powers.
g. The conclusion of q treaty or
treaties between the United States and
the other major allies giving mutual
guarantees against possible German or
Japanese military resurgence.
3. The adoption Of Mr.. Eden's sug-
gestion for quarterly meetings of the
foreign ministers of the major allies to
carry out details and maintain continu-
Gus consultation-which would, in eff
feet, provide us with political COM
bined chiefs of staff.
Thereafter the United Nations meet
ing to prepare on the Dumbarton Oaks
framework the charter for the future
world organization could meet under
the happiest Of auspices, with the evil
miasma Of the past few weeks swept
away by the clean fresh breeze Of re-
stored confidence and In the warm sun
light Of rising hope for q safer and
better world.
tcopyrisht 1e45.)
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Brothers Good-by

Before he left, I managed to come home
To say good-by, not thinking iohen or
hotu
The toord to say. We neper were alone
There seemed full time for each good
i0iSh and poio
To be exchanged bet,Deen US then, until
As loDers find their night Is gone,
diSmdyed
We reached our end OF time, avoiding
still
The scene, no tare,peA said, no promise
made.
We suffered then for lack OF words, the
tide
OF thoughts unsaid, till suddenly ,ue
took
A ball and t,oo old gloues and ment
outside,
To throto in silence, trying hard to
look
As II this last good-by Dere not the last,
Nor any future eDer mdYred the pdst,
SERGT. HAROLD APPLEBAUM.