Detroit evening times., 1945-02-24
Yalta Aftermath
By BENJAMIN De CASSERES

THE Yalta powwow has given rise to several
questions which have in them the seeds -
another war.
This becomes clearer and clearer the more we
anayze some of the extraordinary promises made
there.
One of these-and it is foremost-is the
absurd promise of "free elections in the liberated
countries of Europe.
How are Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt
going to force free elections on Russia, for in
stance for is not Russia also a country liberated
from Hitler?
Russia doesn't know in all her history what
'free election" means.
Joseph Stain, who ironically subscribed to
this fantastic promise in order not to block any
postwar lend-lease grabs from us, never was
present at free election in his life
A ND how could Messrs Churchill and Roosevelt
"A sign with straight faces a document that
guaranteed free elections, as the United States
and England understand the term, to Poland,
Bulgaria Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuana and
AuStria-countries that not only never really had
"free elections" but which will NOT be liberated
countries.
They are and will be CONQUERED countries
by man, Stain, who would not dare allow his
own people to indulge in the luxury OF freely
expressing themselves at the polls
This is the grimmest farce ever perpetrated
on the world in the history of all international
conferences. ~
Karl H. Won Wiegand, the famous Hear
correspondent, goes so far as to say in dispatch
from Madrid:
"The declaration with the signatures of Pres-
dent Roosevelt and Churchill the chiefs of the two
greatest demOcracieS in the world, by implication
is intended to establish that tOtalitarian cOmmu-
nistic Soviet Russia, country with only one per-
mited party without free press, free discussions,
free elections free trade unions and without rights
to own private property and where every man
must work for the government at such wages as
the government pleases to fix, or starve, is
democracy
THAT is the second vast joke perpetrated on the
word-that Messrs Roosevelt and Churchill
have over the wine and the walnuts at Yata, tried
to make us believe that Soviet Russia, the most
deliberately anti-democratic country in the world,
is democracy"
The very minute the U. s. A. and England try
to enforce "free elections" in Europe particularly
in those countries wherein the Communist party
is on the rise, may be the signal of war against
Russa-or will we "lie down and take it,"
For Stain does not believe in the people.
He believes only in the dictator-state and his
own dreams of world conquest.
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill of course know also that if there to
be free elections" and democratic" governments
in Europe there must also be free enterprise.
But Of course such revolutionary idea -
freedom of competitive trade and private proper$
ownership dared not be uttered in the presence
of the Red Hitler of the KremGn.
Trade in Russia and wherever Russia rules
will be, like the elections, purely state matters.
The slaves in Russias coming sphere Of in
fluence" will trade and vote under the direction Of
commssars, NKVD's and gestapos.
From the standpoint, then, of postwar
promises, the Yalta confab must be voted one of
the most uproariously trag-comc failures in his.
tory from the standpoint of democracy and one of
the greatest triumphs for the coming ruthless
master of Europe-Joseph Stain.