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portunity to sit down at confer
ence table, could satisfactorily re-
solve this pressing and vital prob
lem"
There were indications, mean
while, that this Government might
take some action soon in an effort
to break the virtual deadlock in the
Moscow Polish Commission. It has
been in session since shortly after
the Yalta Big Three meeting, and
diplomatic impatience is becoming
increasingly evident.
Mr.. Stettinius said in a letter to
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
yesterday that Progress has not
been as rapid as we had hoped for,
but am still confident that a fair
solution will be reached"
Senator Taft had written the Sec
retary urging that the American
representative on the commission,
Ambassador w. Averell Hartman,
be instructed to refuse approval of
any provisional government which
is predominantly under the influ-
ence of the Russian government or
is not proportionally representative
of the Polish people"
II can assure you," Mr.. Stettinius
replied, THAT the American mem
ber of the commission now meeting
in Moscow is consistently and
steadfastly working for the re-es-
tablishment of a Polish government
that will be broadly representative
of the Polish people and the crea-
ton of conditions in Poland that
will permit the holding of free
and fair election"
Stettinius Confident.
In expressing confidence to his
Chicago audience that difficulties
in connection with the San Fran
cisco meeting will be resolved, Mr..
Stettinius said:
II ask you to remember first that
the United Nations have repeatedly
overcome other difficulties far more
serious - =; second, that the vital
national interests of the United
States and of each of our Allies are
bound up in maintaining and ce-
menting in the peace our wartime
partnership; third. that the extent
of our agreement is far wider and
more fundamental than the extent
of our differences.
The Secretary added that this
country will do all in its power to
call trade conference within the
next year to prepare the way for a
permanent organization to deal with
commercial problems ION a con-
tinuing basis"
Must Prevent Aggression.
The Secretary said that "our for
eign policy is based upon the hard
facts that if we are to prevent the
disaster of another war for the
United States we must find the
means to act effectively with other
nations to prevent aggression any,
where in the world"
Meanwhile, an article from the
Moscow publication, War and the
Working Class" reprinted in the
Soviet Embassys information Bull
letin here, described Soviet mutual
assistance pacts with Great Britain,
France and Czechosolvakia as SUP
Elementary guarantee" against
future German aggression.
1t argued that there was no in
consistency between such pacts and
the projected world security organi-
zation.
IF the Soviet Union, France,
Britain and Czechoslovakia assume
In advance a special obligation to
combat German aggression, ire
spective of the decisions of the inter-
national organization" the article
declared, this can only be regarded
as a special form of promotion of the
organizations aims. The par
ties to the bilateral treaties, as it
were, voluntarily obligate themselves
to strike the first blow at a new act
of German aggression"
AS to an argument that such bi-
lateral treaties would be superf1uous
with world security organization
functioning, the publication said the
countries involved have suffered too
much from the present war to
found their security on hopes and
dare not neglect any supplementary
guarantees"