The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-23

ence city.
 Since the initial days Of the meeting are to be filled with minor matters of procedure, a breathing spell of a week or more would be afforded the foreign secretaries in which to grapple with the problem. The Polish issue has beeh squarely drawn. The Russians not only back the warsaw government for a seat at San Francisco. they have reinforced their positions by sign in9 A treaty of alliance and frIenc- shin with Warsaw. The Americans and British have been equally firm, rejecting a second Russian request for Warsaw representatives ana publicly affirming their unity on the reflection unless and until the Warsaw government is reconstructed along the lines agreed upon by the late President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marsha! Stalin at Yalta.
 The Polish issue hung over the ore re-conference activity like dark cloud. But there were other con- truversial issues shaping up.
 One was the problem of trustee ship of colonial areas, particularly regions seized from enemy powers.
 This involves the United States particularly in the Pacific where the U. s. Navy and other defense authorities have made plain their determination that strategic islands won from Japan must be incorpo- rated into the American defense system.
 It also involves Britain. partic- ularly in the Mediterranean where the British admiralty has made no secret of the necessity of controlling bases which. in the future will pro- tect the security of it's life line" to the Middle East and India.
 Russia Is concerned through the strategic necessities of her western frontier and-should she become in- volved in the Pacific war--in iler possible demands in the Far East The French are concerned over the fate of Dakar. west African base which President Roosevelt once described as the key to the ap- proaches of South America, and to lesser degree, over her north African possessions and French Ifldo-C China.
 ''Trusteeship," it was believed may in the near future present as many ti1orny issues as Poland over which the Big Three have un- successfully toiled for more than IS months.
 Revisions Likely
 There were growing indications that the Dumbarton Oaks blueprint of the World Security Organization might undergo fairly substantial revisions before final approach by the 46 nations now included in the conference.
 The modification proposals ol Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R. Mich, 1t was indicated, will be pre- Sented. at least in part, as suggest. ed amendments by the American delegation. Dr. Herbert Evatt, Aus. tINlian foreign minister, indicated 8 similar position. suggesting that Dumbarton Oaks should be consid. cred a transitional rather than z permanent blueprint. There Wa growing sentiment among many O tho arriving delegates that the Sc Ct1eity structure be flexible enougl to meet not only expected but un expected changes in the world sit uation.
 At least two fights were brewing around the structure of the British commonwealth of nations. Indi; independence advocates were organ izing strong challenge to the Indis delegates, based on their clain that the delegates were hand -pickec by the British Raj.
 Zionist and other Jewish clement were organizing to press their de mands for clear-cut definition o Palestine's status as a Jewish home land while Pan-Arab clements, as sured of substantial representation at the conference, were closin, ranks against any such move