The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-11
Stain Revelations
BY ARTHUR KROCK

wAsHINGToN.-One month ago today, some
time after the Yalta conferees had risen, the
agreement reached there on the voting plan in
the proposed world security council was an
nounced, and statements began to be made
that the President and Prime Minister Church
ill had yielded to Marshal Stain on every
point, including the Polish boundary, and got
nothing in exchange but the continued advance
of the Red Armies in Germany, which would
have advanced anyhow.
More recently, when the White House con-
firmed the report that the President and Mr..
Churchill had agreed to support at San Fran
cisco the Russian request for three seats in the
proposed assembly of the security league, these
statements were repeated and intensified. This
particular view point was strengthened by the
impasse formed at Moscow over the promised
Reorganization of the Lublin Government, de-
spite the three power pledge at Yalta; and
by growing appearances that the Russians
would resist any changes in the Dumbarton
Oaks pattern, including some proposed by
Senator Vandenberg and former President
Hoover. Suspicious were voiced that the Pres
ident and the Prime Minister had given Mar
shall Stain reason to think they also would
stand against such changes. and that the Anglo
Americans had conceded everything and gain
ed virtually nothing at Yalta was more strong
ly reiterated.
In the March issue of this newspaper,
reporting the beginning of this line OF crftl-
clsm in the Senate this correspondent wrote:
Well informed persons here. predict con-
fusion to those who charge Chat the Anglo
Americans got nothing at Yalta, etc., The
prediction is not so explicitly supported, and it
is being made with an air of great mystery.
But it is stated confidently that in due course"
it will be revealed that Marshal Stain pledged
something in exchange. that the American
public will find more than satisfactory.
For reasons of state and for military rea-
sons, those well informed persons assert, it
is not possible at this time to say more. But
they are counseling the critics to be prudent
lest their faces turn very red later on.
Now, Sin due course it has been revealed
that Soviet Russia has decided not to continue
it's neutrality pact with Japan, which would
have remained in force for five more years If
it had not been denounced by April 25 also the
date for the convocation at San Francisco.
Since such decision was not the matter of
a day, a week or month, 1t was obviously
made some time ago. The conditions on which
the decision was based, stated in the Of
fetal Moscow announcement today, all exist
ed long before the Yalta meeting. Therefore,
it is logical reasoning that Marshal Stain had
made up his mind to take the step well prior
to that date, and all that remained for him
at dlLd was TO StTeI1Sulel Ills uduoud1 poS1-
ton against the consequences.
That is logical reasoning. But the ''well-in-
formed persons quoted above based their pre-
diction on more than that. It is now plain their
information that Marshal Stain had COM
municated his plan to the President and the
Prime Minister at Halta in the most definite
terms he has ever employed, even to the ap-
proximate date, and that this announcement
was the foundation of certain concessions
made to him by MIR. Roosevelt and Mr.. Church
ill. Former Secretary Hull came back from
Moscow in 1943 convinced that, by the required
date in the Russo Japanese neutrality treaty.
Marshal Stain would denounce it. But expec-
fancy became certainty for the first time at
Yalta.
The opinion OF these well informed per-
sons was and is that, in contrast to the mag
ntude of this news and its probable effects
on our cause in the Pacific, the compromises
made with Russia and the differences that re-
main become very minor matters, and that
the American people will regard them in
the light of todays announcement. That is
why they predicted that the critics would find
their faces red and the people of the United
States would find the exchange more than
satisfa ctory.'' In some degree this prophecy
must await events that will follow the explra-
ton of the treaty and the collapse of organized
German resistance. But it seems to have a
very good chance Of coming true.
Whatever the popular impression, however
and there is little disposition here as yet to
dispute that the immediate one Is as prophe-
sied-some close observers OF the postwar
security prospect were disposed today to
greet the news from Moscow with rejoicing
that was tempered with anxiety. Not doubling
that Marshal Stain confirmed his decision to
his two colleagues at Yalta, not doubling that
this explains some of the compromises these
observers privately expressed the fear that
'the price may be too great and that another
decision at Yata is still being concealed from
the peoples of the United Nations.
The price was 'guessed''-by one OF these
anxious persons-to be Anglo American
pledge to Russia of free postwar hand in
Korea and Manchuria. And if this guess, or
anything approximating it, is near to h
truth. then there is still a momentous undis-
closed chapter of the Yalta meeting. But even
this observer agreed that neither price nor
secrecy, if they be these, would be dlsapproved
by the American people-New York Times
so THEY SAY