The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-16

duct of the Georgian mountains whose offspring are as tough as the granite hill which tower above them and who learn to shoot shortly after they are weaned.
 It will be President Truman's greatest test.
 In addition to sitting down be- tween men of opposite ten1pera- ments and background who don't particularly like each other, Tru- man will find himself embroiled in the clash of two great empires which have been rivals ever since cZarS were czars.
 One of the men-the revolution ary-represents a country with the worlds greatest land mass which has been straining at the leash to get warm-water sea- port for, well over hundred years. His predecessors, the Czars, built thet Siberian railroad to Vladiovostok in order to reach out to the Pacific. They seized Manchuria to get ports which were not ice-bound in the winter, only to find Japan blocking their way in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904.
 They started down through
 Iran to the Gulf of Persia and
 the Indian ocean, but British
 sphere of influence was in their
 patch. They reached the Dar-
 danelles in the middle of the
 last century, but the British and
 French sent armies to fight it
 out in the bloody Crimean war. CHURCHILL'S ANTI
 RUSSIAN PAST
 The other man-the aristicrat-- helped send Allied troops into Archangel and Siberia after the last war to encourae the White Russian generals to overthrow Stalin's new Boleshevik regime. His friends in the British Cabinet also carved out Latya, Lithuania, and Estonia from the old Russian empire to keep the new Red gov- ernment from the Baltic Sea.
 The British aristocrat's friends and predecessors also helped write the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, aimed at boxing Russia from the Pacific. They followed a policy of making the Mediterranean a British lake, of controlling both it's ends together with strategic bases in the middle. STALIN'S DEMANDS
 But now the man who sits down on the other side of Truman wants Russia to have voice in the control of Tangier, the Afri- can port just opposite Britain's famous base of Gibraltar. Who ever controls Tangier can partly neutralize Gibraltar.
 This man on the other side of Truman also wants Russia to have a representative sitting on the board which controls Suez, jugular vein of the British empire. And finally he wants Russian domin- ance of the Dardanelles, the narrow passageway by which Rus sian shipping reaches the Mediter- ranean from the Black Sea.
 These are revolutionary demands. They cut squarely across policy xhich has been must" for the British empire for centuries. But Stalin is a revolutionary. He is promoting exactly the same im- perialistic policies of his predeces- sors, the Czars, but he is smart enough to use political preach ments which rightly or wrongly have appeal for thousands of people in the countries around the Mediterranean.
 TRUMAN IN MIDDLE
 Truman, the man who sits in the middle, is no revolutionary. Neither is he an ,aristocratic sand batter. He is a common-sense, middle of -the-road man, who be- Iieves in changes when the major ity of the people favor change. He doesn't speak with the same broad "a" of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. and aside