The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-08

continue as middle man even at Yalta, despite the fact that he was slipping physically.
 He kept both Russia and Great Britain in the position of playing up to the United States.
 The loss of that strateglc bar
 gaining power is the most inn
 portant development of this con-
 ference. Stettinius has lost
 what Roosevelt had and An
 thony Eden has cleverly stepped
 into his place.
 The United States has now
 slipped into the position of be-
 ing the chief rival and poten-
 tial opponent of Russia, while
 Eden has maneuvered so that
 England sits in tine middle, able
 to throw its weight to one side
 or the other.
 It is not healthy for any nation to get out on a limb as the chief opponent of another And real statesmanship in the State De- partment should have steered away from these rocks during the advance Conference con- versations. The error can be patched up. Public opinion in the United States is too sane to let the unfortunate U. s. A. vs. U. s. s. R. clash poison our relations The goals of peace are too important. But mistakes like this are expensive and we can't afford to make any more. CONFERENCE CROSS
 CURRENTS
 Greek Foreign Minister So- phianopoulos at first was consid- cred a British puppet but sur prised everyone by voting against the British on Argentina He sides with Russia against Argen- tina's admission into the San Francisco Conference He also helped to pass the Greek 8-lOur child labor laws, later was con- demneG to life Imprisonment by the MetaXas dictatorship under King George Real expert on peace machinery is Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco Van Kletfens who once served on the League Of Ma tions secretar!at .. A lot of San Francisco delegates once were newspsperlnen, including Turkish Congressman Falih Rifki Atay who edits "Ulus'' and is president of the Turkish Press Association. Another. Huseyin Chahit Yalcin. is editor of the newspaper "Yeni Saban."
 AUSTRALIAN ROW
 The two Australian delegates, though both members of the same labor government. have been rowing with each other. Deputy Prime Minister Francis Michael Forde, Minister for the Army, has beer established as head ot the Australian delegation, but for a time there was quite little debate as to whether he or Her bert V. Evatt Australian Minis ter for External Affairs, should make the opening speech on be- half of Australia before the Con- ference. In the end he lost Forde was an electrical engineer and a teacher before finally en- tering Parliament External Minister Eva,t is also attorney general and the youngest high court judge Australia has ever had He was appointed the chief justice at the age of 36. CANADIANS WATCH
 CLOSELY
 The British dominions really take this Conference seriously. Their delegates are carefully se- lected to represent every walk of political life-especially Canada. The Canadian delegation also in- cludes one woman: Mrs. Cora CaSselman from Alberta, the only liberal woman member of Parlia- ment Other delegates are w. L. Mackenzie Kings growing poli- tical rival, M. John Coldwell of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, who may give the Prime Minister a real run for his money in the June elections. Nevertheless. Mackenzie King put him on the Canadian delegation. . Also Gordon Graydon of the Progressive Conservative Party, another Mackenzie King oppon- ent,, and Senator Lucien Moraud. a conservative big businessman