Detroit evening times., 1945-05-24


MIR. STETTINIUS no doubt meant we'll when he urged
4V1 the preparation of international bill of rights
But one wonders how much practical benefit such a
bill of rights unsupported by enforcement machinery
would could bring to the hundreds of thousands of
Poles who have been depored to Russia to the other
hundreds of thousands who and weHen without
country scattered the world and deprived of the
opportunity to return to their own country long the
present foreign-sponsored tyranny prevails.
About the same time when the benevolent proposal
for international bill OF rights launched reliable
Polish released the details of the torurng Of Col
Leopold Okuick of the 16 arrested Poles, when he
the hands of the NKVD (Soyiet political poice)
during the first period of Soviet occupation of eastern
Poland
In vain efforts to make him sign false confession
his jaw broken and his teeth knocked out.
One wonders whether the same methods are being
used TO extract confessions from Okulck and his
panionst now-men who revealed their whereabouts to
the Soviet authorities athe suggestion of the British
government
AN INTERNATIONAL BILL OF RIGHTS WILL BE A
MoCKERY, NOT A GUARANTY OF JUSTICE
ONE of the offensive minor incidents of the San
~ Francisco conference Mootov's professed
preston of sympathy with the heroism of the Polish
people and their sacrifices against the common foe
Crocodile tears from Hitler would have been equally
appropriate For MootoY has been and IS one of the main
architects of the misery of the Polish people. tj
It was Mootov who publicly declared in the Soviet
Parliament, Oct 81 1899 when the Staln-Hter pact
of mutual aggression against Poland was in full force
One swift blow to Poland, first by the German
army and then b., the Red army, and nothing left
of this ugly offspring of the Versailles Treaty
SOVIET ATTITUDE TOWARD POLAND
HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT AND CYNICAL FI.0tT-
ING OF EVERY PRINCIPLE WHICH -tHoRLD-
SECURITY ORGANIZATION WORTHY OF THE
NAME WOULD UPHOLD.
Polands territorial integrity has been violated It's
independence has been attacked by the familiar trans
parent device of imposing oreign.sponsored puppet
government
An international agreement of which the Soviet
government is signatory-the Crmea Charter-has
been treated as scrap of paper.
The Atlantic Charter has been submerged in the
Black Sea and the four freedoms conspicuous by
their noneXisence in the vast Of Europe
which is under Soviet occupation.
MO WONDER Prime Minister Churchill, smarting from
~ the humiliation of the Polish arrests, sounded
sharp note of warning when he said his recent speech
I've must make that those causes which
fought for find recognition at the peace table I'm facts
well words. And above all must labor that the
world organization which the United Nations creating
San Francisco does become idle does not
become shield for the strong and mockery for the
weak"
1t certainly will become just that unless the tide Of
Soviet aggression be turned back by the firm united
action of all genuinely peace-lovng nations
The United States Senate has still 10 pass the
question of American adhesion TO the world security
organization.
TT WOULD be both discredtabe and futile from the "
standpoint of peace for the United States government
to underwrite lie to join an organization which
promises justice and condones injustice which talks of
peace and sanctions oppression, which the
ereign equality of its members and offers obstacle to
the swallowing of dozen independent states east
Europe by the Soviet Union.
The Senate should apply Atlantic Charter test,
honesty test decency test to the entire peace settle
men before il sanctions American adhesion to world
security organization that badly msnamed under
present circumstances.