Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
MADRID. SPAIN, Jan. 13.


A MERICA'S bid for world leadership
"A will undergo its severest, perhaps
its decisive test, at the expected forth
coming and long delayed meeting be-
tween President Roosevelt, Prime Min
lister Churchill and Premier Stain.
The strength or weakness of Presi-
dent Roosevelt'S international states
and the stuff that America
national and foreign policy are made
of, is expected to stand revealed at the
outcome of the conference of the Big
Three.
Roosevelt and Churchill stand COM
pletely outmaneuvered in the first month of
1945 by Stain, but Americas foreign policy
holds some strong cards if those cards are
planned and played with vision, sagacity
and firmness for those goals and principles
for which we are in the war
For months, as l have disclosed in
previous dispatches, there has been going on
behind the curtains that conceal secret
dramatic Anglo-American Soviet
diplomatic battle.
This has now been confirmed by Mos
COW, London and Washington.
COVIET diplomacy, actiVistic and direct,
- vibrant with initiative, elastic and
adaptable to situations, bold and daring in
method, won. at least for the time being,
when Stain shocked Roosevelt and Churchill
by throwing his challenging gauntlet New
Years Day into the European area, and
the Moscow-sponsored Com
munist National Committee in Lublin as the
official provisional government in Poland +
This was done without consulting Washing
ton or Bondon and was in defiance or disregard
of the views and attitudes of the Americans and
British.
1t revealed to all not wilfully blind the
fundamentally deep and wide gulf that for Is
months l have been pointing out exists between
totalitarian Soviet Russia and the western
capitalistic democraces of America and Britain
and their irreconcilable. conflicting theological
political and economic social aims and ideals
In the House of Commons, Feb D. Church
It'll said
81 took the occasion to raise personally
with Marshal Stain the question of the future
of Poland. pointed out that Ii was in fulfill
ment of our guarantee TO Poland that Great
Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, that
we had never weakened In our resolve.
at was with great pleasure that heard
from marsnal StAun tnat ne TOO was re-
solved upon the creation and maintenance of
a strong, integral and independent Poland.
HE has several times repeated these
declarations in public and am convinced they
represent the settled policy of Soviet Russia
Churchill is not so convinced now.
England has weakened
ENGLAND declared war on Nazi Germany
l. because Hitler invaded and violated the
territory of Poland
Britain has neither the will nor the power
to go to war against Soviet Russia for the same
principle.
Americas sympathy is withsPoland.
1t gave promises but no guarantees.
America will no more go to war with
Soviet Russia for Poland than it would if Mos
COW clipped off or absorbed the western prov
ince of Sinkiang from China as it did outer
Mongolia.
Finland, next to Switzerland, is lost to the
western democracy.
Finland is taking her bitter medicine as
more and more she is coming under Communist
domination.
Bitterest of all was when, according to
Stockholm reports, Moscow forced the dissolu-