The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-20

The News
BY Dewitt Mackenzie
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst

We are veging on several IN.
portant International show dow,
which at last may give US an an.
sWer to the paramount question If
the day: whether there Is a uo.r,
al which Russia would be v'n-cr
to compromise on her prog~aa -
expansion or whether She is bow,
on driving straight on, let happen
what may.
This crisis mas been boiling I'm
for many months. 1t mark. The
arrival of the time wne0 fs,s
must be an all-around spirr ~,
give" as well as take" ann
the major allies if grave co.so,
quences ire 70 De avoided Tina,
I take it, is the message betee,,
the lines of Secretary of Sa,a
Byrnes' foreign policy broadcst
last night.
MI. Byrnes wiced concern o,,.
the continued { not i~ncyeasn5
tension between us and the Sovjet
Union" and made clear that v,E,
America won't expect other IA.
ions 10 yield to all of our de.
manos, on the ether hand she
won't yield TO all demands Of
other countries. Our policy is n
be patient but firm" and 5a
urged rejection OF the idea ,r..
delays in achieving peace "1sss
armed conflict inevitable"
That's the overall picture. sos.
officially the Big Three are ~,
against several major problem,
which will put the acid test An
their relationships. One of t5ess
lies in Moscow's twice stated 70,
mand on Turkey Cor joint defense
Of the Dardanelles nro,os,T
which Ankara now has rejected
fatty.
Important Question
This is a vital question fol- tha
Soviet Union, for these slrates.c
straits give egccss from the o,5o,.
wise land-locked Black Sea In t9a
Mediterranean ard thus are 5y
way of being Russia's front cate
Moscow has warned Turken
against taking military measures
in the waterway Jointly with
some not Black Sea powers" This
obviously W a S aimed at Britain
and the United States. Indeed On
October 9 Washington delivered
note to Moscow, r~eiterating Amer.
ica's opposition to the Russian
proposal and advising that Uncle
Sam doesn't intend to be squeezed
out Of a voice in control of the
straits. Turkey is being backed in
her stand not only by the United
States but by Britain.
Another phase Of the crisis will
arise in the forthcoming meeting
of the Big Four foreign mlnistes
IL New York to approve (or dis,
approved of the peace itreates
adopted by the harassel Paris
peace conference. Russia indicat.
ed at the conclusion of the parIey
in the French capital that she
likely would kick over much 0: the
work done there. The difference
here marks the division between
the Russian-dominated Slavic bloc
and the Western allies.
After that will come an even
more delicate proposition - the
framing of a peace treaty FOR Ger
many. The Reich is the focal pOiat
of the upheaval represented in The
realignment CT the balance Of
power in Europe. Before he war
it was the politico-economic key
stone OF the continent, and The
future of Europe is wrapped up
i'll the decisions which are made
by the Allies IN framing a peace
treaty.
Those are Of the show-dog@
which must come soon. And tlee
are others, not only in Europe but
n the Far East.
The trend of the times WOu'
seem to be rather well ILLUSTRATED
by Washington's sizzling note 10
Moscow's protege -~YugoslaUa
The United States accuse: the 81
Wet satellite of renting out Ame1'
can citizens as slaves and ca1'
ing the deaths Of some Of the1
ir horror camps. This is along I'll
lines of Secretary Byr1es' II
scription of the Ameriean p0lq1
as being ''patient but finn"