Evening star., 1946-08-25

I democratic powers of Europe ant
America" of the great states of tn,
world-USSR, England, and tn,
United States" of the "conferenc,
of the three minister of foreign af
fairs" in Moscow, of the historic
meeting in Teheran of the leader.
of the three Allied powers" and O.
the establishment of the "founda.
tions of wide system of interna.
tional collaboration and security. >
But the only reference to Allied
military achievement is brief. The
advance in North Africa and Italy
is disposed of in a single sentence
This is followed by truly glowing
tribute to the brilliant success OF
our Allies" in forcing the Channel
and landing in the north of France
1t is stated that the history OF
warfare knows no other undertaking
equal in breadth of design, in gran
diosity of scale and in mastery OF
execution"
Yet this tribute is softened some
what by ascribing Allied achieve
ments to the military successes of
the Red Army" which drew the
basic strategic reserves Of the Ger
mans from the west" and destroyed
the best German divisions on the
Soviet German front"
British Stand Unmentioned.
The chapter contains no reference
to the heroic struggle of the British
people during the long months when
they stood alone against the Nazis
Also it makes no mention Of the
battle on the seas or of the strategic
bombing of German industrial CEN
tiers.
OF lease-lend there is not a word
1t was Soviet factories that sup
piled the Red Army with guns
shells, planes, tanks, machine guns
rifles and other necessary equip
ment"; it was the Soviet state and
collective farms that supplied the
Red Army and the people with pro-
visions, and industry with raw ma
terialS."
The struggle in the Pacific goes
unrecorded; and the Soviet-Jap-
anese pact of April, 1941, is men,
toned neither in the text nor in the
chronology of important events.
Roosevelt Appears Once.
The only Allied state and the only
Allied leader singled out for favor
able mention are Yugoslavia and
Marshal Tito. Heroic Yugoslavia,
runs the account, having created
her own national army of liberation
led by Marshal Tito, conducted the
struggle against the enemy yet more
decisively." 1t should be interesting
to Americans perhaps to know that
the name of Franklin Roosevelt ap-
peared but once, and then simply
as the head of one of the three
Allied powers meeting at Teheran
Certain other phases of the wa,
which we would consider important
are omitted from the account. AL
though the military struggle is re.
ported in considerable detail, ths
chapter contains the name of not
one Soviet commander. Individual
soldiers, fliers, partisans and work.
ers, numbering IT, are mentioned
but no general or marshal-save
Stain. Likewise no political leader
except the head of the Soviet Union
is identified by name with the war
One Man Dominates Pages.
This does not mean that no per-
sonality appears in these pages. On
the contrary, the name of one man
dominates the account from be-
ginning to end. In So paragraphs
this man is mentioned Al times.
He is quoted almost exclusively
he is the one reliable authority or
any question; he is the architect OF
Soviet policy, in war as we'll as In
peace. He is the supreme COM
mander in chief and marshal OF
the Soviet Union, Comrade Stain
Indeed he is more than the gen.
eralissimo. He Is the personal symbol
of the country. Courageous rep
lresentatives of all the people of the
Soviet Union fearlessly went to bat
tie with the cry: For the Mother
land! For Stalinr"