Evening star., 1946-06-23
Stand of Russian Rulers
To Fix Duration of Peace
Next Few Months Expected to Bring Decision
in Test to Determine if Powers Can
Work in Harmony
rk in Harmony
By Constantine Bro,pn

y
The next few months will determine
whether the rift between the powers
which today hold the destiny of the
world in their hands will be mended, in
which case we shall have real peace,
or whether we will witness chaotic
condition which may tear asunder what
is left of our modern civilization. With
in these short months it will be decided
whether Europe will return to conditions
worse than those which followed the
fall of the Roman Empire, while the
American continents will have to be-
come, by sheer necessity, an isolated
group trying to survive the cataclysm as
best they can.
These are unpleasant facts which do
not make good reading. Since the end
of the shooting war, nearly year ago,
our people have been so desperately
anxious to see the good old days" re-
turn that any attempt by an impartial
observer to tell them bluntly what eX-
listed under the surface did not enjoy
any popularity. Severe criticism from
wishful thinkers was his reward.
We in this country like to live by the
Golden Rule and any thought that the
power-thirsty Europeon nations did not
share our philosophy is unpallatable.
This mode of thinking explains why
Americas people and the vast majority
of its officials and legislators described
as war mongering" the warnings in
the '30s that another World War was
inevitable. Did not the world have
League of Nations, an outlawry Oh war
pact and SO many disarmament and
peace conferences, at which every par
ticipant crossed his heart and hoped to
die,if he did not believe in an eternal
peace?
Prediction Borne Out.
An article written by this reporter on
April 80, 1888. disclosing the fact that
Czechoslovakia was doomed; that Hit
ler's demands would be met and that the
mission of Lord Runciman was to pre-
pare the Prague government for the
inevitable annexation Of the
Sudetenland to the Reich-was decried
as the product of fertile imagination
prompted by the German propaganda
machine. Six months later the Euro
pean powers agreed to satisfy Hitler's
hunger for more land and more power
by sacrificing "Europes most important
strategic bastion" to him. One year
later the Nazi hordes marched into Po-
land and Czechoslovakia ceased to exist
temporarily as a nation
During the war, under the preteXt of
not encouraging the enemy, reporters
and analysts were morally compelled
to paint the rosiest picture of the Allied
relationship. Any effort by unbiased
observers who believed that the truth
should be given to the public regardless
of how painful it might be- was blasted
and the writer or the speaker was de-
scribed as playing Herr Goebbels' game.
The truth had to be concealed from the
public, although those in the White
House and those on the Joint Chiefs of
Staff knew that everything was not
agreeable among the Allies and that in
order to keep them on an even keel the
American Government had to compro-
mise with principles for which we were
fighting.
The deals made behind closed doors at
Teheran and Yalta and at other meet
ings of minor luminaries were kept not
only from the public but also from
Congress and some of the highest Off
cials IN Washington. When by chance
q reporter discovered some of these
deals-the whole tragic story is con-
tanned even today in top confidential
files kept in secret safes-and published
his information, he was denounced as
helping Hitler and was taken to task
privately by those who were intrusted
with dispensing information.
Flood of Criticism.
This reporter in January of 1943
wrote a story to the effect that in some
official quarters it was thought that
since there was so much pickering
among the Allies regarding the fate of
Europe, and since Moscow had definitely
indicated she wanted to gain complete
supremacy over Europe and the Middle
East, it might be wise to let the Rus
slams have their own way.
The result of this story was instan-
taneous. The writer was branded as a
tool and mischievous intriguer by the
Moscow as we'll as the Berlin radio.
Herr Goebbels ordered his propa-
ganda machine to 60 ahead and de-
nounce in seven different languages the
newspapers in which the story ap-
peared Goebbels' minions said: THUS
Constantine Brown, narrow minded,
incapable and stupid reporter-unques-
tionably of Jewish extraction-gives ex-
preston to the idea that he would not
be surprised if the Soviet Union were to
realize her desire in Central and South
eastern Europe, if it were not to push
forward to the Atlantic and the Persian
Gull and seek an outlet in the Medi-
terranean. This Constantine Brown who
sits in WASHINGTON, who belongs to inner
circle of Mr.. Roosevelt and certainly
does not suck such ideas out of his
fingers, comes to the conclusion that
America need not fear the Bolsheviks
since in economic matters or in airline
problems the United States will have no
difficulties with the U. S. S. r.
The very same day the Russian broad
casters and the newspaper Pravda also
went to work taking the same article to
pieces. Pravda said-and the broad