The midland journal., 1946-10-04
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INTERNAL WEAKNESS FORCES
RUSSIA TO COMPROMISE
By PAUL MALLON

"A mild mOdera-
tion of front by Russia has been TAX
ing place. Since Molotov was called
home for private conference with
Stain, signs have been increasing
that tactics have been altered some
what. Arrangements were ifnmedi-
ately made at Paris between the Big
Four ministers to postpone the as
sembly session of U.N. for at least
30 days-until Oct. %.
Messrs. Byrnes and Bevin are
passing this change off lightly as
matter of routine, contending many
nations are simply not well enough
stated with diplomats to let the
two conferences run Simultaneous
ly, as Byrnes wanted. But in offer
ing this soft excuse they forget that
Byrnes at first demanded the Sept.
% meeting of U.N. go through as
scheduled originally, in order that he
might lay the Paris deadlock before
the assembly. BY their very agree
ment for postponement, therefore,
Byrnes and Bevin have given Paris
another 80 days lease on life, to see
If something constructive can be
done in that time, or some new hope
for a cooperative peace held out.
And strangely, very strangely, au-
thorities here now are saying Paris
may get results before Oct. %.
REDS URGE COOPERATION
AT the very least, Molotov has re-
Trained from tossing the world
around belligerently since his Labor
Day visit to the Kremlin Hence,
also, Manuilsky spoke to the U.N.
council for more than two hours,
urging "business-like cooperation,
whereas not so long ago he and his
associates were talking about the
"reactionary capitalists" trying to
influence elections with airplane car
riers. c'Reactionary' is an inter-
esting word now being promoted by
all communists simultaneously
around the world, especially as
there is no political movement more
reactionary than communism, which
wants to maintain Karl Marx, and is
against any change in the status quo
at home or in her zones.)
Shrewd students of Russia at
tribute both the earlier thunder
and lightning of threatening
communist diplomacy, and the
current symptoms of willing
ness to cooperate, to internal
conditions at home in Russia.
Existence of riOting in the
Ukraine has been fairly well
authenticated through the iron
curtain against news. Indeed,
some Russian announcements
have adverted in passing to this
condition. The communist lead
ership i'm the Ukraine is known
to have been purged.
Further alone the same line, the
top old communist writer's and poets
are being purged openly on the
ground that they strove to write bet
ter, and to create some works of
artistic merit, instead of writing
Russian propaganda and encourag-
ing the revolution. While the move
ment ostracizing or banishing them
was started in the Leningrad con-
gress, the purge is being pursued
throughout Russia.
DROUTHS AND RIOTS .4t
Confidential reports bear news of
a drouth in the Ukraine and Volga
regions, which has greatly injured
the Russian food crops and may
have accentuated the local political
situation. Americans like La
Guardia who have taken the official
government-conducted Cooks tour
of Russia have not verified the Sc
verify of this situation, but they
could only know what they we're told;
that is, the official Moscow line.
Russian sources are inferen-
tally denying Red army head
quarters have been established
in Odessa (nearest Russian
point for attack upon the Dar-
danelles.) Good friends of the
Moscow changing line say Zhu-
kOv was sent down there some
what as matter of being per-
sOnally purged. There have
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curtain that ZhukOv has been
replaced by KOniev. A man
without patience, who wants ac-
ton. But the truth of these
matters cannot be ascertained
through impenetrable censor
ship-althOugh Russia has been
pressing to ascertain where our
armies are, through U.N.
To whatever mild extent the
change of front has been effected,
the events so far indicate it is purely
a matter of diplomatic expediency,
and while the home Moscow regime
may be troubled because its people
naturally wish to ape us, no change
in the basic situation is noticeable.
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STRIKES THREATEN FUTURE
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