The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-22
by DreU, Pearson

tried to double Herbert Gaston former Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury who has been in Lon don working on the Palestine question. Gaston cabled the Treasury Department from London asking permission to file dissent from the Grady-Morrison plan to divide Palestine into Arap-Jewish zones.
 But the British have access to all cables leaving London. So they held up Gaston's message to Wash ngton while they scurried round to the American Embassy lodged protest against GastonS activities and persuaded Ambassador AyereI Hartman to cable a critical report Gaston to the State Department Thus Harrnans protest arrived before Gastons cable and helped to nullify it.
 In an earlier column, this writer proposed that the United States adopt definite categoric policy of appeasing Russia It argued that no coun- try takes the first step toward if it knows 1t will have to suffer major retaatory It was pointed out that Hitler never would have invaded Austria and the Ruhr if he hadn't shreWdly banked on Anglo French dissension and appeasement.
 If we are to follow non-appeasement policy toward Russia; if we are to demand that she work through the United Nations if to crack down on the first belgerent move she makes outside the United Nations then Great Britain, judging by past performances, is our worst ally.
 In 1s32 Secretary of State Henry L. stimson, alizng that Japna had started major Asiatic con- quest did his best to enlist British cooperation in stopping the warlords before they got started. To this end he thought he had British promise to de- liver strong identic note of protest to Japan.
 But U S. Ambassador Cameron Forbes discovered that after he delivered the American protest note, the British Ambassador paid two calls at the Jap Toreign Office. One to deliver the formal note Of protest The other to tell the Japanese Foreign Minister informally that Great Britain had promised the United States to deliver note but nevertheless the British understood and sympsthized with the Japanese position in Manchuria.
 Again in 1886 when Hitler walked into the Ruhr, it the British who hung back, told the French that if they resisted Hitler, they would have to fight alone.
 Again during the Spanish Civil War it the British Foreign Office which secretly played ball with Franco and sabotaged the Loyalist Government de- spite the fact that the world knew Hitler and Musso lin staging curtan-raiser to world war.
 Again. prior to the Munich crisis the Czech Sudetenland, Lord Runcman spent weeks in Czecho slovaka passing out secret word that Hitler could have the Sudetenland far as he concerned. So by the time the Big Four met in Munich, the sur render of the Sudetenland a foregone conclusion agreed to in advance by British appeasers.
 Historians already are recording the probability that had checked the Spanish Fascist, if had stopped Hitler in the Ruhr if we had prevented his carving up Czechoslovaka, if we had blocked any of these moves the terrible tragedy of World War II would not have happened
 And if are going to prevent World War III. the gentlemen of the British Foreign Office, with their silkglove policy of appeasement, may prove most dangerous, though charming allies.