The midland journal., 1946-09-13
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YUGOSLAVIAN INCIDENTS
PART OF REDS PLAN
By PAUL MALLON Y

PART OF REDS PLAN
WASHINGTON Tito claim
that the killing of American air pas
sengers was IAN unfortunate acci-
dent" offered an imposition upon
the intelligence of an imbecile. 1t
was step in Russia's peace of
nerves" program, a step which went
too far.
The peace of nerves" which Rus
sia has been conducting against
western civilization is not new, and
made no one nervous. The devices
used were first invented by Hitler
and Mussolini. AS any important
questions came up internationally,
the Nazis and Fascists created dis
turbing incidents in order to threat
en- and weaken their opposition, thus
to win easier concessions. Such dip
lomatic tricks are really as old as
Machiavelli, yet the innovation of
utmost pressures was contrived
only by the modern totalitarianists.
The recent haggling, nagging and
rattling Of nerves according to plan
evidently is designed to weaken
Anglo-American resistance to Com
munist demands and to promote the
cause OF appeasers among us who
wish to give the Communists every
thing they wish. These appeasers
do not realize the nature and pur-
pose of the attack which is to make
us surrender the peace of the world
to Communism. They do not realize
that such surrender will only lead to
larger and larger demands-as was
our experience in dealing with Hit
ler and Mussolini.
WHAT'S BEHIND 1T ALL
Any fair mind can see this SO
plainly as to bring the point beyond
the possibility of contradiction. Be-
hind these developments are the fol-
lowing facts:
The air is free over our zones.
Commercial planes and mill
tary transport may travel peace
fully there. But the air is closed
in Russia, and by Russia in ev-
cry nation i'm which she is in
fiuential i'm the government.
Permits to travel must be
sought i'm her zones, and these
are seldom granted. When al
lowed, restrictions are imposed
as to time and occasion. Russia
and her satellites, like YugO-
slavia, are completely isolation
ist in the air as on the ground.
That is why these incidents can
occur to us-but not to their
planes.
The nerve-pressure incidents are
whooped up by the Russians and
their satellites in various available
ways. You may recall that one of
our embassy men in Moscow was
charged with 'hooliganism" (unde-
fined specifically against Russian
girl. Moscow made as much of it
as possible, although immunity is
the rule with foreign diplomats on
our side. The Yugoslavs have been
crossing the line and kidnapping
some people (not Americans) back
into Yugoslavia where they disap-
pear. From our mission in Ro-
mania, a girl employee suddenly
disappeared. 1t developed she had
been jailed with no charge filed, but
our diplomatic people were not al
lowed to communicate with her. An
other male employee of ours there
"a Romanian) was arrested at his
home and convicted without a pub
lie trial. In typical Nazi ways, the
Russian zones practice grimaces
continuously at our diplomacy.
With affronts to fairness which
are almost laughable, Russia SIM
ilarly demands entry in the United
Nations for her Outer Mongolia, but
opposes entry for Britain's Trans
Jordan or Fire. When the Paris
peace conference opened, the Com
munist dictator of tiny Albania for
tilted it in bristling way, which
naturally had no effect-upon the
Trieste situation, which his act was
supposed to influence.
RUSSIA WANTS DARDANELLES
But what made the Yugoslavian
development even more serious
than its surface indications were the
private reports available to official
dom here that the Russians planned
to move against Turkey and take
the Dardanelles. Her soldiers on
the Turkish border had started fir
ing in the air over the Turks in