Evening star., 1947-09-26

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desired to reform the world, but be.
cause we believed that German sue.
cess would ultimately threaten cm
own freedom. After the magnificent
work Of our armed forces, hacked b,
our industrial and agricultural pro.
duction, we had only one real in.
terest. That was to insure through
an organization Of nations that nj
nation whatever should again un.
dertake TO conquer the world, ant
in particular, that such restraint.
be imposed upon Germans ane
Japanese production as would pre-.
vent their re-arming.
Essence of Charter.
OF course, having become involved
In the war. we had the responsi.
bility Of seeing that the new worlc
started on a basis Of freedom, jus.
tice and equality. This was the es.
sence of the Atlantic Charter, 6
joint declaration by Franklin
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
formally transmitted to Congress by
the President as the policy Of hi!
administration.
The second clause of the Atlantic
Charter stated that we desired te
see no territorial changes that die
not accord with the freely expressed
wishes of the peoples concerned.
The third clause stated that w
respected the right of all peoples ts
choose the form of government un.
der which they would live, ant
wished to see sovereign rights anc
self-government restored to those
who had been forcibly deprived oi
them.
The fourth and fifth clauses ex.
pressed our intention to further tn,
enjoyment Of all states, great O
small, victor or vanquished, of &C.
cess, on equal terms, to the trad,
and to the raw materials Of thl
world which are needed fer thei,
economic prosperity, for the pur'
pose Of securing economic advance.
ment for all.
The sixth and seventh clause.
looked towards a new League o
Nations.
Have Lost the Peace.
Beginning, however, at Teheran
we gradually abandoned most Of tn,
Ideals stated in the Atlantic Ciaarte,
until today the attainment Of many
Of them Is impossible. We hav'
won the war, but we have lost tn,
peace.
Until Senator vandenberg en-
tered the picture, our attitude to.
ward Russia was one Of complet,
surrender. We gave them billion,
Of goods under lend-lease, withou
a condition looking to the post-wa,
world. We seemed to feel that W,
had to beg Stain to continue tn
battle against Germany, and &C
cepted his views Of military strateg,
in attack, which gave him tn,
Balkans with Tito as the recognized
leader In Yugoslavia. Later we seen
to have insisted on Russia enterin,
the Japanese war, when the en-
trance proved to be unnecessary
and has only resulted in turnin,
over Manchuria to Russia.
President Roosevelt apparentl,
felt that If Mr.. Stain received mill
tary aid and kind treatment from
England and the United States, h,
would be transformed into an ange
Of light, bringing freedom to tn.
world. This was the attitude clearl,
shown in the Presidents interview
with Forrest Davis, published In tn,
Saturday Evening Post, referred t,
as the Great Design"
New Deal Philosophy.
This attitude at Teheran, at Yalts
and at Potsdam was promoted ap.
parently by the basic new deal phi.
losophy which Influenced the Who'll,
administration. The general atti.
tude was exemplified in the infiu,
ence Of the late Mr.. Harry Hopkin,
was q very friendly one toward com.
munism. Many New Dealers woulc
not go along with Mr.. Henry Wal
lace who felt that communism was
merely another form Of democracy
perhaps O little better form thar
our democracy; but there were a lot
who did have that attitude. Otherl
doubted, but yielded to the party
philosophy. Remember how very
soft they were toward the admission
Of Communists into Government de.
partments? Certainly Communist
were there, or President Truman
would not finally, two years after
We Day. have requested fifty mil.
lion dollars to get rid Of them. W.
can see now what q complete mis-.
conception Of the whole Russian
character and the character Of com.
munism was involved, in the con.
cessions made, and in the failur.
to exact guarantees regarding tn.
postwar world. Those concessions
to anyone who understood the Rus.
slams at all, were certain to max,
Stain the dominant figure In Eu.
rope and give powerful support t,
the cause Of communism anc
to totalitarianism throughout tn,
world.
The Administration apL arentl
did not even suggest that Lithuanis
Latvia and Estonia, under the At
lantic Charter, were entitled to hav
their sovereign rights and self
government restored.
We recognize the right Of tn
Russian army to occupy the Bal
kans, and also Berlin and Vienna
which gives them today their pow
erful hold In Europe. With feebl
protests, we turned over O larR
part of Germany to Poland in orde
that Poland might be compensate,
for territory desired by Russia, thu
agreeing, in effect, to territoria
changes contrary to the wishes o
the peoples concerned, in violation
Of the second clause of the Atlantis
Charter. We actually withdrew ou
troops from territory we occupie,
In battle in Germany, occupied b,
us partly because the Russians wer,
20 busy seizing all of southeastern
Europe except Greece.
Results Seen In Occupation.
The results of the New Deal Dol
icy are seen today in the occupatio,
by Russia Of large sections of Baltic
German and Polish territory, an,
their effective domination by fore
OF Austria H1nparv p,,Ioorio .,