Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
I Million Soviet Dead
Watch Moscow Talks,
Prayda Writer SAYS

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MOSCOW, Mar. 31.-Leonid Ls-
onov, Soviet novelist, bitterly as
sailed the Foreign Ministers Coun-
Gil m Fravda today. asserting that
the ghosts Of 1000 900 Russians who
lost their lives in the war are stand
ing around the conference table
smiling ironically ut the gentle
men" who. he said, broke the Yalta
and Potsdam agreements on CIV
Ing reperations to Russia.
The women In the streets" Mr..
Lsonov said, have begun to ap-
praise the conference as q tiresonae
discussion in which some OF the
participants do not want to re-
turn to the orphans the bread and
roofs taken away by burglars.
Although the Moscow meeting is
not over yet" he wrote, the old
woman fhistory) smiles ironically
:. unusual things are happening
around the conference table 1t
was the Soviet people who sacrifieed
most OF all In beating down the
Fascist savage In the course Of
the great days memorable decisions
were made by the ST to leaders at
Yalta and Fotsdam.
Deviation From Word.
There were agreements on COM
persatins the Soviet Union for the
Hionstrcus devastation which at
present Is 30 mildly described Is
damage when at last 1t came
10 fulfilling these obligations the
sentienan's word at Yalta and Pots
dam, -attested by these documents,
Magically became as exquisite ex-
preston Of sympathy covering this
deviation from q sentleman's word"
I'm all this great undertaking"
the novelist continued, PREPARATIONS
Is . substantial thing, but 1t is not
the chief one for gentlemen. There
are things about which it Is not
customary to hold discussions over .
fresh grave. They are there all
right under the surface, but 1t also
happens that the judges gather to
talk without especially brilliant re-
suits, because one side Is not trying
to straishten out the damage, but
instead to carry out its egotistical
plant.
"ff one listens to them 1t looks
q II nothing had happened at all
not even to yeu. the 7,ooo, 900 Soviet
soldiers TO whom the leaders Of
many peoples 30 ardently bowed
while they were alive"
Dollar Fever" Mentioned.
Commentator David zaslavsky de-
elared In another article In Pravda
that denials that President Tru-
mans plans to aid Greece and Iur-
key are aimed against the Soviet
Union and the United Nations are
merely efforts to calm an alarmed
American people" !
Writing under the heading Dol
lar Fever In Turkey" Mr., zaslavsky
said:
American journalists want to
knew the real reasons for announced
financial aid to Greece and Turkey.
At numerous press conferences in
the United States they ask whether
or not 1t means 4 policy directed
against the Soviet Union and the
U. N. The efieiai answers to these
questions are "ne"-that the loans to
Greece and Turkey pursue peaceful
aims, that they are not aimed at
the Soviet Union and the U. n" 4:
Differences On "Gsntlamsn."
Mr.. Leenev said 1t was hardly
worth creating . Foreign Minister
subeaHInissien for studying exactly
what Is meant by IN honest word.
THE word 'gsntlsmsn' doesn't
mean the same thing At different
Heridians," he said, /
Per each of us who have lost
1000, 900 brothers in the war; Mr..
Lsnev added, the Yalta document
10 not merely sheet Of paper. Ne
ene should sppraise the meeting
at Yaita as = vacation ut . health
resort. We do not have time for
that. Fer nay country, Yalta Is at
least receipt In blood fer the
word Of = gentleman. Such ehliga-
tiens were fulhlled from ancient
times without reservation, Our
sacrifices and losses cannot be for
gotten"
German Government.
In another article in Pravda re- !
ferrins to the foreign ministers
deliberations, A. Leontiev dvelt Ut
some length on Russia's advocacy
Of q central German government
and declared:
"A united Germany, If really q
democratic and peaceful state, would
be entirely capable of entering the
family Of peace-lovins peoples after
q while and Of occupying among
them . worthy place"
Mr.. Lontiev added, however, thRt
the Germans could not be 'democ-
ratified by force.
"A forced prescription OF one or
another political form is In itself
a violation Of democracy" he de-
clared. How can people be taught
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