Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-03-28
reprint from Evening Bulletin
Mar. 21 Philadelphia, Pa.)
BY JAY G.. HAYDEN

BY JAY G. HAYDEN
THE late President Roosevelt's
amazing secret generosity to Pre-
mier Stain at Yalta is again evil
denced in the publication at Mos
cow of the agreement of these two,
with Churchill dissenting, on $40
G00,000,00O total of reparations from
Germany, SO per cent of it for Rus
sia.
Secretary of State Marshall dis
puted Molotov's reassertion of this
claim on the ground that it had
been superseded at Potsdam, and
Foreign Secretary Bevin said it was
Of no standing anyhow because the
Prime Minister, Churchill refused
to sign it.
The ink scarcely had dried, on the
joint communique, following the
Yalta Conference, before it became
apparent that much more went on
there than was Immediately re-
yealed.
The communique was issued on
February II, 1945, and just week
later it cropped up that the Allan
tic Charter had been revised. As
originally written this document al
so said it's signers, Roosevelt and
Churchill, "wish to see sovereign
rights and self government restor-
ed to those who have been forcibly
ueprlved of them"
At Yalta there was added the
words, "by the aggressor nations,
the obvious purpose being to ex-
empt territories taken forcibly by
so-called "nonaggressor n on s.,
such as Russias conquests of the
Baltic States and portions of Poland
FINLAND and Romania.
Since the Atlantic Charter was
issued solely by Roosevelt and by
Churchill, presumably they had the
right to change it in the same per-
sonal fashion, but it is doubtful if
this is so of other secret agree
ments which we're subscribed to at
Yalta.
On Feb. 27, 1945, Churchill for
the first time revealed details of
the agreement respecting Pol S h
borders, including modification of
the Curzon Line to give Russia the
important city of Lwow, and allot-
ment to Poland of the German pro-
vince of Upper Silesia and "such
other territories east of the Oder
River as may be decided at the
peace conference"
The latter referred to the Oder
Neisse River line, transferring to
Poland territory containing $780,
900 Germans. rr
In his Stuttgart speech last year
Secretary Byrnes began trying to
mitigate that commitment and Mar
shall is expected to do the same.
Yalta was little more than a
month old before it leaked out sue
cessively that the Ukraine and also
White Russia had been recognized
separately in order to give Russia
three votes in the United Nations,
and that Russia's insistence on an
individual veto" in that body also
had been acceded to.
Not till February, 1916, did there
come to light the biggest concession
of all to the Soviet. This was the
grant to her in exchange for d
promise to enter the war against
Japan within two or three months
after Germany has surrendered" To
win that assurance Roosevelt and
Churchill signed away to Russia,
Outer Mongolia, the whole Kurile
Island of Sakhalin, and in Man
churia, exclusive occupation of the
Port Arthur naval base and half
share with China in control of the
commercial port of Dairen.
China was not even consulted be-
fore this purloining Of her territory
and as subsequently developed, Rus
sia's entrance into the japanese war
on the very last day of her commit
ment, bred nothing but trouble. Ev-
er since, the United States and Bri-
tain have been trying to get the
Russian armies back home.
Not the least interesting element
in all this was President Roosevelt's
assumption of the right singlehand-
ed so to commit the Nation. Mem
bers of Congress have searched in
vain for any provision, constitutional
or otherwise, that invests the Presi-
dent with such broad right, except
as his proposals later may be sub
mitted to the Senate and approved
by it.
In this instance also there is the
fact that Mr.. Roosevelt, at Yalta
was reduced both physically ant