Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-02-28

basis of high principles gave mo
mentum to the growing impressio
that Stain and Russia had reform
ed and that ultimate independents
of Poland and the Baltic State
was assured. There were many VIII
felt that there were some secre
agreements at the Teheran confer
ence. The President finally denie
these rumors in his report to tn
Congress on March 5, 1945, follow
ing his trip to Yalta, and / quot
him:
"At Teheran a little over a yea
ago there were long-range militar,
plans laid by the Chiefs of Staff
of the tree most powerful nations
Among the civilian leaders at TIE
heran, however, at that time. ther,
were only exchanges of views ant
expressions of opinion. No politi
cal arrangements were made ant
none were attempted"
So we see once more Stain go
what he wanted i'll the way of helI
but nothing was said about the fu
ture freedom of Poland or the Bal
tic States.
Then came the Yalta conference
early in 1945 and this time Joe Sta
lin and Russia really cashed in
Under lend-lease alone billions of
dollars worth of supplies had al
ready been furnished to Russia, the
second front had been opened and
now more plans were made to give
Russia more supplies. With our
help, the Russian troops had eros
sed Poland and our air power WAS
reaching out ahead of the Ameri-
can troops to bomb strategic points
to aid Russian troops in their ad-
vance on Berlin. Once more the
declaration of the conference at
Yalta included a solemn affirmation
of faith in the principles of the
Atlantic Charter" but in the same
document they carved up Poland,
again to the direct benefit of Rus
sia. In explaining this the Presi-
dent in his speech to the Congress
on March /, 1945, said:
eve met in the Crimea determin-
ed to settle this matter of liberated
areas and l am happy to confirm
to the Congress that we did arrive
at a settlement - and incidentally,
a unanimous settlement. The three
most powerful nations have agreed
that the political and economic pro-
blems of any area liberated from
the Nazi conquest or of any form
er NaZi satellite are a joint respon-
sibility of all three Governments.
They will join together during the
temporary period of instability af-
ter hostilities, to help the people of
any liberated area, or Of any for
mer satellite state, to solve their
own problems through firmly es-
tablished democratic processes. They
will endeavor to see to it that in
terim governments - the people who
carry on the interim governments
between the occupation of Germany
and the day of true independence
. will be as representative as pos
sible of all democratic elements in
the population, and that free cleo
tions are held as soon as possible
And later the President also said:
"The new Polish Provisional Go
of National Unity will
be pledged to holding a free cleo
ton as soon as possible on the ba-
sis of universal suffrage and a
secret ballot"
Again, I say this was represented
to be a unanimous agreement and
4 solemn pledge between Russia
and our government. Recently it
was reported and outlined to the
members of Congress that our Gov
,rnment has three times since then
protested Russia's failure to CO.
operate in granting free elections
n Poland and that they have fla
yrantly violated their agreement
entered into at Yalta. However,
again. nothing was said at the Yal-