The Nome nugget., 1947-05-16
Friday, May 16, 1947
Two Years After VIE Day

TWO ears Alter VIZ Day
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 MAY WAS the second anniversary of VIE Dav In all that time the U. S. has been doing it's darnedest to cooperate with Soviet Russia The result-clmaxed by the outcome of the Big Four foreign ministers confer ence at Moscow-has been pretty much of goose egg
 The record of American attempts to be pals is long a telephone pole. It begins with eleven billion dol lars lendlease aid furnished in wartime and it runs through 72 per centthe U. s. share-of two hundred fifty million dollars UNRRA aid to White Russia and the Ukraine Until this month it has been impossible get Russia to talk about making settlement for lend-lease or extension of further credits
 The U. S. offer to share the secrets of atomic energy production and work out effective international tros unprecedented in its generosity It has met only obstruction.
 Offers for closer cultural ties through exchange of students, professors, scientific and technical nfora ton have been repulsed Offers negotiate treaties settling economic and trade relations have likewise been repulsed
 To American eyes, war-torn Russia could have used this help She spurned it, drawing back into isolation like hbernatng bear, exercising tight discipline her people to turn them away from the West Moreover Russia has refused to allow her neighbors to be micaly free She apparently feared that if they were free they would be dominated by the West By this on Russia has in effect alarmed the West against her
 Concessions and compromises made by the U S. to overcome Soviet suspicious and win Soviet co-opera- tiOn have been many
 At Yalta the U S. agreed to cesson of the Kure Is- lands and Southern Sakhalin to Russia. The U. S. agreed to recognize the independence of Outer Mongo OOVlet HCeTeStS III railways ana pOrtS The U S. agreed to cesson of eastern Poland to Russia
 At Potsdam the U. s. agreed to cesson of northern East Prussia to Russia The U. S. agreed to Polish ad minstration of eastern Germany to consider revision of the treaty governing control of the Dardanees The U. S. agreed to separations for Russia from western Germany in exchange for food The food has been delivered
 In drafting the United Nations Charter the U S.
 made many concessions to the Soviet The U S. agreed to admission of White Russia and the Ukraine as full members to give Russia three votes. The U gave in to Soviet ideas on the veto.
 In the Council of Foreign Ministers, the U s. agreed to Russian separations from Italy. Concessions made to the Soviet viewpoint the boundaries of Fri este and Venezia Giula.
 For year the Russians delayed the peace trea- ties with German satellite countries At the Moscow conference just closed the Soviet blocked completion of an Austrian treaty and drafting of German treaty
 In the fourpower Allied control councils for govern ing occupied territories the Soviet blocked the organ zation of Germany, Austria, and Korea as economic units.
 Russia failed to carry out free elections in Poland Romania Bulgaria She has refused talk about abuses in Hungary has encouraged Yugosava to obstruct pol ices not approved by Moscow has blocked freedom of