Evening star., 1948-04-11


mes. He was opening the 1914 cam.
an amazing performer Roosevelt was
to successfully ride those three
horses circus style around the en-
tire political arena in four national
campaigns.
The development of the story has
not all been on the constructive
side since his death. The Repub-
lican- -isolationist effort to make him
personally responsible for Pearl
Harbor in a Senate investigation
fizzled. Readers Of the future will
always wonder how the Japanese
achieved surprise at Pearl when we
were reading their coded messages.
but many will realize how psyche
logically impossible 1t was to trans
NIT the community awareness OF
impending war in Washington to
the week usual atmosphere
of Hawaii. But Westbrook Pegler's
revelation how Jesse Jones settled
for $4,000 the reckless borrowing By
Elliott Roosevelt with his fathers
help of $500, 900 from John Hart
ford, the A. G P. man, was a blow
to the most devoted followers o1
Roosevelt. 1t reminded many Of the
letter he wrote the Secretary OF
Commerce the day after the fourth
inaugural replacing him with Henry
Wallace. Dear jesse" 1t began, 81
find this letter very hard to write
He must have.
Bargaining Controversy
The revaluations of the bargain.
ing of Teheran and Yalta, which
began few days after his death
when American troops stopped al
the Elbe, caused much controversy
in the press. Giving Polish territor,
to Russia, compensating Poland with
German territory, the mass move.
ment Of peoples, the use of man.
power as reparation-fruits ol
Teheran so at variance with the
Atlantic Charter; ceding the Kurils
Islands and half of Sakhalin *
Russia, the lease of Port Arthur anc
the dual control of the Manchuriar
railway-agreed to at Yalta, were
criticized in the press by the Roose.
velt opposition, often without refer.
ence to the quid pro quo.
The biographer and historian are
more likely to balance the bargain,
with the things bargained for
When the Big Three met at Teherar
in February, 1914, there were 2ot
German divisions on the Russian
front. Countless American and Brit
ish lives would be saved if Stain
who was disappointed at the tardi-
ness of second front, made a ajol
offensive. He kept his word by start.
ing one that co-ordinated with tht
Normandy landings and did not stor
until 1t passed Berlin. At Teherar
it was thought of the utmost i'm.
portance that the Soviet Union de.
clare war on Japan. Stain agair
kept his word. Within 90 days after
the German surrender, as specified
he declared war on Japan-breakine
recent nonaggression treaty with
Japan to do so.
Called Stain Uncle joe
Mr.. Roosevelt told James F
Byrnes on his way to Yalta that HI
was going to appeal to Stain or
high moral principles. Cordell HUI
records that Stain surprised hin
at a dinner during the Moscow
Foreign Ministers Conference in the
autumn of 1943 by taking his arm
and, without suggestion of anything
in return, said: And after Germany
is defeated the Soviet Union will
declare war on Japan" Hull was
surprised at the price exacted al
Yalta and thought Stain had un-
dergone change of mind. 1t seems
more probable that he always
thought that China should pay fol
Russian help and that Russia should
have what she wanted from Japan
by right of conquest.
President Roosevelt was very
proud of establishing personal re.
lations" with Marshal Stain at Te-
heran. He told Miss Perkins on his
return that he said to Winston
Churchill one morning on the way tc
the conference room that he hoped
he would not be sore at him for what
he was going to do.
Il began almost as soon as we got
into the conference room. talked
privately with Stain. Then
I said, lifting my hand to cover a
whisper (Which, of course. had to be
'nterpreted), Winston is cranky this
morning. He got up on the wrong
side Of the bed"
He then teased and baited
Churchill at the conference table
about his John Bullishness and his
cigars. Churchill scowled and
Stain began to laugh.
ut was then that called him
Uncle joe" said the President.
One Of the interesting develop
ments Of the Roosevelt legend il
this: Despite Stalin's success al
bargaining, many people still felt
that if Roosevelt were alive he
would be able to talk to Uncle Joe
and everything would be all right
A Serious Messase.B Bearer
Franklin D. Roosevelt's place in
history may depend almost entirely
on an event four months after his
death. On August 6, 1945, the
atomic bomb exploded at Hiroshima
The afternoon newspapers replaced
their entire front pages with the
story of the bomb and the morn.