The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-18
The World TODAY
BY JAMES MARROW

1t If he doesn't watch out
President Eisenhower and Dulles
both thought the 4S-year-old Bob
len, who has spent "a years with
the State Department, was the best
man they could find to be u. S.
ambassador to Russia. They asked
the Senate to approve him.
For a few days there was some
trolled Senate would approve Bob
len, although now the clouds seem
to have rolled away. He'll probably
be confirmed by comfortable vote.
But the fact that the opposition
got up steam at al. was a stiff
arm jolt for Dulles who asked the
Senate to hurry up on Bohlen be-
cause of Stains death and new
doingS in Moscow.
1t wasn't the first jolt for Dull
les. Only recently he and Eisen-
hover wanted the Senate to ap-
prove a resolution, which they had
prepared, to condemn Russia for
breaking agreements with the U.S..
particularly those made at Yalta.
But Senate Republicans, who for
years had been denouncing deals
made with Stain by President
Roosevelt and President Truman,
decided to add a paragraph of
their own. The result was hash.
At one point the finished prod
uct condemned-as Eisenhower and
Dulles wanted-Russia for break
ing agreements. But then it
promptly said the Senate wouldn't
admit the agreements were agree
ments at all-which is. what the
Republican senator's wanted,
Recognizing this, as botch, the
Republicans put it on the shelf.
The result: no resolution passed,
although dulles had pleaded for
it as part of the Eisenhower psy.
Geological war on Russia.
Dulles had suffered a couple of
other rebuffs from Sen. Mccarthy,
Wisconsin Republican.
Mccarthy, investigating the State
Departments "Voice of America, !"
made Dulles men back water sew
eral times. They did what Nc.
earthly wanted.
Dulles can't stand much more
of this without losing both prestige
and effectiveness and, for all prac-
teal purposes as one of the heads |
of a most important department, |
the leadership in foreign affairs |
he's supposed to provide.
BOhlen started with the depart
ment in 1929 under Republican
President Hoover, stayed with it
through the Roosevelt Truman re-
gime, and is still there under Eli
Senhower.
He's a career diplomat. He be-
gan to make himself a specialist
on Russia many years ago and
the language. He served
several times in the American EN-
basSy in Moscow and took part In
a number of international confer |
enceS. 4
WASHINGTON lR 49, Malenkov
may think this is good time to
make peace in Korea, or at least
to talk about it.
That might have been his pur-
pose at his rubber-stamp election
in Moscow recently in saying:
There is -. no question which
cannot be settled by peaceful
means"
He could not lose much by ges-
lures about a Korean settlement,
whether or not he was in earnest.
Even If he was against peace
but talked peace he could, if the
war continued, use it for propa-
ganda, blaming the West.
A few dramatic moves that To-
cused attention on him would be
so much gravy for the compare
lively unknown Malenkov who is !
suddenly trying to fill Stains big
shoes as Soviet premier
Malenkov win need years to cap
ture the place Stain held In the !
minds of the Russian people and /
he Communist leadership in the |
Red satellites countries. /
The Russian Communist party
or y years had built up Stain
IS a kind Of super genius and
guardian of the flock.
Yet, in spite Of such obvious
Stain successes as turning back
Hitler's invading armies, keeping |
control Of Russia and grabbing the |
satellites, he had some failures.
Germany and Western Europe,
in the first couple Of chaotic years
after the war, may have seemed
within his grasp. but Communist
influence in hem at the time Of
his death was % the ebb.
Further, by starting the Korean
War he drove the U. S. and West
ern Europe into alliance and re.
And the Chinese and
North Korean Communists, who
did the dying in Korea for Stain.
may have had some misgivings
about that.
II MaIenkcv could bring peace
n Korea he might feel i would
make him lock cieyerer than Sta