Evening star., 1960-06-12
LETTERS TO THE STAR
F.D.R. Memorial StIs Up Controversy

Churchill ON this proposition,
the results would have been
different.
In fact, just about the OPP
posjte is the case. Herbert
Feis of Princeton University
in his excellent book "Chur-
chill, Roosevelt, Stain" pub
lished by the Princeton Uni
versity Press in 1850 presents
the true picture. Feis tells
how a British cabinet COM
mittee in the summer of 1943
had recommended zones of
occupation in Germany for
the three main powers
Omitted States, U. K, and
U. S. S. r.. Under this Brit
ish plan, the eastern zone Of
Germany was assigned to the
Russians. An area embracing
about 40 per cent of the
former German territory, and
SO per cent of the population
running southwark from Luz
beck on the Baltic some 200
miles west of Berlin was as
signed by the British plan to
the Russians.
President Roosevelt en-
route from the Cairo Confer
ence to the Teheran Confer
ence in November 1943
sketched his own plan for a
division Of Germany. Under
this plan, the Soviet zone was
placed much farther east. 1t
began well east of Lubbock,
and ran southeast to Stettin.
and touched the edge Of
Berlin.
In January, 1914, the Brit
ish War Cabinet approved
the British cabinet committee
plan. In February, 1914. the
U. S. S. r. representative to
the European Advisory Com
mission submitted a plan SUBJ
stantially the same as the
British proposal. In about
March, 1914, President
Roosevelt submitted his own
plan to United States Am
bassador Winant in London
(but Winant for some reason
was not informed that RooSe-
welt was the author of the
plan). When it was realized
that the Russians and British
had virtually agreed on the
area of the Russian zone,
George Kennan, who was in
w a shin g ton, at Winant's
beheSt and with Hull's ap-
proval, consulted Roosevelt,
and informed him that the
British and Russians had al
ready agreed on the proposed
division. The President then
said that he did not object
to the zone to which the other
two had agreed. Thus the
present zonal arrangement in
Germany was established. It
should be noted that had
RooSevelt'S plan prevailed
(and with Churchill's support
he probably could have les
sened the Soviet sphere), the
Soviet zone would have been
moved eastward to the pres
ent German-Polish (Soviet-
determined Polish) border,
and the city of Berlin would
have been partially in the
western zone (thuS eliminat-
ing the ubiquitous corridor
iSSue).
Let your readers decide
which course was the wiser,
but certainly it is incorrect to
say, as Col. Kephart does, "he
had no personal knowledge of
Soviet world aims"
Edward A. PadelfOrd jr.
Capt, Air Force Reserve
I want to agree with both
Herbert c. Hopkins and Col.
C. 1. Kephart, and want to
second the motion of calling
Franklin D. Roosevelt by his
true name, IS observing
Franklin D. Roosevelt" but
I would like to include Flea
nor along with him.
Roosevelt and Stain have
erected a monument to their
memory that it may require
a war to erase, AND that is the
monument of a divided Ger
many, and the destruction of
a famous city, such as Berlin.
Winston Churchill, in his
book, Great Contempora-
ries," said: Communism is
not only a creed, it is a plan
of campaign. A Communist is
not only holder of certain
opinions, he is the pledged
adept of a well-thought-out
means of enforcing them. No
faith need be, indeed may be,