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Friday, March 19,1948
Rlninin" Tin* Defenders
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(The Denver Post)
TO WHAT DEPTHS of infamy must the Russians de
scend before Henry Wallace will find anything wrong
with them? As the blackout of liberty presses westward
in Europe, Wallace has no reproach for the aggressor*.
He spends his indignation upon the defenders.
Wallace and the Communist quislings blame the
United States, not Russia, for the crushing of Czecho
slovakia.
“Every act under the Truman doctrine is clearly la
beled ‘anti-Russian’,” argues Wallace in apology for
the latest Communist coup. “The men in Moscow would,
from their viewpoint, be utter morons if they failed to
respond with acts of pro-Russian consolidation.”
Wallace needs to be refreshed on two dates of history.
The first is Sept. 12, 1946, when Wallace, then secretary
of commerce, initially expreshed his own doctrine of
appeasement in the famous Madison Square Garden
speech. The second is March 12, 1947, when President
Truman asked Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey.
Wallace’s doctrine of appeasement preceded the first
expression of Truman doctrine by an even six months.
The Truman proposal of military aid to nations
threatened by aggression was made only after every
hope of saving freedom by other means had been ex
hausted.
It is probably true that the U. S. policy of firmness,!
followed by the Marshall plan, has led to a stepping up
of the Russian timetable of aggression. But, to say that
it is the cause of the Sovie course of conquest is an his
toric absurdity.
' Russia’s blueprint for aggression had been written
long before the end of the war. The Kremlin was all set
to profit from the chaos in the wake of battle. Commun
ist units, schooled in Moscow in the technics of political
infiltration, were poised to follow in the trail of the Rus
sian armies of “liberation.”
The Russians were fighting a war and conducting a
campaign of revolutionary conquest at the same time.
By the time the western democracies awakened to what
was going on, the chains of totalitarianism had already
been forged in eastern Europe. What Stalin has been
doing since is to tighten those chains.
Wallace declares: “Only an administration in Wash
ington that the Russians will respect—only a peace
party at the helm—can secure the peace.” By a “peace
party” he means his own Communist masquerade.
Wallace is right. There is only one administration the
Russians would respect. That would be totally Com
munist from the White House down to the lowest
fourth-class postoffice.
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Palestine Policy
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(By Jack Foster)
THOSE WHO CHARGE the U. S. government with
deserting the Palestine partition recommendation miss
the point of its statement to the Security Council.
It is trying to find some way to restore peace in Pales
tine, to preserve the United Nations and to avert a
world war, as the basis of any solution. In that it de
serves the support of all men of good will.
Far from evasive hair-splitting, the American state
ment was a much-needed clarification of basic factors1
too long confused by the propaganda, wishful thinking]
and violence whi6h saturate the situation.
It was a reminder that the Assembly’s partition “de- j
cision” was and could be only a recommendation; that(
the Security Council could and shpuld enforce peace;
that the United States should not and would not act
! alone. [
Those who want the United States to give a fictitious
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finality to an Assembly recommendation confuse a
moral aspiration with a legal sanction. Those who want
the United States to dictate a settlement, in disregard of
U. N. Charter rules, would unwittingly destroy the in
ternational organization by attempted domination sim
ilar to which Russia in other cases is undermining the
United Nations.
It is true that the chances for effective partition are
now weaker. This, however, is not due to the United
States statement to the security council.
It is because of a whole series of sins of omission and
commission since last November, when the Assembly
evaded the necessity of an international constabulary
and the security council failed to recognize Arab-Jewish
violence as a threat to peace. Three months of U. N. in
action, and of increasing Arab lawlessness and Jewish
retaliation, have multiplied the always numerous ob
stacles to partition.
Genuine three-way political partition with economic
union, as recommended by the Assembly, never has
been possible without Arab co-operation. \
Arabs cannot be forced to govern a separate Arab
state. Their continued boycott would throw the respon
sibility back upon the U. N. for administration of their
proposed zone, as well as for the international zone of
Jerusalem. That would raise the question whether the
proposed Jewish state could stand, or whether civil war
in it would necessitate U. N. administration there, also.
What is clear is that all chance of making any parti
tion work depends on restoring law and order inside
Palestine, and on preserving external security.
To let Arabs and Jews fight it out is not a solution—it
was to prevent such a tragedy and international risk
that the Assembly recommended the partition‘compro
mise as a lesser evil.
We believe our government, despite past mistakes, is
wise in insisting that peace is the first consideration in
Palestine. We believe that the Security Council should
create an international constabulary-—definitely not a
joint military occupation by the big powers, which has
failed in Germany, Austria and Korea—to enforce that
peace.
We believe that out of such a guaranteed peace, and
only out of it, some form of protected Jewish state
might grow in part of Palestine.
Let’s Hope
WHEN WHOLESALE meat prices broke sharply
some of the weightiest cheering must have gone up
from the Toledo Scale Co., of Toledo, Ohio.
Back when round steak was 35 cents a pound, the To
ledo company used to equip its butchershop scales with
an automatic computing chart that figured meat as high
as an incredible 75 cents a pound. That wasn’t high
enough c6me 1946, forcing butchers to grab greasy pen
cils and wrapping paper to do their own computing on
a customer's purchase.
Stores wrote in about the charts, so the Toledo com
pany put a crew of mathemati
cians to work figuring a new
chart, this time 'way up to 95
cents a pound, on the theory that
meat wouldn’t go much higher.
Well, it did, and the Toledo
company began turning out bigger
and better charts much faster
than their scales. The latest chart
we noted in our butchership was
calibrated for $1.75 meat, while
over at the delicatessen counter
some fancy stuff was selling
around $2.
The Toledo company never
i quite caught up—a sharp little fa
I cet of the inflation saga.
Maybe now they won’t have to
put up any new charts.
Red Nations
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Not Represented
In Spain
(By Palmer Hoyt. Jr.)
MADRID, — Officially Spain
probably is the most anti-Com
munist nation in the world, for
the Spanish government has no re
lations with any Communist-con
trolled country, and there is no
recognition of Russia except as a
whipping-boy in the daily press.
Because of this, it is surprising
that the names of Poland and Yu
goslavia are listed among the thir
try-four legations arfd embassies
located in Madrid. But these are
i not representatives of the present
government of those countries.
The Yugoslav representative,
who has no legal standing, is firm
ly loyal to the monarchy which
existed before World War II. He
has no standing with the Franco
i government because there are
practically no Yugoslavs in Spain,
I and since the beginning of the
i war, the Spanish government has
had little to do with Yugoslavia.
Poland, however, has a minister
I who is recognized as the official
Polish representative in Spain,
i This man, Count Josef Potocki,
has nothing to do with the present
Polish government either, but rep
resents the Polish government-in
exile which moved to London af
ter the war began in 1939.
This government-in-exile tries
! to help the one million Poles who
have left their homeland and ap
parently do not wish to return un
til the present Communist-domin
ated government is removed from
power.
In Spam there are only about
200 Poles, and most of these are
-children or university students.
But there are many more in other
countries and the London govern
ment still is recognized officially
[ by Spain, Syria, Cuba, Ireland and
the Vatican as the official Polish
regime.
The present minister occupies
, the old legation quarters near the
I Avenue del Generalissimo Franca,
! which Spaniards still call the Cas
| tellana. While it is very official it
has no power to issue visas or
passports, nor does it have any
contact with Warsaw, except
through other sources—and even
, then very indirectly.
I Even so it frequently is men
tioned in Arriba, the official or
gan of the Falange, the legation
officers are invited as are those of
geographical countries to all offi
i cial occasions.
I The Warsaw government, on the
other hand, is seldom heard of or
spoken of in Madrid outside the
Polish legation.
Russia has no diplomatic repre
sentation, but it vies with the
, United States for position as most
frequently mentioned country in
the Spanish press. While newspa
j ners and magazines speak both
• well and badly of Uncle Sam, the