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• (Friday, August 27, 1948)
PESSIMISM ON BERLIN
(By Barnet Nover)
There is a growing pessimism in London. Paris and
Washington regarding the outcome of the secret talks
in Moscow between Russia and the western powers.
The feeling of unrestrained optimism that was engen
dered when Premier Stalin promptly agreed to see the
western envoys and then conferred with them amicably
for several hours, has now largely vanished.
The new mood cannot exactly be described as one of
hopelessness. But the belief is beginning to vanish that
a constructive agreement will result from the Moscow
talks and that, in consequence, the way will have been
paved for a comprehensive four-power conference on
the German problem.
Not the least ominous sign is, paradoxically, the re-#
cent editorial in the New Tmies, organ of the Soviet for
eign office, ridiculing statements published in France
and elsewhere to the effect that there is “no ground for
compromise between the western powers and the Sov
iet Union on the German question.”
The New Times contends that compromise is possible
and at first glance that would seem to be an indication
that Russia has not yet bolted and barred the door to an
agreement with the west.
A careful reading of the New Times editorial, how
ever, dispels any such belief. What becomes clear in
stead is that in arguing the feasibility of a compromise
on the German question the Russian foreign policy pub
lication is merely indulging in a propaganda offensive
against the western powers, getting ready to place the
blame on them if, as is increasingly probable, the Mos
cow conversations end in failure.
Actually, the kind of a “compromise*' on the German
problem which Russia apparently demands and which
is spelled in more or less detail in the very same issue of
the New Times would not, from the western point of
view, be a compromise at all but a capitulation.
In return for Russian good will, a dubious quantity at
best, and a possible lifting of the siege of Berlin, Russia
apparently wants participation in the control of the
Ruhr, the abandonment of plans to create a west Ger
man regime and a peace settlement with Germany'
along Russian lines.
In discussing the farcical parley at Belgrade regard
ing the Danube question, Secretary of State Marshall
declared at a press conference that the United States
was not interested in seeking agreements with Russia
for agreement’s sake.
The same holds true of the German problem,
The present discussions in Moscow were the product
of a wholly well-intentioned desire to hold out an olive
branch to Russia. The attitude displayed by Stalin at
the original meeting seemed to suggest that Russia
might respond with equal conciliatoriness.
So far there has been no sign of that. On the contrary,
the Russians have stepped up their pressure on Berlin
and have shown no willingness whatever to accommo
date their views on the Danube question with those of
the western powers.
At the same time, enough has leaked out of the Krem
lin talks between the western envoys and foreign min
ister Molotov of Russia to suggest that the Russian lead
ers have been interpreting the western approach to
Moscow as a sign of weakness and are seeking to cap
fhov rpaarH as their superior bargaining
THE WINDOW'S OPEN
*
) LOMAXtH
position.
Assuming that the western powers have been hurt,
and hurl hard, by the Berlin blockade and disregarding
the fart that this blockade is a wholly illegal as well as
inhuman operation, the Russians have been demanding
that the United States, Great Britain and France pay a
stiff price for the lifting of the blockade.
This is plain blackmail. It would be fatal for the west
ern powers to submit to such tactics. At the same time
they must be on their guard against a prolongation of
the discussions beyond the point when even slight suc
cess becomes improbable.
There is a strong possibility that the Russians are
stalling for time and have been, doing so from the be
ginning, in the belief that when winter comes and air
lift operations become increasingly difficult, the west
ern powers will have no choice but to pay the price Rus
s'a demands for the lifting of the siege.
WIIAT A BARREL OF WHISKY CONTAINS
(Mrs. George Singleton)
A barrel of headaches, of heartaches, and woes;
A barrel of curses, a barrel of blows;
A barrel of sorrow for a loving wife;
A barrel of care, a barrel of strife;
A barrel of unavailing regret;
A barrel of cares, a barrel of debt:
A barrel of hunger, of poison, of pain;
A barrel of hopes, all blasted and vain;
A barrel of poverty, -ruin, and blight;
A barrel of tears that run in the night;
A barrel of crime, a barrel of groans;
A barrel of orphan’s most pitiful moans;
A barrel of serpents that hiss as they pass,
That glow from the liquor in the bead in the glass;
A barrel of falsehoods, a barrel of cries;
That fall from the maniac’s lips as he dies.
• - -
RAY, TITO!
When 2000 Yugoslav Communists opened a party
Congress recently in Belgrade they shouted Tito’s name
in rhythm for five minutes.
As an old high school cheer-leader, we are a little
dubious how that would sound. It needs either a “sis
boom bah,” or simply “ ’Ray Tito” and a tiger.
Then there is the matter of cadence. Repeated rapid
ly it would be tongue-tiring and perhaps too remindful
of a machine gun. Taken slowly, it still needs a cumu
lative effect, like for instance “ti-to-tal-i-tar-i-an!”
In any case the Yugoslav versvion probably went
better than if the 2000 delegates had sounded off for
! five minutes with the dictator’s real name: It’s Broz,
1 and don’t ask us how to pronounce it.
Rescue Three from
Sinking 5>oat
HOQUIAM, ,A’> — A dramatic
story of the rescue of three tbsher
ment in heavy seas all Queen
| Charlotte Island was told by dr:
three survivors whea they landed
here yesterday.
ave i by another fishing vessel
Monday when their 65-foot craft,
the Superior, swamped and sank
were Capt. Otto Forde, Fred An
derson and Chris Knutsen. all ol
Seattle. Tie rescue craft was the
Dolphin of YVestporD
Anderson and Knutsen were
hauled from the water when the
Dl'cboat in which they were carry
ing a tow line between the boats
was capsized by high waves. Crew
members of the Dolphin puiied
them from their over-turned life
boat aboard a liferaft and then
transferred Fordo from the Supe
rior to the Dolphin in the same
way. The Superior sank with
more than six tons of tuna while
being towed in.
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