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By PAUL PAULMALLON MAt LON y yReleased Released bv Western Newspaper Union UnionINTFRNAL INTFRNAL I'lTERNAL IlTERNAL ' WEAKNESS FORCES FORCESRUSSIA FORCESRUSSIA RUSSIA TO COMPROMISE COMPROMISEWASHINGTON WASHINGTONA WASHINGTON -A A - A mild modera moderatlon moderation tlon of front by Russia has been becn tak taking takIng ing plice phce S nee nce Molotov was called calledhome calledhome home tor for a private pnvatc conference w th thStal thStal Stal Staln n signs have been becn mcreaslng mcreaslngthat increasingthat that tact cs h:1e hai h:1\ h:1 h1 : \ e been altered some somehat somewhat \\hat hat \ \ Arrangements were immed immedately mimedately BigFour ately made at Pans bet veen the Big Four ministers mmlsters to postpone the as assembly assembly sembly session of U N tor for at least least30 days-until days until days - until Oct 23 23Messrs 130 Messrs Byrnes pnd Bevm are arepassmg arepassing passmg this change ott off 1 ghtly as a amatter amatter matter of routine routInc contending contcndmg manynat many manynat nat ons are arc s mply not well enough enoughstaffed enoughstaffed staffed staffedWIth with d plomats to let the thetY thetv.o thetvo tY . . 0 conferences run sImultaneous simultaneously ly as Byrnes wanted But m offer offermg offering mg this soft excuse they forget that thatBrnes thatByrnes Brnes ) at first demanded the Sept Sept.23 Sept23 . . 23 meet ng of U N go through as asscheduled scheduled ong orlg nally m order that he hemIght hemight mIght la ; ) the Par s deadlock before beforethe beforethe the assembly By their very agree agreement agreement ment for postponement , , there thereforeByrnes ore oreByrnes Byrnes and Bev n have given Paris Parisanother Parisanother another 30 days lease on life I1fe to see seeif If something somethmg constructive can be bedone bedone done in m that time or some ne v hopefor hope hopefor for a co operative peace held out out.And outAnd . . And strangely very strangely au authont authont thont es here now are saying saymg Paris Parismay Parismay may get results be before ore Oct 23 23REDS 23REDS REDS URG URGE CO OPERATION OPERATIONAt At the \ ery least Molotov has re reframed reframed framed from tossing tossmg the world worldaround worldaround around belligerently since smce his Labor LaborDay LaborDay Day visit to the Kremlin Kremlm Hence Hencealso Hencealso also Manu Manuilsky sky spoke to the U N Ncounc Ncouncil counc for more than two hours urg urgmg urging mg business busmess 1 ke co operation operationwhereas operationwhereas whereas not so long ago he and hIS hISassocIates hisassociates assocIates were talking talkmg about the thereact thereact react onary capital sts trying trymg to tomfluence toinfluence mfluence elections with airplane car carrlers carners rlers ( Reactionary is an inter interestmg interesting estmg word now being bemg promoted by byall byall all communists s multaneo1.s1y multaneo1s1y multaneo1.s1yaround multaneouslyaround . around the world especially as asthere asthere there is no pol tI tiial al movement more morereactionary morereactionary reactionary than communism wh ch chwants chwants wants to maintain mamtam Karl Marx and IS ISagainst isagainst against any change in m the status quo quoat quoat at home or in m her zones ) Shrewd Shrev.d Shrevd . students of Russia at- at attribute at attribute - tribute both the earlier earher thunder thunderand thunderand and lightning lIghtnmg of threatening threateningcommunist threateningcommunist communist diplomat dlploma } ) and the thecurrent thecurrent current symptoms of wlllmg wlllmgness willingness ness to co-operate co operate - - to Internal Internalconditions Internalconditions conditions at home in RussIa RussIaEXIstence RussiaExistence EXIstence of rioting rlotlDg In the theUkraine theUkraine Ukraine has been fairly wt.ll wtll wt.llauthenticated willauthenticated . authenticated through the Iron Ironcurtam ironcurtain curtam against agalDst news Indeed Indeedsome Indeedsome some Fussian russian announccments announccmentshave announcementshave have adverted in ID passing to thIs thIscondItion thiscondition condItion The communist lead leadersh.p leadership ersh.p ershp . In the Ukra Ukraine IDe Is kDown kDownto knownto to have been purged purgedFurther Further alone the same line Ime the thetop thetop top old commun st writers wnters and poetsare poets poetsare are being bemg purged openly on the theground theground ground that they strove to write wnte bet better better ter and to create some works betI of ofart ofart I art stic stlc merit instead mstead of wntmg wntmgRussian writingRussian Russian propaganda and encourag encouragme encouraging me the revolution Wh While e the encouragI move movement movement I ment ostracizing ostraclZmg or banishing bamshmg them themwas themwas was started in m the Leningrad Lenmgrad con congress congress gress the purge is being bemg pursued pursuedthroughout pursuedthroughout conI I throughout RussIa RussIaDROUTDS RussiaDROUTHS DROUTDS AND RIOTS RIOTSConfident Confident al reports bear nev ney . , . , > of ofa ofa a drouth in the Ukra Ukraine me and Vo ga garegIons garegions regIons which has greatly injuredthe mJured mJuredthe the Russian food crops and may mayhave mayhave have accentuated the local polit pollt cal calsItuation calsituation sItuation Americans like Ilke La LaGuardIa LaGuardia GuardIa who have taken the officIal officIalgovernment officialgovernment government conducted Cook s tour tourof tourof of Russia have not verified the se severIty severity verIty of this situation but they theycould theycould could only know what they were told toldthat toldthat that is the official Mosco v line llne lineRussian Russian sources are Inferen Inferentlally Inferentially tlally denying denymg Red army head headquarters headquarters quarters have been estabhshed establishedtn estabhshedin in Odessa ( nearest Russian Russianpomt Russianpoint pomt for attack upon the Dar Dardanelles Dardandles danelles ) Good friends fnends of the theIfo theMoi I\fo I fo \ > cow changing changmg line say Zhu- Zhu Zhukov Zhn.kov Zhnkov - . kov was sent down there some somewhat somewhat what as a matter of being per personally personally sonally purged There have havebeen havebeen been rumors from behind the thecurtain thecurtain curtain that Zhukov has been beenreplaced beenreplaced replaced by Koniev Konaev A man manwithout manwithout without patience who wants ac- ac actaon ac action - tion taon But the truth of these thesematters thesematters matters cannot be ascertained ascertainedthrough ascertainedthrough through Impenetrable censor censorsmpalthough censorship smp-although smp although - although Rukfia RUbsia has been beenpressing beenpressing pressing to ascertain where our ourarmies ourarmies armies arc are through U NTo N NTo To whatever mild IXUld extent the thechange thechange change of front has been effected the theevents theevents events so tar far indicate mdlcate it is purely theI a amatter amatter I matter of diplomatic expedIency expedIencyand expediencyand and while the home Moscow regIme regimemay I may be troubled because Its people peoplenaturally peoplenaturally naturally wish to ape us no change changein changein in the basic situation if IS noticeableo noticeable noticeableSTRIKES o 0 0 STRIKES TIIR THREATEN AT N FUTUREThe FUTURE FUTUREThe The unanswered question of hov howa . a stock market can persistently persistentlynosedive persistentlynosedive nosedive In an inflationary inllatlonary era when whenall whenall whenI I all other prices are soarmg-hae soarmg hae soarmghaebeen soaring - hasbeen been finally and rather convmcmgly convmcmglyexplamed convincinglyexplained convmcmglyI I explamed to me by one who knows knowsA A stock price is based on profits profitsand profitsand and expectations of profits The Thepostwar Thepostwar postwar prospects have long been beenobvIous beenobvious obvIous But one new element has hascrept hascrept crept into the situation progressively progresSIveIy progresSIve Iy the past few months and especial especially ly the past te fe wweeks It Is these thesecr thesecr cr ppl pl ng ttrikes btrikes I |