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Show By PaULMaLION JCff' I Released by Western Newspaper Union. RUSSIA STRIVES TO WRECK U. N. PEACE DISCUSSIONS WASHINGTON. The patient courage cour-age of Messrs. Byrnes, Vandenberg and Bevin is holding the United Nations Na-tions peace discussion together in the face of persistent Russian pressure pres-sure to reduce it to a babble. Those who know the ins and outs here recognize rec-ognize the personal courage of these three men is responsible for keeping the peace ideal aloft a courage such as Byrnes displayed in resisting resist-ing the Wallace boring within his own administration, the Varnberg refusal to take up and make sound political capital out of the Democratic Democrat-ic drifts toward the Communist-dominated American Labor party, and now the Bevin resistance to a pro- Communist appeasement drive led by an Oxford professor In his own British parliament. These men are sincerely fighting for a fair way of life, and they will not let go, or give In, even when it hurts. Such diplomatic courage is a rare thing. The tribute is more appreciated by those on high as the new Russian line of friendliness without abandonment abandon-ment of antagonism has come Into affect a sort of attempt at social grace while scuttling the common theory of world Justice. TERRIBLE 'NONSENSE' Without these three men the peace movement would fall to the unbelievable unbe-lievable level of Russian world nonsense, non-sense, to wit: Albania, controlled by a Communist dictator, actually proclaims the right of murder of Innocent In-nocent men. It refuses to let its internationally used waters be cleared of mines which already have sunk several British naval ships and killed British seamea Any government govern-ment of any hue, desiring the simplest sim-plest human Justice, would have demanded de-manded those straits be swept after the first accident to save lives, but not Albania, which stands somewhat as Yugoslavia did in the shooting down of American airmen. And Yugoslavia has sent to Jail a religious man, a Roman Catholic bishop, who fought against the Nazis and In the defense de-fense of Jews, simply because he refused to accept a repugnant repug-nant Communism. Tito proudly proclaims the Catholic fear Communism, Just exactly as the Nails tried to make all Jews fear them by concentration camps. But perhaps the most serious current Russian attempt to make the world accept nonsense as a policy Is on the question of American bases. Now Russia cot all her bases out of the Jap victory completely as her own. She took the Kuriles and Sakhalin islands north of Japan as Russian territory, as well as a part of Korea. She gave nothing to the world organization to be put under trusteeship. Yet when President Truman comes forward now with a proposal to let the United Nations have an international trusteeship over those vital air bases, the islands southeast of Japan (which we con-quered con-quered with American blood alone), if only the trusteeship will let us manage them and not veto us Russia Rus-sia arises in opposition. She wonts the right of veto over our own bases! - . m J. ! . 11.1 L.'H IM U I IIV.-'l I'l.i 1. .1 1 - The generous Truman offer Is supposed sup-posed to have been worked out by the state, war and navy policy committees. com-mittees. It was so generous some authorities erronerously thought It was a campaign gesture to the leftists left-ists and ihtir Communists becaufs it was mode just before election. The 'Marshall, M.irianiis and Caroline Islands Is-lands were won by Americans alone just as surely as Russia won her ter ritory on the eastern front of Europe (but not Japanese territory because she did nut enter that fight until it was won). Even Britain has offered to put under trusteeship three remote re-mote African regions, the Cam-croons, Cam-croons, Tanganyika and Togo-land, Togo-land, but she did not offer Gibraltar. Gib-raltar. The Pacillc islands are our Gibraltar as far as future peace and protection against Communist revolution are con-rerned con-rerned In the Pacillc. With an International trusteeship, Russia will learn all we are doing there. The Truman proposition was simply that we decide ourselves, without Russian veto, what to do there In the future air world, while letting the world keep In touch wiih what we do through Its trusteeship. The Russian position Is even worse nonsense than these facts Imply. Actually If she deftuts the Truman proposal, we will keep the Islands and con veto any U. N. action about our actions. We can keep them and run them without Russian veto. The only thing she can accomplish by her position is to sabotage the trusteeship trus-teeship system In U. N. The question thus cannot be avoided avoid-ed us to whether Russia also is try-ling try-ling to sabotage world common sense, the common world belief in Justice, as well as the truil".-h;p ..i.m In lt Infmnv |