| Show crae go F 0 W DIPLOMACY AT SAN FRANCISCO rHAN CISCO SAN FRANCISCO FRANCIS CO by all odds the most skillful diplomacy game at this conference ha hap been played by dapper dignified anthony ed eden ol 01 great britain he has managed to come out as the friend of all aid sides and most important of all the mediator between russia and the united states in other words eden has completely reversed the previous role of president roosevelt who up until his death had acted as the mediator between churchill and stalin the churchill stalin rivalry was not merely personal it was his borle it was based not only on the fact that churchill just after the last war urged the sending of allied troops into russia to help the white russian generals overthrow the embryo bolshevik regime regarn e but that he flirted with the cliveden set which in 1939 advocated war between russia and germany while england sat oat on the side lines this was waa the basis for the personal so nal suspicion between him and Stal stalin lif out but historically churchill was carrying out a century old british policy of isolating russia for years the country with the greatest land mass in the world russia had been kept without a wm warm water seaport by britain tho the country with the greatest navy la in the world that rivalry was the reason tor for the tha anglo japanese alliance whereby the british working through japan helped to stop russia from getting manchuria and a warm water port on the pacific that rivalry was behind britaina Brit ains sphere of influence in persia now iran to prevent russian use of the gulf of persia that rivalry was also the cause of the crimean war in which the british fleet and british troops actually landed on the same spot where churchill stalin and roosevelt I 1 later held their yalta conference and waged a bloody battle to prevent the czar from coming down to the dardanelles Darda nelles and getting jet an outlet through the mediterranean finally this years old russo british rivalry was behind britaina Brit ains taking latvia lithuania estonia and finland away from russia after I 1 the last war to block her out outlet I 1 et to the tho baltic sea i roosevelt sits in middle that rivalry continued during the teheran yalta conferences with stalin it 1 and churchill both trading against each other and franklin roosevelt sitting in the middle at teheran the argument was over a second front through the balkans which churchill favored or through franci france which stalin favored churchill wanted the allied armies to get into the balkans dussias Rus sias sphere of influence and thereby keep the russians out cut he want allied armies ruining factories and alienating tho the population of western Europe which was to be britaina Brit ains sphere of influence in the end roosevelt the scales it in favO favor favoron of stalin toward a second reco id front through france once at teheran churchill trying to ao polte poke a little fun at stalin said marshal dir I 1 have noticed that whenever anyone comes 3 into contact with yu you Jh they eyb become slightly pink 11 to which stalin replied and mr M r prime minister any good doctor will tell itell you that pink is the healthiest of all colors and roosevelt e it wanting to pour pou roll oil on the troubled waters water 81 gentlemen let me r remind you that there Is nothing more beautiful than all the colors of the rainbow vv 10 but at the end as churchill dade bade farewell to stalin there was still tension between them well goodbye marshal said 6 id the prime minister IU ill sei see you in berlin 11 yes shot back stalin 1 I in a tank and you yau in ina a pullman car carpa loves out roosevelt was shrewd enough to continue as middle man even at t yalta despite the fact that he ha was slipping physically I 1 ile he kept both russia and great britain in th tha position fon of playing up to tha united states the loss of that strategic bargain ing Ipg power is the most important development of this 1 conference 1 stet tiffus has lost what roosevelt ROb sevelt had and anthony eden has cleverly stepped into his place ai the united states has now slipped into the position of being the chief rival and potential opponent of russia alk chil eden has iria maneuvered ered so BO that england sits in the middle able to throw its weight to one aide or the other 0 4 0 conference cross currents greek foreign minister arnopoulos at first was ao considered a british puppet but surprised ever everyone y by voting against the british on argentina ile he sides with russia against argentinas Argen tinas admission into the san F francisco ran cisco conference ile iia also helped to pass the greek eight hour child libor labor laws later was condemned to life imprison anent by the metaxas dictatorship under king george real expert on peace machinery Is dutch foreign minister van Klef Kl effens tens |
