Show OR W EA ON DIPLOMACY AT SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO By all odds the most skillful diplomacy game at this conference has been played by dapper dignified Anthony Eden of Great Britain He has managed to come out as the friend of all sides and most important of all the mediator between Russia and the United States In other words Eden has completely completely completely com com- reversed the previous role of President Roosevelt who up until until until un un- til his dea death th had acted as the mediator mediator mediator medi medi- ator between Churchill and Stalin The Churchill Stalin rivalry was not merely personal It was his his- I tone It was based not only on the fact that Churchill just just- after ter the thelast las last war urged the sending of Allied troops into Russia to help the White Russian generals overthrow the embryo embryo embryo em em- Bolshevik regime but that he flirted with the Cliveden set which in 1939 advocated war between Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia and Germany while England sat on the side lines This was the basis for the personal personal personal per per- suspicion between him and Stalin But historically Churchill was carrying out a old century British policy of isolating isolating isolating iso iso- lating Russia For years the country with the greatest land landmass landmass landmass mass in the world Russia had been kept without a water warm-water seaport by Britain the country with the greatest navy in the world That rivalry was the reason for forthe forthe forthe the Japanese Anglo-Japanese alliance whereby whereby whereby where where- by the British working through Japan helped to stop Russia from getting Manchuria and a warm- warm water port on the Pacific That rivalry was behind Britain's sphere of influence in Persia now Iran to prevent Russian use of the gulf gull 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 later held their Yalta conference and waged a bloody battle battle battle bat bat- tle to prevent the Czar from coming coming coming com com- ing down to the Dardanelles and getting getting getting get get- ting an outlet through the Finally this years old Russo- Russo British rivalry was behind Britain's taking Latvia Lithuania Estonia and Finland away from Russia after the last war to block her outlet to the Baltic sea Roosevelt Sits in Middle 1 That rivalry continued during the Teheran Yalta conferences with Stalin 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 Balkans Balkans Bal Bal- kans which Churchill favored or through France which Stalin fa favored fa- fa Churchill wanted the Allied Allied Allied Al Al- lied armies to get into the Balkans Balkans- Russia's sphere of influence and thereby keep the Russians out He didn't want Allied armies ruining factories and alienating the population population population tion of western Europe which Europe which was to be Britain's sphere of influence In the end Roosevelt tipped the scales in favor of Stalin toward Stalin toward a second front through France Once at Teheran Churchill trying I Ito to poke a little fun at Stalin said Marshal I have noticed that wheneVer whenever when- when eVer anyone comes into contact with you they become slightly pink To which Stalin replied And Mr Prime Minister any good doctor will tell telI you that pink is the healthiest of all colors And Roosevelt wanting to pour oil on the troubled waters said Gentlemen let me Die remind remind remind re re- re- re mind you that there is nothing more beautiful than all the colors colors colors col col- col- col ors of the rainbow But at the end as Churchill bade farewell to Stalin there was still tension between them Well Vell goodbye Marshal said the prime minister Ill see you in Berlin Yes shot back Stalin I in a tank and you in a pullman car Loses OutI Out Oat I Roosevelt was shrewd enough to continue as middle man even evena a at Yalta despite the fact that he was slipping physically He kept both Russia and Great Britain in the position of playing up to the United States The loss of that strategic bargaining bargain bargain- ing power is the most important development development development de de- of this conference Stet Stet- tinius has l lost st what Roo Roosevelt evelt had and Anthony Eden has cleverly stepped into his place The United States has now slipped into the position of being the chief rival and potential opponent of Russia Russia Rus Rus- Russia sia while Eden has maneuvered so that England sits in the middle able to throw its weight to one side orthe or orthe orthe the other Conference Cross Currents Greek Foreign Minister Sophi- Sophi at first was considered a British puppet but surprised everyone everyone everyone every every- one by voting against the British on Argentina He sides with Russia against agi Argentinas Argentina's admission into the San Francisco conference He also helped to pass the Greek Greek hour eight-hour child labor laws later was condemned to life lUe imprisonment imprisonment imprisonment imprison imprison- ment by the Metaxas s dictatorship under King George Real expert expert expert ex ex- pert on peace machinery is Dutch Foreign Minister Van |