Show NEWS BEHIN ball them by PAUL MALLON y released by western newspaper union NE NEW W STATIC STATE POLICY RETREAT TO RUSSIA washington in complete e official f privacy the state department has spent some weeks getting up a new statement of american for or eign policy the only great question of policy of course is how bow to treat russia on this the paper was not illuminating in its original for lorm the byrnes policy established at at moscow and london since mid december has been substantially this press no point which would be offensive to russian claims retreat on policy as much as possible and accept russian contentions the apparent but not professed purpose has ha byrnes been to entice russia out of her nationalistic tiona listic isolation in dealing la in the world of affairs this has kept world news rather calm but events behind the news particularly from europe are working up boldly and may break sensationally tio nally do not n 0 t tor for instance let yourself be currently misled into believing the domination of the french government by communists and socialists de is a permanent arrangement ran gement or that the name of de will remain forever in retirement ti from french politics give greater notice than has been given to the victory of the belgian catholic party over both communists and socialists belgium Is halt french with all the same elements ot of french politics in miniature indeed throughout europe even in yugoslavia the resistance to communism Is taking the only effective form yet evidenced in the gathering together of catholic 01 io cleme elements n is I 1 have heard american statesmen say these christian christ lan groups are the only ones in the world today who know how to resist communism ideologically or politically these groups have a firm ideology them REDS PUT ENGLAND ON DEFENSIVE britain was the first nation to talk alk up to the soviets but the diplomatic resistance of bevin at the london landon UNO conference was ta tactical ct rather than formidable the russians had raised the question of british influence in greece primarily to cover their own tracks in poland the balkans iran turkey and other places where they are attempting to extend their influence they forced britain to the defensive by raising this question after accomplishing comp lishing this purpose and succeeding in getting UNO to allow moscow to deal separately with a pro communism iranian prime minister installed at teheran tor for the purpose russia withdrew her greek charges against bevin the common current belief that bevin may have found a way of treating with moscow therefore is unjustified lie ile twice passed the lie to them and they backed down true enough eit but when you add up the res tins you will see dussia won the action she wanted from UNO UIN 0 while hile bevin won nothing except the red herring berring president truman meanwhile is recognizing that the army seems to know how to get along with the soviets without losing their shirts better than our timid and confused diplomats he chose general marshall to go to china to get chiang into a peace with the communists and now he selected general eisenhowe ers chief ol of staff to be ambassador to moscow instead of a diplomat or a politician army men by nature should be more interested in results than in the political ideas ot of justice for this and that which have so confused our diplomats la in recent years latest example joe davies who thinks russian spying on canada just justified but no doubt would cry out against any canadian spying on russia aheras any realist knows know all nations have always spied on all others and always will ibis new reliance on army realism Is the most hopeful development in american foreign policy in contrast to these childish but pompous accumulations of apor vaporous generalities the state department plans to put out under the th claim that they are great state pro noun cements I 1 mean it Is most important por tant if a recent pronouncement by mrs roosevelt does not it mrs roosevelt has been recognized as a spokesman tor for the class thought which pressured byrnes into the appeasement policy causing him to retreat |