Show NEWS bahi D raw them ne E iw 4 by PAUL MALLON ne released leased by western newspaper union RUSSIA STRIVES TO WRECK V u N PEACE discussions washington the patient courage of byrnes and bevin is holding the united nations peace discussion together in the face of persistent russian pressure to reduce it to a babble those who know the ins and outs here recognize the personal courage of these three men Is responsible tor for keeping the peace ideal aloft a courage such as byrnes displayed in resisting the wallace boring within his own administration the refusal to take up and make sound political capital out of the democratic drifts toward the communist dom americ american an labor party and now the bevin resistance to a procommunist appeasement drive led by an oxford professor in his own british parliament these men are sincerely fighting tor 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 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 i movement would tall fall to the unbelievable lie vable level of russian world nonsense to wit albania controlled by a communist dictator actually proclaims the right of murder of innocent men it refuses to let its internationally used waters be cleared of mines which already have sunk several british naval ships and killed british seamen any government of any hue bue desiring the simplest human justice would have demanded those straits be swept after the first accident to save sav e 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 tile the nazis and in the defense of jews simply because lie refused to accept a repugnant n ant communism tito proudly proclaims the catholic fear communism just exactly as the nazis 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 i american bases now russia got all her bases out of the jap victory completely as her own she took the auriles and sakhalin Sak halin 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 conquered with american blood alone it if only the trusteeship will let u us manage them and not veto us russia arises in opposition she wants the right of veto over our own bases OUR FIRST DEFENSES the generous truman offer is supposed to have been worked out by the state war and navy policy committees it was so generous some authorities err onerously thought it was a campaign gesture to the leftists and their communists because it was made just before election the marshall marianas mariakas Mari anas and caroline islands were won by americans alone just as surely as russia won her territory on the eastern front of europe but not japanese territory because she did not enter th that at fight until it was won even britain has offered to put under trusteeship three remote african regions the cam croons tanganyika and togo land but she did not offer gibraltar the pacific islands are our gibraltar as tar far as future peace and protection against communist revolution are concerned in the pacific macit le with an international trusteeship russi russil l mill ill learn all we are doing there the truman proposition was simply that we decide ourselves without russian veto abat hat to do there in the he future air world while letting the world keep in touch with ith what we do through its trusteeship the russian position is even worse nonsense than these facts imply actually if she defeats the truman proposal we will keep the islands and can 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 system in U N the question thus cannot be avoided as to whether russia also is trying to sabotage world wor id common sense the common world belief in justice aswell as the w rm i in if ital 1 f |