Show 6 W DIPLOMACY DIPLOMA CT AT SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO by all odds the tha 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 ol of all 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 pre president aident 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 historic 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 but that he flirted with the cliveden set which in 1939 1039 advocated war between russia and germany while england sat on the side lines this was the basis for the personal suspicion between him and stalin but bat historic historically allys churchill was carrying out a century centary old british policy of iso lating russia for years the country with the greatest land mass in the world russia had been kept without a warm water seaport by britain the country with the greatest navy in the world that rivalry was the reason tor for the anglo japanese alliance whereby the british working through japan helped to stop russia from getting manchuria an and d 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 0 of f the gulf of persia that rivalry was alsy 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 to prevent the czar from coming down to the dardanelles Darda nelles and getting an outlet through the Med mediterranean lter finally this years old russo russ 0 british BrItis tr rivalry was behind britaina Brit ains 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 iddle 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 which churchill favored or through france which stalin fa bored churchill wanted the allied armies to get into the balkans balkan s dussias Rus Russ sias lai sphere of influence and thereby keep the russians out he want allied armies ruining factories and allena alienating ting the population of western europe which was to be britaina Brit ains sphere of influence in the end roosevelt tipped the scales in favor of stalin toward a second front through france once at teheran churchill trying to poke a little fun at stalin said marshal I 1 have noticed that whenever anyone comes into contact with you they become slightly pink to w which aich stalin replied and mr prime minister any good doctor will tell you that pink Is the healthiest heal Nest of all colors and roosevelt wanting to pour oil on the troubled tro waters I 1 said gald gentlemen let me remind you that there is nothing more beautiful than all the colors of the rainbow but at the end as churchill bade farewell to stalin there was r till still tension between them well goodbye marshal said sat d the prime minister ill see you in berlin yes shot back stalin 1 I in a tank and you in a pullman car Stettin fus loses out oat roosevelt was shrewd enough to continue as middle man even eve n a at t yalta despite the fact that he ha was r upping slipping physically he kept both russia and great britain in the position of playing up api upi to the united states the rhe loss of that strategic bargain ing power is the most important development of this conference stet tiffus has lost what roosevelt had and anthony eden has cleverly stepped into his hid place the united states has now slipped into the position of being the chief rival and potential opponent of russia while eden has maneuvered so kt that england sits its in the middle able to throw its weight to one side or the other conference cross currents greek ateek foreign minister arnopoulos at first was considered a british puppet but surprised everyone by voting against the british on argentina he sides with russia against argentinas Argen tinas admission into the san francisco conference he also helped to pass the greek eight hour child labor laws later was condemned to life imprisonment by the metaxas dictatorship i under king george real expert on peace machinery Is dutch foreign minister van Kl effens |