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Show News Behind By PaULMaLLON Released by Western Newspaper Union. RUSSIA WILL BE POSTWAR POWER WASHINGTON. The censorious air of the Dumbarton Oaks peace conference is filled with light tales of efforts to be charming to the Russians. In the matter of seating for pictures, pic-tures, for instance, it was arranged so the Russian delegates would be on the right hand of the Americans, For many generations past, the British Brit-ish always have sat there or at the head of European peace conference tables. Protocol practitioners of our state department sank Into a dither when one newspaper caption cap-tion on the picture erroneously identified the British as occupying occupy-ing the position of the Russians. Indeed, one business analyst-reporter here was officially advised that his comments on the meeting were "not helpful to American-So viet relations," as if the official at-titude at-titude should control the press accounts. ac-counts. Some may think a little realism might help relations a lot more, or make them more solid for the long run. Investigation indicates the extreme ex-treme deference to Russia, however, is not necessarily being carried to the extent of accepting entirely her wishes in the peace. The Moscow idea of an international air force, for one instance, appears to have, been rejected. The attitude seems due rather to a prevailing diplomatic impression im-pression that the Russians arc sensitive and easily offended, which should put them in a good bargaining position. I wish all the people with whom I do business busi-ness would consider me sensitive. sensi-tive. Behind it also is the unannounced conviction high in Washington and London that mere will be war with Russia within 15 years unless a mutually mu-tually acceptable postwar peace understanding un-derstanding is reached now. The British are especially afraid of Russia. They see her not only sitting at their usual place at this conference but in the Balkans as well, and indeed likely to sit there over all Europe. For instance, there were four French underground movements, all separate, but the strongest of these was the Russian. In the temporary DeGaulle cabinet, these elements are acquiring posts of power. The Balkan Policy. The Balkan nations, formerly guided by British financial and political po-litical policy, are at least unsettled, and the same problem in Italy has reached the point of a clash, despite our efforts to ppstpone meeting the issue as long as possible. This is an unavoidable, apparent and dominant matter of the peace and to try to hold the public head in the sand will not solve the situation. situa-tion. The truth is, Russia is establishing estab-lishing a new place for herself in the world, and any concrete agreement agree-ment for postwar stabilization means stabilization protecting her new position as well as our own. Formerly she was a revolutionary minority in the world, and therefore naturally antagonistic to the world status, but now she has acquired a status of great power and therefore there-fore needs a conservative world order. or-der. The Russians seem to me to be ultra-realists. On the other hand, it is equally true that much of our peace proposal pro-posal talk is following obsolete thought guided by past history instead in-stead of coming history. We think mainly of putting the screws upon Germany and Japan so they never can rise again, but they can easily be put down to minor military powers, pow-ers, and kept there as long as the world is alert. The major military farces existing ex-isting after this war will be divided di-vided between the United States and Russia, and the mutual relations re-lations between these two alone arc apt to have more to do with the future peace of the world than whatever we do to Germany Germa-ny and Japan. But this is not the only invisible electricity in the air at Dumbarton Oaks. South Dakota's Senator Bush-field Bush-field was right in his contention In the senate that the American security se-curity plan would give the President the power to declare war. While the administration does nol wish to admit this now, fearing the point may become involved in trx campaign, it does not intend to change that recommendation. By unanimous vote of the Bij Four nations on the proposed executive execu-tive council (United States, Britain, Russia and China), military actor could be taken. Thus the President, who naturallj would dominate the American councilor, coun-cilor, could send troops anywhere it the world without consent of congress. con-gress. The true administration positiot on this is hardly along the line Senator Sen-ator Connally offered to Bushfield It truly feels speed is essential f throttle military aggression |