| Show NEWS R N I 1 irwill 91 BV released by western newspaper union PEACE conference VICTORY MORE APPARENT THAN REAL washington being advertised verti sed as a famous victory at paris the accounts from there were headed molotov finally yields A weighing of the event since then by expert and even some official news accountants has developed wonder if it was victory and how much molotov yielded in the first place china was not made a sponsoring nation for the big peace conference of 21 nations molotov did not yield on this the leading dispatches from the conference the day after neglected to mention this point nothing was said about china earlier both byrnes and bevin contended the omission of our friend in the orient as sponsor would be an insult to her molotov claimed china was not influential in the defeat of the nations for which treaties were being written in paris romania bulgaria hungary finland and italy and therefore she was not entitled to be a sponsor morally china was entitled to be a sponsor as a big five member and a participant in the war technically she may not have used any troops in the five countries mentioned but the united states did not use many either in finland with whom we were never at war and not many more in the balkans although the russians used plenty of our equipment POTSDAM AGREEMENT CITED next day france worded the invitation more peacefully and a movement to salve chinai china with the chairmanship man ship upon the second day of the meeting was attempted but molotov insisted upon chinas cainas omission as a sponsor pleading this was provided in the potsdam agreement which has never been enforced economically no at any rate then the big four conference decided to call the 21 nations apparently to approve the treaties they are making this was regarded as a victory for our mr byrnes who wanted yh eh a conference but molotov to restrict the rules of the conference which naturally had no rules never having been in assemblage sem blage he succeeded in requiring that each treaty go to a com cittee made up of the leading participants in the war on that country which Is all right but he said the committee must make decisions only by a two thirds majority which is not all right the committees apparently had no power to make any decisions at least the conference did not it could not change a treaty or no public suggestion was made that it could it was merely called to approve certainly its committees could not do anything it could not do yet russia imposed a two thirds majority upon decisions of committees with majority decisions among the whole what this will do I 1 have not yet found an authority to explain A two thirds majority without ant authority hority can only be a two thirds majority without power except to nullify any action TWO THIRDS RULE A JOKER actually the big council of nations was insisted upon by byrnes to let the smaller nations participate in the decision of the peace his victory in this respect was far from clear cut will the small nations be satisfied the question cannot be answered until you find out what the two thirds majority rule in com only will mean to their conference obviously russia drew her peace in such a way as to believe she excluded the small nations from changing it this is an old russian position against small nations which has taken many forms since the san francisco conference actually Actu aUy she does not care what small nations do but we do care what it looks like to me is that russia has considerably but yet indefinably stultified the byrnes in conference first by excluding china as a sponsor and secondly by a fool rule she can use as a veto on action this ibis would deny the existence of a victory for anyone except russia in her seto get the world to accept peace treaties which except for italy she is largely imposing the peace then depends actually upon the terms of the treaties themselves and in finland bulgaria romania and hungary these are being enforced and imposed by russia in italy by us IS RUSSIA NECESSARY the illusion of a operative cooperative co world peace is thereby becoming more elusive the participation by the smaller nations becomes less and less important and more and more restricted what was won at paris was that we got russia into another half world conference tor for better or worse my personal opinion is mr byrnes is proceeding on the wrong theory namely that we must get russia into an agreement on everything or he will lose his case |
