Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1942 — Page 13

Famed Correspondent Says Only U. §. Can Hold United

Others, Trust U. S.

Allied Front, Because Russians Like Many

More Than Britain.

By LELAND STOWE

copghs ‘1043, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

MOSCOW, ‘Aug. 13.—There is widespread and in- ¢ creasing feeling among the Russian people, shared by at %least a considerable body of Soviet civilian and military leaders, that America’s war chiefs are definitely more alive ‘to the immediate need of opening a second front to relieve

‘Russia’s hard-pressed armies

than those of Britain are.

This probably accounts in large measure for the fact ‘that Americans today are certainly more popular with the "Russians than the British are but iti is also a phenomenon of

-~extremely great importance . - “as regards the role of the * United States throughout the . remainder of the war. The difference between the Rus--1-slans’ present attitude toward the = British-and Americans is no excep“tion: I have encountered the same

- #'distinction in almost every Balkan . country and in every war zone of|’

the country between Greece and , China—including China, Burma, * India and Iran. ? This is Britain's greatest misPortus ‘In this war and no American can afford to be happy or smug about -it because this: mis- ~ fortune has cost, costs now and will . continue to cost America just as ,.heav Jy on the terribly difficult road

msg? victory as it has cost and will

cost Britain. But without casting a single recrimination for the dragon’s teeth which British imperial policies have sown aver long years, Americans , still. must recognize—and the sooner the better—that what is Britain's psychological misfortune now con- . stitutes both America’s opportunity - “and her unavoidable responsibility if this war is to be won. In this ©. war American leadership is needed 100 times more urgently than it ever was in the first world war.

Much in Common

. - It is no yxaggeration to state that at no time in the -history of the “United. States had there existed “‘such a desperate and crying need I for ‘American leadership—for Amer"jean leadership that is understand- * ing, far-sighted ‘and fully awake to “its stupéndous ‘responsibilities and _ to the almost frightening confidence © which the common masses of hu- * manity in‘ such remote lands as "China, Thailand, or even the interior of Siberia somehow place in * America as their friend or ally. It is the simple truth that Americans and Rusgians by some whimsy of fate have a broader natural base “for mutual understanding and co- " operation than the Russians and : British have. Anyone Who lives even. three months in the Soviet * Union finds this to be indisputably true in his daily - experience and - observations: This is true for a number of rea- - sons but" most of all, perhaps, be- “+ cause ‘the Americans, like the Russians, possess almost no ‘class con-

sciousness. But for whatever rea-|

sons, the Americans and Russians - have a surprising lot in common and with a relatively slight amount of effort both sides can get along extremely: well together.

We Hold the Key

Whether or not we are prepared for the role, the only way that Russian and British co-operation as war allies can be preserved and developed to its maximum will be through well-conceived, loyal and enlightened American efforts to keep the Russo-Anglo~-American alliance on solid ground. ; What this means in plain terms is very simple. The war cannot be won and both Nazi Germany and Japan decisively defeated without unprecedented American leadership in every field. The allies’ united front cannot possibly be maintained to the end without our lead-

ership. There is no war theater from the British isles to China and Australia where allied unity can rise to overcome all the dangers or where offensive military action can eventually be taken in a telling manner without American leadership—in ideas, in organization, in co-operation quite as much as in military effort. . Today while the fate of the north Caucasus hangs in the balance and the bleeding Soviet armjes wait agonizedly for aid from. their two great allies, the . Russian people look to“America with much greater trust than. to .Britain.. Their confidence in British offensive spirit as well as in British military capacity has been seriously shaken. It: will get us nowhere at all to make ieve that this is not a fact. It is one of the unfortunate realities which Americans must face and act upon.

From the Balkans to Burma

We alone are in a position to use the great weight of our new. and unsought authority because ‘the Russians have great confidence in America—and : so do the Persian people, the Rumanians, the Bulgarians, the Poles, the Jugoslavs and the Greeks. And so do the Hindus and Moslems of India: so do the Burmese, Thais, Chinese and countless scores of millions of others. Do these voiceless hundreds of millions trust America too much? Are they mistaken in believing that we Americans can lead with greater disinterestedness than other nations and governments? Anyhow, they believe it blindly and deeply. If America fails them, Americans of. our generation will have lost beyond hope of recapture one of our most priceless gifts from the gods—our good name and the extended open hand of the world’s vast masses of suffering, poverty stricken peoples. This is another way of saying that the 168 years of American isolation, living prosperously in our own safe continent, have now made the United States the greatest] single factor in the future fate of ali ‘mankind. The war cannot be waged, the war cannot be won, a new and more human international system cannot be constructed in the name of peace, without America.

Of Silver Wings

Proudly wearing the silver.

wings of a bombardier and the gold bars of a second Heutenant. nad is Samuel EH. Greenburg Jr, son of Mr. and’ Mrs. Samuel H. Greenburg, 2515 Park ave. Lieut. Green-

burg, along with .

included in the. sixth and larg-

est class of “hell | BR from heaven - pe ¥ men” to . e Lieut. Greenburg graduated from the world’s largest bombardier training center at Midland, Tex.

The men immediately were as- |

classes of bombardiers to follow. |

A former student of Butler uni

versity, ‘Lieut. Greenburg was a professional musician prior to be-.. coming a bombardier.

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