Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1945 — Page 14

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© A BAD DEAL | "I HE Big Three Moscow agreement is bad business. The United States again gives up much to Russia and gets almost nothing in return—except a vague and unstable “unity.” . are in a weaker position than before the trade. . To make a bad matter worse, the agreement is deliberately ambiguous. That may mean in the end we lose ‘ even more than first appears. Anyway such hocus-pocus in a contract is an invitatio! to disagreement and trouble—not unity. : » . . ¥ s PUTTING the best face possible on this double-talk document : 1. The United States gave in to Russian demands for big power dictation of European peace terms, with Moscow . _ holding veto authority. The allied peace conference is relegated to an advisory status, 2. The United States seems to retain military control of the occupation of Japan, through Gen. MacArthur as supreme commander. But an allied policy commission and : an allied control council get contradictory authority, which may chain MacArthur, 3. Russia and the United States will run Korea and draft a four-power, five-year trusteeship, pending independence. 4. Russia and the United States reaffirm their policy for a unified and democratic China, with broad representation under the national government, cessation of civil war, * and withdrawal of Russian and American troops when. Jap . forces are disarmed and deported. 5. The United States will recognize the Romanian and Bulgarian Moscow puppet governments when each adds two cabinet members from parties not now represented. : 6. The United Nations assembly is to create an atomic commission, which will be subject to the UNO security council on which each of the big powers has veto authority. If there js no agreement outside the written document and Secretary Byrnes says therais not—the United States will not share the atom bomb production secret with Russia. = 7. No agreement is included on Communist imperialist moves in Iran-and Turkey, so there is apparently nothing to stop Russian expansion in the middle east.

. ¥ » ' ” . . THE MOSCOW DEAL will be defended by some on two grounds. he Sk Se Ea For public consumption it will be argued that no price was too high to pay for big power unity. But,-as we have said, that unity is as doubtful as the terms are exorbitant. ~ From the more practical-minded, it will be whispered that this was a necessary horse trade in which the United ~ States gave Russia virtually a free hand in the Balkans in exchange for virtually a free American hand’ in Japan, ~ We are not impressed by such phony realism. "It is true that the United States cannot make Russia behave in eastern Europe. But that does not mean that America has to under-

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eo” 0» 3 u : : ~~ ASTO AMERICA'S free hand in Japan, this agreement sacrifices much of the freedom we had before. : ¥ We never asked, never were given, and never seized _in Japan the kind of dictatorial power Russia grabbed in Japan were determined by the major allies and agreed to the enforcement of those allied terms through an American Supreme commander. : ‘

That arrangement grew out of the fact that the United States chiefly defeated Japan, and that centralized enforcement authority under Gen. MacArthur was more efficient than the divided chaotic joint control system used in Berlin. : To what extent that will interfere with MacArthur con. trol is not clear in the devious Moscow agreement. Russia must not be allowed to turn the Tokyo council into anything “resembling the Berlin system. LE

other mistakes in this Moscow deal, at least must guard against that calamity, Seg ;

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~ THERE ARE TWO IMPERIALISMS | THE Moscow radio presents thie Soviet Union as a cham- = pion of independence for dependent peoples, “The broadcast in question termed the colonial system a drag on the United Nations war efforts of ‘the past five ~ years and a hindrance to world unity. It added: “The reluctance of colonial powers to take into account

~ independence, their endeavors to crush the movement by ~ naked force; their attempt to put the movement down to _ mischief-making or inspiration from without. All this Is one of the sources of continued agitation in international relations.” ' .

new world there is so much talk about is in fact the goal ~ of the great powers.

eS » # “HE Communist imperialism fostered by Russia also represents a predatory system imposed upon weaker peoples by force, or threat of force. It also violates th

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‘gobbles up Manchuria while France backs out of Indo-China-—if she does. There was strong evidence of “inspira- ~ tion from without” on the part of thé Russians in the

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"the movement of colonial and semi-colonial peoples for |

Americans concur in. this view, but they see- other | sources of trouble which cannot be overlooked, if the bright, |

The eause of liberty will not be advanced if Rusia |

recent. Azerbijan revolt in Iran. Similar Russian trouble |’

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WORLD AFFAIRS—

Ban on Arms By Marshall McNeil

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used in part by. the allied control council in Germany. These are the 11 industries which FEA recom. mended be “eliminated completely and rebuilding

permanently prohibited”: Abrasives; antifriciion

civilian: cameras, and heavy trucks. - - - It-also recommended that in a long list of man industries capacities be reduced and that

controlled. It explained that’ “this p _ would be maintained for the duration of or 8 decade, whichever is longer, at the end of which time appropriate tions would be subject of negotiation between the allied governments.®

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