Evidence in Recent Incident

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26241, 27 August 1946, Page 5

Evidence in Recent Incident

LESSON FOR UNITED STATES

Folly of One-sided Concessions

(Rec. 11.30 p.ra.)

NEW YORK, Aug. 26

The New York Times, editorially commenting on Marshal Tito’s compliance with the United States ultimatum says, “ Russia’s urge for expansion finds its most critical and most dangerous expression in its puppet Tito’s whole attitude in the Trieste dispute, in which nothing was settled.

“ The ostentatious dismissal of Litvinov, which to the outside world is the weathervane of Russian policy, is Russia’s notice that there will be no abatement of its expansionist drive. It behoves the American Government, in these circumstances, to keep its own policy under constant review. “ There can be no departure from America’s firm resolve to seek peaceful settlements by agreement and use to the utmost all international authorities for that purpose, but it is also becoming more and more evident that the present situation, at least-dn part, is the result of America’s own past policies of one-sided concessions, which only fed Russian appetites and incidentally put Tito in power.

“A more realistic policy is now in order. One of the very first steps toward such a policy must be a review of the possibility of recovering existing lend-lease material and scrutinising all current shipments to Russia and her satellites of both U.N.R.R.A. and lend-lease goods to make certain that they will not be used directly or indirectly against us.”