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...Potsdam a year ago, the U.S., Britain and Russia promised to submit suggestions for revision of the Montreux Convention (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) so as to give certain privileges to the Black Sea nations, i.e., Russia and her satellites, Bulgaria and Rumania. The Western powers submitted their ideas, but Russia merely continued a press and radio war of nerves -charged that neutral Turkey had aided the Axis, hinted at territorial demands, asked such questions as: if Britain can control Gibraltar and Suez, and the U.S. Panama, why should not Russia control the Dardanelles? Moscow also pointedly failed to renew...
...policy of prolonging the unsettled conditions in which Communism might flourish. The only course open to the U.S. and Britain was to insist that the 17 smaller nations be called to Paris where, beginning July 29, they will work on the edges of the puzzle-Finland, Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary. "It is a fallacy," said Australia's Dr. Herbert V. Evatt last week, "to suppose that all knowledge and all wisdom reside at the center of military power...
Military power certainly still spoke with a mighty voice in the Big Four's draft treaties. In the four satellites east of the Stettin-Trieste line (Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary) where the Red Army held control, Russia got pretty much what it wanted. In Italy, occupied by the U.S. and Britain, Russia had yielded to the Western powers on most points...
...possession called the tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste, instead of going to either...
...functioned not as critics, but as interpreters of the developing foreign policy of the Soviet Union. American and British unilateral action in the Pacific and in Indonesia effectively prevented a liberal alignment with those elements who were beating the drum over Russian unilateral action in Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The knowledge that British troops were garrisoned in Greece, that American units were still stationed in Iceland, likewise silenced criticism of the presence of Russian forces in Azerbaijan. But as the Big Four powers move crab-fashion away from their peripheral problems towards the nexus of all the problems...