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"Peace . . . But We Have flo Peace"
Russians believe they, more than others, won the war.
by CEDRIC FOSTER
A NUMBER of years ago Winston Churchill wrote an essay in which he declared: "It has been said that those who could successfully prosecute a war could not write a successful peace, and, that, those who could write a successful peace never could have won the war."
The verity of that statement is now being tested in the crucible of flaming passions which are only too evident in the slowly-emerging post-war world. The council of ministers in London dissolved their meeting without reaching any agreement on the most fundamental of all questions, namely, what nations shall participate in the peace discussions. As the meeting broke up on the rocks of th)= impasse, it is perfectly plain that there is a seething discontent amongst many peoples in both Europe and Asia. They are in sharp conflict regarding domestic problems and also their relationships with other nations It may be argued with more than a D« modicum of logic that this is a natural 'iojconcomitant of the cataclysmic upheaval which the world has witnessed in the last decade and a half. But if ^ |this be true, also is it true that the Isand is running through the hour glass
at an appalling speed. It ill-behooves those who are charged with the responsibility of fashioning some kind of order from the chaos of the moment to waste any time in allaying the discontent which is to be seen on every side. They can't procrastinate because the sparks of unrest have already, in several instances, turned into the fires of revolt.
In Great Britain the man on the street is trying to figure out the basis for the intransigent attitude which prevailed at the meeting. Sylvain Mengeot, who is the diplomatic correspondent for Reuters' News Service, has said that the British public, rightly or wrongly, find it hard to believe that the disagreement was brought about by conflicting interpretations of the Potsdam declaration. Seeking some other explanation, that public has advanced two theories . . . both of which are entirely speculative and neither of which has any backing in official quarters. The first is that the Russian attitude is to some extent prompted by consideration of the Soviet's post-war national economy. It is clear that Soviet hopes of largescale material aid are far less rosy under the present administration in