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at this distance, at any rate, to be one of characterizing as reactionaries all persons who object to Russian in' fluence among the masses. If agreement is to be found, some middle course must be followed. The collapse of the London conference makes it more than ever imperative that Truman, Attlee, and Stalin get together — and quickly so— to restore some unanimity of action.
If Europe appears to be troubled, what of the Far East? Revolt still flares in Indo-China. Famine faces the people of Batavia in Java. Rice and meat are scarce and there are forty-five million people to feed on that island. One hundred sixty-five thousand tons of rice are known to have been harvested but the Japs hid it and it has not been located. Javanese nationalists and Japanese erstwhile invaders are fighting side by side against proDutch and antinationalist elements. Fighting goes on in Purwakarta, Surabay^ and Batavia. Allied authorities in Biitavia told the Japanese leader, Colonel Niamato, that Japan was responsible for order. Allied commands must be carried out, they said, scrupulously, and, if necessary, by force. Repercussions of the unstable situation in the Indies were felt in Australia where the Australian Communist Party was said to have circulated pamphlets demanding "hands off the Indonesian Republic."
No amount of discussion, however, can alter the fact (and it's a very unsavory one, too) that the allied gov
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ernments now find themselves arrayed against the Javanese, who have accepted, in some instances, Japanese aid. A sad commentary on the principles for which we fought the war.
In China, there were reports of fighting in Chekiang province between the Communists and the troopof Chiang Kai-Shek. Far to the north of this action, five American cruisers, the MINNEAPOLIS, the SAN FRANCISCO, the NEW ORLEANS, the TUSCALOOSA, and the LOUISVILLE, sailed into Chefoo harbor, southeast of Tientsin and sixty-five miles due south of Port Arthur. These naval vessels are commanded by Vice-Admiral Barbey. The port of Chefoo is held by Chinese Communists and there are indications that the general situation there is pregnant with possibilities. Thus we have peace, but actually there is no peace. Everywhere there is unrest, perturbation, everywhere there is instability, dissension, and disagreement Even here in the United States, between capital and labor. The task of restoring order and of building a decent world — where men will be free to govern themselves — confronts u* on the road ahead. More than one million Americans who were casualties in the war demand we march down that road with eyes forward and hearts unafraid. We may K: certain that the living of those casualties will speak for them,>elves, but only the nation as a whole can answer to the dead.
bv Cedric Foster, the cimelineu of the aiticle even at thia tate aate.)
(This article was from a broadcast on August 24 plificd
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