Where was our free press?

At long last some of the terms of the Yalta Agreement have been disclosed, and we find that even before the end of the war to save Poland from Hitler our leaders sealed the doom of not only the Poles, but also virtually sold into Red slavery every nation of eastern Europe from the little Baltic states in the north to the Balkans in the south. A war, ostensibly fought to defend freedom, ended (with the concurrence of Western leaders) in extending slavery.

Where was our 'free press' ?

We are led to believe that this startling information has only now, for the first time, come to light with its official release by Washington. But the truth is that for many years well informed students of international affairs have been writing and lecturing on the Yalta betrayal. Books such as Elliott Roosevelt's As He Saw It (1946), America's 2nd Crusade by William Henry Chamberlin (1950), and others, have been well known to informed readers for some years. The great question is: Where have our columnists and commentators been hiding their heads? There has been nothing short of a conspiracy of silence by those whose duty it is to inform the public.

Churchill's Role

General Elliott Roosevelt, who accompanied his father to Yalta in 1945, gives the following information in his book, As He Saw It (pp: 184-9):

Winston Churchill wanted to invade Europe through the Balkans and thus keep the Red Army out of Austria, Romania and Hungary; but President Roosevelt and U.S. military leaders were not so interested in post-war conditions as in killing as many Germans as possible. Elliott quotes his father:

"Trouble is, the P. M. is thinking too much of the post-war,... He's scared of letting the Russians get too strong."

After an orgy of drink, Stalin proposed a salute "to the swiftest possible justice for all Germany's war criminals - justice before a firing squad. I drink to our unity in dispatching them as fast as we capture them, all of them, and there must be at least fifty thousand of them".

This implied the summary murder of German officers captured (as the Reds had done with Polish officers at Katyn - Ed.), and, says Elliott Roosevelt:

"Quick as a flash Churchill was on his feet... 'Any such attitude', he cried, 'is wholly contrary to our British sense of justice! The British people will never stand for such mass murder.'”

Following Churchill's demand for proper legal trials, the President interjected:

"As usual, it seems to be my function to mediate this dispute. Clearly there must be some sort of compromise between your position, Mr. (Stalin), and that of my good friend the Prime Minister. Perhaps we could say that, instead of summarily executing fifty thousand war criminals, we should settle on a smaller number. Shall we say forty-nine thousand five hundred?"

So that Mr. Churchill would seem to have been the reluctant partner who, unlike Roosevelt (who had Alger Hiss advising him), knew the Red game and the vital importance of post-war developments, but was outweighed at every turn by the Stalin-Roosevelt alliance. The choice facing the Prime Minister was to tag along with this unholy alliance down the path to post-war disaster, or to disassociate Britain from this immoral pact, even at the risk of losing personal popularity and political favour for the time being. The Prime Minister, we believe, made the wrong choice because expediency is never a satisfactory substitute for moral principle.

Yalta and Asia

At Yalta, too, our leaders virtually turned over, unbeknown to our ally, Chiang Kai-shek, control of the great Chinese industrial province of Manchuria (the key to China) and other territories we fought the war to wrench away from Japan.

So that in both Europe and Asia, before the last shot was fired, we betrayed the victims of German and Japanese aggression and turned over all the fruits of victory to Communism.

Communist Blueprint

In 1923 Lenin laid down the order of world Communist conquest:

"First we will take eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States..."

Thus we see that Yalta handed over to the Reds their first major objective (eastern Europe) and a powerful base in the East (Manchuria) from which to launch out towards the conquest of Asia, their second major objective.