By TIM BUCK

HE joint statement is-
sued by President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister

# Churchill and Premier Stalin,

“summing up the results of

| their conference in the Crimea,

ites,

@Ganada

holds both: a challenge and a
high promise to Canadians. If
participates actively
'in their implementation our
national growth and continued
econemic progress is assured
| but it will require the active
| support of every democratic
Canadian to ensure that our
| country becomes a vigorous
force for carrying the decisions
through.

The agreements mark the
Stage at which final plans for
the complete destruction of the
military and state power of fas-
cismi merge with concrete plang

» for peace and postwar recon-

struction. The decisions an-

") nounced, and indicated, are at

once conerete and far-reaching.
The declaration is a program

. of action aimed at early an«

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complete defeat of “the com-
mon enemy, the setting up of
a world security organization
/on the lines proposed at Dum-

= barton Oaks, and the full im-

| plementation of the Atlantic
Charter. It is the decisive first
step in conecretizing the his-
toric perspective of world-wide
democratic advance outlined at
Teheran. The New York Times
rightly described the joint de-
claration as pointing the way
“to an early victory in Europe,
to @ secure peace, and to a
brighter world-’

HE declaration reaffirms the
inexorable determination of

the United Nations that no ves-

tige of military or state power
shall be left, upon the memory
of which the myth of German
wmnilitary invincibility may some
time be reestablished: The three
|ieaders of the United Nations
do not shut out the possibility
) for the German people to re-
}Mmain united in one state. Dur-
sing: the period of occupation by
the forces of the democratic
“powers administration and con-
hirol will be coordinated through
a Gentral Control Commission

| consisting of the supreme com-

)manders —

of the democratic
powers with headquarters at
|Berlin. Thus Germany will
operate as an economic entity
'during that period. But, while

)) leaving. open the possibility that
) the German people may “hope

'for” a future place in the co-
mity of nations, the declaration
‘makes it clear that they will

) have to earn their way.

“It is not. our purpose to de-
/stroy the people of Germany,”

(declare the three leaders, but

|

|St is our inflexible purpose to
destroy German militarism and
Nazism and to ensure that Ger-
omany will never again be able
sto disturb the peace of the
world.”

“We are determined to dis-
arm and disband all German
forces; break up for all time
the German General Staff
that has repeatedly tried the
' resurgence of German mili-
| tarism; remove or destroy all
» German military equipment;
eliminate or control all Ger-
Man industry that can be

s

used for military production:
. bring: all war criminals to
just and swift punishment
and exact reparation in kind
for the destruction wrought
by the Germans; wipe out the
Nazi Party, Nazi laws, or-
fanizations and
remove all Nazi and militar-
ist influences frem public of-
fice and from the cultural
and economic life of the Ger-
Inman people and take in har-
mony such other measures in
Germany as may be necess-
ary to the future peace and
Safety of the world’

Those measures,
occupation of Germany by the
forees of the United States,
Britain, the Union of Soviet

institutions, -

capped by

endangered by the cynical de-
signs of the Big Three! How
little justification there was
for Mr. Coldwell’s anti-Soviet
and anti-Peheran innuendo is
clearly shown by the decisions
made at the Crimea Conference
concerning aid to the liberated
countries.

The three leaders of the Uni-
ted Nations jomtly abjure uni-
lateral action and policies such
as obstructed democratic de-
velopment and gaye aid and
shelter to collaborationists and
pro-fascists in Belgium, Italy
and Grece. They pledge them-
selves to work, in concert dur-
ing the period of temporary in-
stability in ‘liberated Hurope.

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all’ governments of national
unity representative of all the

democratic elements in the
population, the three leaders re-
commended: that the proposal of
Marshal Tito and Dr. Subasich
for organization of such a gov-
ernment in Yusoslayia should
be carried through itmmedia-
tely. These examples are bound
to exert powerful influence up-
on the course of development in

Italy, Greece and other liber-
ated countries. Broad-based
democracy, operating through

people’s governments based up-
on the anti-fascist people, will

be the main political character-
istic of liberated Europe.

Paces beaming satisfaction on the successful conclusion of their second conference, which
charted the course for victory and peace, Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt
and Marshal Stalin are shown on the grounds of Livadia Palace near Yalta in the Crimea.

Socialist Republics and France,
will clear the path for the de-
velopment of genuine people’s
democracy in Europe. Next to
military victory, that is the in-
dispensable condition for last-
ing peace, democratic progress
and growing prosperity
throughout the world.

HE methods by which the
great powers propose to help

the liberated peoples, and the
peoples of countries which were
Axis satellites, to establish
democratic regimes are outlined
in the “Declaration on Liber-
ated Europe.”

The declaration on liberated
Europe provides a striking re-
futation of the divisive propa-
ganda by which spokesmen of
the CCF have tried to represent
the Teheran Agreement either
as a sinister Soviet plot or as
“bunk.” Mr. Coldwell of the
CCF took the position that Te-
heran was simply a predatory
imperialist agreement in which
Stalin joined with Roosevelt
and Churchill. Mr. Coldwell
joined hands, and participated
on the same platform, with such
diseredited anti-Sovieteers as
Alexander Kerensky and Isaac
Don Levine in an attempt to
stir up opposition to the Teher-
an Agreement on grounds that
the rights of small nations were

They pledge themselves to as-
sist the people there to estab-
lish order and rebuild their na-
tional economies by - processes
which will enable them to ‘de-
stroy the last vestiges of Nazi-
ism and Fascism and to create
democratic institutions of their
own choice.” They jointly
pledge that, in the event condi-
tions require their intervention
in liberated countries, they will
assist the people “to form. in-
terim governmental  authori-
ties broadly representative of
all democratic elements in the

population and pledged to the
earlies possible “establishment
through free elections of gov-
ernments responsive to the will
of the people.”

In line with that principle
the three leaders marked finis
to the pretences of the anti-
Soviet clique in London. They
endorsed the .Curzon Line as
the eastern frontier of Poland.
They agreed upon establish--
ment, and official recognition
of, a Provisional Government
ef National Unity for Poland
by ‘the addition of other demo-

“eratic leaders, from Poland and

abroad, to the provisional gov-
ernment in Warsaw. Continu-
jing in line with their agreement
upon the principle of provision-

QF even greater significance

than the far-reaching agree-
ments achieved at the Crimea
Conference is the fact that the
agreements are the fruit of
new, unprecedented conditions,
new and unprecedented state
relationships, and an entirely
new and unprecedented method
of settling problems of world
policy. The method, which has
evolved as a result of the war
and the new state relationships,
is to declare the agreed-upon
objective to all the people. Our
objective, stated in the Atlantic
Charter and other declarations,
is lasting world peace, demo-
cratic national self-determina-

tion and cooperation in the eco-
nomic reconstruction and de-
velopment of the world. Agree-
ments reached on the basis of
that objective are not only be-
ing submitted to the test of pub-
lie opinion, they are also being
submitted to the test of life
even while their merits and de-
merits are subjects of public
discussion.

Tories, doubtless, will seek to
damn the Crimea decisions with
faint praise -while striving to
secure government power so as
to thwart their purpose. Anti-
Soviet propagandists will seek
to confuse their real meaning,
some pseudo-radicals wall prob-

ably complain that they don’t
propose abolition of private en-
terprise. History is. refuting
these obstructionists.

The agreements reached in
the Crimea will be welcomed by —
all democratic Canadians but-
they demand action as well as
praise. They prove that the co-
alition between the capitalist
democracies and the socialist
sixth of the earth is firm. They
testify that this coalition is
strong enough to meet the test
of victory, and the readjust-—
ments it will brine, equally as
it has met the test of war. Im-
mensely more important, how-
ever, is the fact, which they re-
yeal, that this coalition has be-
come a powerful driving force
in the reshaping of the world.

The Crimea agreements con-
stitute in fact the beginning of
considered, planned world de-
velopment. For the first time
in history mankind can see in
practice the possibility of or-
ganizing world intercourse and
development and shaping our
future in accord with the demo-
eratic desires and the material
interests of the people.

The decisions demand of
every democratic Canadian ac-
tion to make Canada an active
force in helping to carry them
through, and in making the
principles which they embody
the guiding lines of our na-
tional policy in the years that
follow the war.

The conference of the United
Nations to be held at San Fran-
eisco on April 25 presents us
with an opportunity to demon-
strate Canada’s determination
to cooperate fully in the tasks
of peace and world reconstruc-
tion.

The conference is being called
to complete the work for which
the foundations were laid at
Dumbarton Oaks and prepare
the charter for a general inter-
national organization to main-
tain peace and security. That
means to transform the United ©
Nations from an emergency
wartime alliance to a perma-
nent institution for the coopera-
tion of all democratic nations
in the guarantee of stable peace
and the long-range planning of
world development. It will im-
pose solemn responsibilities up-
on the democracies but it will
provide the instrument for a
new era of progress.

It will be the task of the Do-
minion government to ensure
that Canada’s delegation to that
conference shall represent, and
give expression to, the unequi-
vocal support that democratic
Canadians give to the high pur-
pose of such -an organization.
It will be the responsibility of
democratic Canadians to en-
sure that such a delegation, and
acceptance of it of the obliga-
tions of full partnership in the
new world organization, shall
receive vocal and overwhelming

, popular support.