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« —— 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. P-A..Features, February 24 — Page 11 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.