THE NEBRASKAN
Friday, February 16, 1945
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'More Realistic9
Russia threatens to withdraw from the mock peace con
ference." so runs the lead story on the front page of today's
Nebraskan. The campus group which is representing Rus
sia in the conference has issued this warning, in an attempt
to win recognition of the USSR's right to the Baltic states,
Bessarabia, northern Bukovina, and parts of Finland, ter
ritories over which the hammer-and-sickle already flies.
The question of the disposition of these territories has al
ready been settled by Russian occupation, say the Soviet's
spokesmen, "and if the conference insists on reopening the
question, the USSR will withdraw.
The merits of Russia's move will not be discussed here.
Whether the Soviet is justified in taking this stand, making
this threat of withdrawal, is a matter for the peace confer
ence itself to decide.
But the Russian threat definitely does add new life,
new vitality to the whole conference. It serves as yet an
other indication that students are looking at the conference
seriously and realistically, for some one of the major
powers is very likely to make some such move, some such
threat, when the actual peace conference meets in the not
Too distant future. It will be remembered that Italy threat
ened such a move at Versailles in 1919 when her wishes
were not followed in regard to the settlement of her north
eastern frontier at the head of the Adriatic.
Thus the University of Nebraska mock peace confer
ence daily becomes more life-like, more interesting. Stu
dents steadily grow more and more interested, take a more
active part in the various discussions and meetings, dis
charge their responsibilities seriously and intelligently.
If students continue to display this enthusiastic, real
istic attitude, the success of the conference is assured.
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Features Show,
Coffee Hour
Two iuke box dances, free
variety show and a coffee hour
will be featured as entertainment
at the Union this week end.
An afternoon juke box dance
will be held Friday from 4 to 6
p. m., and another in the evening
from 9 to 11:30. There will be
no dance in the ballroom Satur
day because of the scheduled Fac
ulty Dancing club.
Sunday the Union will feature
a coffee hour from a to 6 p. m.
with Peg Shelley at the piano.
Sunday evening at 8 there will
be a free variety show starring
Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie in
"The Skies the Limit" or "A Fly
ing Tiger on Leave." Lorraine
Woita at the accordian and Cecil
Smith at the piano will furnish
entertainment before the show.
Peace Conference Previews
Ilalkan Boundaries
OSCAR J. HAMMEN.
Ideally, certain principles, such
as those in the Atlantic Charter,
applied with full impartiality be
tween r.ll states, would guide the
peacemakers in their decisions
History has no record of such a
peace conference. Anyway, no
universal principles could be
evolved which would reconcile the
conflicting ethnographic, historic,
religious, economic and stritegic
claims which bedevil every effort
at deciding trontier problems in
the Balkans. A peace conference
attuned to the loftiest ideals would
fail to liquidate, tho it might
minimize, all frontier difficulties
as long as m;.n persists in putting
the interests of his national group
a Love those of humanity in gen-
Cl'iil.
Frontiers Shift.
History provides no certain
guide for determining just f i on-1
tiers. All too often in the past (
frontiers have shifted so that both,
contesting nations can justify their'
particular claims by citing history, j
It is all a matter of dates. It!
is certain, however, that the ag- j
grieved nation in any decision)
will use history to nourish its
grievance. Plebiscites and popu
lation statistics offer no certain
guide in regions of mixed ra
tionalities. Treaties protecting the
r ights of minorities were tried and
found wanting after the last war.
The mass transference of popula
tions seems to offer a solution, but
the diastic surgery of this method
proclaims too clearly Ihe ab
sence of milder cures. A Balkan
confederation might be desirable,
but national animosities among
the states ar.d the conflicting in
terests of the Great Powers in
the Balkans make such a develop
ment unlikely.
At the coming peace conference,
as in the past, the application of
professedly just principles will be
modified or completely nullified
by considerations based on ex
pediency, prior committments, the
interests of the great powers and
other factors. It seems apparent
that the big powers have already
made rough dispositions regarding
the fate of the Balkans.
Makes Assertion.
Sulzberger of the New York
Times has made an assertion, not
denied to date, that at Casablan
ca, Roosevelt recognized Britain's
paramount military and political
interests in the Balkans and the
Near East in return for Churchill's
adherence to the unconditional
surrender formula. Subsequently,
Churchill and Stalin seem to have
divided the Balkans info Russian
and British "spheres of influence"
The latter designation has been
rejected by Churchill, but Dum
barton Oaks, British action in
Greece, and the infinitely less
publicized and expounded armis
tice terms imposed by the Rus
sians on the defeated Balkan
states certainly indicate, to date,
the emergence of a strong reli
ance on "regionism."
Thus it appears that Rumania
and Bulgaria will have their fron
tiers drawn in Moscow. But will
Moscow-orientated Marshall Tito's
claims to Italian Trieste be
granted? Will Greek demands for
Albanian soil be fulfilled? Or
will the frontiers of the latter
state, which has developed a re
cent friendship for Russia, remain
intact? What will be the solution
for Greco-Bulgarian disputes over
Trace and Macedonia?
Plan Activities
For Weekend
Weekend plans of the various
churches include observance Of
World Day of Prayer, forum dis
cussions, fellowship luncheons and
addresses
The YWCA members will meet
at 9:30 a. m. Sunday in the faculty
lounge at the Union. They will ob
serve the world Day oi -rayer,
which is held "in behalf of stu
dents all over the world suffering
n war-torn areas," according to
Mildred Taylor, Y. W. secretary.
The chairman will be Helen Laird
and speaker will be Anne Wellen-
siek.
The Weslevan Foundation Stu
dent Fellowship luncheon will be
held at 6:00 p. m. on Sunday eve
ning. At 7:30 the Forum series
will continue with the topic "The
next steps in racial understand
ing." Mr. Clyde Malone, executive
of the Lincoln Urban League will
lead the forum.
Baptists Hear Dr. Buxton.
The Baptist youth will hear Dr.
Howard P. Buxton, pastor of the
Trinity Methodist church, discuss
the topic, "Shall we have compul
sory military training after the
war," at 7 p. m. Sunday. Dr. Bux
ton has just returned from a con
ference held in Cleveland, Ohio
sponsored by the Federated Coun
cil of Churches where the topic
of the evening was discussed.
The University Episcopal church
(will hold Holy Communion today
at 7:00 and 1U:0U a. m., Saturday
at 10:00 a. m. and the regular
Holy Communion service at 8:30
and 11:00 a. m. on Sunday.
Soviets ...
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Dardanelles was also postponed at
this committee meeting. As yet,
no indication has been made by
committee five as to steps which
will be taken on the demands of
the Soviet Union.
The United States government
in Washington, D. C, has not as
yet recognized Russia's absorption
of Lithuania, Estonia and Iatvia,
according to War Mobilization Di
rector James F. Byrnes' statement
to reporters in the nation's cap
ital. In a first-hand account of
the recent Crimean conference of
the Big Three, Byrnes stated,
when asked whether the Baltic
states were discussed at the con
ference, that all sorts of questions
were taken up but that those spe
cific states were not talked about
in any meeting at which he was
present.
Discussion of this statement and
the Soviet Union's ultimatum will
be continued Saturday afternoon
at the meeting of conference com
mittee five.
"Insofar as those who purvey
the news make of their own be
liefs a higher law than truth, they
are attacking the f6undations of
our constitutional system. There
can be no higher law in jour
nalism than to tell the truth and
shame the devil." Walter Lip-pmann.
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