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Today and By Walter BIG THINGS COMING We can now be reasonably certain that before the meeting at the summit, the Kremlin will will have prepared for itself a position of great diplomat ic and political strength. Judg ing by what we have al ready seen, the Tf I Kremlin has j &f ? formed a b i g program tor Europe, which also will have very far-reaching implications for Asia. The program was . launched with the Kremlin's reversal of its" position on the Austrian treaty. But that was not an iso lated act, not a single gesture. It was quite clearly part of a new program which has been widely conceived and carefully coordinated, and this new pro gram is now being put forward item by item, thesis by thesis. We have not yet seen the whole of it. But within the past week the Soviets have done and have said enough to indicate the gen - eral shape of things to come. WE KNOW enough already to sav that the reversal on the Austrian treaty was not due to a notion that the Germans couia be beguiled and seduced into ac cepting a similar treaty. The Kremlin knows quite well the difference between the rather simple Austrian problem and the extremely complicated German problem. If I read correctly the recent moves of the Kremlin, the Soviet rulers have understood what Churchill first began to leel when he talked about a new j'Locarno." It is what Adenauer after Churchill has been saying for some time. It is that the is sues of German unification with in acceptable German frontiers are soluble only with a general European security system in which both Western and Eastern Europe participate. The Kremlin's actions in the past week indicate that they may be getting ready to propose, or at least to negotiate about if we propose, not only a German set tlement but also a change in the tatus of the satellite countries of Eastern Europe. I may be wholly mistaken. But I cannot think of any other explanation for some of the key sentences in the armaments resolution, for the public recognition of Tito's independence and importance, for the recent approaches to Fin land, for Mr.' lUolotov's enthusi asm for the principles of the Austrian settlement, and for what was put into and was left out of the Warsaw treaty. On the day that the Western governments invited the Soviet to a meeting at the summit, the Kremlin put out the idea of a withdrawal of the Red Army be yond the satellites and behind the Soviet frontier in return for American evacuation of its - air bases in Europe. The Krem- lin followed this up by announc ' ing, just as the Austrian treaty was being concluded, that their leaders were paying a visit to Belgrade. They have gone to great lengths to express their approval of three states, Fin land, Austria and Yugoslavia, which have this in common: that they have national independence and that they are not members of either of the two great mili tary coalitions. If this notion is attractive to the Germans, why is it not also attractive to the Czech's, the Hungarians and the Poles? The Kremlin will not have overlook ed this point. Why did they be gin this diplomatic week by pro posing, to negotiate about the withdrawal of the Red Army from the satellites? And why, when they designed the Warsaw treaty, did they set up a system of command which is not inte grated like NATO, but leaves the armed forces of each of the In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Thriller-diller stuff: At Las Vegas, dozens of police men, postal inspectors and sher iff's deputies rounded up a gang of get-rich-quick characters. The lawmen had been tipped off that the gang was planning to hi-jack a shipment of a half mil lion dollars of gambling casino money that was due to be sent by registered mail from the Las Vegas postoff ice to a bank in San Francisco. The plan was to hold up the police car that was to take the cash from the postoffice to the railroad station. It included a series of fake telephone calls de signed to draw the cops away to other parts of the city. A trap was laid, and five of the plotters were taken into cus tody. Instead of getting rich quick, they got jugged quick. IT was gambling casino money. Gambling is legal in Nevada. Robbery at the point of a gun isn't. The moral: "Shoemaker, stick to your last." If you want to take their money in Las Vegas, do it at the gambling tables. IJORE on the weather:' - It's much more like January Tomorrow Lippmann member nations under its own national command? Why have they done all these extraordi nary things if they are not pre pared to negotiate for a '"neu trality belt"' which includes at least some if not all of the satel lites? T DO NOT know, and I am cer- tainly not meaning to predict, that the Soviet Union has decid ed to propose a European secu rity system with a belt of mili tary neutrals extending from Scandinavia through middle and eastern Europe to the Balkans. But I think they are at least preparing the ground in case their proposals for a united and neutral Germany are met by queries and proposals from the West about Eastern Europe. In any event, if they are getting ready to talk about giving Prague and Budapest the same status as Vienna, and Warsaw the same status, perhaps, as Hel sinki, there is no good reason why we should shrink from the negotiation, why we should not seek such a negotiation. To anyone who takes serious ly, as humanly and in honor Americans must, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the idea of neturality, the extension of a neutral belt to include Eastern Europe, is of capital importance. Eastern Europe cannot be liber ated by war; !it can only be dev astated by nuclear weapons. And Eastern Europe cannot be liber ated by a violent counter-revolution without precipitating the war which would devastate East ern Europe. It is, moreover, no use to suppose that the Kremlin will release Eastern Europe in order that it may join NATO. If, then, the satellite states are to be released from Moscow's mili tary system without entering our military system, they must be able to enter a community of military neutrals. This suggests that the best re ply the West can make to the developing Soviet diplomatic campaign is not to reject the idea of a neutrality belt but to ask that it be widened. TT WOULD be a mistake, I be- lieve, to have fixed precon ceptions and prejudices about the idea of military neutrality as the policy of small, exposed, and vulnerable states. Great powers like Britain, France and the United States, like the Soviet Union and Red China, cannot be neutrals. But small states can be often with difficulty some times without success, but some times also to their national ad vantage. The idea of neutrality was not invented by the Soviets, and they should not be allowed to monopolize and exploit it for their own national purposes. The idea of military neutrality, as our own history should remind us, is . in the tradition of our Western society. It has nothing whatever to do with moral neu trality, or with political isola tion, or with spiritual indiffer ence to evil. A policy of neutral ity, like a policy of alliances, is the policy of a state and it is justifiable or not justifiable by reason of state. It has to do' with the protection of the vital inter ests of the nation. Having prac ticed military neutrality our selves for more than a century when we were weak, it is not nice of us to be self-righteous and superior about other weak states who follow the example we set. In the great diplomatic en counter which is now beginning let us not hobble ourselves witn our own fixed notions. Let us not give the Kremlin a free field and the initiative, while we stand by beating our breasts and crying out that we are being en ticed and ensnared by those O-so-much-too-clever Russians. Copyright v1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. News Ithn May in the British Isles to I day. Rain, snow and biting winds have blocked many roads and damaged early crops. The storm is threatening shipping in the area. I suppose this is a good time to quote Robert Browning: Oh, to be in England "Now that April's there, "And whoever walks in Eng land "Sees, some morning unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf "Round the elm tree bole are in tiny leaf, "While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough "In England now." THAT was written about a cen tnrv atr J ' The weather sterns to be changing. JUJRNING to politics Democratic Senator Mike Monroney of Oklahoma says in Washington it's too early to tell whether Adlai Stevenson will seek the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1956. He adds: "I don't think Stevenson is afraid of runing against Eisen hower, but he wants to look around the country and see what ! I 67 By Copenhagen, wan ano (De layed) Who am I? I have a small pug head. My skin is wrinkled and rough, al most like the bark of an oak. I bellow like a foghorn unques- S-30SS tionably, the noisiest animal in the northland. When grown, I eat a washtub or so full of food for one meal it's digestion, happily, aided by several pounds of stones in my stomach. My home is within Arctic Eur ope and North America although in prehistoric times I ranged to what is now Georgia in the U.S., Scotland and Denmark. I am huge, almost hairless. My small eyes are bloodshot. My nostrils are pushed up on the top of my earless head. Some would call me indolent I must confess I spend a lot of time sprawled out on an ice floe, snoring off a heavy meal. Wonderfully adapted to my ex istence, I can maneuver with safety in the pounding surf about ragged rocks. Yet I cannot swim indefinitely and when I get tired I must find ice or land if not, I drown. On land I lumber. When hungry, I take a deep breath and dive slantingly per haps 300 feet below the surface to the bottom of. the sea where I get my food by standing on my head and scraping it off the ocean floor with my extraordin arily developed upper canines. Layer of Blubber Like most semi-acquatic mam mals of the north, I am insulated with a heavy layer of blubber. Even submerged in icy water for 12 hours after death, my carcass will still be very warm. At five, the ton-heavy female may give birth to her first single calf on an ice floe, nine months after mating. (Males, a third heavier, mature a year later). The devoted mother will de fend her young to the death. Our enlarged canines, drop ping from the upper corners of the mouth, are hard, - yellow white ivory and are used for fighting, for scraping food off! the ocean floor, and when oc casion calls, to get a purchase on a cake of ice to climb aboard. I am: Polar bear, B. Walrus, C. Killer whale, D. Sea lion, E. Elephant seal. I am: B. Walrus. 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