The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
BY EUGENE LYONS >
United Press STAFF Correspondent

Copyright 1882 by United Press
MOSCOW, Sept. 9.-America's
share IN the billions of rubles of
Russian orders, planned to be placed
abroad under the second f1ve-year
plan, will depend in large measure,
according to political circles here,
upon WaShington's policy toward
the Soviet Union.
Although it has announced eco
nomic independence from the out
side world" as one of the detectives
of the second plan, the Kremlin
does not foresee a cessation of for
eign trade
On the contrary, it will rely on
wider foreign trade contracts as its
industrial structure is enlarged and
! fortified.
A recent bulletin of the Soviet
Chamber of Commerce seeks to dis
pei the assumption in some foreign
circles that Russia plans to cut itself
off from the outside world and be-
come an isolated antarctic state"
VIII Rely on Self
The purport of the decision to
become self-dependent, it declares,
is that the Soviet Union plans to be
in position to rely on itself only if
ecessary-that is, in the event of
war or an economic blockade.
Moreover, there is a wide gulf
here, as everywhere, between plans
and achievements.
Independence is as yet a distant
goal. Until it is achieved, the So
Wet Union Individually will be
oblig2d to import immense guam
titles of machinery, equipment, and
raw materials.
It's obvious anxiety to raise the
living standards of it's 160000,000 in
habitants also will encourage the
Kremlin to buy some goods of broad
consumption, if loans or ong-term
credits for the purpose will be
available.
Soviet imports will have to be paid
for through exports. The world OBJ
viously can not shut down on one
without shutting down on the other.
BY and large, however, Soviet ac-
tual and potential exports do not
compete with American exports, ex-
cept in such natural products as
wheat or oil.
Would Aid Peace
1t is claimed here that Soviet
American goods exchanges are es-
sentially Complementary Russia
takes of Americas manufactured
wealth-equipment and machines in
the first place, it gives in return of
its rich natural resources.
Soviet-American rapprochement,
in the deeply grounded belief of
most Russian observers, moreover
would at this time serve as a
powerful factor in maintaining
world peace.
Absence of diplomatic contacts be-
tween the two powers, both sigma
tories of the Kellogg pact and both
In various degree proponents of dis
armament, is a disturbing element
IN international politics.
The situation created by Japanese
activities in China, it further is en-
phasized, brings the necessity for
contacts between the United States
and the Soviet Union into especially
clear focus.
Might Curb Japan
Aims which both Moscow and
Washington seem to be pursuing in
dependently with a view to pre-
venting war in the Far East, might
have been co-ordinated effectively
the theory goes, if a formal barrier
did not exist.
Russians in positions of influence
openly have told the writer that
any American gesture of friendship
toward the Soviet regime at this
time would act as a brake upon the
extreme militarist wing in Japan,
and thus would help prevent war in
that dangerous section.
With the recent conclusion of a
Soviet-Polish non-aggresSive pact,
Moscow effected a chain of such
pacts on its western frontier in
which Rumania is the only missing
link