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CowIes Says Russia
And u. ). Have Same
Goal Of Peace
United Motions Lecture
. Series Audience Hears
Group Of Speakers

Group Of Speakers
Science has killed the old politi-
cAl-economic order built exclu-
sively on national lines, and for this
reason Russia wants what the
United States wants-security and
peace-Gardner Cowles, IT,, owl
domestic division director, said last
night at Constitution Hall in the
fourth lecture of the United Nations
Today and Tomorrow series.
Russia, according to Mr.. Cowles,
Midwest publisher who accompanied
Wendell Willkie to Russia last year,
has great spirit of self-confidence
about the future, courage coupled
with amazing ingenuity and stam-
ina in the face of adversely"
He emphasized that Premier
Stain feels the survival and de-
velopment of the Soviet Union no
longer depends on world revolution. :"
He linked this assertion with an
other statement that the peoples of
the Orient would like to hear an
unequivocal commitment as to our
purposes from both political par
ties"
Admire Builders.
Mr. Cowles, a speaker on a pro-
gram devoted to Russia, won ap-
plause when he remarked 1T isn't
the American 'pinks' whom the
Russians admire: they admire the
businessmen and technicians who
have made America industrially
strong"
He emphasized that Russia's 200,-
100000 people have all the living
space they need, with space for ex-
panSion in that vast area stretching
nearly 5000 miles from Moscow to
Vladivostok, equal to the distance
from New York to Hawaii, or from
New Yrok to Patagonia
Other speakers before large audi
ence were Sir Bernard Pares, for
merly director of Slavonic and East
ern European studies of the Univer-
sity of London; Ernest c. Rapes in
charge of the Russian desk in the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce since 1925; Maurice Hin
dus, writer and lecturer and native
Of Russia, and Edward C. Carter
secretary general OF the Institute Of
Pacific Relations.
Cooperation Stressed.
Mr.. Hindus contended that Russia
realizes her real welfare lies in the
direction of cooperation with Amer
lea and England during and after the
present war.
II can't imagine" he said, Rus
sia wanting at the conclusion of the
war to embark on policies of revolu-
ton or imperialism which would re-
suit in further fighting, further
chaos, further devastation . they
need food, clothes, drugs. they need
above all an end to sacrifice and de-
struction."
Recounting Russia's 20 years OF in
ternal development, Mr. Hindus en-
praSized the point that because OF
her sacrifices. her internal pioneer
ing, the temper of her people, Russia
needs cooperation with America and
England above everything else in the
world, and Russia knows it. We
ought to know 1t, too"
Since 1928, he continued, Russian
psychology has been conditioned to
pioneering inside Russia, "develop-
ing the iron and the oil, the wheat
and the livestock, the cities and the
villages within Russia's own bor-
ders."
Mr.. Carter said the combination
of modern agriculture and indus
trialization Is needed throughout
the Far East for collective prosper
ity, victory and a free world.
He said Russia had given more
military aid to China than all the
other United Nations, despite its
peace treaty with Japan, and that
the maintenance of strong Rus
sian army end air force in Siberia
has immobilized 100000 Japanese
troops.
Mr.. Rapes said the main reliance
of the Soviet Army has been on the
electric power, based on coal, de-
veloped in the Ural Mountain basin.
Russia, because of its recent en-
phasis on industry, has never lacked
planes, guns and tanks to prevent
defeat, he said. Help from United
Nations has augmented these natu-
raj resources, accounting in goodly
measure for the showing of Russia
against the German army.
Sir Bernard, speaking on the 20
gear non-a aggression treaty recently
concluded between England and
Russia, said Stain will go down in
history as great man. Hitler
wants war between Russia and the
United States, but the speaker
asked: Where would war be-
tween Russia and the United States
be fought?"