Evening star., 1946-06-09
Serious Crisis Growing
In i. S.-SOviet Relations
Constant Campaign on Radio and in Press of
Russia Attacking American imperialism
Causing Deep Concern
By Constantine Brown

States and Russia has drifted to such
our top wishful thinkers describe it as
critical.
An anti-American and anti-British
campaign by the aforementioned
Russian press and radio has reached a
peak which may be compared with the
utterances of these propaganda organs
against Hitler. Much is made of the
"expansionist" plans of American i'm
perialism, although both Prime Min
lister Stain and Foreign Minister Molo-
tov are fully aware that nothing is
further from the minds of the Ameri-
can leaders and the people they repre-
sent than any form of Imperialism.
In the past some of the so-called lib
erals who have been advocating yielding
to all Russia's demands regardless of
how contrary they were to the principles
for which we fought, ascribed this Rus
sian campaign to an "inferiority COM
plex" on the part of the Kremlin. We
were told that after Russia had estab-
lished her strategic boundaries we'll out
side the confines of her empire and we
had shown our wartime eastern Ally
that we were nursing no hostile inten-
tions, the Soviet government would be
fully cooperative in the restoration of
the postwar world.
The Endorsement of the far-fung
Soviet boundaries outside the actual
Russian frontiers by the creation of a
number of puppet states and the rapid
disintegration of the American armed
forces should have been a satisfactory
demonstration that the United States
wished to cooperate with every other
nation in the creation of better and
more peaceful world.
Predictions Not Fulfilled.
Unfortunately, the predictions of those
who claimed to know the intentions of
the Moscow leaders have not been full
filled. Despite the difficulties We are
meeting in finding out what is going
on behind the steel curtain, our officials
have obtained positive information that
the Russian Army is still 100000 men
strong; that large part of this force
at least 5000 900 mems concentrated
in Eastern Germany. Hungary, Romania
and Bulgaria: and that another smaller
force is ''at ease" on the eastern bor-
ders of Turkey and in Azerbaijan.
Our officials also have learned that
while the official Soviet announcements
speak of the reconversion of industry for
peaceful purposes, it actually continues
to work overtime in the manufacture of
implements of war, and that German
and Austrian specialists in modern war
fare such as atomic bombs and rockets
are either in Russia or in the areas in
Eastern Europe under Russian domina-
ton continuing the work which they
had been compelled to suspend because
OF the German military defeat.
These are well-established facts OBJ
tanned at great risk and after great diff
Guilty. The summing up leads to the
conclusion that either the U. S. S. R.
intends to utilize these factors to bluff
the western democracies into a COM
plete submission to all the Soviet's de-
sires and aims, or that Russia intends
to make full use of them in the event
that the democratic governments main
tain their present resistance
Reds Farm Estates.
The reports that the U. S. S. r.
eventually may reduce its active military
force to mere 100000 men does not
impress our military observers. They
know that in some foreign countries
which are under the wing of Moscow,
such as Finland, Romania, Bulgaria and
Hungary, there have been instances
when Red soldiers were released from
military service and established as
farmer-soldiers in these areas. The
japanese did this in Manchuria, where
they established military outposts with
redeployed soldiers of the Kwantung
army who were settled on the Man
churian-Russian borders.
Reports from Finland say that Rus
sian soldiers liberated from the armed
forces were given farms which had for
merly been purchased and cultivated by
Germans. These are, of course, right
fully considered as war booty The
Finnish government attempted unsuc-
cessfully to keep the farms for the popu-
lation of the areas ceded by Finland to
the U. S. S. R. The request was turned
down and today Red soldiers are farm
ing the former German estates in Fin
land. They have been provided with
tine necessary agricultural implements,
but at the same time they have been
ordered to keep their weapons.
A similar situation on a much larger
scale exists in Hungary and in the Bal
kan states.
The question on everybodys mind in
Washington today is: Where will the
present strain lead the world?
Russia's Power Weighed.
Certain official quarters here believe
that the Russian government, despite
the large numbers of men it still has
under arms, is not prepared for major
military action which might involve the
Western powers. These quarters are
convinced that it will take Russia from
three to five years to reorganize her in
dustries sufficiently to wage war which
in modern days can be won only by a
nation which has every conceivable in
dustrial facility. They point out that
the U. S. S. r. would have been utterly
defeated by the Germans had not
American and British lease-lend sup
port arrived in such huge quantities
through the White Sea and the Persian
Gulf.
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