Evening star., 1946-03-10
Americans in Berlin
Think Stain 'Curbs'
World Communism
By Wes GoIIooher

1Our-poWer Allied committees 1r
Berlin, after months and in some
cases years of study feel they know
the answer to the worlds No. dip
lomatic mystery-what is behind
Soviet foreign policy, where is il
going and how does it propose te
get there?
ThSse men, diplomats, Army Off
GERS and civil servants, have sue
ceeded in what the United Nations
Organization has just started tc
do-making friends with the Rus
slams, removing their suspicious and
obtaining their confidence. In sc
doing they think they have dis
covered part of what makes the
Soviet state tick.
Eliminating minor differences
here is the core of what a majority
of these men feel. 1t is gained from
informal talks and interviews over q
period of weeks:
Schools of Thought.
There are three schools of thought
In Russia on foreign relations.
l. That the Communist system is
In a constant state of war" with
the capitalist system and all efforts
both diplomatic and political should
be devoted to furthering the Com
munist side of this conflict as
rapidly as possible. This school of
thought is said to include Foreign
CommiSsar V. NJ. Molotov and Vice
Foreign CommisSar Andrei Wish
lnSky.
2. That Russia can live in political
peace in world that includes cap
itallstlc states and cooperate on
international problems fully with
out conflict. This school of thought
is said to include Maxim Litvinoff
former foreign commissar and
former Ambassador to the United
States.
3. The wait and see" school of
thought that holds it is too earlv
to decide one way or another and
Russia should devote the next 10 to
Is years to building internally while
cooperating, and to drive the best
international bargains in the mean
time without giving up any funda-
mental aims. Premier Stain is
said to belong to this school.
Stalin's Group Dominates.
The dominant school at the mo-
ment is Stalin's. Litvinof is out
of the picture and his place has been
taken on international bodies by
Vishinsky and Molotov. The Amer
leans feel that Stain is acting as
a brake on the enthusiasm of his
two top negotiators.
AS used by the first school the
word war" Is not meant in the
sense of the physical conflict just
past, but in the sense that Com
munist policy must be aggressively
pushed constantly throughout the
world by political, economic and
diplomatic means.
AS matter of fact, American ne
gotlators who have been dealing
with the Russians do not feel that
war between Russia and the United
States is inevitable. They feel that
the interests of the two nations need
never come in conflict and that diff
ferences can be settled by negotia-
ton for the foreseeable future.
In drawing a picture of Soviet
foreign policy they point out that
this policy is not made by the Soviet
Foreign Office but by the Com
munist party's politburo.
Politburo Makes Policy.
This body of about IA top Com
munist leaders make the policies
which are executed by the Foreign
Commisar and his aides. The names
Of all those on the politburo are
not known by the Allies, but it is
known that it consists of Stain S
most trusted men, including An
drei A. Zhdanov and President
Mikhail Kalinin as well as Molotov
and Vishinsky.
With the exception of Stain,
Molotov and Vishinsky the members
of this policy making committee
never have been outside Russia and
have had no fundamental under
standing of the problems of other
nations. They have become sud-
denly conscious of their own
strength through victorious wal
after years in the status of an un-
tried nation.
This feeling of power from war
developed muscles is compared te
the feeling in the United States
after the Spanish American Wal
and the subsequent years of Theo-
dore Roosevelt's big stick" diplo-
macy.
Tough-talking Vishinsky carried
this feeling on the floor of the
United Nations at the recent session
in London. He has expressed the
view privately, according to Ameri-
can sources, that capitalistic United
States and Britain have hit their
peak and are on the down grade
chile Communistic Russia is just
in the growing stage. His attitude
is that nothing can stop Russia and
'oe Communist system from being
ne dominant power in the world.
Vishinsky Leading Figure.
Id oliC VI UllC
figures behind Russia's imperialist
policy of widening sphere of in
f1uence and security" in buffer
states. AS early as 1943, when he
first came to Africa, Vishinsky ex-
pressed the view that the ''Mediter-
ranean must no longer be a. British
lake, but Russia must have an out
let there, too"
This expansionist policy is viewed
by Americans as the first step of
the Vishinsky- -Molotov school of
diplomatic relations which holds
that the Communist system is at
odds with the capitalist system and
eventually there will be no room
or both. 1T also fits in with the
Stain school of wait and see'
while making Russia stronger.
American observers feel that
Russia will continue this aggressive
international diplomacy, pushing
forward in all fields until halted
by her own limitations or the united
opposition of other nations.
Some Americans feel that Russia
has embarked on a policy which