Evening star., 1947-07-26

the locked doors OF Jne COmHllICee
conference room, he dropped diplo-
matte verbiage to explain to the
committee, as he does to the Secre-
tary of State. the inexorable facts.
His plain talk deeply impressed
the national figures gathered here
by Mr.. Truman to weigh and rec
ommend United States action in the
foreign field.
Mr.. Kennan said the administra-
ton reluctantly had been compelled
to realize that Russia will not CO.
operate in world recovery. She is
willing, he said, quite deliberately
to reduce the standard of living
everywhere so that, by comparison,
the Soviets will appear in a less
unfavorable light. Therefore, he
said, Russia dare not sit down in
Paris to help work out the rehabili-
tation of Europe as Secretary Mar
shall has proposed, because taat
rehabilitation is precisely what
Moscow most fears.
What Russia Counts On.
Soviet leaders, he said, are aware
that they cannot exert effective
leadership in Europe among people
whose material well-being exceeds
that of the Russian people. The
austerity of life in Russia, ne added,
needs no elaboration.
The Russians are counting on two
- hold tho continent tn tho
level of their own toiling masses,
according to Mr.. Kennan.
First. they anticipate that we
shall suffer a severe economic set
back. This has become fixed no.
ton In the Soviet mind. In 1914
Stain was assuring Eric Johnston
that the United States would suffer
postwar depression of great Sc
verify: he has consistently repeated
this to American visitors. Soviet
economists had said it and it must
be So This American depression is
a cardinal point of Soviet policy;
they. think they have only to wait
long enough, delay us sufficiently,
and it will come to their aid.
AIlell, IIlCy liz IA VIC wall OC Co'1y
prey to isolationism and will cease
to interfere with Russian plans for
the continent.
Secondly, they believe that the
countries of Western Europe are in
such a mess we can't get them out.
Time an inaction contribute to that
chaos: therefore the Soviet tactics
Of delay
Eisenhower Summary.
Gen. Eisenhower followed Mr
Kennan with a somber picture Of
Soviet attempts to undermine Amer
ican influence in the strategic areas
Of the world.
There is constant pressure, the gen.
eral said, on our friends in all parts
of the world to cut loose from us.
Trieste, Greece, Turkey, Iran were
cited by him as examples. We must,
Gen. Eisenhower argued, maintain
our footholds, and to do it we shall
be obliged to support our friends
with money and arms.
In his summary of what consti-
tutes adequate American prepared
ness, Gen. Eisenhower called for an
air force and atomic power beyond
anything the rest of the world could
muster and the maintenance of a
striking force at home.
DR.. D. A. Fitzgerald, secretary
general of the International Emer-
gency Food Council, predicted that
Americas great wheat crop would
prevent starvation next winter Eu-
rope will be hungry but not FAM
, ished, he said
The committee will return in
about two weeks for reports on the
United States resources available to
meet Ale challenge of present world
conditions. In the meantime. its
subcommittee will study and
analyze the factual detail pouring
in from Government experts
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