Evening star., 1947-06-16
On the Record
Policies Of Soviet, u. S.
Seen Leading to Conflict
Full Significance of Red Expansion
Everywhere Isn't Appreciated
Bv Dorothy Thom bson
| On the Record


There is no question where our foreign
policy and that OF the Soviet Union Is heading.
It is heading toward war. The world Is dividing
into two blocs. And around the Soviet frontiers,
whether in Europe or Asia, q consolidation Is
occurring which represents the greatest poten-
tial power complex OF which modern history
has record.
In Asia, the Communists are making steady
progress in Manchuria. India, which also has
a frontier on the Soviet Union, Is being Bal
kanized. With the passing Of British rule.
india" ceases to be. We shall now have two
lndias. Since no country Is divided to mutual
satisfaction and In India-as elsewhere-it is
impossible to draw clear geographical demarca-
tions between Hindu and Moslem territories,
we may anticipate, I fear, prolonged trouble
there which certainly will be exploited by the
Communists.
The permanent division of Europe is hard to
envisage. Europe's political divisions should
not obscure the fact that Europe is an economic
unity in which the Eastern countries have fed
the West while the West has exported industrial
products eastward It's rivers and railroads are
an integrated complex There Is a cultural
bond dating from the Middle Ages To imagine
a United States of Europe without Poland.
Hungary or Austria, or to imagine Danubian
ASSSA~S~SAA
unimaginable.
Armies Added to Soviet's.
In the developing Soviet European union all
national armies are being added to Red Army
strength. The peace treaty with Hungary
grants her an army of $1,000, and hardly has
the Communist coup occurred than reorgan1-
zation Of the army begins. Furthermore, there
Is no reason for believing that restricted arrna-
will hA ehco ip
that enter the Soviet military complex.
The combined populations Of Poland Hun
gary, Czechosloyakia, Romania Bulgaria and
Yugoslava add up to around 100 900 900 people,
or more than the combined populations OF
italy and France. The frontier changes lay
Italy open via Yugoslavia as far as the French
Alps, and France open to the English Channel.
Moreover, the economics Of the Soviet COM
plex will be centralized into huge interlocking
state-capitalist holding companies There will
be an undertaking unity OF political line.
Finally, all opposition within the Soviet fedora
ton will be crushed while Soviet agents will
be free to organize within the rest of Europe
freedom specifically granted them in the
peace treaties with enemy states.
In the end this complex created by cynical
foreign agents doubtless will break down
through terrible corruption and incapacity to
govern. The new Communist states are not
led by Lenins but by trained janissary hacks OF
a revolution" no longer revolutionary They
are not even making socialist economies.
Poland Called Racket.
Poland, for instance is neither socialist,
Communist nor capitalist, but can be described
only as a racket. One of the chief racketeers
is now in this country, jerry Borejsza. Before
the war he was minor writer but an energetic
worker for the Soviets, who welcomed them
when they invaded Poland with the Hitler1tes.
Serving as stool pigeon among his colleagues,
he was chief witness in the 1910 purge OF
Polish writer's in Lwow, helping win heavy
sentences against them.
For this he was rewarded with the director
ship of publishing firms appropriated from
their former owners. Thus, he received the
printing house, "Trukarnia Narodna"; the
richest newspaper in Southern Poland, the
Krakau illustrated daily; and the only intact
printing plant left in Warsaw, "Prasa Polska."
His "co-operative" has a monopoly of news
paper and magazine distribution and first
priority on newsprint.
Such regimes without popular support and
led by men who have, for the most part, been
Soviet citizens for years, must-1 think
eventually break down through internal squab-
bles and purges. But before that happens they
are likely to be pushed outward to new coups
or actual war for that very reason. The menace
to the West-and regardless Of differences In
ideology-is, therefore, prodigious. Our people
do not yet realize it sufficiently.
(Released by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.)