Evening star., 1947-01-29
Moscow Muneuvefg
Become Transparent
Clumsy Attempt Seen to Drive
Wedge Between Britain and u. S.

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The maneuvers of the totalitarian
government of Russia in world affairs
have been puzzle and a mystery, but
they are now becoming amazingly
transparent.
Within the last fortnight Moscow has
sought rather clumsily to drive . wedge
between the British and American
people.
The first attack came through the
insidious influence Of those British
radicals and 'left-wingers" vino are
attacking the Attlee-Bevin Labor gov
ernment for playing too closely to the
United States.
To refute this charge, Foreign Min
lister Bevin, in tone Of impatience,
made a speech declaring that the
British were not tied to anybody. He
was, of course, trying to say that
Britain was not allied with the United
States. But the Russian "Pravda"--
which is government controlled -
promptly jumped on Bevin and said he
had "abrogated" the British Russian
treaty of alliance which was designed
to last 20 years.
British Aghast at Charge.
The British government, aghast at
such a charge, denied that the treaty
had been abrogated and demonstrated
with Moscow. Thereupon Generalissimo
Stain said he was glad to receive the
reinsurance, but that he didn't think
the treaty in its present form was par
ticularly strong and felt that If the
British proposal for lengthening the
term were taken up seriously, some
strengthening points should be added
to the whole treaty. He did not clarity
what he meant
Having confused and bewildered the
British, Moscow propaganda now is
turned on the United States. A dis
patch broadcast by the official news
agency in Russia declares that British
American relations have assumed the
character of a military alliance. The
agency says:
"As is known, Britain does not have
a formal treaty with the United States
yet none can doubt the intimate rela-
tions which in fact have assumed the
character of a military alliance.
Britain concluded a 20-year treaty
with the Soviet Union, but 1t cannot be
said that British policy toward the
Soviet Union answers the demands Of
an allied treaty. In reality there are
not a few facts showing that Britain
and the United States form bloc
against the Soviet Union"
Nothing illustrates more clearly the
Russian strategy of dividing the democ-
racies whenever she can. Her propa-
ganda throughout Latin America, as
we'll as throughout Europe, aims to
estrange the United States from coun-
tries with which America is on the
friendliest terms.
Tactics Deceive Nobody.
The Russian tactics are not deceiving
ANYBODY. The public complaint against
the British that they like America too
we'll is, however, the biggest blunder
the Communists in Moscow have ever
made 1t is true that no treaty of alli-
ance exists between America and Brit
ain, because one isn't necessary. 1t is
also true that the words and phrases OF
no treaty between Russia and Great
Britain can be strong enough as to war
rant Britain ever taking the side of Rus
sia If the latter some day follows in the
Hitler path of unprovoked aggression
against peaceful nations,
The disinterested observers In the
world may ask: why all the talk of or
need for alliances?. Isn't the United
Nations supposed to be an adequate
safeguard against aggression, so that
alliances between individual nations are
to be superfluous?"
The two-power treaties of alliance
were signed at time when the United
Nations had not yet come into being.
Now that the U. N. is here, the signing
| of new alliances or extension of old al
| liances cannot but be regarded as a
blow at the prestige of the U. N. and
as sign that some nations are revert
ing to the games of power politics which
brought on World War I and World
War II.
What Is behind Russian policy? Is
| there any one in Russia who seriously
thinks a wedge can be driven between
the United States and Britain? There
| is no chance of such development
and the sooner the Moscow govern
mental propagandists recover from their
jitters and give full faith to collective
security the sooner will the whole world
situation improve and the reduction Of
armaments be brought nearer to frui-
ton.
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