Evening star., 1947-03-16
PraydaEchoesIzvestia
In Attack on Truman
reek-Turkish Policy.
By Eddy Gilmore
A,soeiatsd Press Foreign Correspondent

MOSCOW, Mar. 15.-Pravda,
Communist party organ, made bit
ter second Soviet attack on Presi-
dent Truman's Greek Turkish policy
today, declaring it did not serve
the cause of peace and security and
renders valueless" United States
declarations of faithfulness to the
United Nations.
Echoing the arguments advanced
yesterday in Izvestia, the govern
ment newspaper, but even sharper
in some of it's conclusions, Pravda
declared the proposed economic and
military aid to Greece and Turkey
was imperialist expansion under
the guise OF charity"
Now that the two chief news
papers in Soviet Russia have lashed
out in two-column long editorials,
1t remained for oficial Soviet lead
ers to give their reaction. None
has yet said a public word.
But it was expected that Prime
Minister Stain would receive Sec
retary of State Marshall any time
now. and that when he did he
would speak his mind with utter
frankness.
1t could be stated with some cer-
tainty that If Mr.. Stain starts on
the subject of President Truman
he will say plenty. But Gen. Mar
shall, 1t Is known, can be blunt,
too, and such meeting may turn
into a lively evening.
Yelled Reference to Marshall.
Pravda made an apparent ref
erence to Gen. Marshall when 1t
said "the leaders of American policy
could do worse than ponder over
: the fact that under contemporary
conditions attempts to realize any
plans for world domination are in
evitably doomed to failure"
It was evident that the Russians
believed that the Secretary OF State
helped formulate the Truman pol
lev. and there were many observers
here who believed that Gen. Mar
shall's definition of American de-
mocracy, which was laid before the
Foreign Ministers Council yester-
day, was a supplement to President
Truman's general attack against
totalitarianism.
Pravda said the assistance pro-
posed by President Truman would
strengthen "the same reactionary
regime In Greece which led the
country to bankruptcy" and that
"the dispatch of American civil and
military personnel, the program OF
training specially selected, obedlent.
executors of the will of foreign capi-
tai in Greece mean in fact the
liquidation Of the state of independ-
ence of Greece and a gross impos-
ing upon her Of American domina-
ton"
As for Turkey, Pravda said, the
country "as is known, has by no
means suffered from the war. How,
then can one explain the necessity
to grant urgent assistance to that
country"
Obligations Held Ignored. 4
Declaring the American plan was
really to extend the Monroe Doc
trine to the Old World" the news
paper asked why, If Greece and
Turkey were really threatened, the
United States did not apply to the
United Nations organization.
Pravda then charged that the
President had "disregarded the OBJ
Iigations of the United States as a
member of U. NJ" and had pre-
ferred to act in disregard of U. N.
without taking into consideration
that such disdainful attitude to-
wards the United Nations organiza-
ton renders valueless the declara-
tions of the United States about
their faithfulness to the cause OF
this international organization"
Pravda, like Izvestia, charged that
the Truman plea that it was neces-
sary to defend free peoples against
the threat from totalitarian regimes"
was borrowed from Hitler.
Hitler also referred to the Boil
shevik danger when he prepared for
the seizure of one state or another" J"
the paper said.