Evening star., 1947-06-19
|Prayda Writer Says
|AchesoIi SIandered
Soviet in Address
By the Assoeioted Press

MOSCOW, June 19.rThe Com
munist newspaper Pravda today
termed the Wesleyan speech of Re-
firing Undersecretary of State Dean
Acheson a gross and rude SANDER
against the Soviet Union"
Mr.. Acheson declared Sunday
that Russia was retarding world re-
covery by steps in conflict with the
very premises" needed for interna-
tional accord.
The article in Pravda, the Com
munist party newspaper, was the
sharpest attack yet on American
foreign policy in the Russian press.
"Acheson knows very well with
what distrust progressive circles
throughout the world appraise
American foreign policy and this
includes appraisal in the United
States too" it said
The criticism of dollar atomic
diplomacy. the greed of American
monopolies and the greed of un-
checked expansion covered by the
figleaf Truman doctrine has liqui-
dated without the faintest traces
the prestige of American foreign
policy won by Franklin D. Roose-
welt"
Blame Seen Placed on Russia.
Pravda said Mr.. Acheson "does
not want to admit responsibility, for
the situation rests greatly on those
American politicians and diplomats
who have becme loudspeakers and
conductors of deeply anti-demo-
cratic tendencies dangerous for the
world"
Saying Mr.. Acheson sought to
place blame on the U. S. S. r.,
Pravda continued:
| Zone should know this kind of
thing is not original Acheson has
had few predecessors, especially in
! the nations OF the former Axis.
Acheson may be characterized as in
the category of persons Elliott
Roosevelt refers to in his book as
seeking Intentionally to ruin the
unity which the great powers formed
during the war. -
hCIlcauii dilu Ills hldotSlS dp-
parently feel that supplies sent to
the Soviet Union during the war
were some sort of advance payment
or some financial and political in
vestment which will allow American
imperialism to have some effect on
Soviet politics or even give It the
right to dictate to the Soviet Union
on how to behave" it said.
"Acheson is exasperated that such
a cynical commercial approach to
the Soviet Union did not pay Off
He wants to assure American pro-
vincial students that victory over
fascism was bought by dollars, not
by the precious blood of the Soviet
people.
"Acheson cannot accept one sim
pie fact-that the U. S. S. r. does
not exist as an object Of American
speculat ton, but as the geratest
power in the world, the sovereignty
of which no one can diminish, no
matter how fat his pocket with dol
lars
Repeats Silly Invention"
Pravda said the undersecretary
was repeating the silly invention
that the Soviet Union was sup
porting unrest in the Middle East
by occupying northern territories of
Iran"
Even provincial American stu
dents know there Is not single
Soviet soldier or officer in Iran, but
there are American military in
structors and American police spe-
cialists there instead" the article
said.
The article termed the Truman
Doctrine notorious" and asserted
that Mr.. Acheson's speech was an
attempt at justification. The writer
asserted that Mr.. Acheson sought to
remove responsibility of American
diplomacy for conduct Of policy
of expansion which contradicts the
principles of real collaboration of
"reat powers