Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-18
Reds Scored Victory
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u. 5. Journalist SAYS
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 18.-An
American journalist back from the
International Economic Confer
ence in Moscow says the Com
munist -sponsoreG meeting scored
a propaganda victory which can
not "be easily laughed off by the
United States"
| A. Wilfred May, an anti-Com-
munist who is executive editor of
the Commercial and Financial
Chronicle in New York, was the
only American journalist granted
a visa specifically for the talks.
He said he had been asked be-
cause those who made out the in
| vitation looked on him as a rep
Preventative of a serious econom-
| ical journal"
| Mr.. May said yesterday the con-
| ference was an ideological-politi-
cal success because it pictured the
Soviet Union as trying to revive
| international trade to cure the
worlds ills.
| BY boycotting it, he said, the
| United States may have created a
bad impression in the worlds
under developed countries, even
though u. S. participation on any
competent level would have proved
fruitless.
| The conference will have q con-
tinuing propaganda effect. Mr..
May added, because a permanent
commission has been set up to
carry on it's work. It will be
headed by a Frenchman and will
probably establish itself in a non
Communist city such as Copen-
hagen, Denmark.
Reds Withheld Attacks.
Mr.. May said the Moscow meet
ing provided a forum for severe
criticism of the United States
but not by representatives of the
Soviet bloc. They avoided at
lacking the Americans. However,
participants from under-developed
countries accused the United
States of imperialism and of at
taching strings to its aid pro-
Igrams.
The Red victories were chiefly
propaganda ones, Mr.. May said,
although the trade-fair technique
OF the conference was somewhat
successful.
Some Of the talk of increas-
| ing trade between East and West
is just baloney," he said. This
is true particularly in the British
Russian trade field. The Rus
slams could have bought British
textiles long ago if they wanted
to-"
There are apt to be tie-in deals,
Mr.. May said. For instance,
Britain may sell textiles to the
Soviet Union or Red China if
she also will sell machinery and
other items the Communists need
badly.
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British delegates-who had NO
official connection with their gov
ernment-announced earlier they
concluded agreements with Com
munlst China to exchange $28
million worth Of textiles and other
products for like amount of Chi
nese products. The British ex-
ports must be approved by Brit
aims Board of Trade.
\ A Chicago businessman, who at
tended the conference as a dele
gate despite the fact that it had
been denounced in advance as a
phoney by the United States Gov
eminent, agreed with Mr.. May
that it was success for the Reds. 1
Edmund Won Henke, arriving in
Berlin from Moscow, told news
men the meeting was devoted
purely to business" and had
avoided political problems.
Mr.. Won Henke, who is president
of the American Fusion Co. of
/ chicago, was named as an Amer
lean member of the 40-man per-
manent Standing Committee set
| up by the conference.
He said the committee intends
to create individual groups in all
countries, something like the
Rotary international, to work for
free trade, unhampered by gov
eminent restrictions"
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