Evening star., 1954-04-28
Stale Talk From MoIenkov

Premier Malenkov, in his latest address to
the Supreme Soviet, has not encouraged the
hope that he and his colleagues in the Krem-
lin have anything new or constructive to offer
either at Geneva or elSewhere-to promote a
decent and enduring peace in the world. On the
contrary, although he has spoken with seeming
fervor about the need for easing international
tensions, he has done little more than repeat
the old policy line that has made those tensions
inevitable.
To begin with, what Mr.. Malenkov has said
is Disappointing if not disturbing, because it
is far less temperate than what he has had to
say heretofore about the United States AS if
having become accustomed to his job as Stalins
successor, he has now sounded off against our
country in the threadbare and wholly menda-
ciouS StalineSque manner-more so than in any
of his earlier speeches as premier. Thus our
ruling circles" aggressive cir
cles"-are responsible for everything that is
wrong in the world Together with "henchmen"
states that follow the american dictate" our
Government is maintaining IAN atmosphere of
war hyStera" brandishng the hydrogen bomb,
resorting to methods of threat and ntimida-
ton" and otherwise doing all that it can to
frustrate the glorious efforts of the glorious
Soviet Union to establish glorious peace for
the whole of mankind.
Nevertheless, despite the perfidious Ameri-
cans, the Kremn, according to Mr.. Malenkov
will continue to work ncbly with Red China and
the other peoples democraces" to foil the
warmongers and make this better world in
which all nationS-juSt like Russia today-will
enjoy "an atmosphere of cheerfulness, conf
derlce and peaceful constructive labor" in con-
trast to the fear, anxiety and dependency"
that now prevails in the United States. More
over, referring to his country's atomic hydrogen
power, he has warned the aggressive circles
that they will be crushed and that the entire
capitalist social system" will be ruined if they
dare to strike at the 'peace-loving" Soviet
Union with A-weapons or H-bombs. Interest
ingly enough however he has not acknowledged
as he did some weeks ago-that an alr-out
war with such weapons could devastate the
US. S R. at least as much as any other land
AS for preventing such war and making
this better world, Mr.. Malenkov has proposed
nothing that has not been heard before. Besides
giving voice to the usual propaganda designed
to drive wedges between the United States and
its allies, and besides playing upon French fears
by raising the specter of resurgent German
militarism, he has declared that the way to
achieve peace is for our country and the West
in general to agree to things like the following:
Cd Red ChinaS full diplomatic recognition and
its admission into the United Nations; (2) non-
resistance to Asas Liberation movement"
meaning non-resistance to Communist subver-
sion and aggression; (3) abandonment of the
European Defense Community; a. an all-Euro-
pean security" pact, including America as we'll
as Russia; and 60 negotiations aimed at induct-
ing the Soviet Union as partner in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
In repeating these stale and partly fan
tastic proposals. Mr.. Malenkov has asserted that
all "contentious and outstanding international
issues must and can be solved" and that the
free world and his world "can quite we'll co-exst
peacefully" That may in fact be so-but not
on the basis of the agreements he has de-
manded For those agreements would require,
for the most part, sweeping Western sur
render to Soviet terms-a surrender that would
pave the way for eventual Communist domina-
tion of the globe. Clearly, as long as the Krem-
lin insists upon that, the present peace-such as
it is-Will keep on being tense and precarious.