Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-15
Cold War Back
Again, Dulles
Tells NAT0
Soviet Zig-Zuegine
Over, New Fronts
Opened, He Says

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States Secretary of State Dulles
told the NATO Council of Minis
tiers today the East-West cold
war Is on again after nearly a
year Of Soviet policy zigzagging
The American Secretary. dis
cussing the trends and motives
of Russian policy in 1855, de-
clared the new rulers of the So
Wet Union have opened danger
Gus new cold war fronts in the
Middle East and South Asia.
He added, however, that the
15-nation Atlantic Alliance had
overcome greater dangers in the
past by remaining ever vigilant
and united.
MIR. Dulles spoke at the OPEN
ing Of the first council meeting
since last summers Big Four
summit conference at Geneva
and the Foreign Ministers sub
sequent deadlock in the Swiss
city.
Wilson, Humphrey Attend
Also attending the annual
year-end meeting Of NATO for
eign, defense and finance min
listers were United States De-
tense Secretary Wilson and
Treasury Secretary Humphrey.
The ministers of the slx-year-
old alliance gathered at their
Palais du Chaillot headquarters
to review their program of po-
litical and military cooperation
during 1855 and to set new goals
for 1856.
They opened three day con-
ference with a debate seeking
answers to the new challenges of
the Communist powers in the
world power struggle.
Mr.. Dulles recalled that when
the NATO Council met a year
ago 1t was in the shadow of So
Wet threats of awful things to
come If the allies fulfilled their
intention of bringing the West
German federal republic into
their grouping. with the right to
rearm again. The worst of those
threats never materialized, he
noted.
Soviet Policy Changes
The period Of threats Mr..
Dulles went on. was followed
quickly by phase OF what he
called Soviet sweetness and
light" beginning with the Big
Four chiefs of government meet
ing at Geneva In July.
Since then q new rightly. q
new cold war has become APP
parent in Soviet pronounce
ments ana actions and the So
called spirit Of Geneva seems to
have been repudiated by the
Russians, Mr.. Dulles said.
What, he asked. are the rea.
sons for this year Of Soviet zig
zagging?"
MIR. Dulles suggested three
possibilities:
/. It might be due to the eie-
ment OF confidence. flowing
from belief in Russias in
creased strength.
2. 1t might derive from the
Soviet's fear that new ideas
would affect the compact struct-
ure of their system.
8. And it might be the result
of a recrudeScence of Stalinism
which he believes is by no means
dead in the Soviet Union.
Playing on Emotionalism
Mr.. Dulles argued that the
Russians have been able to pose
new threats in the Middle East
and South Asia by playing on
the emotiopalism Of those areas
and by offering apparent aid"
Although Russia lacks consumer
goods. she has big SURPRISES of
obsolescent arms and has no
hesitation about using them to
further her own political ends,
he said.
Mr.. Dulles said there is no EVIL
dence that the Soviet Union
might revert to direct action at
present. but it would not hest
tate to do so If the West loses
its retaliatory power.
However. he said, the Soviet
Union is now resorting to indi-
rect threats in new and possibly
more dangerous form.
He said the recent Russian de-