RUSSIAN POLICY ATTACKED

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24901, 14 June 1946, Page 7

RUSSIAN POLICY ATTACKED

ADDRESS AT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY '

(Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON. June 12. “The confusion in which the world finds itself to-day has been deliberately manufactured by the Soviet Union,” said Mr Neil Macneil. assistant-man-aging editor of the “New York Times," in a commemoration address at the Catholic University. “Moscow is seeking the destruction of the existing political order and of faith and morals, in an endeavour to spread Communism and expand the power of the Soviet's foreign policy. “The Soviet's most disturbing activities in the United States are in communications." added Mr Macneil “They have placed their men in press news agencies, news syndicates, book publishing houses, national magazines, radio chains, and in the motion picture industry. In this way the Russians have gained a substantial measure of success in trying to control or colour the flow of information to the American public." Mr Macneil said that Russia's maxiSum objective concerning General ranco Was to cause war between France ana Spain, thereby enabling the Communists to come out on top in both nations. Soviet diplomata in dealing with defeated nations were striving to wear out the patience of British and American diplomats, so that in desperation they would agree to the Russian demands or allow them to go by default “The Russian refusal to make peace is the greatest crime in ail history, concluded Mr MacnelL