RUSSIA MAKING MOST OF BRITISH CRISIS

Chronicle (Levin), 14 August 1947, Page 8

RUSSIA MAKING MOST OF BRITISH CRISIS

LONDON, August 12. The British eeonomic crisis has been seized upon by Russia as a heaven sent object lesson in what happens in conn tries who get themselves entangled with the complexities of Ameriean aid, according to reports vfrom Moseow. Nothing eouid be more opportnne to iSoviet pvo pagap.dists as justification of a polic,\ of abstention from the Paris eonference into which Russia persuaded countries on her western borders. The la.tesi Russian propaganda has again been specilic — -that the Marshall offer is solely an American attempt to domin ate Western Europe, first eeonomiealli and then politically in the interesr.of her own trade and as a future ba& - for operations in a struggle against the Soviet. Pravda recently related the Marshal! offer to an expected American slumiand American hostility to the Soviel Union. It was declared that tlu- 4 political aims of the Marshall plan werfirstly, the formation of a western bloc under American leadership - secondly, the conversion of Ger many (excepting the Soviet zone) int-» a military American imperialist base in the heart of Europe, involving1 the rapid development of thd Suhr and -the elimination .of British influence from U. thirdly, the winning over of Eastern European states from the influence Oi the Soviet 's foreign policy.