SOVIET DEPUTY PREMIER BEATS PEACE DESIRE DRUM

Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 5

SOVIET DEPUTY PREMIER BEATS PEACE DESIRE DRUM

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Accuses United States Of Wanting To Create World Empire

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Received Monday, 9.30 a.m. MOSCGW, November 6. The Soviet Union stands firmly for the peace and friendship of nations. It does not want war and will do everything to prevent war," the Soviet Deputy Premier, Mr Georgiv Malenkov, said today. He described the basis of the Marshall Plan-, however, as a preparation for war and said that the aim behind it was to transform the whole world into a colony of the American imperialists. "The Soviet people do not fear peaeeful competii.fion with the capitalist world, but are sure of their might and j xnow very well that any war adventure will end in disaster for the imperialists."

Mr. Malenkov was addressing the Moscow City Soviet at its traditional meeting to mark the 32nd anniversary of the Soviet revolution. "Atomie energy in the hands of the imperialists is a source of production of death dealing weapons, whereas in the hands of the Soviet it must and will serve as a mighty weapon of unprecedented technical progress and further speedy growth of the productive forces of our country." Mr. Malenkov said that Soviet policy included the curtailment of armaments and an unconditional ban on atomic weapons. Marshall Plan's Aim. One of the main aims of the Marshall Pian was the forcible militarisation of European countries, leading directly to a new world war, Mr. Malenkov continued. The socalled atomic diplomacy was based on the assumption that the United States had an absoiute monopoly of the atomic weapon. The Soviet had never concealed its own possession of that weapon. "The programme of the enemies of peace is becoming clearer," said Mr. Malenkov. "It presupposes the creation of a world American empire by the means of new wars. The scale on which this empire is to be built must exceed that of any known empire-making process. It is a question of transforming the whole world into a colony of the American imperialists and bringing sovereign peoples to the status of slaves." Mr. Malenkov declared that the congresses of the partisans of peace held in Prague and Paris had found a great response in all countries. If Imperialism unleashed a third world war the result would mean the grave of capitalism as a whole. History showed that the first world war, started by the imperialists, had "led to the Russian revolution. The last war," also began by the imperialists, had led to the strengthening of the popular demoeratic regimes in Europe and the "victory of demoeratic China." •. i Americans Would Suffer. Mr. Malenkov added: "The American people know very well that in the event of war suffering will visit the American continent too. If there is a new blood bath there will be weeping mothers also in America." I He went on to say that the West- I ern Powers were "criminally undermining the peoples' democraeies," using for that purpose, in the first instance, "the espionage of Tito." He spoke of the importance of "uniting the demoeratic forces of the German people." European peace could not be assured if the German problem were not solved. Dealing with China, Mr. Malenkov quoted Lenin as saying in 1923 that the outcome of the world struggle between caoitalism and Communism depended in its final balance on the fact that Russia,

India and China represented the gigantic majority of the world. The American imperialists counted on using China as their main base for Asian domination and as one of their decisive links in the encirclement of the Soviet. Comparing the "peoples' democraeies" with the United States, Mr. Malenkov said that in the United ( States signs were mounting of an • approaching economic crisis. Since last autumn, he said, American production had deelined steadily. Last July it represented only 60 per cent. of the wartime production. The American industrial output had decreased by 11 per cent. in October. Industrial shares were fiuctuating and falling, American exports were decreasing and stocks of commodities were increasing. The number of totally unemployed Was doubled this year. Soviet Production Prices. Mr. Malenkov said that Russia's prewar level of production and economic development had been reached and surpassed. In the ten months compared with last year Soviet production had been raised 20 per cent. This year's Soviet harvest exceeded prewar levels. In 1950 Soviet production would rise to a general level 50 per cent. higher than before 1940. "Whereas Soviet production has grown in the last 20 years by nine times, European production has remained at the same level." Mr. Malenkov said that in the , "capitalist world" there were about 40,000,000 unemployed or partly 1 employed people. "Devaluation. of various currencies may serve as a elear example of the aggressive American economic policy, which cannot but end in disaster." After devaluation, America planned toi seizs whole branches of industry in Western Europe and also the eolonies of the European Powers. INever in its history had Russia had such equitable and well-dis-posed frontiers said Mr. Malenkov. Prontier injustice had been rectified for Byelo-Russia and Moldavia. There was no longer a hostile East Prussia. Leningrad's defence was assured. In the Far East the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin helped frontier defence. "Poland is strong, Czechoslovakia is united and strong and the Soviet has loyal friends in the peoples of Hungary, Rumunia and Bulgaria." Soivmsr German Problem. Mr. Malenkov said that Russia's programme proviaed for the "precise execution of the Potsdam Agreement regarding the German problem, a peaeeful settlement with Japan and the develonment of trade and economic relations with other countries." Of Germany, he said that the problem there could not be solved unless Germany took its fate into its own hands and denrived the I'Prussian magnates of their political and economic foundations," and unless radical demoeratic reforms were carried out.