Plans Of The Kremlin Will Fail In The End

Chronicle (Levin), 19 November 1949, Page 5

Plans Of The Kremlin Will Fail In The End

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NEW YORK, Nov. I/. The majorities in the countries conquered by the Kremlin were bound, soine dav,* to reassert themselves ' ' perhaps at*Mr Stalin's death," said Mr Paul Hoffman, Marshall Plan Administrator, today addressing the Virginia World Trade Conference. Mr Hoffman said that if the United States and Western • Europe remained strong and united Russian Communism would be stopped in the not too distant f'uture. It, like all evil things, would destroy itself. Plans of the men of the Kremlin would fail so utterly that Russia herself would cease to be a slave State. Mr Hoffman said: "I believe this because 1 cannot see how the Kremlin can even hold what she has now unless she eonquers Western Europe. She needs not only the steel, eoal and oi of Western Europe and the Near East, but more importantly she needs the skills of the Western Europeans. Denied these resources and skills she cannot succeed even in consolidating her present position. Onee Russia turns away from planning for world conquest to planning a better life for her people, we can all get on to the inspiring job of winning the peace. "What a joy that will be. What potentialities lie ahead. It is no exaggeration to say that we can compress more progress along everv line into the next quarter of a century than was achieved in the last half century."