BRITISH DELEGATE POINTS TO SOVIET TECHNIQUE

Grey River Argus, 24 March 1948, Page 5

BRITISH DELEGATE POINTS TO SOVIET TECHNIQUE

“Must be Dammed Back” (Rec. 10.0) NEW YORK, March 22. Sir Alexander Cadogan (Britain) before the Security Council, referring to Soviet expansion in Europe said; “There are limits beyond which this tide must not advance. It must be dammed back. Almost everyone throughout the world must hope fervently that this can be done peacefully, but there is an undeniable risk that that hope may not be fulfilled. In judging this case, we must be .very careful that, we are not too easily fooled.” SUPPORT FROM ABROAD

Sir Alexander Cadogan said the Council could not expect absolute proof of Soviet interference in Czechoslovakia; but what Russia had done in other countries must be taken as a background. Communist intrigue and penetration, plainly supported from abroad, was always at work underground. “We know of the preparations being made to help the Communists to seize power in Italy. The Italian Government has seized arms being imported from Yugoslavia to the Italian Communist Party in the last few weeks,” he said. “Pan it be believed that a gallant nation, like the Czechs, would give up their democratic rights unless some threat of overwhelming force had been brought against them?” he asked.

Sir Alexander declared that, in Czechoslovakia, as in Rumania, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland “in breach of the solemn international pledges at Yalta." all parties but the Communists had been gradually or suddenly wiped out. TYPICAL TECHNIQUE “The latest coup in Czechoslovakia was handled according lo the typical Communist technique,” he said. “It is a matter of public knowledge that Communist Parties take their orders from Moscow. Bland ar.d bare denials are not, in this case, very convincing. We cannot’ be blind to what has been happening under our eyes during the past few years. Country after country, on the confines of the Soviet, has succumbed to the rule of a ruthless Communist minority. “It is all so regular and uniform that one cannot but trace it to the same source,” he said. “Of course, it might be said that all these events were the outcome of spontaneous movements in the countries in question, whose inhabitants became progressively convinced of the blessings of living under a totalitarian regime administered by a ruthless minority.

“Unfortunately, these upheavals generally seemed to coincide with a visit to the country concerned of a high Soviet functionary from Moscow. This coincidence, of itself, must arouse our suspicions.” AMERICA’S ATTITUDE M. Vassily Tarasenko (Soviet Ukraine) said that American intervention in other countries was becoming more and more scandalous, whereas the facts supporting alleged Soviet intervention were absolutely non-existent. He counter-charged that, the Western Powers, chiefly the United States, were striving fervently to dominate Greece, Italy, all of Latin America and other country. “All these crocodile tears over Czechoslovakia are aimed merely at diverting public attention from those interventions,” he said. The debate will be resumed tomorrow.