SERVICE ABROAD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 7

SERVICE ABROAD

SOVIET REPRESENTATIVES DEFENDING INTERESTS OF SOCIALIST STATE N.Z.P.A.—Reuter— Copyright. Rec 9 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 10. The Soviet Communist Party was training representatives to further its fftregin policy abroad, said Mr Georgi Malenkov, deputy chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, in an address which Moscow radio reported last night. . Mr Malenkov said that the Soviet Communist Party was devoting particular attention to its external policy and attaching great importance to the selection and adequate training of cadres capable of assuring the following of the party’s lines on external policy. These leaders would be taught

how to “defend the international interests of the Socialist State, tell true friends from foes and divine intrigues and plots of imperialists and their agents.” ' Mr Malenkov said it was necessary to maintain close touch between the Communist parties. He claimed that the United States and Britain threatened and interfered with “ truly democratic States like Poland and Yugoslavia, which bore more than their share in Fascism’s final collapse.” Mr Malenkov made the address at a. closed session of the Organising Bureau of the Polish Communist Party in September when he was in Warsaw for Cominform talks, but the speech has only now been published in Pravda.