SOVIET EXPANSIONIST DRIVE UNABATED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 270, 27 August 1946, Page 3

SOVIET EXPANSIONIST DRIVE UNABATED

SIGNIFICANCE OF LITVINOV’S DISMISSAL Realistic American Policy Urged (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, August 26. The “New York Times,” in a leading article commenting on Marsha! Broz-Tito’s compliance with the United States ultimatum, says: “Russia’s urge for expansion finds its most critical and most dangerous expression in a puppet. Broz-Tito’s whole attitude in the Trieste dispute, in which nothing has been settled, and the ostentatious dismissal of Mr Maxim Litvinoff from his post as Deputy Foreign Minister, which to the outside world is the weathervane of Russian policy, is Russia’s notice that there will be no abatement of the expansionist drive.

“It behoves the American Government in these circumstances to keep its own policy under constant review. There can be no departure from America’s firm resolve to seek peaceful settlements by. agreement and use to the utmost all the international authorities for that purpose, but it is also becoming more and more evident that the present situation, at least in part, is the result of the United States’ own past policies of one-sided, concessions which only fed Russian appetites and, incidentally, put Broz-Tito in power. A more realistic policy is now in order. “One of the first steps toward such a policy,” the article continues, “must be a review of the possibility of recovering existing lend-lease material and a scrutiny of all current shipments to Russia and her satellites of both Unrra and lend-lease "oods to make certain they will not be used directly or indirectly against US.