MOSCOW NEWSPAPER’S ATTACK

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25135, 17 March 1947, Page 7

MOSCOW NEWSPAPER’S ATTACK

“The version of President Truman’s speech on Greece and Turkey, published in the Russian press and broadcast by the Moscow radio, was complete except for those passages providing the ideological justification for a new course in foreign policy,” says the Moscow correspondent of ‘TTie Times.”

“This leaves the Soviet public unaware of Mr Truman’s reference to the ‘alternative ways of life’ between which he said the world must choose.”

“Pravda,” in a leading article, said: “Mr Truman’s speech signified the liquidation of Greece’s sovereignty and the brutal establishment of American overlordship. A loan for Greece is demanded, not to aid the people but to fortify a reactionary regime.

“America obviously intends to perpetuate British policy in Greece, thus disclosing an American policy of imperialistic expansion,” added “Pravda.” “America also is obviously g reparing to replace Britain in Turey. “If .something really is threatening Greece and Turkey, why does not America bring the matter to the United Nations? Mr Truman has broken America’s obligations to the United Nations and has acted with contempt towards that body. “Already reactionaries like Churchill are rejoicing everywhere at America’s change in policy, but American circles realise the danger of an adventurist policy of imperialistic expansion.”