COMMUNIST BUREAU OF INFORMATION

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25309, 8 October 1947, Page 7

COMMUNIST BUREAU OF INFORMATION

Comment By U.N. Delegates

“DIRECT ACTION TO DEFEAT MARSHALL PLAN”

(N.Z. Press Association—-Copyright)

(ReC ; £ A „ . LONDON, Oct. 7. 9ovie? reieS a a°t n hV e, T t te ? l , Wh< ? have r «P«tation S as boyict experts reject a thesis that the nine-Power meeting in Bur^mere C lVfo r myL e a AU - EUrOPe Information Bureau, merely formalised a propaganda policy that was already m operation,” says the “New York Times” correspondent at Lake Success (James Reston). “They see the decision tn create an anti-capitalist .pact not only as a propaganda effort but as a major policy decision that is likely to affect coming ssft su‘< “'i ".r 1 "- “ ■"

“The speculation and conclusions of the United Nations delegates may be summarised as follows:

tv ♦ iJhe Soviet has decided that a reconciliation with the West on basic issues is hopeless at present, and has chosen as an alternative a new campaign of direct Communist action to defeat the Marshall Plan in western Europe. “(2) At the end of the war the Soviet tried the tactics of co-operating with non-Communist elements in the hope of achieving control of the governments of France, Italy, and Austria. This failed in France and Italy, where the Communists have been forced out of the governments, and in Austria, where they are reduced to an impotent government minority;.

(3) These failures confronted them with the choice of coming along with the foreign policies of the other parties in the French and Italian coalitions or of returning to the old policy of. direct Communist action at home and co-ordinated Communist policy abroad.

. (4) Fear of the Marshall for co-ordinating the economies of western and southern Europe has led them to return to the old internationally organised revolutionary system, under which they will be in a better position to use strikes and more violent action to prevent the reconstruction of nonCommunist Europe.”