STATE DEPARTMENT’S COMMENT

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

STATE DEPARTMENT’S COMMENT

A spokesman of the United States State Department, when asked to comment on the decision to establish the bureau, said: “We have been watching that development and are studying it carefully. We knew that something was cooking. We knew, for instance, that leaders of the nine nations were assembling in Poland.” Asked whether the State Department knew all about it in advance, the spokesman said: ‘“We had nothing definite.” He refused to discuss the possibility of any diplomatic action being taken by the United States Government.

been dealt a mortal blow. The Communist manifesto tears to shreds all war-time agreements from the Atlantic Charter to Potsdam, and is bound to have serious repercussions upon the United Nations, already paralysed by Russian obstruction.

“Though the final goal of Soviet policy will inevitably depend upon the opportunities offered for its realisation, there can be little doubt that the Russian Revolution has entered upon its Napoleonic phase and is'now organising, not so much world revolution, as countries and governments to make them docile auxiliaries of the Russian imperialists. “The move can only give new impetus to the organisation of the democratic world in self-defence, the first step of which must be the rehabilitation of western Europe. The new Comintern has demonstrated the need and urgency of both the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan.” __P r - Fadhil Jamsili, Iraq’s Foreign Minister, said to-day in New York that the Communist manifesto issued in Warsaw “is a declaration of war—an ideological war.”

Officials working on the Marshall plan told the United Press that the creation of the new Communist organisation had undoubtedly increased the chances for Congressional approval of both the stop-gap and long-range projects to aid Europe.

The “New York Times,” in a leading article, says: “The last illusions nourished on the hope that out of the second world war there might arise a new world order able to banish forever the spectre of new strife have