“MORE TROUBLE AMONG POWERS”

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

“MORE TROUBLE AMONG POWERS”

“London regards the new Communist Information Bureau as having the limited purpose of .strengthening the Communist parties in France and Italy,” says the diplomatic correspondent of “The Times,” ‘‘but it may be gathered from the strong references in the Communist declaration to ‘plans for the economic and political enslavement of China, Indonesia and the South American countries’ that the establishment of other regional organisations is under consideration.

shall will bo faced with an extremely hostile Mr Molotov when, with Mr Bidault, the French Foreign Secretary, they meet in London in November for discussions on Germany and Austria.” The Vienna Correspondent of the ‘‘Daily Telegraph” says that experienced observers of eastern European affairs describe the formation of the Communist Information Bureau as the first step in an all-out Communist drive to dominate Europe. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says, that the establishment of the bureau is generally regarded in Paris as the recreation of the Comintern. He adds: “It is widely remarked that the only two members of the bureau whose Countries are not partners of Soviet Russia are the Communist parties of France and Italy, the two countries which, as Mr Paul Reynaud, a former French Prime Minister, put it yesterday, are most likely to have military value, and both of which have accepted the Marshall offer.” The Paris newspaper “Le Monde” says: “The charges levelled against capitalists and Socialists alike, including Mr Blum and Mr Attlee, are tantamount to saying that the days when the Communists shared in the tasks of government are over. Their sole work now will be an open defence in Paris and in Rome of the interests and policy of Soviet Russia.”

“Messages from many parts of the world show that the formation of the new organisation is generally regarded as foreshadowing more trouble among the Powers. “Deteriorated relations between Russia and the West are the broad reason for forming the new organisation, but the Marshall plan and American emphasis on the urgent need to help France and Italy are probably the immediate cause.” Thef diplomatic correspondent of the ‘‘Daily Telegraph” says: ‘‘lt is fully realised that the establishment of the new Communist organisation has widened the gulf between the East and West and that such action is an ideologically hostile gesture towards the Western Powers. “Its advantage is that it removes all doubt about international Communist intentions. ‘‘There is every indication that Mr Ernest Bevin and General George Mar-