CRITICISM BY SOCIALISTS

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

CRITICISM BY SOCIALISTS

The French Socialist Party has issued a statement criticising Russia for adopting an attitude which assumed that conflict between the East and West was inevitable. The statement said that the new organisation completely subordinated the Communist parties to Russian policy. The Czechoslovak news-agency says that Dr. Fierlinger. the Czech Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of the Social Democratic .Party, commenting on the new Communist bureau, complained of Communist attempts to Weaken and disintegrate the Social Democratic parties through propaganda. The Czechoslovak Communist Party is a member of the Bureau. Sweden’s biggest newspaper, the •Dagens Nyheter,” declared that the establishment of the bureau “disqualified” Communists from positions in the Scandinavian Governments. It added

that Communists/ should be excluded from all confidential committees where important national problems were discussed. The defence committee was one juch committee. . A Bulgarian official spokesman in London, Mr Vladimir Topencharov, said that the new bureau should not be identified as an inter-state organisation. The Bulgarian representative at the Warsaw meeting represented the Bulgarian Communist Party, not the Bulgarian Government. Mr Topencharov said that Bulgaria continued to oppose the division of Europe into two blocks and looked forward to developing trade relations with western countries. Bulgaria, when the Bulgarian Legation in London was recognised, hoped to organise normal trade relations. She could supply tobacco, food and timber, but would want some credit to buy British exports.