FURTHERANCE OF SOVIET AIMS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25364, 11 December 1947, Page 7

FURTHERANCE OF SOVIET AIMS

Leaders In Training For Work Abroad SPEECH BROADCAST BY MOSCOW (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, December 10. The Soviet Communist Party was training representatives to further its foreign policy abroad, said Mr Georgi Malenkov, a deputy-chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, in an address which the Moscow radio reported last night. Mr Malenkov said that the Soviet Communist Party was devoting particular attention to external policy and was attaching great importance to the selection and adequate training of cadres capable of assuring the following of the party’s lines on external policy. These leaders would be taught how to ■ “defend the international interests of the Socialist State, tell true friends from foes, and divine the intrigues and plots of imperialists and their agents.” Mr Malenkov said that it was necessary to maintain close contact between the Communist parties. He claimed that the United States and Britain threatened and interfered with “truly democratic States like Poland and Jugoslavia, which bore more than their share in the final collapse of Fascism.”

Mr Malenkov gave the address at a closed session of the organising bureau of the Polish Communist Party in September, when he was in Warsaw for the Cominform talks, but the speech has only now been published in “Pravda.”

BUYING WAVE IN MOSCOW

DECLINE REPORTED IN WASHINGTON (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. The buying spree which began in Moscow last week is petering out, State Department sources said to-day. Information from Moscow says that -the buying wave is subsiding, apparently because of the failure of the rumoured devaluation of the rouble to materialise on December 5, the date when the Government was expected to announce the issue of new currency at a devalued rate and to adjust rationing procedures.