“PREPARATIONS FOR WAR”

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26855, 7 October 1952, Page 7

“PREPARATIONS FOR WAR”

Mr Molotov Attacks Capitalism

I h-m) MOSCOW, October 6. -The.Soviet must, not forget that the imperialist countries were preparing for a third world war, said the former Foreign Minister (Mr Molotov) last night welcoming delegates to the Nineteenth Soviet Communist Party Congress. J

He accused the “aggressive, antidemocratic camp led by the Rightwing ruling circles in the United States of responsibility for the Korean war. of the seizure of the Chinese island of Formosa, of the revival of aggressive militarism in Germany and in Japan, and of aggressive militarism in the East and West sucK as the Atlantic Pact.

He said that this pact was directed against the Soviet Union, China, and the people’s democracies. Mr Molotov demanded that the new five-year plan be not only fulfilled but over-fulfilled to strengthen still further the might of the Soviet State and to raise the well-being of its people. Thus the Soviet neople would reap new successes in the transition from socialisin to Communism. “Nothing can check the continual weakening of the capitalist system, especially since in the post-war period* a whole string of countries, with a total population of 600,000.000 have dropped out of the capitalist camp. Nothing can conceal the inability of capitalist countries to solve the mounting threat of economic crisis and the growth of unemployment. “All this leads to contradictions and conflicts among those States, and to the inevitable growth of -class war within those countries.”