“Power-hungry" Reds: U.S. Denounces Moscow

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1950, Page 5

“Power-hungry" Reds: U.S. Denounces Moscow

WASHINGTON, September 29 (Rec 11.30 a.m.).—The State Department officially described Russia today as a “Power-hungry Government that is bent on spreading its power by force and terror. In a policy outline drafted at President Truman’s suggestion, the State Department said that since 1945 the Soviet Union has annexed some 7,500,000 square miles of territory and has taken over 500,000,000 people under its control. “It is now trying to extend its empire across Asia,” the department added.

These denunciations of Russia are contained in a booklet entitled “Our Foreign Policy.”

In a brief foreword, President Truman said he had suggested the work to “set down, as simply and clearly as possible, what we are after in our relations with other Governments and their peoples.” The booklet seeks to explode Moscow’s theory that the present world tension stems from the conflict be-

tween Capitalism and Communism. “The conflict is really between a power-hungry Government that is. bent on spreading its power by force, terror, and every other means, and the community of free nations, which refuses to be conquered or dominated, or to stand by and see its members swallowed up.” The booklet emphatically rejects the idea of Russian and American spheres of influence as a way to lasting peace.