KREMLIN’S AIMS REVEALED DID RUSSIA MISCALCULATE WITH KOREAN CONSPIRACY?

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1950, Page 5

KREMLIN’S AIMS REVEALED DID RUSSIA MISCALCULATE WITH KOREAN CONSPIRACY?

SYDNEY, This Day (Rec. 10 a.m.) —“lt has been'plain for a long time past that the rulers of Soviet Russia have followed a course, the objective of which is to dominate the world,” said the Minister of External Affairs, Mr P. C. Spender, in a public address in Sydney.

“Whether she is now preparing against the day of her own choosing, ■when she will commit her military power to achieve that objective, is a matter on which opinion may vary, but there appears to be little doubt that the final aim of Soviet Russia is as I have stated. Nor does there seem to be any doubt that until such time, if at all, she is prepared herself to strike, she will use other nations, just as she is using China today to do her work for her. Ominous Build-up “She builds up, steadily and ominously, ’increasing military power whilst in Stockholm and New York she speaks of peace, but the Moscow radio pours out continuously, in language of bitter vituperation, allegations against the free nations of the world. , “In Europe, the Middle East ana Asia,-she is at work, and in each of these areas there are countries who fear her and her intentions.

“It is clear enough that unless some sanity can find entrance into world affairs, unless Russia is prepared to cast aside her hostility against us and sit down peacefully to confer with other nations, armaments will pile on armaments and the chasm which today divides so much of the world into two opposing groups will become ever deeper.” Mr Spender said Korea revealed a basic miscalculation in Russian foreign policy as “none of the conspirators for the moment imagined that the free nations would move to repel this aggression.” Had Russia thought otherwise, she would never have left the Security Council, to which she subsequently returned when her miscalculation was revealed.

Whatever the result of the conflict there, Korea had been of vital significance in the struggle of the free nations to preserve their liberties, because firstly, it had awakened the democracies to their peril; secondly, it had marshalled world opinion against the aggressor; thirdly, it had given rebirth to the United Nations, which had sadly failed to match by its achievements the high hopes reposed in it by millions.