World Struggle For Power

Northern Advocate, 14 March 1947, Page 5

World Struggle For Power

United States short-wave radio transmitters beamed to Russia the full text of the address. The “Voice of America” also blanketed the world with the complete speech in 25 languages. The Soviet Ambassador (M. Novikov), before boarding a plane at New York for Moscow, was asked when he would return. He replied: “Nobody knows this when called to the capital, but I hope to return as soon as possible ” American diplomats at Moscow said that Mr Marshall was determined to put American foreign policy oh the offensive and keep it there. “Even 'more important than the Greek crisis is the American crisis,” says P.M.. in editorial comment on President Truman’s speech.

The paper adds: “President Truman's plea for aid to the Greek and Turkish governments, if followed, will make America the underwriter of every unstable government in the world which is capable of going Communist. “President Truman asks us t oengage in a course which can only mean unforsecable military adventures, and eventually a third world war “It is not * alternative ways of life ’ that he is concerned with. Let him strip himself of that cant.

“He Is concerned with a world struggle for power.” President Truman is really talking about holding Russia's power strictly within present limits, even if it means war, the paper says. The Washington Post, in an editorial, says: “Greece and Turkey must be shored up against an aggression which, judging from the President’s statement, is bound to succeed unless we act.

The New York Communist Daily Worker says: “Mr Truman’s demand

that America take over Greece and Turkey marks a day of national shame for our country.” Mr Truman is selling the American people to the “fool’s goal of empire.” “In complete abandonment of President Roosevelt’s vision of a stable post-war peace we are being swindled into rushing American dollars and American ammunition to save a rotten and hated Greek monarchy, and to do this we will have to move in on Greece and make a quisling colony out of it, drowning in blood the democratic aspirations of the Greek people.” The New York World Telegram, in an editorial, while describing Mr Truman’s speech as “brave and admirably candid,' adds that the. proposal should be debated Jp. Congress and country before a decision is made. The answer to it “may, for better or worse, decide our own ultimate'destiny as a free people.” The New York Post says: “Congress cannot refuse to grant the aid the President recommended. That, on the facts, is its duty.”

The New York Sun says if the United States people are to walk a new road, only the beginning of which is open to view, their representatives in Congress are certain to insist upon a fuller disclosure of how long a march is proposed? What the stopping placeif any.

The chairman (Mr Taber) today announced that the House Appropriations Committee had rejected the State Department request for authority t 0 send 25,000,000 dollars’ worth of oil refining equipment to Russia. The State Department had explained that America was committed to the transaction under an uncompleted lendlease agreement with Russia. Mr Taber told the Press: “We cannot do it. That’s appeasement.”