PLANS OF THE SOVIET

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 August 1931, Page 8

PLANS OF THE SOVIET

MENACE TO THE -WORLD “It must be, emphasised that,, though attention: is boiiig constantly drawn to tho menace of one Five-Year Plan, there arc in reality two plans,” says Lord Hurdingo; of Penshurst, formerly" British Ambassador in Russia, in the Daily Mail.”; The-first has already been m operation since 1928 and is expected to ho fully completed hy the end of 1932, a-year before its original term. The second plan is now in its final stages ol preparation and is to be put into operation imTpediately on completion ot the first one. Generally speaking, both plans aim' at making Russia advance 100 years in two giant leaps, so that by 1938, if official optimism is justified, Russia is to ‘attain and surpass in economic activity the foremost countries of tho world.’ Such a task would be gigantic for any country, but, for backward Russia it suggesls something approaching the superhuman. It is not surprising, therefore, that in .preparing the plans the Soviet authorities have assumed the readiness of (lie Outside world to supply knowledge, experience, materials, and even money in aid of (ito plan. Tit oilier words, the Soviet plan ingeniously contrives that wo should provide the essential metiris for it's realisation, and thus not only render the Russian market independent Of our products, but establish the Soviets as formidable competitors in every branch of international industry and commerce.”