CHARGES OF SOVIET AIMS IN MIDDLE EAST
WASHINGTON, May 13. “ Soviet diplomacy is bending every effort to move a Russian Army into the Middle East, and the Kremlin will manufacture situations enabling it to do this if situations fail to develop,” declared a report of the House Foreign Affairs Sub-committee published today. The report, which surveys Communism in the Middle East, adds: “The risk of military counter-action or fullscale war will most surely have been carefully pondered and boldly incurred because’ potential gains outweigh ail calculable losses, with the hope of a world Communist Slate managed from Moscow appearing one step closer to realisation.’’ The sub-committee, which toured the Middle East last year, contends that Moscow places little reliance on local Communist groups in the Middle East and will rely on the Red Army to achieve its aims. The report said that Soviet support for Palestine partition was designed to create chaos in the Middle East and to establish partition as a precedent which could be later evoked to Soviet advantage.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26772, 15 May 1948, Page 7
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