SOVIET SATELLITES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27221, 26 October 1949, Page 7

SOVIET SATELLITES

Attempts To Break From Stalinist System

Support From West Urged Rec. 9 p.m. OTTAWA, Oct. 25. The West should support any move among Russia’s satellites towards “independence,” said Mr Hector McNeil, British Minister of State, addressing the Canadian Club and the United Nations Association in Canada at Toronto to-night. Mr McNeil said it was of the utmost importance to encourage the line of thought developed by Marshal Tito in opposing Russia’s attempt to eliminate nationalism among the nations of Eastern Europe. The threat of war would be very much lessened if it could be seen by everyone behind the Iron Curtain that such a thing as a national Communist State was possible as opposed to a Soviet-dominated one. Mr McNeil said he believed that what was happening in Belgrade was also happening in Prague, Warsaw. Sofia, Bucharest, Kiev, Bokhara and even in Moscow. Meanwhile, the central authority of Moscow seemed to be going deeper and deeper into the mire.

“We must try to feed the foment of doubt and dissatisfaction by feeding to the subjects of the Stalinist system new ideas which are not availto them,” Mr McNeil added.”