AMERICA LOSING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27390, 16 May 1950, Page 5

AMERICA LOSING

Cold War Against Russia LEADING REPUBLICAN’S BELIEF NZPA—Copyright WASHINGTON, May 14. Mr John Foster Dulles, Republican foreign policy spokesman, declared today that the United States was losing the cold war against Russia. “ We have made some gains in some areas,” he said, “ but on the balance I think Russian Communism has been winning.” Mr Dulles, recently appointed a special consultant to the State Department, said that the Russians had made great gains everywhere except in Western Europe, and even there grave problems remained’ to be solved. He declared that the Communists in the Far East had used the cold war to “ win victories far greater than any Japanese would have won if they had won the shooting war.” China, he said, was lost to the Communists because Russia for 25 years had a programme aimed at the Oriental nations The Soviet Union had used its best political minds, while the United States had been content to drift in the belief that China would always be friendly. He said that Russia, by waging the cold war, could get everything she wanted in Europe and Asia; therefore, the United States did not necessarily face a shooting war. Mr Dulles said he believed the responsibility for what had gone wrong with the United States foreign policy had its roots far back. He added that efforts to put all the responsibility on one or two persons in the State Department might spring from a wish to find scapegoats for misfortunes which had causes elsewhere.