WORLD DOMINATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27570, 12 December 1950, Page 7

WORLD DOMINATION

Russia’s Long-planned Aim MR SPENDER’S WARNING ; NZPA—Copyright SYDNEY, Dec, 11. “It has been plain for a long time past that the rulers of Soviet Russia have followed a course, the objective 5 of which is to dominate the world,” said the Minister of External Affairs, Mr P. G. Spender, in a public address at Sydney. “Whether Russia is now preparing against the day of her own choosing . when she will commit her military power to achieve her objective is a , matter on which opinions may vary, - but there appears to be little doubt that the final aim of Soviet Russia is, as I have stated,” said Mr Spender. “Nor does there seem any doubt that until such a time, if at all, as she is i prepared herself to strike, she will j use other nations just as she is using China today to do her work for her. She builds up steadily and ominously, . increasing her military power while • in Stockholm and New York she speaks of peace, but Moscow radio pours out continuously in a language of bitter vituperation and allegations against the ' free nations of the world. “In Europe, the Middle East, and Asia the Soviet is at work, and in each of these areas there are countries who fear her and her intentions. It is clear enough that unless some sanity can find entrance into world affairs and unless Russia is prepared to cast aside her hostility against us and sit down peacefully to confer with other nations, armaments will pile on armaments, and the chasm which today divides so much of the world into two opposing groups will become ever deeper?’ Mr Spender said Korea revealed a basic miscalculation in Russian foreign policy, as “none of the conspirators for a moment imagined that the free nations would move to repel this aggression.” Had Russia thought otherwise she would never have left the Security Council, to which she subsequently returned when her miscalculation was revealed. “ Whatever the result of the conflict there, Korea had been of vital significance in the struggle of the free nations to preserve their liberties, ! because, first, it awakened the democracies to their peril; secondly, it marshalled world opinion against an aggressor; and thirdly, it gave rebirth to the United Nations, which had sadly failed to match, by its achievements, •• the high hopes reposed in it by millions.”