STALIN'S CHARGES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 5

STALIN'S CHARGES

*& POWERS ACCUSED FOSTERING WAR AIMS SYSTEM OF EXHAUSTION PEACE POLICY OF SOVIET SEVEN MAIN ESSENTIALS (Klec. Tel. Copyright—United Prnss Assn.) (Reed. March 13. 1.1 a.m.) MOSCOW, March 11. Two thousand delegates attending the eighteenth congress of the Bolshevist Party elected the presidium of 35 members, including M. Stalin, M. Andreyev. M. Kalanin, M. Kaganovitch and M. Mololov. M. Stalin, in his address, accused Britain and France of failing deliberately to cheek aggressors in order to" encourage international war in the hope of eventual victory. He added that the British, French and American press fostered the Russian-German conflict over the Ukraine in order to poison the atmosphere and provoke conflict. The Soviet foreign policy aimed at peace and the strengthening of business relations with all countries. He said that the Soviet would not be drawn into a war against the Fascist States provoked by democratic Powers, but sought neighbourly relations with the border countries. Soviet Foreign Policy M. Stalin said that the Soviet foreign policy depended: — (1) On growing economic, political and cultural power. (2) On the political unity of its society. (3) On the friendship of its peoples for one another. (4) On the red army and navy. (5) On the Soviet's peaceful policy. ((>) On the moral support of the workers in peace-loving countries. (7) On the commonsense of the Powers wanting peace. M. Stalin declared that the aggressive Powers already were fighting a new Imperialist war against the non-aggressors—the Unijeu States, England and France, who were retreating and making concession after concession. "Reason" for Toleration The real reason that the democratic States tolerated that state of affairs was because they had turned down collective security and adopted non-intervention, which led to war. Those favouring non-intervention adopted the policy of letting others exhaust themselves in war and of then entering the field with fresh forces "in the interests of peace" and dictating their own terms. Discussing British, French and American press reports regarding the possible German seizure of the Soviet Ukraine, M. Stalin declared that this was intended to make Russia angry with 'Germany and provoke a RussoGerman war. Possible German Dream "It is possible that there are German madmen dreaming of annexing the elephant Soviet Ukraine to that beetle the Carpatho-Ukraine, but if these madmen really exist, we will find sufficient strait for them," said M. Stalin. He added that nobody had been able to think that the Munich agreement began a new pacific era. M. Stalin, dealing with internal affairs, claimed that the purges had actually strengthened Russia as the Changkufeng fighting to-day demonstrated. He declared that the last traces of the exploiting classes were now eliminated and the Soviet people were completely united.