Show NEWS REVIEW w nazi soviet pact told 0 9 too much aid hoover W ir the celebrated cold war has been enriched by another U S propaganda strike probably the heaviest yet against russia it took the form of official state department publication of captured german foreign office records re the extent and nature of nazi soviet relations from 1939 to 1941 the period covered by the non aggression pact between the two nations which ended when hitler attacked the russians on june 22 1941 in the light of the U S russian russin wartime alliance the nazi docu ments published in book form tell a sordid story of secret agreements ments global gambling with nations for or stakes and the feverish fetish of political expediency which gripped the minds of german and russian lead ers before and during the war high point of the hitherto secret dossier was the revelation that in 1940 adolf hitler and V M molotov of russia agreed that britain and the U S must be excluded from europe asia and africa the book told also how in 1940 stalin had offered to join the ger man italian japanese axis if hitler would give russia a free hand in finland a military base near the dardanelles Darda nelles and a dominant voice in the oil rich middle east then the documents show how hitler disdain ing even to answer stalin s tion ordered his armies to prepare to crush soviet russia in a quick campa agn one of the major factors which precipitated the german attack on russia was the soviet demand lor for dominant control of the balkans hitler who was as aware as any m man an of the political economic and strategic value of the pivotal balkan area turned thumbs down on that russian desire also sum and substance of the state department departments s spectacular tion of the nazi documents was little more than an emphatic indication of an already well known fact that russia with aggressive consistency has been hungering for years for leadership in the balkans tor for new pre eminence in the dardanelles Darda nelles for expansion in central asia and for a free hand in finland and poland value of the publication of these documents at this time is question able despite the flagrantly apparent anti russian propaganda they can and will inspire state department departments s action obviously was aimed at rally ing public support behind the mar shall plan soon to come up for con gressional action but it also would serve to aggravate and inflame the already dangerously touchy cold war FOREIGN AID hoover plan herbert hoover former U S president has urged congress not to commit this nation even morally to a fourbear four year european recovery program and advised a reduction of the 68 6 8 billion dollar outlay pro posed to carry the marshall plan through its first 15 months in the 4 word statement which he filed with the senate foreign re lations committee hoover expressed his opposition views I 1 to the adminis tra tion a foreign aid plans of greater signia acance however was the fact that hoover hooyer s own op n ions amounted to a documentary ol 01 the hoover entire right wing conservative element of thinking which rejects an internationalist foreign policy on the grounds that U S resources should be concen grated at home decrying even a moral commit ment for the four year period con templates tem plated in the state department departments s proposals be he asserted the U S should keep itself entirely tree free to end our efforts without rec rimma tion he expressed too the fear fe ar that a lavish outpouring of aid would weaken the american economy to the extent that all world recovery would be defeated the volume of exports and funds proposed in the marshall plan he opined might aggravate the al ready serious inflation draining our national resources and continuing high tax rates all of which might bring depression and thus destroy strength of the one remaining source of aid to a world of chaos hoover recommended further that the marshall plan if it is adopted be run by a bipartisan commission and suggested that up to three bil lion hon dollars dolla rs in food coal fertilizers and cotton be labeled frankly as gifts because unsecured loans loan s will not and cannot be repaid REFUSAL prediction about all the average U S citizen knows about gen dwight D eisen hower bower is that he either will or will nob get into the campaign n tor for the republican presidential nomination n 0 mi nation this year but roy A roberts president of the kansas city star and leading promoter er of p pro r 0 E eisenhower Elsen h hower 0 r senti prenton vie m ment n now ow sa says y s he definitely f in te ly will not roberts prediction was that the general soon would remove himself flom all consideration along those lines said roberts ill I 1 U venture a guess that before june the general may take himself completely out of the political pic ture I 1 am sure the message will come when he lays aside his mill tary uniform february 15 he emphasized though that he was not speaking for eisenhower Elsen hower with alt alf landon 1936 republican presidential nominee roberts had been doing most of the po political cal drum beating tor for eisenhower Elsen hower |