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Show Marquis Child's Russ Tactics Link Gold, Atom Power FRANKFURT, Germany-While Germany-While no one outaide the 14 men who comprise tha polltburo In Moscow can make any positive statement about Russian policy, tha following is, I believe, a new and Important Indicator of Soviet- intentions. It haa been cheeked and rechecked In several sev-eral capitals with sources closa to the confidential reporting from behind tha wall of Russian secrecy. Such cold-war tactics aa the, establishment of the east German Ger-man stste are obvious enough. But back of these day-to-day headline tactics Is a long-range strategy to overcome the United Statea by methods short of a ahooting war. This strategy haa two major objectives. Te Flood Gold Mart One la to flood tha west with massive qusntlties of gold mined by slave labor. The Idea la to undermine the value of Amer-Ica'a Amer-Ica'a vast gold hoard at Fort Knew -end- zlisieby to spited ft-nanclal ft-nanclal and economic chaos. Tha Russiana have recently made major new gold discoveries discov-eries in the Siberian Arctic. They may be even more Important Impor-tant than any of tha gold finda of tha past decade that have been exploited by forced labor. Tha exploitation of tha new finda . la to be on a scale far greater than ever before. . In Siberian gold minea worked by forced labor an estimated 100,000 alavea have died and been replaced, according to those and they are very few who have escaped. Thousands of additional recruits are now being sought and it la believed that tha wholesale errata In the Czech purgea will provide raw material for the secret police charged with tha taak of shipping ship-ping aa ever-Increasing number of carloada of human beings to the gold mines. Use Diplomatic Channels From time to time la the past, Soviet couriers and even Russian Rus-sian diplomats have been exposed ex-posed smuggling gold through diplomatic channels. The gold waa presumably being supplied to Communist agents abroad. In massive amounta from the mines now being opened. It would have tha mora ambltloua objective of knocking tha propa out from under the American financial system. Tha second objective of the Soviets' strategy la even more ambltloua and far reaching. Tha goal is to create a chain of atomle power stations stretching stretch-ing across the Soviet union and linked together In a great power grid. Russian planners believe that thla will produce by far tha cheapest power In tha world. It will, therefore, put Russian Industry In-dustry In a position of tremendous tremen-dous advantage to outproduce tha rest of the world. Russian scientists, working with German Shysiclsta and chemists brought tha Soviet Union at tha end of the war, believe that Russian Rus-sian atomle development has reached a stage at which such a chain of power stations can be seriously planned. Ne DupttoaHoa Loss Since Russia has no major . alectrle power grid system and only limited petroleum resources, there Is no possibility of economic eco-nomic loss through, duplication. Such a chain of peacetime power stations would also have an enormous enor-mous war potential. Tha contrast with America la striking. In the United Statea the tendency la to play down the possible peacetime use of atomle power and to Insist that such a use can come Into being only In the remote future. If at alL Electrical Elec-trical utility interests are naturally nat-urally concerned lest cheap atomle power ahould supercede super-cede a vast investment One of the reasona the Russiana Rus-siana have continued to oppose any form of inspection in the United Natibna discussions of tha control of atomic energy la tMcausa of their plana for an atomle power system. Under inspection, in-spection, tha location of each atomle plant , would be known to the west and would become a target In the event of war. In Tempera ry Dtagmee - Named to direct Russia's long-range long-range cold-war strategy la Be la Varga, the brilliant Hungarian-born Hungarian-born economist and - planner. Varga waa In disgrace for a time " "because lie ventured to predict that America would not undergo an immediate postwar depression. depres-sion. This waa directly contrary to Communist doctrine at the time. Varga went down on hla kneea before supreme authority. Moreover, More-over, he waa proved right In analysis. Therefore, according to these reports, he haa been raised up again and given one of the moat important assign-' menta In the Soviet Union. In effect, hla Immediate job la to help bring about a depression de-pression In America. Since his earliest youth, Varga haa been a Communist revolutionary, participating par-ticipating in the Bela Kun revolt which succeeded briefly after World War I. Success, even approximate ap-proximate success, in hla new undertaking would put him In a position of extraordinary power in the Soviet dictatorship. - Copyright United Feature Syndicate t |
