Show NEWS REVIEW Soviet Nazi Pact fact Told Too Much Aid Hoover The celebrated cold war has has' been enriched by another U. U S S. S propaganda strike probably the heaviest yet against Russia It took the form of official state department publication of captured German foreign office records revealing revealing revealing re the extent and nature of Soviet Nazi-Soviet relations from 1939 to 1941 the period covered by the non- non aggression pact between the two nations which ended when Hitler attacked Russia on June 22 1941 In the light of the U. U S. Russian n wartime alliance the Nazi documents documents documents docu docu- ments published in book form tell tella a sordid story of secret agreements global gambling with nations for stakes and the feverish fetish of political political po po- expediency which gripped the minds of German and Russian leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers before and during the war High point of the hitherto secret dossier was the revelation that in in 1940 Adolf Hitler and V. V M M. Molotov of Russia agreed that Britain and the U. U S S. S must be excluded from Europe Asia and Africa The book told also how in n 1940 Stalin had offered to join the Ger- Ger man Italian axis if Hitler would give Russia a free hand in Finland a military base near the Dardanelles and a dominant voice in the rich oil-rich Middle East Then the documents show how Hitler disdaining disdaining disdaining disdain disdain- ing even to answer Stalin's proposition tion ordered his armies to prepare to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign One of the major factors which precipitated the German attack on Russia was the Soviet demand for dominant control of the Balkans Hitler who was as aware as any man 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 departments department's spectacular publication tion of the Nazi documents was little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than an emphatic indication of an already well-known well fact That Russia with aggressive consistency has been hungering for years for leadership in the Balkans for new pre-eminence pre in in the Dardanelles for expansion in Central Asia and for a free hand in in Finland and Poland Value of the publication of these documents at this time is questionable question question- able despite the flagrantly apparent Russian anti-Russian propaganda they can and will inspire State departments department's action obviously was aimed at rallying rallying rallying rally rally- ing public support behind the Marshall Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall plan soon to come up for congressional congressional congressional con con- gressional action but it also would serve to aggravate and inflame the already dangerously touchy cold I war FOREIGN AID II Hoover Dover Plan Herbert Hoover former U. U S. S president has urged congress not tot to commit this this nation nation even even morally t to to a year four-year European recovery ry program and advised a reduction of the dollar billion outlay proPosed proposed proposed pro pro- posed to carry the Marshall plan through its first 15 months In the word statement which he filed with the senate foreign relations re relations relations re- re lations committee Hoover expressed his opposition views r to the administrations administration's administrations administration's tion's foreign aid 9 plans a F Of greater significance significance significance however was the fact that Hoovers Hoover's s own opinions opinions opinions ions amounted to a documentary of the Hoover entire wing right-wing conservative element of thinking which rejects an internationalist for foreign ign policy on the grounds that U U. S. S resources should be concentrated concentrated concentrated concen concen- at home commitment commitment commitment commit commit- Decrying even a moral ment for the year four-year period contemplated contemplated contemplated con con- in the state departments department's proposals he asserted the U. U S. S should keep itself entirely free to end our efforts without tion He expressed too the fear th tha lavish outpouring of aid w weaken the American econom the extent that all world would be defeated The volume of exports and funds proposed in the Marshall plan he opined might aggravate the already already already al al- al- al ready serious inflation draining our national resources and continuing high tax rates all of which might bring depression and thus destroy the 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 billion billion billion bil bil- bil- bil lion dollars in food coal fertilizers and cotton be labeled frankly as gifts because unsecured loans will not and cannot be repaid REFUSAL l Prediction About all the average U. U S. S citizen knows about Gen Dwight D. D Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- hower is that he either will or will not get into the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this year But Roy A A. A Roberts president of the Kansas City Star and leading promoter of pro-Eisenhower pro sentiment sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment now says he definitely will not Roberts' Roberts prediction was that the general soon would remove himself from all consideration along those lines Said Roberts Ill venture a guess that before June the general may take him himself self completely out of the political P pic pic- ie- ie ture I am sure the message will come when he lays aside his military military mili mili- tary uniform February 15 He emphasized ed though that he was was not speaking for Eisenhower With All Alf Landon Lando 1936 Republican presidential lal nominee Roberts had been doing most of the political drum-beating drum for Eisenhower |