Show NEWS BEHIN D I 1 1 all 11 TTY by br PAUL MALON MALLON y released by W western stern newspaper union lundon RUSSIAN S sensitivity IS JUST diplomatic TRICK washington what the russians are up to no one around the state department appears to know for sure yet certainly propaganda is designed to make all walk a straight and narrow path as russia directs and to soften our officials into a frightened tenderness having attacked the religious and peace minded american delegate john foster dulles as a war monger the he russian government officially sent a note declaring state undersecretary acheson to be rudely slanderous and hostile toward the soviet union tor for having said simply this dussias Rus sias foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one acheson did not volunteer this comment he offered what the soviets call inadmissible behavior under questioning by a con 9 7 33 aanal committee on the lilien that thai appointment it may be inadmissible I 1 for anyone to speak out in russia but in a democracy it is necessary for a government to answer frankly the questions of congress GO AFTER WHAT THEY WANT the word a aggressive dessive means disposed to vigorous outgoing activity in behalf of an object any person in the realm of reason must consider the term aggressive as applied to soviet diplomacy to be accurately and mildly descriptive the soviets certainly have been belligerently aggressive gres sive in iran have swallowed up latvia esthonia and lithuania and their communists pride themselves on being politically aggressive throughout europe and asia as do their delegates in U N acheson also said soviet policy was expanding which means enlarging swelling spreading out anyone who claims it Is not would do violence to the plain facts which are no secret to any adult american russian foreign policy Is thoroughly in accord with world communism which is bent on world conquest oft off the record recoil around here some officials used to say when they saw the soviets doing violence to language and reason the russians are crazy but not that crazy now these same men say they are not so sure the behavior of russia diplomatically mati cally of late has been inimical to the simplest of common sense it is becoming inadmissible to reason indeed some diplomats diploma wish to send dussias Rus sias world activities to a psychiatrist for the answer MOTIVES NO MYSTERY however this is not the general studied viewpoint of the close followers of soviet technique russ russia la does not bother much about reason only about reasons her motives are less a mystery to the new military regime than to the old byrnes political crowd I 1 think the average impression here is that stalin through molotov has really outdone himself this time in str stretching etching his professed willingness to be offended at the slightest murmur lie he has reduced his pressures to absurdity the old roosevelt crowd used to consider sensitivity as an inferiority complex this theory held some weight until evidences of the russian superiority complex accumulated in denial of it after the war personally I 1 think stalin learned diplomacy from hitler you will recall hitler was alternately frightening the world and being offended by it and his technique brought him many things he wanted that game somehow has worn out people are familiar with it particularly military people they are less inclined to fall into whatever pattern of action the dictators try to chase them words and politics annoy them they want to know the facts and they want to act on the facts in view of this maintenance of realism what the state department and general marshall tn in his official note responding to the russian protest have said publicly about the incident is really only a part of what they actually think LABOR LAWS AWAITED much talk of an anticipated depression cari can be heard from busness business leaders financial people and economic observers but you will not see any sign of it the larger enterprises and people generally also seem to be waiting to see what the republicans will do about labor the majority apparently does not want to break the unions or their right to collective bargaining in g but they want to sto stop p union domination of the economic situation and power to tie up the count country 7 |