Show FOOLING can russia help reich W washington ASHINGTON when russian premier molotov made his epochal speech before the soviet parliament on halloween day he stated very emphatically that germany and russia were going g to improve their trade relations that means adolf A dolf hitler expects to get oil and foodstuffs for his massive army in exchange tor for machinery and finished products which he would send to comrade josef stalin but tooling say the experts because dussias Rus sias in no position to help anyone but herself disrupts five year plan last january dictator stalin made a speech outlining the third five year plan during which industry astry was ordered to increase its production by 83 per cent agriculture c he said was to be boosted 53 3 per cent his speech which is reproduced in united states department of commerce bulletins said in part it Is undeniable that the country still lags behind the capitalistic states in an economic sense because of at the low level of industrial prod production action which prevailed before the world war the present level is still below that of capitalistic countries with respect to per capita production in such respects as electric power pig iron steel and coal production and the manufacture of consumption goods such as textiles paper soap and some others this backwardness must be corn c c plemely ely overcome before communism can triumph in its historic competition with capitalism the third plan period Is to carry further W the satisfaction of needs and aad Y E V X ia I 1 i A HITLER was he tri tricked aked t i va 1 STALIN what can he trade desires ot of the workers for foodstuffs housing facilities and services of a domestic and cultural nature compared with U 8 how russia lags by comparison with american production was pointed out a few days later by pravda dathe the official paper the per capita comparison showed russia producing 11 barrels ot of petroleum for americas 87 barrels pounds of wheat and rye compared with americas pounds 1722 pounds of coal compared with pounds pounds of steel compared with pounds pounds of sugar compared with 25 4 pounds and kilowatt hours of electricity compared with alio 1120 hours only in the two foodstuff items w wheat heat and sugar does the soviet lead this year russia h had I 1 only ft 21 bushels of wheat per capita compared with 38 bushels here the only reason she exports any of it Is to gain exchange on the world market C U S trade to suiter suffer one other point the experts bring up most russian imports in the past few years have been from the united states which in 1938 sold the kremlin in products I 1 compared with Ger germanis germanys Germ mays anys undoubtedly germany would get trade formerly placed ed with the united states un under der the finiw new cooperation plan but since Rus sias industrial expansion has been accomplished complis hed chiefly with american made mach machinery lery most of thi this 9 must be e junked bunked if the soviet her expansion with german gergian tools the reason A difference in designs and patterns which would be death to industrial effic efficiency lenci can russia complete her third tive live year plan and still aid germany the eap exp experts irti think not some audys going to get fooled |