| Show NEI WS R ef VIE W nazi soviet pact r act told too much aid boover the celebrated cold war has b been le n enriched by another U S propaganda strike probably ly thie the heaviest yet against russia it took the lorm form of official state department publication of 0 captured german foreign office records revealing the extent and nature of nazi soviet relations from 1930 to 1941 the period covered by the pact between the two nations which ended when hitler attacked the russians on J june u ne 22 1941 in the light of the U S russian wartime alliance the nazi documents published in book form tell a sordid story of secret ag agreements ree ments global gambling with nations for stakes and the feverish fetish of political lotical expediency which gripped the minds of german and russian leaders 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 get ger man idallan japanese axis if hitler would give russia a tree 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 disdaining even to answer proposition 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 or dominant control of the balkans hitler who was as aware as any man ot of the political economic and S strategic trat egic value of the pivotal balkan area turned thumbs down on that russian desire also sum and substance of the state departments spectacular publication of 0 the nazi documents was little more than an emphatic indication ot of an already well known fact act that ru russia asia with a aggressive consistency has been hungering for years tor for leadership leadership in the balkans tor for new preeminence pre eminence in the dardanelles Darda nelles for expansion in central asia and for a tree free hand in finland and P poland oland value ot of the publication of these documents at this time is questionable despite the flagrantly apparent anti russian propaganda anda they can and will inspire state departments action obviously was aimed at rallying public support behind the marshall plan soon to come up for or congressional action but it also would serve to aggravate and inflame the already dangerously touchy cold war FOREIGN AID hoover plan herbert ho hoover former U S president has urged congress not to commit this nation even morally to a four year european recovery program and advised a reduction of the 6 68 8 billion dollar outlay proposed to carry the marshall plan through its first 15 months in the word statement which he filed with the senate foreign ra re lations committee hoover expressed his opposition views to the administrations foreign aid plans of greater significance however was the fact that hoovers own opinions amounted to a documentary of the hoover entire right wing conservative element of thinking which rejects sn an intern internationalist ati ona list foreign policy on the grounds that U S resources should be concentrated at home decrying even a moral commitment for the four year period contemplated tem plated in the state departments proposals he asserted the U S should keep itself entirely tree free to end our efforts without recrimination he expressed too the fear ear that a lavish outpouring of aid would weaken the Amerl american cai economy to the extent that all world recovery would be defeated the volume of exports and funds proposed in the marshall plan pim he ha opined opened might aggravate the already serious inflation draining our national resources and high tax rates all of which might bring depression and thus thug destroy the strength of the one remaining source of aid to a world of chaos hoover recommended further that tha t the marshall plan if it la Is adopted be run by a bipartisan commission and suggested that up to three billion dollars in food coal fertilizers fertilize is and cotton be labeled frankly as gifts bec because a use unsecured loans loam w will ill it not 0 t and cannot be repaid 11 REFUSAL prediction about all the averaged avera average geX U S citizen knows about gen dwight D ehen hower bower is that he either will or will not get into the campaign for the republican presidential nomination this year but roy A roberts president of the kansas city star and leading promoter of pro eisenhower sentiment no now says saya he definitely will not robe roberts is prediction was that the general soo soon 00 would remove himself from all consideration along those lines said roberts ill venture a guess that before june the general may take himself completely out ol of the political picture I 1 arn am sure the message will come when he lays aside his military uniform february 15 1 he emphasized though that he was not speaking for eisenhower Elsen hower with alt alf landon 1930 1936 republican presidential nominee roberts had been doing most of the political drum beating tor for eisenhower Elsen hower |
