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of steady and rapid economic re-
habilitation and advance, along
the road of consolidating the de-
mocratic foundations and political —
unity of the nations that have
emancipated themselves from
‘reactionary, oppressive regimes.‘
' The Western Union by now has
launched quite a number of mea-
Sures for giving itself structural
Shape. As far back as last spring,
following the formation of the
Constltative council, a standing
body of that union comprising
tepresentatives of the five states
Was set up in London, They have
likewise set up a military com-
mittee, and even a Western Un-
jon defense staff, comprising the
chiefs of staff of the five states
headed by the British Field Mar-
shal Montgomery, although the
founders of the Western Union
Cannot prove that there exists
any danger of aggression for their
States.

The haste displayed in carry-
ing through all these organiza-
tional measures, including the in-
Stitution of the military staff, in
the conditions of the present
peaceful situation, in no way tes-
tifies to a desire of the partici-
Pants in the new grouping to en-
Sure a durable peace in Europe.

The hasty manner of carrying

through all these measures ra-
ther shows that they pursue the
aim of bringing political pressure
to bear on certain European coun-
tries, including the Western part
of Germany, and by means of
this publicity hullabaloo around
all these measures, to speed the
enlistment of these countries into
the Western group and at the

Same time to foment a sense of

alarm, uncertainty and war hy-—
Steria in public circles of the Eu-

Topean states—this being at the

Present time one of the chief tac-

tical methods to promote the An-
Slo-American bloc’s aggressive

Policy; in Europe.

Apart from setting up this new
sroup in Europe, the ruling
circles of the U.S. and Britain
have in the past two months
been engaged in setting up 2
North Atlantic Alliance compris-
ing the. same five West Euro-
bean States, Canada, and the
US. The aims of the North
Atlantic Alliance are more
far-reaching than those of the
West European grouping, and
it is quite easy to see that these.
aims are very’ closely inter-
Woven with plans for the violent
establishment of Anglo-Ameri-—
can world supremacy under the
aegis of the U.S.

Il :
The North Atlantic Pact |
and Anglo-American
Plans for World .
Omination

]F the institution of the Western
Union conforms~to the aims

of the Anglo-American bloc in

Urope, it is now already evident -
that the West-European grouping
is but one, and not the main link
in the system of measures con-
tained in the plans for establish-
‘sg Anglo-American world dom- |
‘nation. While giving Great Brit-
ain the chief place in the West-
ern Union, leading circles of the
US. have every opportunity of
influencing in the way they want.
the policy of the entire West Eu-
Topean grouping,  .
_ Nor should it be forgotten that.
the Treaty signed in Rio de Jan-
iro by the countries of North
and South America, which as-
Sures the influence of ruling cir-
cles of the U.S. in regard to the
Overwhelming majority of these
States, entered into force at the
end of last year.

The realization of the Western
Union in Europe and the enter-
ing into force of the Inter-Ame-

rican Pact is regarded by the
state department in the afore-
mentioned document as an im-
portant prerequisite for promot-
ing the policy of the U.S. on a
world-wide scale. And the North
Atlantic Pact is advanced as the
chief instrument of this policy,
with groupings of the countries
already created in Europe and in
America becoming props of that
pact, From the very outset the
ruling circles of the U. S.- have
taken over control of this entire
business.

In its document entitled ‘“Col-
lective Security in the North At-
lantie Area,” the state department
of the U.S. attempts to present
the North Atlantic Pact, which it
had prepared, as a regional agree-
ment on matters of security
among the countries of the North
Atlantic, thereby casting a veil
over the true nature and real
significance of that pact. Every-
body knows that the countries of
the North Atlantic are not threat-
ened by any aggression and this
alone shows the inconsistency of
the above-cited explanation of
the need for such a Pact.

In an endeavor to disguise still
more deeply the true nature and
purpose of the North Atlantic
Pact, the state department was
obliged to resort to ridiculous in-
ventions about the: Soviet Un-
ion’s “obstruction” in the United
Nations and to deliberately nebu-
lous statements about the need
“to meet a potential aggressor
with overwhelming force,” this al-
legedly being the duty of the Spe-
cial grouping of countries, with
the United States at its head,
which cannot wait until the Un-
ited Nations organization will
have become sufficiently strength-
ened.

The state department was un-
able to conceal the hostile nature.
of the North Atlantic Pact in re-
gard to the Soviet Union and the
countries of people’s democracy,
and it resorted to all sorts of
murky hints about a “potential
aggressor.” On the other hand,
the state department did not ven-
ture to proclaim openly the anti-
Soviet aims of the new treaty
which it had prepared, because
the dissemination of slander about
aggressiveness of the Soviet Un-
ion’s policy ever more frequently
in the eyes of world public opin-
ion, recoils against those who re-
sort to such mean methods of
political struggle.

The draft of the North Atlan-
tic Pact and the circumstances
which attended its preparation
clearly revealed the drive for
world domination of the Anglo-
American bloc. :

Although the North Atlantic
Pact envisages the participation
in it of the five European coun-
tries, Canada and the U.S., as its
nucleus, it is, however, clear to

‘all that the leadership in this af-

fair belongs to the ruling circles
of the U.S., who are now in a

‘loc with the ruling circles of

Britain, as the strongest capital-
ist power in Europe.

This being so, the North At-—
tic Pact actually becomes the
chief instrument of the bee Sia

e f£ the ruling es
MG pat and Britain “on
both sides of the Atlantic,” that
is in both hemispheres, and
thereby conforms to the ag-

gressive drive for the establish-

ment of Anglo-American world
“domination which, it will be re-

membered, was proclaimed as —

the chief postwar task of tHE
U.S. and Britain in Churchill’s
sensational speech in Fulton,
delivered at an unusual gather-
ing which took place under
President Truman’s chairman-
‘ship. E

ace from the U.S., Canada
and the five West European
countries, with such a “North At-
lantic’’ State as Luxemburg in-
cluded among them, the draft of

-called ‘North Atlantic.”

the North Atlantic Treaty pro-
vides for the inclusion in it of
certain other states. No small
amount of talk and comment is
going on at present in this con-
nection.

Some speak of inviting such
countries as Sweden and Den-
mark to participate in this treaty,
and refer to the peculiar activity
displayed in, this affair by the
government of Norway. Some
quarters suggest circumventing
difficulties in this respect by
means of instituting a_ special
Scandinavian pact, which should
not—according to these plans —
prevent the Scandinavian coun-
tries from being brought into the
orbit of thé states actually guid-
ed by the “North Atlantic” group-
ing. :

They claim that the possibility
of Franco Spain, Portugal, Italy
and even Turkey participating in
the North Atlantic Pact is being
discussed, and in doing so they
evidently believe that this method
will help in solving the tasks of
the leading grouping of the so-
Along-
side of this, the formation of a
Mediterranean Union or East
Mediterranean Pact as an auxili-
ary instrument of the “North At-
lantic” grouping is being discuss-
ed.

Such plans for creating more
and more separate groupings of
states under the aegis of the U.S.
and Britain still further stress
the fact that the aims of the main
imperialist grouping, which is now
being knocked together on the
basis of the North Atlantic Pact,

‘are far from being of a regional -

nature, but embody the claims
of certain powers to domination in
all parts of the globe.

This is likewise testified to by
the project for establishing a
grouping of the countries of
Southeastern Asia, the practical

implementation of which project
was commenced at the recent

conference in Delhi, India, con-
vened on the pretext of discuss-
ing the Indonesian question. But
it is clear that the servile attitude
alone of certain leading persons
in the governments of these
countries will not suffice for the
peoples of Asia to consent to em-
bark on the slippery track, on to
which they are being persistently
goaded by the powers which have
become entangled in colonial af-
fairs, and by their wealthy pat-
rons. RW ees

All this shows that in building
up the North Atlantic Union, the
ruling circles of the U.S. and
Britain endeavor to drag into this
affair, directly or otherwise, the
greatest possible number of states
and thus to take them in hand.
With this end in view they resort

to every sort of means permiss-.
- ible and impermissible. They re-

sort to financial and other econo-
mic handouts. They promise to
improve the economic position of
countries which, however, under
pressure of the “dollar policy,” are
getting increasingly involved in
fresh economic difficulties. They
frighten them with the non-exist-
ent menace of a ‘potential ag-
gressor” and at the same time re-
sort to gross means of pressure

‘on the governments of small

states.

~ In one respect, however, the sit-
uation should be considered as

_ perfectly clear. Just as they had

done when setting up the West-
ern Union, the inspirers of the
North Atlantic Pact. have from
the very outset precluded the
possibility of the participation in
that pact of all the countries of
peoples’ democracy and of the
Soviet Union, having given it to
be understood that these states

“cannot become a party to the

treaty, and, moreover, that the
North Atlantic Pact is levelled
precisely against the USSR and
the countries of new democracy.

It is seen from all the above that
the aims of the North Atlantic
Pact consist in the ruling circles
of the U.S. and Britain holding the
reins in regard to the greatest
possible number of states, depriv-
ing them of the possibility of
pursuing an independent, nation-
al foreign and internal policy, and
employing these states as auxili-
ary weapons for the implementa-
tion of their aggressive plans di-
rected toward establishing Anglo-
American world domination. This
being the case, the participation
of the USSR and of the countries
of new democracy in the North
Atlantic Pact or in other similar
alliances of states, is out of the
question. ~

e :

There may have been a time
when certain men thought that in
the postwar period they would
succeed, by means of pressure
and threats of every sort, in push-
ing the Soviet Union off the so-
cialist road which it has chosen,

‘since certain “wise men” calculat-

ed that—as a result of the grave
military and economic trials of
the Second World War—the So-
viet Union would become so weak-
ened as to be unable to cope in-
dependently with its domestic
‘difficulties and would be bound
to abandon its socialist position
for the sake of obtaining econo-
mic support from the strong cap-
italist powers. The absurdity of
such calculations is evident to all
of us; this, however, does not
precude the existence of short-
sighted calculations of every kind
and of plans hostile to our-Soviet
motherland. In the aforemention-
ed official document, the state de-
partment was obliged to admit
the failure of its attempts “dur-
ing three years to secure an ad-
justment in Soviet policies.”
This was said by the state de-
partment evidently in order to
justify the present plans for the
North Atlantic Alliance, since it
it no longer possible to conceal
the anti-Soviet nature of the
“North Atlantic’ grouping that
is being set up.

It is perfectly clear, too, that
both the Western Union and the
inter-American grouping of states,
just like the pacts of the Medi-
terranean states, the Scandinav-
ian countries, the countries of
Southeastern Asia, etc., which are
closely bound up with the aims
of the North Atlantic Pact, which
serves as a guiding line in the
Anglo-American plans for the es-
tablishment of domination in Wes-
tern Europe, and in the North At-
lantic, and in South America, and
in the Mediterranean,’ and jin
Asia, and in Africa, and every-
where their hands can reach.

One cannot help realizing, how-
ever, that it is one thing to be
constructing all sorts of group-
ings and to be collecting signa-
tures to more and more pacts,
cooked up in the chancellories of
the American state department
and British foreign office, and
an entirely different thing, of
course, really to achieve the ends
pursued by the inspirers of such
groupings and pacts.

But the setting up of such
groupings and the signing of
pacts cannot, of course, elim-
inate the numerous contradic-
tions and the friction actually
existing among the countries
participating in these pacts.
The appearance of these pacts
does not weaken the contradic-
tions even among the chief part-
ners within the Anglo-Ameri-
can bloc, because the aggressive
aspirations of the two powers
_clash with each other at every
turn. oh ;

It is even less possible then to
reconcile, by signing various
pacts, the conflicting interests of
the big and small countries par-
ticipating in these groups, under

conditions when one of the part-
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Alliance weakens United Nations’

ners or one group of states is
eager to miss no opportunity of
profiting at the expense of the
other partner or at the expense
cf the other group of states, and is
employing all means of pressure
and economic influence toward
this end.

Nor should one forget that not
all countries -will agree to join
these groups, and not all of the
states which have already join-
ed them will unconditionally and
in all cases submit to Ango-Ame-
rican dictates.

Furthermore, can one ignore
such an important fact as the
tremendous upsurge of the na-
tional liberation movement which
has started of late in the coun-
tries of the Orient among peoples
which have only now obtained the
opportunity of straightening their
backs and standing erect?

Lastly, we must speak of the
Soviet Union and the countries
of people’s democracy, which are
carrying into life the true will
of their peoples and the great
principles of friendship and equal-
ity with regard to other nations.

The very fact of the existence
of the Soviet State, with its grow-
ing might and international pres-
tige, as well as the powerful sup-
port rendered it by the democratic
forces in other countries, is an
insuperable obstacle to all and
every plan for establishing the
world domination of any powers;
this has found its historical con-
firmation in the liquidation of the
fascist states, which endeavored
to carry through their fantastic
plans from which the present
plans for establishing Anglo-

-American domination differ very

little.

In view of all this, it is easy
to understand the universally-
known fact that of late the coun-
tries of the Anglo-American bloc,
especially the U.S., are apt to be
carried away by dreams of the
unprecedented expansion of their
armies, of the tremendous in-
crease of their military budgets,
of the further building of their
network of air and naval bases in
all parts of the globe, and by
dreams of all sorts of other mili-
tary plans, including monstrous
plans for employing atom bombs
for the same purposes. :

In order to justify this un-
bridled aggressive policy, the rul-
ing circles of the U.S. and Brit-
ain resort to every method of
spreading fear and uncertainty
among all sections of the public
in Europe and the U.S., depicting
the unprecendent growth of de-
mocratic forces and of the na-
tional liberation movement in the
postwar period as some kind of
“dangerous aggression.” Even
among statesmen they encourage
those who for all practical pur-
poses are becoming active war-
mongers, despite the fact that

_the propaganda of war has been

unanimously condemned by the
United Nations; they increasing-
ly incite their henchmen and the

_press dependent on them against

such peace-loving countries as
the Soviet Union and the states
of people’s democracy and spread
floods of lies and bellicose threats.
They need all this, because
all too often they dare not un-
dertake any real solution of
the domestic problems that
have matured in their own
countries in keeping with the
new historical -situation. That
is why they build their calcula-
tions for the future pre-eminent-
ly on these or other aggressive
plans, even though they do un-
derstand that these are unreal-
izable except by violence, except
by unleashing a new war.

@ The third and concluding sec-
tion of this important Soviet
statement, on the Atlantic
Pact, which has virtually been
ignored by the daily press, will
appear in our next issue.

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