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"The most important fact In the world today is Rusala! Thus did a Washington official express the reason why nows of Russia's Intentions is top news today,
Just returned to Europe after conferences in the U.S. with State Department officials and others, veteran cortex- pondent Leon Denneis has obtained the answer to some of the biggest question marks on the map of Russia..
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Here is the Rusalan, retorì to the "Allantio Pack: the explanation of the Chinese Communist offensive south of the Yangtao River, the - explanation of the disappearance from view of Mololov, Bulgarin and Mikoyan,
Dennen says his informa Hon came from sources whoso knowledge of Cominform 20- Uvities was highly credible.
RUSSIA'S ANSWER TO THE ATLANTIC PACT
R
„USSIA'S answer to the Foundation of the "Molotov Although designed primarily Atlantis P, act-n Plan" is reported to to military to counteract the Atlantic Pact,
and economic planning on "Molotov Plan" for a two continent scale. Specifically grip on the satellite countries a it will further tighten Moscow's military and economic bloc it calls for:
By LEON DENNEN
Deumen's Informasia gava lilin scoop atfer scoop last year' on the Balkan red porges, the shift of Ruslan emphasis from West to East, the closing out of the French mine: strikes and the temporary retirement of Vyshinsky,?
Dennen's lung experience in Europe and his intimate acquaintance with diplomats, government leaders and 'politicians has not dulled his sense of proportion. In sending this dispatch be said: "This, it seems to me, is the most important story that has côme my way It a long flme. I am rather excited about IL"
IF WORDS
DREW BLOOD-
ON THE BORDER, June 3.
S
O it's a fight you want, O'Flaherty. Sure and
it's war, Muldoon..
with
On my left, the man the Popish pipes. On my_right; the man with
the Orange
drum. In the middle, between Republican Ireland and Unionist Ulster, your intrepid correspon→ dent.
Sale
as a house.
For a fortnight the dogs of battle have been yelping across the Border; from where I sit (sland aside, cow) we can hear thunder of the weapons.
the
Ah, those weapons!
Here on both sides roar the concentrations of armour-
plated Inveclive, the
self-propelled bre-
judices, the salvoes
of high velocity fallacies and incen- diary blio. This week again they
it would
be red
on the
Border tonight
-by
JAMES CAMERON
advanced behind a barrage of that Ulster shall not, have theory, a smoke screen of his aggravated all the old sores. torical' analogy
bitter, slimulated all the old growls. and batteries of The posters in Dublin say:
fire "Arm now to take the North."
I should say there has probably not been a week in the last 20 years when something of the kind could not have been found in Dublin.
anti-compromise scored hits with debating points of various calibres.
At least one observer fe celir- ing to base in Murphy's snug, twitching with intellectual shell- shock,
**
that will extend from the, Baltic city of Stettin in Poland to the Chinese city of Canton-is being forged „in the Kremlin.
1. Unification under a con tral Moscow agency of all mill-
And bary, economic, Industrial financial resources of the coun- tries in Russia's sphere of in fluence.
where the "Titoist" nationalist heresy has of late been assum-. ing alarming proportions.
The renewed Communist the rouble if not identical to act of annexation would be an
offensive in China may be the first step in activating the plan.
While the Russiang spread rumour of now peace gestures in the Cold War in Germany,
It is not expected, however, that Russia would court additional trouble with the Western powers by the out- 2. A Five-Year-Plan for all right annexation of the satel- satelllle countries, which will lite countries-a pattern fol- ultimately result in a single lowed in the case of Latvia, system of communications and Estonia and Lithuania. Such an currencies strictly
with open violation of the Teheran and Yalla agreements.... 3. An expanded Communist
"Molotov Thus, while the International which will replace Plan" does not necessarily imply. the present limited. Cominform the formal disappearance
The creation of an inter much satellite states as Bulgaria, continental Eurasian army. Rumania, Albania, Hungary, Soviet General their "governments" will hence
tars."
Berla.
New Measures
az
the master plan is being pui which will be under the direct Pod and Czechoslovakia, Molotov: The supreme co-ordi- together by some of the top control of the Politbureau members involved Staff and staffed by. Russlan forth function on a purely locar nator tightens Moscow's grip. In the Soviel Cabinet shake-up officers and political commis basis, directly subordinated
to ed ruler in satellite nations that early In March which puzzled
a central agency in Moscow have wavered slightly in recent tha Western world.
Molotov himself, it is said, tion from sources whose inside policies of all the satellite coun
have obtained this Informa. has been designated as supreme presided over by Mikoyan and month
co-ordinator of the foreign knowledge. of the Cominform
proven
trustworthy on re- tries, while Marshal Bulganin peated previous occasions.
is charged with:, forming" tho Eurasian These sources say the mill intercontinental tary aillance, which will include army. eastern Germany, Finland and China as well as the Russian satellite nations, Is "the most significant International event since the rise of the Soviet state."
THE
The Brains
THE job of planning the bloc 139 given to Vyacheslav Molotov, the thin-lipped, anta- gonistic veteran of 21 years in the Politburonu who turned in, hiz portfolio as Foreign Minister) in the March 8 Cabinet shift, presumably to work on the new "Molotov Flan."
Latest changes of govern- ment in Rúmania, Bulgaria and Poland are clearly designed to tighten the Kremlin's "grip and leading Eastern delegate to put only Moscow-trained Soviet the recent pro-Commimist citizens In key positions in the "Pance Congress in Paris, fold aitelite countries. ma the Russians are feverish- The recent elevation of two "z ly taking drasle measures to Soviet citizens, Anna Pauker ensure absolute confret of the and Vasilij Luca,to Vice- countries behind the Iron Cur Premierships of the tumanion tain."
government, indicates the encly foll of the "non-party" Premier, Petru Groza.
War Bloc
This delegate is no friend of the U.S., but on Eastern In- tellectual who embraced Com- munism during, the German oc- cupation of his country and now has lost all faith ini
CUMILARLY in Poland. Boles- the "Soviet Utopia" after four
Law Bierut a Soviet citizen years of Red Army and secret for more than 20 years, replaced. the Polish national, Władysław police rule
Gomulka, as General Secretary "It would indeed be naive, of the Follsh Communist Party. if not the height of follybe. Even more significant instated, "to ussume that the the recent shift in Kremlin's only reply to the where Vasill Kolarov rep Atlantic Pact would be to lift the Communist lender Traicho
Kostov, now in disgraco as "Berlin was never more than, "Pro-Titolst," Kolarov had lived the flash-point of the East in Moscow at Stalin's feet, prior West confilet,” ko added. "It to Soviet seizure of power
Working with him, according] to -Cominform sources, have been Marshal Nikola! A Bul- Conto, who was Minister of continent army, continent rouble
Bulganin: Inter- Mikoyan: Inter- the blockade of Berlin. Armed Forces in the Cabinet until the shakeup; A. I. Miko- yan, who dropped his Cabinet post as Minister of Foreign Trade; Lourent Berla, head of the MVD (Soviet secret police), and Georgi Dimitrov, who was recalled to Moscow from his job as Premier of Bulgarla.
was.
in
is indeed surprising if you Bulgaria, But Kostov bad re- consider the fact that the bloc mained in his own country BE kade practically ruined the leader of the underground Com- economy, of the Soviet zone of munist forces. This suggested Germany that the Russians Ut he loved Bulgaria more
Russia's real answer to the
i held out as long as they did." than lantion to the Paris
Key Atlantic Pact is a "Molotov "Peace Congress" discussed in Plan for a military
of
...
a
Dimitrov · is in bad health, but reliable informants inside the Iron Cu
Curtain Say y he is neither.
the formation of and secret desperately. Il bor in disgrace,
economic bloc. embracing two "Popular Front" in the West that as was
rumoured when he was
continents from the Baltle would parallel Moscow's wor recalled shortly after the
coast of Foland to the still- bloc in the East, South Cabinet changes. A former
unconquered southern reaches Soviet citizen and
great
The cat was actually let out China,
of the bag by Pietro Nenni, favourite with Stalin, he has
Existence of this bloc was
was spokesman for Italian Com- been recalled to take charge of
confirmed by the sceptical de munist Chief Palmiro Togliatti The Orangemen of Belfast
an intensifled campaign against
legale from eastern Europe. chalk their walls with several Tito and to resume his old job,
He called for the creation of But Moscow does not want "a permanent pointed and unfriendly sugges-as general secretary of a revived
council, which reveal the now milltary will constitute the answer tions about the Popo. That and
expanded Communist In Berfa:'Intercon- Dimitrov: Inter- alliance, he told me, until it is peoples to
of the been going on for ternational.
...tinent MVD, continent to'y. certain Russia is the undisput- that signed the Atlantic Pact."
governments THE Border buzzes with so again has
much noise. But strife quite some time. geriuino trouble? Come Mrs Flynn, why should they be after doing any such thing, and them so happy
Border,
So happy
33
.a to
mersy
A fallacy
whole bitter buclness
about
FOUR
to
ELEPHANTS ROCKING THE
tho.
THE BOAT
from Austria, but also from only Social Hungary and Rumania
The banned Red Army has remained in these countries with the excuse that they
are maintaining "ines
...
Wat the
North; no one has
No one hag atlacked the taken the proposed measures against the shouting Pope. No one, I think will. have
been fooled over this civil war. Since the Ireland Bill there has been
London, June 14. That figure in dollars is the Soviet Zone. Right under the the other points go by for the fine, well-meaning elfort
good eyes of Russian guards the twe present. 7IENNA stands in the figures in dollars or in V centre of the main actude internal costs of cal meetings that are often the Foreign Ministers will come represent this perverse county THE
hard exportable goods; the Government held politi- Later in the Paris Conference as being in a characteristic condition of blood-lust, with this between supporters of Sir cross-roads of Europe. That feeding
troops, in Austrian strongly anti-Communist, In to discussing Austria, troublesome Border
the Basil Brooke's regime and Mr is why the Big Powers in schillings is far higher. Germany the story, is very Once a treaty is signed-with flory fuse.
Costello's continues as usual,
ual, the "Cold War" are struge of the war, Austria has hoped to party that matters in the Soviet the Danube, Russian troops will Ever since 1943, in the middle different. There is only one Austrin, the "kingpin" country of arguing from a fallacy: that And, indeed, if words drew because the Stormont Govern- gling to jostle one another be treated differently from con- Zone of Germany, It is Com- be expected to withdraw, pot
ment is only questionably out of the traffic policeman's quered Germany. Then the munist dominated and its blood it would be a
then the Dublin box-Vienna.
Russians agreed with Churchill
strongest rival-the nfair along the Line tonight. dement
must be 10.
and Roosevelt
Democratic that Austria Look as the ultra-modern map
Party was bas But there, they don't. It is a proachable; that if one side is
should be granted her indepen- from the Zone. dull tale to tell so far from the wrong, the other must be rlebt † of Austria-and forgot for a w
suffer claima Austria is a living -in fact, applying the one-moment all old-time waltz-and- dence annd not
st often Tyrol-maiden ideas you have for reparations, Sins then the tion that political liberty is the communication from Russia to First of all, you have the eyed political logic
Greece, for about Austria. It looks, this Russians have done everything essential weapon against Com Austria,
Russians devil of a job Anding it. Here used
map, like postwar Germany in to hold up the liberation of munism. The Austrian people agree to a treaty and got you have Britain's one and example.
miniature. Each of the four Austria. The claim against the are suffering from Russian" de- For years, and through 2. only land frontier, 200 miles of Here in this damp, green, powers has a "Zone"-like Ger- country has been confined to mands for factorika, cash and hundred sessions of meetings. wandering, rustle, undefended
many. Each has a Sector In "German asseta"-factories and goods. But, unlike the Germans, Rucelan delegates have stone-
fabulit and political controversy,
countryside As fron- oplate
that the Nazis ollwells to suggest trouble Vienna as each has in Berlin. ters go it is a pretty amateur nothing
The capital, in bolk jab;
Germany bored after they marched in at Why should there be? decent any
Truk or
and Austria, is firmly embedded the beginning of 1938. But the Yugoslav could fx. a better I camo down out of Ulster, in the contro of the Russian Russians, in their Zone, im- line in fearsomeness,
as so many Sudeten Irishmen Zone.
mediately took over factories. they are not suffering to threat walled. The best progress was
shipping on Even at the recognised con- do, not on a mission, not for a Why has there never deer a ollwells, and the trols it is all very mild, and bit of routine smuggling, only Vienna blockade and a Vienna the Danube and declared them at a third of their country made suddenly. M. Molotov
will be absorbed permanently had Soviet property. (*
Just driven his fellow there must be a thousand spots to escape the rigours of a Bel-airliti?
into the "Communist Empire The answer is simple, and in- where you need not trouble the fast Sunday, 19
exasperation. The date, was Customs. I have crossed it
structive. The Soviet Union has pay through the nose, since the
Tho lesson for So to Dundalk, into the land known for at least three years and of the war, for the privilege
The Conference December 1947 four times today already. There
of Foreign
Ministers looked like are farmers who cross it every where they call it the Telefon that Comununlam had no chance of having four clephants In her Ministers, that they could learn of
up, ever.
for their and the Phulst, where Visitors of saiding Austria. In spite of the boat. But there la one essential from Austria, is that sharing time
To keep they walk from
reonomia: May Buy kitchen to their byre.
A Reasonable map's similarities to the German difference between Germany
control with Russia it
seemed, the Amount of Beck, where the map, the little co
country of Aus and Austria that
that does not show is not, so dangerous if the
squaring is placed Customs man says, "Passport? tria has the Russians
whole question of "gepara an its on the map. The Russians have strongest insistence is Away wid ye" where half the shoulders:
from and is managing to
to never been able to destroy poll
political liberty.". population is in the Men's Holy carry the weight. As they had an political liberty even in their the
ussians" "can"- Name Sodality and the other chance of capturing Austria. the own
Zone. Three poiltical off It reen, half waiting for the pubs to Russians did evon open
A3
The posters
thore
!
BY DAVID TEMPLE ROBERTS
In fact, Austria has had to of Easter Europe, Foreign Ministers to: the point
of
the Foreign
the
'or.
it
In the ending, ond assets by
economic settin
the
cash
to
the
would
not go
bs that.
The
bluseno, Mona pompt a parties compete in 'Austria. The dernida: The foreign Minister festo
People's Party Is Conservalve;,, task is to me Fastom Germans mitte as
Took at to think that paying a sum of
8 a frontier it is bit of a farco. But as a bone of contention, make no mistake, It is still odds-on favourite for
four elephants the lulernational hate-stakes.
Where the martial sound In Austrian boat are rocking the strongly anti-
In the little the Social Democratic Party is if they cantat., ovtunder Austlana&hombolves are bound Recent events have pointed the streets was the pipe: band country so that it is in danger of the it up, in what is certainly is kills of what I am bourd to sinking. At any salimate the Ce, smell but poly, 15 Autotria to pod the very", cruel way. Ireland's report was the Cameron tartan cupation of the country by the The Arat two parties form a of asking freedom for the politt costing $100 minion per year withdrawal from the Common Safe, as a house was 1.29 Four. "Allies" of the last, war is Conillion Government. The cal organisation of all parties in out of the boat would be worth' wealth, the British quarantaa (Contioned on Page 5). costing - Austria $100 million. Government's powers run in the Bil/Germany and let some of t
Getting the Point
very demands
anti-Communist; and
'nolay
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