SOVIET FRIENDSHIP- -A POLITICAL WEAPON

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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 12, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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--A POLITICAL WEAPON
12 Dec 3mb:w 1958
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Par TICAL 1114APON
shal Claice Lou.Vi
rsation with Le
my ragtag; ; can dofend
not a cycle, aa th;..s remark would so
a thorough teellet who well understood
ver as dangerous as one masqueradingas &relen4
pportuns accault to stab his UOSUA944 .os-
Thitl* truth Is nuctinotly stated in the aph-
unknown eitigPaimaatist of do Villare our uay:
than a reale friend,
,d.ind) have cpeels1 pertinemae for the
e 1114ri08 rhich are tindin hemeelvee
4 acv.let Union. Soviet exprossione
S cow :tries ere unending in number
. :u thewunary they are indeeti an
soli', they are but a mirage, for une
,i1g: sineerity. This. Soviet pro
A i,olitical expedient, which will
e Suviet Union has attained its ob-
-;actie is not succeeding.
tat never be for,g3ttan that the inflexible goal of the
Len aM Communisc-44 gal enunciated repeatedly by the
lot leaders thmmesivas--ls world domination. Any
cy which appe-swa t) imply a change In that goal re-
ly a shift in -:iact,.ca. which may-and do--change as
s quickly as a obaAeleon changes its color. Those
Lets today ha1-1. aJ their dearest friends were ras-
ed als the v..Licic-, blackguards, as they will be a-
bon the Sov_st cLameleon once again changes its
and sine
Trotsky,
them leads
struggles which tel
tors. NOro ro4ent
while *live but the
his death. The old
ivo * to truth
der, :'or example, the tate of such men as
ne Iitittatrin, radek and tykov..-al1 of
14 Revolution who, in the power
riti disgraced end condemned as t-J:ci
JuAgle of Stalin, adulated as a god
targaI of tbe moat biting condemnations aftor
DolsheA14.. Malotcv, and Stalinfs succesoo=?$
,
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*leo, withott warning,
ilement r haying
mere and more clearly the
Ito and there was 'novas-
ution, the Kremlin, with
would be expedient to
moral. In 1957 the Moow
tams to the Russian edlti n
praise on him. An ana-
oe," read this preface,
t a realistic statesman chows-
on the pot tion or hour-
period of World War II he
In the struggle for the
in this regard, sup-
true protector of the
nd greatness of Franat."
or his crates' attitude
that this did not pre-
tisane* of the Sovatt
t
V.
w
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oons in problems of fin policy. On 17 April one mon
be Algerian cra& atapulted de Gaulle into Ube
Ip, Molchanov? thl woll-anown Soviet foreign Poli4Y
ntators wrote that 4thera s more and more talk of the
on to power of Gena :.'al dt Gaulle, who has no small tw-
in the country. Aany pEo1e cannot fail to be inflLz-
b the fact that de )tutIL. stands for more independence
an relations and :3f asonable attitude towards
n al problems."
Por the firet aeveia1 noi
remierships the Scv1etsfri
Moscow, In facts in !ta domestic
the cultural, economic and tehuioa
extravagant superlatives, 4. iij?d tt? Soviet Union's unflinching
friendehip for Prance, and derAared that the Soviet Union was
sincerely interested in a--31n2; Trance play an increasinaly im-
portant role in internatir.ylal alfairs
Although the French Ans_inist /arty and its leaders, Maur ce
?bores and Jacques Duclos st.J.e allowed to castigate the Ginr 1
as A fascists the Kremlin _ Egf and ita domestic propaganda
=die scrupulously refraid rrom any hint of criticism. Sven
a Sharp referenoe to the .039 Hitler-Stalin pact which de Gaulle
included in his reply of '21,-; J-ily to Ehrushehev's letter of 19
Julys failed to evoke any an g4 response from Moscow. At that
point it appeared as us thc, SATiet leaders had resolved on friend-
ship with France at any cot and were not to be moved from that
course even it it meant, [1:3 it reemingly did, leaving the trench
ComMunists in the lurch and hdrawing an diplomatic and moral
support from the Algerian seb.:.-.1a.
The Soviet posture wnl, f eourse, not an unchangeabl
re-
lye but merely a tactic of :lie moment. It Is now clear that
e Soviet leaders had hopQd '-Dy this tactic to induce de Gaulle
more friendly towerdri the Soviet Union and, perhaps, even
e to a revival of the ,Int-time Franco-Russian alliance.
s of de Gaulle'e wt1;:le differences with Allied leaders
uent declarations -AIL; * re-ermed Germany would be an
ble "deadly perW to trance, and his reputed hostility
French participeton in Western Europe integration ac-
appear to have civ. id the gremlin that to lure de
ay from the West and, It not into the Soviet orbit
into the ranks o:t- th,- neutralists was entirely within
a1rn of possibility.
de Gaulle aeeumed the
any critiolem. Radio
reign broadcast praised
evements of France in
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Ciun1sts was, In 3ovi
fcv. the attsLnmnt Q thia *Woo-
t ?to you rn al
v. to Skav It vnws,
flataie Waltnot bO naive ae to fall
itive the 1neincer1ty of theSoviet
,f Kremlin in
, *Noricum, anti
my raa
$()Vi
la. 9
vi
v ng
was having
okaand
that
sation
te Pm
ste.
de
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de Gaulle t(1
on this issue1
psrmittcd to exp
lo Moe-
kreneh
de Gaulle
?re who
es
cis
these attacks toccata no
Ot 9
the Piretwi
t was deal
pre talent
that *the
existed,
itiCIAME Art
010 ;At art
ntal syste
toe 434 ILA
and t 4'e
t iTiee Lle
and
(luta
tor
tton, de.
1 dicta-
tins
ilsd
4 a
where
sesu
LI 414 a
ulla WB
herviete
rripont e
t aria -Axe.
letar when
,te..e to ttie
3.,t Party
ernaent
PG de
"thugs*
clearly !mai
fedioney ial
e when he Irro,e
Ln Europe cOuld
ulle intentllid
n, oval the ut
Al a and mai W:4 rr_ng republic
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mt attitudes towards Oau
trG*r1ty of &vit peliey#
s the only example that
? ineonstaney is to be
es with everY country
/es of Asia and Africa.,
as uncommitted.
well adYis
Western Loper
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peep
the wor
-war israi,
I the colonial
nsively 4w Si no
Ceylon, lndore the Phi PIA
bye, Leas, Claboditts South Vietnam,
tmed04. In contrast the Soviet Union
its colonial subjects in Central Asia end
leo annexea Latvia, Estonle, Lithuanis
retie and has extended over the
tolends Zest Osrmsn7, Hungary,
rLas prOtectorste which iv *-
1 Soviet repressions in
utire world the colonis1
lsit)
on *lc:
wet, ands
Of
die,
* Mc-
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Ialtltaon
' rie newspe
t as "a sal
and njust in
bJaxts that
sAd the same
.4111At of the Sovi
Yet in the
nto convince
oat
s al te the
ntrist to tire t,-**t NM*
only to re.:Jsp..1se *el
lets today pro-Gioia the
Arab hostity towards Zara*
lob, in tht Un t?1 Mations in
r Pelestint ant, which, upon the pro* em4
Israel In Hay1,8, as one of the first etatet
PlOMitle rtLosvitlon. The Mahn would do well to
hat the Jet.ash military successes in the fl'
*4 were a* LL Lirge part to the arms, AMMWMA
rmament wtich tit* Jewish *rimed romps received
Soviet satc-11;t0, Csechoelovakia
b es-
he Com.
a queer
of the
the
ng the velue of the Soviet claim to bee bul-
rosehm*nt on Arab independenee and terri-
wLould member that on 26 Noway/
the Nati Ambassador In Moscow, Informed
UnIcn vas prepared to sign a Four Power
*rd .;'apan "provided that the area
tilt general direetion of the PerFlan
colter of the aspirations of the boviet
114 aviut 4-don (which now proclaim*
list and the protestor of Arab rights)
cf fuztio and Iran as well as the
itself
wanted to annex aa
greater part of Iraq.
it would also he pro
Just one week before the !Iasi
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotc
of the? Soviet Oovernment? na c
alliance against &island and her *
other things, a free hand la Irmi an Iran, and an Important
for the Pasts to rso*il that
ask on Russia on 1,41
s in Merlin where on b.kalf
Germano a All ailitarr
as in return for, among
.3.
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n in Saudi Arabia s tt aimare u
an tIulf and tha Gulf of Aden. In
for Arab territe)ry, it is hardly a
Iraqi CommUntstl ore the moot wool
with the Vn!..ted At-eb PepUbIlo and
responsible f!or tie dismissal and subsequent
I Aril!, who WS3 the principal advocate of
the leada,-3 oo the July revolution.
955 th ,tc8 have IOttdI7 pro sed the
/Abd-a1-4ae pnti have pledged him ?the
olable frie-ids of the Soviet Onion," to
oed by the than Soviet POreign Minister
v In June 1955. lat only as late as 1954
$ leedina ityptlan *sport, L. Vatolinas had
Masir ra3ime at goodly reaotionarys terror -
tie, demo! a -11." ?Le change in the Soviet
on, M0144 simple of the Soviet ohameleonos
need tar neutr*11t
roteetations ot their
t they will not mistake
tudy well the moord
by the Soviet Union,
ret that guile and dis-
!e bv official Communist
Soviet leaders. it the
ngar they Should have no
only wise answer to Soviet
lame and caution
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