Guest Column
SOUVARINE, BORIS
GUEST COLUMN By Boris Souvarine Soviet International Game Is No Mystery; Neither Is the Proper Way to Check It The Soviet game on the international political plane is quite clear and definite: It...
...Moscow has resigned itself to treating them with respect...
...On the contrary, everything indicates that the Communists (i.e., Boris Souvarine, editor of the Paris bulletin B.E.I.P.I., is the author oj Stalin, a definitive biography of the late Soviet dictator, and several other works on international affairs...
...The conclusion is inevitable: The Soviet game is clear, and if we wish to frustrate it...
...Whether the Soviet regime, which defies and provokes the entire world, is personified in Stalin or represented by Malenkov and then by Bul-ganin, it still rests on power installed by force and maintained by force —force directed internally against the working-class majority and externally against independent countries...
...their leaders, the masters of the Soviet state) cannot change their worst attribute: the spirit of domination, the will to power...
...like them, he obevs the sovereign party, hence the Presidium of the Central Committee, of which he is not even a member...
...while Japan's composure in the face of Soviet threats at the time of the San Francisco Treaty has now resulted in overtures from Moscow...
...we should follow the example of the small countries, whose conduct the great powers can profitably study...
...West German Chancellor Adenauer recently wrote an excellent article entitled "We Must Keep Calm in the Face of the Soviet Union...
...In foreign policy, when force is not used in the form of open war, it is deployed in cold war in the form of propaganda, blackmail, threats and various maneuvers so well known that they need not be described here...
...The article points out that Moscow, after having violently assailed Turkey in 1945 and the following years and claimed territory in Asia Minor, ended in 1953 by renouncing its claims in the face of the Turks' calm, sober attitude...
...As though to teach a lesson to the naive Westerners who based their speculations on his imaginary personality, Zhukov delivered an arrogant, vulgar speech on February 22 whose rhetoric was indistinguishable from that of the Khrushchevs, the Bulganins and the Molotovs...
...It is pointless to ask periodically, "'What does Moscow want...
...he;,is in no way distinguished politically from his colleagues...
...Similarly, after having coarsely vituperated against Tito and the Yugoslavs since 1948...
...The Communists will never abandon their design for universal conquest, unless they cease to be Communists...
...Zhukov has neither more nor less authority than other Communist figures of the same rank...
...The possibility of their reforming exists only in the imagination of ignorant observers who take their wishful thinking for reality...
...She wants to extend her domination everywhere that circumstances permit...
...There is not a word of truth in this artificial notion...
...Many people in Europe and America have been foolish enough to suppose that the naming of Marshal Zhukov as Soviet Minister of Defense foreshadows better days, more peaceful coexistence than in the past...
...What Moscow wants has long been known...
...And with reason: The source of all these speeches is the same special offices of the Central Committee whose job it is to grind them out...
...Where a continued advance entails too much risk, she does not abandon the operation as impossible, but simply avoids premature action and increases her external pressure and internal infiltration to pave the way for final success...
...Neither Is the Proper Way to Check It The Soviet game on the international political plane is quite clear and definite: It consists in ceaselessly harassing the non-Communist states so as to further any internal subversive movement...
...There can be no question of an original thought by a member of the Soviet Government, whose "monolithism" is the result of thirty years of drilling, disciplining and purging...
...According to this absurd idea, Zhukov will not be a Communist minister like the others, but will represent the special aspirations of a segment of Soviet society that is basically different in mentality from the ruling party, to wit, the Army, which will accord its spokesman sufficient authority to counterbalance that of the Government and to direct official policy into new paths...
...Diplomatic notes and virtually identical proposals follow one another interminably, whether Germany is involved, or disarmament, or Formosa, or Korea...
...All these moves are part of the same steadfast enterprise: the methodical conquest of the globe...
...as do the leaders of the democratic countries, their diplomats, official journals, various parliamentary leaders, and countless commentators...
Vol. 38 • March 1955 • No. 13
