SUMMARY OF "THIS IS HOW WE CAN PREVENT FURTHER SPREAD OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM" (Sanitized)

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CIA-RDP80-01446R000100060016-4
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November 9, 2016
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March 18, 1998
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Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP80-01446R000100060'0) 6-.4 t 25X1X6e1 eesis that most of the Asian. and African countries must make a critical decision: Will economic development be sought by communist or capitalist methods? These countries need capital for industrialization, which they view as essential for national adependence and improved standards of living. The USSR and Communist eir leaders one way of obtaining this capital, namely, through collectivized agriculture and the forced savings of the peasantry. Local Communists in the Asian and African countries gain a hearing and often by championing land reform, a cause which has a universal appeal to the masses longing to be free farmers. these countries from Communism the industrialized nations ,d must help them to carry out land reform. He proposes that this be done by long-term, low-interest loans for the purpose of buy- 25R4R e domestic and foreign landlords. Then the former landlords e advised and urged to invest the funds in industrialization. " It to contention that economic aid can thus acco asure s to thwart Communism, land Ti d industrial o benefit the donors by stimulating and enlarging their e developing nations. He believes that Japan must be an 1b Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP80-014461000100060016-4 ~__ Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP80-01446R000100060016-4 important contributor to erax program, but help must come from the United States. oresaes that tat US foreign aid for the Asian-African countries con- ctivei of land reform and industrialization. Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : -CIA-RDP80-01446R000100060016-4