COMMENTS ON MOLOTOV'S MAY 14 SPEECH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02771R000300030020-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 20, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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idsw* SI tie P04 r isze is sor+r olossly and ooxncret4ely
fied with t Viet aggression than the 3o v i s t tin i ti
4o lotOV 19 iit t better 51tion to isitiato cwe- r'
?h? tact that toi re Prnrsls~ Tex,
p provides substantial direct mat,rial
support to M Tint seeress Its borders sad the tact
that its iatarv'enti+aet in this tors, has bees hi hl E seolici:ed
by the U. 3# sad is iSearall A. _1,_11
non-Cosa+uetist .+orld gives the lei ' w1 thro out the
P
rif:m ('despite, its
publie denials) the status of quasi- .rent in Isdoah;ica.
.holotav, on the ' other beads, man more easily assu.e a pose
of detaishod Interrst? rspress$t3ms s esratry rs*ots troo t'hs
zcxtne of aotl**. $elott-r say be seeking to create the
isppr.aaiou that he Is is a ppoosition to sxsrcise a riliGrsinin~!;
intlusne? on bis'junior Qollsaj;u ss r+i+r.s.nting Psi isi. en
fist Minh if the .West bill only be r.asaaabls. Chou, on the
other han4, is hardly ire a position ?vsn to pretend to the
a d.r.tort s r'11ls?
s, the Aolotov speech., bind s maneuver ryrix4ri I
alxo ~,-ai the rrsneb and dritisb cocas more effectively
from the 33vist Union cloth is a Iuropeaa as well as %n
ewer, It can thus a.rry ial-liaations for aovi,t p 1icies in
propye xhiab ai,dbt have sore" offset on the Irltish and 'ranch
attitrido therms t",ssamist Oki" is resets from lump* and
doss not sue have diplosativ relations with either the
British of the Frsnok.
fte in thou seb 60 ter`.4 Yards o proaise with the bast oor,tair.ed
of the i It Is with the uaooaa~eyyroatiising tons
p t pr'opdgaads. Peiping has Senora 17 avui4ed any
public sturrs which *4 ;ht be oenstrued as avrreiliatory towsrris
the West (despite sertat? advantages which it atg u ;sin there.
f roa) i it has oostisxi.d to purws a hard and iu[T.st.ib 1,
line. It is speak 'isarily to as Asian mudivtt Wbiah `
cooks to iaprsss wi its strength and the iusvitabilit it
its triusrph, M r, the Peiping radino Is extree.l y
sensitive to any s mw of Mea+. it old eonsid r to be wsaiun.as;
therefore any moves In char direction of moderation of oar,%uni%t
t?rrM on tsdoskias Gvm though taeticaliy advantadsous it
pprobably ~ronid p~ l'srr to have ease from the Uor! ?f Unuion,, at
!cast at this stag,,,
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