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    "ocrText": "-3-\nAssistant Secretary Thorp on Communism and Poverty. -- In an\naddress before the Virginia Conference of World Trade, at Richmond\non November 17, Assistant Secretary Willard L. Thorp pointed out that\nthe appeal of Communism is most effective with masses of people\nthroughout the world who live in poverty and without hope of economic\nchange. \"It is beside the point to show that the Communists can't\nproduce as efficiently as we, \" he declared, continuing:\n\"\nfor the first time, on a world scale, our way of life,\nwith all it means in terms of the value we place on freedom and\nthe individual personality, is being challenged, seriously\nchallenged in the minds of men who are awakening to a realiza-\ntion that from a technical standpoint poverty is no longer\nnecessary. This challenge is primarily an economic challenge in\nareas outside the Iron Curtain, but it can become a serious\npolitical and military challenge unless we act promptly, leaving\nno stone unturned, to demonstrate that our economic system can\nbenefit these countries and peoples in concrete and specific\nways. \" 2\nActing Assistant Secretary Sargeant on the Soviets and the West. --\nIt became apparent at the London CFM session, within three months of\nthe signing of the UN Charter, that the Soviet Union had no intention\nof cooperating with the West, Acting Assistant Secretary Howland H.\nSargeant told the Birmingham (Alabama) Christmas Carnival on Novem-\nber 25. Succeeding events demonstrated, according to Mr. Sargeant,\nARCKIVES RECORDS MATIONAL AND\nthat Soviet collaboration during the war had been solely concerned\nSERVICE*\nwith getting Western aid in defeating Germany, and its real intention--\nnationalistic expansion west, south, and east--is now laid bare.\nThe Soviets, he said, have \"hoped to exploit violence and dis-\norder in pursuing Russian imperialistic designs. Under the impact\nof these developments, he continued, the concept of the common aims\nand interests of the North Atlantic community began to emerge, the\nfree peoples of the world discovered their kinship and interdependence\nas never before, and they are making this kinship the solid foundation\nfor building a new kind of world. Mr. Sargeant expressed the belief\nthat the world function of the North Atlantic community, to create a\ngreat unbalance of force on the side of the free world for the preser-\nvation of peace, would eventually expose the futility of all narrow\nschemes for nationalistic expansion running counter to the good of\nthe world community as a whole. In time, he said, we will see such\ncooperation of the great powers in the UN that there will be less and\nless need for regional defense arrangements. 3\nMrs. Anderson on Communism in the US. -- Mrs. Eugenie Anderson,\nnewly appointed Ambassador to Denmark, in an address before the Women's\nNational Press Club at Washington on November 1, traced her political\ngrowth since 1944 when \"there was no non-Communist liberal movement\"\n2Press release 894, Nov. 17; summary in the Bulletin, Nov. 28, p.827.\n3\nPress release 920, Nov. 25."
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