Current Russian Designs in Europe and the Middle East

Abstract

Soviet foreign policy since the war has remained true to its objective of world dominance. The means used have progressed from nonaggression pacts, scrapped when they were no longer useful, to offers of "peaceful coexistence," accompanied by offers of economic aid to underdeveloped countries and designed to draw such countries out of the Free World's orbit. The grim events in Hungary and the Middle East are a part of the Kremlin's plan of world domina tion. The threat can only be averted by a firm policy of collective security, il lustrated by NATO, SEATO, and the Baghdad Pact.—Ed.