''Swinish Snouts"

Russians assumed that President Roosevelt was not fooled when he affected to accept as a condition for U. S. recognition of the Soviet Union bland Comrade Litvinoff's transparent pledge that no Soviet official would thereafter engage in efforts to overthrow the U. S. Government (TIME, Nov. 27).

In Moscow last week the 17th Congress of the Communist Party received the expected declaration from Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov that all members of the Soviet Government and Communist Party remain committed to make every effort for the destruction of all capitalist government. "Appealing to the millions of proletarians outside the Soviet Union," cried Premier Molotov, "we declare that we connect our fight for the victory of Socialism inextricably with the revolutionary struggle of the workers of the world against Capitalism! Our Party [i.e. the Russian Communist Party] is growing and strengthening itself as the vanguard of the Communist International [i.e. the World Communist Party of which the U. S. Workers' Party is a unit]."

After contrasting Soviet conditions with those under "rotting Capitalism" Premier Molotov, amid deafening cheers, introduced Dictator Stalin. Declared the Man of Steel: "There can be no doubt that the establishment of normal relations between the United States and the Soviet Union is a development of tremendous significance to the entire system of international relations. . . . [It] marks a break with the past, when the United States was considered as a stronghold of all anti-Soviet tendencies."

Strengthened by President Roosevelt's act, Russia now feels strong enough, Comrade Stalin indicated, to withstand an assault from either the East (Japan) or the West (Germany). "We warn all such nations," said the Dictator, "not to poke their swinish snouts into the Soviet potato patch."

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