Nanking, May 30.
A statement that the Soviet Union was one of the strongest Powers in the world, economically, politically and militarily, was made by the Soviet Ambassador, M.D. Bogomooff, in an address entitled "The USSR. in 1035," before the Nanking Rotary Club to-day.
The Soviet, he said, made no secret the fact that it was strengthening lits borders. Had it not done so, "war might have broken out some time ago."
Bogolomoff emphasized that the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. was based on peace. "Any action which we may undertake in the international sphere," he said, "we consider first of all from this point of view: will it help the cause of peace or not?"
After mentioning the conclusion of non-aggression pacts between the Soviet and many countries in the West and in the Near East, he added:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.