have in postwar years fallen to one-half. Published figures
reveal that in the first half of this year the profits of the
French capitalists amounted to 43 per cent of France's total
national income, whereas the wages of the workers and of-
fice employees comprised only 39 per cent of the national
income. These figures show that the profits of the French
capitalists considerably exceed the total wages received by
all the workers and office employees of France.
Whereas the progress of our industry is entirely based
upon our internal resources and on the labour effort of
the Soviet people, in the capitalist countries of Europe
everything is based on the expectation of receiving credits
from "Uncle Sam."
Everybody is familiar with the stir raised in Europe
over the Mao-hall Plan. This plan is advertised as the
factor t of salvation for the postwar recovery of Europe's
economy. To listen to certain British or French statesmen,
without American credits under the Marshall Plan the
economic recovery of the European countries is impossible.
However, the American dollars which flowed this year into
the pockets of the European capitalists under the United
States credit plan were not productive of any real revival
of industry in the countries of capitalist Europe. Nor can
they result in such ai revival—because the American credits
are not being -given in order to restore and expand the
industries of the European countries which -compete with
the United States, but in order to provide a broader market
for American goods in Europe, and to place these coun-
tries in economic and political dependence on the capitalist
monopolies which dominate the United States, and on their
aggressive plans, in disregard of the interests of the Euro-
pean peoples themselves.
In contradistinction to this, the postwar recovery and
expansion- of industry in the U.S.S.R. are not dependent
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