Western Naivete May Mean Soviet War, Elliott Says

War with Russia in the next 15 years, "not only for rule of the world but for the mind of humanity," was predicted as the inevitable result of persisting Western naivete by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, last night.

Addressing the one hundred and sixty-sixth annual winter dinner of the College Phi Beta Kappa Society, he pleaded for a two-fisted answer to the politiburo oligarchy, which, he asserted, controls every detail of Russian thought through the all-potent N.K.V.D.

On his last visit to the Soviet Union, the ex-official of the War Production Board Recalled sounding everybody as best he could from Number One Down to discredited ex-czarist ballerinas. He found the citizens of the U.S.S.R. convinced that they are moving alone the torrent of an historically determined mission, with force as the logical last appeal.

"Even the dispensers of the Koran, so comparable to the Rusians in their zeal," be smiled, "though the Kismet needed a little help from the scimitar."

Human life has always been cheap in Rusia, Elliott continued, and the theory and operation of the state calls for complete submersion of the individual. This above all collides with the Anglo Saxon heritage, he emphasized.

"The cry of the anguished soul protesting against the barreness of the mechanized planned economy," was what Stalin's censors saw in the purged Ninth Symphony of Shostakovitch, he charged.