The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-19
What Is Safety?

Does Soviet Russia have 70 con-
quer the whole Of Europe and Asia
to provide safety for her borders?
Already, Russia has seized Lithu-
ania, Latvia, Esthonia. Poland, Ro-
mania, Bulgaria, Hungary. Austria,
much o; Germany, CIecho- Slovakia,
Jugoslavia, northern Iran, possibly
Sinkiang, Mongolia. half Of Man
churia, half Of Korea, the Kuriles.
She Is marching on Turkey and
Iraq. Where will Russia stop7
This war started on September /,
1899, TO preserve the territorial and
administrative integrity OF Poland.
Hiuer's crime was the Rnschluss
with Austria and the seizure OF
CLecho-slovakia. He had outraged
world public opinion at Munich.
When he attacked Poland the civil.
lied world turned on him as
though he were q mad dog. say
the civilized world, for at that mo-
ment Russia was his partner.
But a: no stage, short OF the
actual World War II, did Hitler's
infamy reach that OF Soviet Russia
at the present moment. Using Am.
erican tanks and American arms,
.benefiting by American lend-lease
and American perfidy at Teheran,
Yal:a, Moscow and Potsdam, Russia
beStrides the world, q synthetic
Colossus, incapable OF putting a
brake upon its predatory momen-
tum and shouting that small, de-
fenseless, harmless nations imperil
rs safety. The newest cry is that
Russia cannot permit preparations
Tor war on It's boundaries. Where
are those boundaries?
Believing that Great Britain can
not fight for five years and that
the United States has been weak
ened by Communistfomented
strikes. encouraged by the weak
ness and vacillation OF American
foreign policy, not having learned
yet that this country in a Just
cause becomes united whatever our
internal differences may be, the
Russian accepts this as the right
time TO prevent a peace, 10 intimid-
ate smaller countries, TO pursue a
century-old plan Of destroying the
British Empire and for pursuing
the NOTWITHSTANDING program for
the conquest OF the whole Of man.
kind by means Of the world revolu-
ton.
This is what America faces. And
those who are 80 myopic as not to
realize the truth, who are SO mar
couzed by propagandistic opiates as
not to believe the truth. will one
day suffer the shock of glazing In
to an ugly. bitter, miserable fact
close at home-the fact OF war
again-war costing American
blood and American wealth. The
only way to prevent that war is to
recognize Immediately and fully
that Stain has succeeded to Hit.
ler's mad dreams Of world con-
quest. TO recognize Immediately
that this country can only safe
guard Itself by insisting that, ex-
cept for Germany and Japan. the
boundaries OF September /, 1889,
are the only ones this country will
recognize and that we shall not
permit, by whatever means are at
our disposal, any further conquests
by anybody.
This seems drastic and harsh.
Shall the United States face a
situation lees drastic and harsh
when we become an island facing
a Communist Europe and a Com
munist Asia? Did you not notice
that Toledano, the leader Of Mexi-
can Communism, is a candidate for
the Mexican presidency? Do we
need TO wait until It is too late to
wait and too late to actI
A Communist is a Russian agent.
Whether a soldier or a civilian. he
is a Russian agent. In every coun-
try, the Communists act as Russian
fifth columnists. In the United