Evening star., 1946-09-09
No Permanent Peuce
Behind Iron Curtain
Soviet News Policy Shows
Assressor Feels Guilt

Soviet News Policy Shows
Assressor Feels Guilt
By David laurence
Three important inferences may be
derived from the way things are shaping
up In world affairs.
First. In the next war-if q total.
tartan government in Russia should
provoke conflict-the German people
and the Japanese people will be allied
on the side Of the United States and
Great Britain.
Second, unless the Russian people be-
come full-fledged democracy and get
rid Of their totalitarian government,
there Is no way by which the Baruch
plan or any other plan Of international
inspection can really be made effective
and hence the United States will 70 on.
making atomic bombs and developing
her plans 20 that when other nations
learn to make the atomic bomb they
will not be able to use 1t against US with
out inviting greater destruction for
themselves.
Third, there can be no hope Of perma-
nent peace through the United Nations
or any other combination Of nations
unless the Russian people supplant the
existing totalitarian government with q
government that operates along demo-
cratic processes and gives the people a
chance to veto war.
Moscow Uses 'Smokescreen.,
The Moscow policy of suppression of
news behind their iron curtain while
disseminating worldwide propaganda
constantly accusing the democracies of
"gangsterism" and war -mongerism" is
only smokescreen to conceal the guilt
OF an aggression already begun. 1t also
tends to conceal what Is really going on
inside Russia where, as some cabled re-
ports indicate, there is q revolutionary
spirit which seeks to get rid Of the
present rulers of the Soviet.
The Russian strategy in penetrating
the politics and trade union movements
OF the republics of this hemisphere is
an offensive that was begun with the
crude notion that If the United States
kept hands off Europe, the communistic
regime would keep hands of this hemi-
sphere.
The Russian strategy of obstruction
and vexatious tactic in all international
conferences for the last year has at last
been rightly diagnosed as q deliberate
attempt to harass the United States to
the point Of evaporation so that Amer
ica might become disguised with the
European situation and revert to the
let -Europe-stew = in her own Juice"
doctrines Of the 1920s, in which case
Russia would overrun the continent and
dominate all Of Europe, including Brit
ain, North Africa and the strategic ap-
/ proaches by air to this country and the
whole Western Hemisphere.
The main significance of the latest
speech Of Secretary of State Byrnes is
that the United States is not going to
get out Of Europe and on the contrary,
is going to help the German people to
regain place in the family of nations
instead OF leaving them in political and
economic chaos to become pawn of
communistic intrigue or sabotage.
U. 8. in Difficult Role.
In the Far East where Russia would
like to dominate Japan with Commu-
nism or, failing this, to dominate China
through the already existing northern
Communists, the United States must
play the difhcult role of maintaining the
friendship Of both the Chinese and the
japanese peoples so that neither China
nor Japan can be exploited by Russia
to the point where totalitarian gov
ernment in Moscow can build bases from
which to carry bombs across the Pacific
to the western defenses of the United
States.
The jockeying for position in the
next war has It's origin in the inscruta-
BILE and operative policy Of Russia
and the knowledge that the only de-
tense against the misuse of the atomic
bomb by Russia is the overthrow of
totalitarian government in Moscow.
Hope for world peace depends on the
emergence Of a free government In
Russia which can join the other gov
ernments of the world in a union of
peoples that could approximate the
+ principals and spirit If not the letter,
OF world government. The stumbling
block to all progress in world affairs
and to permanent peace is the Soviet
dictatorship.
No amount Of "appeasement" or wish
ful thinking will give free peoples of
the world the feeling Of safety which
they crave and deserve to attain, and
which can come only If peoples every
where without exception control their
own governments and thereby the DO
tential use Of murderous weapons of
warfare
What Is Behind Ii?
From the New York Herald Tribune.
The most that one can say about the