Evening star., 1947-03-29
Women S Peace Unii
Told u. ). Fears War
And Reds Too Much

The United States has too much
fear of Russia, communism and
war, Anne O'Hare Mccormick OF
the New York Times. told the
Women's Action Committee for
Lasting Peace at their Shoreham
Hotel meeting today.
Communism, she said, "is trouble
some as an instrument of Russian
expansion, but as a doctrine and
way OF life it takes only among
the impoverished, the dispossesed
and the frustrated"
Russia" she added, isn't ready
to fight, has no will to fight and will
back down before any threat of a
first-class scrap"
Sees Contest Of Ideas.
Mrs. Mccormick, who is United
States delegate to the United Ma
tions Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, said "the
only kind of war we are going to
fight for years to come" is "a con-
test of ideas, Of incompatible sys-
TENS, of clashing worlds that have
never met before, of words that
don't mean the same thing and
clocks that don't tell the same time.
She said victory had weakened
Russia "as it has weakened every
victor except the United States"
MY guess" she said, "is that the
President made major issue of the
Greek crisis to warn the Soviet
leaders that they were running into
the danger of war;"
Reconstruction Plan Urged.
''Now that we have started being
bold" she said, why not be bold in
a big way and set in motion mas
ter plan for the resurrection of Eu-
rope? Not alone, of course, not as
Santa Claus, but as a great country
concerned with the future and
ready to stimulate the plans for re-
habilitation every nation is striving
against desperate odds to carry out. I"
Gen. Eisenhower and Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt last night placed respon-
sibility for world peace and the
success of the United Nations OBJ
jectives largely on the shoulders of
the American people.
Both addressed a banquet of the
Woman's Acticn Committee last
night.
Whether we like 1t or not" said
Mrs. Roosevelt, a U. N. delegate,
I'VE have today a position of lead
ership in the world. We can no
longer think just of how we would
like things to happen within our
own land, because all the rest of
the world has its eyes focused on
U.s."
Failure of this strong Nation to
accomplish what it wills, she said,
will give other nations "a very good
excuse for not struggling them
selves, because they will say-quite
truthfully the United States
couldn't succeed. We couldn't pos
sibly'."
Up to Individual.
The answer lies, she went on,
with the individual citizen and the
carrying out of his will by his rep
resentatives in the Government.
Adding a ''fervent amen" to Mrs
Roosevelt's remarks, the Army Chief
of Staff said military strength is
needed for reasonable assurance
of security while the wider machin.
cry of the United Nations develops.
The Army, Navy and Air Force,
however, he asserted, are only part
of the cornerstone Of strength this
Nation must have if 1t is going to
lead others into the peace we so
earnestly long for" The war was
won, he pointed out, by the will and
determination" of the people.
Weakness" Gen. Eisenhower de-
clared, Cannot cooperate with
anything. It can only fail. Only
strength can cooperate. Strength
is on the farm, in the factory, in the
mines and in your hearts. Our
whole system of Government is
based on cooperation. If democracy
can be defined in one word, that is
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