Evening star., 1947-06-23
Red Expansion Drive
Is Similar 10 Nazis
Jackson Declares
By the Associated Press

CANTON, N. Y, june 23.-Su-
preme Court Justice Jackson says
"the United States is no more pre-.
pared intellectually to understand
the problem of Russian expansion in
Europe than it was to understand
the Nazi expansion and it is not
much better prepared to resist Its
program"
Meanwhile, Russia is setting up
new totalitarian regimes with all of
the earmarks of the DID," he said at
st. Lawrence University's Goth COM
|mencement exercises yesterday.
There are enough points of SINH
larity between the present relations
of Russia to the world and those of
Nazi Germany at about the time of
the Austrian Anschluss to make one
feel uneasy lest, in time, they be
similarly climaxed by world catas-
trophe," Justice Jackson said.
Nazi Trials Cited.
The jurist, who was chief counsel
for the United States in the Nuern-
berg trials, said that~"the Nuremberg
record discloses how long and dis
astrously the Western World failed,
in dealing with the Nazi regime, to
recognize the essentially militant
character of totalitarianism and its
fundamental hostility to our way
of life
OF our relations with Russia, he
said: -
when we finally found ourselves
in struggle against the Nazi sys-
tenn, we accepted as allies any who
were fighting against the Nazis. = Z"
Instead of recognizing, as the Rus
slams did, the opportunistic nature
of our alliance with them and its
illogical nature as a long range mat
ter, We sought to cover up our diff
ferences with bromides which never
ought to have appealed to an edu-
Gated public.
THE sedative we took to over
come any tendency to analyze our
strange partnership was the BIZ
partisan slogan that we were all
one world =
Slogan Called Blarney.
Insofar as it implied unity in cul-
tural heritage, intellectual outlook,
political methods or aims or inter-
national objectives, it was sheer
blarney. But it would have been
impolitic for any public man to
have questioned a prescription so
soothing. Z
I'VE now see that under the spell
of this fiction, the United States
left vague understandings which
ought to have been definite, and
left differences unresolved which
ought to have been settled, while
we had a good bargaining posi-
tior,
Then We withdrew and demo-
bilized most of our forces, at panic
speed, leaving the mobilized Rus
sian armies, greatly outnumbering
ours, in possession of the field and
with the infinitely difficult prob
lens of the peace unsolved."
Justice Jackson said that to-day
the people of Russia are war
weary, destitute, and they long for
peace even as we do. Nothing
would help to whip them up to
endure another war like some atti-
tude on our part that can be used
to show them that they are being
threatened by u.s."
Prejudice DepIored.
Moreover. said Justice Jackson,
citing the Munich agreement,
nothing will build up the prestige
of the Soviet dictatorship in all Eu-
rope so much as to dramatize our
opposition to it if we must, at the
critical moment, yield"
Further, he declared, this country
should remember that relationships
are mot so shocking to peoples
who "have had such corrupt, weak
or unstable governments that they
do not think they have much to
lose by accepting relationships.
"If we are to become the leader
in world affairs which many en-
vision, we must expand our educa-
ton horizons accordingly. - pre-
judice and parochialism can put us
behind an iron curtain as dangerous
to our security as censorship barriers
to understanding can be to other
nations Justice Jackson said.