Evening star., 1947-10-10
We Must Wuqe 1t Well

In issuing IIle ITSt OlllCldl 1AlAeA iNo1iA
comment on the revival of the Comm
tern, Acting Secretary of State Lovett has
not said, in direct language, that the de-
velopment constitutes Soviet declaration
of political and economic war against the
United States But the point is as clearly
implied in his statement as it is IN events
themselves. The evidence cries aloud
everywhere We need merely to glance at
the world to see the Kremlin intent upon
doing all that it can to defeat us in a
fateful new power contest to determine
whether the peace is to be our kind OF
peace-a peace of free men and free
nations-or one made largely in the image
and likeness of totalitarianism.
The political aspects of this war have
become as plain as the nose on ones face.
They have been clearly set forth in the
recent speech of Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Vishinsky to the General AS
sembly of the United Nations and In the
manifesto" of the revived" Communist
International. What it all adds up to is
what Mr.. Lovett has described as mali
cious and unscrupulous" propaganda di-
rected relentlessly and ceaselessly at the
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United States. 1t is an all-out application
Of one of the key principles followed by
Hitler in the heyday of the Nazis-namely,
to distort facts so grossly and lie on such
a colossal scale that the very dimensions
and brazenness of the thing will be
enough to befuddle the world public into
believing the untrue to be true, and the
truth itself to be a vicious fabrication.
Thus, with mounting energy and du-
plicity, we see the Kremlin and the Comm
tern working together to convince as many
people as possible throughout the globe
that the iron-fsted Russian dictatorship
and its satellites are peace-loving democ-
racies fighting valiantly for the good and
the beautiful everywhere, for security and
prosperity everywhere, against an evil bloc
(the overwhelming majority of the United
Nations) led by a greedy, warmongering
America bent on dominating the whole of
mankind AS for the economic phase of
this struggle, it has taken the form of
deliberate Soviet effort-aS Mr.. Lovett has
just observed-to prevent the recovery OF
Europe if that is possible. 1t has taken
the form not merely of refusal to CO.
operate in the projected Marshall program,
but of a firmly fixed resolve to do what
ever can be done in an attempt to wreck
that program. In sum, it has taken the
form of carefully planned campaign to
keep the world split in two and to prolong
unrest and chaos in order to promote the
spread of communism and place most of
Europe and Asia, II not all, under Mos
cows sway.
For many reasons. of course, it seems
foolish to fear that this war Is likely to
pass in the near future from politics and
economics to an actual shooting stage
But unless we and like-minded nations
wage it at least as we'll and resolutely as
the Russians, unless concerted action is
taken now to convince them that they have
embarked on losing game, then eventual
armed conf1ict-perhaps in two decades
or so-may be unacceptable. AS Mr. Lovett
has warned, therefore, it is of vital i'm
portance that our friends abroad refuse to
be hoodwinked by the Soviet propaganda
barrage and that the United States, for
Its part, remain cool and clearheaded in
working with them to do what must be
done for recovery and decent peace We
have good cards in our hands-in many
respects far better than the Kremlin's.
If we play them wisely, tomorrows world
will not belong to the totalitarians.