The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15

cannot consoI;d cunning that 40 y
community. vie Atlantic
By concentrating ~,
on a diplomatic w our efforts
borderlands of the s SSf N Ii.
we have neglected oonst Uaioa
DO not have unlinit psGause We
resources mso influence, and pSnsr
matte brain power-tb snq H. d1pls
terests Of our natural s yi3aI In
western Europe. NOTABLY v'i js il
constructing their econori IN T.
t and in promoting a Ger 3rr'o il! Il.
agree. 'aey Can
The failure of our dir,.
campaign in the bo qtgloTa3
on which we have stSI. land'
much too much, has -' cosin,!a
up the specter of a third yi' sa
war. The threat Of = p,, word
American war, arisino -'r U.S..
the conflict in the bordar Ga,
is dissolving the natursl aa as'
ance of the Atlantic conan aA
For the British, the F Fg5l5a}1n lily
all the other Europeans sa'
that they are placed betn.s Sc
the hammer and the anvil, Tesa
realize, even if we do not r. .ne9
1t, that the policy Of con'. iI'
ment in the hope that the S",1l
power will collapse by trn sns'
ton, cannot be enforced ' Ne!
cannot be administered s sas
cessfully, and that it mus. t :1s
Either Russia will b -s.
through the barriers which @ NJ
supposed to contain her, and ' "
OF Europe will be at her me,s w.
or, at some point and at sos,
time, the diplomatic war Will
become a full scale shoo. S.
war. In either event Eurors !,
lost. Either Europe falls uni.,
the domination of Russia NJ
Europe becomes the battles,s
Of a Russian-American war
Because the policy Of copts,.
ment offers these intolerabla i
ternatives to our old allies, n.
real aim of every European rs
ton, including Great Britain
to extricate itself from the Pr.
sian-American conflict Will.
we have been devoting gu. en-.
ergies to lining up and bolster.
ing up the Chinese Nationalist
the Iranians, the Turks. n.
Greek monarchists and COZ.
servatives, the anti-Soviet Hun.
garians, Romanians, Poles, N. j
natural alignment Of the Bn.
fish, French, Belgians, Dutch,
Swiss and Scand;navians ha,
been weakened.
And so in any prudent est.
} mate of our world position, they
are no longer to be counted
upon as firm members Of %
alition led by the United States
against the Soviet Union. We
must not deceive ourselves b
supposing that we stand al III!
head of a worldwide coalition
of democratic states in OUT con-
flict with the Soviet Union.
The aim of the leading demr
cratic states Of Europe and
probably also of the Americas
is at best to hold the balan"
! of power between Russia and
America, and thus to become
mediators of that conflict Al
worst, their aim is to isolate
themselves in some kind Of
neutrality which will SPAR
them the dual catastrophe Of
being overrun by the FED AIM?
and bombed by the America
. air forces.
J, For they cannot have reaio, !,
able confidence in what Mr. 4
says is sufficient ground u.
reasonable confidence. 1H'
cannot rely on his wishtul pr,
diction which cannot be pnF
} ed" and cannot be dispIoVea
that the Soviet power will Ofta
up or "mellow' when it "a
been frustrated for ten Or d
teen years by unassallao!e d.
riers in such inaccessible
dividual sectors as Mancful4
Mongolia, North China Aig1 d
istan, Iran, Hungary anu ="
mania. c,.,
They remember Mr.. Cns 4,
berlain's efforts to contain
Ter by a guaranty to ,, PTi'4
They remember Mr.. Huls
fort to contain Japan in Ch ~,
They know that a policy Of s q,
tainment does not contain VI u,
measures of "counterforce o. y
doomed to be too late a hYu; A
little, that a policy OF hole ~,
the line and hoping for fng u =.
means the SURRENDER VI
strategic initiative, the clS ~,
sion of our forces Wlth90. ~, 4,
spect of a decision ana ! '' vi.
ment, and in the end a ~
which, once begun. II U
most difficult to concluoe.
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