The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-26

Ian 1ON1SO teStAS VII III
weapons, as MI. Gromyko devel-
oped it at the Russian-American
Institute, is to place this country
between the horns of a dilemma.
His government proposes an i'm
mediate treaty prohibiting the
manufacture, possession a n d use
of atomic weapons.
If we accept such a treaty now,
we shall have disarmed ourselves
of the weapons in which we have
superiority over the Soviet Union.
The result would be, of course, tc
increase decisively the military
superiority of the Red Army
throughout Europe and Asia. Il
we do not agree to prohibit these
fearful weapons. then we are to be
impaled upon the other horn OF
the dilemma. We can then be
pilloried as selfishly and cruelty
hugging a monopoly of a weapon
for the mass destruction of "all
pe%ace-loving peoples"
Thus, as Mr.. Gromyko has de-
veloped the argument, we must
choose between being fools and
being knaves, between agreeing,
on the one hand, that the Red
Army shall be an invinclble anc
irresistible power behind the pur-
poses of the Soviet Union, and on
the other, that we are a brutal.
inhuman power bent on terror
ling and dominating mankind.
It must be admitted that we
have laid ourselves open to this
ingenious attack by u failure to
insist upon a general settlement
of the war. By separating the
problem into separate compart-
ments, we produced the situation
which Mr.. Gromyko is now ex-
plotting so shrewdly and persist
emily. We agreed to separate the
eastern European problem from
the German and the European.
We agreed to separate general
disarmament from the general
settlement. And we insisted on
separating atomic weapons from
general disarmament and from the
general settlement, and to deal
with Mr.. Baruch as potentate and
prima donna.
Mr.. Gromyko has taken full ad-
vantage of all this. For in order to
him truthfully and effec-
we have to recover the
positions which we abandoned.
We have to be able to say why
will not now outlaw the use OF
atomic weapons. 1t is because
these weapons of mass destruction
are the principal check upon the
Red Army, which is the most for
midable instrument of mass domI-
nation in Europe and Asia. We
have to be able to say tina
atomic weapons must be CONSIDER
ed along with all instruments Oh
power, including the Red Army
and that when the Soviet govern
ment comes forward with propo-
sails for the evacuation Of Europe
the disqualification Of the. Keo
Army on the frontiers OF nelgn-
boring states. and with offers TO
$ tile its claims upon nelghoofl,ls
states. real agreements may ne
possible.
The Soviet government will say
that though our monopoly OF
atomic weapons is temporary, we
are using this temporary monop-
DIV to exert pressure in the settle
ment of the war. The best answer
to this is to say that that is exact
" what we are doing and NEAR
to do-and that, in view OF the
fact that there is no other null
tary check upon the Red Army
If is a sensible, civilized, and
wholly necessary thing for US to
do.
If Mr.. Gromyko comes back and
saws the atomic bomb is an in
human weapon, and that We are
irving to intimidate the peace
loving people of Russia, the an
swer is that Mr.. Gromyko and the
Kremlin cannot argue IN one
breath that they are being intlrnl-
dated and in the next that they
cannot be inundated.
AS a matter of fact, they have
taken a perfectly accurate meas
r of the atomic bomb. Ihey
know we shall not use it against
them unless they do what they do
not intend to do-to preclpltate .
general war. They r not intiml-
dated. They continue to oppose us
almost everywhere. They are IN
no danger, and they know they
are in no danger Of being attacked
by the United States.
But though we are not intiml-
dating them Or dominating tnem'
we are checking and restraining
them. They do not like that, ana
they would like to disarm us OF
the weapons which do check and
restrain them. If they cannot dis
arm us of these weapons, then
they would like to- build up
throughout the worldaa moral dis
approval which would in some
measure neutralize the political