Evening star., 1948-10-17


determined and ruthless enemy
Who ever since the end of the war
Military action is needed, in filrther-
ance Of its ambitions.
This enemy not only possesses far
greater military strength than the
combined Western powers. but also
is using to far better advantge than
Hitler and Mussolini ever did the
strategy of the Trojan horse in
every country which may be q
potential victim.
Soviet Agents Everywhere
While we continue our efforts to
penetrate the iron curtain with
words of peace and friendship and
with our ideas of individual free
dom, the Kremlin maintains
powerful group of henchmen in
every western country, including
the Latin American nations. These
underlings either are stirring up
social unrest or waging a relentless
war of words against constitutional
forms of government.
Communist politicians - actual
hirelings of Moscow or men with
personal ambitions and confused
minds who work under the protec-
ton of democratic constitutions
are extolling to the masses the
blessings of Marxist feminist doc
trines and, supported by large
amounts of cash from Moscow, are
fighting the free institutions of the
democracies.
Many naive and we'll meaning
souls, particularly in this country,
are still urging the Government to
reply to Moscow in kind by means
Of radio propaganda and by sending
planes to drop millions of pamphlets
to the Russian people, warning them
against the fate to which their
dictators are leading with their
warmongering.
The idea seems all right on pa
per, but unfortunately it cannot
be carried out. Russian interfer-
ence with our broadcasts is so great
that they do not reach any sub
stantial part of the Russian people.
The Kremlin also has taken good
care to see that its people are propa-
gandized day and night through
loudspeakers in every village, build
ing up hatred against the free capi7
talistic and socialistic nations.
1t is also pipe dream to hope to
send planes to lombard the U. s.
IS. r. with leaflets extolling the ad-
vantages of peace and freedom
rather than with the atomic bomb.
No foreign planes are permitted to
fly over Russia, and any attempt to
send such planes would result in
their destruction.
Seem to Fear Nothing
The relationship between the So
Wet Communist leaders and the
west has been summed up by our
diplomatic and political specialists
In the words: stop 'em or join
EN-"
The men in the Politburo, who
hold in their hands the fate of
western civilization as we'll as the
existence Of Russia, follow a de-
termined policy. and there is very
little likelihood that they will swerve
from it so long as they know that
the initiative Is in their hands and
that the U. S. S. r. has a definite
immediate military advantage over
the unprepared western powers.
Regardless of what may be said
optimisticaly in official quarters, it
is hard to detect any fear in the
souls Of the men in the Kremlin.
Even the fear of the atomic bomb,
which is the only ace we have up
our sleeves, probably is exaggerated.
The use of the atomic bomb re-
quires very long-range plans Of
the B-29 and B-36 types, of which
we have today only a limited num-
ber. According to creditable reports,
the Russians have very large
number of fighter planes, which
would make it extremely difficult
for our bombers to penetrate the
vast eXpanse of Soviet territory.
We, on the other hand, are follow
ing shaky and uncertain policy,
which is influenced not by what our
leaders think actually should be
done to stop the Asiatic menace, but
by number of matters of political
expediency.
President Truman's recent spec
tacular plan to send Chief Justice
Vinson to Moscow to talk to Prime
Minister Stain is a typical exam
pie of the currents which even today
run through the minds of those who
think in terms Of catching a few
electoral votes,
Stain as Bad as the Rest
The one-time appeasement-mind-
ed State Department and the more
realistic thinkers in our Defense Es-
tablishment have finally reached
the conclusion that Mr.. Stain is as
bad as the rest of the Politburo. The
way he double-crossed Ambassador
Walter Bedell Smith in his conver-
sations on the the Berlin crisis
proved this to the most enthusiastic
appeasers. Thus, the Presidents ad-
visers kept the plan involving Mr..
vinson deep secret from those who
have to implement our foreign pol
lcieS.
The policies which Secretary OF
State Marshall now is pursuing in
Paris are those which President
Truman Endorsed after a number Of