The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-09
AN APPRAISAL OF TRUMAN DOCTRINE
By "BILL"

that s3ooooo0o0 and 70 military advisers would suf-
flee.
"The fact is that if two divisions put ashore in
Greece the whole military power of the United States
will have to be committed to support them If two
division not suffice, it will be necessary to send
many more divisions as are needed to accomplish the
purpose for which the two divisions were sent"
SIMILAR STORY I'M CHINA
Elsewhere in the world we find similar results in
the making. We've already poured untold hundreds of
millions of dollars into China in futile attempt
bolstering the corrupt grating Chang Kashek regime
efforts find the 1870 million northern Chinese
steadily increasing their territory and strength; find
nationalist China in the throes of unreguated initiation
and find police state methods being put into effect
that put to shame the horrors of the Spanish in
QUESTION.
speculation can an estimate made to what the
ultimate monetary cost of holding big stick the
rest of the world will be- However, if present policies
are continued we bound find ourselves in
other worldwide holocaust Because of the tremendous
technoogcal advances of the past five years. such
war will only drain off the balance of natural
resources, but will bring death and suffering to most
of our people Our much-praised dignity of the in
divdual will be reegated to the scrap heap we lead
the world back to the dark ages.
OTHER TRENDS, CLOSELY RELATED
1t behooves u.s. and all, to give serious thought
this matter of foreign policy; and in doing,
shouldn't look several other retrogressive trends
of recent and their relationship to the apparent
goal of Americans to set up kind of satism
a world wide basis.
We should consider the implications the socalled
loyalty order, how it applies in acuality, not only
to government employees but to every private employee
who may be at variance with the status quo
We should study the contents of the TaftHartley
relations of 1917 that we may obtain better
understanding of what this act in final analysis,
meant to do by its NAM authors-to wreck the major
unions of the nation Further should compare its
features with similar labor control incorporated
by the nazis and fascists in Germany and ITALY, pre-
liminary to breaking down the bargaining power of
the working classes.
We should follow closely the attempts to undermine
the concerted drive to tax the Co-ops business
and realize that these forces represent but another
spearhead of overall offensive being carried by
the monopolists. Financial groups who want to
use the atomic bomb now-who want to purge with
out benefit of the bill of rights all federal employees
who do not come up to certain specifications
laid down by the justice department-groups who want
to completely ensave the millions of men and women
whose only protection today their trade unions
We should also realize the importance of proposed
universal military training legisation-how it fits in
with the plans of American reactionism-how, in
Of another depression its primary role will that of
'strikebreakng on street in every American
city-how it will become the trained striking force of
American miitarists keep domestic peace should
our government in another depression prove as in
sffectual as did that of Herbert Hoover in early
30s.
All OF these things relative, and must be taken
nto consideration in attempting make an appraisal
If what motvates strong-arm bipartisan foreign
policy only by widespread understanding, followed by
widespread popular opposition hope to return
his nation to the pathway of peace and prosperity and
,rotect our cherished freedoms
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