The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Those who are charged with the responsibility of
creating and administering foreign policy always faced
with grim mponderabes the Soviet Union 50 determl
ed to get what she wants the world that she will go to war
other echnques of aggression and expansion fall No one
obviously provide denitive yet The arc
of gobal policy in Washington less than the on
the in the troubled regions of the world must pro
ceed on assumptions ana theories whch may or may not prove
to be correct.
The argument over just how far Russia will go has
facets There is school, and is probably still in
majority this country holds she will stop short of
this time because of many internal weaknesses
There is another school which has doubt this Time
and Tide an influential London weekly recently said that
the Soviet leaders are determined have what they want
by almost any means, and perhaps by MEANS David
Dallin weknown authority present day Russia has
written in the New Leader that he Kremn no longer
questions the conclusion that is bound to comef not
the much discussed book Behind the Curtain now
says that war not only inevitable but has actually begun
SO we have two extremes those who convinced
that she will and possibly Then there is another
school which frankly that doesn't know whether she
viii or not but has program which 1t believes must pc
Henry Hatt accurately presented that schools point OF
the cold with Russia is that have remained purely
the defensive Paradoxica may some our
only nope now OF preventing shooting war to seize the
military guarantees to the Western European union Must
support China in it fight against the communists economic
Stains weak spots. And must embark upon positive
and propaganda campaign of our own not mere
y political disputes but the unworkabty and slavery
Of communism and the freedom and productivity under
capitalism,
That is a farreaching program indeed and, at least
40 far as basic idea is concerned, is finding and
more adherents Its first phase-mtary alliances with
European nationswould mark almost revolutionary de-
parture for the United States But there is to
believe that may comethat the next president will ask
for and that the Senate will reluctantly agree. And the
second phaseusng all the instruments of propaganda to-
point up virtues of capitalism and the vices of
munismshoud in the view of many, have been followed
long ago.
One criticism of our European rehabilitation program
is that in is being used to shore reaction
airy lefsh governments whose methods of keeping in
aren't much different from those of the communists
Another is that have failed to put best foot forward
in the theological battle of words and the communists and
their bedeows have had much the best of the racas AT
times it appears have failed to make clear where the
goods came FROM and the Russians successfully claimed
dit for relief supplies that originated in the u S. and
paid for shipped and distributed by the United States And
of the State Departments Voce of America broad
casts certainly impression this country that
far from favorable.
The whole matter is tcklish of course The Russian
procedure of telling country precisely what kind of