The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-11-04
Outlook For Peace

Those who are charged with the responsibility of
creating and administering foreign policy always faced
with one grim imponderabes the Soviet determin
get the world that she Will go TO war
if other technques of and expansion fa No
obviously provide defnitive yet The arch
fects goba policy Washington less than the on
the ground in the troubled regions of the world pro-
coed assumptions and theories which or may not prove
to be correct
The argument just how far Russia will go has
many facets There school, and it is probably still IN
majority in this country that holds she will stop short OF
at this time because OF her many internal weaknesses
There another school which has to doubt this Time
and Tide influential London weekly, recently said that
the Soviet leaders determined to have what they want
by almost any and perhaps by means David j.
Daln wei-known authority on present day Russia, has
written in the New Leader that 1.-THE Kremln longer
questions the conclusion that is bound to come not
tomorrow then the day after George Moorad author of
the much discussed book, Behind the Iron Curtain now
says that only inevitable but has actually begun
So have two extremes-those who convinced
Russia will not fight and those who are equally convinced
that she will and possibly very soon Then there is another
school which says frankly that doesn't know whether she
will not but has program which it believes must pc
followed regardless of the outcome Writing in Newsweek
Henry Hazt accurately presented that schools point Oh
view these words 1.-THE chief have been losing
the cold with Russia is that we have remained purely
on the defensive Paradoxca as it may seem to some our
only hope OF preventing shooting war is to seize the
offensive in the cold war We must offer unequi N
support China in it fight against the communists economic
Stains weak spots And must embark upon positive
and relentless propaganda campaign OF our own not mere
~ on political disputes but on the unworkaoy ana slavery
of communism and the freedom and productivity under
capitalism.
That is far-reaching program indeed, and, at least
its basic idea concerned it finding more and
more adheTents. It's first phaSemltary alliances with
European natons-woud mark almost revolutionary de-
parre the United States But there to
believe that it may comehat the next president VIII ask
for and that the Senate will reluctantly agree And the
second all the instruments OF propaganda to
polnC up of capitalism and the vices OF COM
Enthusiastically in the view of many have been followed
long ago.
One criticism of European rehabilitation program
is that is being used to shore reaction
airy or leIsh governments whose methods OF keeping IN
power aren't much different from those of the communists
Another is that failed put best foot forward
their bedeow have had much the best of the facas At
times appears have failed to make clear where tne
goods and the Russians successfully claimed Gre
dit for relief supplies that originated the u S. and
paid for shipped distributed by the United States AND
some of the State Departments Voce OF America broad
certainly impression of this country that was
far from favorable.
The whole matter is tcklish of course. The RUSSIAN
procedure of telling country precisely what knu Oh
government have and backjacking it into accep
tance necessary doesn't be with American ideas ANA
propaganda which obviously exaggerated would oac
fire The goal is to find effective and appealing way 10
failure or inability to present that case in Mr. HazIt
state the for free and Tree economy Ou
opinion, lis the real weakness of the West
In any event, it looks if American policy may be
u upon three related oundationsfirs far greater 1rn
ness than shown in the past; second, STEADY
strengthening military forces third an effort TO give
fine bewdered peoples of the world real picture OF what
the free society offers.