Evening star., 1948-08-22

american COVefIlmeIlt UclleVcQ Ludt
the men in the Kremlin. suspicious
Of the intentions of the other great
powers, could be convinced that it
was to their interest to have world
at peace.
In order to ally the suspicious of
the men in the Politburo we made
such broad concessions to the
Soviet that the objectives for which
the western world went to wal
against the Axis were completely
overlooked.
Gave Stain Green Light
What We refused to Hitler and
his gang we conceded to Prime
Minister Stain and his associates
We gave him a green light to take
over not only most of the Balkan
countries, but also Poland and
Czechoslovakia. We permitted him
to extend the boundaries Of the
Soviet empire from the Baltic, the
Adriatic and the Black Seas in Eu-
rope to the Yangtze River In the
Far East,
The Axis would not have gone
to war and created the present
chaos which rules the world, If we
had agreed to even 4 less extensive
expansion than the Russians al
ready have obtained by agreement
from us.
Unfortunately our willingness to
concede-and the American Gov
erment has spearheaded this ap-
peasement policy-has not satisfied
the appetite OF the Politburo. Dur
ing the war the men who con-
Quoted our foreign policies outside
of the public gaze were convinced
that it would pay dividends for us
to abandon the nations for whose
liberty and territorial integrity we
had been fighting, because we
would enter on a long period of
peace.
These men persuaded themselves
that Russia had abandoned her
policy of world revolution and they
accepted as gospel truth the lip serv.
Ice which Mr.. Stain and his stooges
In the democratic nations paid te
the idea of lasting peace. Commu-
nism .and capitalism, it was said
could live side by side.
vs. When the Comintern-the inter
revolutionary headquarter,
in Moscow-was dissolved on the
order of the Soviet dictator himself
we accepted that gesture at face
value and spread throughout the
world the idea that Russia had
abandoned its plans for the destruc-
tion of the democratic capitalist
fabric in the west.
Policy Abandoned
The few who suspected this Rus
sian move to be a mere gesture, de-
signed to lull us into a false feeling
OF security. were denounced as
stooges Of the Nazi propagandist,
Paul Joseph Goebbels. Our leaders
chose to overlook the fact that, al
though we had opened all our books
to Soviet officials in this country
and Western Europe, the Kremlin
kept us in ignorance of everything
they were doing. Our high officials
were treated as "honored prisoners"
in Sovietland.
Top American policy-framess in
the White House and State Depart
ment refused to draw the inevitable
conclusions from Moscow's suspi-
cious actions and ascribed them to
the diffidence of government
which we had blackballed for many
years after it rose to power ir
Russia.
The policy of treating the Soviet
Union as spoiled child, whom we
should humor, not antagonize, wa.
abandoned 18 months ago, princi-
pally because the American public
became aware that the course pur-
sued by its Government might bring
serious peril to the American way
of life.
The alleged toughness displayed
by our Government was not particu-
larly skillful or well thought out. AL
though we were aware that Russia
maintained a tremendous military
force, with which 1t was able to