Evening star., 1948-08-24
The Political Mil -
Dulles Has No Illusions
On Red Threat to Peuce
Contends Violence and Coercion Are
Methods of Communism
By Gould LincoIn

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John Foster Dulles, who frequently has been
assigned the ONCE OF Secretary Of State in a
Dewey cabinet by political prophets speaking
to the First Assembly Of the World Council Of
Churches in Amsterdam, proposed q great
sharpening Of Christian influence on the side
of moral law" II there Is to be q halt in the
"cycle Of recurrent war" in the opinion of
Mr. Dulles. this is the most effective means.
Mr.. Dulles, who for years has been a close
friend and adviser OF Gov. Dewey of New
York and who was selected by Gov. Dewey in
the late summer of 1914 to confer with Secre-
tary of State Hull at the time Of the Dumbarton
Oaks meetings, has no illusions regarding the
threat to world peace arising out of the atti-
tude and purposes of the Soviet Communist
regime in Russia. He does not, however.
despair of peace.
Mr.. Dulles comments on MARKHAM commu-
nisn, as practiced in Russia and her satellites.
60 to the core of the problem OF peace today.
MARKHAM communism is atheistic and ma
terialistic," he says Its leaders reject the con-
cept Of moral law. There is, says Stain, no
such thing as eternal justice; laws are merely
the means whereby those in power carry out
their will. and human beings have no rights
that are God-given and therefore not subject
to be taken away by man.
Not Regime Of Peace.
SO, while some good things have been done
for the proletariat, both theory and practice
involve coercing, terrorizing and liquidating
those whose reason and conscience compel them
to reject the order sought to be imposed"
Mr.. Dulles points out there are some SINH
larities between the social and economic ends
that Communists profess and Christians seek.
But" he adds, "the methods taught are utterly
dissimilar and the present methods OF com
munism are incompatible with peaceful change"
Most significantly Mr.. Dulles points out the
Soviet regime is not a regime Of peace. And
indeed, it does not purport to be" he says. 1T
may not, and hope that it does not, want
international war. But II 50, that is Q matter
Of expediency not of principle" Mr. Dulles
might have said, If he had a mind to, that
Russia still hesitates to make war because 'of
its lack Of the atomic bomb He contends that
violence and coercion are the accepted methods
Of the Communists-"class war being, however,
usually preferred to national war"
He refers to the frequent and violent "purges"
which have taken place within Russia and its
allied Communist states to prove his point that
Communists teach there is no peaceful path
of development The recent Cominform indict-
ment Of the Communist Party in Yugoslavia
charged as q grevous offense that that party
believed there could be a peaceful growth" OF
communism in relation to capitalism. The true
doctrine OF the Communists, he comments. n
that there must be lever sharpening conflict"
Control 1s Countries.
The enormity of the problem arising from
this attitude Of the Communists Is evident
Communist parties control government in Is
countries, Dulles points out, and through them
rule nearly one quarter Of the worlds popula-
ton. "Their leadership" he says, "is dynamic
and 1t has worldwide ambitions That of it.
self makes it impossible to create at once, .
universal organization Of peace through law.
and 1t confronts those who seek peace with q
difficult problem"
Mr.. Dulles rejects fatty any suggestion that
the problem can be solved by abandoning those
faiths which clash with the Communist creed.
on the ground 1t would be morally unthink-
able" and practically impossible
He rejects, too the idea that the problem
can be solved by trying to crush communism
by force. Collective action may, at times. be
required pursuant to the United Nations
Charter, to protect member states or individual
human beings in their charter rights. But II
would be wrong and stupid to use violence In
order to convince people that violence ought
not to be used"
Mr.. Dulles has been and Is an ardent sup
porter of the United Nations and he may be
counted upon to do all in his power to make 1t
an effective agency of peace with justice" for
the world should he become Secretary Of
State