Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-06-25
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JUST ROUTINE TACTICS

The good" Communist is sworn
to lie. Unfortunately, all the liars
are not in Russit, nor even in the
Communist party in this country.
Life would be much more simple
if they were.) However, among our
so-called liberals, and even the fel.
low-travelers there are those who
are waking up to the fact that dis
dain for plain old honesty and in
tegrity is one of the chief charac-
teristics of Communism. know only
one answer to the problem of the
lie, and that is: truth.
If there were only one Communist
in the world folks with truth in
their lives could isolate him easily
enough. But when you admit the
tactics of lying into international
relationships, things begin to get
complicated. 1t is indeed real pro-
lem to deal with nations which
lack moral integrity, and my SYM
pathies go out to our statesmen
who have to meet the Communists
on international issues.
Nothing On Merit
To illustrate. Shortly after Pres
ident Humans message to Congress
on European recovery, the Moscow
radio announced: 1.-THE essence of
the Marshall Plan is war;" Mar
shall, the radio said. was out chiefly
to assist American monopolies.
Marshall was called the eliminate
friend of Wall Street big wigs" 1t
seems that to represent Secretary
of State Marshall as imperialist,
monopolist. oppressor, and warmon-
ger is just routine Communist tao
tics.
Secretary Marshall is not an i'm
perialist and he is not trying to
conduct a program in Europe in
the interest of American mcnopo-
lies, and so on, which fact eeryone
knows. Even the Russians who were
saying those things knew the state
ments were untrue. Their method of
defeating the Marshall Plan at that
time was to misrepresent it. They
didn't dare criticise it on its merits.
See the Methods
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OF course, for the American public.
To the American public this parti-
cular incident was perhaps of little
Importance in itself. However, it is
useful in demonstrating the tactics
used by Communists in America
for several decades. These men
knew at the start it would no. be
easy to undermine the American
day Of life. They realized their best
method was to cause dissension and
friction among the groups in Amer
lea.
The Communists apparently de-
cided that the easiest way to create
this friction would be to set labor
and industry against each other. To
this end they began picking out
American industrialists and calling
them profiteers and capitalists, dis
interested in the welfare of the
worker. They also misrepreserted
the amount of profits. until many
people think industrialists make ten
times the profit actually made.
We can see quickly the absurdity
OF attacks on Secretary Marshall.
But perhaps we have been slower
to see the lies and misrepresenta-
tons used right here in our country
against our own people. Our indus
trialists have worked increasingly,
along with labor, to help raise our
standard of living. Only in America
do the rank and file enjoy cars.
radios, telephones, refrigerators and
hundreds Of other luxuries. Let's
keep our thinking straight, despite
Communist tactics.