Evening star., 1948-05-09

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The chief mistake made by these
political leaders was in creditlng |
the Kremlin dictators with western
rather than an Asiastic mentality.
They all thought that the vast
reconstruction program which faced
the rulers of the U. S. S. r. would
take precedence over the ambition
to establish Communist domination,
throughout the world.
Stain Fooled Them All
Prime Minister Stain and his
henchmen fooled them all. The
chance of striking at time when
the rest of the world was war
weary and eager for peace gripped
the minds of the goth century Tam
erlanes.
Within 1S months after the
ase-fire was sounded in Europe
and Asia the U. S. S. r. started its
drive for conquest. One after an
other the nations of Eastern Europe
fell under Kremlin domination.
Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Czechoslovakia dropped easily into
the laps of the Russian dictators.
Peace with Germany was sabotaged,
while in the Far East-under the
benevolent eyes of the American
Observation-Disclosures and Korea
have reached the brink Of becom-
ing Soviet states. Japan alone was
exempt from this pressure because
Gen. Macarthur prevented U. s.
S. r. interference, despite several
attempts at appeasement on Wash
ington's part.
1t was not until March, 1947. that
the American Government began
to think about policy of less ap-
peasement. There is an inescapable
parallel between our policy since
then and that of the British gov
ernment after Hitler reneged on
his Munich pledge that with the
cession of the Sudetenland his de-
mands in Europe we're satisfied. He
took over the rest of Czechoslovakia
in March, 1899.
When it became evident to the
most enthusiastic wishful thinkers
that the Soviet was driving to take
over Greece and establish herself
in the Eastern Mediterranean,
President Truman announced his
stop Russia" policy on March II,
1947. He decided to give full eco
nomics and military support to
Greece and Turkey. Nine months
later he pledged the same support
to Italy.
Difference Between Periods
After Hitler entered Prague in
March, 1889, Prime Minister Cham
berlain had made a similar pledge
He promised Britain's full support
to Poland, Greece and Romania,
which then were considered the
immediate targets of Hitlers i'm
perialism.
Within eight years the two great
English-speaking nations promised
to defend weak countries which lay
in the path of two totalitarian hur-
ricanes and neither proceeded to
the full-scale rearmament that
such promises demanded.
The great difference between the
two periods is that while the sub
versive agitation of the Hitler to-
talitarianism was nominal in 1898,
since only few crackpots in the
western world followed the Fuehrer,
the Soviet operates gigantic sub
versive machinery, with its ten
tacles deep in Europe and both
North and South America.
Soviet imperialism is cloaked in
Marxism, an theology which appeals
to many liberals. The Soviet gov
ernment has taken advantage of the
fact that for four years it was the
associate of the western powers in
the war against Hitler. 1t was then
able to conduct its subversive activ-
tiles freely among the American
people.
1t was able to place its stooges in
the top branches of our Government
to the point where Moscow prob
ably knew every one of our military
secrets. With its freedom of propa-
ganda, communism penetrated into
many intellectual, labor and reli-
gious organizations. which refused
and some still refuse today-to see
that stark totalitarianism of the
Asiatic type underlay the veneer of
Marxism. The Kremlin operates
today through some of these still
powerful organizations to prevent
full-scale rearmament in America
Source of Criticism
Although in the last year we have
had no suggestion from Moscow that
we should sit down and iron out
the differences which are leading us
to another war, many voices are
raised in the United States in crit
icism of the "jingoistic" policy of
the Government and of President
Truman's refusal to 60 to Russia
and talk things over with Stain"
This criticism is made as if Russia's
tremendous territorial expansion
had not been the result of the secret
agreements reached at Teheran,
Yalta and Potsdam in conversations
between our wartime Chief Exec
utive and the willy Prime Minister
Stain.
1t is these groups-Communist in
filtrated-which are protesting vio-
lently against the Governments
program of creating Z new divi-
sions to give us 16 divisions against
Russia's 260. The interminable dis
cussion of whether we should have
66 or 70 air groups-which under
present peacetime conditions cannot
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