The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-06-09
Along the Potomac
to Washington
By j. Glenn BeaH

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Events in Berlin and the antics of
Anrdei Vishinsky, the Soviet
foreign minister, at the "big four"
meeting in Paris are convincing
proof to many Americans that lift
ing of the Berlin Blockade did not
presage a change of heart on the part
of Russia's leaders.
To the more realistic Congressman,
who have been stdying and observing
the activities of Russian leaders for
many years, many Americans are al
lowing themselves to be misled into
thinking that it is possible for the
United States to make any kind Of
last agreement with the present
Soviet leaders. Such an attitude is
not pessimistic and it does not neces-
sarily mean that these Congressman
believe war is inevitable.
The point toward which our diplo-
mats and executive leaders should
work, these Congressman believe, is
the overturning of the present re-
gime in Russia through an aroused
popuace in the U.S.S.R. itself. Such
an overtun is not impossible, if the
United States would reveal dramati-
cally to the hundreds of millions of
Russians and Russian dominated
civilian populations, that this nation
will not have anything to do with the
present Soviet leaders.
Through the Voice of America,
through every church missionary, and
through every individual lover of
freedom throughout the world, we
could spread the gospel of freedom
for the Russian masses from the
Soviet rulers who are the taskmasters
of the people. Such a policy might
bring war, but any policy we pursue
possibly could bring war. The Ameri-
can people should learn that when
war with Russia comes, if it ever
comes, it will come when the Soviet
leaders want it, and not second be-
fore.
The present Russian leaders have
proved in a thousand overt acts that
we cannot trust them, no matter
what they say or how sincerely they
say it. They have tricked us again
and again. and they have spies in
every possible place at which they
can place spies.
The better-informed the average
American, the more he agrees with
this. Our danger is that millions of
our citizens will not become informed
and remained informed of the
danger of Communism from within
and without.
The House of Representatives last
week went a long way toward giving
justice to the servicemen of both
World Wars by passing, and sending
to the Senate, legislation to provide
a realistic pension payment for all
our former warriors.
Big point in the debate was over
whether to give the pension to all
veterans, or only to those who could
prove the need for it. Congress voted
overwhelmingly in favor Of giving
the pension to all, for it was empha-
sized in debate that passage Of such
legislation would do away with the
necessity of creating a huge new
bureaucracy to administer the legis-
lation. Besides, as several Congress
men pointed out, all veterans who
reach the age of 60 or IS are unable
to work easily, even if some of them
cannot prove it to a "board" that the
government would have set up under
suggested legislation.
The House of Representatives also
amended the displaced persons legis-
lation, originally passed by the Re-
publican S0th Congress last year to
enable more than 100000 homeless
Europeans to come into the U. S.
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