Evening star., 1949-12-18
U. S. Bankruptcy Held
To Be Reds Objective
Writer Contends Support of Spending
Is Standard Communist Policy
BY Frank X. Kent


By Frank r. Kent
The greatest need in the United States
today is that its citizens should understand
and accept certain basic facts concerning
our relations with Russia so completely that
there can be no room for debate. The surest
protection for us is in comprehending knowl-
edge our gravest danger is In ignorance and
indifference.
For example, there no longer is any excuse
for non-acceptance of the following: Cd
That the foundation stone of Soviet foreign
policy is the conviction that communism and
capitalism cannot exist in the world to-
gether; that one or the other must perish.
ca That since the war the Soviet govern
ment has had two main purposes which it
has pursued with great vigor-frst, to
weaken the United States economically; Sec
ond, to prepare itself for what 1t believes
inevitable conflict. 1t not only seems i'm
possible to make any agreement with the
Soviet government upon which reliance can
be placed, but it is foolish to hope 1t can
be diverted from its purpose.
The way in which the Soviet government
has worked from the start to wreck the
United Nations and its consistent blocking
of every effort for effective control OF atomic
energy are themselves sufficient to sustain
these charges. But. in addition, there is
abundant testimony from men whose quail
fications to speak are not questioned such
as former Ambassador William c. Bullitt in
his book written three years ago. THE Great
Globe Itself" and former Ambassador
Walter Bedell Smith in his recently pub
lished memoirs.
When the recent meeting of the General
Assembly adjourned with the Soviet repre-
sentative Mr. Vishinsky, departing for
Russia and wishing the United States
happy New Year (after he and his coll
leagues had done everything in their power
to make such a wish ridiculous), it was
clear the United Nations had reached per-
haps its lowest point in feebleness and fu-
tility. In five years. instead of international
peace being a concrete achievement in
world thoroughly sick of war, another and
far worse world conflict is a recognized
possibility, with one of our chief allies in
the last one the potential enemy in the next.
Responsibility for this state of affairs must
be placed squarely upon the Soviet govern
ment. There is no way to avoid 50 doing.
The evidence is overwhelming.
1t is a situation, terribly costly and full
Of peril, to avert which we willingly would
have made any sacrifice short of national
self-respect and security. 1t has had
deeply disturbing effect upon our whole
economy and imposes an immense strain
upon our fiscal foundations. Nor is it made
more bearable by revelations that our po-
tential enemy for years has had spy system
in this country engaged in stealing secret
documents of the State Department and
passing on information affecting our Sc
curity to Moscow. The disclosures made
during recent court trials and committee
hearings have been Of a kind. one would
think, to deeply affect every American
citizen.
Yet, as Gen. Leslie Groves recently pointed
out. large part of the population remains
Indifferent. 1t does seem that the time has
arrived when every thinking man should
look the above facts in the face and appre-
ciate what they mean. Obviously, the real
meaning is that we can't be safe unless we
become too strong for any potential enemy
to attack. Obviously, the way to achieve
peace is to prefare for war; Clearly then.
popular wrath ought to be directed against
any public man, politician labor boss, group
or splinter party leader who by word or deed
moves to weaken the Nation either mill
tarily or economically. No reasonable man
will contend that our military strength is
not directly based on our economic sound
ness. Enfeeble us economically and at once
we are enfeebled militarily. No one knows
this better than the Soviet Republic. 1t
convincingly demonstrated that when early
in the New Deal the Communist Party here
declared itself solidly in it's favor and pleaded
for it's support in the Daily Worker on the
ground that It's trend was toward "our goal"
"Our goal' being avowedly economic coll
lapse for the United States. this was suf-
hcient explanation not only for the con-
sistent Communist support given the Roose-
welt spending policies but for the equally
vigorous support now given to Mr. Trumans
welfare state" with its huge projected ex-
penditures and accelerated pace toward
financial disaster Recent evidence of this
Communist consistency was in the recent
New York campaign when the total Com
munist vote of approximately 100000 was
cast for Mr.. Lehman, the Truman candidate
and welfare state" advocate.
1t seems impossible for any clear-headed
person to review the past Is years without
grasping the extraordinary way in which the,
Communist Party has aided, and still Is
aiding. in pushing this Government along
the perilous road of debt and deficits almost
to the brink of bankruptcy. Not to recog-
nize that this is and has been an unwaver- e
ing Soviet policy is absurd. 1t isn't even
concealed. It is proclaimed in Communist
publications and by Communist speakers. It
is almost incredible they could play this
game for so long and with such complete
immunity. But play 1t they have, and 1t
seems to make us nation of suckers. The
question is-are we going to understand
what has been happening to us, turn around
and go in the other direction away from Sour
goal"? Or are we going to continue cooper
ating in our own destruction?
burghers to have escaped fearful loss. One