The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-01-17
PEACE DEPENDS ON STAIN


STA, upon world affairs are important be-
cause he happens to control the destinies
of large country which has preponderant
military force in two continents.
The State Department has had re-
sponsble students make a serious study of
the words and writings of Stain, using
months of reading, comparing and analyz-
ing everything Stain has said in his years
as revolutonist and Communist leader.
George Morgan, who made one study,
confined himself to actual statements
and comes up with the conclusion that the
overwhelming burden of Stalin's state
ments through the years indicates he is
convinced that clash between the Com
munist world led by Russia, and the nom
Communist world, led by the United
States, is inevitable.
There are times when Stain has been
somewhat in conflict with his preponder-
ant viewpoint, but these are explained
by the author as statements made for tao
teal reasons. They are daily contradcted,
he points out, by what is taught and
preached in the Soviet school as the writ
ings and sayings of the Premier
The Soviet Premier seems to be con-
vinced that the world is divided, with
Moscow the Socialist center" and Wash
mgtOn the capitalist center" He thinks
that the two centers will struggle for pos
session of the world economy and that the
contest will decide the fate of Capitalism
and Communism. More definitely, Stain
believes that the United States is the CEN
ter around which the capitalist system
will form the final war to the death be-
tween the two systems.
The conclusions reached by the
American official are not sensational be-
cause majority of Americans have al
ready accepted this viewpoint. Even so,
the possibility of peace in the future con-
tinues to exist because the Russian leader
may be convinced, by his experience in
the future, that such war is not only
avoidable but unnecessary. If Mr.. Stain
cannot reach this conclusion, it is difficult
to see any way in which titantic struggle
can be prevented.
1t should be obvious to all Americans
that Premier Stain, if his viewpoint is
correctly reported, will keep close eye
on events, watching favorable oppor-
tunity for decisive action. Naturally, if
Stain regards war as inevitable, he will
be anxious for Russia to win and will,
therefore, be tempted to use his military
might if convinced that success is to be
reasonably expected. This means that
division among the Democracies or dis
tress in the United States could become
the determining factors in his calculations.
The balance that exists. between the
war potential of the two centers that
Mr.. Stain describes is largely the product
of American power. 1t should not be
| overlooked that we are separated from
Europe and Asia by immense distances
| and that our military might is not avail
| able for immediate action in any great
| strength in any area on the two CONT
| nents. Nevertheless, the Russians know
what the United States accomplished in
the last war and nobody is better inform
ed than Mr. Stain himself. It may be
that he has no idea of inviting present
test, regardless of any immediate arms
| superiority.
| Nor is there occasion to overlook the
recent statement of Mr. Winston Church
| i'll, who asserted that only the possession
of the atomic bomb by the United States
stops the march of Stains army through
| out Europe. The small force of Ameri-
can troops in Germany, for example, is
backed not only by the vast potential mil
itary power of this country, in the form
| of industries and manpower, but by the
most devastating weapon of destruction
yet discovered. 1t may we'll be that the
bomb forces a pause in the development
of aggressive designs by the Soviet rulers.