Evening star., 1950-06-11

vided us with the assurance of
a permanent peace.
The reason is clear. In the five
years that have passed since the
end Of the war, we have been con-
fronted with a new. powerful i'm
perialism. We had hoped that our
wartime ally. the Soviet Union,
would join in the efforts of the
whole community of nations to
build a peaceful world. Instead,
the Soviet leaders have been an
obstacle to peace.
Soviet Seeks Expansion.
BY means of infiltration. sub
version, propaganda and indirect
aggression the rulers of the Soviet
Union have sought to. extend the
boundaries of their totalitarian
control.
With a cynical disregard for
the hopes of mankind. the leaders
of the Soviet Union have talked
of democracy - but have set up
relationships. They have pro-
claimed national Independence
but imposed national slavery.
They have preached peace-but
devoted their energies to foment-
ing aggression and preparing for
war.
The result of these tactics has
been to spur the free nations on
to greater cooperation and more
vigorous efforts for the improve
ment and the defense of their own
institutions. These efforts have
been without parallel in history
Five years ago. we would not have
dreamed that such joint efforts
as the European recovery pro-
gram or the Atlantic defense
program were possible in time of
peace. Measures of even closer
cooperation are now being
planned and set up.
We have made good progress
so far. Because of this progress,
we are confident that we can
establish the conditions necessary
to a genuine peace. We know
that the free world has both the
will and the means to insure its
own survival But I would like
to emphasize the difference be-
tween confidence and compla-
cency. We cannot be complacent.
Our ultimate success depends on
sustained further effort. We have
joined with other nations in es-
tablishing a new and stronger
kind of international association
than we have known before. But
there is a long road ahead.
Some Want U. S. to Quit.
There are. of course, some peo-
pie who are urging us to pull out
Of these joint efforts to achieve a
lasting peace for the world. They
point to the difficulties we have
already experienced and the long
road that lies ahead. They want
us to reverse our foreign policy,
withdraw from our cooperation
with other nations and retire be-
hind our own defenses.
These people are known as iso-
lationists. They are dangerous
not only to the cause of world
peace. but also to our national Sc
curity.
The isolatiosists take an upside
down view of our affairs. They
want ussto stop giving aid to free
nations that are able and willing
to make good use of our help.
They ask us to give up in the
very places where we are succeed
ing. They say that cooperation
with friendly nations is too ex-
pensive-but they forget how
much more expensive it would be
to abandon our allies to the ag-
gressor and try to defend ourselves
alone.
Peace costs too much, they say.
But their policy would permit free
nations everywhere to be swal-
lowed up one by one, and would
leave the United States alone as
the sole defender of freedom.
Isolationism Road to War.
1solationiSm is the road to war.
Worse than that. isolationism is
the road to defeat in war.
The people who are striving to
destroy our foreign aid programs
and our programs for the COM
mon defense of the free nations,
are striking at our own national
security. They may not mean to
do us harm, but they are as dan
gerous to our future as those who
deliberately plot against our free
dom.
Most Of the American people
know this. Most of us have en-
listed in the struggle for world
peace "for the duration" We
are not thinking of deserting.
What we want to know is what
progress we are now making in
the struggle for peace and what