Evening star., 1950-10-22


swing.
All the Russian leaders, from
Stain down, at one time or an
other have stated that only tn,
collapse of the American economic
structure will enable the U. S. S. r
to achieve its plans for work.
domination.
The Politburo believes now tina
this economic collapse cannot b,
very far off. 1t is this belief alon'
which prevents Russia from un
leashing now a shooting war il
which her military power woule
be engaged. The Russian patterr
of weakening the United States b!
attrition is obvious. 1t applies po'
litical pressure in Western Europt
in what is commonly known a.
the cold war-which forces us tt
pour out tens Of billions Of dollar.
in cash and raw and manufac.
tured materials to Western Euro
pean nations. At the same time
it uses military aggression by ont
of its satellites in a shooting wal
in the Far East.
The North Korean aggression
Is about to end in disaster for tht
aggressors. Tens Of thousands o.
Russia's puppets have been killed
and the country devastated. The
o. q. 8. r. has lost nothing. But
we have suffered heavily in Ameri.
can casualties and billions Of dol.
lars already have been spent, OF
are about to be spent. on the re-
construction of that country.
The second "push-button war
now is on the way in Indo-China
The French are not capable Of
defending themselves and are call
ing steadily for greater American
help. So far we are engaged only
in providing them with military
equipment amounting to some
5000 million-a mere trifle com.
pared to the billions which mus
be spent this year and next on oul
Western European Allies.
Billions Go Abroad
There is no saying, however
what will happen if the French
government presents the Indo-
Chinese case to the United Ma
tions and shows that the campaign
is inspired and abetted by the
Chinese Communists. behind
whom stands Moscow.
Although the Government in
Washington is opposed. at this
time, to sending American troops
to Indo-C China, its present stand
could be reversed by a decision of
the U. N. to give us another man
date to re-establish law and order
In Indo-China.
The Russian plan of attrition
against America is we'll on its
way. Since the end of World War
II we have spent unbelievable
amounts of wealth to bring the
world back to ''normalcy." Imme-
diately after the war we spent
some 81 billion in all kinds of re-
covery projects, including UNRRA.
Then we proceeded to a large
scale plan by adopting Gen. Mar
shalls recovery program.
Although the Government was
engaged, between 1912 and 1947,
in political appeasement of Russia,
the State Department had de-
cided, even before We day, to
use economic assistance to pre-
vent Communist theology from
making inroads in Europe and
Asia. We proceeded on the theory
that communism thrives on hun
ger, which in turn causes unrest
and revolutions.
American legislators were per-
suaded to appropriate billions OF
dollars to alleviate. through an
international organization known
as UNRRA, the inevitable eco
nomic difficulties Of the world out
side of the American hemisphere
Directors Denounced
1t is true that, on paper, the
other members of the coalition
which defeated the Axis were sup
posed to participate in this gooo
Samaritan work. Actually, the
United States provided more than
80 per cent of the billions spent
on relief for the hungry world.
This was followed within the
next 20 months by the Marshal
Plan. which was to prevent the
penetration of the Communists
virus into Western Europe. Ir
three years the American tax
payers provided some SIS billion
Tor that purpose. in addition te
a "loan"-which will never be re-
paid-of $3,750,OO0,0o0 to the
British Labor government to en-
able it to put into effect its in
dustrial naturalization policies.
We were going through an era
OF apparent prosperity, and the
dance of the billions did not ap-
pear too important to the rank
and file of American people.
A few far-sighted lawmaker.
saw a real danger in these ex.
travagant handouts. Their OBJ.
jections were drowned out, with.
out trouble. The powerful Gov.
eminent propaganda machine
which has been developed since
1889, denounced them as isola.
tionists and thus endangered theil
political existence.
They were denounced as favor.
ing the Communist conquest O
Europe by default. High-rankin,
administration officials, newspa
permen and radio commentator
produced tangible proofs" tha
France and Italy, the pivots O
Western resistance to Russia
drive, would become Communis
satellites unless American billion
made their peoples happy ant