Evening star., 1950-04-23

COW are criminals. It puts such
people behind bars or it puts them
to death.
Now this threat of Soviet COM
munism would be serious enough
if it we're just the old idea of
tyranny that was challenging our
idea of freedom. 1t Is that. but
it is infinitely more than that.
This fanatical doctrine domi-
mates one of the great states in
this world, a state which, with its
satellites. controls the lives of
hundreds of millions of people,
and which today possesses the
largest military establishment In
existence.
That would be serious enough.
But it is even more serious than
that, because those who hold and
practice this doctrine pick out our
country as the principal target
of their attack. From their point
Of view they pick it out rightly. 1t
is our country. with its belief in
freedom and tolerance. its great
productive power, it's tremendous
vitality. which stands between the
Kremlin and dominion over the
entire world. We must not forget
that it is we, the American people,
who have been picked out as the
principal target of the Soviet
Communists.
Resort to Many Tricks.
Added to all this is the fact
that these people use the great
resources of modern science, par
ticularly those that have to do
with an understanding of the hui
man mind. to pervert the human
mind. They resort to every trick.
TO every insidious and brutal de-
vice to destroy what we thing is
essential-the self-respect of the
individual, the integrity of his
mind and spirit.
What do we mean when we say
that our country is the principal
target of Soviet communism? We
mean that the Soviet authorities
would use, and gladly use, any
means at their command to weak
en- and to harm us. Although they
have net thought it wise to use
military force against us, they
are trying other methods. One
method is the attempt to confuse
and divide the American people.
If the United States can be con-
fused and divided; if it can be
made to doubt the desirability of
helping other free nations; if it
can be brought to doubt the
desirability of maintaining its
own defenses; if we cease to be
and resolute; if we can
be brought to doubt one another
then we will be softened up.
Then we will be too weak to stand
up to Communist thrusts in other
parts of the world, and too di-
vided and confused to stand up
to Communist inf1ltration at
home. To create that situation
is one of the main objectives of
the people in the Kremlin. =.
They have another objective,
which is to pick off members of
the free community of nations
one by one. They do that partly
to add to their power. But they
have another important purpose
and that is to build up the idea
that Communism is inevitable,
that it is the wave of the fu-
ture."
They believe that that gives
other countries a sense of fright
and hopelessness. They think
that If they can spread this idea
of Communist world closing in
on us, then we will begin to get
ratified. and some people will move
in one direction and others will
move in another direction, and
the United States will be torn
apart.
The men in the Kremlin have
another clear objective, and that
is to change the balance of pro-
ductive power in the world. At
present. that balance is very
strongly against them, but that
would not be so if they could get
control in Western Europe and
in Japan.
So I say to you-make no mis-
take about it: We are faced with
a challenge and a threat to the
very basis of our civilization and
to the very safety of the free
world, the only kind of world in
which fhat riyili1o tioy nom ovicf