Evening star., 1950-12-24
By Edmund A. Welsh, S. J.
Vice President, Georgetown University
Regent, School of Foreign Service

PROBABLY Lne mOSC amazing ana confused
chapter in the history of American foreign
policy. The official description and recog-
milton of the objectives of world COM
munism by the presidential decree put
the issue, at long last, exactly where it
belongs. The final conformation has
been reached between the two great CEN
ters of world power whose basic and
irreconcilable character was frankly
described by Soviet authorities many years
ago. They never had moments doubt
as to the inevitable clash that must ensue.
Lenin knew it and warned his fol-
lowers:
eve liUe not only in, state but
system of states, and the existence OF
the Souiet Republic side By side 10tth the
imperialist states Ge, non Communist
states) for long time is unthtnkable.
In the end either one or the other aUtll
conquer And until that end comes,
series of the most terrible collisions be-
t,Deei, the Soviet Republic and the bour-
geois states is inevitable"
After citing this fundamental Soviet
doctrine, Stain once added the laconic
remark: "CIear, one mould Think"
Vishinsky's Words Are Hollow
In 1927 he likewise declared to
visiting delegation of American workers:
"Thus in the course of further de-
Uelopn,ent of international revolution,
ta0o centers soiu form on a aDorld scale.
-. The struggle OF these ttOo centerS for
the possession of the auorld economy 1Uiu
- fnfn NJ st11ie
n1unisn1 In the 1O7aole 1Oorld."
The hard core, the stronghold and
arsenal of the Communist forces in
this conflict with Soviet communism are
the United StateS-a diagnosis which
Stain confirmed in his interview with
former Gov. Stassen in 1947. Neither he
nor any Leninist believes in the con-
tinued co-existence of these two opposing
worlds of economic thought and moral
ideals. The protestations of peaceful in
tent spoken by ViShinsky in the United
Nations are only the actors lines of a
prepared script designed to distract the
audience from an approaching Pearl
Harbor
1t is for that inevitable, titanic Arma-
geddon that Soviet rearmament has been
In preparation since 1945. There is,
consequently, a recognizable logicality
in Soviet maneuverS, whether on the dip
lomatic front or in their territorial ag-
grandizements, which makes Soviet
conduct coldly consistent and not an
enigma, or puzzle, as some unhistoric
minds imagine. The Politburo has Or
dered many a zigzag, to be sure, but their
overall strategy reveals the most CO.
herent national policy and effective staff
planning observable on the stage of in
ternational relations for the past 80 years
Look at a map of the world. Something
like 300 million human beings are now
directly or indirectly under the control
of MoscoW-which means approximately
e-third of the human race.
No More Battlefronts
The place of A-bombs and H-bombs in
this complex clash of power between
East and West is, like the ghost of
Banquo, the unlimited guest at every in
ternational conference. Ready to scrap
the advantage conferred by those CHASTITY
weapons if all other nations would agree
to effective controls, the Government of
the United States has been blocked by
the constant veto of Soviet Russia. Thus
she gains time while the sands run out
till she has stockpile of atomic bombs.
Hence, regretfully but categorically,
President Truman announced on April g.,
1949, that he would authorize use of
atomic bombs again, should the dreaded
necessity arise and if the welfare of the
United States and the democracies of the
world are at stake. "I hope and pray"
he added, "that will never be necessary"
The frightful effects of that dreadful
weapon are known by personal observa-
ton to the present writer, as he spent
some 10 days in the ruins of Hiroshima in
1947 and interviewed many of the vic
tins who survived the tragedy The
ethical problem of employing such a
lethal weapon which, by the very nature
and intensity of the explosion, will ex-
terminate thousands upon thousands of
civilians and innocent bystanders not
directly employed in military activities,
is not easy to resolve. Discussion of that
moral aspect is made intricate and in