Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-09-07
Age Of Appeasement


VETHEN GERMANY quit in World
w War II. Washington halted our
army at the gates of Berlin that
the Russians might march in and
dominate the captured city. The
American people were denied
knowledge of the surrender until
the Russians might sit at the sur
render table. and because an Amer
lean newsman did not wait. did
not participate in that appeasement
of Stain, he suffered the loss of
his job, his permission to remain in
Europe. and his standing as an
American correspondent. The Wash
ington government was appeasing
the Communists at our expense.
Russia was permitted to take
over all that was left of the
German submarines, and we
are now paying for that bit of
appeasement. We permitted the
Reds to carry away a large
portion of Germany's industrial
plants in the guise of repara-
tons, and those plants, moved
to Russia, are now producing
munitions for the Red army.
They represented a value of
hundreds of millions of dollars,
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have largely replaced by Mar
shall plan payments.
Without those German indus
tries we permitted the Reds to walk
away with, Russia would have been
impotent for many more years, at
best, unprepared for war. At the
Potsdam conference, we made APP
peasing statements, that Joe Stain
now interprets as he pleases, and to
the advantage of Russia.
During the war, and since, we
have permitted the infiltration Of
Russian spies, and thousands of
such have taken advantage of our
leniency. We have provided oppor-
tmities and places for them in our
industries and in our government
departments in our efforts to APP
pease the Russians.
Taking advantage of the OPP
pOrtunities offered, Rus ian
spies have stolen our know
how and our Industrial and
scientific secrets, and are still
doing so.
Throughout the period of World
War IL and for sometime after the
fighting stopped, we provided Rus
STA with war equipment to the ex-
tent of billions in value. Much Of
that equipment is today pointed
toward our. western European al
lies or is Hing used against Amer
lean troops in Korea.
Following the advice Of those
favorable toward Russia we per-
.mitted the Chinese Communists,
aided and abetted by Russia, to
defeat the Chinese Nationalist
armies and drive them out &C China.
From those Chinese Communist
armies, the Korean Communists, at
the instigation of Russia, are draw
ing much of the forces that are
fighting our American troops in
Korea.
All that touches but a small
part of our continued program
of appeasement. We have been
lavish in our efforts to buy off
Stain and his Communist
hordes. Either by intent, or
through ignorance, 1--WE have
given our all, and have en-
dangered our own and the free
dom of other nations. If 1t was
ignorance, our state depart
ment has demonstrated that II
has been a poor guesser as to
the purposes of Stain, not a
guesser it is safe for us to de-
pend upon, or upon which to
take more chances.
While we continue to daily and
appease, our American soldiers in
Korea are being manned or killed
by guns, tanks and bombs, made
in America, and contributed to Rus
STA by a magnanimous America, a
magnaninity that has been unwar-
ranted, and is still unwarranted.
What we are paying today is but
small part of what we are des-
tined to pay. The next may be Iran,
or it may be Yugoslavia. or it may
be a direct attack on the nations
of Europe, which can offer but
small resistance to the hordes OF a
mighty, and at least partially Amer
lean equipped, Red army.
Against such an attack we have
no assurance of victory. Largely
because of the secrets we permitted
Russian spies to steal from us
through ignorance or connivance
with American officials. we may
have TO pay the supreme price, our
liberties and our freedom. Appease-
ment has been a poor policy.
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