Evening star., 1951-08-02
Mr.. Morrison and the KremIin

British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison
has accomplished an unusual feat in persuading
the men of the Kremlin to publish in Pravda
the full and uncensored text of his statement
on what is wrong with the Soviet Union, why
the West is rearming, how people on this side of
the Iron Curtain enjoy genuine freedom, what
shame 1t is that the great masses Of Russia are
oppressed and cut off from our world by the
Communists one party dictatorship.
It is doubtful, however, that MIR. Morrison'S
coup will result in anything of much value. For
the men Of the Kremlin, while permitting Mos
cows newspaper readers to see this little chink
of light, have in the same issue of Pravda done
their best to douse it with a statement of their
own 1t is statement that has kind of numb
ing effect on the mind-numbing because, like
the language of 'cNewspeak" and the process of
"Doublethink" in George Orwell'S not-so-fan-
tastic "1984"-it turns everything upside down,
renders the meaning of words meaningless and
converts what we commonly regard as truth or
reality into the exact opposite of ITSELF
Thus, in, addition to repeating the customary,
threadbare lies about Anglo-American "aggres-
sive aims and about the peace-loving nature OF
the Great Stain and his Cominform, it bandly
asserts that the U. S. S. R. is the most "demo-
cratic" of all lands. Far from being dictator
ship, the Communist Party rules Gin bloc with
non-party people" True, political opposition is
not tolerated. And why not? Simply because
nobody but criminals, from the landlords and
capitalists down to the terroristS, thieves,
assassins and subversive agents" would think of
opposing the regime now in power. Naturally
enough, therefore, they are only single-ticket
elections, with no candidates running except
those handpicked by the Kremin This is what
every good Russian insists Upon. It is "the
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Is the voice of God"
Actually, according to the Kremlns Pravda
statement, "In no country is there such free
dom . as in the Soviet Union" How true! In
no other country, apart from the satellites and
minor-league relationships in general, do a few
ruthless men have the freedom that Stain and
his colleagues have to operate slave society
and command the enslaved to consider them
selves free-the freedom of an aggreSsion-bent,
dominance-seeking tyranny that denies to the
people under its control every basic form Of lib
erty; bombards them with a ceaSeleSs barrage
of lying propaganda; forbids them to travel
abroad to see things for themselves; fills the
air with electronic shrieks to keep them from
hearing truth-bearing foreign broadcaSts; re-
fuses to let Westerners journey among them,
and runs vast terror system under which all
Russians have learned that dissent means visit
by the secret police, inquisitorial torment exile
to concentration camps or sudden death.
This Is the thing that has answered MIR.
Morrison in Pravda This is the thing that
boasts of being the best OF all "democracies. "
This is the thing that describes itself as being
the "voice of the people"-"the voice of God"
And who are these people that are supposed to
want no other system? They are the ones who
are told by their dictatorship that they are in
comparably well off when actually their physical
and spiritual living standards are among the
most miserable in the world. They are the ones
who nave survived Stalin'S systematic killing OF
millions Of dissident peasants In the late 1920s
They are the ones who have escaped the terrible
blood purges of the 193Os. They are the ones