Evening star., 1951-11-28
All Free Nations Urged
By Dulles 10 Combine
In Deterring Russia
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

DETROIT. Nov. 28.-John Fos-
ter Dulles last night urged the
free world to build up a powerful
striking force to deter Soviet ag-
gression by the threat OF a smash
ing counter blow.
Mr.. Dulles, ambassador at large,
put forward the proposal as a
practical alternative" should
efforts reach agreement on arms
limitation finally fail In the United
Nations.
"The Soviet Policy of encircle-
ment is already so far advanced
that we shall have to find more
than a national. or hemisphere
or Atlantic defense" Mr.. Dulles
said.
Would Hit Russia.
LET the free nations combine
to create striking force Of great
power and then rely more and
more upon the deterrent Of that
Furnishing power. and less and less
upon a series of many local area
defenses," he said in a speech be-
fore the Detroit Advertising Coun-
Gil.
That means having, at what
ever are the convenient places. the
capacity to hit Russia's interior
lines of communication with such
disruptive power that its highly
centralized despotic police state
will fall apart" Mr.. Bulles added.
Russian militarists will not in
vite that by sending Red armies
to capture other people or lands.
1t must, of course, also be made
clear that the Furnishing power
will never itself be an offensive
threat or a strike except in retalia-
ton for open, unprovoked aggres-
sion"
Mr.. Dulles, Secretary of State
Acheson'S advisor on the japanese
peace treaty. told the Advertising
Council that this philosophy of re-
lance on the deterrent effect of
striking power was basic to the
North Atlantic Treaty and was
voiced in the Senate by the late
Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
so long as the Red armies re-
main internationally unlimited,
uninspected and uncontrolled and
at the service of a group that
proclaims its goal of world con-
quest. there is need to develop
consciously, dependence on pun
ishing power as the means OF
community defense against direct
aggression" Dulles said. ut is
the only method which meets the
test of being efficacious through
out the entire 25.000-mile line
of possible Russian attack. 1t is
the only method Of doing so at
a cost which can be sustained
over the years"
Mr.. Dulles made no direct COM
parison between the striking force .
he proposed and the international
defensive force which the North
Atlantic treaty countries are
building up under Gen. Eisen-
hover. But Mr.. Dulles said that
Eve shall have to find some way
to stop the Red armies. other
than by trying to match them on
the ground. At every point man
for man. gun for gun, tank for
tank"
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political counter offensive for
liberty" to cope with Communist
indirect aggression. Estimating
that Moscow now spends S1.4 bill
lion a year for propaganda alone.
he said that If the free world
intelligently spent any such sum
in political offensive against
the misery. terrorism and hope
lessness Of the now-captive
peoples, if their love of God and
country was kept alive, the de-
spotic rulers of one billion people
would no longer be thinking
about new conquests."
A striking force such as he pro-
posed, Mr.. Dulles said. would be
more eloquent than any words in
persuading Russia to abandon ag-
greSsion and accept limitation of
armament. For the past five years
he said, the free world has been
enjoying the security of deterrent
striking power by the existence of
American ability to visit destruc-
ton on Russia-presumably by
means Of the atomic bomb.