Evening star., 1953-04-04
Dulles Is Cautious,
Fears Dangers in
Red Peace Moves
By Gornett D. Homer

The United States today strove
to keep Soviet peace gestures
from causing any letdown in the
Western defense buildup.
A warning from Secretary Of
State Dulles emphasized that
the current Communist peace
offensive should not blind the
United States and its allies to
the continuing grave danger
confronting them from a deeply
hostile" Kremlin.
He said nothing that has hap
pened or seems likely to happen
changes the basic danger, de-
spite the possibility of some
useful accommodations on some
specific issues like an armistice
in Korea and an Austrian peace
treaty.
Sees Foreign Aid Cut.
Mr.. Dulles sounded his warn
Ing in carefully measured words
at news conference late yester-
day at which he also said:
l. He believes there can be a
fairly substantial reduction in
the $7.6 billion figure proposed
by former President Truman for
foreign aid expenditures in the
next fiscal year without impair
ing the objectives this Govern
ment is seeking.
2. Nevertheless, he has indi-
Gated to the French a disposition
to increase American materiel
and financial aid to them in car
rying on the war against Com
Trunist rebels in Indo-China.
3. Measures are being taken
which he hopes will result in
the release of 13 American ci-
villains inturned in North Korea
since the start of the war there
nearly three years ago. but he
could not disclose details. The
British and French have OBJ
tanned Soviet help in getting
similarly interned groups of their
citizens released.
4. The European Defense
Community project and the
French-German dispute over the
Saar will be the principal sub
jects of conferences here next
week with West German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer. He
hopes the visit will develop
closer relations which will bury
wartime animosities and dangers
that have come from Germany
in the past.
Would Credit Policies.
Mr.. Dulles took the position
that what he termed the wi
gorous, positive policies" of the
Else hover administration
should be given much of the
credit for producing the current
furry Of peace overtures from
Russia.
But in judging the Commu-
mist moves, Mr.. Dulles stressed
that these three facts should
always be in mind:
l. The Soviet Union is al
heavily armed totalitarian state,
subject to the dictates of a small
group, whose total control ex-
tends to one-third OF the people
and the natural resources of the
world"
2. The Soviet leaders "are
basically and deeply hostile to
any other state which does not
accept Soviet Communist con-
troll"
3. These Soviet leaders do
not recognize any moral inhibi-
tlons against the use of vio-
lence."
Grave Danger Seen.
Nov those facts combine to !
Dulles declared. He added that |
nothing seems likely to hap |
pen in the near future to end |
That danger or the need for
the free world to take precau-
tionS against it.
The Secretary said that "ac-
commodations" which might be
made on some problems as a
result OF changing Soviet tactics |
may be useful-but useful only
IF they do not blind us to the
persistence of the danger"
Referring again to the three
basic facts" about the Soviet
he had outlined, the Secretary
said that so long as they per-
slst 1--WE must not assume that
the danger is over and that we
are living in a peaceful world
which requires neither arma-
n1ent nor our allies"
He added that he can see
nothing to justify changing ANY
OF our basic defensive policies"
Sees No Inconsistency.
He told a questioner he saw
no inconsistency between his re-
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