Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-14
The Dogma, Tragedy, and Danger

Ambassador Lodge, In his latest speech as
chief of our American mission to the United
Nations, has effectively recalled to the worlds
attention the greatest single tragedy in postwar
international relations The tragedy consists
solely and simply of the Soviet Unions DELHI
crate decision to spurn the friendship of the
United States and other free lands and to
follow, instead, coldly calculating policy of
subversion and aggression aimed at spreading
the Kremlins domination throughout the globe.
Thus, as Mr.. Lodge has emphasized in
answer to Andrei Gromyko-who has returned
temporarily to the U. NJ to vilify American
military forces and to indicate that the new
Soviet regime has no desire to end the Korean
war-there can be no doubt that Red Russia
during and Immediately after the terrible
struggle with the Berlin Tokyo Rome Axis, was
deeply admired in our world Indeed, it had
built for itself such great reservoir of good
will here in our own country and elsewhere that
its critics were generally brushed aside as
lot of misunderstanding crackpots. For there
was then widespread belief, or at least a
strong and genuine hope, that the Communist
leopard would change his spots and cooperate
in building a decent and enduring peace.
Not long after We day and VI day, this
hope began to fade Step by step, with increas-
ing vrulence, the men of the Kremlin made
clear that they did not want the friendship of
the free nations least of all our Nation. Far
from wanting that, they made clear that they
wanted only to build up a vast empire, to
promote the triumph of Red totalitarianism
everywhere, to drag one country after another
behind their Iron Curtain, and to establish
themselves ultimately as masters of the entire
world Despite Stains death, that objective
apparently still stands. In any case, Gromyko
certainly has suggested as much in once again
rejecting an honorable Korean truce and
Smearing the United States Army-the very
same Army which Soviet leaders repeatedly
eulogized in those years of the past when they
were desperately in need of its help.
Why is this the Kremln's line? Why has
the friendship of the free world been rejected?
Why does the Soviet dictatorship dream of
dominating the globe? Why has it chosen to
follow hate-inciting policy of violent words
and violent deeds instead of cooperating to
establish a good peace? Mr. Lodge has sought
to explain the dark phenomenon by specializing
that Russia's leaders-since they know full
well that they need have no fear of any agrees
sion from our side of the Iron Curtain-must
be activated by fear of their own people.
In other words, they decline to cooperate
because they are afraid that such cooperation
would infect their empire with contagion of
liberty lethal to their despotic rule.
But Mr.. Lodges speculation, persuasive
though it is, seems to be less than the whole
answer to the Russian enigma. For it does not
take into account the diabolically messianic
spirit of Red totalitarianism Nor does it take
into account the religious-like Importance that
doctrinaire Communists attach to Lenins die
tum that the Soviet world and our world
cannot live together indefinitely but must even
tually engage in an inevitable about war.
Regardless of what Malenkov, like Stain, may
say about the possibility of peaceful CO.
existence" this dictum this dogma. the dogma
that differences are irreconcilable and that
armed conflict is therefore irrepressible still
appears to be the Kremlin'S basic motivating
force. 1t is the thing that makes these times
not only tragic but immensely dangerous for
the whole of mankind.