Evening star., 1953-01-07

wounds left by the war, Mr..
Truman said. the Soviet Union
has taken the exact opposite
course. Instead Of help. the
Communists brought subjuga-
ton, he said.
Attacks Red Expansion.
"They extinguished, blotted
out, the national independence
of the countries that the military
operations Of World War II had
left within their grasp" He added
that the Soviet Union. its satel-
lites and China are held in the
tight grasp of Communist Party
chieftains. The party dominates
all social and political institu-
tions. The Communists, he said,
have walled off their world lest
their people learn too much OF
other ways of life.
Externally" Mr.. Truman
charged, "the Communist rulers
are trying to expand the boun-
daries of their world. whenever
and wherever they can"
In detail he described the man
ner in which the Soviet has
moved into and dominated the
countries of Eastern Europe. and
how they have moved in Asia.
He said that the Communists
are moving constantly to create
greater strength in their vast
empire.
The program Of the United
States and the free nations, Mr..
Truman said, has been directed
to meet two requirements. The
first had to do with security.
Like the pioneers who settled
this great continent of ours" he
said, I'VE have had to carry a
musket while we went about our
peaceful business. We realized
that If we and our allies did
not have military strength to
meet the growing Soviet mill
tary threat, we would never have
the opportunity to carry forward
our efforts to build a peaceful
world"
Starting Point Is U. N.
Mr.. Truman said that side by
side with the development of
military strength, this country
had helped to create conditions
of economic and social progress
in the world.
These two requirements
military security and human
progress-are more closely re-
lated in action than we some
times realize" he commented.
"Our starting point, as I have
said on many occasions, has been
and remains the United Nations.
We were prepared and so were
the other nations of the free
world to place our reliance on
the machinery of the United Ma
tions to safeguard peace"
Soviet Russia, he said, had
blocked this in every way it
could, but "has not been able to
the principle Of collec-
tive security"
He said that. through the
United Nations. the integrity and
independence of Iran had been
safeguarded in 1945 and 1916;
that through our aid, Greece had
been saved from Communist
domination, that military aid
had strengthened Turkey, and
that the Soviet's threats against
Germany and japan have been
successfully withstood.
The President expressed con-
fidence that the United States
and the free nations will be sue
cessful in their resistance to
Communist aggression. Our re-
sources and industry are equal
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But there are some things
that could shift the advantage
to their side." he said. Zone of
the things that could defeat us
is fear-fear Of the task we face,
fear Of adjusting to it. fear that
breeds more fear, sapping our
faith, corroding our liberties,
turning citizen against citizen,
ally against ally. Fear could
snatch away the very values we
are striving to defend. Already
the danger signals have gone up.
Already the corrosive process has
begun. And every diminution
Of our tolerance, each new act of
enforced conformity. each idle
accusation. each demonstration
Of hysteria-each new restrictive
LAWS one more sign we can
lose the battle against fear. The
Communists cannot deprive us
Of our liberties-fear can"
The President here seemed to