The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-11
THE WORLD
TODAY
BY JAMES MARROW

Malenkov didn't threaten war In
his funeral Grafton for Stain is no
reason for the West to feel safer.
Malenkov sounded fairly peaceful
because he had to.
It's the Communist line: Russia
is the No. peace-loving nation.
Stain established it. Malenkov has
been following it. He must do so
here at the start Of his regime,
at least, to build confidence of the
Russian masses in him.
War talk the first time he opened
his mouth after Stains death
would cause more fright than de-
votion. What he and the party ac-
tually do later is not necessarily
connected with what Malenkov
says now or later.
He said his policy is based on
the 'Lenin-Stalin premise of the
possibility of the prolonged cock
istence and peaceful competition
of two different systems, capitalist
and socialist"
The trouble with the word PRO
longed'' as he used it is that it
does not mean forever" Pro-
longed means for a while. Lenin
laid down the doctrine which plain
'ly says peaceful co-exiStence'
can't last forever:
"As long as capitalism and So
cialiSm remained, we cannot live
in peace. In the end one or the
other will triumph--a funeral re-
QUEEN will be sung either over the
Soviet Republic or over world cap
italism. This is a respite in war"
The Communists already have
proved in Korea what they'd try
when they thought they might get
away with it. From communism's
viewpoint it's good psychology. for
more than one reason, TO call Rus
STA the No. l peace lover.
In the first place, the Stain
Malenkov problem is different
from Hitler's. When he came to
power the German people humil-
ated by their World War l defeat,
felt bitter and mistreated.
They had an old tradition of ma
tionaliSm. Hitler pumped them full
of that to make them fighting mad.
Since they had also an old militar-
istic tradition, he appealed to that
too.
And because the Germans felt
crowded, he could direct them to
war with promises OF more living
space and revenge for World War
Il. BY threatening war he strength
ened his position with the Ger
mans.
But the Russians came out of
World War ii victorious. They felt
neither Inundated nor mistreated.
So they had neither need nor de-
sire for revenge. How then could
they be prepared for war and In
duced 10 support il?
By repeatedly telling them they
were innocent peaceloving people
surrounded by enemies getting
the six million Communist party
members and the other 204 mil
lion Russians not permitted in the
party all in the same pot.
That's the pot Stain stirred up
And Malenkov himself vigorously
stirred il last October when, ad.
dressing the 18th All-Soviet Com.
munist Party Congress in Moscow.
he accused the United States of
trying to wreck the peace
In addition TO all that. the Rus
SLAMS probably have a healthy re-
spect for the atom bomb supply
in possession Of the West and pr0h.
ably don't feel ready yet to start
talking aggressiyely.
The Vests best hope the Rus
SLAMS may NOT try right away some
adventure that would start World
War III may lie in the fact that
Russia Is in transition from one
regime to another.
Everything coming from Malen-
kov and the Kremlin since Stalin's
fatal illness began indicates The
leaders are hoping they get The
support Of the masses Of Russian
people.
The extraordinarily detailed bull
letins on Stains dying hours ID.
most seemed an effort to assure
everyone, inside and outside Rus.