The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-07-31

Kremlin regime, which betray,
can never be trusted and she
whom it has sworn to destroy. This
is the first law of survival for the
Western auortd. since World Com.
Western agorld. since World Com.
munism" is written indelibly on
the banners of Soviet power.
And yet. the United States and
the West show every sign of pre-
pairing to deal with this brutal,
rotting regime as though it were
an honorable opponent. In the
New York Times of July u we
read: Most observers felt the best
the West could do would be to sit
back and let the developing splits
in the Communist system work
their way" Those observers, who
ever they may be, nave no appreci-
alton of what Soviet Communism
actually is or how it carries on.
System Colossal Failure
Beria is today foreign hire
ling" and traitor" because he is
a scapegoat-a scapegoat for the
internal difficulties besetting the
Soviet system TO Which Stain re-
ferred at length IN has October re-
port. BY decreeing that "man-made
laws cannot violate scientific
laws" the now dead master of the
kremlin tried to stem the tide of
impatience at the slow movement
toward paradise" BY his affirm
ing that there will always be a
difference between mental labor
and manual labor" he sought TO
protect the Soviet bureaucracy
which is so essential to the dictat-
orship and sits so heavily on the
backs of the Soviet people.
Within itself the Soviet system
is colossal failure, to which the
reports in the Cominform organ
from East Germany and Hungary
also attest True, the reports from
Red sources scream that the unrest
and sabotage" under the satellite
regimes are the work of provo
cateurs." criminals" and ban
dts" But use of these very ex-
treme terms qiUe as a cue to the
seriousness Of the difficulties en-
L..
Calls For Action Now
Such being the scene, now is the
time if ever for the West to enter
on stage and to act. Offers of food
will help slightly, but it is liber-
alton that the people want. A
strong statement, backed up by
deeds, that there will never be
Red Germany" and "there will
never be recognition. directly or
indirectly, of Red China" would
do more than all the food and
money that could be provided.
The recent Italian elections, to
which the Cominform organ of
June IL refers as "the big VIC
tory" furnish proof enough of
that
While the West hesitates, still
daydreaming that Moscow will col
lapse of its own weight, the Com
munists are in movement. They
understand that their strong point
as Stain told them so frankly in
his October report is the pehe-
tration of Western thought and
the creation OF "coatrGdictioRS"
rUhich UiII prevent anything de-
cisiUe on the part of the United
States or its associates
US. Chief Butt
AT the very moment when
Beria's liquidation was being plan
ned, Reds throughout the world
(aided by their friends and sym
pathizers) were engaged in an ex-
tensive propaganda drive to divide
the Western peoples. The United
States was the chief butt of this
World outcrp, heard from Radio
Warsaw to the Daily Worker in
New York, then echoed in various
forms in a number of our daily
newspapers.
You may profitably read great
deal about it in the July issue OF
News From Behind the Iron Cur
tain. You may see il in the pages
of the Daily Worker, especially
in the frantic demands that the
Korean truce" be accepted just
as Moscow wants ii, in denounc
ing the President of South Korea
July 81 as Bloody Rhee," and
even in the casting of aspersions
at Walter Reuther for having sug-
gested that something be done to
encourage revolt in East Germany.
Along with such agitation to create
bewilderment goes the rising de-
nunciation in the Daily Worker
of "McCarthyism," which now in
cludes bitter invectives against
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton and the United States Sur
preme Court. This cantankerous
conduct is carefully designed-as
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