The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-28
SAYS RUSSIA is
PLOTTING OUR
DESTRUCTION
~ JOHN N. HlcHToWER


hover administration was reported
authoritatively today to have well
advanced plans for trying to end
the Korean and Indochinese wars
by denying Russia any "advan-
tage" from them.
Secretary Of State Dulles, dis
cussing this subject publicly for
the first time since the new ad-
ministration took power, told a ma
tional radio and television audi
ence last night:
To-day these wars 20 on be-
cause the enemy thinks he's get
ting an advantage by continuing
the war. believe that Gen. Eisen-
hover win find the ways to make
the enemy change his mind in
that respect SO that they too will
want peace"
Dulles statement was described
authoritatively as being based upon
plans for specific moves, although
he gave no hint in his speech
as to what these moves will be.
However, in a prediction
speech in October, Dulles said Rus
STA had an advantage out Of con-
tinuing the Korean War by the fact
that American troops are tied up
there and by propagandizing the
conflict as a campaign of Ameri-
cans against Asians. These advan-
tages could be denied and the pros
poets for peace greatly advanced,
he then said, by replacing Ameri-
can forces in Korea with South
Korean troops.
Dulles broadcast speech pin
pointed trouble spots of the world
in a sweeping survey Of American
foreign policy problems, and also
contained an appeal for popular
confidence at home in the State
Department and foreign service.
He promised, with the help of the
FBI, to rid the department of any
Communist or Red sympathizers
who may be found there.
On one foreign policy problem,
Dulles had what appeared to be
an implied threat Of new Ameri-
can action toward Western Euro
pean allies unless they persist in
efforts toward unity. He noted that
~rench and German steps toward
formation of a European Defense
Community under which West
Germany could rearm have re-
Gently been somewhat stalled"
Dulles said the U. S. has put
almost 80 billion dollars into West
ern Europe since the end of World
War II in the hope Of developing
unity there and he declared that
i France, Germany and Britain
now 60 their separate ways 1t
would be necessary to give "a little
re-thinking," to Americas policy
toward Europe. He said, however,
that he refused to believe there
was no chance of unity.
He dealt in blunt words with
what he conceives to be Russia's
policies. He said the u. S. has
enemies who are plotting our de-
struction'' and added that 'sthese
enemies are the Russian Commu-
nists and their allies In other coun-
tries"
Soviet strategy, he went on, is
to encircle and isolate this coun-
try. This strategy must be coun-
tered by strong American mill
tary establishment and by the Gre
alton of military strength in friend
~ nations, he said, with this pur-
pose: Never to wage war but
only to deter war"
Some people have said privately,
Dulles went on, that 4 war with
Russia is inevitable and that the
Y. S. should have II soon rather
SAAoAA AueN bNSnucG 0Aklc Is running
against this country.
President Eisenhower is absol-
utely opposed to any such policy .
Dulles declared, land so of course
am and all Of my associates in
the State Department and in the
foreign service.
But he asserted that this nation
must have a positive policy Of de-
veloping and keeping alive other
people-notably those under Soviet
domination--"such a love and re.
spect for freedom that they can
never really be absorbed BY the
desperation, the totalitarian die.
tatorship Of the Communist world -
Development Of the love Of free.
dom and independence among the
captive peoples. he said. may
make them so resistant 10 Soviet
domination that they cannot ''be
swallowed and digeSted :. and per.
haps in time the Indigestion win
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