Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-26
Mr. Meuny on Go Existence"

Nj. Meuny on CO. xistence"
IN your editorial Of July IS. you
charge me with making foolish state
mentsr and carrying things bit too
far" in my rejection, before the recent
New York State Federation OF Labor
Convention, Of the Kremlin's "co-ex-
istence" strategy as the road to world
peace and freedom.
am not. as you insist. one OF the
$50 many free wheeling critics Of our
foreign policy" who never bothers to
tell us" what shall we do, "if we are
not to destroy one another and. II
co-existence is a myth, to what do we
turn?" !.
Apparently, we are somewhat In dis
agreement. AS I see it. "co-existencee
is not q myth. Lenin. who devised this
Communist strategy back In 1920, spoke
very frankly and told the entire world
very clearly that to the Soviet dicta-
torship Coo existence" meant:
AS soon as we are strong enough
to defeat capitalism as whole. we
shall Immediately take it by the scruff
OF the neck. As long as capitalism
and socialism exist, we cannot live in
will triumph funeral dirge will be
sung over the Soviet Republic or over
world capitalism"
This Bolshevik frankness is on a
par with the subsequent frankness Of
Hitler in regard to Nazi plans for
world domination. The free world did
not heed, or chose to forget. the Nazi
dictator's frankness Of purpose and
paid for its unconcern and forgetfulness
with the millions of casualties and i'm
measurable destruction of World War
II. am against the democracieS re-
peating this wrong approach in their
dealings with the Communist agrees
sors today. Such self -deception could
lead only to World War III.
It is because do not want another
World War that am against the free
world going into. any "co-existence"
pact with the Moscow-Peiping Axis.
Such q pact would mean accepting
as settled matter, conducive to the
peace and freedom of the world, the
vast Soviet imperialist conquests and
Communist destruction of the national
freedom and democratic rights of many
millions in Europe and Asia. BY join
ing with the Moscow-Peiping Axis in
accepting and stabilizing these con-
quests. the democracieS would actually
be encouraging greater and graver
Communist subversion and Soviet ag-
gression in the future. The cause of
peace and freedom can never be aided
by the democracies contributing to the
consolidation of Soviet imperialist ag-
grandizement to date with its forcible
annexation of millions of square miles
of territory and the totalitarian en-
slavement of hundreds of millions of
people.
Moreover. if the free world accepts
and puts faith in this Communist-con-
cocted catchword, it will become the
victim Of its own false hopes for world
peace. It will then relax its vigilance
and reduce, instead of build UP, it's
unity and strength. It would thus be-
come an easier target for the Soviet
aggressors who know softer pickings
when they see them.
I am against both Lenin's "co-ex-
istence" strategy and the policy of wag-
ing preventive war, because both lead
to a new world conflagration. Instead
Of the self-defeating policy of "co-ex-
istence" and the destructive policy of
preventive war, propose that our
Government should seek to rally the
greatest support for a positive and
peaceful program which would have
among its basic guiding lines the fol-
lowing policies: Q) Building up suf-
f1cient military. economic. political and
social unity and strength of the free
world to halt and defeat Communist
subversion and aggression; (2) Inn
proving the standards of living, pro-
ductivity, trade and price sterilization
of basic raw materials in the demo-
cratic orbit; CD Extending national
freedom and democracy to the colonial