Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-12
PROPOSAL for Western Suicide

The only thing new about Soviet Foreign
Minister Mootov's proposal for pan-European
security" system is the packaging. AS for the
rest of tits substance it's objective-it is just
the same old stuff that the Kremlin has been
trying to peddle for years past in an effort to
pave the way for the ultimate conquest and
enslavement of the free world
On its face, as presented to the Big Four
conference in Berlin, the proposal is designed
to look rather reasonable to the gulibe. Berib-
boned with glittering generalities denouncng
aggression and eulogiZing peace, it would do the
following: Cd Effect the immediate withdrawal
of French, British, American and Russian forces
from Germany; (2) work out a unf1caton
treaty under which that country would be "neu-
tralized" in a manner that would make it inca
pable of new militaristic adventures; and 80
have the nations of Eastern and Western Europe
including the Soviet Union and presumably
Britain-join together in 50-year pact of COL
lective security and mutual aid based on the
principle that an attack upon any one of them
would be dealt with as an attack upon all
In his draft version of this pact. Mr.. Molo-
tov has at some points borrowed almost word
for word from the texts of the treaties govern
ing our inter-American defense system and the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Beyond
that, however, all similarity comes to an abrupt
end. For when the ribbons are taken off his
proposal when the propaganda wrappings are
removed and the eye looks around carefully
inside the contents are revealed to be not new
plan for collective security, but merely the old,
old plan to bring about Soviet domination OF the
entire Western world. At first glance, because
of its packaging, the thing may seem attractive
to free Europe's wshful and "neutraliSt" ele-
ments, but even these people, if they sit down
aY,H oil hord 1u foil RI hot
fraud it is and how brazen and menacing is it's
objective
In effect, what is it that Mr.. Mootov has
really proposed? First, he has proposed steps
that would virtually insure Germany's eventual
conversion into Soviet satellite Second, he
has proposed the shattering of the Anglo
French American common front. Third, he
has proposed the destruction of the NATO alli-
ance and abandonment of the projected Euro
pean Defense Community, into which limited
German military strength is supposed to be
ntegrated. And fourth in lieu of all this-and
with the United States withdrawn to its own
shores and looking on only as distant and
casual "observer"-he has proposed a pact in
which the countries of free Europe would
exchange their present interaed safety ar
rangements for Moscow's paper promises in a
so-called collective security system that would
NC COIlpleLcly NY Tile hIciIlllu
Stated another way, what Mr. Molotov has
called for is a defenSeless West-a West in
which the free nations like the onee-free Baltic
states or like such once-free satellites Czech
oslovakia, would entrap themselves In Soviet
style NATO setup "a mockery of the real thing)
and submit to being conquered, one by one,
either through internal Subverson or outright
Communist aggression In this manner, as the
Kremlin has long plotted the whole of the con-
tinent, together with Britain, could in due time
be subjugated. And after that, of course the
United States-isoated and largely friendless
between Red Europe and Red Asia-would be
tempting morsel to be grabbed at and absorbed.
Stripped of its outward trappings, Mr.. Mol
otov's proposal thus comes down to nothing less
than a program designed to inveige the free
world into killing itself by shattering its unity,
dismantling its defenses and rendering itself
helpless against aggression In essence, far from
being new, this is program as old as the Krem-
Inns ambition to win mastery of the globe. And
the fact that it has been presented once again,
in somewhat varied. form, serves merely to
strengthen the bleak impression that Soviet
policy has not undergone the slightest change
for the better and that the Berlin conference
is heading fast toward thoroughly futile end.