Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-30
Khrushchev,s Horongue

It would be futile within brief space
to try to refute, point by point, all the
mendacity that Nikita S. Khrushchev
has packed into his long and discursive
speech 1.-TWO hours Of IT, to the Supreme
Soviet, which is nothing but make-be-
lieve or. rubber-Stamp parliament. Suf-
nee 1t to note that the chief Of Russia's
Communist Party, together with the
somewhat more polished Premier Bull
ganin, has lived up to the Kremlin's
customary standards Of obiectivity and
truth. Or perhaps, to be precise about
the thing, one should say that he has
lived doDn to them.
At any rate, wholly apart from his
rather boastful and threatful remarks
about the Soviet hydrogen bomb, and
wholly apart from Marshal Bulganin's
cryptic suggestion that Russia may al
ready be equipped with the intercon-
tinental ballistic missile, Mr.. Khrush-
chev has once again proved himself to
be an expert in the art Of distorting cur
rent facts and turning past history upside
down. Examples of this can be found In
what he has had to say about Western
"colonialism" in Asia, Secretary Dulles
recent statement on Portuguese
trolled Goa in India, the aggressive"
character of alliances like the Baghdad
pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization, and the spying objective Of
President Eisenhower's proposal-which
has been overwhelmingly Endorsed by the
United NationS-for a promoting
system of reciprocal aerial inspection
between the United States and the USSR.
Seldom has the truth been less respected
or more misrepresented.
But probably the most interesting
and significant part Of Mr.. Khrushchev's
speech is that In which he has accused
President Eisenhower of "crude inter-
ference" in the internal affairs of Eu-
ropes Soviet-dominated satellite states.
Although he has done this in a half
apologize tone, as II speaking more in
sorrow than in anger, he has made clear
that the Presidents Christmas message
to those hapless nations has cut the
Kremlin to the quick The message It
self, of course, merely expressed Americas
hope and faith that all the people now
trapped behind the Iron Curtain will
eventually enjoy justice and freedom
again. But to say such thing is to jab
a blunt needle into a peculiarly sensitive
and vulnerable Russian policy-a policy
under which the USSR has brutally
swallowed up the Baltic countries and
imposed puppet Communist tyrannies on
nearly a dozen neutrality-suspicious. lands.
This is the only really evil colonialism
that exists in our time, the only despotic
imperialism.
The Khrushchev harangue Is note
worthy for yet another reason. Taken
all in all, in temper and content, 1t sug-
gests that the men of the Kremlin,
having spared no effort to kill it in recent
weeks. are about ready to bury the So
called spirit of Geneva" as thing that
has outlived it's usefulness to them They
certainly have been talking and acting
that way ever since the October Big Four
foreign ministers meeting, and the result
is that the summer thaw in the cold war
now seems to have come to an end-the
victim of new Soviet freeze Needless
to say, the United States and the free
world as whole must grid themselves
accordingly