Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16
Russia FIGHTs A CoLD WAR

In his recent report to the nation on the
Big Four foreign minister's conference at
Geneva, Secretary Dulles said eve must
assume that the Soviet Union will continue
its efforts by means short Of war to make it's
system prevail as 1t has done In the past" !"
Sylvia Porter, the syndicated cOlumnist
in describing recent Soviet Overtures to-
ward Egypt and other countries, said: "The
cold war cOntinues-but the direction has
clearly shifted from the military to the eco
nOmic."
u. S. News World Report, in the course
Of long article entitled ''World War III,
Russian Style" observed: "RuSSia's techni-
que is to wage war with ideas, not directly
with guns or atomic bombs or hydrogen
bombs or guided missiles. The push buttons
in this modern type of war are In the hands
of diplomats and propagandists, not in the
hands of soldier"
Business Week, in commenting on the So
Wet offer to help Egypt build huge dam on
the Nile, said Harvesting the Nile at AsWan
is Egypt's dream. The country that helps
her to 10 it will move into stay"
The sources quoted are all authoritative,
all responsible, all well informed. 1t is sig
nifcant that what they say adds up to the
same thing-that the ruble, rather than the
bullet, is now Russia's principal weapon of
war. And in the conduct of that war, to
quote u S. News again, Russia uses, as she
OlutiOn, diplOmacy-by bluff and buster"
This magazines account of Russian world
penetration is an aWeSOme One-since 1889
she has extended her dominance. over 74O,-
OOO,000 people in IL nations. Equally awe
some is her basic technique-though "SOviet
imperialism shows growth without COM
parisOn in modern history" she manages to
make "vast gains among one time colonial
countries by convincing them that the Wes-
tern nations are the arch imperiaiiSts" She
has made more effective use of the "big lie"
which simply involves repeating an un-
truth so often thai people come to believe it
than Hitler, the "big lies" creator, ever
did She is lavish in sending smiling-faced
delegations to the nations abroad, and all of
them, no matter what their announced pur-
pose, are intensively trained statesmen of
communism And now the emphasis is on
trade-in the words of u. S. News, 'The So
viets have opened trade offensive on a front
stretching all the way from Europe to the
Far East"
This is what the American government
must now combat. None of it has come as
any surprise to the American leaders. They
certainly did not take the Geneva "new look
at face value. AS Secretary Dulles put it a
short time ago. "We have not lowered our
guard. Our military strength . can
not vary with their smiles or with their
frowns." And Russia's obvious intentions
have resulted in one increase in Western
strength They have shored up NATO, by 4
again proving that friendly words and ges-
lures from Kremlin leaders are not what
they seem.
What of the long view? Here is how Pres
ident Eisenhower sees it: 81 know that no
setback, no obstacle to progress will ever
deter this Governments and our people from |
the great effort to establish a just and dur
able peace. Success may be long in coming, |
but there is no temporal force so capable Of
helping to achieve it as the strength, the
might, the spirit Of 65,000,O00 free Ameri- /
cans. In striving toward this shing goal, this /
country will never admit defeat"
GSOG&