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settle the conflicts that divide
us"
This I believe" Mr.. Khru-
shchev answered, and paid me
q pretty compliment. Il have
read your speeches. Some
things in them are wrong and
even offensive SOUNDED like
campaign time at homelD. but
on the whole / think you stand
for improving relations and we
welcome It," And then he went
on to say something about So
Wet attitudes which / think is
little understood among us
Americans.
He stated frankly and con-
fidently that the world is mex
orably going Communist:
"You must understand, Mr..
Stevenson. that we live in an
epoch when one system is Civ
ing way to another. When you
established your republican sys-
tenn In the 18th century the
English didn't like it.
Nov, too, a process is taking
place in which the peoples want
to live under q new system of
society; and it is necessary that
one agree and reconcile himself
with this fact. The process
should take place without inter-
ference.
IF this principle (of nom
interference were accepted, II
would improve the international
climate and we would welcome
it. But you are playing the part
Of q gendarme again--in the
Middle East"
The Prescription
Thus, the prescription given
me by the leader Of the Soviet
Union appears to be that events
inside the Communist world are
none Of our business, but the
nom Communist world must
stand aside while his new sys-
tenn Of society" exploits the ma
tionalist awakening and social
unrest in the world, and spreads
from country to country.
Perhaps ! misunderstood him
I hope so, because such an out.
look leaves little hope for the
better relations and increasing
confidence which are indispenS-
able to peace, security and dis
armament.
Moreover, he is wrong. The
peoples Of the small countrie:
Of Eastern Europe did moi
choose communism; 1t was i'm.
posed on them by the Red Army
at the end Of the war. Tit
Czech people did not want tx
live under that system; they
were victims of q Communist
coup in l948-and the atmos.
phere Of suppression there, a.
I have just observed it, bearl
mute testimony to this fact ever
now, a decade after.
Communism has had its way
in Europe only by force ant
conspiracy, not by choice. Tit
nationalism and social unresI
in so many parts of the worlc
isn't q Communist revolution
It is q revolt against foreign
domination, feudalism and mis-
cry.
And communism isn't Thu
way to national independence
either, as the Soviet satellite.
can testify. Moreover, the new
Russian Empire is a jail-yol
can't get out once you're in-al
Hungary bears witness. Now.
adays we live in hope that thu
peoples Of the Middle East may
not have to learn that lessor
the hard way.
And I might have addeC
that social reform was not
Soviet monopoly; that the,
had evidently been so bus!
trying to make their system
work they had overlooked tn,
vast changes in Western so
ciety - the redistribution O
wealth, growth of industrial
democracy and new concept
Of social responsibility.
They Don't Want to See
But I have a bunch the,
don't want to see what ha
happened in the West which
makes so much Of their Marx
Lenin bible obsolete an,
idiotic.
But here I must add that MI
Khrushchev enviSages the fur
Their expansion of communism
as q peaceful process. No hin