The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-17
What Has
Happened To
Our Country

The Soviet Union. in 1914 was So
weak that 1t barely survived the
conflict with Hitler. II survived
only because America sent the
extra margin Of food and planes
and trucks which kept the Russian
armies in the field.
How did the Soviet Union repay
our help. when the victory was
Won? Just exactly as they had said
they would repay il. Lenin had long
taught the Communists that they
must use every nationalist war 10
start the world civil war. AS soon as
the Communists were sure we would
defeat the Nazis. Soviet political
leaders started their intrigues to
destroy Chang Kai-shek and con
quer China They intended that
America would have no friends and
no bases between Ourter Mongolia
and the coast Of California.
They lit the fires Of civil war in
Korea and southeast Asia. stirred
up civil commotion III Germany,
Italy Austria. France. and Eng
land, trained their subversive fol
lowers in India. Africa. and Latin
America and brilliantly directed
their traitorous fifth column and its
dupcs in America.
Now half the world is under the
heel Of their armies. A large part
Of the so-called Free World is so
confused BY their lntrigues. so fear
iul OF their vengeance, that il cannot
plan a counterattack
All over the world the simple
people know the score. They know
Communism is death They will try
10 escape so long as they can. All
over the earth they are leaving the
Communist world for the Free
World voting, if you please. with
their feet.
Our Government tells us Tito is
a great champion of freedom but
the plain people Of Yugoslavia do
not understand. Every day they are
walking their way to freedom.
In Germany, all the human traf-
nc is One-Way from Communist
Germany TO Free Germany. We re-
member the pictures Of the Korean
refugees clinging by the hundreds to
every cart and truck that left the
Korea Of the Communists for the
land Of Syngman Rhee They are
still coming Farther south. the
Chinese flee in junks from the main
land TO TaiWan yet We are asked
to believe the armed forces of
China. with the best modern equip
ment, could never return from Tai
wan to the mainland
Politically. the world is covered
with blanket Of silence. There is
only the Stiffness. and the soft sound
Of feet crossing the borders to free
dom, or iunks sailing in the winds
70 the land Of hope
Our people have not failed. Our
PRINCIPLES have not been found want
ing. Our political leaders have
failed The people have courage.
and the instinct for truth. They
know the greatest political earth
quake in history has destroyed all
landmarks. They are willing to
work and to suffer. They ask of
their leaders only that they be given
new maps. SO they can find their
way over the new territory. through
which. like the children of Israel.
they must journey if they are to
reach the promised land.
Our times call for soul searching
by both our political parties. In a
crisis as deep and as wide as that
Of today. political leaders cannot do
everything. But have they done
enough?
1t is the task of political parties.
under the tWo-party system. to
mediate among the many special
interests, but to find answers that
serve the common good
Today, that task is. admit.
harder than it has ever been before
America is sick with sickness that
goes very deep. The sickness has
spread into our schools, our indus
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