Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-30

AS a United States citizen
I strongly opposed the visit Of
Premier Khrushchev to this
country and ! strongly oppose
the forthcoming visit Of Pres
ident Eisenhower to the So
Wet Union. In the first place.
the President is not taking
into consideration the effect
this exchange Of visits will
have on the countries Of Asia
and Africa. We have long
been condemning the leaders
Of these uncommitted nations
when they make trips to Mos
COW (e. 6. Nasser In 1850.
They will now need no excuse
whatsoever to 60 when Eisen-
hover and Nixon make trips
to Moscow.
Moreover, we are at war
with world communism. The
Third World War has already
begun, and we don't know it.
1t is a war of ideas rather
thar Of arms, but it is in
many ways more deadly than
the last two wars, because the
enemy is spreading ideas
subtly into every area Of our
national life. 1t is totally ir-
rational and ridiculous to in
vite q man to your country.
entertain him at state BAN
quetS. and show him through
out the length and breadth
Of the land when he is your
mortal enemy.
Also I feel we are COM
pletely mistaken in our belief
in co-existence and cultural
exchanges. Khrushchev says.
The choice for America is
war or co-existence," but CO.
existence, according to his
definition, means world take
over by any means short Of
nuclear war. And as for ex-
changes. we cannot hope to
profit from them, because the
people the Russians send to
this country are fully trained
in the Communist theology.
whereas the people we have
sent to Russia, up to this
point. have no conception Of.
or training in, Americas
theology.
We will do well to listen to
the words of Khrushchev
himself: "Russia's smiles are
sincere. but this doesn't
change our conviction that
communism will triumph
throughout the world. :. We
are for co-existence, but we
are also for the growth Of
communism. :. We will win.
but we will not have to 60 to
war about it," He means 1t.
Philip v. Rickert.
Khrushchev on many occa-
sions reiterated his theory
that humanity irrevocably is
headed toward communism.
He asserted that this evolu-
ton started when feudalism
gradually was replaced by
capitalism, which. however,
has displayed so many weak
points and has become so
completely inadequate for
the present economical and
social developments of nations
that inevitably, almost fatal
istically, the world is head
ing now toward socialism
and communism and. con-
sequently sooner or later all
countries must become COM
munistic. Such confusing
statements, unchallenged and
without being disproved and
fully explained, may produce
an extremely dangerous
propaganda effect on back
ward and newly established
countries, such as we ind
mostly at present In Asia and
Africa, which may assume
. that, since such a trend to-
ward communism is unavoid-
able. they'd better get on the
bandwagon and turn toward
communism.
The truth is that the
present system in Soviet
Russia is not communism but
a dictatorial state capitalism.
where the state is the only
monopolistic employer and
at its within can crush any
employee or worker. Our sys-
tenn, however, is not q capi-
talistic system. but q demo-
cratic free enterprise system,
which has thousands Of en-
ployers and, therefore, the
working man is in a position
to protect his interest by col
lective bargaining. Our sys-
tenn has already adopted and
is constantly adopting more
measures which we find in the
theoretical socialistlc system.
which gives to the individual
maximum protection of lib
erty and initiative, and at
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