Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-22

U. N, urges all nations to
scrap their ornaments and
demobilize their armies. What
a propaganda line! Even if
the West were supplemented
enough to agree to such a
thing. the Soviet Union and
its puppet nations would not
fulfill their end Of the bar
gain. Sure. they would sign
on the dotted line, but, inso-
far as they are concerned,
they would just regard the
agreement as a scrap of
paper.
Back in 1922 we entered
into an agreement known as
the $3.50 naval ratio. Under
the terms Of this agreement,
the United States, Britain
and Japan agreed to salvage
or sink a certain number Of
their warships. The United
States (true to its word as
always got rid of a number
of its warships, but the
Japanese did not. They built
more 'warshipS instead.
Ever since he came to pow
er, Khrushchev has posed
as a man Of peace" He ever
lastingly programmes the
world on the need for out
having mass destruction
weapons. He says he wants
both East and West to come
to an agreement to bar nu-
clear weapons in any future
war. Why? Is 1t because he
is a sweet loving man of
peace" who fears for the
safety Of all mankind? Not
at ALL What he fears is our
stockpile of nuclear weapons
and our means of delivering
them. He knows that with
our modern weapons we hold
a pretty good hand Of cards,
SO to speak. Something like
a royal flush compared with
his pair of deuces.
So, what he wants is future
wars brush wars preferred)
with orthodox weapons, be-
cause he reasons that in such
wars he would hold the win
ming hand.
Let's soft-pedal the great
~ exaggerated propaganda
about the "fallout peril"
Let's stop the chatter that
nuclear weapons are a curse
and the work of the devil.
Our stockpile Of nuclear
weapons is a blessed gift of
a gracious Providence, en-
trusted to our keeping for the
maintenance of peace and
the salvation of civilization.
Walter Fielder.
y
I'VE represent a Commu-
mist corporation; you repre-
sent a capitalist corporation"
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
told the Economic Club in
N. Y. He went on to boast how
many more engineers were
being graduated in the Soviet
Union, how large capital in
vestment was going to be,
how many more metric tons
or rolled metal were in the
offing. and how "enthusias-
tic" the Soviet people were
with all this. Meanwhile
Karl Marx was furiously
turning over in his grave.
But, as Henry Cabot Lodge,
our ambassador to the United
Nations and guide for the So
Wet Premier, pointed out. the
capitalism" against which
Marx inveighed has long ago
been overthrow" in the
United States, as Marx fore
saw could be done here with
out violent revolution. (The
American Civil War, however,
was violent enough.) Not the
Russians, but I'VE live in a
welfare state which seeks to
put a floor below which no
one sinks, but builds no CELL
ing to prevent man from
rising" as Mr.. Lodge said.
AS Prof. Sidney Hook
pointed out, in the Saturday
Review of June 6, it is "a
grave historical political error
to permit the Communists to
claim Marx as their own.
Marxism is one Of the best
Standpoints from which to
criticize communism"
Marx was wrong about a lot
of things, but he was betting
on the courage and dignity
of the working class. Not for
one second would he have
shown any patience with the
defilement of dignity of indie
pendent workers which Khru-
shchev, only a little less than
Stain, represents.
Stephen Rock.
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