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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the A£t of March 3. 1379.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, February 23, 1949
Moral Re-Armament Presents Satisfactory Ideology
(New World News)
In 1945. America emerged as the strongest military
power in the world—victorious with her allies on land,
sea, and air in a two-front war. Everywhere she was
hailed as liberator. Today, one after the other, the coun
tries she sought to liberate have been swallowed up by
a new form of totalitarianism.
The war started over Poland. Poland is gone. Ameri
can troops withdrew from Czechoslovakia. Czechoslo
vakia is gone.
China for years before Pearl Harbor fought valiantly
against the Japanese without and the communists with
in. Now Manchuria is gone and China totters. A com
munist victory in China will provide a Far East bloc
of satellite votes for Russia in the United Nations. And
the democraies may find themselves outvoted as well
as out-vetoed.
The facts of life in the world spell out the awful truth
that mighty America is today at this moment being out
fought in a global war of ideas that may yet carry Amer
ica itself before it.
“Soviet Russia,” said a statesman recently, “is as far
ahead in ideological preparedness as America is ahead
of it in atomic preparedness. The irony of that fact is
that is is ideologies that ultimately decide how, when or
if atom bombs may be used. Even America is waking up
to the fact that more than 200 top-secret docmuments
have fallen into the hands of communist agents: token
of the fact that men’s loyalties and motives will con
trol the destiny of the atomic bomb.
In June, 1948, 82 Senators and Congressmen called
world leaders to American to train in Ideological Pre
paredness at a World Assembly for Moral Re-Arma
ment. “The developing world situation puts on over
riding priority on skill in ideological warfare,” they
cabled.
Events since then have only highlighted the truth of
their convictions. Ideological preparedness is the first
necessity of the day.
Where can America find the skill and the know-how
to train its ideological fighters on an adequate scale to
turn the tide? In this issue a former assistant commis
sion of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gives a pic
lure of an ideologcal training center in action.
Here also is evidence of what this kind of ideological
training can achieve—bringing new unity between
Frenhmen and Germans; helping swing the balance in
Finland, which only a few months ago was written off
by many as another Czechoslovakia.
The job can be done in time. There is room for every
last person in the fight.
PEACE LIKE THUNDER
(The Christian Science Monitor)
History drags its feet in China. Not ev$n catastrophe
happens overnight in that slow-moving land. Peace
comes up like thunder and hangs, rumbling and uncer
tain, over the scene.
The Chinese Nationalists, it is said, find it even hard
er to make peace than the war war. Local surrender and
local resistance make a shifting, piece-meal pattern fn
the huge Chinese puzzle. The ancient and honorable art
of bargaining for advantage goes on behind apparent
breakdown.
It may be argued that Communist victories put the
Reds in no mood for bargaining or making concessions.
Certainly their harsh terms amount to a demand for un
conditional surrender. Yet many observers and students
of the situation are convinced that some of their con
quests are as much of an embarrassment as a victory.
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With a severe shortage of party personnel trained for
the staggering economic and governmental tasks ahead
of them, the Communists for a long time to come will
; have to entrust the running of many vital areas of Chi
nene life to non-communists. Consolidation of their po
! sition north of the Yangtze is likely to be more import
; ant to them than spreading themselves thin through the
i whole of South China.
These are modifying factors which may conduce in
practice to a better peace than the paper terms offered.
There will undoubtedly be pockets of warlord resist
ance. There may be a rump Nationalist government in
Taiwan or elsewhere, though with a nuisance value
j more than any real effectiveness as a focal point for
i anti-communist action.
Through a period of many years whatever peace
terms are adopted will be undergoing adjustment to the
complex actualities of China.
Some Americans declare that all such considerations
are frivolous. The stark fact is, they say, that China is
moving over into the Soviet orbit. The shift of direction
is certainlv stark. The rate and manner of movement,
the possibilities of diversion and modification along the
way, are subject to variable factors it would be unreal
istic to ignore. Nothing could becloud the issue more
than to talk of China as though it were a close-knit,
highly developed unit like Rhode Island.
There is at least a possibility of a genuine Soviet-sat
ellite Mandhurian state under the Moscow-trained Li
Lisan, and a much more nationalist Chinese state under
Mao Tse-tung. The more obvious Russian influence be
comes in China, the greater will be the dead weirrht of
Chinese resistance to it. The Confucian ideal of tho
golden mean, even in its corrupt form of unprincipled
compromise, already has influenced the party line in
China.
ECA officials Paul G. Hoffman and Roger Lapham
have recommended that American aid to China be con
tinued under whatever government or governments
may arise through this transitional period, but that it be
made conditional on the guaranteeing of certain basic
rights to theOhinese people. This is sound advice, if car
ried out in a way both compassionate and hard-bitten.
The peace for which that long-suffering people prays
is likely to be, under the best of circumstances, only
slightly less tragic than war. Through the slow night of
their emergence into freedom, one of the chief aims of
American policy must be to show the people of China
that the United States is their friend—and the friend of
any government which will genuinely serve the peo
ple's interest.
WRESTLING STIRS RAILROAD FAIR
CHICAGO, (/P)—A gentleman was taking in the
sights of the Chicago Railroad Fair. He say a big crowd
clotted around a booth. This, the fellow figured, must be
the most marvelous of all the mechanical marvels on
display. He wormed his way through to a television set.
The folks were watching a wrestling match telecast.
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Internation’l News
At A Glance —
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to return to Nanking.
The communists have been si
ting north of the Yangtze for
seven weeks and have given no
indication they intend to cross the
river right away. •
The Republican Socialist cabi
net of Bolivia resigned yesterday
to permit President Enrique Hert
zog to form a coalition of all
groups which supported the revo
lution of 1946.
Such a cabinet is believed to
have a better chance of meeting
renewed threats of an extreme
right-wing coup d’etat.
Bolivia has been under an of
ficial “state of siege” since Satur
day when the government claimed
to have thwarted a plot by the na
tionalist revolutionary movement
to seize power.
Anna Louise Strong, American
newspaperwoman charged by the
Russians with being a spy, has
been deported from the Soviet
Union. T he Soviet press an
nouncement did not state where
she was deported.
Meanwhile the Moscow Literary
G;izet e has published a book by
Annabelle Bucar, resigned U. S.
embassy employee, in which she
charges that high embassy offi
cials have engaged in black mar
ket operations in the Soviet capi
tal. The book is titled “The Truth
About American Diplomats.”
In Paris the libel suit by the
anti-Soviet writer Victor A. Krav
chenko has provoked a Russian
demand that France hand over
three of his witnesses as alleged
war criminals.
Relations between Yugoslavia
And Albania, strained since Mar
shal Tito’s split with the comin
form, are growing worse. The lat
est blast came yesterday when
Yugoslavia accused her tiny
neighbor of provoking border
►troubles.
A Trans-Jordan delegation is
due at Rhodes Thursday to begin
armistice talks with Israel. An
Egyptian delegation, which has
been negotiating there since Jan.
13, may make known today the
decision of the Cairo government
on a compromise draft agreement
for an armistice which the Israeli
cabinet is reported to have ac
cepted.
Wednesday. February 23. 1949
Russia’s minister of armed
forces told his millions of soldiers
today to maintain “constant com
bat preparedness” against the
United States.”
Marshal Nikolai Bulganin issued
an order of the day commemorat
ing the Red Army’s 31st anniver
sary. It said among other things:
The ruling circles of the United
States, which seek to establish
their world domination by force,
pursue a policy of aggression and
of unleashing* a new war. In these
circumstances, the Soviet armed
fortes must indefagitably main
tain constant combat prepared
ness on a high level.”
Then he asserted that Russia Is
constantly’ striving for lasting
peace throughout the world.”
The theme was echoed in the
| Satellite state of Poland.
Government and army leaders
of that Red country predicted ca
tastrophe for what they called
American and British imperialists
and war adventurers.
Egypt approved an armistice
with Israel, which largely af
firmed Jewish victories in the
southern Negev desert of Pales
tine. The Israeli cabinet already
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