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Monday, March 29, 1948
Why The Russians Are Mad
(By Lawrence Martin)
WHY TS RUC»STA nc9 Thorp’s a question
that goes to the heart of the world crisis.
The answer to it may indicate whether we can ever
agree with the Russians so that we and they can live to
gether in a peaceful world.
It is an answer that defies condensation into a few glib
sentences. Nevertheless, for anyone with the patience
and interest to read it, the record makes the answer
crystal clear. Here are the essential facts from that rec
ord:
1— The Marxian doctrine of Communist enmity
against “all existing social orders.”
The Soviet Union is only thirty years old, but we must
go back exactly 100 years to find the roots of Russian
enmity against us.
One hundred years ago in February, 1848, Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels, pioneers Communists, produced
the Communist manifesto.
It stated (in forty-four pages) that capitalism and
communism cannot live together in the world. One or
the other must be destroyed. All the rhetorical condem
nations of capitalism were wrapped up into this ringing
declaration of war:
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every
revolutionary movement against the existing social and
political order of things.
“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and
aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attain
ed only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social
conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Commun
ist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but
their chains. They have a world to win.”
The “forcible overthrow” of all capitalist or moder
ately socialistic institutions through a Communist world
revolution by violence, remains todav the dream of the
Communists as it was the dream of Marx and Engels.
And that is the first reason the Russians are mad at us.
We are “capitalists.” We must be destroyed.
They are Communists, who believe in one world—a
Communist world.
As the most powerful example of capitalist society,
the United States is the principal target of Communist
hate.
2— Lenin made Marx effective.
When Lenin grabbed control of the Russian revolu
tion during World War I, hedefied all l\is milder, more
moderate Socialist comrades. He made of the Red rev
olution an uncompromising break with capitalism and
with “educational” Socialism Direct and forcible ac
tion, violence and destruction of all men and institutions
not communist was his program.
He first put it into effect in Kussia.
He drew a line. Anyone even half an inch to the right
of that line was an enemy of the people. That included
all Socialists who had not turned Communist. That’s
why Communists today fight the moderate Socialist
parties of Europe, denouncing them as traitors.
Less than a year after he had submerged Russia un
der the Communist wave, Lenin put his world revolu
tion under way.
He set up the Third International in March, 1919.
It was to run the Second International out of busi
ness. The Second International was the worldwide or
ganization of Socialists. Lenin regraded the Second In
ternational as little less than a stooge of capitalism.
The Third International was given the job of doing for
the rest of the world what Lenin had done for Russia—
Sovietize it.
It operated through the Comintern, a skilfully organ
ised organization with lots of money (Czarist gold, dia
BEHIND THE FALSE FRONT I
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monds, rubies, and other treasures seized by the Com
mies paid its bills). It was headed by the shrewdest,'
most unscrupulous agitators, orators, organizers and
propagandists Lenin could find.
They went all over the world from their big building'
in Moscow, right next door to the Kremlin. •
They spread the hate and anger of the Communism
against all other forms of government. i
They organized Communist parties in every country, i
They incited workers to strikes and sabotage.
They carried huge sums of money into Germany and
other countries, trying to stir up communist revolts.
They ordered all Communists everywhere to take or-!
ders directly from Moscow.
Thus did Lenin modernize and put a cutting edge to
the philosophical phrases of Marx. He made of Russian
Communism a fire-breathing, hating violent organiza
tion, pledged to destruction of all opposing forces.
A Job For First-Rate Men
(Rocky Mountain News)
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES soon will be
asked to vote its Committee on Un-American Activities
a 1948 appropriation of $200,000—double the amount
provided last year.
Before granting this request, we believe, the House
should act decisively to strengthen and improve the
committee. Investigation of un-American activities is a
proper and essential function of Congress, more so now
than ever before. The task is one of great difficulty. It
calls for the services of first-rate men; men of wisdom,!
fairness and sound judgment; men soberly interested in
finding facts rather than in creating sensations and ob
taining personal publicity.
Too few such men have served as members of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities. For that
reason, the committee has not commanded the high de
gree of public confidence it needs, and often has laid it- j
self open to damaging criticism.
Most recent case in point is that of Dr. Edward U.
Condon, scientist and director of the government’s bur
eau of standards.
He was accused in a report made public by the com
mittee’s chief investigator, of being “one of the weakest
links in our atomic security.” The report actually was
that of a three-member sub-committee, and had not yet
been considered by the full committee.
If Dr. Condon is a loyal and discreet public servant,
this charge, it seems to us, was based on incomplete in
vestigation and partial evidence—for example, on one
sentence lifted from its context in a letter written by
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Little or no effort appar
ently was made, to get the full facts, or to give Dr. Con
don’an opportunity to defend himself before being pub
licly accused.
Both Dr. Condon and the American people clearly are
entitled to a thorough investigation which will bring out
the complete truth and determine whether he is or is
not a trustworthy guardian of
atomic information. «
But, just as clearly, the Commit
tee on Un-American Activities
disqualified itself to conduct such
an investigation when some of its
members prejudged the case with
out getting all the evidence.
The remedy is not, as Commun
ists and others say, to abolish the
committee. The remedy is to ren
ovate the committee, raise the cal
iber of its membership, and make
it more effective.
That’s That
By BRUCE GUSTIN
Soviet Russia has swallowed the
Czechs. But can it digest them?
Hitler tried it. When his Nazi leg
ions swarmed into Prague in
March, 1939, and seized control of
Bohemia and Monravia. Jan Ma
saryk, then Czech minister in Lon
don, predicted “the Czechs will at
any rate give Germany a stomach
ache.” They did. And there is
nothing in their history to indicate
they will like Communist tyranny
any better than Nazi dictatorship
or the rule of their former Aus
trian-Hungarian masters.
As soon as they grabbed control
of the government in Czechoslo
vakia, the Communists moved
swiftly to establish the one-party
system upon which their dictator
ship depends. Some eighty mem
bers of parliament who are class
ed as “unreliable” which means
anti-Communist, are slated for ex
pulsion. Official announcement
was made that no former official
of the Czech National Socialist,
Peoples or Slovak Democratic par
ties will be allowed an active part
in public %life until he has been
“rehabilitated.”
The Communist campaign for
600,000 new party members in
Czechoslovakia by May 1 is in
tended to give the outside world
the impression that they are the'
majority party. They now claim
about 1,400,000 members. To keep
up the pretense that their system
of government is what Moscow
propagandists call the “new de
mocracy,” the Communists by
hook or crook must win the next
Czech election, now scheduled for
early June, by a decisive majority.
Postponement of the election
would be an admission of political
weakness.
One may well wonder about the
“suicide” stories coming out of
Czechoslovakia since Communist
seizure of power there and estab
lishment of a Red dictatorship.
The government announced that
Jan Masaryk, foreign minister,
committed suicide by jumping
from a window. Just after the
Communist coup, it was announc
ed that Dr. Prokop Drtina, minis
ter of justice and former secretary
to President Benes had attempted
suicide by jumping from a win
dow. International News Service
reported that an investigation
showed he would have had to
make a twenty-foot flying leap
from his window, clearing a tree
and a stone wall, to reach the spot
where his body was found. Anti
Communists in Prague, it seems,
had better keep away from win
dows if they do not want to “com
mit suicide.”
The Ball proposal plainly is no
solution of the problem of how to
stop* Communist aggression. Under
the plan suggested by the Minne
sota Seantor, a new veto-free, su
per-international council would be
created outside the United Nations
to defend all member nations
against “aggression” or “subver
sion.” Each of the eleven nations
now represented on the U. N. se
curity council would be eligible