Communist Influence
Reviewed By Speaker
The threat of Communism ib be
Homing more serious today than
ever before, due to the alliance of
Communist China with Moscow.
The United States policy of cater
ing to the wants of the people in
Asiatic countries, in order to woe
them is doomed to failure These
conclusions, and many others, were
voiced by Dr. Victor Strash, staff
teacher of the Kodiak High School,
who spoke before the Rotary Club
«t the groups meeting Tuesday.
“If we cannot fill every rice
bowl, and we cannot,” the Doctor
said, “then by our own premise
we fail! Yet today, we are spend
ing most of our money and ef
fort .in an effbrt to catch
up with the poverty, misery, and
discontent of non-commlini3t Asia.
To many people in Asia we stall
appear to be pushing a gun into
one hand and a rice bowl into Jie
other without adequate explana
tion of why we are doing either.”
“Point Four projects are line as
far as they go, but they also make
the task of the Communists that
much easier. Communists have no
objection to improving agriculture,
industry, and communications, so
long as they can successfully dis
credit our motives and use to their
own purposes the social disrup
tions.
Dr. Strash stated that the mili
tary, economic and political meas
ures were not wrong, but they
should be tied together in an in
tellectual framework. “One plan
should be to create an intellectual
climate favorable to us, to our way
of thinking and living.” He de
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scribed the intellectual climate in
Asiatic countries as the prevailing
stock of ideas, concepts and atti
tudes.
The speaker stated that we as a
nation should come into closer con
tact with the people on the intel
lectual level. Leaders among the
Chinese communists, lie pointed
out, are from this level. “Moa-Tse
Tung was a librarian, not a farm
er, and Chou-En-Lui Is one of the
smoothest intellectuals ot modern
China. The bandits of Malaya are
led by highly trained non Malayan
Chinese.”
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the intellectual unemployed, Dr.
Strash said, “and to the sloppily
educated intelectual proletariat.
Asia today, but there are many
Few great universities exist in
poorly staffed and badly equipped
schools and educational institu
tions.*’ Describing the students in
cities such as Bombay, Tokyo, Car
cutta, Peiping and others, as “soc
ially volatile,” he said these
groups are “sufficiently literate to
absorb slogans, stifficiently inse
cure to believe promises, and emo
tional enough to take political ac
tion.”
The influence of the “intellectu
al climate” played a very import
ant part in the conquest of China
by the Communists. “Most of the
men who rule -from Peiping today
were graduated from Soviet mili
tary and political schools in the
late ’20’s or early ’30’s.”
On the other hand, the speaker
pointed out, thousands of Chinese
who refused to compromise with
the communists are on Formosa
and in Hong Kong- today. These
have been influenced by the Amer
ican concept of the democratic
life.
Turning to Japan, Dr. Strash said
that that country is the most im
portant objective of the interna
tional Communist movement in
Asia. There again the Communists
are attempting to influence the in
tellectual climate of the country.
“It is clear that Japan has been
through a very violent change of
(intellectual climate as a result of
war, occupation, and democratiza
tion.”
“What do we see today in Ja
pan?" the speaker asked. We find
Japanese opposed to rearmament,
a critical attitude towards Ameri
ca, a favorable view of the new re
gime in China. The Japanese want
to see an end to the old feudal
value system. They wish to resist
militarism. The Japanese'wonder
why democracy is against com
i
munism. They believe America is
reactionary and that intellectuals
live under a reign of terror.
Going on to point out the simi
larity in other countries like In
dia, Indonesia and e/en Formosa,
the speaker asked, “How should
we proceed with our democrat iza
tion program?” “It is more a mat
ter of sharing than of selling, of
sharing the things that Americans
believe in.”
' Communisma thrives on ignor
ance,” Strash stated. “We should
do everything we can ta open up
channels of communication be
tween all non-communist Asiatic
countries on a vast scale. He urged
an impact of our ideas be made
on the military authorities of these
countries. “We must have highly
qualified men for our representa
tives abroad,” he said. He urged
men versed in communist ideolo
gy, as a counteracting influence.
Strash urged the establishment
of research centers, in nan com
munist countries, where problems
could be discussed. “Communists
have been laboring for years to get
where they are. It may take just
as long for us to tui n ine intellec
tual tide as it did ior them. But
we should start now,'' Ur. Strash
concluded
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