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rs our thin* ^ a- he urged us to base our policy on
ill permeatf of ehrrar'eons assumption that thc wishes
instance, * ne Russian people determine Com-
esenhower, mun'« policy.
of all tra* ' am convinced from my own ex-
n,riesi/,M ^dvno?vas we"as from ™y years of
i would U* s[ra(^ o' Communist aims, methods, and
issia for an! egy, lhat the policy being urged
urther sta" ,(\ .us hY Ihe British government, and
(live "to * nonl |me,r'Can suPPor'ers of ibis policy,
rces," and" amon.« l "^ "" h°pe of liberation
done by <*• peonl8 Russian people and other
oviet Emp" j',les "nder Communist rule anil thus
e Jenner* ranneasurably strengthen the Soviet tv-
■s, lhat bre* and **"d increase both its capacity for,
ling relati* T, '" l°> aggression.
would b*' early sLe?V° doubl> a lime »' i,s
and streng» as it di>e/f wncn communism appcal.il
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to belie"!',8- ru'e' il is no lonSer Possible
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cause , T of a better world> bul >""
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, ™E MEANING OF TERROR
,s difficult for
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wh0 h "cl w,lal terror means. People
irna™i„re, "ever been hungry cannot
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of ,|,.U| '" llave never known the fear
8elveg b °' slavery, not only for them-
a total','."■ ''U'r 'oved ones' ""(l,'i
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cause anyone may h
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or neighbor
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the n._mse}f-.This terror which k
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iseryj: '"'hiu.l the Iron Curtain
°n the "° llas a terrible effeel
'■'nioi, .'"'""''cs close to the Soviet
Hie,,. ,,n(J menaced by communism.
you or t'e|('ar ^ of whal will happen to
F°m«l>Unii iy°Ur fami|y if an<1 when the
ds whi v T" P°wer- People in the
Sonietimes 3r ^omrn,'nist conquest
nis's or i gH1e mo'icy lo lhe Commu-
■nunists „" °, er ways assist the Commons aL° because they have any illu
ftr . aOOUt r.„~ J .
masses
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The only way to overcome that debilitating fear is to arouse confidence and
hope that there is a banner on our side
to which brave men can repair with
some hope of saving their countries,
their families, and their faith. Every
time we give way to Communist pressures or bolster up Communist governments by diplomatic dickering and nice
words, such as Mr. Churchill is so fond
of addressing to the Soviet Union, we
strike fear into the hearts of millions of
people. They have seen how. in the pasl.
we have been ready to grasp the bloody
band of tbe Communist tyrants in
friendship, and they are always afraid
we may do it again if it suits our purpose—and then what would happen to
those who had been on our side?
The breaking off of diplomatic relations as recommended by Senators Jenner and McCarran would allay such
fears by recreating confidence in American leadership of the free world.
The people who have already had
personal experience of what Communist
rule means are today our most reliable
allies. We have seen this in the case of
the people of Berlin and East Germany.
Today, I consider that the Germans and
probably also the Spaniards are our
most reliable allies in Europe—thanks
to the fad that they have seen for themselves what Soviet Russia is like, or
what communism means. The Spaniards
experienced the horror of communism
in their civil war. In the case of lhe
Germans, they not only know what
their brothers are suffering in Soviet
Germany; almost every German family
has a member who fought in Russia or
who was a prisoner in Russia, or elieal
of starvation there. Others know what
Communist conquest means by their
experience of the raping, looting, and
murder of the Red Army. These people
can be counted upon to prefer death
to Soviet slavery.
You will have heard that the slogan
which the late Ernst Renter, mayor of
Rerlin, gave to his people during the
blockade was "Better a horrible end
than horror without end." A year ago
lhe people of East Berlin and East Germany gave signal proof in their unarmed uprising against the Communist
power thai they are prepared to die for
liberty. But here again we must recognize the fact lhat men must have hope
and the right of self-defense if they arc
lo remain on our side. Tbe Germans are
still denied the right of self-defense.
Thanks to French stalling on the EDC
treaty, we have still not accepted the
West Germans as our allies. We may
succeed in forcing them to try to save
themselves by coming to terms with
Moscow if we convince them that this
is the only way in which they can hope
to reunite their country, or avoid the
fate of being conquered by the Com-
munisls because we refused to let them
Fehruarl'
. FACTS
pORTJM
NEWS, February, 1955
HATE FIRES FANNED
As we know, the Communist technique is always to divide and rule. In
the case of our former enemies, the
Communists and their friends and dupes
have continued successfully to divide us
by keeping the old hate fires burning.
There is another point which I think
we should take into consideration in
considering the techniques of communism and the manner in which it has
successfully advanced its power so fast
and so far. I refer here to what one
might call the demand for perfection.
We have seen how, in the case of one
of our most loyal allies, Chiang Kai-
shek, the charge continually made by
lhe Communists and echoed by many
good but deluded Americans, was that
the Nationalist government of China
was so undemocratic and corrupt that
we should cease to give it any aid. This
propaganda was so successful that we
abandoned our Chinese allies, denied
them arms and ammunition in the most
critical period of the civil war and thus
helped bring lhe Communists to power
in China.
The same game, in a minor way, has
been played on Syngman Rhee. It is
clear that the Communists and their
friends and dupes have been extremely
successful in undermining and vilifying
some of our best allies by making impossible demands for the premature
establishment of American democratic
institutions and methods of government
in backward countries fighting against
communism.
I was in China in 1945-46 during the
period of General Marshall's mission
and saw how United States policy was
distorted by the influence of the Communists and their dupes and by the
"dumb liberals" who failed to realize
that Chinese Communist rule would be
a calamity for us as well as for lhe Chinese people. I warned against the consequences of the Marsball-Acbcson policy in a book called Last Chance in
China, published in 1947. But my voice,
like that of others who realized what
must be the consequence of the Truman-
Acheson China policy, was drowned by
the I I'll chorus and other friends of the
Chinese Communists. In 1951, in The
China Story, I told the story of those
tragic postwar years during which
American policy was based on a complete misunderstanding of lhe nature
anil aims of communism.
RESOLUTE ACTION AVOIDED
Even today this misunderstanding
contii s in the Western world i„ a
revised form, as illustrated by my quotations from Sir Winston Churchill's
most recent statement.
Today we are in danger of disheartening the resistance forces in the Communist world, not because we any
longer believe in the false promises of
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