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Show Friday, June 24, 1966 Page 2 The American Statesman THE UTAH STATESMAN J. BRACKEN LEE, Editor and Publisher Anthony G. Hats is Samuel S. Arentz, Charles H. Foote, Hubbard S. Russell, Anthony G. Hatsis. Business Manager Board of Directors: The War Of Minds (Continued from page 1, col. 2) enslavement The following is a very incomplete list of its methods Lake Office Salt Utah, at Post the at Class matter as City, 2nd Entered propaganda. The main contempounder the act of March 3, 1879 rary targets of this stratagem are Rate $5.00 the peoples of Asia and Africa. By per year Subscription urging them to fix their eyes, concentrate their cries, and shake their Published weekly by The American Statesman fists at defunct Western colonialState Exchange Bldg., 345 So. State st ism, propaganda Salt Lake City 11, Utah them from hearing seeing, prevents Telephone DAvis and checking rampant Soviet coloADVERTISING RATE $3.25 PER COLUMN INCH nialism. B. Exploitation of Western Psychological Weakness Any article in this paper may be reprinted without special permission, Inertia unless otherwise stated on article. Communism speculates on the political inertia by which the sympathy once won for it among WestVoL 14, No. 26 Friday, June 24, 1960 ern liberals, through its early kinship with Socialist movements and their emancipating aims, continues to be extended to it Communism has made its whole career as an imposter within the Left: It leads the Left to believe that is is for the workers, for progress, for ecorationality, for social justice, In 1947, the University of Utah received 26.2 per cent nomic for the independence of peoples of its revenue from the State. Along came the in short, that it stands for the same Governor of Utah, J. ideas at the Left, when, in fact, it is enemy of education newly-electe- d Bracken Lee. digging its grave. WHILE THE USSR leads proThe percentage jumped to 38.8 per cent, a little more gressive thinkers to believe that than two million dollars for the year 1958. The University its economy has no equal in the it leads realistic thinkers continued to receive approximately the same amount of money world, to believe is the that its until 1951 when their percentage of income jumped to 39.7 same as everybodydiplomacy elses. In the first case, it plays on the inertia per cent. that perpetuates credos; in the sec1954 during Governor Lee's second ond case, it , The big jump came in plays on the laziness term. The University of Utahs percentage of income from that favors quiescence; and in both the state jumped to 42.2 per cent, or .almost four million cases, it lies. THE NOTION that the USSR is dollars. a power like the others" in its Two years after J. Bracken Lees last term as governor, international behavior caters to intellectual laziness because it elimthe percentage dropped to 33.6 per cent. inates the necessity of giving special to Soviet ways. And The Utah Education Association continued to call Mr. that treatment the Kremlin substantial yields Lce the enemy of education. for it Western leadinduces profits, ers to believe that with the Soviets Such out and out fabrication of actuality by the UEA, a Conference, a Treaty and a Minisand similar irresponsibility by the parent organization, the ter are what they seem to be rather infamous NEA, leads us to support the move underway to than what they actually are a trap, a piece of paper and a menial launch a senate investigation of the NEA. All the considerations that tend When shown, by the then governor of Utah, that the to dissolve the. abnormal, sham character the Soviet world into University of Utah was getting its fair share of the states its normalof standards of decency, money and that to give them any more the state would have contribute greatly to its victory. ' to cut the .budgets of other departments, budgets which great many such considerationsA had been approved by the State Legislature, the UEA scoffed. have found a wide response in the West, among which are the s. crypto-Communi- 88 To Put To Lie! so-call- ed This in no way slowed down the UEA Prime example of their rash spending habits is the building of a high school parking lot, when: (1) the school has a shortage of books; (2) there are less than 125 students who could, by the most generous estimate, have a need or live beyond the limit of having to get there by themselves ; (3) the school will not grow but decline in number of students; (4) another high school is being built within its present boundary for students. Now, these figures quoted are not ours, nor are they the States, but come directly from the University of Utah. (Bulletin of the University of Utah, for the year ending June money-grabber- 30, 1958.) --J. DOHN LEWIS COMMITTEE OF ONE MILLION PE T I T I O N (Send to your Congressman and Senators) We continue to oppose the seating of Communist China in the United Nations, thus upholding international morality and keeping faith with the thousands of American youths who gave their lives fighting Communist aggression in Korea. To seat a Communist China which defies, by word and deed, the principles of the U.N. Charter would be to betray the letter, violate the spirit and subvert the purposes of that charter. We further continue to oppose United States diplomatic recognitions or any other steps which would build the power and prestige of the Chinese Communist regime to the detriment of our friends and allies in Asia and of our national security. Any such action would break faith with our dead and the unfortunate Americans still wrongfully imprisoned by Communist China and would dishearten our friends and allies in Asia whose continued will to resist Communist Chinas pressures and blandishments is so vital to our own security interests in that part of the world. ... A SOVIET statesman was, after all, a comrade-in-arm- s in the last war. Yes, but whereas in the West a statesman is still a man whose personal inclinations and friendships may count, in the NSSR he is a rigid performer of the Politburos directives. . . . THE RUSSIAN people do not want war (any more than any other people). Yes, but whereas in the West the people have a bearing on politics, in the USSR they have nothing to say. ... A CONFERENCE is better than a rebuff. Yes, between people who confer in order to explain themselves or to reach an agreement; but not with the Soviets, who do so only to bring into play the duplicitous propaganda by which they hope to win the contest without striking a blow. . . . EVERYONE has done some wrong. Yes, but the wrongs of some are wrongs; those of the Soviets are crimes. Conscience The Kremlin, now much more colonialist and imperialist than the West, plays on the uneasy conscience that the past faults of the West create in Western public opin' ion. Thus ... IT PLAYS on the traditional pacifism of this public opinon to make all firmness look like warmongering. . . . IT FORCES the democracies into a defensive military posture and then capitalizes on the remorse with which their rearmament has filled them. ... IT COUNTS on democracys tolerance to induce toleration for the CPs, which are the personification of intolerance. while no risk is run in berating the West Rivalries Communist propaganda pounces on every bone of contention that divides the free world internally, and it embitters conflicts at will t drums up our national, ideological and economic rivalries. If the ree world were not threatened by Communist totalitarianism, it would be right to allow these frictions free ... IT PLAYS on the liberals traditional mistrust of their own rein, for from than an advanced states so as to force them into an society can in normal times derive the ferment of progress. But to inoppositional temper, which parathese frictions at a time when lyzes the attempt to unite Western dulge the combined forces of all its mem-er- s forces against Soviet totalitarianare barely sufficient to comism. bat the encroachments of theCom-,-. IN SHORT, one of the key aims munist bloc only reveals confuof Soviet propaganda is to bury sion and decay. It brings to mind liberals in their own priciples. It the spectacle of Byzantium lost in is high time for democrats to shake arguments over the Eucharist on off the spell and reject the specu- the eve of the Turks entrance withlation made on their purity by the in its walls. impure. Ignorance In democratic societies, the massFear es and a large part of the elite are successes of Soviet propaMany only incidentally concerned with ganda are due not to conviction but politics, for they do not fully reato fear. The Kremlin displays its lize that their own philosophy, power to the maximum and even which subordinates government to displays more than it actually has. the consent of the governed, makes In this way it develops a conces- their fate dependent on politics. sion reflex among the masses of But the Soviets are aware of this. people. In similar fashion it gets For this reason, while they crush a great many prominent persons freedom of opinion in their own to go over to its side, in the belief realm, they have that in case of victory such a power themselves to circumvent it in the will be ruthless to its opponents. West. THE SOVIETS are active in politics every day of the year and have accumulated for use against democrats who are only Sunday politicians an enormous stockpile of (Continued from page 1, col. 4) views, counter-view- s, formulas, falwhich b rough fulminations from lacies, dilectical attitudes, arguthe White House a few hours ments, which are hollow and easily later. taken to pieces if closely examined A new period now begins, but which impress laymen. In this, quoth the Rockefeller explanation they enjoy the benefits of a bluff of why he is being forced into the which an unscrupulous professional Presidency. It summons new men. can easily put ova1 on New problems demand new ideas, amateurs. This represents a new actions. His idea of new hole in the free worlds inactions" apparently included such gaping tellectual armor. items as Federal Aid to Education, (To be continued) socialized medicine, labor reforms and doing something for the Best of all we though was his farmers. The new men, peroration: we presume, he will supply. Others The path of great leadership of his new ideas consisted of does not lie along the top of a the Pentagon, more fence. spending for immediate defense It climbs heights. needs, a revision of tax policies It speaks truths. to encourage investment" anc The people want and need one (where have we heard this before? thing above all others: a leadership reorganizing the Government Ho of clear purpose, candidly prodidnt mention the outsize nationa claimed. debt or recovering our internationWe have heard no more al trade balance, but thinks our endorsement of Senator eloquent Barry economy must grow faster. Goldwater. ... IT EXPLOITS the concern of liberal circles for objectivity in order to incite neutralism, on the pretext of striking a balance between Americas faults and those of the USSR! in fact, of course, it is impossible to be neutral between freedom and slavery. . over-equipp- . ed Rockefeller well-meanin- g low-inco- Nominate Anyone You Please, Im Voting For Goldwater - |