Show U S russia fight diplomatic e c battle truman t ruman doctrine termed preventive against conflict by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator VI 11 NU service 1616 ea ee e street N W washington D C washington there is no im eminent danger of war between the united states and russia you ve heard that before and as tar far as I 1 know it is true there is a d plo matic struggle go ing on between the two countries the scope and importance of which few people realize when I 1 say important I 1 mean important in all senses but one numan life in wt which a real shooting war is important involved are the other two factors in the trinity of rights to which am amen en cans believe they are heir liberty and the pursuit of happ ness this has been clear to observers in washington baukhage whether they merely look with their eyes at the external evidence or scent with news noses the currents which are wafted over transoms and under the big oak doors of the sanctum sanctorum of the sanctis simi sharp words have tumbled over one another since the first verbal barrage which was the presidential message of march 12 1947 s some ome times described as embodying the truman doctrine may I 1 remind you of a few of the barbed shafts in that message 9 the very existence of the greek state is today threatened by the ter aorist activities of several thousand armed men led by comman ats who defy the government governments s author ity at a number of points part cular ly along the northern boundary es said the pres dent one of the primary object ves of the foreign policy of the un t fed ed states is the creation ol 01 of cond t 0 ons ns in which we and other nat ons w 11 be able to work out a way of if 1 fe e free from coercion we shall not realize our object tives fives however unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their tree free institutions and the r na dional integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes this is no more than a frank recognition that totalitarian regimes imposed on free peoples by direct or indirect aggression undermine the dounda eions of international peace and hence the security of the united states the peoples of a number of countries of the world have re bently had totalitarian regimes forced upon them against their will the government of the united states has made fre quent protests against coercion and intimidation in violation of the yalta agreement in po land romania and bulgaria I 1 must also state that in a number of other countries there have been similar developments lie knew what was in the hungarian cards one way of life is based upon the will of the majority and is dis by tree free institutions rep government free elec eions guarantees of individual lib erty freedom of speech and ion and freedom from political op the second way of life Is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority it re 1 es upon terror and oppression a controlled press and radio fixed elections and the suppression of per bonal freedoms strong words those all quoted from the truman message congress fallows words with action then came deeds congress im ted the president presidents s mes ines sage by authorizing the loan of three hundred millions to greece and one hundred millions to turkey missions were sent at once to both countries the united states concluded with britain arrangements for an eco merger of their respective zones in germany regardless of russian and french failure to go along then came the expected coup d betat in which the communists with the red army backing them and the aid of the communist con trolled secret police took over the anti communist government of hungary immediately there fol lowed these steps A message of congratulation and support was sent to the premier of italy alcide de gasperi then in the process of forming a government without communist operation cooperation co and against communist opposition negotiations leading to the un tree freezing zing of italian property in eluding money in this country were announced at the same time if hungarian credits here for surplus property supplies were cut off there were indications that a loan earmarked for hun gary would be cancelled A hungarian russian trans port company was told that its planes no longer could fly over the american zone in germany senator made his ringing speech in the senate de daring claring that soviet pressure pressur e on hungary demanded a trial be fore the forum of the united nations the united states pressed for set clement of demands on yugoslavia for planes shot down by yugoslavia last summer these and other steps which un will be taken before this article is in print and still oth ers in the making are part of a vigorous foreign policy by which we mean to block communist sion wherever it appears in the world in other words we have nave un der taken a form of positive activity in the foreign field the scope of which has never been paralleled in our history supporters of this policy the ma bority of congress believe it 14 a preventive not an aggressive step they do not believe it is a foreign policy which von clausewitz the german military authority de scribed as something the exten sion of which is war they be lieve it can stop will not start mill tary conflict possible war of extermination the pol cy is based on this theory as nearly as I 1 can absorb it from the people who know unless economic cond eions are restored to normal throughout the world chaos will result comma n sm will engulf europe and eventually the clash between corn com mun sm an and d democracy as we un der stand it will mean war between b russ a and the un ted states since it now is bel eved that russia will have the atom bomb in from four to ten years ct cf report of the dent s advisory commission on uni versal training such a war would mean extermination if not of the human race certainly of civilization as we know it granted this is true the spread of communism in europe and else where must be checked now be cause if either france or italy goes red russia will not cc operate in a joint peace agreement for germany and austria without such agreement europe cannot be restored to nor mal chaos and communism will follow if it russia Is stopped in her tracks if we can prevent her from amov ing south into greece turkey and the middle east and west of the line she holds at present from her german zone south through the bal kans to greece she will be forced to stop aggression in europe forced to operate cooperate with the western powers tor for her own preservation that as I 1 understand it is what some people call the truman doc trine it isn t quite fair to give it such an exclusive label when it never could have been put into effect without the yeoman service of men like and the other bi partisan bipartisan support it has re this does not mean that we have lost faith in democracy or its ability to compete in a fair field with communism it means we are going to see that a fair field is main tamed that russia will not be per to create chaos or to draw on the type of force and terror she has used so far latterly in hun gary to enforce her way of life upon the world |