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Show THE AMERICAN WAY A BUCKEYE WONDERS By GEORGE PECK Chairman of the Board, National Labor-Management Foundation An Ohio reader of this column has written me asking ask-ing a question that, in the interest of this nation's security, secur-ity, should be answered. I quote the letter in part : "After Wars &ne and Two, the Anti-Trust Division got after the 'Big Boys'. Events have proven that with- out these 'Big Boys' it would have taken the country months or years longer to gear up to actually produce in sufficient quantities the war materials necessary to carry on our 'police action' in Korea, to say nothing of our over-all defense program. GeorfePeck- "We know that there are Socialists and Communists in the State Department who have been successful in undermining this country. I am wondering if the same situation does not exist in the Department of Justice, because it has many, many times tried to bust up the big companies. Had these attempts been successful, we would indeed be ready victims of Russia's machinations." Our Buckeye friend has good reason to wonder. What really has been the motivation behind the uncalled for assault of the Department of Justice upon many of the nation's large industries? It is a matter that should be looked into. Stalin knows that Big Business was the spearhead that enabled us in both World War I and II, not only to equip our own military forces, but to furnish to our allies much of their war material needs. Big Business was the main crank around which all the little wheels and cogs revolved. The man in the Kremlin knows that this big American production was the most important factor in the defeat of Germany in World War I and of both Germany Ger-many and Japan in World War II. Stalin also knows that we and the friendly nations that are lined up with us to forestall Russia's conquest of the world, cannot match his fighting forces in numerical numer-ical strength. The one thing that so far has deterred Russia from plunging the world into World War III is its respect and fear of America's huge production machine. ma-chine. What then is more logical than to suspect that Russia Rus-sia has planted spies and communist sympathizers in the one department of our government which can slow down that production machine? Our courts already have pro'ved that Russia has her agents in other departments of Uncle Sam's government. Is there any reason to believe be-lieve that the cunning Stalin has overlooked the one department de-partment that can interfere with, perhaps destroy, our greatest defense asset big scale production? For the time being the Department of Justice has declared an armistice with Big Business. It has not dared to continue its persecution in the knowledge that American citizens are well aware that the big corporations corpora-tions which provided the margin of victory in two previous pre-vious world conflicts, are again on the job producing for our defense. You can rest assured, however, that its anti-business propaganda has only been buried for a spell in the "Deep Freeze," to be resurrected if and when Russia gives any sign of abandoning its dream of conquering the non-com-rrtunist world. That could be a trick Stalin has up his sleeve to have us lower our guard. Of late we have had a lot of Congressional Investigating Investi-gating Committees. There seems to be a crying need for one more perhaps the most important one to thoroughly thor-oughly investigate the Department of Justice to ascertain ascer-tain whether or not it has on its payroll any agents of the Kremlin. Surely, in the interest of national security secur-ity such an investigation is mandatory. As no one doubts the loyalty and patriotism of the heads of that depart- g ment, undoubtedly they would welcome it. |