| Show year 0 t D decision r arrives e f orr W 5 ids america alone in struggle to I 1 0 save western ideologies by analyst ina lyst and commentator WASH washington ca cartoonists arto onis ts and others have titled 1948 the year of decision 1 it is 6 a pretty good title the only trouble is that americas most important decision has already been mode made and nobody seems to realize it we know that the british empire has broken up but aside from the fact that there is some grumbling about loaning money to the british it seem to concern us very much in the current issue of the united nathonis Nat lonis fis world magazine the british historian and author D W brogan has on an article entitled the british shed no tears for their lost empire in it he says i t in the nineteenth century t the progress ot of Erig english liEh prosperity was in doss association tion with the spread of a general q political and economic religion P ot of till all sensible men the bank of england free trade parliamentary government al all increased their range of influence together and the english look looked on n what was largely theli their work and their Bauh Dauk hata liaga profet annd and bound it good they were with what they had accomplished itis it is natural enough today when this a world situation hid changed to i take pretty calmly the decline in the ill rf favored historical posit position ibn of engirt J ita yi land it if the spread proad of english englis h ideas i practices and profits has ceased T why wor worry ry unless you are eng ush unless you are arc english and yet the people who ought to bo be dottle doing the he worrying are arc the t americans we are taking over where britain left off 01 and the job isn Is n bigger one than england faced but the average person in this country will say in horror you talk like a communist americas whole tradition Is non rion intervention nonintervention of course we had A a wild period in south americal america and in our salad days W asa una nation tion we somehow acquired what we called texas although the mexicans at the time thought it was a part of mex ice and then theres there Jl hawaii awall but those days oro ore over ae sao how promptly and politely wo we r returned the phili philippines paines to themselves and took our marines of the banana plantations where they be long and the other day even abandoned our bases in panama dont i tell me were going to establish a second british empire I 1 we arent the spirit of live and let ht live Is just as strong str as it ever was in this country unfortunate un attly however holeve r what drogan brogan calls the N T spread I 1 of a general political and 41 il economic religion of all sensible ble h M men suddenly encountered a force v that threatened to destroy it when i the germans marched into poland h and the japs bombed pearl harbor it H took all america could afford and more than britain k could afford to atop that forte force and today ar another uither and stronger force Is gaining power aud and there 1 Is nobody to stop it but the ilia united states when a british in n london said every means short of cpr would be used by tho the british and american governments to lo keep greece within their own strategic and ideological orbit it make much of a ripple outside of washington but it wa was 9 a statement of tremendous import for it means that the truman doctrine was not just a phrase that its implementation Is now certain it means that the people responsible for the destiny of the iho united states know that the year of decision to Is here the do ciston cislon having been made mada not in i s washington but in the kremlin lust just t as the deeplon rip clon to fight japan was made not in washington but in thi he offlie of one squat little man now awaiting a death sen sentence cg in tokyo one tole tojo former premier of japan i partisans succeeded in soviet spheres sphere today it Is fashionable to lna make e funny cartoons about the third party announced in december by henry wallace yet that third party S fits neatly into a plan to wreck our way of life the plan another part ot of which was the careful coaching by the kremlin of the partisan fighters in world war II 11 tho th e 1 r it suns bans were forr formed ned first to help iab boat i down one of the soviets ene enemies but they also were acre groo groomed nied to do de stroy elroy representative government in their respective countries the partisans were most successful in the countries nearest russia t in territory where the red army in the guise of allies fighting a common enemy gained a foothold which they kept when peace came and which was used to put their trained stooges into powe in italy and france they were un ablola ablo to capture completely the parti son can or resistance movements but they did got get a grip on both countries which neither franco nor italy dared throw oft off until the united stales made i a tacit condition ot of aid alad n jhb ol 01 communist parties from both governments temporarily at least that much of the carefully planned soviet program failed dut but new steps are being planned A part of the pattern of communization is communist alliance with the left wing non comma elsts the reds cooperate with the non reds help them bring about their objectives then slowly dominate and absorb them one method used by reds to got get rid of noncom non com eunist left win resistance resl stanco Is to help a reactionary government into power such a reactionary government suppresses the non comma left wingers and pushes those surviving deeper into communist toils that Is where the wallace third party fits into the kremlin design the reds hope it will split and weaken the ho liberals liberali in hi this hla country increase the be frio tion ion between them and the con P natives as much us its possible aid the he conservatives to get into A power awer then when the reaction sets beta in the conservatives will bo be thrown out and the he well organ ned lied Communist scan sican take over easily greece is a testing point in the russian american struggle the tha only way in which the communist internal aggression there could be ba checked was for britain ond end the tha united states to step in and actually direct the greek government that was done dona much as any country dia likes having a stronger one run its attains aff atT dira airs the united states as aa a of evils Is the less unwelcome to the greeks especially when wo we como come bearing gifts without which the government knows it cannot resist the dommu communist organization when ono one talks with the exiles A tho tie refugees from the red terror ono one Is appalled by their attitude recently I 1 spoke at length with a former foreign minister of ono one ol of tho the countries now irmay in the jaws of the soviets ile ho assured me that today if there were a free election indis in his country net I 1 per cent of t tho ile people would vote to support a A red regime ile ho said the these satellites I 1 tos are not satellites at all they are arc as aa much a part of tho soviet Sovie union as aa the ukraine or outer mongolia Mon jolla the secret police paralyzes paralyze sall all independent action there Is a desperation about tho the attitude of these men who kueht the losing battle against tho the kremlin they say there Is absolutely no hope chopo for europe unless tho the Ilus Russ are driven back to their old borders and tho the balkan states poland and finland are freed of russian Itus domination they say there Is only one T le thing that thai will have effect eft A threat by tho the united states to uso use force when the quotation of the london official which I 1 mentioned stating that tho the united states and B britain were committed to measures short of war camo came ove overdee rothe wires I 1 was reminded rem of 0 the conversation with the former foreign in minister hilster ho had sold said to me met it if the united states threatens to use force now the russians will pull out of eastern easter n europe they cannot offord afford war now they fear tho united states but in a few years mere threats will not suffice the Rus russians siani then will bo be ready to fight and this force moving against the P political lotical and economic religion of all sensible risible men Is moving not on only ly in europe all along dussias Rus sias PO pe rip rlph hory ery the red tide to is rising against its frontiers to in tho the middle east in india whose gates russia has threatened for centuries f in n china korea in the islands adjacent dj a to japan |
