Show ECONOMIC highlights happening that affect tile the future of avery individual national ind and na I 1 problems inseparable fron from ial welfare elfare NV the most fateful question facing the he world of today can an be stated in n five words Is war with russia inevitable inevitable probably something like ike words have been used in in trying to answer answer it the arguments on the positive side ate air hoth both compelling and depressing men alen of the highest sincerity sincerity and ability obviously belie believe that sooner or later the world orld will be plunged into the most ghastly global conflict it list has yet seen I 1 led ed on the one hand by the sov soviet et union and on the other by the united states kut but the arguments on the negative sido side are arc powei powerful ful too they have been extremely well presented in a Ite aders digest article written by george F kennan counselor of the state department and in an acknowledged authority on russin russia because of the importance of the subject the magazine ha waived the usual copyright privileges and has granted permission to quote from or rep reprint rint the article p provided aided vided credit is given mr air kennan presents his arguments argument s for ile peace a ce ill n qu question C st I 1 on and a answer ns form first he h asks are the R russians siana planning to mace make war on wa us u ile he believes believe that current stalinist doctrine doos does not demand war even though lenin and other leaders frequently said laid that a communist comm u capitalist capi ta I 1 world clash was inevitable bitable ine wi table present sent day communist teaching lie he points out holds that capitalism will collapse f from m within of its own weakness Vitti kness broce hence it does not luve have to be destroyed from without moi alm cover russia chiv hiv h is never in in all 4 history attempted aggression at great dis tance she has always expanded slowly on oil it hi bit lt ly by bit bus basis L S lastly she rhe is straining every resource T C to make herself into a modern modem industrial state and war would shutter shatter that program sir mr kenhans Ken nans question is how does russia Rus sias s development d eve t of atomic weapons affect this situation the available evidence leads lead him to believe the homb bomb does not n t affect it very much it is ia extremely unlikely that russia has ahna anywhere near enough hombs bombs to to say nothing of the means of delivering them to cripple the V U S and bring us to immediate dinto terms if f lier her initial blow were not decisive e she would face merciless retilio tion her hard bard won indu industrial Arial development pride of the communist leadership would face ruin ruin and lid adds masters maste ri of the kremlin are not ini dined i bodos question lon three consists of three potent words ills la war pos possible of course it Is a he observes and for several reasons wars warl can urine arise by accident they can result res 11 t I 1 front from the fear of attack and tie the idea that it is necessary to strike first they can arise from anew anco of the true situation so it at would be tile the worst kind of tactics to write war off as int im possible and draw a deep breath of re relief lief lie f but on the credit side aide alt air kennan finds no valid reason ifor for regarding war as probable at an early date 11 question four asks where in these circumstances must tile the accent of U S policy lie with respect to the communist danger first lie argues we must pursue a vigorous and h hopeful e fu foreign policy which will a attempt vp e pt to solve international dif differences different ferenc without recourse to shooting war this thia means a continuance con ingance of the cold war as the best strategy opened to us at the moment and we must continue to take an intelligent and helpful interest in the efforts of people everywhere to w withstand ith stand the sort of pressures w anich ich are broat brought to bear against them front from tile the moscow communist side bide in other words we must always try to prevent the f urther further expansion of communism in this connection mr kunnari doubts the value of an attempt to reach an overall over all agreement aKre ement with the kremlin lie ile writes the dynamism of world commini ain would not ile be seriously affected by buch suc it an agreement words would s till still mean different things to the russians than they mean to Us ua the agreement would be worth precisely what tho the realities of world power made it worth at tiny any particular moment fifth and last mr air kennan asks on what then does our national security rest in this coming period d his answer to this falls into four parts p a arts wo we must mug t lie he believes make sure that military aggression remains improbable if not impossible and wo we must bleto also accept moderate ino risks in order that a immoderate in ones may bu be avoided we must give our allies the assurance wo we are arc really with them wu we im mt st show in our domestic pol policy icy that wo we tire lire seriously tackling the problems of our own society in both bot 11 their material and s spiritual p I 1 r I 1 t u a I 1 manifestations and fourth our security rests in continuing to act in a spirit of justic justice e and rood good will toward others which abic h will make it possible for us to help a little toward bringing about it general attitude of peaceful co poe ration in tile the world at large if we do all this mr kennan concludes keeping our eyes on the distant poala goals we wish to reach wo we will then bo be doin g r the best wo we can in a complex and problematical world no nation can do more than 1 that |