Show NEWS BEHIN ball tha TT 1 flu TP illg by y P PAULI PAUL ULI MALLON TOR y released by western newspaper union DANGER OF WAR WITH RUSSIA considered QUITE REMOTE washington some people not communists see the recent trend of washington affairs particularly ticul arly the increasing prominence given military leadership as meaning there soon will be war with russia one ardent enthusiast claims there will be war within a year ido I 1 do not think so russia has nothing much she is really a quite inferior nation iier her home situation which she keeps from our people by the most rigid isolationist military censorship shows she cannot efficiently operate a peace economy to meet needs of 0 her own people military reports indicate she has several million troops under arms possibly a concentration of several thousand some say planes near turkey and her military allocations have been made with a view to moving father farther into central europe and scandinavia la as well as china the necessities ot of constant alertness were stressed recently by senator that is the full attitude here military and diplomatic inner quarters have heard some rumors about meetings of the russian military leadership in the balkans to plan spring possibilities but these are only spurs to the necessity for alertness WEAK IN AIR AND ON SEA best available n military Lili tary information suggests russia has fias no bombing plane fleet she never had one during the war she has no navy As a matter of tact fact she had only one plane in quantity which was effective fec tive the Stor and one gun of importance and of course an unlimited man supply which she used to absorb the opposition firepower in all respects except one ne she is an interior inferior nation the one exception of course is world poll ties in that field our initial conception of winning peace by ap pea has led us into a somewhat exaggerated notion of dussias Rus sias un importance to the world we have ave drawn her by our methods first into international conferences which she entered reluctantly and then en into the united nations but we have succeeded only to a limited extent she has not come far she is not by any means a cooperative world peace participating nation for instance she isolated herself from air commerce agreements she has no merchant marine she is not looking hard for trade outside her own empire acquisitions in adjoining countries the situation simply is that by taking advantage of political objections to every existing governmental authority and indeed every complaint of everyone in the world she has accumulated considerable political power throughout the world corralling all op position opposition movements the theory of the roosevelt administration was that russia would fall under her own weight in the peace no matter how much was given her or how much we tried to make her a world peace participant that was the secret roosevelt theory but it was poorly administered to accomplish the desired result she has no available program tor for world progress which ohp can prove Is better than others but only a theory of revolution she does not propose to improve the situation anywhere but simply to convert it to chaos her teal real power is political braggadocio in a timid world worl d SMALL FORCE ALL WE NEED now all authorities here think it would be utterly foolish tor for us to fight such a ludicrous assault on world affairs As all agree since dussias Rus sias self made destiny is inferiority ferio rity it is not necessary to consign her by force to a destiny which seems inevitable we do not need a heavy costly army except for air and directed missiles we need a navy for protecting our world supply system but what we need most is an ample air force and scientific resource develop development me t in order to protect our air d defense bense measures in the face ol of a rocket bomb threat measures such as the exploding of bombs harmlessly in the air a plane torce force to bear armies northward to prevent establishment of air bases to develop some nearly perfect defense for the atom explosion and steps along this line the prominence ot of military men in diplomacy Is merely a reflection ot of the tact fact that they are the only people who aho seem to be able to get the russians to do anything they know guns planes and results and russia understands that hat language a as it understands no other the generals even get along in friendly dealing with the russians better than the diplomats they are forthright determined uninterested in politics and not at al all eager to have another war now or any other time |