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Show The Lines Are Drawn Weeks after American inter-1 vention in Korea the world still ; waits to see what Russia's next move will be. Will the Kremlin Krem-lin support its Northern Korean allies, or continue to shadow box? More than likely the answer to the fiist question is "no,'' and to the latter "yes." At the moment Russia seems to have no inclination to join the ranks of the advancing North Korean armies, but with a shift in initiative to the other side, which is bound to come as soon as the United States gets sufficient suf-ficient men and material in Korea, Ko-rea, she might be forced to offer of-fer some kind of support to her satellite stooges. If the Korean war starts going badly for the communistic comrades, the tide must again be turned, or Rus-sion Rus-sion prestige must, of necessity, accept a severe slap in the face. Because then it will be left for all . to see, especially harassed non-communist Europe and Asia, that after all the bluff and bluster, Stalin's bark is worse than his bite. No one is such a fool as to think that the Korean war has not been instigated in-stigated in ; Moscow. Russian concern for prestige could indeed lead to World War III. But most of the experts, Including the state department I and radio and newspaper men, j believe that Comrade Stalin is a little too astute to insist on war now. The Russian premier, unlike Hitler, is no psychological psychologi-cal case, .inclined at any time to embark on rash adventures. He would rather stack his cards carefully or stay out of the game. There is the possibility, of course, that Stalin realizes the day is past when valuable prizes, priz-es, like Eastern Europe and China, Chi-na, can be won by slow infiltration, infiltra-tion, although there are still small countries in Asia ripe for peaceful Communist conquest. So, to test United States reaction reac-tion and still stay on the sidelines, side-lines, he sicks north on south in Korea. And this time Stalin is trying military instead of diplomatic diplo-matic shadow boxing. Chances are he will ignore Northern Korean pleas for aid when the going gets rough, and resume his diplomatic offensive until such time as he figures war to be practical. As of now all Russia has in the way of waging successful war is the world's largest army. The United Unit-ed States and Russia have the navies, air power, and the largest larg-est stockpile of atomic weapons. The idealists still possess the hope that Stalin realize World War III, regardless if its origin by the communist comrades or the western imperialists, is syn-anymous syn-anymous to world suicide, and will refrain from ever waging war at all. This line of thinking is fantastic but by no means impossible. im-possible. In a way the west has gained stature from the Northern Korean Kor-ean aggression. Even those who have felt all along that a sincere sin-cere effort for peace has not been made by either side will now whole-heartedly back U. S. intervention in Korea. Non-communist critics of past Russian and American cold war tactics now stand unitedly behind the flag of the United Nations and the United States. All realize that aggession in the Far East can justly be laid at Moscow's door. This attitude is even echoed by Henry Wallace, an extremist in politics but a loyal American, who Saturday repudiated repu-diated the stand of the Progressive Progres-sive party on the Korean war and came out for his country and the United Nations. The Korean war has served all along the line to unite western west-ern ranks. If Stalin's vaunted intelligence is not exaggerated, a word to the wise should suffice suf-fice GWH |