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Show What An Age! MERLE RICHE The conquest of outer space is on. And this, even before the conquest con-quest of the world has been achieved. Men are hard at work devising memoa and means to occupy the moon, planets and they dream of extending ex-tending their conquest con-quest to outer space -- even beyond be-yond the solar i system. impossible. So perhaps it would be better to take that one eye off the moon so that we could keep them both on this Soviet atheist who is surveying this weakened country to see for himself him-self how soon it can be taken by surprise. Krushchev may try to wash his hands in innocency while here but we must remember that hands that have been washed in Kremlin basins have been washed in blood. Are we next? Is this the beginning of the Soviet prophecy issued in 1931: "War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. in-evitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 or 30 years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying electrify-ing overtures and unheard-of concessions. con-cessions. The. capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. des-truction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist." We are about to witness another1 typical exhibition of the deceptive upside-downness of international politics. It was to be hoped that we could keep our feet on the ground. But we've already got one foot off with the invitation to Krushchev. wnat an age I Forty-one years to span the gulf between the moujik and the moon; forty-one years from the cossack support of the crown to the colonization of the Cosmos! We can with greater ease slip to the edge of eternity than to slip past the guards at the forbidden for-bidden spots on the earth. And. through it all we have had their constant warning that they are fundamentally hostile to everything that is not dominated by Moscow. In 1918 they provided us with ten days that shook the world. In 1959, the beginning of another period of world history, they are going to provide us with another 10 days that will shake the world. However, let us not be deceived. It will bode no more good for us than did the last forty years. At the conclusion of the last four ' decades of Communist rule Krushchev gave his famous mara-thqn mara-thqn speech. Upon what did he piace the emphasis for Soviet success ? He measured it in terms of iron and steel and not in the political liberty or advancement advance-ment of his people. He denounced everything and everybody critical of Communism. It will be quite a trick, I know, to keep one eye on the moon and one eye on Mr. Krushchev -almost |