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Trusting in U.N. We Scrapptfd Our Armed Mig~t BATTLE SEASONED VETERANS of the strongest military force in American history were discharged by the millions in scenes like this one. Under pressure from parents and Congress, our Army disintegrated overnight. 14 TWO WORLDS ATLAS OF THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER I T TOOK less than two years for the United States to scrap the strongest military force in the world. VIe left a few billions in war ma­teriel in island jungles to .rot along­side the graves of American men who thought they we~ fighting the last World War. We left more in Europe-"sold" to high bidders at a fraction of its cost­where it would be handy for the next European conqueror. - And some we sold to business firms and war veterans for peacetime use. · Our "Mightiest Army" was dis­banded in mad haste. So quickly were men turned out of uniform that within a few months after V. J . Day the Army was recruiting to fill its authorized peacetime q~ota. The Marine Coll>s was cut drastically. The. Navy ~as so weakened it could barely man the few ships left out of mothballs. Pleas for passage of . a Universal Military Training Bill fell on d~af ears in the Congress. . The American people felt no need for guns, planes, soldiers, and all the other paraphernalia of preparedness. Why? Because we had faith. Faith that the United Nations organization would bring us everlasting peace. Pattern for 5. Form a ''popular front'' in par­liaJDent throup alliance with Socialists, Social Democrats, or other left-wine. parties willing to go along. 6. Win key places in government, seeking to control first the · police, then public information, later army, foreign policy and finance. 7. Uncover "plots against the people" as a means to discredit opposing parties, use Com­munist- conboUed. police to · seize or threaten opposition leaders. 8. Cany out order of high Soviet official, sent in at psychological moment to direct strategy and drive home idea Communists are backed by Russian power. 9. Push for fun conbol of govern­. ment, using threats of general strike, civil war or "protection" · by nearby Russian boops to paralyze opposition. 10. Complete grip on governmeDt, by purging anti-Communist parties and officeholders, taking over press and radio, anti nationalizing industries. The first five steps are the longest -and hardest. The last five have been accomplished with ease and in a very short time in several of the countries which now are Russia's satellites. The first four steps have taken place already in Finland, Italy, France and the Low Countries. The first three steps are taking place in England . and the United States. There is little point in re-stating the obvious, that Communism breeds most rapidly in weak · na: tions whose people are hungry and without hope. Our European Re­covery Program is an effort to re­duce hunger and offer hope to the remaining non-Communist coun­tries by helping them rebuild their means of production. But even in the Unitetl States, a strong, confident nation of well-fetl citizens, the Communist pattern -for conquest-the teachinp of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin­can be discernetl readily. Step one: No one any longer doubts that we have a "fifth column" of Comm~t Party members in certain labor unions, government departments, left-wing groups, col­leges and the publishing business. This step is a continuing one, with empha:sis on gaining sympathizers rather than Party members. Lenin taught that the Communist Party should be kept small so that it could be well-disciplined. "One Conquest-in Ten ~~Peaceful'' Steps cannot demand," he wrote, "that every striker be allowed to call him­self a member of the PaTty, jOT whoever confuses PaTty and class lowers the level of consciousness of the PaTty to that of 'every striker,' destToys the PaTty as the class­consciouS vanguaTd of the wOTking class." Step Two: The propaganda cam­paign favoring Russia and minor­ities and opposing "big business," "warmongers," and "reactionaries" has long since been launched in this country. Today the chief propaganda mouthpiece, knowingly or unknow­ingly, is Henry Wallace. Marx and Engels, and Lenin, were cognizant in their day of "petty bourgeois democrats" such as Wallace who sought to change existing social orders but who were not so far left as the Communists. Their opinion of such persons and how they could be used was stated by Marx and Engels in "The Com­munist Manifesto": "The Com­munists everywhere aupporl every Tevolutiona-ry movement aga~nst the existing social and political oTder of things." Later Engels elaborated on that by writing: "The attitude of the Tevolutiona-ry woTkeTs' paTty to the petty bouTgeois (middle class) dem­ocracy is as · follows: the paTty maTches with it against the faction whose oveTthTow it seeks, but op­poses it in every measuTe on which it seeks to get a foothold." Wallace, therefore, is of value to the Communists now, but he is to be discarded "by them if he actually succeeds i~ gaining any power. Step Three: Communist Party members already hold key offices in such strategic unions as the United Electrical Workers (CIO) and the National Maritime Union _(CIO). Opposition factions in these unions and in other left-wing groups have been labeled ·~reactionary." A few more important unions and a few more . Communists in the right places and American Communists will be able to concentrate on the fourth step of the pattern-actual election-of Communists to Congress. It has been suggested th.at the only way to stop Communism in America is to outlaw· the Commu­nist Party. Teacher Lenin had an answer for that too. The Stalin­approved "History of the Commu­nist Party of the Soviet Union" re­lates that after the a'Qortive Russian revolution of 1905 was crushed and Communism made illegal: -"Lenin pointed out tlul.t at such moments Tevolutiona-ry paTties should perfect theiT knowledge. During the period of rise of the Tevolution they leaTned how to ad­vance; during the period of Teaction they should learn how to TetTeat pTopeTly, how to go undeTgTound, how to preseTve and stTengthen the illegal paTty, how to make use of legal oppoTtunities, of all legally ex­isting, especially mass OTganizations in oTde1' to strengthen theiT connec­tion with the nUISses." So far we have discussed only the peaceful pattern for Communist conquest perfected during one­hundred years of Communism. At the same time, the Communist teachers thought about war. The official "History of the Com- THE EMPTY CHAIR of martyred Jan Masaryk illustrated completion of the tenth and final step of Communist conquest. . The picture was t•ken when the Czechoslovak parliament met the day after his death. TWO WORLDS ATLAS OF THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER munist Party of the Soviet Union" says that world-wide Communism will bring world-wide peace. But until that time: "It is not to every kind of waT that the Bolsheviks weTe opposed. They were only opposed to waTs of conquest, imperialist waTs. The Bolsheviks held that there aTe two kinds of waT: "a) Just wars, waTS that aTe not waTs of conquest but waTs of libe1'a­tion, waged to defend the people /Tom foTeign attacks and /Tom at­tempts to enslave them, OT to liber­ate the people /Tom capitalist slav­ery, OT, lastly, to libeTate colonies and dependent countries fTom the yoke of imperialism; and "b) Unjust wars, waTs of con­quest, waged to conquer and en­slave jOTeign countries and jOTeign nations. "The Bolsheviks auppoTted waTs of the fiTst kind, opposed those of the second kind." Both Lenin and Stalin were quite specific about wars with capitalist nations. First Lenin: ". . . SocialiS111. cannot achieve victoTy simultaneously in all coun­tries. It will achieve victoTy fiTst in one OT seveTal countries while all the others will Temain bouTgeois (middle class) OT pre-bouTgeois jOT some t.ime. This must not only create friction, but a diTect striving on the part of the bouTgeoisie of othe1' countries to crush the victori­ous proletaTiat of the Socialist coun­t- ry. In such cases a w~T on ouT paTt would be a legitimate and just waT. It would be a waT foT Social­ism, foT the liberation of other na­tions /Tom the bouTgeoisie!' Stalin: . " ... in oTder to destToy the dan­geT of capitalism intervention the capitalist enciTclement would have · to be destToyed; and the capitalist · enciTclement could be destToyed only as a Teault of victorious pro­letarian Tevolutions in at least sev ­eTal countries. "It followed /Tom this that the victo-ry of the pToletarian Tevolution in the capitalist countries was a matteT of vital concern to the wOTk­ing people of the U.S.S.R." This, then, is the Communist pat­tern for conquest-ten "peaceful steps," a war to "liberate" nations from capitalism, or a war to destroy "capitalist encirclement." We have seen the "peaceful" pattern in Eu­rope and in our country. To date there has been no need for the Rus­si~ to wage war in order to spread Communism it:l Europe. The question is: At what point does Russia stop being encircled and start encircling? . 7