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JOHN FOSTER DULLES

U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT CONFOUNDS U.S, SECRETARY

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N his radio-TV broadcast of Jan-

uary 27, John Foster Dulles,
now iU.S. secretary of state, de-
scribed the Soviet threat to the
U.S. as “deadly serious,” and went
‘en to explain that “the Soviet
Communists are carrying out a
policy which they call encircle-
ment.. That means they want to
get control of the different areas
around us. . They. said. they
don’t want to start an open war
against us until they have got such
overwhelming power that the re-
-sult would not be in doubt.”

The phrasing is sly. Just when
and where did a Soviet spokesman
describe Soviet policy as “‘encircle-
ment” of the U.S.? | What Soviet
leader has said the USSR will
make war when it has “overwhelm-
ing power’?

By coincidence, the January 30
issue of U.S. News and World
Report sets forth another view—
illustrated with a two-page map—
on encirclement. “U.S. is to lead
from strength in dealing with
Russia from-now on—and Stalin
knows it,” the weekly says. “He
‘can’t win. ‘Soviet is encircled by
US> bases...” :

The U.S. has “thousands” of
atom bombs
new jet bombers, the magazine
elaborates.

“American jet bombers based
on Greenland can strike back at
Moscow and Leningrad before
noon of the same day. Simultan-
eously, other bombers from U.S.
bases in North Africa and from
carriers in the Mediterranean can
wreck the centres of heavy in-
dustry in Southern Russia ‘by
lunchtime. Additional bombers:
from Okinawa, Japan, Britain,
Germany and France can strike
other retaliatory blows. .. .”

_ U.S. News readers who listened
to Dulles’ must have thought ‘it

and “hundreds” of:

truly fortunate that the U.S. had
come upon such worldwide assets

in its fight against Soviet encircle--

ment.
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Dulles, too, had a map at hand
as he spelled out his charge of
Soviet encirclement. Declaring
that the Soviet Communists today
“control” 800 million people as
against 200 million seven years
ago, he went on to “pick out some
of the high spots of trouble.”

In Asia, .he said, the Soviet
Communists are “within two miles
of northern Japan,” and if Korea
fell to them, “Japan would be

within the Communist pincers... .,

Now the Soviet Russians are mak-
ing a drive to get Japan .. . also
through what they are doing in
Indochina.” Indochina, where “the
French are doing much of the
fighting,” is part of the “rice bowl
of Asia.” *

In the oil-rich Middle East “the
Communists are trying to inspire
the Arabs with a fanatical hatred
of the British and ourselves.” In
Africa “the Communists are trying:
to arouse the native people ‘into
revolt against the Western Europ-

eans who still have political con- |

trol of most of Africa.’ Africa
is “a large source of raw mater-
ials for Europe.”

In Europe, where the U.S. has’

spent $30 billion since the Second
World War, the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) is
“somewhat stalled.” It “seems as
though some of the French peo-
ple and some of the German peo-
ple want to go in their separate
ways.”
there are
movements” and “Fascist influ-
ences in some quarters.”
e :

If Dulles had been a bit more
candid, he might have noted that,
whatever one may think of it,

The future is ours

hes been thinking of the future
And I see it clear and bright,

I can hear the voice of freedom —

Where all men will live together

All united, black and white.

Where a Negro is not murdered

And the juries aren’t all white,

I can here the voice of freedom

Workers of all lands, unite-

As the time grows ever nearer,
To that coming happy day
When the cause we know shall triumph
Making sordid lives more gay.

We can hear a murmur rising, ;
Growing louder day and night _

Till it fills our glorious country — —
Workers of all lands, unite!

And in South America .
“strong Communist.

—AL RANKIN

China was “lost to the West” with-
out a single Soviet gun being fir-
ed in anger. He might have sought
to explain why it was the UN,
and not Russia or China, which
had to initiate foreign intervention
in the Korean ‘war.

‘ He would certainly have rede-
fined the “they” in his reference
to Indochina, and admitted that
the people from whom the French
are defending Indochina are Indo-
chinese. He would have treated
the situation in Western” Europe

Burns’ patriotism

JOHN C. MORTIMER, Sack-
ville, N.B.: Haying been born and
bred not many miles from the
birthplace of Robbie Burns, I
was particularly interested in Tom
McEwen’s retent article on that
poet of the people. If one may
add anything to so fine a tribute,
one would like to say a timely
word about Burns’ patriotism.

Nobody will deny that patriot-
ism, love of Scotland and its peo-
ple, was one of Burns’ foremost
features. In fact, it is just this
that is most stressed by all the
Scottish speakers who-yearly pro-

pose the toast to the Immortal
Memory,

But what is not stressed—what .

is, indeed, suppressed—hby most of
these men is the fact that Burns’
idea of patriotism was very differ-
ent from theirs. Burns did not
think it patriotic to support his
government in any war it might
wage or in any particular war
propaganda it) cared to spread: On
the contrary, he thought it patri-
otic to oppose his government
when-it waged an unjust war or
spread false propaganda,

In spite of the fact that, in the
last years of his short life, he was
in the Boevernment’s pay as an
_exciseman” (inland revenue of-
ficer) he openly opposed Britain’s
war to retain the American col-
Onies, ridiculed the British brass-
hats who were conducting that
counter-revolutionary war, and
wrote a poem in praise of George
Washington.

When the French Revolution
broke out and the British govern-
ment opposed it and lied about it

; —hust, as the present governments
of Britain, Canada and the Unit-—

ed States have opposed and lied
about the Russian Revolution and

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in greater detail, appraising pro-,

Communist and neutralist opinicn
there, and he would have made
clear that those who make the
Middle East, Africa and South
America “spots of trouble” are
none other than. Iranians, Egyp-
tians and Tunisians, and Africans
and South Americans.

And he would have had to im-
ply, at least, that the encirclement
calculations of Moscow, justified
or not, rest primarily on people—
not on atomic bombs, jet bombers

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the ‘Soviet Union—Burns took the
side of the French people, know-
ing that this was really the side
of the Scottish people and of the
common people everywhere.

Like those who today protest
against the war in Korea and the
gigantic preparations being made
for a third world war, Burns was
denounced as ‘‘disloyal,” “unpatri-
otic,” a recipient of “foreign gold”
and a “traitor.” He was dragged
before the government’s excise
board, just as today many are
dragged before the “Un-Ameri-
can” Committee and all the in-
numerable “screeners” and witch-
hunters; and he would certainly
have lost his job, perhaps his head,
if he hadn’t by that time become
the best-loved man in Scotland.

But since that was the case, the ~

excise board merely warned him
to be “more cautious.”

Such was the patriotism of Rob-
bie Burns. And such is the patri-
otism desperately needed today. ‘

‘One in every union’

READER, Kimberley, B.C.:
Yes, there is one in every union.
Do you know him? Listen to this
description and see if he doesn’t
sound like some one you Know.

He thinks that the few bucks he
spends on dués every month én-
titles him to full time personal
service of the union leaders. He
wants action from his union: more,
better, faster than anyone else.

But don’t ever make the mis-
take of suggesting that maybe his
dues ought to be raised so that
such service can be provided; boy,
that kills him. ;

Tt doesn’t matter to him that
the contract under which he works
was hammered out only after long,
‘exhausting’ and complicated nego-
tiations. He thinks that if it is

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1 Question for Dulles: Who is encircled | by whom? |

and bases. On people who do not
like to live in the shadow of
bomber base, who do not like
be ruled from abroad, who do ne
think of their country as “a large
source of raw materials,” who

have an idea the world can be®
lot better than it is.

But if Dulles had been that
candid, he could hardly have
avoided giving some Americans
the idea that perhaps the forelg?
policy of their government nee
a searching reexamination.

Department)

you Pleae®

pretty good it should have bee
better. He’s also the guy thet
screams for job action whe?
does not get his tea at 10 o’¢l0
tie up the job, he says.

He never has time to attend a”
meetings (he was out for a "E
beers, he says) though the mee
ing had the job of drafting 2
proposals for his benefit.

ck.

He wants to know how come bie
union can’t get him a pensio”
plan, pronto, although there ae
more grievances under discussiO™
at the time. Also triple time Oe
holidays and a 86-hour week st@ a
ing the day after tomorrow: a
guys ain’t on the ball, he yel be
. and much more of the sau
a guy
of
9,

What can you do with
like that? There is a meeting
the union tonight, but he Wo?
be there; he has to go to see Gary
Cooper in Silent Drums.

Vision of socialism
H. VIGOR, White Rock, BOF |

When the great day has cua
can see a united socialist Wo!

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... Happy children playing saree
. «. beautiful parks contain}
lovely gardens . . . big librar

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. .. fine homes’ and apartments

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“There will be huge technical ‘
stitutes training the youth t0

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out into the world into good a
Air liners powered by aia :

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energy will fly over all the WO.
there will be international conte wy
ences of scientists and intellectt®”
and workers. 3
Factories will be humming:
ing out enormous quantities ill
goods for society. Everyone ~
be well dressed and happy: « * ae
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more soldiers and sailors - + * Ff
no more profits. é

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