WASHINGTON AND THE NATION
Washington'and the Nation U.S. Attitude Towards Russia Changing By Jonathan Stout #|-7ASHINGT0N,D.C.—The change in attitude in high places here towards American Communists Ktheir masters in...
...i)9 2—At a testimonial dinner in his •honor on Monday, Speaker of the House I lee Martin charged that "a powerful and strategically-placed minority" has set out to destroy the American system and act up Communism In its place...
...They are William C. Bullitt, for* mer Ambassador to Russia...
...posts in Washington, it was reported by Charles M. O'Malley, District of Columbia department commander...
...They know the background...
...3—Charging that the Government has failed to act to stem the tide of Communism here, the District of Columbia 'department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Monday revealed that legal proceedings to outlaw the Communist Party in the United States and ban the Daily Worker, Communist press organ, will be sought next Monday...
...The reasons for this appear clearly in a perspective study of events of the past two years...
...I Mr...
...Loy Henderson is In charge of Near Eastern Affairs...
...Why is the State Department still putting amateurs in the lineup of the World Series and keeping its champion professionals on jthe bench...
...Attitude Towards Russia Changing By Jonathan Stout #|-7ASHINGT0N,D.C.—The change in attitude in high places here towards American Communists Ktheir masters in the Kremlin is a ble Washington phenomenon for thoae who remember the war days and tb« futile era of appeasement which followed until relatively recent days...
...It was reported in informed diplomatic circles in Washington that Secretary of State Marshall will take Assistant Secretary Sprullle Bradcn to Moscow with him as an ad- ¦ vlser In the negotiations of the German and Austrian peace1 treaties...
...The highpoint of Soviet popularity with tbe American people came just before tbe San Francisco Conference of the United Nations convened...
...And it has been remarked many time.* of late that during his apprenticeship the United States paid heavily for his lack of knowledge...
...The rate of growth of total national ' Income and of income per capiU is how'' declining, according to a 25-year survey by the National Bureau of Economic Research...
...This week, even the Park Avenue proletariat failed to give It respectful attention...
...Loose talk about the impossibility of peaceful co• operation between our countries has absolutely no basis...
...That is ivhat we propose to do...
...In the meantime—where are our chief diplomatic experts on Russia ? There are four men who top this list of experts...
...A mmniary of significant evepts on this jsjue this week shows the march of public opinion: —Bernard Baruch, one of America's iMit respected elder statesmen, tcstiIfying twice on Monday before the Joint topgrcssional Committee on Atomic [tneixy, told an open meeting of the [committee that he was seriously "disIturbed" by continuing leaks of atomic | energy secrets, and that breaches of our !national security laws were still going i»n...
...By this standard, America appears to have come a long way in a short time...
...And what we lost during that period never was regained after Byrnes acquired some know-how...
...Speaker Martin made it plain that the new Congress intends to sweep the infiltration of Communists out of Government posts, and the V.F.W...
...A really Important question Is: Where art the real Russian experts in our diplomatic servicer It was poled many fines that former ' Sccictary Byrnes took two years to learn bow to understand the Russians, how to talk to them, and how to deal with them...
...The drop reached the point this week where the testimony of liaruch is considered likely to initiate an American investigation into Soviet espionage activities like that of the Canadian Commission...
...Loy Henderson, Ccorge F. Kennan 'and Robert F. Kelley...
...He said plainly that ¦ the United States is in possession of (evidence that the Communist spy ring IMred last year by the,Canadian Comf amission investigation was at work in | this country and had succeeded in steal|JBg further atomic bomb secrets...
...No ono believes the Communista anymore...
...A year ago, such words would have been hailed throughout the United States...
...The conduct of the Russians at that conference— chiefly their brazen flouting of the moral standards established in the Atlantic Charter, plus their unconcealed hostility towards the United States—was the bebinning of the toboggan slide...
...But the fact that Mr...
...They speak the language...
...From 180...
...Next Monday, at an executive- session of the national officers of the V.P.W., the resolution will be presented for approval...
...Only one ironic note entered the picture this week...
...And even today Dean Acheson who was the Dean of Appeasement during that period of American diplomatic debacle sits in the Undersecretary's office, while Donald Hiss, his former economic adviser, is now- a picmber of the law firm which still bears Acheson's name on its door, and represents the Communist puppet government of Poland in the effort to obtain $;>0O,0O0,000 from the United States—an effort which will require State Department approval...
...Following this, it is anticipated by V.F.W...
...Our task is to find them and remove them...
...Bradcn has been In charge of Latin-American affairs...
...At Miami Beach, where the Park Avenue proletariat performs its itinerant labor these wintry days, Soviet Ambassador Novikov told the Miami fellow-travelers of the Council of American-Soviet Friendship: "The Soviet people welcome friendship and peaceful cooperation with other people^, and particularly with the energetic and industrious people of the United States of America...
...to ll/M national Income multiplied eight-fold, while population and Income per capita almost* tripled...
...is launching a legal move to outlaw the Communist Party as a legal political party in the United Stales...
...Later that day, before an executive I session of the same committee, he en¦ Urged more specifically on his earlier J public statement...
...They do not work in the open...
...Braden is being taken to Moscow as an adviser to Our new Secretary of State uncovers, quite incidentally, a situation which has long deserved public Inquiry...
...officials here, an extraordinary session will be called in Washington by the national council of administration of the V.F.W.—composed of ranking officers from the 48 states and the territories— to launch the legal battle to outlaw the Communist Party...
...What service he will render at Moscow Is a mystery that perhaps will never he solved...
...But, where are lliey...
...Only one of these four la still In the State Department...
...A long series of hostile nets anil attitudes hastened the Communist diop in American public opinion...
...Why aren't they putting their knowledge at the service of the American people/ The chief reason seems to be that all four are somewhat "educated" on the subject of communists...
...i .,'¦{ • The total of Ii» 15 Income* was $152,741,000,000, compared with $14IMHHV 000,000 in 1914, the Department of ^¦mmercv announced...
...These events appeared to offer a background against which to judge the growing sophistication of American public opinion on the subject of Communists at home and abroad...
...They understand the Russians...
...They have worked their way into potts of power, from which they try to shape Government policies and influence publie opinion...
...All of them served for a lone time in ItuHNia...
...Bradon May Go to Moscow While these developments were occurring this week on the domestic front, there were further developments on the international scene...
...A resolution calling for a legal injunction against the American Communist Party already has been approved by the 2it V.F.W...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 6
