CONCEPT OF ATLANTIC PACT IS TOO NARROW, DIPLOMAT HOLDS
Dailide, P.
Concept of Atlantic Pact Is Too Narrow, Diplomat Holds From P. DAIUDE Former Minister of Lithuania THE CONCEPTION of the Atlantic pact, evaluated as an instrument for the cause of general...
...Concept of Atlantic Pact Is Too Narrow, Diplomat Holds From P. DAIUDE Former Minister of Lithuania THE CONCEPTION of the Atlantic pact, evaluated as an instrument for the cause of general peace, calls for two observations...
...But if the Atlantic pact acquires the appearance of a half-way measure because of the narrow limits of its concept, then this reacts unfavorably upon the significance of the pact as a means for security...
...Russia is reverting to medieval darkness and is intellectually retrograde...
...It does not menj tion the nations already enslaved by the Bolsheviks which, undoubtedly...
...ARTHUR KOESTLER...
...BERTRAND RUSSELL...
...In dealing with weaker separate forces, the Bolsheviks always sought to weaken this resolve by terror, but in meeting with a coalition, rest assured they will take advantage of the priorities of the unified.will within the Kremlin...
...Vancouver, B. C, Canada...
...It is designed only to repel a possibJt attack aimed at one or more of the contracting parties...
...New York...
...For the greater effectiveness of the Atlantic pact as a means for security/ its concept should be based on the prift.ciples set forth in the Atlantic Charter, These principles were, after all, pledged as the basis for the future peace...
...Among the most interesting were these: "Join wholeheartedly your protest against Communist black market in ideals...
...The success of Communism means the death of free thought...
...The defensive aims of the Atlantic pact, striving not to touch upon the question of Moscow's war booty, will be understood in the Kremlin in no other...
...way than as sign of the weakness o| democracy...
...Weakness not in the sensq of potential to wage war, but in th« sense-of a weak resolve' to utilize the available forces against their enemy...
...Enslavement of intellect is one of fha worst features of Soviet Russia...
...N. Y. Fan Mail . from GILEAN DOUGLAS I WOULD GLADLY send you a contribution to help scuttle old man Deficit, but — as you may no^ realize — we in Canada are pretty well tied down financially...
...What happened to biologists is about to happen to physicists...
...The subjection of philosophers, scientists, economists, etc...
...While politicians aver that there can be no peace in a divided Europe, and while the cradle of Western civilization is divided by the Soviet iron curtain from Stettin to Trieste, the concept of the Atlantic pact in the cause of total peace seems too modest and too narrow...
...First, thfi treaty is called a defense pact...
...would also join in the Atlantic pact if they were free...
...I hope your other subscribers can rally round better than I can at this moment But I'll do my best — and as soon as possible...
...The others—the demi-urges of the totalitarian flirtation—have no more claim to our tolerance than-the Hitlerite link and front organizers had 15 years ago—or else the results will be the same...
...The strategists of the Kremlin, heeding only real force, impart much significance to the determination of the enemy to use that force...
...Philosophers have long since been confined to a strict and arid orthodoxy...
...fo the authority of uneducated politicians is utterly intolerable and fatal to all mental progress...
...These people sell words—peace, freedom, democracy, what have you—like bootleggers dealing in fake spirits...
...The Bolsheviks are told at every turn that the Atlantic pact is not directed against them, and the Bolsheviks thus gain a basis to surmise that everything which is presently located behind the iron curtain is abandoned to the cruel fate of Bolshevik slavery...
...Earnestly wish success of your conference...
...Your job is to warn the innocents against this ideological hooch—you are the promoters of 'Alcoholics Anonymous of the Left.' To cure ideological dope addicts is a long, tiresome task requiring a delicate mixture of passion and patience...
...Dear Editor : KOESTLER, RUSSELL SCORE PHONY WALDORF CULTURE CONFERENCE Americans for Intellectual Freedom received,dozens of telegrams and cables condeming the Communist-inspired Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, held in New York March 25-27...
...But I am talking of the real innocents only...
...There is no other paper I have ever read which gives me what yours does...
...The public outcry which the C'ommujiist leaders have recently made to-the justice institutions of the democratic world, demonstrate clearly that the Kremlin is speculating on the inertia of democracy and is seeking to lean back, pushing its fifth column to the fore...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 15
