SIX SOVIET WARS
DALLIN, DAVID J.
East and West Six Soviet Wars By David J. Dallin ii LAST WEEK WE DISCUSSED how Lenin created the theory that wars initiated by the Soviet state are "progressive" Stalin has developed this...
...Its resolutions have retained, down to this day, their significance as institutions to Communists in the event of war...
...we must fulfill our international obligations and increase the number of Soviet republics...
...No matter what the cause tt who started it, automatically Communists the World over were to be enlisted in support of the Soviet armies...
...Wars between proletarian and bourgeois ¦tales will necessarily and inevitably arise...
...But his forecast failed to materialize—just as did all the other high hopes which Moscow had for popular movements against Mussolini's, Hitler's, and To jo's governments during the war...
...As a man who for more than thirty years has played a leading part in our public life, he stood there in the stadium at Palo Alto and asked the American people to take thought...
...Communism has] to combat all high-sounding phrases like 'we shall never permit another war/ 'no more war/ etc...
...Is this diplomacy not too cunning...
...The other face, turned toward the non-Communist world, vows to keep peace and foreswears aggression...
...Leninism cotabeis ell pacifist theories concerning the abolition of war...
...FOR THE BENEFIT OF RUSSIA'S DUPES...
...One year earlier* Trotsky had been exiled to Central Asia and his followers persecuted...
...Hit- remark on the natural belligerency of the Russian people is absurd, of course, the Russians, no less than any other nation, dream of lasting peace...
...In the 1930's Moscow continued to amplify this doctrine...
...Stalin had just climbed the last rungs up the lad* der to undisputed rule and mastery...
...The turns of war and peace, depression and recovery, have tossed him up and down and up...
...Generally, Voroshilov is not CPrtstjwed to be a fj-eat thinks* amt hie atatanenta eould be disregarded bat for the fact that ha is a member of the Polittmwa, before he makes speeches, they are approved and synchronized with the general ppHticat line...
...Wars, the Sixth Congress declared, are "inevitable," "revolutionary," and therefore "necessary": "The Soviet Union harbors no illusions as to the possibility of durable peace...
...need* neither to aggrandise its territory nor to Intervene in the affairs of other natfamsf and it has no need for an army, navy, aviation, or any other armed force...
...His theories may be good or bad, but adherence to them had all the appearance of heartlessness...
...Between his 70th and 75th birthdays, Herbert Hoover came out of his beloved library...
...And now—by one of history's ironies—Herbert Hoover has completed a task which redounds mightily to the benefit of New Dealers and government controllers...
...Zinoviev and Kamenev had lost influence...
...Herbert Hoover believes that we must pay for the good of prosperity with the suffering of depression...
...It may, in some part, be due to the fact that Herbert Hoover represents our type of mind...
...Formal tokens, such as offensive or defensive war...
...The Soviet Union," he slated before the Disarmament Conference In February...
...But neither do we—or most of us...
...The one face of Stalin's regime, turning toward its faithful, appeals for support of any war, even a war of aggression, if waged by Russia...
...From 1917 onward he has been a participant in our life...
...A third and final column on the Soviet theory of wara will appear next week...
...Politically it was fatal...
...He promised uprisings and revolutions in the rear of every capitalist army fighting the Soviet land...
...1932, "rejects war as an instrument of national policy...
...He may be right or wrong, but none can deny that he is a true, straight, honest man genuinely devoted to the public welfare...
...At present Andrei Vyshinsky is the salesman " of goods previously offered by Litvinov...
...It sees no need for the ereatlas* ot armed farces...
...In that emergency personal mercy was not enough...
...Because we spend more together, each one hSs, comparatively, less to spend on himself in accordance with his own whims...
...The Home Front Voice of Individualism By William E. Bohn AS ONE WHO HAS OFTEN CALLED for good men to speak up for conservatism, I give thanks for Herbert Hoover...
...It is to be hoped that millions, including industrialists...
...The third face, that of the War Minister of the Soviet Union, looks bellicose and ominous...
...He has been correct in his cynical evaluation...
...they were followed in 1939-45, and they retain their validity for the future* What they frankly said about wars, defensive and offensive, was the opposite of what, at the Fame time, Litvinov was preaching before the world public...
...THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE is fond of waging wars," Marshal Voroshilo* has deeeared...
...There are few men in the world whose experience gives them so great warrant to speak on these matters...
...At the call of the President he gathered a body of experts...
...Litvinov in the 193fl's and Vyshinski in the 1940's conducted a propaganda drive against all kind of aggression and pictured Moscow as the incarnation of pacifism...
...Lev Mekhlis, editor of Pravda, fctated early in 1939 that in case of war, "military operations must be transferred to the territory of the enemy...
...He is a first-class engineer and businessman As a political and economic theorist he hardly shines...
...do business...
...it was carried out to the letter in 1944-47...
...The old engineer limited himself to one set of proofs that government control is proceeding at a rapid pace...
...East and West Six Soviet Wars By David J. Dallin ii LAST WEEK WE DISCUSSED how Lenin created the theory that wars initiated by the Soviet state are "progressive" Stalin has developed this theory to its utter limit* For those who recognize the importance of Communist conferences and have had the patience to study their voluminous resolutions, the Sixth Congress of the Communist International in 1928 is revealing...
...Perhaps the love for this man which was so overwhelmingly demonstrated on his anniversary celebration may be due to the fact that he has* gone through so much of our history with us...
...but if we must have them, let's have a government which can...
...This vigorous individualist undertook the administration of a great charity fund provided by the taxpayers of the United States...
...BUT THIS MAN...
...Congressmen, editors ami New Dealers, will give heed...
...Both have given proof of/ devotion throughout lona'dves spent in public service: Both indubitably believe jn their political and economic creeds with a faith that As close to religious devotion...
...Except for the inauguration of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, he let nature take its course...
...The 140,000,000 people in this country now spend a lot of their money by community action...
...He must have been saying to himself: "I don't believe in government controls...
...He did a job of organization, of analysis, of reform and simplification which staggers the imagination...
...THEN CAME THE FOUR YEARS of the Presidency and the tragedy of 1929-32...
...Stalin and his lieutenants coined new formulas...
...The great weakness of the New Deal was that Roosevelt was a bad administrator and had-no respect for the mechanisms of government...
...But Stalin relies on the fact that there still live a multitude of naive and silly people in the world, and even a Vyshinsky will suffice their ideological needs...
...magnificent as the symbol of an age which is passing, was not speaking as professor of economics or history...
...socialism...
...Of late he has come to represent the traditional attitudes of America much as Winston Churchill symbolizes the old order of Britain, Neither of these men can be smirched with the accusation of subvervience to mere business interests...
...Herbert Hoover's statement on his 75th birthday was not a reasoned discussion of the issues involved in the great debate on individualism vs...
...cannot serve [aB a test to determine the nature of war...
...The new Congress of the Comintern reflected Stalin's ideas: it was Stalin's Congress...
...He is typically American both in his strength and in his weakness...
...With the return of peace, this businessman and engineer took on, as Secretary of Commerce, the task of setting the Government to work in the intorest of manufacturers and merchants...
...His people, he says, love to fight, and the Minister is just a servant of his people and has to carry out the people's wishes...
...In his Short History o} the Communist Party, published in 19311, Stalin reiterated that "Bolsheviks are not opposed to all kinds of war...
...Wars of proletarian dictatorship against world capitalism are inevitable and revolutionary" Blind loyalty was henceforth expected from fill Communist parties in the event of Russian involvement in war...
...He first appeared before mankind as history's greatest almoner...
...He did more than any other occupant of that office' to make businessmen appreciative of government support...
...To our only living ex-President this seems bad...
...It could not have happened to a more innocent man...
...The only aim of me« Sevier- (Sevevnment is the building of soclffffSBQ on the territory of the Soviet Union...
...Here was tragedy of the first order...
...So Herbert Hoover, one of the most intelligent and public-spirited Presidents of out time, bowed out of Washington a failure...
...Stalin himself discussed the prospects of war at length in his report to the 17th Party Congress in 1934...
...Now comes the Hoover Commission...
...This program was definite and clear enough...
...Stalin knows Vyshinsky is not the best choice for this job...
...But probably the great change in feeling toward this old man, who has come so far with us, is chiefly due to his profound and conspicuous sincerity...
...To realize these alms, the U.S.S.R...
Vol. 32 • August 1949 • No. 34
