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...This is putting the cart before the horse with a vengeance...

...In some aspects Couéism and other theories that carry the subjective interpretation of evil to extremes are merely amusing...

...But they can be Iragically serious if they influence diplomatic dealings between the free peoples and the tough, wily dictatorships which are bent on subverting and destroying free institutions everywhere in the world...

...Russian ideology and duplicity are merely the products of a malicious subjective attitude on the part of "America's leaders...

...A good example of Couéism in international relations was recently furnished by Reverend Robert J. McCracken, in a sermon reported as follows by the New York Times: "The United States has had to rely on force in disputes with the Soviet Union, he said, 'because our leaders will not trust the Russians...

...The Communists, they say, believe only in deceit and expediency...

...The Times refused to print my letter of correction...

...The following paragraph especially was grotesque in its distortion of wellknown recent facts: "When the Eisenhower Administration treated [Castro's] regime as a pariah, and finally ruled out all American-Cuban trade except in food and drugs, Premier Castro and his associates decided—with the very survival of their country at stake— that the most effective countervailing policy was to fill in the void by largescale commercial agreements with Soviet Russia and Communist China...

...I was told by an Italian journalist, who had a somewhat skeptical turn of mind, that he tried this theory on his wife when she was suffering from an attack of seasickness...

...Finally, James J. Wadsworth, former American representative in the United Nations and in nuclear test ban negotiations at Geneva, did not enhance his reputation for realistic statesmanship when, on handing over office to Adlai Stevenson, he said: "I think generally, by and large, that the Russian Government has every intention of living up to any agreement they may make from the standpoint of nuclear tests or the larger areas of disarmament...

...It is a simple matter of record that the Eisenhower Administration's economic reprisals against Cuba were applied not before, but long after Castro had concluded his political and economic deals with Moscow and Peking and expropriated over one billion dollars worth of American property, besides subjecting this country to a steady diet of the crudest Communist-style vituperation and carrying on subversive intrigues throughout Latin America...

...They say the Communists know no necessity or obligation save class warfare and hastening the world revolution...

...Roosevelt stated that the only solution to the cold war is to remove the suspicion on both sides...

...But if we insist on viewing the Soviet leaders this way and acting on this basis, make no mistake, we shall have them precisely as we see them...

...On the treachery by which the leaders of Hungary's fight for freedom, Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter, were lured to their deaths...

...A similar note was struck by Eleanor Roosevelt at a luncheon in Quincy House, Harvard, as reported in the Harvard Crimson: "'The fundamental trouble,' she explained, "is that there is no confidence between East and West.' In an informal discussion Mrs...

...I experienced a similar feeling after reading a letter of Corliss Lamont in the New York Times protesting the use of the term "Communist" in connection with Fidel Castro's dictatorship in Cuba...

...They will have no other choice.'" In Reverend McCracken's view, Communist commitment to class war and the promotion of revolution as ends, and to deceit and expediency as means, are not objective facts, demonstrated by innumerable public statements of Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev and by equally numerous Soviet actions...

...One might add that, if Castro, Ché Guevara and his other associates are not Communists, they are certainly cheating the international Communist movement of its dues...

...On the record of the armistice in Korea, where the genuinely neutral members of the armistice commission, Switzerland and Sweden, reported repeated crude and obvious evasion and frustration of inspection provisions by the Chinese and North Korean Communists...

...On what, one may ask, does Wadsworth base his optimism...

...Coué's "philosophy" was summed up in the formula: "Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better...

...But this instance would seem to deserve some kind of award...

...For the Record: It has been said of Macaulay that his conception of hell would be to hear friends falsify history without being able to correct them...

...It didn't work...

...The capacity for self-deception, we know, is almost unlimited...

...On the Soviet record of making and breaking non-aggresssion treaties...