FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 9

FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM

STEVENSON PLEDGES SUPPORT (Rec, 7 p.m.) NEW VORK, Feb. IG. Mr Adlai Stevenson, the defeated Democrat candidate for the Presidency of the United States, has pledged his support for the new Republican Administration in its efforts to cope with the Communist threat. He said that the Soviet Union’s production, according to the best estimates, was increasing about twice as quickly as that of the United States, and Americans would delude themselves if they thought a few words uttered on the short-wave radio would cause the Soviet’s armed regime to disintegrate. He supposed that the last thing that the United States wanted was a situation in which her young men would have to bear the full brunt of the Communist assault. She needed her Allies just as they needed her. The fact that the United States had been able to contribute most to collective defence in the way of arms andmoney did not entitle her to preach or threaten, and he hoped he had misunderstood some news of late which had sounded to him calculated to provoke distaste rather than respect for the United States. She would frighten no Russians by threatening financial sanctions against her Allies. Mr Stevenson, who proposes to visit the Far East, disclosed that he had been invited to the White House to confer with the President before leaving the United States. He will also see State Department officials and ambassadors of the countries he plans to visit.