WARNING BY MR DULLES

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27632, 13 April 1955, Page 13

WARNING BY MR DULLES

Peace Demand By Communists (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Apl. 11. The Secretary of State, Mr Dulles, today accused the Communists of trying to create throughout the free world a popular demand for peace at any price. Mr Dulles made this charge in an address to the fifth annual all-Jesuit Alumni dinner in Washington on the theme of principles in foreign policy. Throughout the world today there was a rising demand for protection against the misery, the agony of body and of spirit, the massive destruction of life and of property which modern war wreaks upon man, said Mr Dulles.

"There is, however, another aspect of the matter,” Mr Dulles said. “Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. “During recent years the Communist rulers, through their propaganda, have sought to capitalise on love of peace and horror of war as a means of extending their rule over all the human race.

“Through such propaganda efforts as the Stockholm peace appeal, they have tried to divert the peoples of the free world from necessary measures of defence and create throughout the free world a popular demand for peace at any price.” Mr Dulles said that crafty scheming underlay that planning. “The Communist leaders know that if pacifism becomes a prevalent mood among the free peoples, the Communists can easily conquer the world,” Mr Dulles said. “ ... In this connexion, we should remember that while modern developments have made war more terrible, they have also made the consequences of retreat and surrender more terrible.”