CHALLENGE TO AMERICA

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28799, 21 January 1959, Page 16

CHALLENGE TO AMERICA

Warning About Cold War

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 19. Mr Adlai Stevenson challenged the United States last night to shake off its “paralysis of will” for the ultimate struggle against the “forceful and formidable” Russian way of life. In one of his most outspoken statements since his visit to the Soviet Union last year, the twice-beaten Democratic Presidential candidate warned that the f ‘iron discipline of the Communist world” could beat the “chaotic, selfish, indifferent commercial society” which was developing in America. United States moves in the cold war so far had been “to a depressing degree” purely defensive, and national progress had been sluggish, Mr Stevenson told a capacity lecture audience at Constitution Hall in Washington. Meanwhile, he said, Russia was pushing ahead at “a dynamic pace.” Mr Stevenson said that on his Russian tour he found the Soviet leaders quietly confident that communism eventually would engulf the world. He said the leaders believed that communism was “the ultimata? unfolding of human destiny, the end of history.” For this reason, he said, no effort, no dedication, no sacrifice, was too great for the Russians.