Communist “High Tide” Past?

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29722, 16 January 1962, Page 11

Communist “High Tide” Past?

(N.Z. Preu Association—Coppnaht)

NEW YORK, January 15.

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations (Mr Adiai Stevenson) said yesterday Communism’s world challenge may have passed its “high tide” and be on the wane.

He chided both "radical left” and its "extreme right” for raising “voices of doom” about the nation’s position in the cold war, United Press International reported. "The promised victory of communism keeps on receding into the future,” Mr Stevenson said, citing recent Soviet setbacks in Asia, Africa and East Europe. “The juggernaut just doesn’t jug."

His evaluation of the current East-West acene came in a speech to a lunch meeting of the Jewish B’Nai B’Rith Organisation. He was presented with the league's annual “America's democratic legacy award.” “Is it possibly true, as the Communist leaders love to say, ( that history really is on

their side?” Mr Stevenson asked. "I think history sine* 1945 has already begun to giv* the answer; and the answer is no."

Th* United Nations Ambassador said that democracy "at home and around th* world" still was being strained and tested a* never before.

“We have seen ~. that th* high tide can recede; Jugoslavia ceased to be a satellite: Poland achieved a certain measure of internal autonomy; and in more than one country of Africa and Asia. Communist ambassador* have been requected to go home and take their agent* with them.” he said.

"Is it possibly true, as the Communist leaders love to say, ( that history really is on

"Either democracy is les* bumbling than we fear, or communism is les* efficient than claims,” he said.