TO COUNTER SOVIET MOVES IN COLD WAR
NEW YORK, May 16 (Recd 7.25 pm). —John Foster Dulles, Republican, special State Department adviser on foreign affairs, today called for the establishment of a high-level national planning staff in the United States and a supreme Allied military command to counter Soviet moves in the cold war.
Mr. Dulles, who spoke at a function at which the former Secretary of State, General George Marshall, presided, said the true nature of Soviet Communism was obscured during the war. The United States has now recognised its evil and was trying to deal with it.
He warned that peace-time politics in the United States were producing waste and delay and often “contradictory, puny or negative results.”
Mr. Dulles said there was little effective co-ordination with the Allies. It was painfully difficult to timely unified action. The time nad come for free peoples to give up some oftheir easy ways to survive the thrust of a despotism “that is fanatically led. stronglx organised and possessed of vast human and material resources.” The free world’s material strength was still much greater than that of tb.e Communist world, and because of its diversity it was capable of a richness and vigour of ideas untouchable by any totalitarian society operating under cold compulsion.
Mr. Dulles said the planning staff he suggested should report to a cabinet council exercising powers under the President in accordance with authority broadly confirmed by Congress and allocating responsibility for action. There should be a concerted international programme for developing the strength and intiative of the free nations.
“We need a supreme military Allied command and greater economic unity,’ ’Mr. Dulles concluded. “The Russians invented the new political game which they call ‘not war—not peace.’ They hope by winning It to take over domination of the world. That is a fantastic project except as our lethargy gives it scope. It is time to end that lethargy.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 18 May 1950, Page 5
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